2024 Cohort
Meet our current class of grant recipients
Meet our current class of grant recipients
The first Black female-led 3D Computer Science gaming platform in Missouri, teaching K-8 students how to code, making learning fun and tailored. CodeAlgo allows students to stay ahead and be ahead by providing them with real coding language through gamification.
A tech platform featuring an AI-powered lending assistant specially trained to streamline administrative work across the lending cycle, including evaluation, eligibility and document verification, macro and micro economic data, and more. Foresight is currently tackling a big problem: addressing capital access issues for small businesses aiming to bridge gaps with vendors.
Heft IQ is an AI-Driven Advanced Analytics Platform positioned to be the Operating System (OS) for Supply Chain & Logistics. Heft IQ builds on years of leading-edge digital warehouse & fulfillment operations knowledge to provide an intuitive & modern interface driven by Generative AI that analyzes performance, diagnoses bottlenecks & failure points in real time, and recommends actions based on forecasting out-of-the-box.
A women-owned Cloud-based Transportation Management Software created by and for draymen. Easily customize tables, tags, and permissions with an intuitive interface to streamline and transform trucking operations.
Raven Space Systems is creating the first entirely 3D-printed reentry capsules for affordable and accessible return of cargo from space.
A “stress-free” and “simple” platform that turns practice leaders and owners into heroes for their providers and patients while improving the viability of their businesses.
A connected gaming startup whose mission is to make STEM-focused games more accessible. Thier first product, ChessUp, is a patented chess board that uses artificial intelligence technology to help players learn the game and improve their skills. Bryght Labs and their product, ChessUp, had a successful appearance on “Shark Tank” in December 2022.
Data Appraisal helps healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, and healthcare technology companies create new revenue streams by monetizing their data. The company offers artificial intelligence-driven appraisal technology that assesses the data’s monetary value and a data marketplace that connects sellers of data with interested buyers.
Electronic Beacon (EB) Systems is an industry leader in mobile apps, Bluetooth technology, and proprietary Beacon Reader technology that help to drive the “Internet of Things” (IoT) industry. They create data-driven solutions for a range of industries and clients. Whether you are a small business owner that needs to streamline your operation, a construction site needing workplace accountability, or a city manager that wants to capture real-time data from your community to make improvements, they have a solution for you.
InventXYZ integrates hands-on, real-world STEM and computer science curriculum into every core high school course to give students cutting-edge skills for the future. They embed a creative, hands-on project in each core class where students build technology.
MatchRite Care empowers patients by setting a new standard for how their healthcare information is shared. Through its unified portal, clinics and healthcare systems can access clinical notes, imaging, and social determinants of health across the patients’ continuum of care from multiple health systems, specialists, payers, medical devices, and most EHRs. Patients can collect health records and claims from multiple providers, health plans, portals, and devices in one place.
SeeInMe has created a digital platform intended to ensure those who love, serve, and work with individuals with disabilities can advocate for and relate to them on a personal level.