National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency established in 1950 and based in Alexandria, Virginia. It is dedicated to supporting research and education in science and engineering across a wide range of disciplines. The NSF provides significant non-dilutive funding, up to $1.5 million, to startups and small businesses through its America's Seed Fund initiative, which is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program mandated by Congress. With an operating budget of approximately $7.8 billion, the NSF is committed to advancing fundamental research and education, thus fostering innovation and technological development in the United States.

James Donlon

Program Director

Debasis Majumdar

Program Director

Graciela Narcho

Staff Associate

Sethuraman Panchanathan

Director

Past deals in Data Mining

Pyte

Seed Round in 2022
Pyte is a provider of secure data collaboration solutions that enables enterprises to share and utilize data while preserving confidentiality throughout the data lifecycle. The company’s innovative technology allows for computations on encrypted data without the need for decryption, facilitating seamless data access across various cloud environments and jurisdictions. This capability ensures compliance with privacy regulations and reduces the risk of data breaches. Pyte's platform supports diverse applications, from co-marketing to drug discovery and fraud detection, empowering businesses to collaborate effectively while safeguarding sensitive information. Founded by experts in secure computation, Pyte's team includes individuals with extensive academic backgrounds and accolades in the field.

ViQi

Grant in 2022
ViQi offers software-as-a-service solutions for scientific image analysis, catering to various sectors including life sciences, construction, and agriculture. The platform enables users to customize services for data storage and analysis through a straightforward subscription model. ViQi specializes in custom image processing and informatics, providing tools such as bio-image semantic queries, module development, and assistance with intranet deployment. This allows clients to efficiently view, investigate, share, and store complex data and images, facilitating swift results and discoveries in their respective fields.

OmicsCraft

Grant in 2022
OmicsCraft offers customers access to a customised data analytics pipeline and a sample-to-solution service. They offer cloud-based platforms that allow them to build analytics pipelines for omic data preprocessing, mass spectrometric-based metabolite identification, differential analysis of metabolite profiles, and multi-omics integration.

Airmettle

Grant in 2022
AirMettle is a software-defined storage platform with integrated distributed parallel processing enabling direct queries of semi-structured content in storage. They can transform disparate data formats into exactly those required by analysis tools, substantially reducing network traffic.

Quantworks

Grant in 2022
Quantworks is a provider of data analytics tools aimed at helping companies effectively monetize their data. The company specializes in developing analytic software that enhances decision-making processes for various sectors, including financial institutions, consumer product companies, retailers, and healthcare providers. By creating analytic prototypes and value-producing applications, Quantworks enables businesses to operationalize their data, leading to improved outcomes and more efficient operations.

Blocky

Grant in 2021
Blocky is a company focused on enhancing data integrity through its innovative blockchain solution, Zipperchain. This technology is capable of processing millions of transactions per second while maintaining low and predictable costs, making it the most environmentally sustainable option in the blockchain space. Blocky specializes in data lineage software that enables users to sign data files on a blockchain, generating verifiable signatures and certificates. This functionality allows clients and their partners to confirm the integrity of data files and the authenticity of timestamped signatures. By offering a straightforward approach to data trustworthiness, Blocky aims to attract early adopters interested in advancing the conversation around reliable data, distinguishing itself from the more sensational aspects of the blockchain industry, such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Contextualize

Grant in 2021
Contextualize specializes in developing tools and technology that facilitate the capture and sharing of expertise within organizations. By utilizing mathematical descriptions of complex phenomena and advanced machine learning models, the company enables clients to extract meaningful insights from vast amounts of data. This approach transforms organizational knowledge into actionable information, making it accessible and usable for various stakeholders. Through its platform, Contextualize empowers businesses to harness the full potential of their internal expertise, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

Revelata

Grant in 2021
Revelata develops an artificial intelligence platform for extracting data from complex financial documents. It's first product, deepKPI, automatically surfaces hard-to-get KPI time series that are buried within billions of pages of SEC filings. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Summary Analytics

Grant in 2021
Summary Analytics, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2017, specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The company develops a data analytics platform designed to address inefficiencies in data management by minimizing redundancies. By employing advanced algorithms and submodular optimization techniques, Summary Analytics enables organizations to extract valuable insights from large datasets more efficiently and cost-effectively. This innovative approach allows businesses to achieve better data insights and knowledge extraction in reduced time frames, enhancing overall decision-making processes.

Verantos

Grant in 2021
Verantos is the market leader in high-validity real-world evidence for life sciences. By incorporating robust clinical narrative data, artificial intelligence technology, and measured validity, Verantos is the first company to generate research-grade evidence at scale across all therapeutic areas. The Verantos Evidence Platform integrates heterogeneous real-world data sources and generates evidence with the accuracy necessary for market access, HEOR, medical affairs, and regulatory use.

Comon

Grant in 2021
Comon provides species identification, ecological monitoring, and geological assessment services. They offer unpiloted aerial systems' images for mapping, monitoring, and identifying rare and invasive species and provide reports on water loggers, soil samples, temperature, historic weather, and tidal data, enabling natural resource managers and conservation organizations to determine practices for sites.

DeepCast

Grant in 2021
DeepCast is a Houston-based startup established in 2017 that specializes in providing physics modeling tools tailored for the industrial sector through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The company has developed a digital transformation toolkit designed to automate forecasting and optimization workflows. By integrating human intelligence, physics-based models, and advanced data-driven algorithms, DeepCast helps organizations enhance their digital transformation efforts. Its platform effectively combines industrial domain expertise with advanced artificial intelligence technology, enabling clients to improve productivity and uncover new business opportunities.

