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 Big Data

Cybereum

Grant in 2023
Megaprojects are a significant and growing portion of global GDP accounting for several trillion dollars (USD) of economic activity each year. They deliver critical industrial and infrastructure developments that underpin modern society. Most are inefficient: approximately one in a thousand projects is a success, defined as on target for cost, scope and benefits, accounting for trillions in costs and unrealized benefits. Cybereum will transform project governance using 5th generation Blockchain Tech that combines DAG DLT and smartcontracts. On the cybereum™ platform, you can create self-regulating project networks of stakeholders & milestones referencing a consensus-based, distributed single-source-of-truth with the property of trustless verification, where contract execution & value exchange can be automated. The project will become a responsive symbiotic goal-seeking organism holistically comprised of all stakeholders. We are creating its nervous system by combining incentive engineering, cryptographic methods, & AI.

ViQi

Grant in 2022
ViQi offers a software-as-a-service platform specializing in scientific image analysis, catering to various industries including life sciences, construction, and agriculture. Through a straightforward subscription model, users can tailor ViQi's services to their specific requirements for data storage and analysis. The platform facilitates custom image processing and informatics, providing tools for bio-image semantic queries and module development. Additionally, ViQi assists with intranet deployment and hosting of image collections, allowing clients to efficiently view, investigate, and share complex data and images. This comprehensive approach enables swift results and enhances the discovery process in diverse applications.

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.

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

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.

Boston Geospatial

Grant in 2021
Boston Geospatial, founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, focuses on developing a geospatial data platform that facilitates access to various satellite data providers. The platform allows users to search and compare a vast array of geospatial data, which can be analyzed in multiple ways. This capability is particularly beneficial for operators and risk managers in critical infrastructure sectors, as it enables them to obtain valuable geospatial insights essential for informed decision-making.

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.

DeepBits

Grant in 2021
Google was founded to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Inspired by Google, we, a team with decades of experiences on cybersecurity, started DeepBits, to provide indexing and searching for the world’s binary code. We are focused on organizing the world’s binary code to provide cybersecurity solutions for various devices. Backed up by over a decade multimillion dollars research sponsored by National Science Foundation and Department of Defense, we are now able to identify vulnerabilities in your computer, mobile phones, and IoT devices in a split of second, and we are able to classify malware and trace back to the source despite that they often try to transform themselves and hide their identities. Wanna know more details? Check out our company - DeepBits Technology.

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.

Semiotic AI

Grant in 2021
Semiotic AI provides encrypted computing services in the cloud based on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Using Semiotic's services, organizations can offer data analytics on sensitive data without compromising security and privacy. In addition to data security, Semiotic's technology can protect proprietary models by encrypting them before deployment. Privacy and security will play a pivotal role in business growth in the era of cloud computing, AI, and 5G. Semiotic's founders bring decades of experience in cryptography, AI, and acceleration to prepare you for this future. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

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.

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.

Picolo Labs Inc

Grant in 2021
Multi-cloud data and compute

BiomeSense

Grant in 2021
BiomeSense is revolutionizing human microbiome research by developing novel technologies to enable investigators to collect, store, and analyze the daily microbiome profiles of clinical trial participants in a low-cost, scalable way. By enabling daily profiling, the platform allows investigators the unprecedented ability to tie microbiome changes directly to clinical outcomes in real time, dramatically increasing the research discovery potential.
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.

Dascena

Grant in 2020
Dascena, Inc. is a technology company based in Oakland, California, specializing in the development of algorithm software for diagnostics and biomarkers. Founded in 2018, Dascena creates machine learning algorithms designed to enhance early disease intervention and improve patient care outcomes. Its primary product, AlgoDiagnostics, autonomously processes electronic health record data to identify conditions such as acute decompensation, sepsis, and acute kidney injury. By leveraging advanced algorithms, Dascena aims to facilitate timely medical responses and support healthcare professionals in delivering better patient care.

Eino

Grant in 2020
Eino, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing predictive software designed to forecast urban population movement and demand. By leveraging a combination of historical data, large amounts of contextual information, and advanced artificial intelligence, Eino provides insights that assist businesses in optimal resource planning and distribution. This proprietary technology enables companies to enhance their operational efficiency, improve customer service, and increase revenue. Eino is actively collaborating with three major global operators on proof of concept projects, demonstrating the practical applications of its platform in network connectivity management and proactive resource allocation.

ViQi

Grant in 2020
ViQi offers a software-as-a-service platform specializing in scientific image analysis, catering to various industries including life sciences, construction, and agriculture. Through a straightforward subscription model, users can tailor ViQi's services to their specific requirements for data storage and analysis. The platform facilitates custom image processing and informatics, providing tools for bio-image semantic queries and module development. Additionally, ViQi assists with intranet deployment and hosting of image collections, allowing clients to efficiently view, investigate, and share complex data and images. This comprehensive approach enables swift results and enhances the discovery process in diverse applications.

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.

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.

Onu Technology, Inc.

Grant in 2020
The latest advances in computation are awe-inspiring, from big data to machine learning to image recognition. But these techniques are difficult to understand and implement, and can require massive computational and engineering resources. Onu is advancing the frontiers of computer science in a way that makes the power of cutting-edge algorithms accessible to all. Onu was founded by leading computer scientists and accomplished entrepreneurs. They work closely with leading researchers in academia and industry. Their ambitions befit the caliber of Their supporters and contributors.

ChameleonCloud

Grant in 2020
Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.

Combplex

Grant in 2020
Combplex is uses remote monitoring technology to provide the benefits of digital agriculture and big data to commercial beekeepers.

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.

WideSense

Grant in 2020
WideSense unlocks the value of data in the automobile by combining on-vehicle data streams with cloud data sources to deliver context-aware digital services through their connected services smartphone app and in-vehicle infotainment and also receive high-precision forecasts on the ageing and degradation of the vehicle components of each of their connected vehicles on the road, enabling clients to increase driver assistance and automation.
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

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.

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.

Koliber Biosciences

Grant in 2020
Koliber Biosciences focuses on advancing biomedical discoveries through a synthetic biology research platform that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company offers data science services, including the development of predictive models and practical statistics coaching for clients. By specializing in statistically-guided experimental design, modeling, and data analytics, Koliber Biosciences enables pharmaceutical companies to expedite the drug development process, making it more efficient and effective.

Onu Technology, Inc.

Grant in 2020
The latest advances in computation are awe-inspiring, from big data to machine learning to image recognition. But these techniques are difficult to understand and implement, and can require massive computational and engineering resources. Onu is advancing the frontiers of computer science in a way that makes the power of cutting-edge algorithms accessible to all. Onu was founded by leading computer scientists and accomplished entrepreneurs. They work closely with leading researchers in academia and industry. Their ambitions befit the caliber of Their supporters and contributors.

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.

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.

JuliaHub

Grant in 2020
Julia Computing, Inc. specializes in designing and developing software solutions for the Julia programming language, catering to a diverse audience including professionals, engineers, and data scientists. Its offerings include JuliaPro for advanced users, JuliaRun for scalable deployment in production environments, JuliaBox for educational purposes, and JuliaFin, which provides tools for quantitative finance. The company also delivers tailored consulting services, encompassing software development, integration, and performance engineering. Additionally, Julia Computing provides training programs ranging from basic to advanced levels for users of the Julia language. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, with offices in various locations including Boston, New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Bengaluru, India. Julia itself is a high-performance programming language that has gained significant traction, with over 20 million downloads and a growing ecosystem of more than 4,000 packages.
The Hawaii Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) is a University of Hawaiʻi System-wide effort to support data science education, collaborative research and partnerships with industry.

USEncryption

Grant in 2019
Developer of a pioneering encryption method and tools designed for data in use. The company's method enables data owners to encrypt confidential data and process it while encrypted, without constraints or the need to decrypt it first, allowing them to migrate their encrypted confidential data to the cloud, use it for analyses or machine learning, or share and monetize it as a service with full privacy and security.

TCarta

Grant in 2019
Provider of a geospatial remote sensing and hydro spatial data service based in Denver, Colombia. The company provides hydro spatial products, Earth observation analysis services, and Satellite-Derived Bathymetry data for near-shore areas around the globe, enabling research and government agencies to run hydrographic surveys easily.

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.

Lotic Labs

Grant in 2019
Lotic Labs develops innovative software focused on enhancing water markets and advancing environmental finance. By integrating fragmented data sets with advanced environmental science models and financial simulations, Lotic Labs facilitates comprehensive analysis of the interplay between financial, operational, and environmental decisions, particularly within the water utility and heavy industrial sectors. The company’s technology is designed to address environmental financial risks, offering tools for climate risk assessment that help minimize revenue and budget variance for water utilities. Additionally, Lotic Labs provides solutions for environmental modeling and analytics, including contract simulation, impact tracking, and opportunity identification, enabling businesses that rely heavily on natural resources to effectively manage the risks associated with volatile environmental conditions.

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.

NeuDax

Grant in 2019
NeuDax offers a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to upstream oil and gas (O&G) industry. The NeuDax "Analytics and Software-as-a-Service" (A+SaaS) solution provides both AI-Platforms and engineering and technical consults to clients to help them improve their decision making in the unconventional oil and gas projects. The NeuDax solution is beyond limited machine learning (ML) applications. We provide solutions based on cutting-edge technologies, including deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning (RL), to maximize the advantage of big data to oil and gas operators.

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.

Eino

Grant in 2019
Eino, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing predictive software designed to forecast urban population movement and demand. By leveraging a combination of historical data, large amounts of contextual information, and advanced artificial intelligence, Eino provides insights that assist businesses in optimal resource planning and distribution. This proprietary technology enables companies to enhance their operational efficiency, improve customer service, and increase revenue. Eino is actively collaborating with three major global operators on proof of concept projects, demonstrating the practical applications of its platform in network connectivity management and proactive resource allocation.

Senseer

Grant in 2019
Senseer is a developer of a cloud-based, data driven digital health platform to drive predictive analytics and enterprise-level business intelligence for the healthcare industry.

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.

Onu Technology, Inc.

Grant in 2019
The latest advances in computation are awe-inspiring, from big data to machine learning to image recognition. But these techniques are difficult to understand and implement, and can require massive computational and engineering resources. Onu is advancing the frontiers of computer science in a way that makes the power of cutting-edge algorithms accessible to all. Onu was founded by leading computer scientists and accomplished entrepreneurs. They work closely with leading researchers in academia and industry. Their ambitions befit the caliber of Their supporters and contributors.

Geopipe

Grant in 2019
Geopipe specializes in creating immersive digital twins of the real world through advanced machine learning and algorithmic tools. The company processes vast amounts of geographic and numeric data, including satellite images, maps, and laser scans, utilizing cloud-based distributed systems to reconstruct entire cities rapidly. This innovative approach allows for efficient simulations in various fields such as gaming, architecture, and urban planning. By providing real estate developers with authoritative digital representations, Geopipe helps streamline project timelines, ultimately saving time and costs in the development process.

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.

re:3D

Grant in 2019
re:3D reduces production complexity by providing affordable, industrial 3D printers that transform big ideas into tangible realities. With a build volume of eight cubic feet and robust construction, Gigabot can print objects 30x larger than competing desktop models. Up until now, personal 3D printing has been limited to toys and trinkets, while the Gigabot will bring your biggest dreams to life. re:3D's customer base comprises an esteemed group of designers, small business owners, manufacturers, educators, prototypists, and hobbyists in over 30 countries around the globe. Currently, re:3D is scaling manufacturing operations, and exploring alternate materials and feedstocks with global leaders in material and life sciences.

Subspace Labs

Grant in 2019
Subspace Labs is building a decentralized cloud database stored on end-user devices. Like Google Firebase, but decentralized and stored across people's phones, tablets, and computers. Their mission is to make it easy for developers to build decentralized apps so that users can own their data, and the Internet can work without having to rely on servers, data centers, and tech monopolies.

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.

Ultorg

Grant in 2019
Ultorg creates general-purpose software that helps organizations manage their data. Based on a new method for interactive data visualization, our product combines ease-of-use with expressive power to allow end-users to query, display, and edit relational data, without resorting to custom programming. This fills a long-standing gap between spreadsheets and tailor-made database applications.

Blocky

Grant in 2019
Developer of data lineage software designed to verify the integrity of internal data. The company's software allows users to sign data files on a blockchain and then verify those signatures, each signature produces a certificate, enabling clients and their partners to verify both the integrity of the signed data file and the signature's timestamp.

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.

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.

