Scott Howard Anthony Hoffman Kale Franz (l. to r.)

Primis Technologies was born during a road trip to Boston last fall.

Engineering graduate students Anthony Hoffman and Scott Howard were driving up together for an academic conference when they came to the conclusion that their combined expertise and mutual respect was a firm basis for a start-up.

Upon returning, they recruited fellow graduate student Kale Franz and formed Primis in January 2007 to commercialize a new generation of low-cost, lightweight, exquisitely sensitive sensors made possible by advances in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers.