West Hartford’s ReadyDock Inc. is getting $150,000 from the state’s technology-investment arm to refine its technology for disinfecting hand-held PCs for hospitals and other clean-room facilities, authorities say.
Connecticut Innovations Inc. in Rocky Hill said it is investing through its Pre-Seed Fund dedicated to tech startups based in the state.
ReadyDock will use the financing to continue product development and marketing activities. The company also has secured required matching funds from individual investors, officials said.
The company says the explosion in the use of tablet computers and other compact digital devices spawned a need for its product.
ReadyDock President David Engelhardt said its technology has been successfully tested at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Microbiology Laboratory and shown to kill bacteria on a single iPad in under a minute – more than twice the speed of current solutions.
Michael Wisniewski, a CI investment analyst, has been assigned to monitor and advise ReadyDock on behalf of CI.
