New Dominion Angels

New Dominion Angels (NDA) is a collection of accredited angel investors that enjoys the camaraderie and benefits of group investing. NDA looks for companies with elegant, transformative solutions to clear problems in big markets that can scale, with smart, motivated and trustworthy entrepreneurs.

Frank Ball

Founding Partner

Jeremy Bauman

Managing Director

Past deals in Maryland

Refirm Labs

Seed Round in 2019
ReFirm is an emerging leader in the IoT security space. With decades of experience securing devices for sensitive national security applications, its team has developed a new method for vetting and validating firmware that automates the process of detecting security flaws in connected devices and mitigating them. Its Centrifuge Platform is at the forefront of this approach and is the first to deliver this capability to the commercial market. Also, its technology is already helping global companies secure their products by testing their firmware during and after the development process, and monitor for new vulnerabilities.

Spotluck

Series A in 2017
Spotluck, a Bethesda start-up, launched its innovative local dining community in 2014. Primarily featured through the Spotluck app, we introduce diners to local spots with a gamified approach to discovery, while giving our users preferred pricing that continuously fluctuates. Our merchants enjoy introductions to Spotluckers who truly value local, as well as powerful yield management and data analytics tools. Spotluck is currently working with an all-star slate of local restaurants in the DC Metro area, Philly metro area, the city of Baltimore, and launching new neighborhood hubs all the time. Download the free app and take a spin today!

Link Labs

Series A in 2015
Based in Annapolis, Maryland, Link Labs is a leading innovator in low­ power, wide-­area network technologies that power the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded in 2014 by a group of veteran engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, who had worked together on a variety of projects for the U.S. Department of Defense, telecommunications industry, and Intelligence Community. We believe that unique solutions built by solving hard technical problems can transform businesses of any scale, and through them the world we live in. We pursue answers to hard technical challenges without bias, innovating ourselves and leveraging the innovations of others. We further embrace the challenge of making these innovations easy to use and cost-effective, creating an ever-expanding set of possible applications and impact. Our flagship product offering, AirFinder makes locating and monitoring anything, anywhere easy, affordable, and impactful. AirFinder breaks the compromise between solution cost and performance. AirFinder achieves this through the seamless integration of breakthrough intelligent RFID and low-power IoT network technologies.

Brain Sentry

Angel Round in 2013
Brain Sentry is a company based in Bethesda, Maryland, that specializes in developing helmet-mounted devices designed to detect potentially dangerous impacts sustained by athletes. Founded in 2011, the company focuses on creating impact sensors that provide real-time alerts, enhancing safety measures for athletes during high-risk sports activities. Through its innovative technology, Brain Sentry aims to promote safer play and reduce the risk of serious injuries associated with head impacts.

TRX Systems

Series A in 2012
TRX Systems, Inc. is the developer of NEON, an indoor location system that delivers precise, infrastructure free tracking of personnel inside buildings where GPS is not available and in outdoor urban centers where GPS is unreliable. NEON greatly improves situational awareness and command effectiveness through the use of advanced sensor fusion, time of flight ranging, and mapping algorithms that deliver precise, real time location of personnel in GPS-denied locations.

TRX Systems

Angel Round in 2012
TRX Systems, Inc. is the developer of NEON, an indoor location system that delivers precise, infrastructure free tracking of personnel inside buildings where GPS is not available and in outdoor urban centers where GPS is unreliable. NEON greatly improves situational awareness and command effectiveness through the use of advanced sensor fusion, time of flight ranging, and mapping algorithms that deliver precise, real time location of personnel in GPS-denied locations.