National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1950 and located in Alexandria, Virginia, is an independent federal agency dedicated to advancing fundamental research and education across all scientific and engineering disciplines. With an annual budget of approximately $7.8 billion, the NSF operates America's Seed Fund, which allocates nearly $200 million each year to support startups and small businesses through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This initiative provides non-dilutive funding of up to $1.5 million to assist in research and development efforts, thereby facilitating the transformation of scientific discoveries into commercially viable products and services. By helping to de-risk technology, the NSF plays a crucial role in fostering innovation and addressing societal challenges through scientific advancements.

James Donlon

Program Director

Sean L. Jones

Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Sethuraman Panchanathan

Director

Ben Schrag Ph.D

Program Director and Policy Liaison, SBIR / STTR

Past deals in Analytics

Blockalytics

Grant in 2022
Developer of federated analytics software intended for industrial applications. The company's platform extracts insights from disparate data sources without data movement, reducing cloud costs, and latency, and preserving data ownership, enabling industrial sectors to optimize operations and decision-making through advanced analytics and machine learning.

Airmettle

Grant in 2022
Airmettle operates a software-defined storage platform that fundamentally alters the relationship between data storage and analytics. The platform allows for integrated distributed parallel processing, enabling direct queries of semi-structured content stored within it. Airmettle's technology is capable of transforming various data formats into those specifically required by analysis tools, which significantly reduces network traffic. Additionally, it decreases the amount of costly memory required by advanced analytics applications, thereby facilitating more efficient data insights for users.

Quantworks

Grant in 2022
Provider of data analytics tools created to help companies monetize their data banks. The company specializes in developing analytic prototypes to create value-producing applications enabling businesses to give an operational purpose to their data

TQIntelligence

Grant in 2022
TQIntelligence, Inc. owns and operates a platform which measures the severity of the emotional distress. The platform integrates multiple data sources and offers cognitive insights into risk stratification, treatment outcomes tracking, and personalized behavioral health interventions. The company products include TQ-Intelligence, including insights from voice/speech analytics and other psychometrically sound instruments and TQ Analytics which offers solutions using existing EMR data with actionable insights. The company features include machine learning analytics, knowledge graph, and real time prediction. TQIntelligence, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lambda Function

Grant in 2021
Lambda Function specializes in industrial automation software that enhances autonomous precision manufacturing. The company's software integrates advanced analytics and physics-based machine learning with real-time process parameter data from CNC machines and contextual data from Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems. This comprehensive approach supports effective decision-making in manufacturing engineering and operations. By leveraging these technologies, Lambda Function enables machine shops to boost productivity and improve machining autonomy, ultimately facilitating more efficient manufacturing processes.

SatVu

Series A in 2021
Satellite Vu will monitor the temperature of every building on the planet in near real time to determine valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. ​We are passionate about supporting decision making around the world related to: the Energy industry, investors monitoring economic activity, sustainable finance. Natural Disaster responders, building operators & Plastics Cleanup.

Map Collective

Grant in 2021
Map Collective specializes in developing an interactive mapping platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze and visualize environmental data. This Software-as-a-Service solution integrates seamlessly with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to provide users, including companies and governments, with essential tools for monitoring various environmental factors such as air quality, carbon footprints, and supply chain emissions. The platform facilitates traceability and emissions mapping, supports biodiversity assessments, aids in energy hub planning, and assists in transitioning to a circular economy. By offering a comprehensive view of the carbon impact on the environment, Map Collective empowers users to make informed decisions regarding sustainability and environmental management.

Contextualize

Grant in 2021
Contextualize provides the tools needed to capture the expertise spread across an organization and make it accessible and usable to others across the organization. It also leverages mathematical descriptions of complex phenomena and machine learning models to extract physics from the latter and models from the former, enabling clients to transform the wealth of information into actionable insights.

DrivenData

Seed Round in 2021
DrivenData focuses on leveraging data science and crowdsourcing to address significant social challenges. The company organizes online challenges, typically lasting 2-3 months, where a global community of data scientists competes to develop effective statistical models for complex predictive problems. In addition to these competitions, DrivenData offers services that include comprehensive data assessment, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and rapid development and prototyping. By connecting mission-driven organizations with skilled data scientists, DrivenData aims to empower these organizations to make impactful decisions based on their data.

Innsightful

Grant in 2021
Developer of wearable devices designed to monitor and detect anxiety and stress symptoms. The company's devices incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning and integrate biometrics for automated, early detection of increasingly stressed states and provide access to therapists for personalized recommendations and progress reviews, enabling users to deepen their understanding of themselves and revolutionize the way they approach mental health.