Fireline Science

Grant in 2021
Fireline Science, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in developing educational technology products that promote innovation. The company utilizes artificial intelligence and data science to enhance the creation of digital products and services. Its offerings aim to provide immediate support for digital learning, particularly in rural areas where high-speed internet access may be limited or for students facing various barriers to connectivity. Through its innovative approach, Fireline Science seeks to address the challenges of digital education and improve learning experiences for underserved communities.

Nabla Bio

Grant in 2021
Nabla Bio operates an autoreverse platform that facilitates the rapid discovery of novel protein variants with unique properties. By leveraging insights gained from billions of natural proteins, the company engineers these enhanced proteins for both medical and industrial applications. Through extensive experimentation, Nabla Bio develops new medicines and improves nutritional products, allowing clients to conduct complex measurements of protein function and implement innovative solutions in various fields.

Quantigic Solutions

Grant in 2021
Quantigic Solutions provides equity risk models customized for the quant trading needs as well as quantitative solutions for analyses of business, financial, and scientific data and information, enabling clients to make an educated investment decision.

Atlas AI

Grant in 2020
Atlas AI develops business analytics software aimed at monitoring economic development drivers in emerging markets. The company's technology generates reliable socioeconomic estimates, covering aspects such as land under cultivation, staple crop productivity, household asset wealth and consumption, as well as access to essential infrastructure like power and transportation. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and deep expertise in emerging markets, Atlas AI enables organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes investments and development programs, including infrastructure initiatives and market expansion efforts. The company is currently focusing on constructing these models for Sub-Saharan Africa, with the intention of scaling its solutions globally.

Hawaii Integrated Analytics

Grant in 2020
Hawaii Integrated Analytics, founded in 2018 and based in Honolulu, Hawaii, specializes in data research services focused on evaluating socioeconomic projects. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including protocol design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and data storage. By measuring the social, economic, and health impacts of various programs, Hawaii Integrated Analytics enables non-profit organizations and businesses to assess the effectiveness of their initiatives, even those not explicitly aimed at these outcomes.

ViQi

Grant in 2020
ViQi offers software-as-a-service solutions for scientific image analysis, catering to various sectors including life sciences, construction, and agriculture. The platform enables users to customize services for data storage and analysis through a straightforward subscription model. ViQi specializes in custom image processing and informatics, providing tools such as bio-image semantic queries, module development, and assistance with intranet deployment. This allows clients to efficiently view, investigate, share, and store complex data and images, facilitating swift results and discoveries in their respective fields.

Prime Labs

Grant in 2020
Prime Labs is a company focused on enhancing drug discovery through its cloud-based software platform, which specializes in mass spectrometry data processing, analysis, reporting, and visualization. The software is designed to support a variety of instruments and workflows, enabling scientists to conduct experiments with greater accuracy and efficiency. By streamlining the data processing experience, Prime Labs offers a user-friendly solution that minimizes the complexity typically associated with such tasks, allowing researchers to focus on their work with minimal training or installation requirements. This innovative approach facilitates a broader range of experiments in a shorter time frame, ultimately contributing to advancements in medical research and drug development.

EigenPatterns

Grant in 2020
EigenPatterns is a machine learning-based solution provider. They create collaborative anomaly detection and pattern recognition systems that combine machine learning and human expertise to provide powerful real-time monitoring capabilities. They offer real-time monitoring of the entire network using the latest machine-learning algorithms and novel data sources.

RENCI

Grant in 2020
RENCI develops and deploys advanced technologies to enable research discoveries and practical innovations. RENCI collaborates with researchers, government, and industry to engage and solve problems affecting North Carolina, the United States, and the world. RENCI is a critical catalyst for data-driven discoveries that lead to improved health, a safer environment, and increased economic and business success.

Geometric Data Analytics

Grant in 2020
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 designed for hospitals, with a focus on enhancing clinical operations. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Vermont, the company provides plugins for electronic health record (EHR) systems that enable real-time screening of patients for conditions such as COVID-19 by analyzing standard blood test results. Biocogniv's platform is particularly beneficial for emergency departments, as it can predict sepsis-related mortality and the need for intensive care unit admission. By leveraging the vast amounts of clinical and administrative data generated by hospitals, Biocogniv aims to improve the quality, cost, and accessibility of healthcare while facilitating accurate and non-invasive diagnostic methods.

RediMinds

Grant in 2020
RediMinds is a data and analytics consulting firm that specializes in providing digital engineering services tailored to enhance business operations. The company assists clients in managing large databases and implementing modern data systems, focusing on areas such as data strategy, data engineering, and data innovation. By leveraging advanced analytics and emerging data-driven insights, RediMinds enables businesses to optimize their operations, improve decision-making, and drive profitability. Their custom solutions are designed to create improved customer experiences while allowing clients to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market. Through rigorous market testing and validation of digital, cloud, and AI investments, RediMinds supports clients in achieving growth and realizing their full potential.

Koliber Biosciences

Grant in 2020
Koliber Biosciences provides data science services including the development of predictive models for customers and practical statistics coaching.

IDEM Systems

Grant in 2020
IDEM Systems provides drug testing kits and drug intelligence technology based on academic research. The testing system uses a novel chemical method to identify drugs, including heroin, other opiates, fentanyl and its derivatives, cocaine, and others. Among the devices are a handheld spectrometer, a sample pen, and a mobile application that allows users to access a proprietary database to identify suspect substances on-site accurately.

