UA Startup Codelucida Secures $700K in Angel Funding

Codelucida, a startup co-founded in 2014 by UA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus Shiva Planjery and professor Bane Vasic, has secured $700,000 in a round of angel investment funding.

The company aims to commercialize error-correction technology for data storage and communications. The tech was jointly developed by Planjery and PhD advisers Vasic and David Declercq, a professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, during Planjery's doctoral studies.

In 2015, Codelucida received a $750,000 SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation.