Recently funded science companies in Maryland

Quidient, LLC

6 open roles on the board

Easton, MD · 35 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“Fusing 5D Virtualization Technology with Advanced Robotics to Enhance Air Force Readiness”

Microcom Design, Inc.

Cockeysville, MD · 15 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“Captive Carry Transponder for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Interceptor”

Rallypoint One LLC

Davidsonville, MD · 6 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“N252-105-0130 MICROCAST: A Unified Hybrid Forecasting System for Naval Operations”

Whoosh Hpc Lab LLC

Kensington, MD · 3 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II

“High-Fidelity Multiphase-Peridynamics Solver for Hypersonic Vehicle Analysis in Adverse Weather Conditions for GPUs”

AI Fusion, Inc.

Boyds, MD · 5 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · woman-owned

“RECAP: Rapid Educational Content Automation Platform Using Multimodal Large Language Models”

Redshred, LLC

Catonsville, MD · 14 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · woman-owned · company site

“ABDREAM: Aircraft Battle Damage Repair: Essential Archive for Maintenance”

Coherent Technical Services, Inc.

Hollywood, MD · 160 employees · Department of Defense, Department of Transportation · Phase I/II · company site

“Scenario-based Range and Mission Optimization Harnessing Mutual Aerodynamic Interaction Between Multiple Aircraft”

AI Sense

Ellicott City, MD · 2 employees · National Science Foundation · Phase I

“SBIR Phase I: AI Powered Invisible Fence to Foster Human-Wildlife Harmony”

ApexQuantum, Inc.

Ellicott City, MD · 3 employees · National Science Foundation · Phase I

“SBIR Phase I: Optimizing Quantum Circuit Compiler for Quantum Software and Hardware Developers”

Fairwinds Technologies LLC

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD · 38 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Enhanced Security 5G for LEO CJADC2 Networks”

Lo Biosciences, Inc

Rockville, MD · 5 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I/II

“A novel remote blood separation device for at-home plasma collection for HIV-1 testing”

X-Wave Innovations, Inc.

Gaithersburg, MD · 11 employees · Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I/II · company site

“Detect3C: Advancing the Assessment of Concrete Chloride Content Through Non-Destructive Techniques”

DFH Pharma, Inc

Gaithersburg, MD · 4 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“IND-Enabling Development of HIV Maturation Inhibitors Formulated for use as either Oral or Long-Acting Parenterally Administered Agents”

Grier Forensics, LLC

Owings Mills, MD · 15 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II

“FireSky FX: Edge-Deployed Cyber Effects Platform”

Renovate Biosciences, Inc.

Reisterstown, MD · 6 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · company site

“BLiPS: Biocompatible Liver in Pigs”

Mesa Science Associates, Inc.

Frederick, MD · 5 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Development of Cobinamide as a Cyanide Antidote: Completion of pre-IND Studies”

Natsar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Ellicott City, MD · 5 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Drug development of RK-33 for breast cancer treatment”

Cogthera LLC

Brookeville, MD · 4 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“Title: Developing a novel drug for neurobehavioral deficits in FASD”

Aromha, Inc.

Potomac, MD · 0 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I/II

“Digital Accessible Remote Olfactory Mediated Health Assessments forPreclinical AD”

Care Progress LLC

Bethesda, MD · 4 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Regional Genomic Medicine eConsults”

Vasoptic Medical, Inc.

Columbia, MD · 6 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“Imaging of Neurovascular Response for Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease”

Relative Dynamics Inc

Laurel, MD · 75 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“High-Speed Photonic Integrated Analyzer for Unconditionally Entangled and Noise Squeezed Quantum States”

Teamworx Security, Inc.

Columbia, MD · 32 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Recognized Cyberspace Picture (RCyP): Empowering Intelligence Analysts Through AI-Driven Cyber Triage and Attribution”

STEER Tech LLC

Annapolis Junction, MD · 20 employees · Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“ASCENT - Autonomous Software Certification & Evaluation for New Technologies”

Cooltech, LLC

Baltimore, MD · 4 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Development of Mi-Helper: A Thermodynamic Neuromodulation Device for Migraine Relief”

Scanogen Inc.

Baltimore, MD · 15 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Bloodstream infection detection directly on whole blood”

Quantum Catalyzer, LLC

College Park, MD · 5 employees · Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“Robust All-Optical Solid-State Magnetometer for Space”

Gaiaxus LLC

Germantown, MD · 4 employees · Department of Education · Phase I · company site

“Transforming STEM Learning: Local Ecosystems as Classrooms”

Coolcad Electronics, Inc.

Greenbelt, MD · 12 employees · Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“Vertically Integrated Silicon Carbide/Silicon Detectors for UV/Vis Multicolor Sensing”

Immunoblue, LLC

Bethesda, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Engineered Glioblastoma-specific T cells using Immunostimulatory Photothermal Nanoparticles”

Reversal Therapeutics, Inc.

National Harbor, MD · 3 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“Investigating the safety and efficacy of pillararene sulfates as novel and effective reversal agents for both steroidal and non-steroidal ne”

Tao Treasures, LLC

Frederick, MD · 6 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · woman-owned · company site

“TriSense: An AI-Powered VOC Sensing System for Culture-Free Infection Diagnosis in biofluids”

Sciglob Instruments & Services LLC

Columbia, MD · 14 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“The Pandora-Inspired Advanced Hyperspectral Camera for Atmospheric Monitoring (PANCAM)”

Autonomous Therapeutics Inc

Silver Spring, MD · 20 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“AT191: An inhaled & precision RNA therapeutic with pan-variant SARS-CoV-2 efficacy”

Ad Hoc Research Associates LLC

Belcamp, MD · 1 employee · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Poison Arrow: AI Cyber Adversary Simulation for AF Cyber Ranges”

Linshom Medical Inc

Annapolis, MD · 5 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Clinical Evaluation of an Alarm Activated Detection System to Enable Early Intervention of Emerging Respiratory Decline with the Linshom Med”

Alarispro, Inc.

Lusby, MD · 9 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“AI-Enhanced Digital Twin Framework for UAS Component Reliability in Support of In-Time Aviation Safety Management Systems (IASMS)”

Deepspace Technologies Inc

Laurel, MD · 3 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“Lunar Digital Twin”

Brimrose Technology Corp

Sparks, MD · 60 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · company site

“Non-Contact High-Resolution All-Optical Handheld Ultrasound Imaging System”

Rithim Biologics Inc.

Woodbine, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Novel Gene Therapy, Techniques, and Devices to Prevent Ventricular Tachycardia”

Garoux L.L.C.

Hyattsville, MD · 2 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“AcquisitionFlow: Comprehensive and Automated Market Research for Acquisition Officers”

Chesapeake Genomic Systems, LLC

Halethorpe, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · woman-owned

“Synthetic circular supercoiled DNA: an alternative to plasmids for the production of lentiviral vectors for cell and gene therapies”

Aavogen Inc

Potomac, MD · 1 employee · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“Preclinical validation of AVGN7 for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.”

New Health Sciences, Inc.

Bethesda, MD · 0 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“Efficacy of Hypoxic Red Blood Cells Processed with the Hemanext ONE® System in Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia”

Robust Analytics, Inc.

Gambrills, MD · 5 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I/II · woman-owned · company site

“Integrated Surface and Approach Risk Monitor”

Kubanda Cryotherapy

Baltimore, MD · 6 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · woman-owned

“Low Cost Carbon Dioxide-Based Cryoablation for Breast Cancer Treatment in Low Resource Settings”

Lasarrus Clinic and Research Center

Baltimore, MD · 6 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Bilateral Acoustic Sensing and Automated Breathing Segmentation for Remote Monitoring of Patients with COPD: A Longitudinal Study”

Rehabtek LLC

Linthicum Heights, MD · 5 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“Facilitating neuroplastic changes of acute stroke survivors with severe hemiplegia”

Omnispeech, LLC

College Park, MD · 6 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“AI-Based Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids”

Taumat LLC

Silver Spring, MD · 6 employees · Department of Defense, National Science Foundation · Phase II · company site

