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Afuse is a mobile app helping students find roommates and friends before they get to campus.

Climate change is making the most critical windows in crop production (pollination and grain fill) increasingly hostile. ALORA designs gene-edited traits that protect yield through these moments, channeling environmental stress into productivity rather than loss. Born from the recognition that nature already contains genetic solutions to heat, salinity, and instability, our traits are purpose-built for a more hostile agricultural future.

Anatra builds rugged unmanned cargo aircraft—runway-capable and amphibious—that deliver 500 lbs over 500+ miles, reaching remote and contested areas where traditional logistics can’t.

Artemis Immersive builds Interactive 3D technology that addresses the communication gap that exists not only between patients and doctors, but also between: providers of different specializations, insurance providers, attorneys, and jurors. Our first offering to market, VoxScan uses spatial technology’s emerging and unique functionality to create a more complete and interactive understanding of medical imaging results, breaking down the silos of medical understanding, and enabling patients and providers alike to quickly understand results. Currently offered in patient engagement and legal industries.

Atlantic Fish Co uses cellular agriculture to develop the world’s most sustainable, cultivated seafood. Our mission is to make cultivated seafood the 3rd pillar of seafood production to complement wild-caught and aquaculture.

AxNano destroys PFAS “forever chemicals” and other complex waste streams. Our point-source solution reduces waste disposal costs by 83% compared to off-site incineration or landfilling. Military, industrial and municipal customers can mitigate liability risk while achieving higher throughputs, cleaner outputs, and streamlined integration.

Beam Dynamics helps enterprises streamline asset management, manage large system integration projects, and increase utilization of assets, facilities, licenses, and labor in a single cloud-based platform. Beam is deployed globally at major media, entertainment, sports, live event and broadcast companies to empower their teams to make informed, data-driven decisions, creating a common source of truth across their business.

Empowering a robotic workforce that’s perceptive, adaptive, and effortlessly programmable. Founded in August 2023, Blue Sky Robotics is dedicated to leading the global robotics software industry. We specialize in custom automation solutions to meet specific business needs, leveraging the latest in robotics, AI, and computer vision technology to optimize operations and improve efficiency.

Boundless Science is a healthcare-focused technology company dedicated to improving outcomes in heart and lung failure through innovative, science-driven solutions.

Trinitite builds the governance infrastructure that makes autonomous AI insurable. The problem is that current AI models are probabilistic black boxes that drift and hallucinate, creating undefined liability that prevents enterprise adoption. Trinitite solves this by wrapping the model in a deterministic governance layer, using Test-Driven Governance (TDG) to convert every past failure or business rule into a hard mathematical constraint that prevents recurrence. Paired with a State-Tuple Ledger that captures an immutable chain of custody for every decision, Trinitite gives enterprises the forensic proof they need to verify compliance — turning AI from a liability into a managed asset.

CareHome Health Solutions is a health technology company transforming medication management for seniors and caregivers. Our flagship product, the Graciela device, is a smart, hands-free medication dispenser that simplifies daily adherence for older adults experiencing memory loss, arthritis, mobility challenges, or those that want to retain their high level of independence. By combining automated dispensing with real-time compliance tracking, CareHome replaces unreliable self-reporting with objective, actionable data. Paired with our caregiver and provider dashboard, CareHome enables families, home health agencies, and clinicians to monitor adherence, receive missed-dose alerts, analyze trends, and intervene earlier, greatly reducing medication errors, hospitalizations, death, and caregiver burden. With over 40 million doses missed annually in the U.S., CareHome directly addresses one of the most expensive and preventable problems in senior health. CareHome is currently in the prototype and pilot phase with a utility & PCT patent and is receiving strong interest from home health agencies and family caregivers. Our mission is to keep seniors safer, more independent, and out of costly emergency care while giving caregivers peace of mind through data-driven medication adherence.

Carolina Instruments is a UNC Chapel Hill spinout building a camera-free eye tracking system for integration into next-gen Virtual and Augmented Reality (XR) headsets. Originally developed in neuroscience research, our technology uses optical sensing instead of cameras to measure eye movement and pupil dynamics with high resolution. By reducing the power and processing demands of eye tracking, we enable headset makers to extend battery life, lower headset size and weight, and simplify system integration, while still enabling high-quality eye tracking and attention-related insights through pupil measurements.

We design natural infrastructure for commercial spaces. We turn unused vertical space into profitable, scalable horticultural systems that improve people’s experience, without adding operational burden. Climate Gardens are modular, frame-mounted vertical ecosystems for commercial buildings.

