Cody Bartlett Heisinger

Allevi builds tools to design and engineer with life. Our 3D bioprinters and bioinks are used by leading researchers worldwide to find solutions to humanity's most difficult problems - to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life. Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to design and engineer 3D tissues. We created our desktop 3D bioprinter to be the most versatile, powerful and easy-to-use bioprinter on the market. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have become leaders in the biofabrication revolution. Allevi 3D bioprinters, software, and bioinks print 3D living tissues one layer at a time. We are constantly inspired by our community of users who are performing world-class research on our platform. When your work has life-changing implications for people all over the world, it’s an amazing responsibility. That ingenuity. That importance. That’s Allevi. We believe everyone has the potential to change the course of medicine.

Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards of our generation—its time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others. The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed. We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games.

Autobon (Techstars ’18) is on a mission to upgrade America’s existing semi-trucks into safer and more efficient vehicles with the Autobon retrofit platform that delivers advanced driver assistance features, real time video and GPS tracking feeds, and access to Autobon’s online portal. Autobon’s vision is to ultimately automate the highway portion of long-haul trips with our Autopilot platform that has already proven Level 2 autonomous capabilities.

HyperSciences is a platform technology company that is solving some of the most challenging problems in tunneling, energy drilling, transportation, aerospace, and materials production. By creating an extensive portfolio of patented and patent-pending hypervelocity technologies HyperSciences developed HyperCore, one of the worlds fastest, simplest, and most efficient commercial launch systems. Utilizing artificial intelligence our system first robotically loads and fires objects, next our HyperCore engine continues the process to accelerates the object to velocities greater than Mach 5. We are revolutionary changing the efficiencies and economics of drilling HyperSciences, since 2015 our company has been partnered with Shell Energy to demonstrate this disruptive technology. We use low-cost chemical energy to accelerate consumable projectiles to hypersonic velocities, allowing projectiles upon impact to break and pulverize hard rock faster, deeper, and through a wider range of conditions. We are using this same HyperCore technology to create the Hyper Tunneling Boring and Mining system (HTBM), replacing conventional tunneling methods which typically are slow, and significant capital expense. In most cases each consumable projectile removes over a half a ton of rock per impact. When applied to deep geothermal energy our drilling system allows for low-cost access to deep energy. Our "Energy Anywhere"​ geothermal system generates power by quickly and efficiently reaching untapped geothermal resources and converting it into electrical energy that will cause a significant paradigm change in renewable, clean energy. In 2018 HyperSciences secured our first contract with NASA by applying the key components of HyperCores automated system in order to launch payloads to high-altitudes at extreme velocity. By lowering the cost for hypersonic vehicle development and a new type of stealth program our system is prepared to support USA government contracts in the aerospace community.

LiquidPiston develops advanced rotary engines based on the company’s patented thermodynamic cycle and engine architecture. Our Philosophy: Think Outside the Cylinder. By rethinking the engine starting with basic scientific principles (e.g. thermodynamics), engines can be significantly improved on all parameters - efficiency, weight, size, vibration, and noise.

MicroVentures connects angel investors with startups. It is the first online, equity based crowdfunding platform to enable venture capital financing. MicroVentures provides founders access to early stage capital, and accredited investors opportunities to invest in private equity. It is also the first broker/dealer in the U.S. to help startups raise capital in exchange for equity.

Graphicly provides creators, publishers and brands the ability to distribute their visual, multimedia stories across multiple platforms including HTML5, Facebook, Android, and Apple iOS, and eBook readers such as Amazons Kindle Fire, Barnes & Nobles NOOK Color, and many others. Utilizing Graphiclys publish once / distribute everywhere technology, creators are free to focus on whats important: unleashing their creativity, increasing monetization, all while expanding and engaging their fan base.

BPG Werks is an entertainment company based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Allevi builds tools to design and engineer with life. Our 3D bioprinters and bioinks are used by leading researchers worldwide to find solutions to humanity's most difficult problems - to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life. Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to design and engineer 3D tissues. We created our desktop 3D bioprinter to be the most versatile, powerful and easy-to-use bioprinter on the market. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have become leaders in the biofabrication revolution. Allevi 3D bioprinters, software, and bioinks print 3D living tissues one layer at a time. We are constantly inspired by our community of users who are performing world-class research on our platform. When your work has life-changing implications for people all over the world, it’s an amazing responsibility. That ingenuity. That importance. That’s Allevi. We believe everyone has the potential to change the course of medicine.

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.

20/20 GeneSystems (‘20/20’) was founded in May of 2000 to develop and promote an innovative proteomics product line that provides drug companies, biodefense specialists and life scientists with new tools for protein analysis. Our headquarters are in the heart of the biotechnology corridor in Rockville, Maryland in close proximity to the National Institutes of Health with which we have extensive collaborations. 20/20 GeneSystems develops and commercializes innovative, proprietary diagnostics tests that aid in the fight against cancer. These tests generally fall into two categories: Personalized Medicine: Our patented platform technology for measuring biomarkers in tumors is highly unique in that it combines the visual advantages of classical pathology with the multiplex capabilities needed as a result of genomics and proteomics. This technology is now being used to develop tests to predict responses to several new targeted therapies for kidney and lung cancer. Early detection of lung cancer: 20/20 is developing a blood test for the early detection of lung cancer. This product will be used for screening smokers and former smokers to pre-select or enrich the patient population to receive annual CT scanning long before the disease becomes symptomatic. Biological Detection: 20/20 is on the leading edge of developing technologies to help in the detection of biological toxins.

Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards of our generation—its time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others. The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed. We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games.

Autobon (Techstars ’18) is on a mission to upgrade America’s existing semi-trucks into safer and more efficient vehicles with the Autobon retrofit platform that delivers advanced driver assistance features, real time video and GPS tracking feeds, and access to Autobon’s online portal. Autobon’s vision is to ultimately automate the highway portion of long-haul trips with our Autopilot platform that has already proven Level 2 autonomous capabilities.