# Home > Hekat Fluidics provides the Hekat NanoSorter, a fluorescence-activated nanoscale flow sorting solution for EVs, viruses, LNPs, and p-bodies. It supports research, clinical diagnosis, environmental, and quality and process control applications. - URL : https://hekat.com/ - Mis à jour : 2026-10-08 - Langue : en-US - Source : Hekat Fluidics The nano scale flow sorting solution EVs – Viruses – LNPs Word : Identify Word : Count Word : Sort Word : Enrich Hekat NanoSorter® The First Fluorescence Activated Nano Flow Sorting Solution [Image : hekat technology hekat technology] Optofluidics for EVs, Viruses, LNPs, p-bodies Designed for any fluorescent nanoobject Standalone benchtop equipment Suitable for biological safety cabinets Highly sensitive fluorescence detection Two lasers (single and dual detection) Fast detection & sorting Up to 50.000 decisions/sec Concentrated output sample For omics analysis or functionnal assays [Image : research picto research picto] Titre : Research Texte : Characterization, biodistribution, biomarker development [Image : injection picto injection picto] Titre : Clinical Diagnosis Texte : Unlocking the potential of extracellular vesicles [Image : chemicals picto chemicals picto] Titre : Environnement Texte : Water quality control [Image : lab picto lab picto] Titre : Quality & Process Control Texte : Bioproduction, synthesized nanoparticles Our products [Image : count icon count icon] Titre : Hekat NanoCounter Nano-objects quantification Single color detection dual color fluo detection 488/532/633 nm Low sample volume (50µl) Quick (2 min) and reliable Standard data output (.csv, .fcs) Automated reporting [Image : sort icon sort icon] Titre : Hekat NanoSorter Subpopulations sorting Single or dual color 488/532/633 nm Low sample volume (50µl) Sorting fine tuning Harvest module Custom output volume and concentration Standard data output (.csv, .fcs) Automated reporting [Image : consumables icon consumables icon] Titre : Consumables Counting chips (12 channels) Sorting chips Chips Packs Tubbing Oil [Image : services icon services icon] Titre : Services In house services with your samples Samples pre-processing Counting Sorting Project management Reporting MICROFLUIDICS & OPTICS A patented technology Applications Hekat NanoSorter : the easiest and fastest way to measure and sort subpopulations of nanoparticles Titre : Publication - Couty et al, 2026 - bioRxiv Titre : Case study - Rapid Evaluation of Vesiculemia from Healthy Volunteers Sera Titre : Characterization of two-colored HansaBioMed’s FLUO-EVs Titre : Poster – 2026 Erlangen Germany, D-A-CH meeting Titre : Publication - Palmer et al, 2026 - bioRxiv Titre : Poster – 2025 Athen Greece, ISEV meeting on Extracellular Vesicles in Immunity Titre : NanoSorter datasheet Titre vidéo 1 : Hekat fluidics : Grand Prix i-Lab 2023 Lien vidéo 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ujFtbIB94 Titre vidéo 2 : Exosomes The Next Small Big Thing in Medicine Lien vidéo 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yps3hF4UEoE The founders a key experience [Image : photo sophie bourzeix photo sophie bourzeix] Nom : Sophie Bourzeix PhD Poste : CEO INDUSTRIALIZATION INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT RAPID GROWTH Sophie always wanted to “make things.” By setting up Hekat, her aim is to create high value-added industrial activity. A graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique, Sophie has spent his entire career in optical instrumentation. After her thesis in quantum physics at the Kastler Brossel laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she joined France Telecom’s Research Center, then in 1997 a small industrial company: Photonetics, specializing in optical instruments and sensors. Sophie soon became Deputy Managing Director: she created a new strategic industrial activity within the company and managed its technical, industrial and commercial development. Thus she actively contributed to the very rapid growth of Photonetics, until its sale to the Danish group Great Nordic. Late 2020, after the ordeal of COVID 19 Sophie decides to use her know-how and energy to help a cause she has always cared about: developing her own industrial project. With the help of ALPhANOV’s Technology Center, of Chrysa-link incubator and of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region: ExoFlow was born: it gave birth to Hekat in January 2023. [Image : photo mathias girault photo mathias girault] Nom : Mathias Girault PhD Poste : CSO RESEARCH MICROFLUIDICS BIOLOGICAL SORTING A doctor in marine biochemistry, Mathias Girault is the company’s microfluidic specialist. After completing a Master’s degree in marine biogeochemistry from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology, Mathias left for Japan in 2009 to do a thesis at the Tokyo University of Science and Technology, funded by the prestigious Mext (Monbukagakuchou) Scholarship from the Japanese Government, offered to the best students and researchers. During his doctorate he studied the impact of phosphate on phytoplankton and he realized the interest of using microfluidic techniques to make quantified and reliable analyzes of the interactions between each cell and its microenvironment. In 2013 he joined the Tokyo University of Medicine and developed a brand new microfluidic cancer cell sorting system, based on pattern recognition algorithms. Back in France in 2016, Mathias continued his research career at the Paul Pascal Research Center, funded by private contracts and the prestigious Marie Curie European Fellowship. [Image : photo philippe graindorge photo philippe graindorge] Nom : Philippe Graindorge Poste : CTO R&D IN OPTICS INSTRUMENTATION ELECTRONICS 23 PATENTS A graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and the ENST (Telecom Paris), Philippe has devoted his entire career to the research and development of innovative optical instruments. He is in charge of the design and development of both the optical part and the electronics. After starting out in the 1980s as an R&D engineer on fiber optic sensors at the Central Research Laboratory of Thomson CSF, Philippe spent a large part of his career at Photonetics, where he was the first employee in 1984 until becoming its Scientific Director in 2000. Philippe is a keen and creative mind and the inventor of 23 patents in the field of optics and signal processing. Passionate about photography and aviation, he founded Gerpho in 2005, a company specializing in aerial photography. In 2012, in conjunction with the R&D teams of the French start-up Acute 3D, he developed a high-definition and large-scale 3D aerial photogrammetry activity, by plane and helicopter. In 2021, Philippe sold Gerpho because of inner ear problems that prevented him from flying. He decided to join Hekat to put all his technical know-how at the disposal of this exciting project. 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