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 Business Intelligence

Brainsoft

Grant in 2022
Brainsoft specializes in the development of technologies that leverage human brainwaves to control objects and analyze the relationship between brain activity and emotional and intellectual states. The company creates innovative interfaces that enable intuitive navigation, allowing users to interact with devices based on their mental and emotional conditions. By focusing on the interception and analysis of brainwaves, Brainsoft aims to support researchers in advancing their understanding of brain activity, ultimately benefiting society through improved insights into human cognition and behavior.

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

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.

Ranial Systems

Grant in 2021
Developer of a real-time process automation platform designed to provide converging cognitive artificial intelligence and edge computing runtime. The company's platform focuses to cater alternative domains and strategic initiatives in smart energy, real-time plant monitoring, and wearable technology automation and spree to explore the emerging market potentials dealing with context-aware, business process automation, advisory services on product development and co-innovation, enabling businesses to solve their critical problems in business process automation space.

Maijker

Grant in 2021
Maijker Corp commercializes groundbreaking AI and sensor technology research. The company uses Industry Standards to develop novel approaches to applying AI to specific manufacturing problems.

ZelosDx

Grant in 2021
Developer of neurodiagnostic technologies intended to commercialize blood testing products. The company provides critical data that can be useful in diagnosis, monitoring and assessing therapeutic responses that help to make discoveries for brain health and diseases, enabling pharmaceutical companies and researchers to drug discovery and conduct studies in brain disease.

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.

Intellerce

Grant in 2021
Intellerce is a San Diego-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing a video streaming platform aimed at significantly lowering the costs associated with streaming video-on-demand content. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to minimize reliance on data centers and Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), which not only reduces streaming expenses but also decreases energy consumption and the carbon footprint of cloud computing infrastructures. By optimizing these processes, Intellerce enables video companies to provide a high-quality streaming experience for their users while promoting sustainability in the digital content delivery space.

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.

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.

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.

MAIA Analytica

Grant in 2020
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment

bosWell

Grant in 2020
bosWell provides a record-keeping platform tailored for community-based organizations, facilitating simple and secure data collection. The platform includes a dashboard and customizable client intake forms that allow organizations to gather client data across various devices. By digitizing data and generating insights, bosWell enables organizations to streamline their operations, save time, and enhance client outcomes. This approach supports community organizations in effectively managing their records and improving service delivery.

BluSphinx

Grant in 2020
BluSphinx is a business consultancy firm based in Austin, Texas, specializing in customized enterprise resource planning solutions aimed at enhancing business performance. The company focuses on small to medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, offering tailored strategies that begin with an in-depth understanding of each client’s operational processes. By developing a comprehensive blueprint and planning the implementation of these strategies, BluSphinx helps clients streamline their operations, reduce costs, and achieve positive growth outcomes. Through its expert team, the firm provides critical insights and actionable plans designed to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness in business operations.

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.

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.

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.

Initium.AI

Grant in 2020
Initium.AI develops a customized solution that transforms natural language into actionable insights. The company's headquarters are in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Geometric Data Analytics focuses on solving complex data analysis problems. GDA merges expertise from academia with solutions that matter to industry and government.

Biocogniv

Grant in 2020
Biocogniv Inc. specializes in developing artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic tools tailored for hospitals. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Vermont, the company creates plugins for electronic health records (EHRs) that enhance clinical decision-making. Its initial product screens patients for COVID-19 by rapidly analyzing standard blood test results, achieving a sensitivity rate of 95%. Additionally, Biocogniv's technology aims to predict sepsis-related in-hospital mortality and the need for intensive care unit admission during emergency department visits. By seamlessly integrating with EHR workflows, Biocogniv's solutions facilitate accurate and non-invasive diagnostic methods, thereby improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency in the medical sector.

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.

Capienda Biotech

Seed Round in 2020
Capienda Biotech is a developer of an innovative biotechnology platform that streamlines the drug discovery process, significantly reducing both time and costs associated with developing new medicines. By addressing a critical bottleneck in the industry, Capienda's advanced bioanalytical system enhances the design of small molecules, allowing for higher quality drugs to enter clinical trials. Their high-throughput kinetics system offers twelve times the throughput compared to existing technologies, eliminating the need for specialist scientists to operate it. Capienda's product consists of a laboratory instrument system combined with assay chemicals, which also generates recurring revenues. This approach enables pharmacists to target medicine delivery more efficiently, ultimately accelerating the path to market for new therapeutics.

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.

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.

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.

Initium.AI

Grant in 2019
Initium.AI develops a customized solution that transforms natural language into actionable insights. The company's headquarters are in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

SRC Biosciences

Grant in 2019
SRC Biosciences is a science and technology company that develops, commercializes, and maintains stereology systems. The company is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

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.

WISRAN

Grant in 2019
WISRAN specializes in smart data and process management technology focused on real-time water measurement and management. The company develops a cloud-enabled software platform that collects data from various equipment, such as pumps, to provide insights into operations and business intelligence. This technology serves smart cities, equipment manufacturers, utilities, and regulators, aiming to enhance efficiency, identify new revenue opportunities, and reduce costs. Additionally, WISRAN offers a SaaS-based agtech platform that utilizes tablets equipped with accelerometers and GPS for agricultural equipment. This feature allows farmers to gather telematics data, ultimately improving worker productivity and optimizing agricultural machinery logistics.

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.

Insight Sensing

Grant in 2019
Insight Sensing specializes in remote sensing technology that delivers crop performance indicators specifically for fertilizer management. The company offers a data-driven platform that provides calibrated, timely, and map-based information. This actionable intelligence is designed to assist agronomists and farming businesses in managing field variability, allowing for optimal fertilizer application. By maximizing the effectiveness of fertilizer use, Insight Sensing aims to enhance agricultural profitability and improve crop management practices.

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.

bosWell

Grant in 2019
bosWell provides a record-keeping platform tailored for community-based organizations, facilitating simple and secure data collection. The platform includes a dashboard and customizable client intake forms that allow organizations to gather client data across various devices. By digitizing data and generating insights, bosWell enables organizations to streamline their operations, save time, and enhance client outcomes. This approach supports community organizations in effectively managing their records and improving service delivery.

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.

SpIntellx

Grant in 2019
SpIntellx, Inc. is a computational and systems pathology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in spatial intelligence software for analyzing pathology tissue sections, particularly in cancer diagnosis. The company offers several products, including SpIntellx, which processes image data from various imaging platforms, and HistoMapr, a computational guide designed to assist pathologists. Additionally, TumorMapr analyzes the spatial interactions of biomarkers within whole slide images using multiplexed fluorescence. Founded in 2017 by a team of pathologists, computer scientists, and biotechnologists, SpIntellx aims to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of pathologists while providing predictive data to improve patient outcomes.

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.

MAIA Analytica

Grant in 2019
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment

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).

Pow.bio

Grant in 2019
Pow.bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology, helping turn great ideas into profitable products. We combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize your fermentation process and deliver high yields at low costs. Our scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi.

Beagle Learning

Grant in 2019
Beagle Learning LLC operates an online platform designed to enhance critical thinking skills among students and teams. Founded in 2018 and based in Paradise Valley, Arizona, the company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that helps instructors and teams effectively gather input and make informed decisions. The platform automatically summarizes and analyzes student questions, providing real-time reports that highlight both popular and unique inquiries. This system not only reduces the time spent on discussion boards but also fosters connections between students' learnings, promoting higher-order thinking and synthesis skills. Beagle Learning collaborates with higher education institutions, businesses, and government entities, including the US Department of Defense, to improve trainee retention, facilitate team buy-in, minimize conflicts, and expedite critical decision-making processes.

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.

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.

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.

Albeado

Grant in 2018
Albeado provides a software platform that allows an organization to understand its business process control knobs. The company helps them make connections between the knobs putting more control and fast effective decision-making power at their fingertips. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

Enable Biosciences

Grant in 2018
Enable Biosciences is biotech company making ultrasensitive tests for HIV, type 1 diabetes, and many other diseases. They develop ultrasensitive immunoassays that permit early detection and treatment of autoimmune and infectious diseases.

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.
Brainchild Technologies develops digital applications that improves parent-infant communication by measuring behavioral data from little ones and integrates it into fun and educational games, and applications on computer or smart devices. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

SRC Biosciences

Grant in 2017
SRC Biosciences is a science and technology company that develops, commercializes, and maintains stereology systems. The company is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

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.

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.

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.

Intabio

Grant in 2017
Intabio, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on enhancing the development and manufacturing processes of biotherapeutic drugs through its innovative analytical solutions. Founded in 2015 and based in Newark, California, Intabio has developed the Blaze system, which includes a bench-top instrument, microfluidic chip, and reagent kit designed for the separation, quantitation, and molecular mass identity analysis of intact biotherapeutic proteins. This platform enables real-time characterization of protein isoforms, allowing for the identification of structural modifications that may affect drug efficacy and safety. By providing early product quality characterization and improving throughput, the Blaze system addresses critical challenges faced by biopharmaceutical developers, who often encounter limitations with traditional testing methods. Intabio's technology integrates multiple analytical techniques to facilitate a comprehensive analysis of biologics, ultimately streamlining the development process and reducing the risk of costly delays and missteps.

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.

Intentionet

Grant in 2017
Intentionet is a developer of management software that specializes in analyzing network configurations to identify and rectify errors. The company's software automates the testing of changes within both on-premises and cloud-based networks, proactively addressing potential issues that could lead to outages or security breaches. By providing clients with enhanced visibility into their network's security posture and connectivity, Intentionet facilitates rapid deployment and ongoing maintenance of network systems without the risk of service interruptions or compliance violations.

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.

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.
Advanced Biological Marketing (ABM) provides solutions for commercial agriculture, businesses and consumers by identifying, developing, manufacturing and marketing biological products globally for crop production, institutional sanitation and environmental waste management. ABM emphasizes education, innovative research and strong marketing expertise in these emerging markets.

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.

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.
Developer of a knowledge harvesting and case based reasoning platform designed for homeowners and home improvement contractors. The company's platform develops and validates a cost estimation methodology that applies case-based reasoning to a knowledge repository built and evolved by social efforts, through a cycle of knowledge harvesting, organization, augmentation and calibration, enabling clients to access their platform to benefit from socially cultivated knowledge repositories.

Albeado

Grant in 2016
Albeado provides a software platform that allows an organization to understand its business process control knobs. The company helps them make connections between the knobs putting more control and fast effective decision-making power at their fingertips. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

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.

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.
Caduceus Intelligence Corporation (CIC) is a technology spin-off company of the University of Arizona (UA) located in Tucson, Arizona. CIC has an existing 10-year long non-exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Arizona to perform cutting edge research in the field of Healthcare IT. CIC has been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR/STTR Phase I grants (NSF Award ID 1417181 and NSF Award ID 1622788) for the work it is doing in partnership with the University of Arizona. CIC has extensive research and development partnerships with prestigious research institutes in Taiwan, China and Denmark and has also received research funding from the National Taiwan University and University of Southern Denmark.

IBS Caribe

Grant in 2016
IBS Caribe provides innovative solutions to the regulated life-sciences manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Qualicent Analytics

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

Perceive

Grant in 2016
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.

Enable Biosciences

Grant in 2016
Enable Biosciences is biotech company making ultrasensitive tests for HIV, type 1 diabetes, and many other diseases. They develop ultrasensitive immunoassays that permit early detection and treatment of autoimmune and infectious diseases.

Intentionet

Grant in 2016
Intentionet is a developer of management software that specializes in analyzing network configurations to identify and rectify errors. The company's software automates the testing of changes within both on-premises and cloud-based networks, proactively addressing potential issues that could lead to outages or security breaches. By providing clients with enhanced visibility into their network's security posture and connectivity, Intentionet facilitates rapid deployment and ongoing maintenance of network systems without the risk of service interruptions or compliance violations.

BrightSpec

Grant in 2016
BrightSpec is a company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, specializing in innovative laboratory services and technology for analytical chemistry. It is known for its Fourier transform molecular rotational resonance (FT-MRR) platform, developed from research at the University of Virginia. This technology enables comprehensive characterization of molecules, offering sensitivity to distinguish between stereoisomers and isotopes. BrightSpec's products are particularly valuable in industries such as manufacturing process control, quality control, environmental monitoring, and formulation research. The FT-MRR platform enhances the analysis of complex mixtures without the need for chromatography, thereby improving efficiency for chemical manufacturers. By leveraging quantum theory, BrightSpec aims to revolutionize the connection between artificial intelligence and sample analytics, providing immediate results to its customers.

InsightFinder

Grant in 2016
InsightFinder Inc. specializes in machine learning technology solutions focused on IT operational data. Founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance operational efficiency. Its metric intelligence engine detects anomalies automatically using advanced algorithms, while the log intelligence engine provides real-time keyword extraction and indexing for textual log files. InsightFinder also features an alert intelligence engine that reduces alert fatigue by filtering out duplicate alerts and an APM intelligence engine that identifies issues in both proprietary and third-party applications. The company's innovative, patent-pending solutions can be accessed through online subscriptions or deployed on-premise, helping organizations find root causes of deviations and predict future events with minimal staff involvement.

SIAS Global

Grant in 2015
SIAS Global is a geospatial technology innovation that provides data analytics for regulatory permitted and surety bonded industrial mining. The company was founded in 2009 by Russell F. Schimmer and is based in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

LeanFM Technologies

Grant in 2015
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 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.

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.
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