Citrus Oncology is managing adverse events in cancer patients by building a multi-specialty care orchestration platform. Patients undergoing cancer treatment and the growing 18M+ cancer survivors face adverse events that if left untreated drive up costs to payers through higher ER visits and hospitalizations, and patients suffer with a poor quality of life. In order to address these complex issues, Citrus combines AI-powered triage along with a fast and cost-effective multi-specialty network of physicians to support patients and eliminate burden on oncology teams.

Clinware automates post-acute care reimbursement, referral and admission processes and end-to-end healthcare operations; eliminates manual documentation bottlenecks; and empowers care teams to make faster, data-driven clinical and financial decisions.

​​Coprata is a health-technology company transforming how gut health is measured to improve healthy living. We leverage our deep domain expertise and the latest research to move gut health from guesswork to insight—and from episodic testing to regular feedback. We uniquely enable consumer wellness with a rapid at-home test that provides feedback on how lifestyle choices impact gut health and longevity over time. We also serve nutrition companies with technologies that advance rigorous microbiome studies. Our patent-pending Microbiome Activity Tracker (MAT) kit, available for sale, is a rapid at-home test that converts a traditionally lab-based biochemical measurement into an affordable, repeatable home experience. Our gut health monitoring solutions will ultimately be automated into a higher-value Smart Toilet product that will transform the bathroom into the home health hub.

Corit Medical is modernizing one of the most common ENT procedures so more patients can breathe clearly. It has developed a single-use, mechanical device that gives surgeons a faster, cleaner, and more predictable way to remove turbinate tissue and bone. Existing tools for the procedure, which affects millions and results in over 100,000 adult turbinate reduction procedures annually, are slow, messy, and decades old.

Coworks is a coworking and flexible workspace management platform. Our mission is to be the operating system for the modern flexible workspace. Our platform is a full service operations system that manages scheduling, payments, room/desk reservation, and lead
and member management. We sell directly to space operators and empower them to create operational efficiency while accessing key spatial data. Our member app allows the members in each space to easily access space resources, events, and community. Together we are able to provide key data and metrics to space managers around usage, growth, and community engagement while allowing the people in the space to easily understand how to utilize and access the workspaces on demand.

CrossFire Technologies INC, a Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Company, is enabling the Open Chiplet Economy with its Chiplet Design Suite. While Chiplets are becoming ubiquitous in AI SoC design, Chiplet adoption rates in other segments are constrained by several pain points. These include the unavailability of SoC building block Chiplets, Die to Die (D2D) interfaces that add too much cost, die area, and development time to Chiplet design, and the requirement for either costly and difficult to access Interposers or Ultra High-Density Package Substrates to integrate Chiplets into a unified Micro-Chip. In response, CrossFire offers a holistic Chiplet Design Suite to address these pain points. The CrossFire Direct Chiplet Interface (DCI) is 10x – 50x smaller, uses 10x less power, and can shave 6 – 12 months off of a project’s development schedule due to its simplicity compared to other Die to Die Interface offerings. Bridgelets are ready to use system interface functions such as Memory Controllers, System Component Interfaces, and Network Interfaces that include CrossFire’s DCI Die to Die Interface. Bridgelets are available via the Open Chiplet Marketplace and available to all to integrate into their Chiplet based systems. Pulling it all together, CrossFire offers OmniDieTM, a unique approach to chiplet integration that does not require interposers or costly High-Density package Substrates. With OmniDie, customers avoid interposer availability constraints and other expensive alternatives, saving development time and money. CrossFire is a privately held fabless semiconductor company with executive offices located in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area of Minnesota and a satellite office in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.

DayOf is the distribution layer for event travel, the world’s most predictable form of travel. We unlock millions in off-venue spending generated by major conferences and events by transforming them into a marketplace for local experience providers (e.g. tour operators, attractions, restaurants, sports teams) to reach high-intent sponsors and attendees planning team outings, client entertainment, and exploration.

EmitBio is an LED light-based therapeutic medical device company that has developed proprietary technology to treat upper respiratory disease. This will be the world’s first non-drug antiviral; its first indication will be for COVID-19, to be followed by indications for influenza and RSV. The company has completed a successful double blind placebo controlled pivotal trial for COVID-19 and is currently in the final phase of FDA clearance for its De Novo application.

Eupry is an automated temperature compliance solution that simplifies the complex requirements of the life science industry. We provide an integrated platform combining measurement, monitoring, validation, and calibration to ensure data integrity and patient safety across the global supply chain. By automating manual processes, we help over 1,000 customers worldwide to maintain total compliance and reliability in pharmaceutical distribution.