PolArctic

Grant in 2020
PolArctic is a data science and oceanographic company that specializes in creating custom products for the Arctic. The company is based in Lorton, Virginia.

Lotic Labs

Grant in 2019
Lotic Labs builds software that enables efficient water markets and innovation in environmental finance. Lotic integrates fragmented data sets with state of the art environmental science models and financial simulations. This enables rigorous analysis of the relationships between financial, operational, and environmental decisions in the water utility and heavy industrial sectors. The Lotic Labs technology powers the design of novel financial products for risk management, conservation, and green infrastructure investment.

Prime Labs

Grant in 2019
Prime Labs is a company focused on enhancing drug discovery through its cloud-based software platform, which specializes in mass spectrometry data processing, analysis, reporting, and visualization. The software is designed to support a variety of instruments and workflows, enabling scientists to conduct experiments with greater accuracy and efficiency. By streamlining the data processing experience, Prime Labs offers a user-friendly solution that minimizes the complexity typically associated with such tasks, allowing researchers to focus on their work with minimal training or installation requirements. This innovative approach facilitates a broader range of experiments in a shorter time frame, ultimately contributing to advancements in medical research and drug development.

Atlas AI

Grant in 2019
Atlas AI develops business analytics software aimed at monitoring economic development drivers in emerging markets. The company's technology generates reliable socioeconomic estimates, covering aspects such as land under cultivation, staple crop productivity, household asset wealth and consumption, as well as access to essential infrastructure like power and transportation. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and deep expertise in emerging markets, Atlas AI enables organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes investments and development programs, including infrastructure initiatives and market expansion efforts. The company is currently focusing on constructing these models for Sub-Saharan Africa, with the intention of scaling its solutions globally.

Minnowtech

Grant in 2019
Minnowtech is an aquaculture technology company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in providing a software imaging platform designed for shrimp farmers. This platform allows for the non-invasive estimation of shrimp abundance using artificial intelligence and image analysis, enabling farmers to optimize feeding regimes and harvests while minimizing risks to juvenile shrimp. By addressing significant challenges in the aquaculture industry, particularly in assessing shrimp growth and optimal harvest times, Minnowtech enhances the health and productivity of shrimp hatcheries. The company's low-cost technology, supported by a team of marine scientists, aims to improve the livelihoods of aquaculture farmers and contribute to global food security and the sustainability of marine environments.

Accordion Health

Grant in 2019
Accordion Health, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare predictive analytics software solutions. As a subsidiary of Evolent Health, Accordion Health focuses on transforming large datasets into actionable insights through advanced machine learning and innovative design. Its platform processes data to identify undocumented conditions and track member behaviors in real-time, providing healthcare organizations with targeted guidance. By offering custom analytics and precise predictions, Accordion Health aims to help these organizations lower costs and enhance quality outcomes.

Innogized Technologies, Inc.

Grant in 2019
Innogized Technologies provides unique tools and insights that empower and enable. We drive discovery and pioneer powerful new technologies to fuel growth and to power success. Together we ask questions, connect the dots and strive to realize the true potential of technology, discovering new opportunities that empower us to make an immediate, significant and lasting difference.

Steppingblocks

Grant in 2019
Steppingblocks is a data and analytics engine that provides workforce and education outcome insights on over 100 million individuals in North America. Steppingblocks' Student Platform provides digital career counseling based on real-world data and resources for data-driven career development.

Visikol

Grant in 2019
Visikol is a CRO focused on advanced drug discovery that is leading the field of bio-imaging, bioinformatics and image analysis. We conduct end-to-end drug discovery services that include both 2D and 3D in vitro models and assays, 3D whole mount tissue imaging, digital pathology and custom drug discovery projects. Visikol offers a portfolio of drug discovery services ranging from 2D and 3D cell culture model and assay development to in vitro screening, animal tissue histology and automated image processing. The focus of these services is to transform tissues into images and ultimately into quantitative data sets that can be mined for actionable insights that help our Clients make more informed decisions during the drug discovery process. Additionally, Visikol manufactures and sells a suite of tissue clearing reagents and 3D immuno-labeling kits. These products allow researchers to easily and rapidly image whole tissues and 3D cell culture models in 3D instead of traditional 2D sectioning. For more information about Visikol or its services, please visit our website at visikol.com.

Advaita

Grant in 2019
Advaita Corporation is a bioinformatics company founded in 2005 and based in Plymouth, Michigan. It specializes in developing software tools designed for the research and pharmaceutical industries, focusing on the analysis of gene expression data. One of its key products, Pathway-Guide, assists biologists and drug researchers in interpreting the extensive data generated from gene-expression experiments. The company also offers consulting services, which include pathway analysis, biological model construction, biomarker identification and prioritization, expression data interpretation, and data interpretation training. Advaita's software integrates multi-omic data from a systems biology perspective, catering to the needs of investigators, core facilities, and enterprise bioinformatics teams.

Agita Labs

Grant in 2019
Agita Labs, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a startup focused on developing advanced privacy-enhanced computing architectures. The company aims to create new data markets by safeguarding data intellectual property rights and respecting personal information. Its technology employs sequestered encryption to deliver robust cryptographic defenses against various threats, including data disclosures, integrity attacks, and side-channel attacks. Agita Labs' solutions enable secure data sharing and allow for complex computations on encrypted data, facilitating discovery while maintaining privacy.

