Crop pests cause 20–40% of global crop losses, costing over $220 billion worldwide and $30–100 billion in the U.S. annually (USDA ARS, 2024; NIFA, 2024).
Yet 75–90% of sprayed pesticides never reach their target, requiring multiple applications, driving excess chemical leaching into soil and water, and raising costs for farmers.
Plaid Semiconductors is developing the next generation of hardware infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Current GPUs are built as mosaics of smaller chips interconnected on substrates, then linked across boards, racks, and data centers via copper and optical fibers. This fragmented approach creates significant inefficiencies:
SARC Solutions addresses a critical gap in cybersecurity: traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools fail to protect high-value infrastructure in energy systems and data centers.
As environments shift to virtualization, edge computing, and always-on control systems, conventional platforms become ineffective—they are OS-dependent, resource-intensive, and vulnerable to tampering on SCADA systems, embedded devices, and virtual machines.
SkyNano is a science-driven company pioneering a sustainable pathway to produce low-cost advanced carbon-based materials directly from carbon dioxide.
Using a proprietary electrochemical process developed at Vanderbilt University, SkyNano captures CO2 from industrial emissions and converts it into valuable solid carbon nanomaterials—without fossil feedstocks.
Coulomb Technology is developing next-generation sodium-ion batteries that are fire-safe, durable, and sustainably manufactured in the United States.
Our mission eliminates dependence on geopolitically constrained lithium and cobalt resources while addressing the major challenges of lithium-ion technology: fire hazards, high costs, limited raw materials, and environmental/ethical mining concerns.