We are a comprehensive solutions provider for ENTs across the US, providing leading products: sinuplasty balloons, shaver blades, scopes, nasal rinses, and services: patient prospecting, automated insurance verification + scheduling, and billing support. Our goal is to provide the tools so that leading local ENTs can remain independent and deliver the highest quality of care to their constituents.

Extellis is a satellite imaging company dedicated to delivering reliable Earth observations at an industrial scale. Our patented antennas, invented at Duke with DARPA-sponsored research, enable satellites that can take thousands of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images per day. Blending wide-area scanning with high-volume captures brings advanced spaceborne monitoring capabilities with sensible economics to drive widespread adoption.

FlightSuite.ai is building the first universal AI operator for CRM systems. An AI layer that actually runs the CRM on behalf of the user. Instead of logging in and clicking through complex workflows, businesses simply tell FlightSuite.ai AI Operator what needs to be done, and the operator executes across the businesses existing CRM platform. With 41 paying users, strong retention, marketplace distribution through GoHighLevel, and enterprise licensing discussions underway, FlightSuite.ai is redefining how service businesses manage clients and revenue operations.

Futureproof is building the world’s first autonomous finance team. They launch with bookkeeping, forecasting and planning, cap table modeling, and an investor-ready data room, giving founders the tools to delay hiring a CFO and avoid building large finance teams too early. Their vision is for AI that predicts problems before they surface, manages cash with precision, and executes solutions in real time, eliminating 80%+ of finance work so founders can focus on growth.

Galaxy Diagnostics is redefining the standard of care for flea- and tick-borne disease detection—a fast-growing clinical and economic burden. Today’s tests miss up to half of infections, which leads to delayed treatment and avoidable costs. Galaxy’s proprietary, peer-reviewed direct-detection technology provides industry-leading sensitivity and accuracy, offering clinicians earlier, more reliable answers. The company is backed by an experienced management team and more than 400 publications in vector-borne disease, and is advancing scalable solutions that bring high-sensitivity detection into routine clinical practice.

We help institutions eliminate recycling contamination, engage with users and provide valuable realtime data.

Home Dock is building a marketplace that helps people make confident decisions about buying, owning, and repairing a home. Using real estate transactions as the entry point, Home Dock enables licensed residential real estate agents to capture property issues through guided video and AI-generated repair plans. After closing, those plans become available to execute through the Home Dock marketplace with vetted local service providers. The platform aligns incentives through verified homeowner intent and success-based monetization. Home Dock is entering marketplace execution in early 2026, starting in the Triangle.

Innatrix, Inc., (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.) is revolutionizing agriculture with over $4M in secured capital, two U.S. patents, and a cutting-edge target-based platform that develops environmentally friendly biological products for crop protection. Our innovative approach leads to products reaching the market faster, with 95% cost savings compared to traditional chemical pesticides, and reducing carbon footprint by 80-90%. By targeting pathogens specifically, we eliminate harmful off-target effects.

iOrganBio is a Chapel Hill, NC-based biotechnology company that specializes in the precision engineering and scalable manufacturing of human cells and organoids. Through its proprietary CellForgeTM platform, the company integrates AI-driven prediction, biological sensing, and automated 3D incubation to transform complex cellular science into a programmable, closed-loop process. By utilizing its Functional Human CellAtlasTM—a repository of high-resolution single-cell and multi-omics data—iOrganBio provides biopharma partners with predictable and reproducible cell products tailored for drug discovery, disease modeling, and regenerative medicine. Founded in 2024 by experts in biotech startups and from institutions such as Weill Cornell Medicine and MD Anderson, the company aims to establish a new standard for cell therapy production by overcoming traditional bottlenecks in scalability and biological consistency.

We help automotive specialists run and grow their business by bringing them work from dealerships as well as bringing the power of Al agents to make the day to day operations easier.

