• 3D Orthobiologic Solutions

3D Orthobiologic Solutions (3DOS) is developing customizable, 3D-printed scaffolds for repairing and regenerating bone in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Biocompatible materials and structures are optimized to efficiently and maximally enhance bone regrowth. 3DOS’ platform will provide an easy-to-use and biodegradable scaffold that will be superior to existing products in speed and quality and offer a high-throughput option for oral surgeons and periodontists.

In oral surgery, clinicians treating segmental bone defects play a crucial role in repairing and restoring bone. These defects, often associated with cancer, trauma, periodontal disease, and infection, can significantly impact a patient’s quality of life. Irreversible bone and tooth loss results in speech, chewing, and form deficits. Rebuilding this bone is critical to returning the patients to natural aesthetics and allowing for the placement of dental implants, which are essential for preserving the rest of the mouth and allowing for everyday eating and talking.

We offer a solution that reduces cost by up to 50%; limits the need for autografts, allografts, and synthetic materials with excessive, rigid metal fixation; lowers operating room time by almost half; reduces the number of procedures; precisely matches the defect geometry, and decreases recovery duration to six months or less from as much as a year.

• Anantyx

Anantyx Cloud Command (ACC) is a cloud management platform that is democratizing the delivery of cloud services today.  ACC is a revolutionary self-service cloud management system designed for the business user which lets you effortlessly orchestrate your cloud environment.  Anantyx Cloud Command offers business users instant provisioning, management, scaling, and cost control over cloud resources while maintaining robust security and governance.  Leveraging Generative AI, Anantyx will translate a user’s plain language descriptions of their computing needs into tailored cloud environments, simplifying cloud set-up for non-technical users.  ACC shortens the time to achieve results, simplifies cloud management done by less technical staff, saves on wasted cloud spend, and provides superior user experience.

• Applied Impact Robotics 

Applied Impact Robotics is transforming Above Ground Tank (AST) storage inspections with advanced robotics. AST inspections are among the largest contributors to global CO2 emissions, with each tank producing emissions equivalent to 7,000 vehicles annually and costing asset owners $4M per inspection. With tens of thousands of ASTs in service, these tanks contribute over 100M tons of CO2 emissions every year. Our cutting-edge robotic technology addresses this $18B industry challenge by keeping the tanks sealed during inspection, eliminating emissions and significantly reducing inspection costs.

Our patented robots automate the dangerous and labor-intensive processes of tank cleaning and inspection, operating effectively in the harsh conditions inside ASTs. By eliminating manual cleaning and minimizing downtime, our solutions drastically cut operational emissions, helping clients significantly reduce their carbon footprint. This breakthrough technology not only enhances safety and efficiency but also plays a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, supporting the energy sector’s transition to more sustainable practices. Applied Impact Robotics is leading a shift toward greener, more efficient operations in the oil and gas industry, saving millions of dollars for customers while lowering environmental impact.

• AtWork Systems LLC

Government contractors (GovCons) require back-office people, processes, systems and a support team with skills in accounting, HR, payroll, timekeeping, procurement, contract, and project management. Regardless of whether a company is new to federal contracting, a mature prime contractor or somewhere in between, putting in place these capabilities is a critical factor for long term success. Accomplishing this in a cost-effective manner provides a significant competitive advantage. 

All GovCons go through similar development stages as they grow from a startup to prime contractor. Most start by subcontracting to Primes and utilize a basic accounting product. As GovCons grow, they need additional people, processes and systems: 

• to handle more complex contracts and projects,
• to handle estimating, pricing and managing indirect rates to win prime contracts,
• and finally, to manage subcontractors and achieve certifications, such as DCAA, ISO and CMMC as a prime contractor.

Utilizing managed services delivered using a DCAA compliant ERP and GRC system, staffed by a knowledgeable fractional resource team is a great option. It will transform how a GovCon performs the essential work required to deliver on their contracts and improve compliance. It allows them to focus on their core business while having the capabilities needed to deliver. Managed services also significantly reduce indirect cost which improves competitiveness.

• Bacchus Therapeutics 

Bacchus Therapeutics is a biotech company that exploits cancer’s hypermetabolic state by targeting specific cancer metabolic pathways. The aberrant expression of MYC is virtually unmatched, making MYC one of the most frequently deregulated oncogenes in human tumors, including, liver, kidney, CNS, hematopoietic, breast, prostate, lung and GI tumors. Human studies and animal models have established that dysregulation of MYC underlies the pathogenesis and aggressiveness of numerous cancers. Our founders, Drs. Gouw and Felsher, developed small molecules that can starve only MYC cancers but not normal cells, causing regression of MYC cancers, which constitute 65-70% of all cancers. 

• CarrTech Corp 

CarrTech Corp is a medical device company founded by Sue Carr, RPh, a pharmacist with over 30 years of experience in both hospital and retail pharmacy. Supported by a team of professionals with over 50 years of combined pharmaceutical experienced executive advisors, engineers and legal counsel, CarrTech is committed to improving the safety and efficiency of medication preparation with its revolutionary product, FROG (Filter Removal of Glass). Sue and her team applied their deep industry knowledge to design the first and only all-in-one filtering device that combines a filter and hypodermic needle. This innovative solution streamlines the preparation of ampule-packaged medications, significantly enhancing safety for healthcare workers and patients alike. CarrTech holds 3 U.S. patents, 1 Canadian patent, and 1 U.S. PCT (with coverage in 157 allowable countries). CarrTech has submitted a 510 (k) Class II medical device for FDA approval in February of 2024 with anticipated launch and market penetration early 2025.

• ClearView Surgical 

ClearView Surgical is an early-stage start-up seeking up to $2M in angel investment to productionize and drive adoption of our innovative clinical visualization solution that improves surgical care.Currently surgeons are required to make reliable 3D, real-world assumptions based off 2D images.  This requires years of training and experience to gain competency and yet is still prone to human error. Given over 56% of all Surgical Adverse Events are a result of human performance deficiencies, the need and opportunity for improved, intuitive planning tools is clear. 

ClearView’s immersive 3D mixed reality visualization solution for pre-surgical planning enables optimization of the surgical plan and better alignment of the surgical team.  This in turn facilitates improved patient outcomes while reducing expenses caused by complications.  The collaboration features of our solution enable case-specific consultation with remote surgical experts as well as improved pre-surgical patient education.  

ClearView’s unique, turnkey “modeling as a service” approach distinguishes us from other offerings, as does our broad applicability.  Our monthly subscription, priced for health system director-level approval, makes our product affordably accessible to any interested surgeon regardless of specialty.  Our collaboration features increase the usefulness of our core service while creating an additional revenue stream from expert consultation.  

Clinibooth

Clinibooth: Delivering AI-enhanced telehealth booths to rural and underserved communities.  Clinibooth is an innovative healthcare solution focused on improving access to care in underserved and rural communities by installing advanced medical booths in local, independent pharmacies. These booths offer a range of diagnostic services and telemedicine consultations, providing patients with immediate, high-quality care close to home.

• ConMEx 

Aviation is estimated by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to account for 4% of the Earth’s total anthropogenic (i.e. human-made) warming. Contrails are estimated to account for half of that 4%, so about 2% of all human made warming. We can mitigate that.

ConMEx provides the data for the aviation industry to conduct contrail avoidance. Through a follow-on platform that monetizes contrail avoidance, ConMEx gives the airlines a way to also profit from green leadership and their reduction in global warming.

• Derive 

Derive is revolutionizing the way organizations manage cybersecurity. We empower cyber leaders, boards, and executives to make data-driven decisions about their cybersecurity spending. Our next-gen risk assessment platform translates complex cyber risks into clear, actionable financial insights – enabling organizations to quantify their exposure and track their return on every cybersecurity investment.

Companies still rely on guesswork and vendor pitches to allocate their cybersecurity budgets, leaving them vulnerable to real threats. As regulatory pressure increases and stakeholders demand stronger protections, the need for transparent, financially-grounded cyber risk management has never been greater. Derive solves this problem by using our proprietary AI-accelerated dataset which offers unparalleled insights into financial loss projections and cyber threat occurrence rates.

Derive helps organizations connect the divide between cybersecurity spending and actual risk reduction, providing a clear view of potential losses and how to mitigate them with capital efficiency. With our platform, businesses can finally justify their cybersecurity investments and make decisions that protect their assets, reputation, and bottom line. We’re transforming cybersecurity from a cost center into a strategic, measurable business advantage – helping companies stay ahead in an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape.

• Edenic Energy 

Growing up in Baltimore our CEO experienced firsthand how old, dilapidated, and neglected buildings impacted his environment and quality of life daily. High crime rates, health issues, and low-income neighborhoods were his reality. In fact, 75% of black, brown, and low-income people are more likely to live in these highly polluted areas. It turns out that there’s over 122 million outdated buildings across America that use up to 75% of the US electricity, contribute to 38% of Co2, & spend about $400B annually. Unfortunately, 1/3 of the energy and cost is wasted. Besides the $130B being wasted each year, there’s a less obvious issue that is overlooked by the industry. That is, old buildings have outdated information that gets lost over the years making it hard to assess the current state of the property, making daily, and future decisions to retrofit nearly impossible continuing a negative feedback loop of high costs, plummeting property value, and vacancy.

