Company Profile

BioTex Inc (AKA: Visualase)
Profile last edited on: 11/9/18      CAGE: 1L6F9      UEI: SUH7H6LEZTS2

Business Identifier: Optical technologies for medical, biomedical, and environmental applications
Year Founded
1997
First Award
1997
Latest Award
2021
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

8058 El Rio Drive
Houston, TX 77054
   (713) 741-0111
   ashok@biotexmedical.com
   www.biotexmedical.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 09
County: Harris

Public Profile

BioTex is organized around in the development, launch, and manufacture of medical and bio-technologies often in partnerships with entrepreneurs, start-ups, and established companies interested in bringing their own concepts to life utilizing the full spectrum of the BioTex medical device development and manufacturing capabilities. The firm is a registered FDA manufacturer and has developed products from concept to FDA 510(k) cleared medical devices and maintains a pipeline of novel medical technologies at various stages of development. BioTex, Inc. develops and manufactures laser and image-guided medical devices, undertaking R&D projects in the areas of glucose sensing, laser therapy, optical diagnostics, microbial identification, aptamers and short-interfering RNAs, and microarrays. The company also provides technologies for use in laboratory animal and animal science markets; and small animal intubation systems for academic and corporate research labs. Several of BioTex technologies have been out-licensed to achieve commercial application. The firm has aos successfuly spun off two companies: one being Visualase acquired by Medtronic in July 2014 for $104M; the other - Base Pair Biotechnologies - is an aptamer discovery and development company, spun out of Biotex, Inc. in 2012. Base Pair successfully raised $3.2M in financing in late 2017

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
20-24
Revenue Range
2M-2.5M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
15-19

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Key People / Management

  Ashok Gowda -- President & CEO

  Manish Ahuja -- Product Development Manager

  Ralph Ballerstadt

  Bill Jackson

  George W Jackson -- Research Scientist

  Roger J McNichols -- deceased - Co-founder, Co-inventor, CTO.

  Seifu Teferra

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