Recently funded science companies in Minnesota
46 companies in Minnesota 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.
SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LLC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 38 employees
“BRAVADO: Binary Rapid Automatic Vulnerability Attack and Defense Operations”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II
LEONINE TECHNOLOGIES INC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 2 employees
“STTR Phase I: Intelligent Control System for Polymer Injection Molding”
National Science Foundation · Phase Phase I
PARTICLE4X, INC.
Eden Prairie, MN · 5 employees · woman-owned
“SBIR Phase I: Inline Monitoring of Particulate Matter and Sterility for Continuous Manufacturing”
Department of Energy · National Science Foundation · Phase Phase I
Elire LLC
Minneapolis, MN · 120 employees
“Elire LLC_D2P2_USSF Human Capital Management Modernization”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase II
ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY INC
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 42 employees
“Foreign Object Retrieval System (FORS)”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II
Kommodo Holdings Corp.
Shoreview, MN · 0 employees
“Engineered Memory T cells as a Platform to Treat Enzymopathies”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
OSEMI INC
RED WING, MN · 6 employees
“Cubic BN Diodes and Transistors”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase II
MYOGENICA INC.
SAINT PAUL, MN · 3 employees
“Systemic Transplantation of MyoPAXon: IND Enabling Studies for the Treatment of DMD”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
INNOVATIVE DESIGN LABS INC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 9 employees
“Addressing Challenges in Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Education”
Department of Defense · Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I/Phase II
APPLIED UNIVERSAL DYNAMICS, CORP
LORETTO, MN · 5 employees
“System to Allow Off Site Monitoring of Pressure Ulcers for Patients in a Rural Long-Term Care Facility”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I/Phase II
BISCHOFF HOLDINGS INC
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN · 4 employees
“Early detection and monitoring of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias using non-semantic linguistic and acoustic features of speech der”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
ASTER LABS, INC.
SAINT PAUL, MN · 12 employees
“Precise Wearable System for Accurate Continuous Gait Monitoring to Indicate Health Decline in Black Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Rela”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Koronis Biomedical Technologies Corp.
Minneapolis, MN · 6 employees
“Kidney Support in Pediatric Patients using an Ultrafiltration Device”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I/Phase II
Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation
Minneapolis, MN · 12 employees · woman-owned
“Novel Bladder Catheterization Device”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
REMASTERED SLEEP LLC
EAGAN, MN · 6 employees
“Novel Myofunctional Nipple to Prevent Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Infants”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Objective Biotechnology, INC.
Minneapolis, MN · 7 employees
“High performance miniaturized microscopes for through skull cortex-wide imaging in freely behaving mice”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
NORTHSTAR GENOMICS, LLC
EAGAN, MN · 2 employees
“Novel approaches to humanized skeletal muscle in pig”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Fillmore.AI LLC
Minnetonka, MN · 5 employees · woman-owned
“Delivering Superpower Training Capabilities for Our Nation's Warfighters”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I
GAVIA BIO, LLC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 2 employees
“Treating drug-resistant infections of burn wounds with an optimized antimicrobial peptide”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
OPTIMAL MOBILITY LLC
MINNETONKA, MN · 1 employee · woman-owned
“Kids Standing Up: Promoting Independent Mobility in Children with Neuromuscular Conditions with a Standing Wheelchair”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
Trekka Therapeutics, LLC
Saint Paul, MN · 2 employees
“Nanodroplet Infused Analgesic-Wafer for Transmucosal Opioid-free Treatment of Subacute Oral Pain”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
OralMR, LLC
Minneapolis, MN · 6 employees · woman-owned
“Redefining Dental Imaging: Low-Cost MRI with Relaxed Field Requirements”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
APLOS MEDICAL INC
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 1 employee
“Readying the commercialization of Omega device as an improved safe and efficacious treatment for drug-failed GERD patients”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
Q-rounds Inc.
