Abilis LS is developing a non-invasive, accurate, sensitive and specific diagnostic staging test for bladder cancer. The company’s bladder cancer test has the potential to be quickly incorporated into the routine urinalysis of all adult male and female patients with hematuria, as well as for the surveillance of recurrence and progression in patients with a history of non-muscle, invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).

SilcsBio started operations in April, 2013, based on licensed intellectual property developed by Alexander MacKerell. SilcsBio is commercializing analysis tools with novel software capabilities for drug design, which could lead to the discovery of new molecules with decreased development costs. SilcsBio’s first products are designed to improve the modeling of drug candidate-protein interactions.

Johnny Oysterseed LLC is a venture founded around the farming of the Eastern Oyster (C. virginica). To date, the company has produced/planted approximately 20 million seed oysters in support of commercial food production and ecosystem restoration. Johnny Oysterseed also produces and sells food oysters under its Calvert Crest and Steamboat Landing labels. Ten years of working closely with oysters, government regulations, markets, and industry has given the company deep insight into the challenges currently confronting oyster farmers. This experience, together with engineering expertise, has led Johnny Oysterseed to invent several technical solutions for oyster farming. These solutions have greatly improved the company’s production while reducing labor costs. After realizing these increased efficiencies, Johnny Oysterseed is focusing on manufacturing and marketing its unique technical solutions to the aquaculture industry, with an initial emphasis on the Chesapeake Bay region and the U.S. eastern seaboard.

Manta Biofuel is a producer of renewable algal crude oil that is cost-competitive with traditional crude oil. The company employs technological advantages in a three-step process to produce crude oil from algae. The first is growing algae. Manta can convert algae from any source, leaving options open from farming to collecting natural blooms. For the second step, harvesting the algae, Manta uses a proprietary magnetic harvester that efficiently collects and concentrates algae. The company then converts the algae to crude oil through hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL).

Airgility designs and manufactures unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The company’s mission is to develop and field the most versatile vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) platforms.

Airgility’s flagship product, the HorseSHU, is a breakthrough VTOL aircraft leveraging a patent-pending lifting body with thrust vectoring propulsion. This ground-up design, while optimizing for conditions of vertical and forward flight regimes, offers the best combination of payload weight, payload volume, flight endurance, speed and mission flexibility.

xMD Diagnostics is a biotechnology company focused on developing products for the fields of pathology and microdissection. The company is currently working to develop a product line of microdissection instruments and kits to help researchers and clinicians rapidly analyze tissue and cells for diagnostic and scientific purposes. The technology being used to develop the tools is proprietary and was exclusively licensed to xMD by the National Institutes of Health. xMD’s optical-antibody technology can extract only the cancer cells over entire biopsy samples, in seconds.

ICmed empowers users to own, share and learn from their health information on a mobile and web-based social network of families and caregivers. Through a proprietary decision engine, ICmed translates static family medical history, current health risk information and individual health tracking information into a dynamic, personalized health guide.  Unique family sharing elements enable caregivers to selectively collaborate on the health of loved ones, thus heightening family and patient engagement, improving medical outcomes and lowering health costs.

MeTompkin Seafood is a seafood processing company specializing in soft shell crabs, crab meat and oysters. The company is led by the Todd family, which has been working at catching and selling seafood from the Chesapeake Bay for eight generations.

Pixelligent is an advanced materials company that delivers next-generation optical materials for demanding applications in solid-state lighting, flat panel displays, and optical components.

Pixelligent leverages its proprietary nanocrystal dispersion and manufacturing technology to create innovative materials that significantly improve existing products. The company’s Zirconia nanocrystals are used to improve the optical, electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties of numerous commonly used polymers including acrylics, silicones, siloxanes and epoxies.

In LED and OLED lighting applications, Pixelligent’s materials significantly increase light output by increasing the refractive index of materials in the device. In display and optical components applications, the company’s products can increase transparency, decrease haze, and increase scratch resistance.

TRX Systems delivers GPS-denied location software and solutions. TRX is the first company to use sensor fusion and the dynamic mapping of structural, magnetic, and RF features to pinpoint location indoors, underground, and in dense urban areas. The company’s NEON® location solutions use low-cost MEMS sensors, combined with higher level mapping algorithms, to deliver accurate 3D location, including the elevation of personnel within buildings.

3i Diagnostics provides technology that enables physicians to identify infectious microbes within an hour, while leaving them intact for further testing. Physicians can then prescribe the right life-saving medications quickly, which reduces the cost of care and prevents the overprescribing that hastens the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.

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