Kilsar is a dual-use AI and 3D-powered maintenance technology company that modernizes the training, operation, and sustainment of complex equipment for commercial industry and the Department of Defense (DoD). Their flagship platform, Orion, transforms unstructured maintenance data (manuals, tribal knowledge, etc.) into structured, step-by-step digital workflows. These workflows are enriched with interactive 3D visualization, automated compliance documentation, and an embedded AI assistant. Orion is designed as a maintainer-first layer that integrates with existing enterprise systems to reduce cognitive burden, shorten mean-time-to-repair, and increase workforce capability. Commercially, Orion is fully deployed across all 15 Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM) campuses and is expanding to customers like National Oilwell Varco (NOV), Titan Dynamics, and MKM. These partnerships demonstrate its scalability in regulated, distributed, and skill-constrained environments. For the defense sector, Kilsar supports modernization for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and Special Operations. Orion has been fielded under Air Force SBIR programs, is being advanced for IL4/IL5 environments, and has a strategic partnership with Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems. Its DDIL-resilient, CMMC-Level-2 infrastructure ensures secure deployment and interoperability with the DoD’s digital engineering ecosystem. Kilsar operates a dual-use flywheel: commercial deployment drives product iteration and affordability, while DoD partnerships ensure cybersecurity and mission relevance. The company is positioned to become the foundational layer for AI-powered maintenance, workflows, and technical training globally.

Lindy Biosciences addresses formulation challenges in the biotherapeutics market with its Microglassification™ technology, which produces high-dose suspensions of therapeutic protein suitable for subcutaneous injection. This innovation aims to decrease administration costs, increase patient comfort and compliance, and enable new high-dose molecules to reach the market.

Luxar AI combines advanced photonics and edge AI to deliver real-time black ice detection and roadway safety intelligence for roads, bridges, and runways.

Meiogenix advances crop improvement through proprietary breeding technologies based on precise, targeted recombination. By unlocking the natural diversity of crops, they enable breeders to deliver elite varieties that help farmers meet the challenges of productivity, sustainability and disease resilience.

Technology must serve to empower human potential, not replace human creativity and agency. At Meridian we are harnessing computer vision to make people safer, healthier, and more capable in pursuits that matter. Instead of building just another AI app, we’re creating the foundational technology layer that lets digital intelligence reach the physical world. Our proprietary edge-based 3D analysis transforms everyday devices into precision tools to augment human perception. Backed by deep technical expertise and a proven commercialization model, Meridian is making professional-grade visual intelligence accessible where it is needed most across sports, manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond. We’re building the fundamental infrastructure that bridges AI to the physical world.

Mindr is a digital platform backed by human coaches that delivers evidence-based multidomain lifestyle interventions to reduce the risk or delay the onset of symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Our initial focus is on supporting those caring for a loved one with an ADRD diagnosis, to foster self-care and improve their chances of maintaining good cognitive health. Our ultimate goal is to help instill good habits for cognitive health in everyone.

MithrilAI has the world’s first silicon-proven artificial intelligence circuits that can prevent hardware attacks such as side-channel and fault injection attacks. These attacks can leak commercially valuable artificial intelligence (AI) models or cause critical misclassifications in AI systems. Our solution, built on randomized multi-party computation, makes individual computations inside hardware computationally intractable while preserving the exact input-output functionality. This enables cryptography-level defenses into AI hardware and improves the privacy, security, and reliability of the AI applications, which brings notable benefits to our customers who offer these services.

Morphos is an AI architecture company revolutionizing vectorization and AI search pipelines for agentic AI. With their groundbreaking Green Vectors technology, they have been able to reduce vector storage by up to 99%, thus drastically reducing storage costs, hallucination, and latency for AI applications. Morphos AI’s goal is to be the foundation that supports the mass adoption of artificial intelligence for
individuals and enterprises.

NALA Membranes offers a unique class of chlorine stable reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes used to treat water and wastewater. NALA’s patented polymer membranes are designed to be 1000X more stable to chlorine bleach than any other membrane on the market making them the “Holy Grail” for today’s membrane users. NALA’s durable, low fouling, and broadly applicable membranes offer new opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce operating costs for advanced treatment of even the most challenging water and industrial wastewaters.

Plastics are currently the world’s default material due to their complete ecosystem of standards, predictable behavior, processing rules, and global manufacturing compatibility. Brands want to adopt safer, compostable, microplastic-free alternatives, but these new materials do not have that yet, and Natural Negative is building that missing layer. Their platform, DropFormTM, uses physics-guided models, structured formulation data, and digital twins of processing to translate a brand’s performance and manufacturing requirements into a custom, home-compostable drop-in material that runs on existing equipment. In short, it gives next-gen materials the predictability and manufacturability that made plastics ubiquitous.