Simpact

Grant in 2021
Simpact develops analytics and forecasting software to help businesses make data-driven decisions. The company's headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts.

DeepCast

Grant in 2021
Develop of digital transformation toolkit intended to automate forecasting and optimization workflows. The company's platform helps companies to thrive in digital transformation with integration of human intelligence, physics-based models and advanced data-driven algorithms in machine learning by effectively combining industrial domain knowledge with state-of-the-art AI technology, enabling customers to boost productivity and discover new business opportunities.

HealthTrends.AI

Grant in 2021
HealthTrends.AI is a trusted third party delivering ongoing authoritative health information that is independently auditable. Our mission is to help organizations turn health data into actionable information. We offer a platform-agnostic solution embedded in our products. Products are available as streaming feeds, APIs, and dashboards enabling flexible integration with 3rd party tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.). Our tools are designed to be easily accessible and plug into and enhance your existing in-house systems with an intuitive platform.

Benchmark Labs

Grant in 2021
Benchmark Labs, based in San Francisco, California, specializes in AI-driven weather forecasting tailored for the agricultural sector and other industries. The company delivers precise, asset-specific forecasts that help clients navigate the challenges posed by changing weather patterns. By utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) sensors from various manufacturers, Benchmark Labs provides critical data that enables organizations to optimize renewable energy generation and manage water allocation effectively. The accuracy of their forecasts is essential for maintaining infrastructure and operational efficiency in the face of increasing weather variability.

Spatio Metrics

Grant in 2021
Spatio Metrics presents architecture as a new tool for advancing health by filling the gap between design, data, and performance. The company helps hospitals manage facilities with a dashboard that shows how spaces influences patients’ health outcomes. The company's product analyzes floor plans, reveals design gaps, and recommends performance improvements. Hospital administrators are encouraged to make smarter design investments by quantifying the human and financial impact of design.

AG350

Grant in 2021
Developer of an assignment analytics platform designed to grade assignments and provide feedback automatically. The company's platform utilizes machine learning and provides computer architecture and hardware programming which detects common coding pitfalls and makes intelligent auto-suggestions to students, enabling teachers to focus only on teaching by making assignment management as frictionless as possible.

Atlas AI

Grant in 2020
Atlas AI P.B.C is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in artificial intelligence-based API software aimed at promoting sustainable development, particularly in emerging markets. Through its web platform, Atlas AI employs machine learning to provide decision-makers with insights that enhance planning, management, and assessment of investments and development programs. The software generates reliable socioeconomic estimates related to agricultural productivity, household asset wealth, and access to essential infrastructure, such as power and transportation. By constructing these measures for Sub-Saharan Africa, Atlas AI enables both private and public organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes initiatives, ultimately advancing economic well-being in the regions they serve.
Hawaii Integrated Analytics offers data research services to assess data from various socioeconomic projects. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

MAIA Analytica

Grant in 2020
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment

BadVR

Grant in 2020
BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights .BadVR is a platform for immersive data visualization. It helps companies significantly increase the value of their data by giving users the tools they need to make faster - and better - decisions. This is possible via a proprietary virtual reality experience that enables you to literally step inside your data. By using virtual reality and machine learning, we make data easy. VR unlocks your brain’s processing potential, allowing you to get value from your data with minimal effort or special training.

Prime Labs

Grant in 2020
Developer of a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to provide data relating to medical drug discovery. The company's software specializes in providing mass spectrometry data processing, analysis, reporting, and visualization for every instrument, molecule, algorithm, and workflow, allowing scientists to research and develop drugs and providing them with tools for spectrometry.

AI Metrics

Grant in 2020
AI Metrics, LLC, based in Birmingham, Alabama, specializes in artificial intelligence and imaging solutions aimed at enhancing workflows and reporting in clinical practices and trials. Founded in 2019, the company develops advanced imaging software that aids radiologists in measurement and reporting tasks. Its technology focuses on improving the efficiency and value of radiologists by providing robust data and consistent output for patient care and research. The software includes an image viewing platform and cancer workflow tools that track responses of non-target lesions and image findings, facilitating data-driven insights and effective communication through graphical reports.

InformAI

Grant in 2020
InformAI, LLC provides business analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare industry. The company offers solutions and services which that speed up medical diagnosis and radiologist productivity. It provides paranasal sinus classifier, brain cancer classifier, surgical risk predictors, and patient outcome predictors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Houston, Texas.

