2023 LP100 Awardees

These companies exemplify innovation, resilience, and entrepreneurial success. We are proud to recognize their contribution to the economic vitality of our country and we celebrate their achievements!

accelHRate

accelHRate is a well-known retained executive search firm with extensive experience placing Boards of Directors, Human Resources and Financial Executives. accelHRate has the market knowledge, deep and broad industry and functional relationships and assessment capabilities to identify and attract the very best and culturally aligned talent for our clients. We have placed hundreds of executives at Fortune 500, private equity-backed, and private companies across all industries and geographies.

Headquarters

Herndon, VA

Year Founded

2014

Hokie Founder(s)

Kim Shanahan (’93) & Kelly McPherson (’98)

Active Capital

Active Capital is an early stage venture firm focused on the future of B2B SaaS. The firm invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies leveraging cloud computing, AI, ML, and Web3 to build the next frontier of business software.

Headquarters

San Antonio, TX

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Pat Matthews (’02)

AKKO

AKKO provides modern solutions for phone and device insurance, flipping the script on deceptive and anti-consumer experiences of the past. Their tech-forward platform was designed for the consumer and boasts a top-rated support & claims experience. They enable partners of all kinds to offer phone and device protection for consumers and businesses.

Headquarters

New York, NY

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Eric Schneider (’15)

Allan Myers

Allan Myers is the largest heavy civil construction company and materials provider in the Mid-Atlantic with eight regional offices and 21 asphalt and aggregate plants.

Headquarters

Worchester, PA

Year Founded

1967

Hokie Founder(s)

Ross Myers (’72) & Aaron Myers (’00)

Alpine-X

Alpine-X operates recreational destination properties intended to foster family-centric active lifestyles and experience-based sports entertainment. They create custom master site plans that connect communities while integrating all-season entertainment venues. This lets guests get a glimpse of the Alpine lifestyle conveniently.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

John Emery (’86)

Amplify Federal

Amplify Federal specializes in offering cutting-edge cybersecurity, data management, and IT solutions to federal agencies, ensuring these institutions can securely manage their operations in today’s digital age. Amplify Federal has protected data for over 200 federal agencies, reinforcing its reputation as a trusted partner in the field of federal cybersecurity.

Headquarters

Potomac Falls, VA

Year Founded

2021

Hokie Founder(s)

Andrew Plofchan (’11)

Aravenda

Aravenda has recently expanded its technological offerings to include a trailblazing consignment software solution. Designed to transform how consignment businesses operate, this innovative software streamlines inventory management, sales tracking, and customer relations, potentially enhancing operational efficiency by up to 40%. Aravenda’s consignment software sets a new standard in the industry, enabling businesses to manage their consignment processes more effectively and drive their growth in a competitive marketplace.

Headquarters

Vienna, VA

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Don Neff (’90)

Artimus Robotics

Artimus Robotics creates motion technology designed to provide life-like motion for the new generation of robotics and automation. Their technology applies electrostatic forces to hydraulic fluid to create shape change in a soft, flexible structure to achieve a variety of actuation modes. This allows clients to procure actuators that are relatively controllable, fast, silent, and efficient.

Headquarters

Boulder, CO

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Eric Acome (’11)

Asana Partners

Asana Partners is a vertically integrated real estate investment company. They create value by investing in neighborhood mixed-use and retail assets. They have executed over $10 billion real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

Headquarters

Charlotte, NC

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Jason Tompkins (’92)

BACCH Laboratories

BACCH Labs creates 3D audio technology designed to bring immersive sound capabilities to devices like cell phones. The audio technology yields spatial realism in loudspeakers-based audio playback via the built-in stereo speakers or headphones. This provides partners and licensees with breakthrough solutions and powerful hardware and software tools.

Headquarters

Princeton, NC

Year Founded

2008

Hokie Founder(s)

James Mentz (’00)

BC Architects Engineers

BC Architects & Engineers recently marked a significant milestone with over 10,000 telecommunications projects, highlighting their commitment to quality, efficiency, and competitive pricing. Established in 2000, the firm delivers architecture, engineering, and project management services to major players like Verizon and AT&T Wireless. BC is hinting at a strategic expansion into the government contracting space, ready to deliver their renowned, personalized services to new industries.

Headquarters

Falls Church, VA

Year Founded

2000

Hokie Founder(s)

Chris Morin (’92)

Big Blue Swim School

Big Blue Swim School operates a chain of swim schools across the United States. They offer weekly and a-la-carte lessons as well as improvement camps and provide a curriculum for students to learn swimming in a comfortable environment.

Headquarters

Chicago, IL

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Scott Sanders (’92)

Blackbuck Resources


Blackbuck Resources provides water storage and pond management services intended to facilitate water conservation. They design, build and operate water infrastructure with specialization in water disposal and treatment, pipeline management, and oil and gas operations. This provides the oil and gas industry with practical, effective, and economical utilities for the most challenging water applications.

Headquarters

Houston, TX

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Justin Love (’08)

BnB Tobacco

Established in 2009, BnB Tobacco is an online retailer and wholesale distributor of a wide variety of premium cigars, machine made cigars, little cigars, pipe tobacco, premium pipe tobacco, CBD, flawless hemp, CBG items, and tobacco related accessories. A high-end cigar shop and your corner tobacco store all in one convenient location.

