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Vectech develops AI-powered vector identification and surveillance technologies to support public health interventions and targeted mosquito control during disease outbreaks.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechData & InfrastructureGovTechHealthtechBaltimore, US
Tristan Ford(Co-founder + CEO)Meg Glancey(Co-founder + Advisor)Autumn Goodwin(Co-founder + Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsTechstars
Vence provides a virtual fencing system for livestock management, using GPS/RF collars and base stations to control cattle movement, set adjustable grazing boundaries, and monitor animal location.
AgTechHardwareIoTKey Largo, US
FRANK WOOTEN(Executive Officer, Director)JASPER HOLDSWORTH(APPOINTMENT EFFECTIVE UPON CONSUMMATION OF THIS FINANCING.)SKY KURTZ(Director)
BoardDHIRAJ SINGH(APPOINTMENT EFFECTIVE UPON CONSUMMATION OF THIS FINANCING.)CURT ROBERT(APPOINTMENT EFFECTIVE UPON CONSUMMATION OF THIS FINANCING.)
Co-investorsiSelect FundSilverstrand CapitalTyche Partners
SelfWrap develops bioabsorbable wrap materials for vascular grafts that conform to individual patient anatomy and are designed to be absorbed by the body, unlike alloy-based alternatives.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesHouston, US
Tim Boire(Founder)inGeoffrey Lucks(Founder)in
BoardJoel Whitley(Director)Jim Monsor(Director)Robert Crutchfield(Director)
Co-investorsCreative VenturesGood Growth CapitalHealth WildcattersKube VCTexas HALO FundTMC Venture Fund+3 more
VeriSIM uses machine learning and computational simulation to accelerate drug development, replacing traditional trial-and-error experimentation with computational prediction to improve success rates and reduce animal testing.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical Devices
Dr. Jo Varshney
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersCerity Partners VenturesIntel CapitalLoup VenturesOCA VenturesTwin Ventures+3 more
HealthtechSouth Salt Lake, US
Stacy J. Morris Bamberg(Executive Officer)
Vertiq designs high-performance propulsion systems for commercial and defense unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), combining a lightweight integrated motor and ESC with an embedded position sensor and motor control software.
Defense TechHardwareRobotics
Co-investorsMonozukuri VenturesRed & Blue VenturesRobin Hood VenturesGabriel Investments
Vescent develops photonics and quantum hardware, including frequency combs, lasers, controllers, and optical atomic clocks, along with laser stabilization and cold atom science solutions.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing
Scott Davis(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsCaruso VenturesMassive
VIATechnik is a construction technology consultancy that helps owners, general contractors, trade contractors, and material suppliers implement and optimize Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
Co-investorsPartnership Fund for NYC
HealthtechWest Lafayette, US
Pu Wang(Executive Officer, Promoter)Ji-Xin Cheng(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsElevate Ventures
College Station, US
Moises Robinson(President)Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio(Director)
BoardHector Ruiz(Director)Michael Bartlett(Director)
CesiumAstro develops AI-enhanced, software-defined communications systems for space, air, and ground domain applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDefense TechSpace TechNew York City, US
Daniel Morozoff(Executive Officer, Director)Joseph Ellis(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsCapital InnovatorsDorm RoomPrefix CapitalR/GA VenturesSamsung NextSocial Starts+1 more
ViewPlus manufactures braille embossers and tactile graphics technology, including color-enabled embossing on standard paper, for blind and low-vision students, educators, and professionals.
EdTechHardwareHealthtechCorvallis, US
Vimaan develops robotics and computer-vision systems for warehouse operations, aimed at reducing manual intervention while improving inventory efficiency and accuracy.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRobotics
Co-investorsNeotribe Ventures
Santa Barbara, US
Katherine Yeung(Executive Officer, Director)Kristian Kvilekval(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPascal Bamford(Director)Andreas von Blottnitz(Director)
Virta Labs builds an API-first, open-core security platform for healthcare IT infrastructure, including BlueFlow asset management, Tapirx passive medical device discovery, and VulnFWRD AI risk orchestration.
CybersecurityDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsTappan Hill Ventures
Virtual EM develops wireless sensor networks for IoT, computational electromagnetics modeling software, antenna and RF circuit designs, and machine learning algorithms, serving both military and civilian applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoT
Mattek develops in vitro life science technologies, including lab-grown 3D human epithelial tissue models, banks of primary human cells, and cell culture dishes and plates ("Cultureware") designed for cell growth and imaging.
BiotechHealthtechNew Materials
Michael Johnson(Cofounder)
Co-investorsFoundation Venture Capital Group, LLC
Vista Clara develops nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) geophysical instruments that measure hydrogeologic properties such as water content, pore-size distribution, and hydraulic conductivity from the surface or in boreholes.
CleantechDeep TechHardware
Dave Walsh(President)
Vista Photonics develops laser-based optical sensors for environmental monitoring and space exploration applications.
Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech
Vistex Composites is a manufacturing company that developed a patented PFL process for producing advanced thermoset and thermoplastic composite products compatible with carbon fiber, fiberglass, and aramid reinforcements.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechNew Materials
Wocester, US
Adam Collette(Manager and member)Harry Wotton(Manager and member)William Edelman(Manager and member)Glenn Guadette(Manager and member)George Pins(Manager and member)
Volexion develops cathode active material encapsulation technology and drop-in composite materials for lithium-ion battery manufacturing, improving cycle life, power density, temperature range, and voltage window.
CleantechEnergyNew Materials
Co-investorsClean Energy VentureEarth FoundryEnergy FoundryClean Energy Ventures
Voltaiq offers an AI-powered SaaS platform for the battery industry that collects and harmonizes data across the battery lifecycle, automates anomaly and quality detection, and provides root-cause analysis and natural-language data querying.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBrooklyn, US
Tal Sholklapper(Co-founder & CEO)inEli Leland(Co-founder & CTO)in
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)in
Co-investorsAnzu PartnersBee PartnersConductor CapitalSJF VenturesThin Line Capital
Vorcat develops computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software based on a patented vortex method for simulating turbulent flows, aimed at reducing the need for physical testing such as wind tunnels.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Vortant Technologies is a design, technology, and software development firm that develops products and solutions through research and collaboration.
HardwareHealthtech
Voxel Healthcare develops AI technology for pediatric imaging and radiation oncology, with a focus on brain cancer.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Allegro MicroSystems designs sensing and power semiconductor products, including Hall-effect current sensors, inductive position sensors, and isolated gate drivers.
HardwareMobility & TransportationSemiconductors
Wasatch Molecular Incorporated develops materials modeling and simulation tools spanning ab initio quantum chemistry to continuum engineering, specializing in molecular and continuum simulations of polymers, energetic materials, electrolytes and ionic liquids, with emphasis on lithium ion and lithium metal batteries.
Deep TechEnergyNew MaterialsSalt Lake City, US
Inglewood, US
Eric M.V. Hoek(Executive Officer, Director)Subir Bhattacharjee(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRod Lake(Director)Eric Chenneveau(Director)
WattGlass (Pellucere Technologies) develops advanced glass coatings including anti-reflective, anti-fog, hydrophobic, and anti-soiling/self-cleaning technologies.
CleantechEnergyNew Materials
WearWorks develops HapticNav, a haptic navigation technology that uses vibration patterns to provide turn-by-turn guidance without screens or audio, offered as a free iOS app and an enterprise SDK/API.
Deep TechHardwareMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
North Besthesda, US
Irving Weinberg(Executive Officer, Director)
WesTest provides test and diagnostic solutions for complex electronics used in extreme environments, along with design, development, and test engineering services.
Deep TechDefense TechHardware
Wetx provides a system of record for water delivery, ingesting SCADA and IoT data to create time-stamped, tamper-resistant records that track delivery obligations from leases, contracts, and policies against actual deliveries.
