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Brendan Richardson

Brendan Richardson CEO and co-founder of PsiKick which has developed a method of producing low-energy consuming wireless circuits joins Les Sinclair on “Charlottesville Right Now”.

PsiKick is headquartered here in Charlottesville and based on technology licensed from the University of Virginia, University of Michigan and University of Washington, they’re announcing a major financing milestone headed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and others. This funding enables PsiKick to accelerate its development of the groundbreaking Ultra-Low-Power wireless sensing devices.

PsiKick’s technology was developed from the research on sub-threshold power designs for ultra-energy efficient circuits by Benton Calhoun (CTO & co-founder of PsiKick), assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Virginia, David Wentzloff, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and Brian Otis, associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington

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