Blocky

Grant in 2019
Blocky is a company focused on enhancing data integrity through its innovative blockchain solution, Zipperchain. This technology is capable of processing millions of transactions per second while maintaining low and predictable costs, making it the most environmentally sustainable option in the blockchain space. Blocky specializes in data lineage software that enables users to sign data files on a blockchain, generating verifiable signatures and certificates. This functionality allows clients and their partners to confirm the integrity of data files and the authenticity of timestamped signatures. By offering a straightforward approach to data trustworthiness, Blocky aims to attract early adopters interested in advancing the conversation around reliable data, distinguishing itself from the more sensational aspects of the blockchain industry, such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

BioInfoExperts

Grant in 2018
BioInfoExperts specializes in comprehensive molecular surveillance services aimed at understanding infectious disease dynamics and monitoring pathogens. The company offers a range of services, including genomic sequencing, RNA and DNA extraction, data analytics, and cloud-based data visualization. These services are designed to support clients in researching and developing various diagnostic tests while providing essential laboratory capabilities. Through its expertise, BioInfoExperts contributes to advancements in the field of infectious disease management and pathogen tracking.

Harvest Croo

Grant in 2018
Harvest CROO, LLC is a technology company specializing in the development of robotic harvesters for the agricultural industry. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Plant City, Florida, the company aims to address the labor shortage in agriculture through automation. Its innovative solutions include a live harvester pick monitoring system, real-time performance tracking, and data analytics tools, which provide growers with valuable insights for informed decision-making. By fully automating the harvesting process, Harvest CROO Robotics supports farmers in enhancing efficiency and productivity throughout their operations.

Verantos

Grant in 2018
Verantos is the market leader in high-validity real-world evidence for life sciences. By incorporating robust clinical narrative data, artificial intelligence technology, and measured validity, Verantos is the first company to generate research-grade evidence at scale across all therapeutic areas. The Verantos Evidence Platform integrates heterogeneous real-world data sources and generates evidence with the accuracy necessary for market access, HEOR, medical affairs, and regulatory use.

EigenPatterns

Grant in 2018
EigenPatterns is a machine learning-based solution provider. They create collaborative anomaly detection and pattern recognition systems that combine machine learning and human expertise to provide powerful real-time monitoring capabilities. They offer real-time monitoring of the entire network using the latest machine-learning algorithms and novel data sources.

Steppingblocks

Grant in 2018
Steppingblocks is a data and analytics engine that provides workforce and education outcome insights on over 100 million individuals in North America. Steppingblocks' Student Platform provides digital career counseling based on real-world data and resources for data-driven career development.

Litterati

Grant in 2018
Litterati is an application designed to promote environmental cleanliness by encouraging users to pick up and track litter. The app allows users to capture images of litter, which are automatically geo-tagged and categorized, providing valuable data on litter types. Litterati aims to foster community involvement by enabling groups such as schools and clubs to track their collective litter collection efforts. Additionally, the app plans to incorporate mapping features, allowing users to see litter-clearing activities within their neighborhoods. Through these initiatives, Litterati seeks to unite individuals, organizations, and governments in creating cleaner streets and communities.

DataChat

Grant in 2017
DataChat is all about the conversation. With our novel Conversational Intelligence technology, user can carry out a conversation with their data to get meaningful insights. Going well-beyond simple chat technology, Conversational Intelligence allows users to naturally express a sequence of complex analysis tasks in natural language. Our platform also has a powerful in-built real-time data analytics engine that delivers the results quickly, and in a visual way, to enable the user to conduct sophisticated analysis at the speed of human thought.

Bayesian Health

Grant in 2017
Bayesian Health Inc. is a digital health company based in New York, established in 2016. It specializes in an AI-driven platform that enhances patient monitoring by assessing illness severity and detecting changes in acuity. This technology integrates with hospital electronic medical records (EMR), allowing clinical staff and hospital leadership to access real-time data and insights. The platform provides actionable early detection alerts and supports decision-making in complex clinical environments, ultimately optimizing patient care throughout their hospital stay. By leveraging existing investments in EMR systems, Bayesian Health enables healthcare providers to make informed, data-driven decisions that improve safety and efficiency in patient management.

National Center for Super computing Applications

Grant in 2017
The National Center for Super computing Applications provides computers and expert support that help scientists and engineers.

Advaita

Grant in 2017
Advaita Corporation is a bioinformatics company founded in 2005 and based in Plymouth, Michigan. It specializes in developing software tools designed for the research and pharmaceutical industries, focusing on the analysis of gene expression data. One of its key products, Pathway-Guide, assists biologists and drug researchers in interpreting the extensive data generated from gene-expression experiments. The company also offers consulting services, which include pathway analysis, biological model construction, biomarker identification and prioritization, expression data interpretation, and data interpretation training. Advaita's software integrates multi-omic data from a systems biology perspective, catering to the needs of investigators, core facilities, and enterprise bioinformatics teams.

Lotic Labs

Grant in 2017
Lotic Labs builds software that enables efficient water markets and innovation in environmental finance. Lotic integrates fragmented data sets with state of the art environmental science models and financial simulations. This enables rigorous analysis of the relationships between financial, operational, and environmental decisions in the water utility and heavy industrial sectors. The Lotic Labs technology powers the design of novel financial products for risk management, conservation, and green infrastructure investment.