HumanGo Training

Grant in 2020
Imagine a solution that understands an athlete’s life beyond their training. A solution that knows how many last-minute, unexpected work, family, and friends things can come up in a week. Imagine how happy coaches would be to free themselves from the manual work of inputting data and focus on the morale of their athletes instead.
Geometric Data Analytics focuses on solving complex data analysis problems. GDA merges expertise from academia with solutions that matter to industry and government.

ApertureData

Grant in 2020
We manage visual data so companies can make machines learn better

Astrolabe Analytics

Grant in 2020
Developer of an analytics tool designed for partners across the battery value chain, from materials developers to systems integrators. The company offers a platform for battery data management and predictive analytics in fields such as automotive and electric vehicles, aerospace, grid storage, and much more, enabling clients to boost business outcomes, accelerate time-to-market, and drive better decision-making with customized options and insights.

RediMinds

Grant in 2020
Operator of a data and analytics consulting firm intended to help businesses manage bulk databases and deploy modern data systems for executing business operations. The company's consulting services focus on designing a data strategy, data engineering, data mining, and data innovation combined with modern data systems that change and evolve based on emerging data-driven insights and signals, enabling businesses to team up with their analytics and decision science teams and plan, define and deliver models through rapid experimentation to drive efficiency and profitability.

RightFit Analytics

Grant in 2020
RightFit Analytics develops a precision health-focused analytics platform that learns success patterns associated with medical operations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in West Lafayette, Indiana.

FarmSense

Grant in 2020
Developer of pest monitoring platform designed to leverage modern computational power to mitigate the harmful effects of insects and to enhance the beneficial impact of insects. The company's platform specializes in pest detection, real-time classification, intelligent analytics, and labor-saving, thereby helping users with optical sensor technology to automate the process of real-time insect classification and counting to manage pesticides judiciously, save money, and reduce crop loss.

ANAFLASH

Grant in 2020
ANAFLASH Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in the development of a test chip that facilitates analog neurocomputing within logic-compatible embedded flash memory. The company offers an energy-efficient microprocessor designed for battery-powered edge devices, enabling real-time artificial intelligence inferencing without the need for cloud connectivity. This innovative microprocessor performs complex tasks efficiently by processing data where it is stored, thereby minimizing data traffic and energy consumption. During idle periods, it operates with very low power usage, making it a cost-effective solution for energy-efficient edge computing. ANAFLASH's integrated non-volatile neural network computing engine allows for secure task execution, reinforcing its commitment to providing reliable and efficient technology for modern computing needs.

AuCoDe

Grant in 2020
AuCoDe aims to be the Google Alerts of controversies and crisis situations. By automatically analyzing social media and digital news streams using sophisticated machine learning techniques, they provide early detection of controversies and crisis situations. Their cutting-edge technology rapidly detects or predicts crisis situations, so their quantities trading customers can use these insights directly for complex trading strategies and beat their competition to the best trades.

Terrafuse

Grant in 2020
Developer of forecasting tool designed to predict climate risk. The company's tool uses machine learning emulators of weather and hydroclimate models for operational and financial risk assessment, enabling clients to make climate-informed decisions for their business.

Unknot.id

Grant in 2019
Unknot.id is a developer of a privacy-preserving behavioral sensing and learning platform that operates in both digital and physical environments. The company utilizes advanced technologies, including privacy-preserving machine learning, dynamic behavioral learning, and smartphone sensor capabilities, to build comprehensive user behavioral profiles without disclosing raw or private data. This innovative approach allows for effective fraud detection and information assurance, enabling clients to monitor and track a wide range of mobile activities, from individuals to objects, even in GPS-constrained settings. By leveraging blockchain smart contracts, Unknot.id ensures secure authorization while maintaining user privacy, all without the need for extensive infrastructure deployment.

SlateSafety

Grant in 2019
Developer of group physiological monitoring systems designed to improve situational awareness and keep the team safe. The company's platfrom provides injury prevention for large teams utilizing a wearable safety system, monitors and collects physiological data for group members via a collection device, and creates actionable data for authorized personnel for real-time as well as post-incident analysis through a web interface, enabling users to get protected from overexertion injuries from performing demanding jobs.

FarmSense

Grant in 2019
Developer of pest monitoring platform designed to leverage modern computational power to mitigate the harmful effects of insects and to enhance the beneficial impact of insects. The company's platform specializes in pest detection, real-time classification, intelligent analytics, and labor-saving, thereby helping users with optical sensor technology to automate the process of real-time insect classification and counting to manage pesticides judiciously, save money, and reduce crop loss.