Nearby Nearby is a location-intelligence and local discovery platform purpose-built for rural America. The platform solves a critical visibility and data gap by making it easy for residents, visitors, and businesses to discover what is nearby—local businesses, parks, trails, events, and community services—through a single, proximity-based search experience. Unlike ad-driven platforms that prioritize paid placement and urban density, Nearby Nearby delivers unbiased, distance-based results powered by verified local data and community engagement. Our MVP is live, demonstrating the core One Search functionality and foundational relationships between places, events, and services within a real rural county environment. Beyond consumer discovery, Nearby Nearby is building the nation’s first zero-party rural dataset, enabling future data products for local governments, tourism boards, and economic development organizations. This positions the platform at the intersection of rural commerce, location intelligence, and community resilience. Nearby Nearby is designed to scale county by county, strengthening local economies while creating a defensible, high-value rural data asset that has historically been overlooked by major platforms.

NexStratus is an AI-native enterprise platform company transforming how critical infrastructure industries make decisions. From global supply chains to hospital systems, we integrate data, workflows, and people into one decision-intelligence environment—accelerating outcomes that matter across a wide variety of ROI use cases. Our flagship platform, Deep-SKAI, fuses AI and behavioral science to deliver real-time situational awareness, predictive modeling, and prescriptive guidance. Through our expertise and our strategic partnership ecosystem—spanning supply chain visibility, logistics optimization, contract automation, and compliance intelligence—that amplifies our impact and scales our reach.

Nuvai Medical Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to creating technologies to make pharmacy care smarter, efficient, and cost-effective. Its initial ground-breaking technology, Aseptique, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to evaluate an individual’s aseptic technique. Built for both quality assurance and real-time monitoring, an organization can have confidence that each employee is following appropriate aseptic technique on every product and that patient care is improved. Each technician has an individual dashboard that assimilates video clips documenting each time when aseptic technique was breached. There is also an enterprise-wide dashboard that can trend over time the organizational performance. In addition, the camera can track frequency and completeness of hood cleaning, ensuring that all aspects of regulations are met.

Oncurie is developing targeted radiopharmaceuticals to treat cancer. The company has developed a proprietary compound, or “chelator” capable of securing and sequestering radioisotope ions, providing a safe carrier for targeted delivery strategies against cancer.

Onda Vision Technologies, Inc. is a registered Delaware C Corporation founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. Onda Vision originated as a spin-out company from North Carolina State University’s NSF-funded Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) Center. Onda Vision’s mission is to advance health and safety through intelligent monitoring systems that protect individuals experiencing shifts in hydration levels due to physical exertion, environmental exposure, or medical conditions.

OneCare is an Al-powered, fully integrated Practice Operating System that combines EMR, billing, scheduling, payments, patient communication, and automation into one seamless platform. We help practices run smarter, grow faster, and deliver better patient care with fewer administrative headaches.

Ooga Technologies is a one-stop platform that empowers the non-destructive testing (NDT) industry to be safer, faster, and more cost-effective by providing access to vetted NDT experts across the globe. It is leveraging cloud technology to connect its customers with these experts in a matter of minutes and provides the ability to conduct remote NDT using a variety of different types of software to view the various tests. This digitizes an industry that has traditionally required testing to be done on-site, in-person.

OpenScope is an AI-native platform that turns patient symptom and insurance confusion into clear next steps and in-network care. Patients get fast, tailored guidance in under two minutes, and health systems gain a smarter digital front door that brings in more new patients while reducing out-of-network leakage. Our structured clinical taxonomy, real-time insurance reasoning, and validated medical RAG power a guided, safe, and compliant experience.

Transforms real estate sales with AI-guided virtual tours that engage buyers inside immersive 3D spaces while capturing detailed behavioral data.

PETE is a revolutionary AI-powered learning platform that transforms workforce training. Our solution enables companies to streamline knowledge: create customized virtual academies to develop, host, and manage customized courses without the need for a dedicated training department. From personalized onboarding to sales and compliance training, our adaptive technology ensures each employee receives the most relevant content for their role and experience level, maximizing learning impact.

Phase Advance’s lifetime models of disease progression predict the performance of newly discovered drugs as far ahead as phase 3 trials. Their next-generation Predictive Technology Platform (“PTP”) models human biology and disease in silico as a unified “system of systems,” delivering highly predictive, clinically actionable insights for new drugs. This aims to bridge the gap in translational modeling, which contributes to the failure of the vast majority of drug candidates by Phase III clinical trials.

Phytoform Labs is an Agriculture Biotechnology company focused on improving sustainability in the food supply chain with genetics. The company partners with food brands, processing companies and seed companies to translate scientific discoveries into real world impact and value.