GDA Corp

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

Data2Discovery

Grant in 2017
Data2Discovery is an IT consulting platform specializing in healthcare data analytics, particularly within drug discovery, disaster medicine, and food science. The company focuses on extracting valuable insights from complex and diverse datasets using advanced technologies, including scalable graph technologies and machine learning. With a patent-pending approach, Data2Discovery combines public and proprietary data sources along with graph mining capabilities to effectively link and map data. Their services encompass data science and healthcare solutions, ensuring that client inquiries are promptly addressed through various communication channels such as phone, email, and online applications. The platform is designed to help users efficiently obtain the results they need in their respective fields.

NGD Systems

Grant in 2017
NGD Systems manufactures the world’s most advanced computational storage drives (CSDs) that allow customers to compute anywhere the data resides. The company provides the industry’s highest capacity NVMe CSDs that are the most power-efficient while delivering the smallest form factors. NGD System’s technology is ideal for edge computing networks, data-intensive AI/ML applications, stringent SLA environments, content delivery networks (CDNs) and hyperscale environments.

Navipoint Genomics

Grant in 2016
Navipoint Genomics is a bioinformatics analysis software company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2015. The company specializes in developing software that enables the rapid analysis of entire human genomes, facilitating large-scale genomic studies. Its technology streamlines the transfer and examination of genomic data, significantly reducing analysis time while enhancing the ability to detect gene expression changes and fusion transcripts at the whole-transcriptome level. This advanced capability allows clients to achieve higher reporting quality with increased confidence and fewer false negatives in their genomic analyses.

BioInfoExperts

Grant in 2016
BioInfoExperts specializes in comprehensive molecular surveillance services aimed at understanding infectious disease dynamics and monitoring pathogens. The company offers a range of services, including genomic sequencing, RNA and DNA extraction, data analytics, and cloud-based data visualization. These services are designed to support clients in researching and developing various diagnostic tests while providing essential laboratory capabilities. Through its expertise, BioInfoExperts contributes to advancements in the field of infectious disease management and pathogen tracking.

Harvest Croo

Grant in 2016
Harvest CROO, LLC is a technology company specializing in the development of robotic harvesters for the agricultural industry. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Plant City, Florida, the company aims to address the labor shortage in agriculture through automation. Its innovative solutions include a live harvester pick monitoring system, real-time performance tracking, and data analytics tools, which provide growers with valuable insights for informed decision-making. By fully automating the harvesting process, Harvest CROO Robotics supports farmers in enhancing efficiency and productivity throughout their operations.

MicroDevice Engineering

Grant in 2016
MicroDevice Engineering commercializes blood-related research. They obtain highly accurate electrokinetic measurements of cells via fully integrated fluidics and electrical detection. They provide image analysis, data analytics, interface development, and electronic circuitry design and optimization services.

Visikol

Grant in 2016
Visikol is a CRO focused on advanced drug discovery that is leading the field of bio-imaging, bioinformatics and image analysis. We conduct end-to-end drug discovery services that include both 2D and 3D in vitro models and assays, 3D whole mount tissue imaging, digital pathology and custom drug discovery projects. Visikol offers a portfolio of drug discovery services ranging from 2D and 3D cell culture model and assay development to in vitro screening, animal tissue histology and automated image processing. The focus of these services is to transform tissues into images and ultimately into quantitative data sets that can be mined for actionable insights that help our Clients make more informed decisions during the drug discovery process. Additionally, Visikol manufactures and sells a suite of tissue clearing reagents and 3D immuno-labeling kits. These products allow researchers to easily and rapidly image whole tissues and 3D cell culture models in 3D instead of traditional 2D sectioning. For more information about Visikol or its services, please visit our website at visikol.com.

Mimetics

Grant in 2016
Mimetics is a technology and science company that specializes in biological processes through computational and mathematical tools. It uses proprietary data analytics platform to analyze cell level network dynamics to assist both industry and research in new solutions.

RedShred

Grant in 2015
RedShred provides software that assists government contractors, institutions, and universities in efficiently identifying and managing requests for proposals (RFPs) and grant opportunities. By automatically searching and analyzing thousands of publicly available RFPs and grants daily, RedShred enables users to pre-qualify and track relevant opportunities in real-time. This process significantly reduces the time spent on manual research, streamlining decision-making and allowing organizations to focus on the most promising prospects. The platform extracts key insights and decision-making criteria from various documents, facilitating a more effective review of opportunities with minimal manual effort.

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.

DataWare Ventures

Grant in 2015
DataWare Ventures is a software company focused on enhancing the performance of enterprise application software (EAS) for various sectors, including CRM, ERP, HR, and big data analytics. The company has developed a patent-pending micro-specialization technology that addresses critical challenges faced by EAS vendors, such as slow data loads and inefficient query performance. By streamlining data flow and managing complex datasets, DataWare Ventures enables application vendors to incorporate specialized features into their systems, ultimately increasing the speed and efficiency of their applications. This technology is particularly relevant for medium and large businesses that rely on robust database management systems.

Marinus Analytics

Grant in 2015
Marinus Analytics is an organization focused on leveraging open-source intelligence and advanced technology to combat serious crimes such as human trafficking, child sex abuse, and cyber fraud. The company has developed a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that utilizes artificial intelligence and graph analytics to analyze large datasets, providing actionable insights that empower professionals on the front lines of public safety. By implementing purpose-driven algorithms, Marinus Analytics helps identify vulnerability indicators, enabling frontline workers to better protect at-risk individuals and address systemic exploitation. The organization places a strong emphasis on a victim-centered approach, aiming to improve the effectiveness of those dedicated to safeguarding vulnerable populations.