TCarta

Grant in 2018
Provider of a geospatial remote sensing and hydro spatial data service based in Denver, Colombia. The company provides hydro spatial products, Earth observation analysis services, and Satellite-Derived Bathymetry data for near-shore areas around the globe, enabling research and government agencies to run hydrographic surveys easily.

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.

Intensivate

Grant in 2018
Intensivate specializes in advanced chip technology designed to enhance data center performance, particularly for analytics and database workloads. The company has developed a product known as IntenScale, a PCIe card that effectively replaces 21 standard servers while consuming only 350W of power. This card is equipped with 21 patented Cluster CPU chips, each featuring 16 cores and 16 threads, culminating in a total of 336 cores and 5367 threads, along with 672GB of DRAM. Intensivate's solutions are particularly beneficial for cloud, on-premises, and edge applications that do not effectively utilize GPUs, FPGAs, or general-purpose CPUs. By enabling significant improvements in data processing performance without requiring modifications to existing software, Intensivate positions itself as a leader in addressing the needs of memory-intensive and parallel processing applications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DeepBits

Grant in 2017
Google was founded to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Inspired by Google, we, a team with decades of experiences on cybersecurity, started DeepBits, to provide indexing and searching for the world’s binary code. We are focused on organizing the world’s binary code to provide cybersecurity solutions for various devices. Backed up by over a decade multimillion dollars research sponsored by National Science Foundation and Department of Defense, we are now able to identify vulnerabilities in your computer, mobile phones, and IoT devices in a split of second, and we are able to classify malware and trace back to the source despite that they often try to transform themselves and hide their identities. Wanna know more details? Check out our company - DeepBits Technology.

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.

re:3D

Grant in 2017
re:3D reduces production complexity by providing affordable, industrial 3D printers that transform big ideas into tangible realities. With a build volume of eight cubic feet and robust construction, Gigabot can print objects 30x larger than competing desktop models. Up until now, personal 3D printing has been limited to toys and trinkets, while the Gigabot will bring your biggest dreams to life. re:3D's customer base comprises an esteemed group of designers, small business owners, manufacturers, educators, prototypists, and hobbyists in over 30 countries around the globe. Currently, re:3D is scaling manufacturing operations, and exploring alternate materials and feedstocks with global leaders in material and life sciences.

Revolution Computing

Grant in 2017
Revolution Computing is developing a radical new approach to accelerating emerging sparse machine learning workloads. Through the Revolution Architecture, we are capable of delivering 4x the performance at half of the energy of alternative solutions. These capabilities come from fundamentally re-inventing the microprocessor to handle an era where irregular compute and abundant data access patterns are commonplace.
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.

Eino

Grant in 2017
Eino, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing predictive software designed to forecast urban population movement and demand. By leveraging a combination of historical data, large amounts of contextual information, and advanced artificial intelligence, Eino provides insights that assist businesses in optimal resource planning and distribution. This proprietary technology enables companies to enhance their operational efficiency, improve customer service, and increase revenue. Eino is actively collaborating with three major global operators on proof of concept projects, demonstrating the practical applications of its platform in network connectivity management and proactive resource allocation.

ViSOAR

Grant in 2017
ViSOAR provides multidimensional data arrays for platform-independent collaborative analytics and visualization. The ViSOAR Explorer software solutions, powered by ViSUS, were designed with the primary philosophy that massive data visualization does not require specialized hardware or infrastructure. To put it another way, a large data visualization environment can be designed to be lightweight, highly scalable, and run on a variety of platforms or hardware.

Geopipe

Grant in 2017
Geopipe specializes in creating immersive digital twins of the real world through advanced machine learning and algorithmic tools. The company processes vast amounts of geographic and numeric data, including satellite images, maps, and laser scans, utilizing cloud-based distributed systems to reconstruct entire cities rapidly. This innovative approach allows for efficient simulations in various fields such as gaming, architecture, and urban planning. By providing real estate developers with authoritative digital representations, Geopipe helps streamline project timelines, ultimately saving time and costs in the development process.

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.