Climate TechIoTSaaSSalt Lake City, US
Whova is an all-in-one event management software platform for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events, offering registration, agenda management, speaker management, name badge generation, self check-in, attendee networking, and sponsor/exhibitor lead generation tools.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsAmino Capital
Socialroots is collaboration software that coordinates communications across groups, departments, and organizations, helping communities and networks organize, connect with aligned groups, and track next steps.
Future of WorkSaaSSocial
Wildlife Imaging Systems develops computer vision and machine learning software for wildlife biologists and ecologists, using camera systems, video processing, and data management to monitor and protect wildlife.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate Tech
WPM builds a patented remote wildlife vaccine delivery system that dispenses vaccines and contraceptives, implants RFID chips, monitors health, and tracks locations of wild and feral animals to manage populations humanely.
AgTechHardwareIoT
Windscape develops AI-based software solutions that use onboard turbine and external data to improve the operational efficiency, smoothness, and predictability of wind farms.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Winter Innovations develops a patented two-part surgical needle and stitching technology for orthopedic surgery.
HardwareHealthtechMedical Devices
Co-investorsBoston Harbor AngelsLaunch Tennessee
San Antonio, US
Gerald J. Wilmink(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Edward Leahey(Executive Officer, Director)Brian Anderson(Executive Officer)
BoardLisa Corless(Director)
WISRAN provides technology that allocates the actual cost of equipment, labor, and fuel to individual fields, showing farmers and custom operators the true cost per acre rather than farm-wide averages.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaS
WOLFZYC provides full-cycle software development, FPGA design services, and superconducting chip design and fabrication.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Workers First develops PFAS-free personal protective equipment, spill-neutralizing floor mats, spill kits, and coatings built on its Polyreact and Neutralmat technologies to prevent acid and chemical spill incidents.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
Workit Health is a 100% online addiction treatment program that prescribes FDA-approved medications like Suboxone and naltrexone for opioid, alcohol, and kratom use disorders via licensed clinicians through video consultations.
Digital HealthHealthtechAnn Arbor, US
Lisa McLaughlin(Executive Officer, Director)Robin McIntosh(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTodd Kimmel(Director)
Co-investorsCVS Health VenturesID VenturesWakestream VenturesGingerbread CapitalImpact EngineMontage Ventures+1 more
WS Robots manufactures autonomous mobile robots designed for aerospace manufacturing and maintenance operations, combining artificial intelligence and customizable end-effectors to automate precision tasks in production facilities.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Co-investorsCortado VenturesPlains VenturesAero X VenturesCubit Capital
XSight develops compact, high-flux X-ray imaging hardware built on custom semiconductor field-emission X-ray sources.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
X-Therma develops a proprietary peptoid-based technology that inhibits ice crystal formation to enable long-term sub-zero preservation and transport of cells, tissues, organs, and other biologics.
BiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesNew MaterialsRichmond, US
Xiaoxi Wei(Founder & CEO)Johannes Weggemann(Director)Mark Kline(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAurum Venture PartnersDellin InvestmentsVU Venture PartnersZen11 Holding
XACTIV applies 2D and 3D digital printing technologyβincluding electrophotography and liquid/ink jettingβalong with custom active liquids, powders, and application-specific manufacturing equipment to enhance client products.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware
Xallent develops fine pitch probing technologies for semiconductor testing, used to characterize chiplets, advanced packages, and thin films during new materials development and chip manufacturing.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Xerion develops DirectPlate, an electroplating and electrolyte technology that combines metal refinement, battery material synthesis, and electrode deposition into a single-step process.
Advanced ManufacturingEnergyNew MaterialsLongmont, US
Merion B Reynolds(Director)John Busbee(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Kolb(Executive Officer, Director)Paul Braun(Director)
XFlow builds the XFE-13, a 30 kW vertical-axis wind turbine with patented power electronics for onsite distributed power generation aimed at farms, rural businesses, and similar customers.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Xheme develops technology to protect cells from oxidative stress, aiming to increase cell density and productivity in manufacturing, improve viability and therapeutic outcomes in cell therapeutics, and extend the shelf life of biological fluids such as blood and milk.