Data2Discovery

Grant in 2015
Data2Discovery is an IT consulting platform specializing in healthcare data analytics, particularly within drug discovery, disaster medicine, and food science. The company focuses on extracting valuable insights from complex and diverse datasets using advanced technologies, including scalable graph technologies and machine learning. With a patent-pending approach, Data2Discovery combines public and proprietary data sources along with graph mining capabilities to effectively link and map data. Their services encompass data science and healthcare solutions, ensuring that client inquiries are promptly addressed through various communication channels such as phone, email, and online applications. The platform is designed to help users efficiently obtain the results they need in their respective fields.

CHI Systems

Grant in 2015
CHI Systems provides data mining, deep learning, social network analysis, collaborative analysis, artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, narrative-based modeling, and automated hypothesis generation services.

Digidence

Grant in 2015
Digidence develops software tools for oncology departments and practices of patient outcomes. They offer a range of services, including data collecting and analysis, interventional studies, pragmatic studies, patient-centered research, outcomes research, patient-reported outcomes, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and software development.

CB Insights

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
CB Insights is a market intelligence platform that specializes in predicting company health, investor performance, and technology trends. The platform analyzes millions of data points related to venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships, and market news, providing clients with comprehensive insights into privately held companies and investment opportunities. It serves a diverse clientele engaged in private equity, venture capital, corporate development, investment banking, corporate innovation, and consulting. By offering tools for deal sourcing, due diligence, and competitive intelligence, CB Insights aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of its users in navigating the complex landscape of private company information.

Biota

Grant in 2015
Biota specializes in DNA sequencing and data science to analyze the earth's subsurface, primarily serving the oil and gas industry. The company offers comprehensive services including sample acquisition, data extraction, sequencing, and analysis, which help clients enhance reservoir economics while minimizing environmental impact. By providing actionable diagnostics, Biota enables oil and gas companies to gain valuable insights into drainage volumes, well connectivity, and engineered completions. Its patented technology has been successfully applied to over 500 wells, primarily by leading producers in the US Shale market, delivering significant economic value and promoting sustainable production practices.

Spectradyne

Grant in 2015
Spectradyne specializes in the microfluidic measurement of nanoparticles through the development of a sophisticated nanoparticle analyzer. This device employs an electrical measurement technique that enables the precise analysis of individual nanoparticles as they traverse a nanoconstriction. By utilizing microfluidic resistive pulse sensing, Spectradyne's technology not only measures the diameter of each particle but also accumulates statistically reliable distributions of particle sizes and provides quantitative concentration information. This capability allows businesses to standardize accurate concentration measurements for nanoparticles, enhancing the reliability of their analytical processes.

GDA Corp

Grant in 2015
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.

ANDalyze

Grant in 2015
ANDalyze, Inc. specializes in developing products for testing water contamination through innovative catalytic DNA technologies. The company provides a range of devices, including the AND1100 Fluorimeter, which is a handheld platform designed for the testing of heavy metals in water supplies. ANDalyze's sensors and kits facilitate the rapid and reliable detection of trace metals and other hazardous chemicals, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with traditional testing methods. The company markets its products through various distributors both in the United States and internationally. Established in 2005 and based in Champaign, Illinois, ANDalyze was formerly known as Dzyme Tech before rebranding in October 2009.

Koliber Biosciences

Grant in 2014
Koliber Biosciences provides data science services including the development of predictive models for customers and practical statistics coaching.

TeselaGen

Grant in 2014
TeselaGen Biotechnology is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based tools for DNA design and assembly, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of biological research and development. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers an informatics platform that integrates artificial intelligence to facilitate the rapid prototyping of recombinant molecules and the synthetic evolution of machine learning engines. Its solutions include a Graphical Sequence Editor for visualizing and editing gene and plasmid libraries, a Symbolic CAD/CAM system for assembling novel constructs from a comprehensive database, and Fabrication Intelligence that generates optimized protocols for cost-effective and accurate DNA assembly. Additionally, TeselaGen provides validation tools to align sequence traces with design variants, thus supporting the large-scale production of DNA assemblies and combinatorial libraries for therapeutics, chemicals, and agricultural applications.

BCL Technologies

Grant in 2014
BCL Technologies, founded in 1993 and based in San Jose, California, specializes in developing solutions for PDF document creation, conversion, and extraction. The company offers tools designed to automate various manual processes, which helps commercial clients enhance productivity and profitability. BCL Technologies also focuses on data mining and compliance solutions, providing essential support for global industry leaders to improve their competitive edge. By streamlining document management tasks, BCL Technologies plays a crucial role in helping organizations optimize their operations.

Accordion Health

Seed Round in 2014
Accordion Health, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare predictive analytics software solutions. As a subsidiary of Evolent Health, Accordion Health focuses on transforming large datasets into actionable insights through advanced machine learning and innovative design. Its platform processes data to identify undocumented conditions and track member behaviors in real-time, providing healthcare organizations with targeted guidance. By offering custom analytics and precise predictions, Accordion Health aims to help these organizations lower costs and enhance quality outcomes.

Digidence

Grant in 2014
Digidence develops software tools for oncology departments and practices of patient outcomes. They offer a range of services, including data collecting and analysis, interventional studies, pragmatic studies, patient-centered research, outcomes research, patient-reported outcomes, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and software development.

