VisuGen Global, LLC
VisuChip, a microfluidic flow-through nucleic acid capture device for concentrating and isolating pathogens from food rinses for rapid metagenomic sequencing
- Sector
- Agritech
- Total capital
- $472K
- Federal grants
- $472K
- 3 awards · 2016–2018
- Rank in peer group#11 of 29
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 1
- 1 pending · first 2020
- Rank in peer group#5 of 29
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantHealth and Human S · Phase I · Food Contaminant Detection and Direct to Sequencing$150K
- Federal grantAgriculture · Rapid Agricultural Water On Site Contaminant Detection Method To Improve Food Safety$100K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · SBIR Phase I: Environmental water on site microbial contaminant sensor$222K
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Standing among 29 peers
Line = medianAgritech · Device
- Federal grants#11 · top 38%
- Granted patents#5 · top 17%
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
Claim this profile to add your teamWhat it has protected
USPTO · 1 granted of 2- GrantedSystems And Methods For Capture And Detection Of Low Copy Targets From Large Sample VolumesUSPTOUS 10,850,276
- PendingSystems And Methods For Capture And Detection Of Low Copy Targets From Large Sample VolumesUSPTOApplication PCTUS2018019357
Related companies, and why
- Visugen Global LLCShares a founder: JOHN GERDES
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- PAN GENOME SYSTEMS, INCSimilar federal contract value in Agritech · null in contracts
- AMULET, INC.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · null in contracts
- SOIL DIAGNOSTICS, INC.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · null in contracts
- BIOWORKS INC.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · null in contracts
Regulatory activity · Agritech
- Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar ProvisionsCommodity Credit Corporation
- Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan ProgramRural Business-Cooperative Service
- Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)Commodity Credit Corporation
- Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel FeedstocksEnergy and Environmental Policy Office
- Rescinding Portions of U.S. Department of Agriculture Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Department of Justice's Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281
- Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program; Approval of Information Collection RequestCommodity Credit Corporation
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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