Skyline Nav AI
Grant in 2022
Skyline Nav AI is a technology company specializing in navigation solutions for both military and non-military users in environments where GPS is degraded or spoofed. The company develops software that employs advanced visualization techniques to serve as an alternative to traditional GPS technology. This innovative approach allows users to effectively detect and track key landmarks and moving objects across various domains, including land, air, sea, and space, ensuring reliable navigation even in challenging conditions.
Terradepth, Inc. is a data-as-a-service company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2018. The company focuses on increasing ocean knowledge by centralizing and monetizing ocean data through its cloud-based platform, Absolute Ocean. Terradepth employs unmanned submersibles for autonomous and high-resolution data collection, creating a scalable repository of processed ocean data. It offers various data products, surveys on request, and maintains a collection of analytical reports for sale. By providing access to this comprehensive ocean data, Terradepth enables organizations and individuals to make informed, ecologically responsible decisions regarding ocean resources.
Notoros is a company that specializes in zero trust software, offering Blockchain as a Service products along with a developer platform. Its innovative platform utilizes a unique distributed ledger protocol, enabling businesses to create compliant applications tailored for highly regulated industries, including finance, defense, and critical infrastructure. Notoros focuses on data security for decentralized applications and provides a universal data standard that facilitates interoperability among various applications across a global decentralized database. This approach aims to empower developers to build blockchain applications, promoting the mainstream adoption of distributed ledger technologies.
Founded in 2019, Scout Space develops and operates orbital sensor networks to enhance Space Domain Awareness (SDA), promoting responsible use of the space environment. Its products enable spacecraft to perceive and comprehend their surroundings, significantly improving safety and transparency.
Chooch specializes in generative AI technology that integrates computer vision and language understanding to create intelligent camera systems. Their AI Vision platform analyzes video streams in real-time, detecting visuals and actions, comprehending their significance, and triggering pre-programmed responses swiftly. This technology is designed to process a wide range of visual data, from infrared radiation sensors and x-rays to various applications, tagging objects of interest. Chooch's solutions aim to enhance efficiencies and ensure quality results for clients across different industries.
Fraym is a company based in McLean, Virginia, founded in 2015. It specializes in providing a geospatial platform that offers detailed data on customizable geographic areas across Africa. The platform delivers various indicators in economic, consumer, social, and security dimensions at national, state/province, and city levels. Fraym's solutions are tailored for clients including Fortune 500 companies, development finance institutions, multilateral organizations, and bilateral development agencies. The company aims to support decision-making by offering the largest and most accurate database on African populations, helping fast-growing companies, development organizations, and government agencies make informed choices about where to focus and who to target.
TCarta specializes in providing seabed mapping data for maritime applications. It offers hydrostatic and geospatial mapping systems and solutions, serving clients in geospatial intelligence, coastal engineering, environmental monitoring, and global mapping.
Pandata Tech
Grant in 2022
Pandata Tech is a company that specializes in data quality solutions tailored for heavy industry. It has developed a robust data quality platform that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance digital maintenance processes. The company offers various services, including risk mitigation software development, AI software design, and data labeling. By applying scientific knowledge to address practical challenges, Pandata Tech aims to help organizations in sectors such as defense, logistics, manufacturing, finance, and energy improve data integrity and bolster their cybersecurity measures.
CITYDATA.ai is a geospatial AI company that simulates the presence and movement of people across cities worldwide by building mobility digital replicas to quantify how many people are present and how they move. By aggregating location intelligence from public and private sources, it enables cities and businesses to gain actionable insights for planning and operations. The platform supports resident engagement through mobile apps and chatbots and offers a suite of data and tooling products, including CITYSIM, CITYFLOW, CITYPARKS, CITYCOUNT, CITYOPS, CITYSURVEY, CITYCHAT, and CITYSDK, to support city planning, mobility analysis, park management, survey collection, and field workforce productivity.
Anno.Ai operates a hosted platform designed to facilitate the curation of training data for machine learning operations. The platform enables users to create projects, customize labels, invite team members, and upload data essential for machine learning models and data annotation. By focusing on structuring unstructured data, Anno.Ai aims to develop AI-driven applications and sensors that open new business opportunities. The company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Kinnami is a tech company that specializes in data management and security, providing a resilient data fabric that simplifies data availability, protection, and security for complex distributed networks. Founded in 2015 by a team of experts in the field, Kinnami offers enterprise-class software designed to create a unified data environment that enhances trust, transparency, and collaboration across various platforms, from Edge devices to the Cloud. Its solutions ensure irrefutable data integrity, particularly in unsecured or free-standing networks and autonomous operations, thereby safeguarding sensitive information against data breaches. The company maintains offices in Boston, Washington, and Austin, Texas, focusing on facilitating a connected and autonomous future through innovative data protection strategies.
Stratodyne is a developer of autonomous smart balloons that specialize in high-resolution aerial surveillance. The company utilizes these balloons to capture multispectral imagery, which is analyzed to assist users in predicting vegetation changes, monitoring assets, and detecting threats in real-time. By integrating machine learning algorithms to enhance the quality of the captured images, Stratodyne enables farmers and municipal agencies to incorporate aerial insights into their operations, thereby improving decision-making and operational efficiency.
Xona Space Systems
Grant in 2021
Xona Space Systems develops and manufactures position, navigation, and timing satellite solutions for smart transportation and infrastructure. The company operates a constellation of low-cost, low-Earth-orbit satellites to deliver secure navigation and timing services with resilience and high location precision for autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile robotics, and other location-critical applications. Founded in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, Xona Space Systems aims to enable safe, scalable operation of intelligent systems at scale.
Polysentry is a technology company based in Washington DC. It provides AI-enabled software platforms for commercial and government customers, enabling efficient analysis of large datasets across industries such as hospitality, real estate, energy, and defense.
Granular.ai is a data analytics company that develops an artificial intelligence platform for satellite imagery. This platform enables businesses to transform operations by accessing real-time, global-scale insights from satellite data, which captures every inch of Earth daily. Granular.ai's machine learning algorithms analyze this imagery to provide affordable geospatial insights, enhancing decision-making processes and enabling clients to exploit geospatial imagery at scale.
Boston Geospatial
Grant in 2021
Boston Geospatial is a developer of a geospatial data platform that specializes in providing ready-to-use insights for operators and risk managers within critical infrastructure sectors. The company's platform facilitates access to satellite data from various providers, offering a searchable and comparable database that can be analyzed in multiple ways. This functionality empowers stakeholders to obtain valuable geospatial insights, aiding in informed decision-making and risk management.