TQIntelligence

Grant in 2019
TQIntelligence, Inc. owns and operates a platform which measures the severity of the emotional distress. The platform integrates multiple data sources and offers cognitive insights into risk stratification, treatment outcomes tracking, and personalized behavioral health interventions. The company products include TQ-Intelligence, including insights from voice/speech analytics and other psychometrically sound instruments and TQ Analytics which offers solutions using existing EMR data with actionable insights. The company features include machine learning analytics, knowledge graph, and real time prediction. TQIntelligence, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bee Corp.

Grant in 2019
Bee Corp. is a company that focuses on developing data analytics and decision-support solutions for beekeeping. Its primary products include Queen's Guard, a tool for monitoring and managing bee queens, which utilizes a beehive sensor and data analytics software to track hive conditions. The system monitors temperature and other critical data, sending alerts to users when it detects potential queen loss. Additionally, Bee Corp. offers Verifli, which employs infrared inspection technology to assess bee health and distribution, ensuring effective pollination for growers. By providing these advanced monitoring solutions, Bee Corp. aims to support beekeepers and contribute to the sustainable restoration of honeybee populations. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Aural Analytics

Grant in 2019
Aural Analytics, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company founded in 2015 that focuses on developing applications for monitoring brain health. The company has created a multi-modal brain health analytics platform that utilizes advances in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speech analytics to detect changes in neurological health. By leveraging proprietary metrics, Aural Analytics transforms smartphones and tablets into effective brain health monitors, capturing subtle, clinically relevant aspects of a patient's condition through speech samples. This technology enhances traditional functional rating scales used in clinical trials by providing objective, continuous outcomes, thereby allowing for more reliable evaluations of drug efficacy and other interventions. Aural Analytics' platform aims to reveal incremental changes in neurological health, facilitating accurate assessments by medical professionals.

Akai Kaeru

Grant in 2019
Akai Kaeru provides AI software that identifies and visually explains critical patterns in complex data, facilitating the construction of decision-making AI models that can be trusted. With their cutting-edge academic research, they created explainable AI software to assist data scientists with complex real-world problems.

Prime Labs

Grant in 2019
Developer of a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to provide data relating to medical drug discovery. The company's software specializes in providing mass spectrometry data processing, analysis, reporting, and visualization for every instrument, molecule, algorithm, and workflow, allowing scientists to research and develop drugs and providing them with tools for spectrometry.

BadVR

Grant in 2019
BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights .BadVR is a platform for immersive data visualization. It helps companies significantly increase the value of their data by giving users the tools they need to make faster - and better - decisions. This is possible via a proprietary virtual reality experience that enables you to literally step inside your data. By using virtual reality and machine learning, we make data easy. VR unlocks your brain’s processing potential, allowing you to get value from your data with minimal effort or special training.

Ikigai Labs

Grant in 2019
Ikigai helps modern analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics, and supply-chain operations within clicks without VLOOKUPs. IKIGAI's Inventory Ops Automate inventory tracking and monitoring by creating a single, real-time view of inventory across all locations and channels, even down to the component level.

ETALYC

Grant in 2019
ETALYC is a software as a service (SaaS) provider. We focus on improving traffic operations through the integration of modern technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and big data analytics. ETALYC’s products harness the widespread data collected from various transportation modes, such as connected vehicles or GPSs, to analyze and optimize traffic flow in various areas.

Intelinair

Grant in 2019
IntelinAir, Inc. is an aerial imagery analytics company that specializes in providing actionable intelligence for the agriculture sector. Established in 2015, the company aims to enhance operational efficiency, crop yields, and profitability for farmers through data-driven decision-making. IntelinAir leverages a combination of traditional computer vision, deep learning methodologies, and agronomic science to analyze aerial data. Their flagship solution, AG-MRI™, serves as a field health monitoring and early-warning system, allowing farmers to manage their operations with greater confidence and proactivity. Additionally, IntelinAir offers SafeSmart technology, which includes UAV platforms designed for precision flight and data analysis, supporting both academic research and practical applications in agriculture. The company operates from dual headquarters in San Jose, California, and Champaign, Illinois.

Red Oak Strategic

Grant in 2019
Red Oak Strategic is a full-stack data science and research firm, specializing in innovative data solutions, powerful analytics, research techniques and mobilization tactics. We work with top political campaigns and organizations, corporate and financial institutions, non profit organizations and other clients to design and execute customized data-driven solutions. We provide cloud-based data science and machine learning applications using R, Python, Spark and h2o, infrastructure design and database solutions using cloud and on-site platforms, along with data visualizations and strategic guidance in organizational planning and execution at all levels.

Atlas AI

Grant in 2019
Atlas AI P.B.C is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in artificial intelligence-based API software aimed at promoting sustainable development, particularly in emerging markets. Through its web platform, Atlas AI employs machine learning to provide decision-makers with insights that enhance planning, management, and assessment of investments and development programs. The software generates reliable socioeconomic estimates related to agricultural productivity, household asset wealth, and access to essential infrastructure, such as power and transportation. By constructing these measures for Sub-Saharan Africa, Atlas AI enables both private and public organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes initiatives, ultimately advancing economic well-being in the regions they serve.

DataChat

Grant in 2019
DataChat, Inc. specializes in developing a data analytics platform that leverages Conversational Intelligence technology, allowing users to interact with their data through natural language conversations. Founded in 2017 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the platform enables a wide array of data analytics functions, including exploratory and predictive analytics, structured and free search querying, and data visualization. Users can also create and share analytical recipes, collaborate on data science projects, and uncover patterns within their data, translating complex findings into easily understandable insights. By integrating real-time analytics capabilities, DataChat empowers clients to make informed business decisions quickly and effectively.
AwareAbility Technologies specializes in providing a data analytics platform that enables businesses to extract insights from diverse data sources in challenging environments. The company employs three core technologies: radiological power technologies, Internet of Things (IoT)-style data collection, and machine learning analytics. By leveraging these technologies, AwareAbility Technologies addresses obstacles related to data gathering and processing, allowing for efficient raw data aggregation and local storage. This innovative approach empowers organizations to generate valuable insights that enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Agita Labs

Grant in 2019
Agita Labs is a new startup in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company is developing next-generation privacy-enhanced computing architectures that will facilitate the creation of new data markets while protecting data IP rights and respecting personal information.

MAIA Analytica

Grant in 2019
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment

MRX Analytics

Grant in 2019
MRX Analytics specializes in solving problems that require 3D temperature measurements in an MRI or other magnetic resonance imaging system. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.

MobIQ

Grant in 2019
MobIQ is the 1st mobile device-based network analytics solution for mobile virtual network operators and industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT).

ANAFLASH

Grant in 2019
ANAFLASH Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in the development of a test chip that facilitates analog neurocomputing within logic-compatible embedded flash memory. The company offers an energy-efficient microprocessor designed for battery-powered edge devices, enabling real-time artificial intelligence inferencing without the need for cloud connectivity. This innovative microprocessor performs complex tasks efficiently by processing data where it is stored, thereby minimizing data traffic and energy consumption. During idle periods, it operates with very low power usage, making it a cost-effective solution for energy-efficient edge computing. ANAFLASH's integrated non-volatile neural network computing engine allows for secure task execution, reinforcing its commitment to providing reliable and efficient technology for modern computing needs.

Terrafuse

Grant in 2018
Developer of forecasting tool designed to predict climate risk. The company's tool uses machine learning emulators of weather and hydroclimate models for operational and financial risk assessment, enabling clients to make climate-informed decisions for their business.

Parabricks

Grant in 2018
Parabricks provides high performance genomic analysis that can analyze whole human genome under an hour compared to days. Using state-of-the-art GPU acceleration and machine learning, users can significantly increase the throughput of their centers. By providing patient treatment based on their genomic variations, such personalized treatment will transform healthcare practices.

Azimuth1

Grant in 2018
Azimuth1 specializes in providing customized technology solutions that address challenges in the energy, environment, and public safety sectors. The company utilizes geospatial analytics and data science to solve resource allocation problems, enabling users to enhance decision-making and optimize operations in these critical areas. By focusing on specialty data analysis applications, Azimuth1 aims to facilitate everyday improvements and efficiencies, helping organizations effectively manage their resources and address pressing issues within their domains.

Applied Biosensors

Grant in 2018
Developer of multi-analyte biosensors designed to address the need for single-use sensors used in bio-manufacturing. The company offers polymer-based multi-analyte biosensors that can continuously monitor almost any biomarker through smart hydrogels and magnetic sensing and are compatible with single-use bioreactors, shake-flask bioreactors, and wave bioreactors, enabling clients to use tools for continuous multi-analyte monitoring at a lower cost and with wireless telemetry.

AuCoDe

Grant in 2018
AuCoDe aims to be the Google Alerts of controversies and crisis situations. By automatically analyzing social media and digital news streams using sophisticated machine learning techniques, they provide early detection of controversies and crisis situations. Their cutting-edge technology rapidly detects or predicts crisis situations, so their quantities trading customers can use these insights directly for complex trading strategies and beat their competition to the best trades.