Edenic Energy identifies, designs, and manages building improvements digitally. We connect updated data to outdated buildings in disadvantaged communities using a Building Information Engine to address the high barriers of building retrofits and operational cost in old properties. Our AI-IoT network infrastructure eliminates the hefty initial expenses typically associated with due diligence and planning, paving the way for informed decision-making and retrofit projects across urban stakeholders. Edenic Energy connects new building data to old buildings to upgrade these outdated properties 7x faster than the industry standard.

Competitive Advantage: We created a new equation & revenue model for Neglected properties. Competitors like Runwise and 75F offer valuable solutions but often lack the full spectrum of services required to address the unique needs of neglected small to medium-sized commercial real estate (CRE), particularly in disadvantaged communities. While some competitors may provide savings and insights, they often fall short in delivering non-invasive installations, comprehensive retrofits, and lifecycle technology solutions that integrate IoT infrastructure. This results in a fragmented approach to building upgrades, leaving many owners to struggle with outdated systems, missed energy savings, and the inefficiencies of incremental improvements. Edenic Energy differentiates itself by offering a complete, end-to-end solution that not only provides immediate savings and efficiency improvements but also focuses on the long-term sustainability and modernization of buildings, particularly in underrepresented markets with a focused on neglected properties.  

• EqualityMD, Inc.  

PROBLEM: The LGBTQ+ community (~30M Americans, $216B TAM) is a NIH-designated “Health Disparity Population” and has endured systemic discrimination from doctors for generations—1 in 3 experience discrimination in a clinical setting causing 1 in 4 to avoid care; 1 in 6 are denied care; 1 in 8 live in states where doctors can legally deny care. This discrimination isn’t only unjust, it creates glaring data gaps.

SOLUTION: EqualityMD’s LGBTQ+ inclusive healthcare and data analytics platform connects patients with culturally competent providers accounting for each patient’s unique needs and intersectional identities. We use AI to transform new LGBTQ+ patient journey data into actionable insights about America’s most under-measured patient population (which represents every demographic—from racial minorities to military veterans). These unique AI-powered insights can be used to increase patient engagement, improve patient outcomes, build better patient models, generate predictive analytics, and create enhanced disease trajectory and financial risk scoring. They can also help health systems, insurance companies, and employers save money, increase operational efficiencies, and authentically engage a largely invisible patient population that represents a $216B healthcare market and a $1.7 trillion consumer market.

• FireBot Suppression

FireBot is a low-cost, self-activated smart device that can stop half of all residential fires, of which the majority start on stovetops. FireBot mounts easily on the back wall above the stovetop, just below the microwave or range hood, with two-way adhesive tape or drywall screws in only a few minutes. Its attractive housing can blend in with any kitchen décor or color and has a five-year battery with a low battery alert. FireBot constantly monitors the stovetop for an out-of-control fire, quickly activates if it detects dangerously high temperatures, and sprays out a non-toxic suppressant to extinguish a fire on any of the four burners.

No deaths, no injuries, no damage from fire or suppressant. No insurance deductibles of $50-$100k commonly found in commercial insurance, plus potentially enjoy lower monthly/yearly premiums! No relocation hassles, no loss of rental income, no valuable time wasted with restoration companies.

We have a patent on our product. We have passed UL300A, We have working product. Our team is experienced in design, innovation, manufacturing, sales and marketing. We are the Smart Home compatible with all other manufacturers.  The only affordable innovation in stovetop fire suppression in 50 years. We can suppress a stovetop fire to UL standards with no damage to the kitchen.

• Flying Ship Technologies

Flying Ship Technologies, Corp. is revolutionizing the maritime logistics industry with their cutting-edge technology. Flying Ships, which are eco-friendly vessels that travel on an air cushion, have garnered over $200 million in LOIs from commercial customers and have engaged with the Department of Defense. These dual-use technology vessels are fast, energy efficient, and autonomous, flying just above the water’s surface.

With a multidisciplinary team of experts in aerospace and maritime engineering, Flying Ship has integrated advanced technology sectors like AI, electric vehicles, and urban air mobility to create a truly innovative product. Their vessels are 50% more energy efficient than similar-sized aircraft and ten times faster than traditional maritime transport, making them ideal for littoral maneuver in complex operational environments.

Flying Ship currently offers a 10′ wingspan configuration with a 25lb payload capacity, with plans to release a 50lb payload variant in Q1 2025. They have secured sponsorships from AFSOC and the Navy for wargame exercises, and are working towards building a 500lb commercial logistics craft for operations in the Caribbean and Greece.

• FraudOptics Inc.

FraudOptics was founded by former FBI/DOJ senior leaders and expert developers to combat illicit cryptocurrency activities. Our government-grade commercial risk intelligence solution uniquely integrates on-chain and off-chain data to untangle complex connections across blockchain wallets, businesses, and individuals.