“SBIR Phase II: Innovative Solid-State Phase Change Cooling to Supercharge Central Processing Unit (CPU) Performance”

Nexcepta Inc

Gaithersburg, MD · 13 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“RAPIDS: Robotic Autonomous Platform Sensors for Intelligent Distributed Bridging Operations”

Mid Atlantic Technical and Executive Consulting, LLC

Derwood, MD · 27 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“DOD Artificial Intelligence Pricing and Supply Chain Risk Management Tool”

UVS InfoTech LLC

Laurel, MD · 13 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · company site

“Synthetic Data Generator Solution_UVS InfoTech LLC”

Everywhere Communications, Inc.

Annapolis, MD · 28 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“TBD”

Robotic Research Opco, LLC

Clarksburg, MD · 326 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Dual-Use Voice Command Autonomy”

E-Sentience, Inc.

Rockville, MD · 8 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · woman-owned · company site

“Optimization and Validation of a Hydrogel-Based Wearable Cortisol Sensor for Continuous Soldier Load Monitoring”

Ots R&d, Inc.

Beltsville, MD · 16 employees · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase I · company site

“Gravity-Independent Heat Exchangers and Oil-Free Compressors for Modular Refrigeration System”

Oncosting, LLC

Baltimore, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“BCG overexpressing a small molecule STING agonist as a vaccine for TB”

Coram Technologies, Inc.

Pikesville, MD · 3 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“Non Magnetic MRI Conditional External Defibrillator with Reduced Skeletal Muscle Contraction”

Marvel AI LLC

Glen Burnie, MD · 3 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“Generative AI BAA Open Topic”

X-wave Innovations, Inc. - FR1b

Gaithersburg, MD · 12 employees · Department of Transportation · Phase I

“Non-Contact Ultrasonic System for Measuring Rail Neutral Temperature”

Skylite Group LLC

Bethesda, MD · 4 employees · Department of Defense, Department of Transportation · Phase I/II · company site

“GeoRAG: Spatial Reasoning of Modern LLMs Combined With Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for On-The-Fly Geospatial Dataset Generation”

Kalocyte Inc

Baltimore, MD · 11 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Production of GLP ErythroMer for IND Enabling Animal Studies”

Syncopated Engineering Inc

Ellicott City, MD · 13 employees · Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security · Phase I/II · company site

“Wireless Vehicle Sensor Network for Predictive Logistics”

Pediametrix Inc.

Rockville, MD · 8 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · woman-owned

“Commercialization Readiness Pilot for A Comprehensive Platform for Pediatric Cranial Evaluation”

Alcamena Stem Cell Therapeutics, LLC

Halethorpe, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“FDA Phase 1 Development of a Novel Nonopioid Cell and Tissue Permeable Peptide Therapeutic for Epigenetic Reprogramming of Neuropathic Pain”

D4z4 Medicine, Inc.

Bethesda, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“Long-read sequencing-based diagnosis for complex genomic and DNA methylation changes”

Islex Therapeutics, LLC

Lutherville Timonium, MD · 1 employee · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“Preclinical Development of a Therapeutic Antibody for Type-1 Diabetes”

Biosymetrics Inc

Bethesda, MD · 15 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · company site

“AI-driven in vivo profiling in zebrafish: a platform for alcohol use disorder therapeutic discovery”

Raytum Photonics LLC

Beltsville, MD · 10 employees · Department of Defense, Department of Energy · Phase I/II · company site

“Active Distributed Pump Signal Combiner for High Power Fiber Laser”

Intelligenesis LLC

Columbia, MD · 135 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I · woman-owned · company site

“Large Language Models for System Security Engineering Analysis”

Secrecy Labs LLC

Bowie, MD · 10 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · company site

“TRIDENT (Trusted Routing Interoperable Defense Enterprise Naval Toolset)”

Pearl Diagnostics, Inc.

Baltimore, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · woman-owned

“A Point of Care Urine Test to Aid Diagnosis of Aspergillosis”

Constellation Software Engineering, LLC

Annapolis, MD · 78 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · company site

“ConTrack: Smart Contracts for SCRM”

Phoenix Operations Group, LLC

Woodbine, MD · 45 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Scalable Techniques for Center-of-Mass and Course-of-Action Analytics for Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield”

MetaMedia Training International, Inc.