AI Strike

Grant in 2018
AI Strike provides big data and AI technology solutions and decision support systems that improve the bottom line of clients. The company's headquarters are in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Earshot (Application)

Grant in 2018
Developer of a AI and voice analysis application intended to provide feedback to teachers to help them improve. The company's application captures voice data from the classroom to provide real-time discussion analysis, enabling teachers to be able to quickly learn from their classrooms and improve their practice.

Radial Analytics

Grant in 2018
Radial Analytics focuses on addressing significant data challenges in healthcare through its innovative cloud-based planning system. The company's primary product is a decision support solution designed for hospital case managers and discharge planners, enabling them to identify the most appropriate post-acute care facilities for patients. This system utilizes an evidence-driven approach, taking into account each patient's unique clinical, functional, and behavioral needs. By capturing and processing extensive real-time patient data, Radial Analytics helps hospitals optimize the quality of care while reducing post-acute costs for shared-risk patients. The company is partially supported by the National Science Foundation, which aids in the development of technology aimed at creating positive societal and economic impacts.

Prime Labs

Grant in 2018
Developer of a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to provide data relating to medical drug discovery. The company's software specializes in providing mass spectrometry data processing, analysis, reporting, and visualization for every instrument, molecule, algorithm, and workflow, allowing scientists to research and develop drugs and providing them with tools for spectrometry.

Parabricks

Seed Round in 2018
Parabricks provides high performance genomic analysis that can analyze whole human genome under an hour compared to days. Using state-of-the-art GPU acceleration and machine learning, users can significantly increase the throughput of their centers. By providing patient treatment based on their genomic variations, such personalized treatment will transform healthcare practices.

SlateSafety

Grant in 2018
Developer of group physiological monitoring systems designed to improve situational awareness and keep the team safe. The company's platfrom provides injury prevention for large teams utilizing a wearable safety system, monitors and collects physiological data for group members via a collection device, and creates actionable data for authorized personnel for real-time as well as post-incident analysis through a web interface, enabling users to get protected from overexertion injuries from performing demanding jobs.

Hive Battery Labs

Grant in 2018
Developer of a battery diagnostic technology designed to decrease capital and operation costs of lithium-ion battery manufacturing. The company offers test equipment and software analytics to expand the use of impedance spectroscopy, from battery management integrated circuits to high-power, multi-channel cyclers, enabling battery manufacturers to drive down the cost and improve the efficiency of formation, storage, and tests.

Steppingblocks

Grant in 2018
Steppingblocks is a data and analytics engine that offers insights into workforce and education outcomes for over 100 million individuals in North America. Its platform simplifies career counseling by analyzing various professional options based on specific degrees or job titles. The platform provides valuable information regarding student loans, payback periods, and data-driven resources to support career development. By leveraging real-world data, Steppingblocks aims to assist students in planning successful careers and achieving their goals.

Vana Learning

Grant in 2018
Vana Learning's (SaaS) platform helps tutors, academic coaches, and teachers improve student academic outcomes and grow their businesses by simplifying processes and hosting features including behavior tracking, visualizations, and actionable insights.

Bayesian Health

Grant in 2017
Bayesian Health Inc., a digital health company, provides an AI-driven platform that monitors patients illness severity, detecting changes in acuity, and augments provider decision-making to optimize care throughout their hospital stay. Its platform enables clinical staff and hospital leadership to make timely decisions in complex clinical areas. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

DataChat

Grant in 2017
DataChat, Inc. specializes in developing a data analytics platform that leverages Conversational Intelligence technology, allowing users to interact with their data through natural language conversations. Founded in 2017 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the platform enables a wide array of data analytics functions, including exploratory and predictive analytics, structured and free search querying, and data visualization. Users can also create and share analytical recipes, collaborate on data science projects, and uncover patterns within their data, translating complex findings into easily understandable insights. By integrating real-time analytics capabilities, DataChat empowers clients to make informed business decisions quickly and effectively.

Drishti

Grant in 2017
Drishti Technologies, Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-based computer vision solutions designed for visual inspections in manufacturing processes. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the company offers a software as a service solution that leverages video analytics and traceability to enhance productivity, quality, and training on manual assembly lines. Drishti's technology digitizes human actions, providing real-time, non-intrusive observations that enable manufacturers to improve operational efficiency. It serves primarily the electronics and automotive industries by facilitating the training of new employees, cross-training existing staff, and identifying high-performing workers who innovate within their roles. This approach not only aids in digital transformation but also helps workers remain competitive in an increasingly automated environment.

