About Us

Spun out of the Varanasi Lab at MIT, LiquiGlide has raised over $50 million and is working with leading global companies in packaging, manufacturing, and medical devices to commercialize the first-ever durable slippery coatings that will delight customers, eliminate waste and save lives.

We’re building a frictionless future.

Our mission is to revolutionize products, packaging, processes and patient experiences by eliminating the friction between solids and liquids.

Meet Our Team

Kripa Varanasi

Co-founder & Chairman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

David Smith

Co-founder & CEO

Alex Ewing

COO & GC

Daniel Rippy

Chief Business Officer

Erica Chan

Director of Client Programs

Brian Jordan

Director of Packaging Technology

Hyuk-Min Kwon

Director of R&D

Jonathan Zhang

VP of R&D, Biomedical

Sebastian Heise

Director of Process Technology

LiquiGlide’s Story

Friction is all around us. It dictates the way we design, build and consume. We’ve accepted the waste and frustration because there wasn’t a choice. Until now. We are on a mission to revolutionize products, packaging, processes and patient experiences by eliminating the friction between liquids and solids. We are building a frictionless future.

That future was made possible because of Professor Kripa Varanasi and Dave Smith who had a vision to minimize waste and enable new and better products, processes and technologies across industries led them to invent LiquiGlide’s technology. They created a video of ketchup sliding out of a bottle that gave us a glimpse of what a new world of possibilities in packaging and beyond might look like.

Now, having secured over $50M in funding and global commercialization partners across industries, LiquiGlide is poised to make the frictionless future a reality.