NextWave Ventures

VNN is the largest and fastest growing high school sports marketing platform in America. As the exclusive web/mobile platform for over 7million passionate fans across 40+ states (adding 8,000 fans daily), VNN is rapidly aggregating the fragmented, multi-billion dollar high school sports market onto an intelligent platform that transforms the consumer experience of high school sports.

Geospiza is a tech startup that changes the way crisis and emergency management decisions are made. The Geospiza software platform integrates real-time IoT, big data, advanced analytics, and evidence-based consequence projections to support decision making that saves lives and protects the environment.

Apical is a technology-driven systematic investment manager. Our strategies utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate superior risk-adjusted returns that are non-correlated to both major asset classes and other hedge fund strategies. Apical remains in stealth mode in early 2024 as it completes a full year of live trading in US equities.

Using advanced materials to turn regular, everyday dumb foam into smart, connected sensors. SmartFoam is a proprietary technology platform that provides cost-efficient and accurate foam sensors that turn regular consumer products into activity trackers, smart home connected devices, and neurological disease sensors.

TRAQ is a bio-sensor that can track fitness, health & wellness through real time, non-invasive, saliva sampling. This patented technology can accurately and safely measure areas of health: Energy, Nutrition, Hydration, fat Burn and Recovery. Own Your Health.

Quad Geometrics seeks to advance the science of precision Earth metrology for applications in gravimetry and geodesy for energy, mining, surveillance, and basic research. Offering services and sensors for advanced time-lapse monitoring of gravity and deformation caused by oil and gas production, CO2 sequestration, geothermal energy extraction, hydrology or basic research in Earth tectonic processes, Quad’s goal is to generate the highest quality observations to improve your planning, operational efficiencies and bottom line. Quad Geometrics was sold in 2018 in a private sale.

Counterfeit goods, such as drugs, watches, clothes and even industrial parts, cost worldwide producers nearly $1 trillion annually in losses, resulting in nearly 1 million lost jobs in the US alone. More disturbing, 1 out of 4 people are affected by food borne illnesses from improper handling and production, resulting in thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in losses and recalls. Unfortunately, currently available solutions can't solve these problems. Minus9 Labs has the solution to securing, authenticating and tracking your product at the item level, not just the package by creating microscopic, edible, track and trace tags, called “mints™” (Micro Item Number Tags). Mints are produced using silica, a safe and natural mineral present in everyday food. However, mints are physically encoded silica and thus act as “smart silica,” which can be read electronically and authenticated in real-time. When added directly into a product or to a product surface, consumers and producers are provided safety from food borne illnesses and counterfeit products, knowledge about a product’s source and pedigree, and control over counterfeiters. Minus9 Labs was sold in 2018 in a private sale.

Quad Geometrics seeks to advance the science of precision Earth metrology for applications in gravimetry and geodesy for energy, mining, surveillance, and basic research. Offering services and sensors for advanced time-lapse monitoring of gravity and deformation caused by oil and gas production, CO2 sequestration, geothermal energy extraction, hydrology or basic research in Earth tectonic processes, Quad’s goal is to generate the highest quality observations to improve your planning, operational efficiencies and bottom line. Quad Geometrics was sold in 2018 in a private sale.