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Recently funded science companies in Arizona

57 companies in Arizona closed federal SBIR/STTR awards in the last two years, newest first. The funding event is the signal — small companies grow right after the award lands.

Alphacore, Inc.

TEMPE, AZ · 36 employees

Cryogenic High-Speed Modulator with Non-volatile Tunability in Commercial Silicon Photonics

Department of Defense · Department of Energy · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$5.0Macross 13 awardsfunded 2025-11-03Company site →

GLOBAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 4 employees

Advanced Fretting Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Naval Aerospace Application

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$240kawardedfunded 2025-10-15

LR InnovOptics Inc

TUCSON, AZ · 5 employees

SBIR Phase I: High-Throughput Manufacturing of Ultracompact, High-Contrast Precision Glass Micro-Optics for Next-Generation Photonics and Im

National Science Foundation · Phase Phase I

$305kawardedfunded 2025-10-01

POLYCHARGE AMERICA, INC

TUCSON, AZ · 35 employees

High Energy Density Radiation Hardened Capacitors Enabled by Next-Generation Manufacturing Methods

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.7Mawardedfunded 2025-09-30Company site →

RTSYNC CORP

CHANDLER, AZ · 7 employees

DEVS-based Virtual As is Simulation Test platform (DVAST)

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$2.6Macross 3 awardsfunded 2025-09-29Company site →

BLACK FUR INDUSTRIES LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 13 employees

AI-Based Side Channel Attack for EW Cyber Offense and Defense

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.4Mawardedfunded 2025-09-24

PAXAURIS LLC

PHOENIX, AZ · 4 employees

Health Monitoring Hearable

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$4.1Macross 3 awardsfunded 2025-09-23Company site →

Echelon Orbital Inc.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 10 employees

VADER

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$2.9Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-09-23

NUVOX PHARMA, L.L.C.

TUCSON, AZ · 10 employees

Liquid Biopsy in Glioblastoma Treated with Chemoradiation and an Oxygen Therapeutic

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$919kawardedfunded 2025-09-22Company site →

TF HEALTH CORPORATION

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ · 4 employees

Smart driving technology for non-invasive detection of age-related cognitive decline

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$832kawardedfunded 2025-09-20

H2O INSIGHTS LLC

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 2 employees · woman-owned

High-efficiency Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production Using Polymeric Optical Fibers and Visible Light

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I

$150kawardedfunded 2025-09-19Company site →

Fusion Energy Solutions DBA Serva Energy

Tempe, AZ · 15 employees

Providing GMP-grade Terbium-161 as a therapeutic option for US academic institution

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$995kawardedfunded 2025-09-18Company site →

PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

TUCSON, AZ · 137 employees

Deep-space Anomaly Solution for Habitat Assistance and Resolution Aid (DASHARA)

Department of Defense · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$1.4Macross 4 awardsfunded 2025-09-18Company site →

Amahealth LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 1 employee

Accurate and actionable prediction of impending labor using deep learning on maternal physiological data

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$313kawardedfunded 2025-09-17

RIDGETOP GROUP INC

TUCSON, AZ · 7 employees · woman-owned

Robust Fault Management Tool Suite to Investigate, Develop, and Support FM Approaches and Solutions

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I

$149kawardedfunded 2025-09-15Company site →

SPOC PROTEOMICS INC.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 13 employees

Tools and Methods for Producing High Quality Functional Protein Microarrays for Biomarker Discovery

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$1.4Mawardedfunded 2025-09-15Company site →

AIRTRONICS, LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 95 employees

Feasibility Demonstration of Prussian Blue Sodium-Ion Batteries in Lunar Applications.

Department of Defense · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I

$287kacross 2 awardsfunded 2025-09-09

IMMUNOSHIELD THERAPEUTICS INC.

CHANDLER, AZ · 2 employees · woman-owned

Hydrogel injection molded islet macroencapsulation devices to treat diabetes in a non-human primate model

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$914kawardedfunded 2025-09-05

CND LIFE SCIENCES, INC.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 130 employees

Analysis of Cutaneous Phosphorylated alpha-Synuclein to Identify Patients at Risk of Progressing from Essential Tremor to Parkinson's Diseas

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$1.3Mawardedfunded 2025-09-05Company site →

EIT USA Inc.

TEMPE, AZ · 0 employees · woman-owned

AI-enabled occult bleeding detection and monitoring

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$307kawardedfunded 2025-09-04

Faknostics, LLC

Phoenix, AZ · 0 employees · woman-owned

Novel Paxillin-FAK Inhibitors for the Treatment of Liver Fibrosis

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$664kawardedfunded 2025-09-01

Robust Diagnostics LLC

Chandler, AZ · 2 employees

Machine Learning Powered Platform for Discovery of Peptide Ligands for Peptide-Drug Conjugates

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$404kawardedfunded 2025-09-01Company site →

BIOSENSING INSTRUMENT INC

TEMPE, AZ · 10 employees

Plasmonic Scattering Microscopy for high-throughput in-situ quantification of molecular binding kinetics on single cells

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$1.3Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-09-01Company site →

FLEXBIOTECH INC

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 4 employees

Molecular Screening for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Associated with Cervical Cancers in LMIC Environments

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$307kawardedfunded 2025-09-01Company site →

POLARIS AERO LLC

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 15 employees

Mission Analysis and Risk Evaluation (MARVAL) with Generative AI

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.2Mawardedfunded 2025-08-28Company site →

HYDRONALIX INC

GREEN VALLEY, AZ · 47 employees

SCARAB – Swarm-capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic and Bridging

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$250kawardedfunded 2025-08-28Company site →

SWIFT COAT INC

PHOENIX, AZ · 6 employees

Durable and Flexible Oxidation Resistant Coatings Deposited Via Aerosol Impact Driven Assembly

Department of Defense · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I

$330kacross 2 awardsfunded 2025-08-27Company site →

Valence Intelligence Systems

Tucson, AZ · 2 employees

AI-Enhanced Signal Processing for Extended-Range Radar Detection in Counter-Fire Systems

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$250kawardedfunded 2025-08-20Company site →

Phronesis, LLC

Tucson, AZ · 1 employee

Language Models for Veteran Suicide Prevention (LM4VSP)

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$250kawardedfunded 2025-08-13

ADVENT DIAMOND, INC.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 13 employees · woman-owned

Phosphorus doped quantum diamond for magnetometry

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase II

$900kawardedfunded 2025-08-05Company site →

SECURE MICRO TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Phoenix, AZ · 17 employees

Itus: A Flexible Hardware Bridge for Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Agility and Transition

Department of Commerce · Phase Phase I

$89kawardedfunded 2025-08-01Company site →

SLNT INC

Avondale, AZ · 10 employees

AFSOC Faraday Solutions for Full-Spectrum EMS Protection

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$3.0Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-07-21Company site →

ADVANCED CERAMICS MANUFACTURING, LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 16 employees

High Temperature Removable Tooling

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$1.9Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-07-07Company site →

DRAGOON TECHNOLOGY LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 23 employees

UAS Platform and Sensor Hardening for Hazardous Weather Environments

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$2.0Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-07-07Company site →

TIPD LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 50 employees

Marine Biofouling Mitigation and Innovative Broad Band Hydrophobic Glass Development

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$140kawardedfunded 2025-06-30Company site →

KATALYST SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

FLAGSTAFF, AZ · 55 employees

Automated RSO Characterization: A Scalable Architecture for Automated CCDM Interrogation

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$3.7Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-06-18

DELTA DEVELOPMENT TEAM, INC

TUCSON, AZ · 20 employees

Transportable Blood Storage

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.6Mawardedfunded 2025-06-11Company site →

PRIME SOLUTIONS GROUP, INCORPORATED

GOODYEAR, AZ · 53 employees

Layered Awareness through passive multi-spectral Neuromorphic Tracking and Event Recognition Network (LANTERN)

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$140kawardedfunded 2025-06-11Company site →

True Colors Infrared Imaging

Tucson, AZ · 2 employees

PbSe Detectors for Low C-SWaP Focal Planes

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$140kawardedfunded 2025-06-05

inXsol LLC

Scottsdale, AZ · 4 employees

Health and Safety Training CoPilot: An AI-Driven Pre-Training Generator Tool Benefiting Low-Literacy and Limited-English Workers

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$100kawardedfunded 2025-06-04Company site →

N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.

TUCSON, AZ · 29 employees

Atmospheric Aerosol Model and Data Collection Over the Marine Boundary Layer for Imaging/Radiofrequency (RF) and Laser Beam Propagation

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.4Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-05-28Company site →

LIFELAB STUDIOS, INC.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 0 employees

SBIR Phase II: AI-Integrated Novel Platform to Power Positive Change in Youth and Increase Public Safety

National Science Foundation · Phase Phase II

$1.2Mawardedfunded 2025-05-23

SOLESTIAL, INC.

TEMPE, AZ · 32 employees

Multi-Orbital and Fast to Manufacture Solar Array Wing for Tactical Response Satellites

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$1.4Macross 2 awardsfunded 2025-05-19Company site →

Control Vision, Inc.

Tucson, AZ · 15 employees

Fly-Along Post-Intercept Assessment Sensor for Homeland Defense Missions

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II

$4.5Macross 3 awardsfunded 2025-04-30Company site →

Crystal Sonic, Inc.

Phoenix, AZ · 6 employees

Acoustic Layer Separation for Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.8Mawardedfunded 2025-04-02Company site →

PWN.COLLEGE LLC

TEMPE, AZ · 4 employees

SENSEI: Scaling Education Nationwide for Security Expertise and Impact

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.8Mawardedfunded 2025-03-26

DELTA THERMAL, INC

Tucson, AZ · 12 employees

Delta Thermal: Automated Thermography for Navy Fleet Readiness

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$75kawardedfunded 2025-03-25Company site →

Icarean Inc

Chandler, AZ · 3 employees

Autonomous flight in Contested/Congested Environments

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$75kawardedfunded 2025-01-16Company site →

SYNVENTA LLC

TUCSON, AZ · 4 employees

Etimizol for reversal of Xylazine-fentanyl respiratory depression

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I

$277kawardedfunded 2025-01-15

AERIAL SPHERE LLC

PHOENIX, AZ · 12 employees

AerialSphere - Imagery Solutions

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$75kawardedfunded 2025-01-14Company site →

SOLARIZ, LLC

Nogales, AZ · 3 employees

Fiber Reinforced Soluble Matrix Composites (FRSMC) for Rocket Motor Cases

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$75kawardedfunded 2025-01-10

SONORAN BIOSCIENCES INC

TEMPE, AZ · 2 employees

Extended-release injectable gel for multi-day treatment of postoperative pain

Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II

$1.5Mawardedfunded 2025-01-01Company site →

Huma, Inc.

GILBERT, AZ · 70 employees

UreaHS—A New Humic-Based Enhanced Efficiency Urea Fertilizer

Environmental Protection Agency · Phase Phase I

$100kawardedfunded 2024-12-16

BETR-BLOK LLC

TEMPE, AZ · 3 employees

Making Construction Materials from Forest Biomass, Recycled Cellulose and Geopolymers

Environmental Protection Agency · Phase Phase I

$100kawardedfunded 2024-12-16Company site →

SPACE DATA CORPORATION

CHANDLER, AZ · 25 employees

HEROS: High-EO/IR Resolution Optics for Enhanced Sensing

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.8Mawardedfunded 2024-12-06Company site →

BEDFORD SIGNALS CORPORATION

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 1 employee

Low-Cost, High-Power Microwave Switches

Department of Defense · Phase Phase I

$140kawardedfunded 2024-11-15Company site →

GLOBAL COOLING TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC

Phoenix, AZ · 2 employees

GCTG New Cooling Pulsating Heat Pipe Technology (CLPHP) for Extreme Operating Conditions (Vibration and Elevated Temperature Environments)

Department of Defense · Phase Phase II

$1.6Mawardedfunded 2024-11-13Company site →

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