Benson Capital Partners

Founded in 2017, ARIX Technologies specializes in robotics and data analytics for pipeline inspection. Headquartered in Jackson, Louisiana with an engineering office in Houston, Texas, the company designs and develops crawling robots to monitor, test, and analyze the condition of pipelines in oil and gas refining and petrochemical facilities.

Corporate Realty is a full-service commercial real estate agency based in New Orleans and serving the entire Gulf Region. The company has consistently been involved in the largest, most complex, and most demanding real estate transactions and management assignments in this region. Corporate Realty prides itself on having the most knowledgeable real estate professionals in the market.

AxoSim is a biomimetic neuroscience platform company that develops 3D human nerve tissue models to support drug discovery. Its NerveSim in vitro system uses Schwann cell myelination and human-relevant electrical and structural metrics to predict clinical neurotoxicity and facilitate translation to humans, while Nerve-on-a-Chip and BrainSim technologies model nerve and brain tissue, enabling testing for neurotoxicity and neurodegenerative disease. The company grows living human cells in a 3D environment to mimic nerve tissue and advance preclinical drug evaluation. AxoSim aims to shorten development timelines and improve the relevance of preclinical assessments by providing platforms that emulate human neural physiology in the lab. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.