MicroDevice Engineering

Grant in 2014
MicroDevice Engineering commercializes blood-related research. They obtain highly accurate electrokinetic measurements of cells via fully integrated fluidics and electrical detection. They provide image analysis, data analytics, interface development, and electronic circuitry design and optimization services.

Biota

Grant in 2014
Biota specializes in DNA sequencing and data science to analyze the earth's subsurface, primarily serving the oil and gas industry. The company offers comprehensive services including sample acquisition, data extraction, sequencing, and analysis, which help clients enhance reservoir economics while minimizing environmental impact. By providing actionable diagnostics, Biota enables oil and gas companies to gain valuable insights into drainage volumes, well connectivity, and engineered completions. Its patented technology has been successfully applied to over 500 wells, primarily by leading producers in the US Shale market, delivering significant economic value and promoting sustainable production practices.

Aftermath

Grant in 2014
Aftermath is a specialized overpayment recovery company headquartered in Ireland, focusing on the identification and resolution of medical claim payment errors. Utilizing advanced data mining techniques through its proprietary technology, ClaimScope, Aftermath targets specific claim types that are often overlooked by traditional recovery services. The company aims to enhance the efficiency of post-payment recovery for the health insurance industry by combining a scientific approach with a high level of specialization and customization.

Transport Foundry

Grant in 2014
Transport Foundry provides consulting services for data analytics and travel demand modeling. They offer an intersection of data science and transportation planning. It combines passive consumer and location data from a multitude of sources to produce data that meticulously mimics the travel patterns of citizens within a particular city without compromising the privacy of individuals.

Citrine Informatics

Grant in 2014
Citrine Informatics, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance materials development. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company operates a platform that aggregates and analyzes extensive datasets related to materials, chemicals, and devices. This platform aims to streamline research and development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes for organizations involved in producing physical products. By employing data science and machine learning, Citrine Informatics accelerates the discovery of new materials and helps identify defects early in the research process, thereby improving product design and development efficiency across various sectors, including energy, aerospace, and electronics.

dMetrics

Grant in 2014
dMetrics is a technology company that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) to make advanced analytics accessible to non-technical experts. Its primary product, Minsky, is a platform that serves major organizations in the financial, pharmaceutical, and public sectors. Founded by two PhD graduates from MIT, dMetrics employs a team of leading authorities in machine learning and NLP. The platform is designed to analyze consumer behavior by identifying, classifying, and predicting decisions that are often obscured within large data sets. This capability allows companies to gain insights into customer expectations and make informed decisions.

ZillionInfo

Grant in 2014
ZillionInfo provides location intelligence solutions to help clients deal with large datasets, dig into data insights, and make better location allocation decisions such as site selection, territory mapping, and routing.

BHO Tech

Grant in 2014
BHO Tech is a technology staffing firm that positions technology, data science, machine learning, data engineering, and artificial intelligence candidates across the state. The company provides contingency placements, premium recruiting placements, and retained search placements.

Optimized Markets, Inc.

Grant in 2013
We bring economic efficiency and ease to the process of advertising campaign creation, selling, pricing, inventory allocation, and scheduling for TV (linear and digital), streaming, Internet display, game, mobile, and cross-media advertising. We are a systems and technology provider for sellers of advertising. Our systems run in the cloud but can also run on-prem. Our products truly optimize the selling of advertising campaigns and/or allocation of inventory to campaigns. Based on ground-breaking advances in optimization, they are the only products that can do this in a scalable way, taking into account unlimited targeting, unprecedented campaign controls and guarantees, and the entire planning horizon. Optimized Markets, Inc. is a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University's Electronic Marketplaces Laboratory. It is based on $16M of R&D into optimization technology and market design for advertising sales and advertising inventory allocation. Our Founder and CEO is Dr. Tuomas Sandholm, an esteemed professor and serial entrepreneur. In the previous startup that he founded, he fielded 800 optimization-powered markets for sourcing, with a trading volume of $60 billion and savings to customers of over $6 billion.

Voltaiq

Grant in 2013
Voltaiq has developed an Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ (EBI) software platform that assists customers in optimizing battery performance, reliability, and financing while minimizing risks associated with recalls and battery failures. This platform is distinguished as the only fully automated solution specifically designed to manage extensive battery data throughout the entire product lifecycle. It offers insights into real-time battery functionality and forecasts future performance. Founded in 2012 by two PhDs from UC Berkeley, Voltaiq serves a diverse global clientele, including major players in transportation, consumer electronics, energy storage, and the broader battery supply chain. The platform enhances safety for new products and supports innovation in how batteries are utilized across various applications, ultimately contributing to improved performance and reliability in the electrified world.

Lymba

Grant in 2013
Lymba specializes in knowledge management software that leverages advanced technologies to transform large volumes of unstructured data into actionable insights. The company provides a range of services including document comparison, customer relations management, email classification, knowledge base creation, and ontology building. Lymba's solutions utilize natural language processing, text analytics, and semantic technologies to enhance enterprise search capabilities and facilitate the extraction of knowledge. Additionally, Lymba assists organizations in navigating regulatory requirements such as the Dodd-Frank Act and applying tariff codes. By enabling users to explore and mine information from social bookmarked data, Lymba fosters improved decision-making and knowledge utilization.