Unlike traditional blockchain solutions, FraudOptics prioritizes off-chain data by scraping, aggregating, and validating sources such as web3 social platforms, data leaks, code repositories, sanctions alerts, and the deep/dark web. Using AI-driven analysis and labeling, we have curated a database of 141M+ labeled wallets, 301M+ off-chain tags, and 16M+ on-chain labels. Continuously updated through automation, our datasets provide current and dynamic insights.

FraudOptics empowers compliance departments, financial institutions, corporations, exchanges, and government agencies to efficiently detect wallets linked to illicit activities like terrorism financing, fraud, money laundering, ransomware, and sanctions evasion. Our solution enables proactive risk mitigation and regulatory compliance, ensuring stakeholders access the most comprehensive and actionable intelligence available in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

• GovPro AI

Custom secure offline AI’s developed for government contractors to help them write more compliant high quality bids and proposals to federal RFPs

• Healp 

Healp fills clinical gaps through patient communities Only 5% of adults participate in clinical trials, underscoring a critical issue in patient engagement. On Healp, 72% of patients have never participated in trials, yet more than 82% express a willingness to do so, highlighting a significant gap in patient education and guidance. The inefficiencies in recruitment further compound the problem, with 30% of trial timelines consumed by recruitment efforts and 80% of trials delayed, costing $600K-$8M per day. Healp solves this. 

Healp began as a patient-driven platform designed to provide community support for individuals with chronic and rare conditions. Our mission was simple: to connect patients facing similar health challenges, offering a space for peer support, shared experiences, and empowerment. As patients started to engage more actively, a powerful insight emerged—many were unaware of clinical trials and research opportunities that could potentially change their lives. This highlighted a significant gap in patient education and access to clinical trials.

Today, Healp operates with a dual focus: we remain committed to supporting patients by providing a space for connection and guidance, while also serving as a bridge between patients and healthcare stakeholders. Our platform facilitates recruitment for clinical trials, precisely matching patients based on condition, demographics, and location, while also helping pharma companies gather invaluable real-world data that fills research gaps and accelerates the development of new treatments. This evolution from a patient network to a trusted partner in clinical research is what sets Healp apart in the healthcare landscape

• Hyde 

Hyde is an AI-Ops company that solves the age-old retail challenge of excess inventory. Our proprietary technology helps apparel brands and retailers reduce excess inventory and release revenue from existing excess stock. We deliver a 7-12% increase in free cash flow, and less waste in landfills within the year.

• Retailers in the U.S. face a $650B+ excess inventory issue, up 40% over the last five years. This challenge directly impacts margins and capital efficiency, drawing significant interest from CFOs seeking solutions to improve ROIC. The root cause is the lack of accurate data for demand forecasting and inventory planning.
• Hyde uses AI and ML to facilitate and optimize the sale of excess inventory (Hyde generates revenue from transaction fees and valuable data streams). Our AI model further enables brands to forecast future demand – we license this model to retailers and other supply chain companies for additional revenue. Hyde’s zero inventory ownership and customer acquisition costs create substantial margins. 
• Hyde was recently accepted into the Google Scale Tier AI program, is a portfolio company of Zebox (CMA-CGM), and was accepted into Techstars New York. 

With 80+ years of collective experience at McKinsey, Rolls-Royce, State Department and the intelligence community – our team has long standing experience in supply chain, AI/ML, and sales. After 2 years in R&D and running pilots, Hyde’s solution is in-market with 40+ enterprise contracts (e.g. PVH Corp, HCL Software)  and a clear path to $10M ARR by 2025.

• iAge Technologies, Inc.  

InboxSuite: AI-Driven Email Marketing Redefined

At InboxSuite, we’re revolutionizing the future of digital communication. Our AI-driven solutions enhance 1:1 email marketing with precision, ensuring that every message reaches the right person at the right time with the right content. By harnessing the power of GPT, we automate routine tasks, allowing marketing teams to focus on what matters—creativity and innovation.

With our disruptive CPC pricing model and an AI-powered approach to acquisition, we unlock untapped markets, drive deeper customer connections, and maximize CLV. Our advanced engagement tools and interactive emails surpass industry standards, making us the preferred choice for businesses looking to enhance brand loyalty.

• KeyCaliber 

Cybersecurity teams have an overwhelming number of issues to handle. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) enables organizations to focus on the issues that are true security concerns. KeyCaliber’s CTEM platform goes a step further to focus on what is both a true security concern and true business concern based on AI/ML. This empowers security programs to optimize their resources to reduce cyber risk, improve security posture, and build cyber resilience to meet business needs.

• Kinis AI 

Kinis AI leads in biomechanics and technology with our exclusive, patent-pending quad biosensor technology and advanced AI. Our flagship K1 Smart Insoles, the world’s first to feature an AI-powered fall risk prediction model, set a new standard in health tech by capturing and analyzing gait, balance, and posture data, providing personalized insights to enhance performance, prevent injuries, and support rehabilitation. 

