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2025

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Alba

Empowering visually-impaired individuals to detect the onset of their period with a tactile menstrual wipe.
Aperture Bio

Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
Beacon Bio

Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
Beaver Health, Inc.

Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
BonePixel

Building a fully-automated, AI-powered platform to assess hip pathology in 3D, using routinely collected clinical data.
Broadleaf HEA

Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
Bullseye Biosciences

By leveraging competition and evolution, Bullseye aims to transform therapeutics discovery and expedite the development of life-saving medicines.
Crop Diagnostix

Building the future of predictive agriculture with patented, AI-powered gene expression technology.
Day Zero Diagnostics

Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
EndoShunt Medical Inc.

Controlling abdominal bleeding in trauma surgery with an innovative medical device.
GC Therapeutics

Using synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with best-in-class efficiency, speed, and scalability.
InConfidence

A smart patch technology that delivers at-home posterior tibial nerve stimulation to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
InGel Therapeutics

Regenerative cell-therapy biotech aiming to treat people affected by blindness.
Kinnos

Adding color to disinfectants, visualizing surface coverage for more effective and efficient cleaning in healthcare settings.
Limax Biosciences

Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
MabLab

Building five-in-one test strips to detect the five deadliest lacing agents in recreational drugs.
Manifold Bio

Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
MesaQuantum

Developing chip-scale quantum sensors for next-generation GPS capabilities in position, navigation, and timing.
Metalmark Innovations, Inc.

Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
Myspeech

Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
PerioSense

Making early diagnosis of gum disease more accessible and efficient while saving time and money for patients and providers.
PlenOptika

Enabling eye care for all with the QuickSee — a simple, affordable device that prescribes eyeglasses at the push of a button.
Rarefied

Developing a propulsion mechanism that can fly in near-space, a region that is inaccessible to aircraft and satellites, to deliver climate insights and offset satellite emissions.
reer

Creating 3D-printed designer furniture that can be tailored to personalized needs and traded-in for renewal.
Saturday Art Class

Unleashing the creative potential of one of the world's largest marginalized child populations by developing social-emotional skills through visual arts education.
Solara

Providing on-demand solar irrigation to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation.
SoWork

Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
Sprxng

Developing holistic period care solutions through data-driven menstrual research and innovation.
Stratagen Bio

Transforming MRI scans into a tool for objective clinical decision-making and quantitative biomarker assessment.
SurgiBox

Making surgery safer for both patients and healthcare providers around the world through innovative technology, co-developed with users and centered around patient needs.
TecHustle, Inc.

Building Africa's largest small business network for global trade by providing financial services and market access.
Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc.

Transforming the discovery of novel drugs addressing targets in the GPCR family.
Transcera

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.
Vacuum-Assisted Wound Therapy Affordable For All (VATARA)

Providing low-cost, negative pressure wound therapy for everyone.
X-COR Therapeutics

Creating the first commercially-available extracorporeal CO2 removal device that uses ultra-low-blood flow to treat patients with hypercarbic respiratory failure.

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