NASA — 2015 Investments

Advanced Space provides spacecraft mission operations, navigation, and guidance software and services, including autonomous positioning technology for cislunar and deep-space missions.

Deep TechDefense TechSpace Tech

Äpre Instruments designs and manufactures optical metrology systems, including Fizeau and LUPI interferometers, Spectrally Controlled Interferometers (SCI), and REVEAL measurement-reporting software.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware

ATAC provides aviation data analysis, performance measurement, and software tools focused on air traffic management, helping clients make decisions related to safety, efficiency, and environmental impact.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGovTech

Element 84 (formerly Azavea) develops cloud-native geospatial data processing pipelines, distributed systems, and Earth Observation software for public, private, and non-profit sector clients.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure

Bluecom Systems develops cognitive radio and communications technology, including its Radiobot 1.0 cognitive engine, reconfigurable antenna arrays, and smart membrane materials, using AI/ML/DL, FPGA, and reconfigurable RF systems.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSpace TechAlbuquerque, US

Crown Innovations provides aerospace R&D, airspace modernization, communications infrastructure, uncrewed aircraft systems integration, and data services for state and federal agencies (including the FAA), universities, and commercial partners.

Deep TechGovTechSpace TechArlington, US

Dioxide Materials develops technology to recycle waste CO2 into useful products and supplies materials for electrolyzer research and development, including products for alkaline anion exchange membrane (AEM), carbon dioxide, and water electrolyzers.

CleantechClimate TechNew MaterialsBoca Raton, US

Eotron develops silicon-based thermal management and cooling products, including silicon heatsinks, cold plates, TO cans, laser packages, heat reservoirs, and thermal isolation components.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsSpokane, US

Nanoramic develops Neocarbonix, an electrode technology for lithium-ion batteries that replaces conventional binder materials like PVDF and NMP solvent with lower-cost, environmentally friendlier alternatives.

CleantechEnergyNew Materials

GATR designs portable satellite communications equipment, including inflatable satellite antennas, foldable satellite terminals, troposcatter systems, satellite modems, and rugged power supplies.

Defense TechHardwareSpace Tech

Incom develops and manufactures polymer and glass microstructures, including microchannel plates, fiber optic faceplates, capillary arrays, and photodetectors.

Deep TechHardwareNew Materials

BiotechDrexel, US

David S Alburty(Executive Officer, Director)Kathleen Ruegsegger(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew E Page(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardMichael Heckman(Director)Paul Bertrand(Director)

The site lists research and engineering projects including electric-field engineering in stratified coatings, a Sagnac-Fourier spectrometer (SAFOS), a fiber-based ring laser gyroscope, and laser-induced damage and incubation studies.

Deep TechHardware

Metamorph Software develops model-based engineering tools, with a flagship open-source toolset called OpenMETA for multi-domain modeling, analysis, and design.

Deep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Micro Harmonics designs and manufactures millimeter-wave components including isolators, circulators, voltage variable attenuators, and orthomode transducers operating from 25-400 GHz, with products tested across full waveguide bands.

Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech

N5 Sensors develops environmental monitoring systems using proprietary chemical sensors, cloud connectivity, and AI to detect wildfires, air quality events, and chemical threats for emergency responders, utilities, and infrastructure protection.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechIoTRockville, US

Abhishek Motayed(Executive Officer, Director)

nVizix commercializes photonic and sensing technologies with applications in solar power, radiation detection for high-energy physics, fiber optics, low-light and night-vision imaging, single-photon counting, contact microscopy, and specialty optical coatings.

Deep TechEnergyHardware

Omni Defense Technologies designs and manufactures in-flight bladder relief and hydration systems for military aviators, including the Skydrate through-suit connector certified for use with immersion suits and CBRN protective gear.

Defense TechHardwareMedical Devices

Pancopia builds technologies, including its patented FreshFlush system, that accelerate natural biological processes to treat nutrient waste and recover water in animal agriculture, targeting lagoon-based livestock operations such as swine farms.

AgTechCleantechClimate Tech

Bill Cumbie(CEO)

Parabilis Space Technologies develops high-thrust, solid-liquid hybrid propulsion systems for CubeSats, SmallSats, and larger spacecraft that require kilonewton-class maneuvering.

Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech

Paul Finkel Consulting is an engineering firm providing wireless and high-frequency product design services, including subsystem, circuit, PCB, and mechanical design, fabrication, and small-scale manufacturing.

Deep TechHardwareIoTRedwood City, US

Paul Finkel

Photodigm designs and manufactures Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) laser diodes that deliver bench-top research laser performance in an application-specific semiconductor chip format, and offers on-site semiconductor packaging assembly for photonic chips.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors

Winchester, US

Raj Singh(Director)Bala Chandran(Executive Officer, Director)Loren Werner(Executive Officer, Director)

A company developing microwave in-situ heating technology to extract water and other volatiles from planetary surfaces such as the lunar poles, without excavating the permafrost.

Deep TechNew MaterialsSpace Tech

SST develops a patented AS-LED curing technology for the commercial printing industry, used to cure inks in flexo, screen, and web-fed offset printing.

Advanced ManufacturingCleantechHardware

SynaptiCAD builds EDA software for electronic design engineers, including Verilog/VHDL simulation and debugging tools (VeriLogger, BugHunter Pro) and timing diagram editors (Timing Diagrammer Pro, WaveFormer Pro, DataSheet Pro, TestBencher Pro).

Developer ToolsHardwareSemiconductors

Tech4Imaging develops Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) systems and capacitance sensors for non-invasive, real-time 3D imaging of multiphase flows.

Deep TechEnergyHardware

Qussai Marashdeh(Co-founder & CEO)Liang-Shih Fan(Co-founder)

TRI Austin performs research, development, and materials testing in advanced materials, including specialty polymer-based coatings, adhesives, sealants, and composite resins, and offers nondestructive evaluation and analytical lab services.

Deep TechDefense TechNew MaterialsAustin, US

J. Scott Thornton(Founder)

Torch Technologies is an employee-owned company providing research, development, and engineering services to the U.S.

Deep TechDefense TechHardwareHuntsville, US

FuelCellsEtc is a custom manufacturer of fuel cell and electrolyzer components, including Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs), Catalyst Coated Membranes (CCMs), and Gas Diffusion Electrodes (GDEs).

Advanced ManufacturingCleantechEnergyBryan, US

Twinleaf designs and sells high-sensitivity atomic magnetometers, magnetic shielding, low-noise current supplies, and related components for measuring and controlling magnetic fields.

Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech

VORAGO Technologies designs radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant Arm Cortex-based microcontrollers and microprocessors using its HARDSIL process technology to protect chips in extreme environments.

Defense TechSemiconductorsSpace Tech

WxOps builds geospatial weather applications for the transportation logistics community.

Climate TechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS