The 2020 Winners

2B Technologies provides portable air quality monitoring systems for a variety of new environments that are much smaller, lighter, use less power, and cost less than conventional instruments.

AMI is improving the understanding of the brain & pursuing FDA approval for its electronically controlled oscillated needles to improve healthcare outcomes & reduce healthcare costs.

Nearly 3 billion people worldwide depend on burning biomass in rudimentary stoves or open fires and are exposed to smoke with high concentrations of toxic compounds. ASAT’s Integrated Stove achieves near-zero emissions and can charge your cell phone in the process.

ATA has created & validated a suite of modeling & simulation tools to aid in the development & fielding of highly-engineered systems.

Backyard Brains developed education technology that allows advanced neuroscience research to be used in 6-12th grade educational programs through hands-on research and open-source tools.

Louisiana-based Bascom Hunter was founded in 2010 with technology spun out of Princeton. The 30-person firm is providing solutions for the most challenging operating environments – achieving $15M+ in Phase III funding, $25M in contracts.

BioSensics is a global leader in development of wearable sensors and digital technologies for clinical trials and healthcare. Since its establishment, BioSensics has created new paradigms in using wearable sensors in healthcare and revolutionized the medical alert industry by creating technologies that are now being used by thousands of older adults.

The DoD effectively uses the Blast Gauge® System to monitor thousands of servicemen and women and improve their blast-related safety.

Block’s LaserWarn™ product saves lives by providing early warning of a chemical attack on civilians or soldiers. Block’s LaserTune™ is sold to universities and corporate labs worldwide, leading to innovation in key research areas – from cancer pathology to graphene materials research, and wastewater treatment monitoring.

Blue Canyon Technologies literally took the world to Mars – and, with 79 cumulative orders from 45 different spacecraft programs, and an additional 70 ADCS for user-built spacecraft, the company’s growing Phase III success could be as infinite as the space frontier.

Colorado-based Braxton Technologies, LLC has grown to over 120 employees and a revenue of just over $37 million since its first SBIR award in 2013 by developing and commercializing a product line for spacecraft ground control systems and simulation of those same systems.

Colorado Engineering, Inc. has developed, produced, and commercialized COTS and custom hardware and software for advanced radar applications.

Creating more accurate, effective, and scaleable preclinical screening tools to assess a developmental drug’s potential for cardiotoxic events in humans.

Design Interactive, Inc., a woman-owned small business, developed a patented algorithm compatible with wrist-worn devices to provide real-time stress measurements to improve PTSD, stress, and anxiety therapy.

Prior to Endurica, tires had to be designed, produced & tested until they literally blew out in a long-winded, repetitive process. Endurica has revolutionized rubber product design to get durability right every time – reducing costs & keeping customers safer while they’re at it.

Fuchs Consulting, Inc. provides an innovative approach that enables bridges to be inspected without interrupting traffic, through ThermalStare.

With a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, Virginia-based Harmonia is no stranger to Phase III success – having seen over $74.6 million in funding, the company has grown from 25 employees at 1 location to more than 345 at 8 – and calls SBIR its foundation.

ImmunogenX, LLC is pioneering efforts in Celiac disease therapy, management, and food safety.

KCF Technologies’ SmartDiagnostics® wireless sensor products provide predictive condition-based maintenance.

Orbit Logic specializes in software for scheduling & situational awareness for the aerospace & geospatial intelligence markets. Its off-the-shelf products, customized solutions, & services help create better plans faster with fewer resources & more insight for all mission phases.

In 2009 an SBIR award allowed Amy Baxter, a Pediatric Emergency MD to develop Buzzy®, a device for vaccination pain. Today Pain Care Labs is a global innovator making revolutionary science- backed, drug-free pain relief therapies.

Porifera’s SBIR-funded proprietary membrane reduces the environmental impact of food and beverage distribution & helps turn wastewater into clean water for reuse in any industry.

Frustrated with the impracticality of conducting ECGs on his youngest patients, pediatric cardiologist Dr. Chang founded QT Medical to create a new system that has since identified countless cardiac conditions, from newborns to adults – not only enabling early treatment, but empowering at-home care.

Raptamer Discovery Group specializes in the development of next-generation, high-quality DNA molecules – called Raptamers™ – that can be used as therapeutic, diagnostic, or research agents and have been deployed to combat malaria, HIV/AIDS, and influenza virus.

re:3D, Inc.’s Gigabot platform’s onsite manufacturing provides disaster response via industrial strength, large-scale, affordable 3D printing.

As our world becomes increasingly connected & automated, each additional embedded device becomes a potential attack surface for threats. Red Balloon Security provides security allowing society to benefit from connected infrastructure – while substantially reducing the risks of doing so.

Referentia Systems is protecting the National Power Grid while improving its reliability and security.

Maine-based RockStep hopes to help improve the success rate of drugs entering clinical trials with its flagship SaaS platform, Climb – allowing research teams to collaborate across sites with state-of-the-art tools that organize their work and data, and provide real-time awareness and better control of laboratory operations.

Sabel Systems is an 8(a) designated Economically Disadvantaged Minority Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) embracing technological innovation. Seeing a void in the market for an agnostic engineering environment, Sabel leveraged SBIR funds to rapidly provide its Digital Engineering Cloud®.

Working to commercialize a new material – the first known form of solid carbon monoxide known to mankind – for use in lithium ion batteries to improve their capacity and speed of charge for applications in electronics and electric vehicles.

SIMBA Chain is making it easy for organizations to integrate blockchain to bolster trust, security, and risk mitigation – with no blockchain experience required.

Raleigh-based SinnovaTek is having a significant impact on the lives of young children a world away in Sub-Saharan Africa – where almost half of children under five suffer vitamin A deficiency – thanks to their Nomatic processing system, and locally-available sweet potatoes.

SubUAS had developed a drone that can fly, float, swim, dive, and transition between air and water in less than one second.

Ubiquitous Energy has successfully raised over $25M in funding from the private sector as it approaches full-scale commercialization of its transparent solar technology – the NSF SBIR program was critical in advancing the state of the technology and general transparent solar development.

UltraVision sees beyond industry-standard mammography to introduce a patent-pending ultrasonic method for breast cancer screening – potentially reducing the pain and cost associated with screening while increasing access to early and frequent screenings for the 1 in 8 U.S. women diagnosed in their lifetime.

Colorado-based Vita Inclinata was born of a tragic and unnecessary loss of life when a helicopter was unable to safely rescue a friend in cardiac arrest. Today, the company offers its Load Stability System across the DoD and around the world to bring people home.

Zeteo Tech’s mass spectrometry technology identifies airborne microbes, proteins and lipids, and can be used to screen for infectious diseases or for the identification of aerosolized bio-threats in near real-time ‒ allowing critical infrastructure protection & near real-time screening for disease at the point-of-care.