Bee Corp.

Grant in 2017
Bee Corp. is a company that focuses on developing data analytics and decision-support solutions for beekeeping. Its primary products include Queen's Guard, a tool for monitoring and managing bee queens, which utilizes a beehive sensor and data analytics software to track hive conditions. The system monitors temperature and other critical data, sending alerts to users when it detects potential queen loss. Additionally, Bee Corp. offers Verifli, which employs infrared inspection technology to assess bee health and distribution, ensuring effective pollination for growers. By providing these advanced monitoring solutions, Bee Corp. aims to support beekeepers and contribute to the sustainable restoration of honeybee populations. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
AwareAbility Technologies specializes in providing a data analytics platform that enables businesses to extract insights from diverse data sources in challenging environments. The company employs three core technologies: radiological power technologies, Internet of Things (IoT)-style data collection, and machine learning analytics. By leveraging these technologies, AwareAbility Technologies addresses obstacles related to data gathering and processing, allowing for efficient raw data aggregation and local storage. This innovative approach empowers organizations to generate valuable insights that enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Perceive

Grant in 2017
Perceive Inc specializes in developing advanced camera software that provides spatial analytics for various physical environments, including retail stores, museums, and libraries. Founded in 2015 and based in Fishers, Indiana, the company utilizes artificial intelligence and computer vision to capture and analyze 3D video data on consumer interactions within these spaces. By integrating sensors into existing lighting wiring, Perceive creates detailed 3D maps without relying on face recognition or traditional tracking methods, enabling businesses to optimize employee performance and enhance customer experiences. This technology allows organizations to make data-driven decisions rather than relying on anecdotal evidence, significantly improving the efficiency of data collection in physical environments.

Perceive

Grant in 2017
Perceive Inc specializes in developing advanced camera software that provides spatial analytics for various physical environments, including retail stores, museums, and libraries. Founded in 2015 and based in Fishers, Indiana, the company utilizes artificial intelligence and computer vision to capture and analyze 3D video data on consumer interactions within these spaces. By integrating sensors into existing lighting wiring, Perceive creates detailed 3D maps without relying on face recognition or traditional tracking methods, enabling businesses to optimize employee performance and enhance customer experiences. This technology allows organizations to make data-driven decisions rather than relying on anecdotal evidence, significantly improving the efficiency of data collection in physical environments.

Akai Kaeru

Grant in 2017
Akai Kaeru provides AI software that identifies and visually explains critical patterns in complex data, facilitating the construction of decision-making AI models that can be trusted. With their cutting-edge academic research, they created explainable AI software to assist data scientists with complex real-world problems.

Azimuth1

Grant in 2017
Azimuth1 specializes in providing customized technology solutions that address challenges in the energy, environment, and public safety sectors. The company utilizes geospatial analytics and data science to solve resource allocation problems, enabling users to enhance decision-making and optimize operations in these critical areas. By focusing on specialty data analysis applications, Azimuth1 aims to facilitate everyday improvements and efficiencies, helping organizations effectively manage their resources and address pressing issues within their domains.

LeanFM Technologies

Grant in 2017
Provider of a information and facility operations platform intended to help facility managers gain easy access to actionable information and make data-driven decisions. The company's information and facility operations platform offers to understand maintenance history and backlog in context of buildings, as well as helps to gain new insights from artificial intelligence enriched maintenance and building information, enabling clients to minimize waste and maximize value to owners and occupants.

Marinus Analytics

Grant in 2017
Developer of SaaS tool designed to disrupt human trafficking, child abuse, and cyber fraud. The company uses artificial intelligence to get actionable insights out of big data to empower a victim-centered response and serve experts working on the front lines of public safety, the tool deploys graph analytics to detect organized crime, along with using purpose-driven algorithms to identify vulnerability indicators, enabling frontline workers in the public sector to protect the vulnerable and end systemic exploitation.

GDA Corp

Grant in 2017
GDA specializes in sophisticated processing and deep analysis of airborne and satellite imagery for agricultural intelligence. They are a recognized leader in the rapid processing and analysis of massive amounts of imagery for frequent, objective in-season assessments of crop conditions, progress, acreage, and yield from sub-field to country levels. GDA continually aggregates imagery from a multitude of sources enabling global cropland coverage and analysis. They work with customers to integrate quality imagery and advanced analysis from GDA into their agricultural management systems. GDA is, at its core, a satellite image analysis company and has been focused on tough problems in image processing from its inception in 2002. GDA grew out of a long history of science-backed image processing research particularly as it relates to agricultural analysis. They have a seasoned track record of winning highly competitive Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants to develop state-of-art technology and have been a prime contractor to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service since 2005.