Chaos Prime

Grant in 2017
Chaos Prime specializes in industrializing artificial intelligence through its EdgeOps software platform, which integrates big data and AI to enhance operational technology. The platform enables system designers to implement prescriptive maintenance and analytics, effectively predicting and prescribing outcomes that assist industrial firms in minimizing unplanned equipment downtime and maximizing yield. By utilizing prescriptive analytics, companies can transition from relying on forecasted events to making real-time adjustments based on actual occurrences, thereby optimizing production, shipments, and machine downtime to improve supply chain efficiency. Additionally, Chaos Prime provides a wireless connectivity solution that offers ultra-secure and highly reliable connectivity for the Internet of Things, facilitating seamless connections for semiconductor companies. The combination of these technologies positions Chaos Prime as a leader in enhancing industrial operations and connectivity.

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.

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.

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.

NGD Systems

Grant in 2017
NGD Systems, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of advanced computational storage drives (CSDs) designed for enterprise and data center applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Irvine, California, with an additional office in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company offers innovative solutions such as The Newport Platform, which provides next-generation computational storage capabilities, and the In-Situ Development Platform, enabling developers to create applications for in-situ processing. NGD Systems' products feature high-capacity NVMe CSDs that are power-efficient and compact, making them suitable for a variety of demanding environments, including edge computing networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and content delivery networks. By integrating computational capabilities directly into storage devices, the company aims to enhance data management and processing efficiency in data-intensive scenarios.

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.

Waterbit

Grant in 2016
WaterBit’s automated irrigation solution enables control of local irrigation taking into account growth stage and soil conditions at a level of granularity and accuracy that is not possible with other current methods. WaterBit translates technology into tangible value for growers to improve yields, ensure crop quality, optimize water usage and implement labor saving strategies.

Qualicent Analytics

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

Zettar

Grant in 2016
Zettar helps move data at scale and speed. It supportive of both file based and cloud storage.

Diesel Labs

Grant in 2016
Diesel Labs, Inc. is a mobile video analytics company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2016. The company specializes in empowering marketers to enhance their television ad campaigns by translating them into targeted mobile video campaigns. Utilizing proprietary technology and advanced machine learning techniques, Diesel Labs analyzes media consumption and engagement data to enable clients to effectively target audiences based on their viewing habits across various platforms, including short-form videos and premium streaming content. By leveraging social media analytics, Diesel Labs facilitates coordinated cross-channel messaging, streamlining the media planning process and helping clients make informed marketing, programming, and sales decisions. The team at Diesel Labs comprises experienced professionals, including former senior members from Bluefin Labs, a notable social TV analytics firm.

Dascena

Grant in 2015
Dascena, Inc. is a technology company based in Oakland, California, specializing in the development of algorithm software for diagnostics and biomarkers. Founded in 2018, Dascena creates machine learning algorithms designed to enhance early disease intervention and improve patient care outcomes. Its primary product, AlgoDiagnostics, autonomously processes electronic health record data to identify conditions such as acute decompensation, sepsis, and acute kidney injury. By leveraging advanced algorithms, Dascena aims to facilitate timely medical responses and support healthcare professionals in delivering better patient care.

NGD Systems

Grant in 2015
NGD Systems, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of advanced computational storage drives (CSDs) designed for enterprise and data center applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Irvine, California, with an additional office in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company offers innovative solutions such as The Newport Platform, which provides next-generation computational storage capabilities, and the In-Situ Development Platform, enabling developers to create applications for in-situ processing. NGD Systems' products feature high-capacity NVMe CSDs that are power-efficient and compact, making them suitable for a variety of demanding environments, including edge computing networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and content delivery networks. By integrating computational capabilities directly into storage devices, the company aims to enhance data management and processing efficiency in data-intensive scenarios.

DataWare Ventures

Grant in 2015
Dataware Ventures is a software company that is developing a technology to help enterprise application software (EAS) vendors optimize the performance of their applications. Our patent-pending micro-specialization technology addresses the major pain points of EAS, including slow data loads and slow query performance. Our technology is targeted towards CRM, ERP, HR, and big data analytics applications, as well as their underlying database management systems (DBMS), which are used by virtually every medium and large business.

Marinus Analytics

Grant in 2015
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.

Graphistry

Grant in 2015
Graphistry, Inc. develops and offers a SaaS based and a visual investigations platform. It offers a software tool to deploy, connect, analyze, investigate, and integrate data. The company's product helps in incident response, siem optimization, threat hunting, anti-fraud, and data science. Graphistry, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Data2Discovery

Grant in 2015
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.
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