Charles River Analytics

Grant in 2013
Charles River Analytics, Inc. develops and delivers intelligent systems for government, defense, intelligence, and commercial customers. It offers cognitive, sensor processing and networking, and decision management systems; and autonomous robotic platforms and multi-agent systems for information management, command, and control applications. The companyâ€:tm:s products include BNet, which offers tools for building, using, and embedding networks in software applications; VisionKit, a computer vision system that enables computers to automate repetitive visual tasks; and Verideo, a software tool for truthing and annotating video imagery. Its architectures integrate various algorithmic, sub symbolic, and symbolic techniques, including case-based reasoning, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and argumentation systems. The company also provides outsourced software engineering and development services, which include computer vision software, expert system, and intelligent agent and multi-agent system development services. It serves the U.S. federal government and the Department of Defense. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vehicle Data Science

Grant in 2013
Vehicle Data Science Corporation provides research and development technology services. The Company offers software programming services for as automotive, insurance, and fleet management industries. The company is based in Oakland, California.

InferLink

Grant in 2013
InferLink helps in developing custom solutions based on your data and business needs. They offer solutions for both government and corporate customers.

Numerica Corporation

Grant in 2013
Numerica Corporation specializes in tracking and data fusion services for the space, air, and missile defense sectors. The company focuses on distributed tracking and multi-sensor fusion to address threats and sensor modalities associated with moving platforms. Additionally, Numerica's Space Domain Awareness initiatives involve the detection, tracking, identification, and characterization of various factors within the space domain that could influence space operations, thereby impacting national and allied security, safety, economy, and environment. Through these services, Numerica aims to provide effective solutions that enhance operational capabilities for its customers.

BCL Technologies

Grant in 2013
BCL Technologies, founded in 1993 and based in San Jose, California, specializes in developing solutions for PDF document creation, conversion, and extraction. The company offers tools designed to automate various manual processes, which helps commercial clients enhance productivity and profitability. BCL Technologies also focuses on data mining and compliance solutions, providing essential support for global industry leaders to improve their competitive edge. By streamlining document management tasks, BCL Technologies plays a crucial role in helping organizations optimize their operations.

dMetrics

Grant in 2012
dMetrics is a technology company that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) to make advanced analytics accessible to non-technical experts. Its primary product, Minsky, is a platform that serves major organizations in the financial, pharmaceutical, and public sectors. Founded by two PhD graduates from MIT, dMetrics employs a team of leading authorities in machine learning and NLP. The platform is designed to analyze consumer behavior by identifying, classifying, and predicting decisions that are often obscured within large data sets. This capability allows companies to gain insights into customer expectations and make informed decisions.

TigerGraph

Grant in 2012
TigerGraph Inc. develops a graph analytics platform that facilitates advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company also has offices in Shanghai, London, and Munich. Its platform features a distributed native graph database, enabling real-time graph updates and built-in parallel computation. TigerGraph's technology supports various applications, including fraud detection, anti-money laundering, customer 360 analysis, recommendations, and network analysis. By transforming complex data into a network of objects and relationships, the platform empowers enterprises to uncover hidden patterns and derive actionable insights, enhancing their relationship analysis capabilities.

Lymba

Grant in 2012
Lymba specializes in knowledge management software that leverages advanced technologies to transform large volumes of unstructured data into actionable insights. The company provides a range of services including document comparison, customer relations management, email classification, knowledge base creation, and ontology building. Lymba's solutions utilize natural language processing, text analytics, and semantic technologies to enhance enterprise search capabilities and facilitate the extraction of knowledge. Additionally, Lymba assists organizations in navigating regulatory requirements such as the Dodd-Frank Act and applying tariff codes. By enabling users to explore and mine information from social bookmarked data, Lymba fosters improved decision-making and knowledge utilization.

TransMed Systems

Grant in 2012
TransMed Systems develops and deploys software solutions that facilitate exploration, reporting, and analysis of clinical, molecular, and healthcare operational data. TransMed's BIS provides an integrated bio-informatics platform enabling clinical and research organizations to aggregate data from multiple sources, easily explore data, and perform research and/or practice specific analysis. TransMed's platform unlocks the potential of the healthcare repository by tightly integrating analytics with aggregated data providing self-service analysis of all bio-clinical data sources in a framework usable by clinicians and investigators. Our solutions are used by health sciences researchers as well as clinicians interested in the application of information technology to the challenges of basic research and turning research into improved clinical practices. Our Bioinformatics solution is composed of four core capabilities leveraging our meta-data driven repository that aggregates data from disparate health data sources.

TeselaGen

Grant in 2012
TeselaGen Biotechnology is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based tools for DNA design and assembly, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of biological research and development. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers an informatics platform that integrates artificial intelligence to facilitate the rapid prototyping of recombinant molecules and the synthetic evolution of machine learning engines. Its solutions include a Graphical Sequence Editor for visualizing and editing gene and plasmid libraries, a Symbolic CAD/CAM system for assembling novel constructs from a comprehensive database, and Fabrication Intelligence that generates optimized protocols for cost-effective and accurate DNA assembly. Additionally, TeselaGen provides validation tools to align sequence traces with design variants, thus supporting the large-scale production of DNA assemblies and combinatorial libraries for therapeutics, chemicals, and agricultural applications.

Tutor Technologies

Grant in 2012
Tutor Technologies is a company focused on the development of online educational software and services. It comprises a diverse team of research scientists, educators in computer science, software developers, and statisticians. The company specializes in creating web-based intelligent tutoring systems tailored for the computational sciences. In addition to software development, Tutor Technologies offers data analytics services aimed at enhancing educational outcomes.
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