Data2Discovery

Grant in 2017
Data2Discovery specializes in healthcare data analytics, focusing on drug discovery through the use of knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics. The company's platform is designed to extract valuable insights from complex and diverse datasets, utilizing a combination of scalable graph technologies and both public and proprietary data sources. With its patent-pending AI and machine learning capabilities, along with graph mining techniques, Data2Discovery effectively links and maps data to tackle various challenges in the healthcare sector. This approach enables users to achieve efficient and effective results in their research and development efforts.

Aural Analytics

Grant in 2017
Aural Analytics, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company founded in 2015 that focuses on developing applications for monitoring brain health. The company has created a multi-modal brain health analytics platform that utilizes advances in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speech analytics to detect changes in neurological health. By leveraging proprietary metrics, Aural Analytics transforms smartphones and tablets into effective brain health monitors, capturing subtle, clinically relevant aspects of a patient's condition through speech samples. This technology enhances traditional functional rating scales used in clinical trials by providing objective, continuous outcomes, thereby allowing for more reliable evaluations of drug efficacy and other interventions. Aural Analytics' platform aims to reveal incremental changes in neurological health, facilitating accurate assessments by medical professionals.

Apri Health

Grant in 2016
Apri Health combines Data-Assisted Medicine TM with peer-to-peer education to deliver best-in-class data analytics.

Shopagon

Grant in 2016
Shopagon is a Visual intelligence for real-time retail personalization.

Applied Biosensors

Grant in 2016
Developer of multi-analyte biosensors designed to address the need for single-use sensors used in bio-manufacturing. The company offers polymer-based multi-analyte biosensors that can continuously monitor almost any biomarker through smart hydrogels and magnetic sensing and are compatible with single-use bioreactors, shake-flask bioreactors, and wave bioreactors, enabling clients to use tools for continuous multi-analyte monitoring at a lower cost and with wireless telemetry.

Metalytics

Grant in 2016
Metalytics is a biotechnology company based in Morrisville, NC, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in cell factory analysis, offering technology-enabled services designed to assist cell engineers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. Its flagship product, CoreMFATM, facilitates optimal cell line selection and identifies the best conditions for cell line production. Metalytics' services enable the mapping of metabolism within industrial cell factories, allowing for the determination of metabolic rates in living cells, which is otherwise difficult to measure. This capability aids synthetic biology and pharmaceutical companies in enhancing their production processes and addressing complex production challenges, ultimately contributing to a deeper understanding of metabolic pathways.

Roundtable Analytics

Grant in 2016
Roundtable Analytics, Inc. develops predictive analytics software tailored for the healthcare industry. The company's flagship platform, OptimizED, streamlines performance improvement initiatives by utilizing advanced predictive analytics and simulation modeling. This tool enhances patient flow, reduces walk-outs, optimizes resource utilization, minimizes variability in practice, and identifies new revenue opportunities. OptimizED serves as an insights platform for emergency departments, equipping teams with both historical and real-time data to benchmark and track performance while pinpointing areas for enhancement. Founded in 2013 and initially based in Durham, North Carolina, Roundtable Analytics now operates from Larkspur, California, focusing on integrating mathematical, statistical, and operational research methodologies to address critical healthcare challenges.

VoiceVibes

Grant in 2016
VoiceVibes empowers people to be more effective communicators. Our innovative voice analytics technology shows exactly how you can improve your oral communication and make the best impression – every time!

Earshot (Application)

Grant in 2016
Developer of a AI and voice analysis application intended to provide feedback to teachers to help them improve. The company's application captures voice data from the classroom to provide real-time discussion analysis, enabling teachers to be able to quickly learn from their classrooms and improve their practice.

BioSignal Analytics

Grant in 2016
BioSignal Analytics is a healthcare technology company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, focused on enhancing healthcare quality through automated interpretation technology. Utilizing machine learning algorithms, the company has developed a decision-support tool that integrates seamlessly into the clinical workflow of neurologists. This tool leverages extensive big data resources to train advanced models that can self-organize information and uncover underlying patterns. As a result, it provides healthcare professionals with real-time alerts for seizure detection, aiming to improve patient outcomes and streamline the diagnostic process.

Qualicent Analytics

Grant in 2016
Qualicent Analytics is applying machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for breakthrough reductions.
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