Phinorm builds a radar signal processing layer that lets existing radars track small drones they currently miss. In an airport setting, Featherlight raises detection probability from 0.36 to 0.64 against small drones and extends detection range by 55%, with zero false alerts. The Phinorm software installs on existing radars, allowing them to improve counter-UAS capability through an update, not a new procurement.

Material underperformance and inconsistency cost industry billions every year and limit innovation. Multiphasic is developing METASTATE, a materials and intelligence platform that uses tuned ultrafast lasers during part manufacturing to guide atomic lattices into higher-performance metastable states inaccessible through traditional thermal and mechanical conditioning. This is a trillion-dollar materials upgrade for industry.

HEPT Lab is a Caltech spin-off startup developing chip-scale electro-optic sensing systems that combine precision 3D measurement with software-defined, solid-state beam steering. Its silicon photonics platform is designed to deliver high-performance sensing in a compact, low-SWaP-C form factor for defense, autonomy, infrastructure, and industrial applications.

Brain-CA Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company building AI that learns and infers at ultra-low power. Its elemental device holds both a prediction and the confidence behind it in a single integer, updated with no multipliers and no floating point, so the chip spends energy only when an observation surprises it.

Deploying satellites that use air-breathing electric propulsion to operate in very low Earth orbit, supporting hypersonic missile tracking and ISR missions while enabling AI connectivity and direct to cell communications.

Building mid-wave infrared thermal cameras for small drones that operate without cryocooled integrated dewar cooler assemblies, supporting military ISTAR missions and industrial chemical plume detection.

Developing an Inertial Visual Flow Optimization System (IVFOS) that enables fully independent navigation using inertial, visual, and flow-based technologies, delivering high-precision autonomy without reliance on external navigation aids.

Revolutionizing Electric Propulsion in Aviation & Drone Technology.

AugSense develops human sensor fusion technology to protect lives and improve human performance for defense.

Kytyra builds LiDAR-based systems that detect and identify small drones using proprietary signal processing and AI—delivering early warning and reliable classification where traditional sensors fail.

Critical comms infrastructure for denied environments.

Machine learning solution designed for automatic non-cooperative aircraft detection and collision estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), minimizing data link delays and enabling rapid decision-making during combat missions

A fabless semiconductor company designing AI system-on-chiplets (SoCs) for autonomous machines, with mission-critical computer vision & generative AI solutions that target the automotive, aerospace, and defense sectors

Next-generation Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) software for the modern engineering team building complex hardware systems in industries like space, defense, energy, automotive, and more

Seamless vision between the physical and digital worlds, measuring the interaction of light at every pixel of any surface using a single sensor and software in real time

Setting a new standard in structural health and corrosion detection with al-powered, 24/7 continuous monitoring, real-time intelligence, and proactive, precision-driven maintenance

Solving time and accuracy bottlenecks for complex modeling, simulation, and optimization problems with their quantum-accelerated digital twin platform for mission-critical industries.