A pair of recent Virginia Tech graduates are bootstrapping a nascent tech company out of a one-room office that looks more like a tinkerer’s garage than a business headquarters.
Each of FluxTeq’s co-founders has a desk, which doubles as manufacturing space when it’s time to fulfill orders for their heat flux sensors. Leftover scraps sit on every open surface, finished products hang from hooks on the wall and experiments that hope to find new applications for their technology are scattered throughout.
Two refrigerators are stacked out of the way — one for food and the other for chemicals used during manufacturing. The food refrigerator broke a while back, and now everything is together. But Rande Cherry and Chris Cirenza say they are pretty confident the chemicals aren’t “that toxic.”