PolyPV is an NC State spin-out commercializing next-generation flexible organic solar modules designed for reliable power in environments where traditional rigid panels are impractical. By replacing fragile rigid panels with a proprietary, rugged polymer-based architecture, PolyPV delivers lightweight, easily transported, and field-ready energy solutions that offer superior power density per volume. Supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and National Science Foundation (NSF), PolyPV is currently scaling a roll-to-roll compatible manufacturing process to provide a cost-effective alternative for defense, disaster response, and off-grid power. With field-leading power conversion efficiency on flexible modules, PolyPV is poised to meet mission-critical energy needs.

Founded in March 2025, Quellios is a pre-seed tech startup on a mission to quell food-triggered inflammation and restore health through seamless, science-driven biointelligence. The company is pioneering a patent-pending platform that redefines the smartphone as a tool for real-time inflammation intelligence — opening the door to a trillion-dollar market spanning precision nutrition, digital health, and chronic disease management.

REAP is revolutionizing investor relations by replacing investment banks with AI-powered, real-time communication between listed companies and investors. Our custom AI agents deliver direct insights, Q&A, and data aggregation, bridging the information gap and eliminating outdated middlemen.

Redbud Labs is reinventing molecular testing with a convenient, reliable, and affordable platform for sample prep automation. Based on patented materials technology, Redbud enables high performance, gold-standard nucleic acid workflows on a microfluidic cartridge.

RESTEC Solutions, LLC has developed the SONOCIDE® HLD – an automated disinfection system. The patented ultrasonic aerosol generation technology achieves High-Level Disinfection of shared patient items, including non-lumened ultrasound probes, in hospitals and clinics.

Roboro is on a mission to transform how organizations engage with policy by delivering the industry’s first Al-powered legislative insights platform. Roboro empowers lobbyists, businesses, and organizations to monitor, analyze, and influence policy with unmatched speed and clarity.

Rooted-in-tech is revolutionizing plant propagation by delivering high-quality, disease-free young plants near grower hubs. By integrating advanced sensing, autonomous-growing-modules, and customized environmental recipes, we reduce farming risks, enhance plant quality, lower transportation costs, boost yields, and strengthen the resilience of our food system. Rooted-in-tech is positioned to supply millions of plants across multiple crops, redefining the future of plant propagation.

Rozie Synopsis captures what is said on stage and what is said on the show floor, then turns it into clear, usable outputs, summaries, insights, and reports available during the event and afterward.

Scale Social Al is an Al-powered engagement and marketing platform that helps businesses turn real customer experiences into authentic, high-performing marketing. By focusing on engagement first, Scale Social makes it easy for brands to capture customer-generated content, transform it with Al, and distribute it across the right channels with clear, goal-aligned outcomes. The platform is used by small businesses, multi-location operators, and enterprise brands to drive visibility, trust, and growth without the complexity of traditional marketing tools or agencies.

Scyntek, Inc. is a medical device company developing noninvasive technology for early detection and monitoring of vascular health conditions. By combining engineering innovation with clinical insight, Scyntek aims to make advanced diagnostics more accessible and preventive care more effective. The company’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through simple, reliable, and scalable health monitoring solutions.

SelSym Biotech is a preclinical stage biotechnology startup located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle developing novel platelet-mimetic therapeutics to transform patient outcomes after severe bleeding.

SenterME is the first Structural Health Intelligence platform that transforms real-time workforce signals into organizational health insights. It detects invisible strain, quantifies readiness, and models risk propagation, giving leaders the foresight to redesign systems before turnover or care disruption occurs.

SkyMul is a construction-robotics startup building telepresence robots and digital twins for concrete contractors. Our first product is a drone-based QA/QC system that’s scanned 3M+ sq ft across tilt-up slabs and data center projects, catching layout and embed errors pre-pour, and is now running in ongoing paid deployments with leading concrete contractors. The platform is FAA-approved for remote drone-in-a-box operations and integrates capture, verification, and reporting into a single digital-twin workflow for pre-pour signoff. SkyMul’s team blends deep robotics, construction, and cloud experience; founder/CEO Eohan George (Georgia Tech) leads a team that has deployed robots on live job sites and secured more than $1.5M in NSF SBIR funding.

Solvrays is a cutting-edge insurtech workflow solution revolutionizing how insurance and TPA operations function. At the intersection of innovation and impact, they are on a bold mission to reshape the future of insurtech and fintech using AI, next-gen technologies, and workflow-driven automation.

SonoVascular, Inc. is a clinical stage medical device company focused on bringing to market its Sono Thrombectomy™ System, an ultrasound facilitated, thrombolytic enhanced thrombectomy system that is intended to be a safer and more effective treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE).