Our multidisciplinary team of doctors and AI scientists, with over 100 years of combined experience, drives our success. This team guarantees that our solutions are scientifically rigorous and clinically relevant, setting us apart from the competition. Kinis Ai is strategically positioned to capture a significant market share in the rapidly growing wearable tech sector. Investing in Kinis Ai is a unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering venture shaping the future of movement science and contributing to a healthier and more active world.

• Lasarrus Clinic & Research Center 

LASARRUS is pioneering remote COPD care with WearME, the first wearable matching the precision of gold-standard spirometry for lung function assessments. Addressing the critical gap in early detection and response to COPD symptom onsets, WearME offers real-time insights, even in rural regions. This innovation not only enhances patient outcomes but also diminishes hospital readmissions. Our business model is B2B, operating on a prescription basis where healthcare providers recommend WearME for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services. We collaborate with hospitals through revenue-sharing incentives, and our revenue is sourced from insurance providers like Medicare and Medicaid. Currently partnering with esteemed institutions such as Johns Hopkins, TidalHealth, and Tower Health, we have potential access to over 50,000 COPD patients. In 2022, our Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM) stood at $1.36B, representing 4% of the telehealth sector. With the market expanding at a 14.8% CAGR, we project our SAM to reach approximately $1.8B by 2025.

• Linshom Medical 

Linshom Medical is first to deliver a wearable, FDA cleared, operating room quality respiratory profile to the patient bedside providing early warning of respiratory problems and avoiding costly rapid response activations, rescue events (codes), ICU transfers and deaths. 

• Liquet Medical Inc. 

Liquet Medical’s mission is to improve the treatment of venous blood clots by bringing to market innovative devices that address the current clinical gaps in minimally invasive patient care and healthcare cost-effectiveness.

Our approach is to efficiently move products through the development and regulatory process to demonstrate early clinical evidence. In parallel, a targeted geographic limited market release will position the technologies for acquisition, either individually or as a portfolio.

Liquet Medical has licensed intellectual property for multiple innovative devices that fit this model and our first device, the Versus™ Catheter, has already achieved a very meaningful milestone, FDA Submission. Liquet Medical is approved for the Virginia Small Business (Angel) Tax Credit for 2024.

• Luna Loo, LLC 

Luna Loo has developed a cutting-edge automated pet pee pad system to solve common problems faced by pet owners. The system features an automated flushing mechanism that cleans the floor, paired with a suction pump to drain liquids into a dedicated chamber. Its self-cleaning capability, pet-friendly design, and focus on hygiene provide a hassle-free, sanitary solution for pet waste management.This innovation eliminates the need for manual cleaning, prevents leaks and odors, and saves pet owners time while improving overall household hygiene. The system is also eco-friendly by reducing the use of disposable pee pads.

Luna Loo’s target market includes busy urban pet owners, elderly individuals, puppy owners, and businesses like veterinary clinics and pet boarding facilities. They operate primarily through direct sales on their e-commerce platform and partnerships with pet stores and clinics. The company also offers a subscription service for maintenance and replacement parts.

• Mobius Scientific 

Mobius Scientific is a platform biologics company developing novel therapeutics that recruit and absorb lipids from diseased tissue. Our lead program is a first-in-class compound to treat the advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration, geographic atrophy. Our pipeline is in retinal health, and the platform will extend to cardiovascular disease.

• MOVA Technologies Inc. 

MOVA is a Climate Tech company headquartered in Southwest Virginia with an initial focus on revolutionizing air filtration solutions for agriculture. Our innovative technologies target two key areas: poultry farm ammonia removal and Direct Air Capture (DAC) for indoor crop production. By reducing toxins in poultry environments, we foster healthier animals, improve farm profitability, and lower energy costs by preserving valuable heat. Our DAC technology provides an affordable, reliable source of CO2, ensuring stable carbon dioxide supply for continuous indoor crop growth and mitigating supply chain risks. 

While agriculture is our entry point, MOVA’s vision extends far beyond. We have secured $4.3M in funding, including $1.5M in grants and $2.8M in seed investment, and are actively seeking additional capital to scale our solutions and expand our reach across other sectors. This funding will position us to drive agricultural efficiency and sustainability at scale, with broader applications on the horizon.

• NearStar Fusion Inc 

NearStar Fusion Inc. is developing fusion energy power plants with hypervelocity plasma railguns to provide the world with unlimited, safe, carbon-free, and robust electricity.  Led by Dr. Douglas Witherspoon, the technical team has worked together for over 15 years in fusion energy R&D.  Our work includes developing and producing high-performance plasma guns for fusion experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory.NearStar has received non-dilutive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) and Fairfax Founders Fund (FFF).