BiotechHealthtechNew MaterialsNewton, US
Kumar Challa(Founder, President and Chief Technology officer)Nambula Venugopal(CFO)Pamela Burton(Founder and Director Business Development)
Ximax Technologies is an electronics engineering group that designs power electronics and hardware solutions for industrial and consumer customers.
CleantechEnergyHardwareCollege Park, US
XL Batteries develops organic flow batteries for long-duration, grid-scale energy storage, aimed at improving grid resiliency and supporting decarbonization.
CleantechEnergyHardwareMarlborough, US
Thomas Sisto(Executive Officer, Director)Saif Qazi(Director)Colin Nuckolls(Director)
BoardJeffrey Schwarz(Director)Jeffrey Smith(Director)
Co-investorsSIP Global Partners
xMD Diagnostics is a diagnostics company developing medical testing technology.
BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesAnnapolis, US
Benjamin Shapiro(Co-Founder, Technical Advisor)Al Fleury(Executive Officer)Ting Pau Oei(CEO and Co-Chairman)Michael Emmert-Buck(Executive Officer)
BoardStephen Ritterbush(CFO and Co-Chairman)
Co-investorsMaryland TEDCOTEDCO
Xona Space Systems operates Pulsar, a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service delivered from a constellation of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit that broadcasts a new signal to augment or replace GPS.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechBurlingame, US
Brian Manning(Executive Officer, Director)Tyler Reid(Director)Adrien Perkins(Director)
BoardSky Dayton(Director)inLewis Jones(Director)Jeff Crusey(Director)in
Co-investorsArmada Investment AGBeyond Earth VenturesCapital InnovatorsCross Culture VenturesFirst Spark Ventures, LlcIceNine+15 more
Xopolis develops AI systems designed to augment human work across education, enterprise, and government, offering platforms including HeuriSight (analyzing how students approach problems), ProtoBots (no-code custom AI agents for document Q&A and research), and Intelligent Research Agents for automating research tasks.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise Software
XPEED Turbine Technology (XTT) develops patented aerodynamic flow deflectors (AFD) that retrofit existing wind turbine blades and integrate into new blade designs to increase annual energy production by 2-4% and reduce the cost of energy.
CleantechEnergyHardware
XSB provides AI and software products (including SWISS, Price Point Buyer, Warwick, and Pin Point) that convert unstructured engineering documents into structured, machine-readable data and digital twins to support supply chain management, procurement, and compliance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Brooklyn, US
Joshua Yankowitz(Executive Officer, Director)
Renderboss is a render farm management tool for VFX, animation, and game studios, built in Rust.
Developer ToolsMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Yardstick provides tools to measure, plan, and analyze soil carbon data, including instant soil carbon measurement, sample planning aligned with protocols such as Verra VM0042 and CAR SEP, and data mapping and auditing.
AgTechCleantechClimate Tech
Co-investorsWorkshop Venture PartnersCultivian Sandbox VenturesExtantia CapitalToyota Ventures
Yobe provides a bioacoustic intelligence layer for enterprise voice AI, extracting who is speaking, how they are speaking, and where they are speaking in noisy real-world acoustic environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software
Co-investorsMaC Venture CapitalCommonwealth Venture Management Corp.
Columbia Falls, US
Craig Wilkins(Founder)David Wilkins(Founder)Randy A. Moore(Executive Officer, Director)Adam Weisenstein(Executive Officer)
BoardHoward F. Wilkins III(Director)Alan Campbell(Director)
Zaiput Flow Technologies develops continuous equipment for process intensification in chemical processes, applicable to both continuous and batch operations.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware
Co-investorsNippon Technology Venture Partners
ZBeats is a cardiac technology company offering FDA-cleared electrocardiographic analysis software that transforms ECG signals into structured clinical intelligence for cardiology workflows.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Co-investorsCamellia Venture Capital
Fayetteville, US
Michael Artinger(Executive Officer, Director)Bernie Prusaczyk(Executive Officer)Masoud Agah(Director)
BoardRobert Calvin Goforth(Director)
Zenflow develops medical devices for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in men, founded from the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign with a team experienced in medical device development and FDA regulation.
HealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Shreya Mehta(Founder/CTO)inNick Damiano(Executive Officer, Director)John Beck(Executive Officer)
BoardBryan Kim(Director)Robert Weisskoff(Director)inBlayne Roeder(Director)
Co-investorsAstiaShangBay Capital LLCY CombinatorDorm RoomF-Prime CapitalF-Prime Capital Partners+2 more
ZeroK builds high-performance focused ion beam (FIB) systems, including its FIB:ZERO platform offering smaller spot sizes at lower beam energy and a range of beam currents, positioned as a next-generation replacement for Ga+, He+, or Ne+ based FIBs.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Zest Bio uses engineered microorganisms to convert low-value industrial fruit and vegetable processing waste β such as citrus peels, sugar beet pulp, potato peels, and grape pomace β into higher-value products.
AgTechBiotechCircular Economy
Ryan ProtzkoLuke LatimerJohn Dueber
Co-investorsMount Wilson Ventures
Zeteo Tech develops mass spectrometry and detection technologies for biomedical, defense, and security applications, including bioaerosol detection and breath analysis.
BiotechDeep TechDefense TechMedical DevicesSykesville, US
Charles J. Call(Executive Officer, Director)Wayne A. Bryden(Executive Officer, Director)Thomas P. McCreery(Director)R. David Edelman(Director)Wayne Bryden(President and CEO)Tom McCreery(VP, Innovation / Chief Innovation Officer)
Co-investorsAnzu PartnersCottonwood Technology Fund
Zettar builds the zx Appliance, a turnkey data-movement appliance that transfers petabyte-scale datasets at line rate across networks, running on enterprise hardware such as HPE ProLiant servers and NVIDIA BlueField DPUs.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
AI chip, IoT and semiconductor
Palo Alto, US
Jawad Nasrullah(President, CFO, CTO)Ming Zhang(CEO)
BoardYang Meng(Director)
Co-investorsSkywood Capital
Voyager Technologies develops defense and space systems including solid-fuel and electric propulsion, radiation-hardened electronics, guidance and navigation systems, spectrum dominance and signals intelligence tools, and orbital infrastructure.
Deep TechDefense TechSpace Tech
Zinn Labs developed gaze and attention tracking technology designed to enable new user interfaces in very small form factors for compact, connected everyday electronics.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardware
Simcenter Zona is aeroelastic simulation software for analyzing aircraft and spacecraft structures across subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic speed regimes.
Deep TechSaaSSpace Tech
BiotechPhiladelphia, US
Daniel Mazzucco(Executive Officer, Director)Rugart Eric(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardLouis Berardi(Director)
ZymoChem develops bio-based materials using proprietary Carbon Conserving (C2) microbes that convert renewable feedstocks into high-value materials with increased yields.
BiotechCircular EconomyClimate TechNew MaterialsSan Leandro, US
Harshal Chokhawala(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAccelr8Breakout LabsBreakout VenturesCavallo VenturesDudley FundFreshTracks Capital+5 more
Zymosense develops the Nanoassay, a label-free enzyme-measurement technology that coats single-walled carbon nanotubes with target substrate and reads catalytic activity through fluctuations in near-infrared light emissions, replacing traditional mix-and-measure assays with a Dilute-Add-Scan workflow.
BiotechDeep TechNew Materials
Nigel Reuel(Co-founder)Nathaniel Kallmyer(Co-founder)
Zymtronix develops cell-free, multi-enzyme biocatalysis systems to manufacture high-value industrial products without traditional fermentation.
AgTechBiotechNew Materials
Co-investorsBackstage Capital
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