PLYMOUTH, MN · 7 employees
“Q-rounds: Making Multi-Disciplinary Family Centered Rounds and Achievable Standard of Care through Novel Virtual Rounding Features”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
LUMINARY THERAPEUTICS, INC.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 7 employees
“Allogeneic BAFF Ligand Based CAR T Cells as a Novel Therapy for B Cell Malignancies”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
HABITAWARE, INC.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 4 employees
“Developing an Integrated Wearable and Patch System to Address Skin Picking Disorder”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Resuscitation Innovations, LLC dba AdvancedCPR Solutions
Minneapolis, MN · 2 employees
“Commercialization of the Head Up CPR System for Improving Survival after Cardiac Arrest”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I/Phase II
Quench Medical Inc.
Saint Paul, MN · 1 employee
“Preparing IND filing for novel lung cancer therapeutic”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
COLLABORATION.AI, LLC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 54 employees
“Collaboration.Ai IMPACT (Intelligent Matching of Personnel, Agents, and Capabilities for Technology)”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I
ANNO.AI, INC.
Duluth, MN · 60 employees
“EchoDome - Passive Acoustic Early Warning Threat Detection”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I/Phase II
QRONA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 3 employees
“High-efficiency and high-resolution x-ray and gamma-ray imaging detectors for space science”
Department of Energy · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase I
Avisure International Inc
NORTHFIELD, MN · 24 employees
“Aircraft-Wildlife Collision Mitigation: A Predictive Wildlife Hazard Forecast Tool for Enhanced Aviation Safety”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Phase Phase II
LifEngine Animal Health Laboratories Incorporated
Eagan, MN · 4 employees
“c-MYB overexpression for exhaustion resistant CAR-T cell therapies”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Glimpse Diagnostics, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN · 1 employee · woman-owned
“Deep learning image classification model for pediatric ear disease”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase II
SUPERIOR NANO LLC
TWO HARBORS, MN · 3 employees
“SBIR Phase II: Dense Nanolipid Fluids (DNLFs) for Delivery of Drugs with Poor Bioavailability: Synthesis, Manufacture, and Drug Properties”
National Science Foundation · Phase Phase II
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
BURNSVILLE, MN · 178 employees
“Configurable Power Control Module (PCM)”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I
ADIALANTE L.L.C.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
“SBIR Phase II: The Development of an Affordable, Compact, and Silent Head-Only MRI Scanner”
National Science Foundation · Phase Phase II
NEXGEN CANCER DETECTION LLC
LINO LAKES, MN · 5 employees
“SBIR Phase II: Enrichment of Cancer DNA for Improved Cancer Diagnostics from Blood”
National Science Foundation · Phase Phase II
Dragonase LLC
Minneapolis, MN · 2 employees
“Fully autonomous robotic wet lab for stem cell culture media optimization”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
PELVA HEALTH CORPORATION
Saint Paul, MN · 2 employees · woman-owned
“Novel Hydrogel Film to Reduce Pain Experienced during Sexual Intercourse for Women with Vulvodynia”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
Priogen Corp
SAINT PAUL, MN · 3 employees
“Microfluidic device for detection of infectious prion proteins”
Department of Health and Human Services · Phase Phase I
ENVERDE LLC
MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 6 employees
“Providing Energy Resilience: The Ability of eVp™ to Fuel or Power Bases and Aircraft Using Catalytically Driven Flash Volatilization of Carb”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I
QEN LABS INC.
Eden Prairie, MN · 4 employees
“CleanNode - Automatic containerization for secure, and efficient sanitization of compute nodes in HPC systems”
Department of Energy · Phase Phase I
Exergi Predictive LLC
Hugo, MN · 3 employees
“Modern Diesel Engine Conversion (MDEC) Technology for JP-8 Operability”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase I
FEMTOFLUIDICS INCORPORATED
EXCELSIOR, MN · 3 employees
“SBIR Phase I: Drug Discovery meets Moore's Law: Synthesizing DNA-Encoded Libraries with Electronics”
National Science Foundation · Phase Phase I
Arcnano, Inc.
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN · 32 employees · woman-owned
“MEMS Scale Ion Energy Analyzer”
Department of Defense · Phase Phase II
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