NearStar’s magneto-inertial approach to fusion energy is scalable, modular and commercially-viable within a decade.  The NearStar design will create controlled fusion implosions once per second (1Hz) using a state-of-the-art plasma armature railgun to launch 50 gram projectiles at 10 km/s (30x speed of sound). The plasma gun technology provides early spin-out opportunities at slower speeds and smaller projectiles to include rock tunneling, shock physics, on-demand medical isotopes, and spacecraft propulsion.

• Nightingale

Nightingale helps nurses in hospitals by automating and improving outcomes associated with a host of time consuming and stressful nursing workforce operations. Our mission is to recapture the billions in lost value as nurses, a scarce and essential workforce, spend 30-50% of their time on non-care-related tasks.

Our initial focus is on optimizing the nurse-patient assignment process, which takes place twice a day in every inpatient unit across the more than 5,000 hospitals in the United States. This critical task pulls nurses away from patient care and requires them to complete a time-consuming, stressful, and high-impact task—often using pencil and paper without the aid of analytics.

We automate this labor-intensive process, freeing up thousands of hours for nurses, improving both nurse and patient outcomes, and enhancing safety while decreasing costs.

• NIO Solutions

Community banks often face a multitude of IT challenges, from managing day-to-day operational demands to navigating complex business transformations for growth. These challenges, coupled with financial, resource, and knowledge constraints, can create a perfect storm of uncertainty. NIOSolutions, as a trusted digital transformation partner, works to eliminate these barriers by simplifying technology adoption. We deliver tailored IT services that not only address immediate needs but also drive long-term value for organizations and their customers.

At the heart of our offering is Clerida, NIOSolutions’ adaptable business intelligence (BI) solution designed to revolutionize the way banks harness their data. Leveraging the power of AI, Clerida democratizes data analytics, empowering banks to access critical insights without complexity. This one-stop BI platform centralizes reporting, increases transparency, and automates the digital delivery of insights. By streamlining analytics, Clerida enhances operational efficiency, ensures compliance, and delivers strategic intelligence that supports informed decision-making.

NIOSolutions is committed to empowering community banks, enabling them to overcome IT obstacles and transform uncertainty into opportunity. With our solutions, banks can seamlessly align technology with their goals, fostering sustainable growth and improving customer experiences.

• Objectively, Inc. 

The Status Quo: In today’s flood of information, audiences routinely segment along similar points of view.   Despite expectations for a common truth reached via evidence and reasoning, these aspects are obscured in most mediums.   The upshot is systemic confirmation bias and polarization.   This fragmentation of the infosphere has undermined civic trust and yet spawns an enormous opportunity for the accreditation and vetting of public knowledge. 

Our Solution:  Normalize and Modularize Expert Review

Imagine real-time peer-review done in-context with argument mapping or Substack+GoogleDocs+Grammary all gamified for reasoning quality.  Objectively is such a HI/AI teaming system—a template marketplace of ideas to rescue and elevate high-stakes disputes by augmenting wherever assertions are made.  

Our Marketplace:  Critical review has long served courtrooms, academia, and the scientific community. Using a patented mix of AI, social-graphs, and game theory, we believe the same function can be extended to any block of persuasive text. Commoditizing peer review will be a game changer for sectors relying on detailed analysis, including policy, journalism, issue-advocacy, research, and even corporate communications.

• Odin Electric, Inc. 

Odin Electric will make a nuclear reactor that is small enough to fit in the basement of a commercial building or even in somebody’s backyard. Our product will displace a diesel generator or rooftop solar panels as a source of energy, while supplying the building with 10kW of electricity at any given time. Odin Electric is a member of TedCo (the State of Maryland’s technology development agency) Rural Business Innovation Initiative, which is aiding in market research for us. Odin has also taken part in the Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator’s pre-accelerator and plans to expand our involvement in this accelerator in 2025. Odin’s business model is to install our generators at the customer’s home or business and lease them the clean and reliable energy for a fixed payment less than their current energy cost per kilowatt hour. Odin has two company co-founders: Paul and his brother, Scott. Both brothers are engineers, one a nuclear engineer and the other a rocket scientist. 

• OxiWear 

OxiWear is committed to reducing patient vulnerability to low oxygen levels through wearable, continuous blood oxygen measurement and low-oxygen alerting. Our mission is to increase safety and peace of mind for those prone to low oxygen levels, reduce healthcare costs, and save lives. OxiWear was developed in 2019 by Shavini Fernando, a VR/video game and web designer who suffers from pulmonary hypertension due to Eisenmenger’s syndrome. 

• PegaPod LLC 

• PlumGen 

PlumGen specializes in automating the first draft proposal generation process for contractors, significantly outperforming previous attempts at standardization and automation. Leveraging our proprietary Orthogonal Clustering Algorithm, our software is tailored to understand specific client products and services, enabling it to dissect and categorize Request for Proposal (RFP) documents efficiently. By breaking down requirements into manageable segments and correlating them with historical proposals, our platform accelerates proposal generation from weeks to mere days. This reduction in time not only cuts costs but also allows clients to handle higher volumes of work effectively.