Frederick, MD · 12 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · company site

“Immersive Escape Room Gamification: Transportation Hazmat Incident (iERG)”

NKA Bio, Inc

Baltimore, MD · 3 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Anti-Shock Injection to Improve Combat Casualty Care”

Signal Systems Corporation

Millersville, MD · 26 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · company site

“Passive Acoustics Sonobuoys Intelligence and Machine Learning”

Aviation Systems Engineering Co Inc

Lexington Park, MD · 264 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Direct to Phase II Passive Acoustics Sonobuoys Intelligence & Machine Learning”

QuoLab Technologies, Inc.

Severn, MD · 11 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“QUOLAB XSIAM: CYBERSECURITY AUTOMATION & COLLABORATION”

Maher & Associates LLC

Forest Hill, MD · 5 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I

“Drapable Advanced Forming of Thermoplastics (DrAFT)”

Euclid Beamlabs LLC

Beltsville, MD · 15 employees · Department of Defense, Department of Energy · Phase I · company site

“A 100MW X-band Short Pulse Phase Shifter”

Ten One Aerospace LLC

Annapolis, MD · 36 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Weaving Together Enhanced Kill-Webs through Model Based Systems Engineering, Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, and Advanced Analytics”

Innovital Systems Inc

Calverton, MD · 8 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Development of a Junctional Tourniquet”

Trusted Science And Technology, Inc.

Rockville, MD · 12 employees · Department of Defense · Phase I/II · company site

“Assured, Resilient Containerization and Orchestration Solution (ARCOS)”

Zeteo Tech, Inc.

Sykesville, MD · 18 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Modular Aerosol Sampler for Microsensors”

Prompt Diagnostics, Inc.

Baltimore, MD · 8 employees · Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation · Phase I/II · company site

“SBIR Phase II: Hybrid DNA-Protein Quantification Platform for Point-of-Care Diagnosis”

Jericho Security, Inc.

Potomac, MD · 23 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Generative AI-Driven Defense and Machine Learning Against Advanced Phishing Attacks TACFI”

Dynamic Dimension Technologies, LLC

Westminster, MD · 6 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Next Generation Naval Design Tools”

Isoprene Pharmaceuticals Inc

Baltimore, MD · 1 employee · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“Development of VNPP433-3Beta as Novel Therapeutic for All Stages of Prostrate Cancer”

Advanced Molecular Healix Inc.

Baltimore, MD · 0 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“Use of HIF-1alpha mRNA to Promote Pedicle Flap Healing.”

Cometa Therapeutics Inc

Towson, MD · 3 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I

“ND Enabling Studies for CMT-101, a Novel Gene Therapy for Glycogen Storage Disease 1b”

Abvacc, Inc.

Rockville, MD · 15 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II

“Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail for Treatment of Marburg Virus Disease”

Sixmap Inc

Pasadena, MD · 28 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Automated Cyber Defense for the USAF Network”

Surgical Vision Systems, Inc.

Baltimore, MD · 0 employees · National Science Foundation · Phase I

“SBIR Phase I: Semi-autonomous Image-guided Robotic Suturing System”

Guardian RF Corporation

Temple Hills, MD · 3 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“Autonomous UAS Reconnaissance & Identification System (AURIS)”

Insilica LLC

Bethesda, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase II · company site

“srvc-EHSR: Sysrev Version Control - Environmental and Health Related Systematic Reviews”

Tanzen Medical, Inc.

Severna Park, MD · 5 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II

“Guardian Sleep Assessment System: Detecting Microarousals Associated with Leg Movements during Sleep”

Maritime Applied Physics Corporation

Curtis Bay, MD · 450 employees · Department of Defense · Phase II · company site

“USV Rapid Deployment System”

Mountainpass Technology LLC

Chevy Chase, MD · 2 employees · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase I · company site

“MyTrials: An Integrated Tool to Support Remote Biomarker Capture within Decentralized Clinical Trials for Substance Use Disorders”