Why Tech Company Revibro Chose Montana – Bozeman-based Revibro will travel to Germany to expand their reach

"Every tech company that can start in Montana and be maintained in Montana is in Montana’s interest. Perhaps [the] biggest impact locally, changing the story from we make wheat to we make wheat and a bunch of cool science stuff."

When Chris Arrasmith moved back to Bozeman, Montana to start a company with his former engineering professor, he wanted to help researchers solve big medical problems, like dementia and Alzheimer’s. So, the pair started building mirrors.

Arrasmith founded Revibro Optics http://www.revibrooptics.com/ in 2015 with David Dickensheets. Their work focuses on optical instruments with mirrors, like microscopes and telescopes. The team at Revibro manufacturers a unique, flexible mirror that can fit into many of these optical systems. Think of this mirror as the kind of lens you have in your point-and-shoot camera. The function of that lens is to focus on whatever you want to photograph, but there’s a noticeable delay when you use the autofocus feature as the mechanical parts of the camera work to make the image clear.

What Arrasmith’s team found was astonishing. By bending the mirror with an electrical signal, taking out the mechanical element, you can focus on something much more quickly. And those fractions of a second really make a difference.

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