Our journey began with the aim to automate proposal generation for Deloitte’s SAP Transformations Department. Despite past challenges in automation within this field, our software received positive feedback and became a frequently used tool. We have incorporated our proprietary algorithms into the software, which now makes the software suitable for smaller businesses, providing increased logical reasoning and reduced implementation costs. Our technology empowers clients to streamline their proposal generation process, handle higher volumes of work, and gain a significant competitive advantage in their markets.

• Rohic Inc.

Rohic Inc. is an AI-powered platform that automates personalized sales and marketing content creation and provides targeted AI virtual sales coaching for the cybersecurity and IT solutions providers. Our AI Sales Story Engine integrates company data to generate personalized, data-driven marketing materials while maintaining your brand voice and tailoring content to specific audiences. By leveraging advanced prompt engineering workflows and multiple large language models (LLMs), Rohic optimizes marketing content, making it both customer-focused and impactful. Additionally, our AI virtual sales coach delivers targeted training to enhance team performance, ensuring each sales interaction is persuasive and results-oriented. Rohic streamlines content workflows, empowers teams to improve sales techniques, and provides a competitive edge for businesses in highly specialized sectors. Based in Arlington, VA, Rohic is built to meet the needs of small to mid-sized businesses. Contact us to learn how we can transform your marketing and sales efforts.

• ScienceCast, Inc. 

ScienceCast is revolutionizing the research and development process with an AI-powered Universal Research Hub designed to accelerate scientific discovery. In a world where over $2.5 trillion is spent annually on R&D, the process remains antiquated, overwhelmed by the recent explosion of data. Remarkably, over 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the last two years, overwhelming traditional research methodologies. Our proprietary SaaS tools equip individuals and organizations with a “research co-pilot,” dramatically enhancing productivity and efficiency. ScienceCast features a digital assistant for data processing, innovative media formats for disseminating and consuming research, a personalized AI-driven presentation builder, and a custom search engine connected to leading research databases such as arXiv and bioRxiv. This integrated platform allows users to effortlessly navigate the rapidly expanding scientific data, focusing more on breakthroughs and less on administrative burdens. Operating across B2C and B2B sectors, we provide premium AI tools for individual researchers and enhance digital repositories for institutions. In less than two years, ScienceCast has established itself as a reputable name in the science and technology field, recognized for optimizing the R&D workflow and championing open science. 

• Sonogen Medical, Inc. 

Sonogen Medical is working to commercialize a next-generation ultrasonic bone fracture healing device, with built-in usage and fracture healing monitoring. We demonstrated in a recent animal trial that our patent-pending acoustic shear wave signal heals 30% faster than the current standard of care. Sonogen’s technology is protected by a cloud of worldwide PCT patents, with confirmed freedom to operate. 

Sonogen is currently seeking $2.0M in seed funding for a one-year program to complete our commercial prototype device and apply for FDA regulatory approval, of which $600k is currently closed/circled. Sonogen is also a qualified Maryland biotechnology company, so investors in this round receive a 33-50% rebate from the state of Maryland. In support of these efforts, Sonogen has assembled an extremely capable team, supported by expert advisors, consultants, and specialty firms, with the aim of achieving FDA regulatory approval by mid-2025 via device equivalence pathways for both its therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities. Sonogen’s go-to-market strategy will target orthopedists and orthopedic surgeons using a pharmaceutical sales model that has been proven extremely effective in this market, with established CPT and HCPCS codes for therapeutic ultrasound and telehealth monitoring.

• Teleworker Inc.  

Teleworker AI automates remote physical work via mobile robotics (robot dogs, drones, wheeled platforms & manipulators) and augmented reality, enhanced by facility digital twins.

Competitive Advantage: Teleworker AI’s founder is the global leader in facility digital twins development. Early adopters include the world’s leading facility owners & developers. Software has advanced features protected by unique algorithms.

• UpBrains AI Inc. 

UpBrains AI revolutionizes how customer operations teams in the supply chain serve their customers with AI-powered automation. We enable supply chain companies to recapture millions of dollars of lost revenue due to errors and productivity loss, and to operate their business with a modern AI-powered experience.

Our AI agents automate many mundane and repetitive tasks within a team inbox, including understanding complex customer requests and attached business documents like purchase orders, requests for quotes, bills of lading, and invoices. Our AI classifies, routes, and assigns incoming customer requests in a team inbox to a combination of expert AI agents to work collaboratively with human agents to handle customer request in an integrated manner to the backend systems. Key processes that UpBrains AI agents automate for supply chain companies include order processing and data entry, quote response generation, supplier communication and documentation processing, return processing, and invoice processing and reconciliation. UpBrains AI capabilities are available in a no-code, intelligent team inbox automation solution with an intelligent human-in-the-loop AI component, allowing human and AI agents to collaborate to serve customer requests through an AI Copilot that assists human agents in team inbox tasks.