SonoVoice, Inc. is an early-stage medical device company spun out of Duke University and NC State University. The Company is building new voice assessment tools for speech-language pathologists and laryngologists who care for 30M Americans with voice disorders. We’ve raised over $550K from, among others, the National Science Foundation and New York University’s MedTech Venture Fund. SonoVoice has two full-time employees.

Soteria Formulations (SF) is a B2B Ag-tech corporation upcycling crop residue into biodegradable and microplastic-free delivery platforms for extended performance of pest control products-agrochemicals and biocontrol agents. Founded in July 2023 in North Carolina, SF is commercializing a patent-pending technology #US20230389543A1, exclusively licensed form NC Sate University. This technology is developed by SF founders at NCSU with over $3M in research funding primarily from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Over 9 years of field trials in 8 different countries, the foundational technology has consistently improved yield (>10%) and product quality for 8 different crops using 8 active ingredients (A.I.) including agrochemicals, agrobiologicals and botanical extracts. More significantly, effective pest control was achieved with a substantially low load (10% of the broadcast rate) of agrochemicals. Enabling a 90% reduction in A.I. use while improving crop yield adds value to both our customers (agricultural A.I. manufacturers) and end-users (growers). SF products are sustainably produced and provide a solution to regulatory challenges and sustainability concerns due to the overuse of toxic chemistries.

Squadies solves a simple problem: Americans don’t trust public bathrooms—and retailers are paying the price. Squadies is a B2B SaaS platform powered by consumer engagement that helps families and travelers quickly find clean, safe restrooms, while giving convenience stores, travel centers, and cities the real-time hygiene insights they need to improve customer experience and capture revenue that’s currently walking out the door. Our Bathroom Trust ScoreTM and Clean Access ZoneTM dashboard turn an overlooked operational blind spot into measurable gains in foot traffic, loyalty, and profitability. Our MVP is complete and enterprise pilots are being scoped for early 2026.

Sunlight is upgrading the OS of America’s social safety net. As one of the fastest growing GovTech startups, Sunlight has scaled to serve 1 in 10 youth in foster care across 30 states. Our first products are trusted by over 300 agencies to improve communication, case management, legal representation, and care coordination in child welfare cases.

SwabBot is an innovative solutions provider operated by three seasoned entrepreneurs. SwabBot has a patent on automating swabbing, making it the only alternative to manual swabbing. SwabBot solves a critical industry problem that costs companies millions of dollars a year and leaves them vulnerable to employee injuries, product loss, and potential recalls. We generate revenue by leasing our robots and selling consumables to regulated consumer products companies in the life sciences, consumer goods, and food and beverage industries.

Swik AI is building an AI-native intelligence layer for small-business and commercial lending. The platform helps underwriting teams unify fragmented borrower, transaction, and third-party data to automate verification, surface risk signals, and accelerate credit decisions. Starting with invoice verification and underwriting workflows for non-bank lenders, Swik AI is evolving into a unified credit intelligence platform that supports faster, more confident lending at scale.

Tellus Therapeutics was founded to bring hope and healing to premature infants facing life-altering brain and gut injuries with no treatment options. The company is pioneering the first myelination therapy for neonatal white matter injury.

Tessefi Medical Solutions is a medical device innovation company dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes through smart technology and thoughtful design. We’re changing how hospitals monitor patients by replacing outdated, manual, subjective, error prone, burdensome processes with automated, objective systems that provide real-time, accurate data.

Theralinq helps pediatric therapy clinics extend care beyond the clinic walls while driving measurable business impact. Our secure platform strengthens caregiver-therapist collaboration through customized home exercise plans, progress tracking, and actionable data. By improving family engagement and continuity of care, Theralinq helps clinics deliver better outcomes and unlock new revenue opportunities, while empowering families to take an active role in their therapy journey.

TNT’s current global effort is centered on fully capitalizing on the unprecedented opportunities emerging across their ecosystem, led by the commercialization of TNT Eco Materials, the expansion of TNT 3D Construction, and the strength of their integrated workforce development engine.

Totality Biosciences is the exclusive developer of a groundbreaking synthetic biology platform that
leverages genetically engineered plants to produce the full spectrum of human milk oligosaccharides
(HMOs). We will be the first to unleash an unprecedented catalogue of unique bioprotective compounds to
address gut inflammation and more from birth and beyond. Our approach has the potential to produce 5X
more HMO structures for product development compared with current R&D libraries, and we have the only
platform with the potential to produce all 200 HMOs from breast milk at kiloton scale. The technology
supports the 1000X capacity increase that is required to address the demand for HMOs that is currently
unsatisfied by incumbents, and our CSO’s peer-reviewed TEA published in Nature Foods supports a 10X
reduction in minimum selling price compared with microbial production. The company aims to
democratize access to full-spectrum HMOs and revolutionize human health, from life-saving applications
for pre-term infants to health optimization across the lifespan.

Upstream is developing a new generation of climate-resilient crop traits that enable plants to defend themselves against disease. Rather than use external treatments, Upstream’s SwitchBlade platform embeds disease resistance directly into the plant genome. The technology uses tunable genetic circuits to precisely control plants’ natural broad-spectrum immune system, Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR), to deliver durable, season-long protection against multiple diseases. Our approach combines advanced RNA biology with field-proven agronomics, ensuring that our traits provide consistence performance across crops. Our platform is establishing a new standard for broad-spectrum disease management, transforming resistance from a transient input to a built-in, durable, genetic feature.

Utilyst develops AI-native infrastructure intelligence platforms for utilities managing aging, complex infrastructure networks. Utilities oversee trillions in critical infrastructure—water pipes, power lines, gas mains—using outdated tools, missing 20-30% of critical events and relying on reactive maintenance strategies. Our flagship platform, WorldGraph, transforms how utilities understand and manage their infrastructure by combining real-time sensor streams, geospatial intelligence, and AI agents into a unified decision-support system.Unlike traditional digital twins focused on visualization, WorldGraph provides actionable intelligence—functioning as an AI co-pilot that helps operators prevent failures, prioritize
maintenance, and optimize capital planning. Our architecture meets utility-grade security requirements while maintaining full AI capabilities.Founded by a second-time founder who previously raised $600K for Quantifly (GENIUS NY winner), we have a signed contract with DC Water (700K customers), submitted scope with SOCWD, and are in active discussions with Duke Energy and Greater Cincinnati Water Works—validating our cross-utility platform approach.

Uviquity is a deep tech startup pioneering the next generation of solid-state far-UVC light sources, enabling a new class of compact, energy-efficient devices for disinfection, sensing, and advanced photonic applications. Founded in 2022, and backed by leading venture capital firms, we’ve partnered with multiple Fortune 500 companies and other international commercial partners to bring our innovations to market.

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Verdia Diagnostics is pioneering diagnostics for disease management in agriculture. We are developing hardware and software tools to enable earlier disease detection to improve yields, and reduce costs and labor associated with disease management.

VQ Biomedical is developing a minimally invasive intravascular oxygenation catheter that delivers oxygen directly into the bloodstream, offering a safer, simpler alternative supported by strong early proof-of-concept data. ARDS affects hundreds of thousands of patients each year, and current treatments are invasive, risky, and often ineffective. This technology is designed to become a new standard of care in critical settings.

VS Connects and Virtual Storefronts by Uspace® is civic-scale digital infrastructure that gives independently owned businesses, public safety agencies, and local organizations verified presence in both search engines and direct community communication. The platform operates through two interconnected systems: Virtual Storefronts (keyword-optimized business profiles that feed directly to Google) and VS Connects (a verified, one-way broadcast app connecting local entities directly to resident’s lock screens). Together, these form Main Street 2.0 – a collaborative locals-only network that eliminates big tech’s unnecessary delays of necessary local communication by prioritizing geographic relevance over global viral content and the ubiquitous, nearly inescapable economics of the attention economy in public facing digital networks.

Windlift, Inc. is a Durham, North Carolina based deep tech company developing autonomous tethered aerial systems that unlock persistent airborne presence for high-value security, communications, and sensing missions. The G Series platform delivers a best-in-class operating window, significantly outperforming conventional tethered systems in wind, endurance, stability, and deployment flexibility. This enables customers in defense, maritime security, border monitoring, and critical infrastructure to achieve continuous coverage, extended standoff range, and high-reliability operations with minimal logistics. Built on more than $24 million in DOW funded R&D and protected by core patents and sole source justification, Windlift’s software-driven flight control architecture provides a defensible moat and a scalable manufacturing path with high margins and low complexity. As a future expansion, the company is advancing its APG (Airborne Power Generator) technology, which will deliver 3 to 75 kW of distributed power per system for microgrids, remote communities, and mobile or offshore operations. Together, these capabilities position Windlift as a category-defining provider of resilient mobile infrastructure with multiple high growth markets, strong government pull, and a clear path to significant enterprise value.