The market opportunity for AI-driven automation in the supply chain is immense, valued at more than $150B. UpBrains AI is initially targeting a specific $150M segment (as serviceable addressable market) within the distribution, manufacturing, and logistics sectors. By leveraging our solution, companies can reduce errors, accelerate operations, and serve customers up to 10 times faster and at significantly lower costs, giving them a distinct competitive edge in today’s fast-paced supply chain environment.

• Veza Innovations 

Veza Innovations is a sustainable, consumer products health company focused on parent and child wellness, as well as early childhood development. For our flagship product, Veza has created the first EVER, sit to stand convertible high chair, endorsed by and developed with pediatric physicians and specialists. *Patent-pending*

We’ve onboarded this team of pediatric consultants to provide their expertise throughout the product development process and what was quickly discovered is that our sit-to-stand system applies to a wide range of children, including those with diverse physical, developmental, and neurological needs (i.e. autism, ADHD, reflux, other GI related challenges, etc.), as well as children of mainstream families.

Veza is providing options and versatility for caretakers, children, and medical professionals not yet available in today’s market. We are revolutionizing the market with our flagship product and will continue to do so with our distinct and innovative products in our pipeline.

• VirgilHR 

VirgilHR offers a tool that automates employment and labor law compliance for HR. Our technology integrates with HR systems and analyzes legal requirements for HR, providing instant legal guidance, real-time. We also offer various tools to complement our compliance suite, to include a smart chatbot for compliance questions, a multi-state comparison tool, documents/templates/forms, legal updates and a compliance calendar, and an employee handbook builder.

• WelFore Health 

WelFore Health: Revolutionizing Diet-Related Disease Management with Culturally Attuned AI Solutions WelFore Health offers a unique hybrid approach to diet-related disease management, combining the power of AI-driven health insights with hands-on support. The platform is specifically designed to address the disproportionate burden of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in underserved Black and Brown communities. By delivering culturally relevant, personalized nutrition plans and providing real-time health tracking remote patient monitoring, WelFore Health ensures that users receive tailored care that resonates with their heritage and lifestyle.

What sets WelFore apart is its dual revenue model, featuring subscription-based enterprise SaaS for healthcare payers, hospitals, and corporate wellness programs, along with upsell opportunities through culturally attuned nutrition products, including salt-free spice blends and portion control tools. The company is poised to capitalize on the growing demand for preventive care solutions and health equity, targeting a $100 billion chronic disease management market ($250 billion globally).

With a projected $25.7 million revenue by Year 3 and the ability to reduce hospital readmissions by up to 20%, WelFore Health is addressing a critical market need while offering strong growth potential for investors. This hybrid model bridges the gap between technology and human care, driving better outcomes for at-risk populations.

• WolfPack Systems, Inc.  

Imagine a world where every tour is a story worth telling. At WolfPack, we embrace the idea that “Experience is the new Rich.” We leverage innovative technology to disrupt outdated tour practices, crafting unforgettable tours that leave lasting memories. Join us in redefining the essence of travel.

WolfPack Systems, Inc. leads the charge in transforming tour experience management with its SaaS platform, specifically designed for tour operators. This innovative platform revolutionizes group travel by providing advanced itinerary planning, real-time communication, group navigation, and an AI Trip Planner that uses NLP to enhance travel experiences. With a keen focus on “Tour Experience Management™” (TEM), we introduce personalized recommendations and seamless navigation, setting unprecedented industry standards.

Having recently shifted to a B2B model, WolfPack is aggressively targeting to secure 10 paying customers within the next six months. Operating in a booming global tourism market valued at $3.57 billion, WolfPack projects substantial growth, projecting (pending investment) annual revenue in Y1 of $494,683 to grow to $47,901,339 over the next five years. The customer acquisition cost (CAC) of $4,970, paired with an expected lifetime value (LTV) of $68,706, promising a bright future for the company and its stakeholders.

• Zerapy AI 

Zerapy provides an AI-driven physical therapy app focused on simplicity, use of a single smartphone and personalized progress tracking. Zerapy’s Customer Discovery process identified two primary markets: i) clinical physical therapy where there is a 21% shortage of PTs, resulting in patients’ inability for timely rehabilitation and ii) wellness programs for an aging population. Zerapy identified that only 15% of people between 65-75 engage in regular physical activity. Zerapy’s technology is designed to fill the gap in PT demand, democratize access to care and expand patient reach with a tool that can be used in most environments.