Headquarters

Ashburn, VA

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Brad Williamson (’93)

BOOST

BOOST was created to help government contractors focus on what they do best – winning new business and exceeding customer expectations. Our solutions automate the back-office – Accounting, Contracts, HR, Talent Acquisition, & Pre and Post M&A Support – so that you can grow without worrying about additional compliance needs that growth and new work bring.

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2012

Hokie Founder(s)

Stephanie Alexander (’98)

Bravely

Bravely is an employee productivity solution. They provide employee coaching that improves engagement and performance. They also offer key insights to your HR team highlighting potential areas of risk across your organization.

Headquarters

New York, NY

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Sarah Sheehan (’00)

Buchanan & Edwards, Inc.

Since 1998, Buchanan & Edwards Inc. (BE) has served as a trusted partner on missions of vital importance to the defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian communities. We are a recognized leader in delivering cyber, technical, analytical, and operational support to critical national security missions within the Federal Government and commercial sectors. We design and deliver solutions that embody a future-forward approach, and our industry experts leverage deep technical skills and specialized knowledge to help our clients achieve mission success.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

1998

Hokie Founder(s)

Brian Karlisch (’93)

BuildBuddy

BuildBuddy is an enterprise platform intended to serve developers working with Bazel. The platform captures build logs, invocation details, target information, and artifacts to generate a complete picture of each build. It also offers remote build execution both on-premises and as a fully-managed cloud service, enabling developers to build and test software faster.

Headquarters

Palto Alto, CA

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Siggi Simonarson (’13)

Bullpen

Bullpen connects commercial real estate experts and companies for on-demand work.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Tyler Kastelberg (’13)

Carbon

Carbon is a digital manufacturing platform designed to help in making advanced thinking a practical reality. They have developed Continuous Liquid Interface Production Technology (CLIP) which grows molecularly solid objects from a pool of polymeric resin and produces parts with isotropic properties that can be considered final parts. This allows manufacturers to unlock mass customization, on-demand inventory and differentiated products made with unique materials.

Headquarters

Redwood City, CA

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Joseph DeSimone (’90)

Cary Street Partners

Cary Street Partners provides comprehensive wealth management services, including investment, estate planning and financial advice.

Headquarters

Fredericksburg, VA

Year Founded

2002

Hokie Founder(s)

Doug Stewart (’83)

Centrillion Technologies

Centrillion Technologies genomic technologies designed to offer effective access to genomic information. Their synthesized DNA chips can produce billions of different DNA sensors in a single wafer and can map biological molecules at a sub-cellular level in 3D format. This enables researchers to make large-scale genomic analyses that include DNA sequencing.

Headquarters

Palo Alto, CA

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Wei Zhou (’92)

Centripetal Networks

Centripetal is a threat intelligence gateway application designed to mitigate any attacker to misuse the Internet access of any legitimate Internet user. The application “CleanINTERNET” is a rule gate threat intelligence gateway, that can automatically collect, process, and apply CTI to stop attacks before any damage is done to networks. This allows businesses to effectively stop attackers, DDoS, and malware.

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Steven Rodgers (’74)

Champions Round

Champions Round is an online sports fantasy platform designed to enhance the spectator experience for fans of live sports. The platform permits the users to play various fantasy league games where they answer live questions, earn points, learn the game and win cash. This allows sports fans to join leagues without having to assemble as a group and earn rewards through interactive game-play, increasing adoption and lowering barriers to entry.

Headquarters

Los Angeles, CA

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Chase Payne (’08)

ClickUp

ClickUp is a project management platform designed to increase team productivity. The platform allows teams to plan, organize and collaborate on projects and offers reminders, goals, calendars, and even inbox tools, enabling team members to stay in sync and enhance their productivity.

Headquarters

San Diego, CA

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Zeb Evans (’10)

ClosedLoop

ClosedLoop is a data science platform for healthcare. The platform is designed so that healthcare organizations can easily use AI and machine learning in their operations. ClosedLoop can predict the needs of individual patients, personalize outreach and engagement, and power digital therapeutics.

Headquarters

Austin, TX

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Andrew Eye (’01)

Clowder

Clowder is a mobile engagement platform intended to connect brands with users. The platform offers configurable tools such as account management, private messaging, and a member directory among others. This enables organizations to have the features and functions to remain connected to their users year-round.

Headquarters

Alexandria, VA

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Sergei Dudograev (’10)

Commonwealth Care

Commonwealth Care of Roanoke exists to provide the most caring, compassionate and complete rehabilitation we can. They achieve this through their position as a leader in Virginia healthcare, with twelve modern facilities across the Commonwealth.

Headquarters

Roanoke, VA

Year Founded

2001

Hokie Founder(s)

Debbie Petrine (’78)

Espire Services

Espire provides integrated global solutions for our valued government and civilian partners, delivering an uncommon advantage. Since 2008, their team of trusted experts has received numerous awards and commendations for delivering exceptional products and services to solve unique customer challenges.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

2008

Hokie Founder(s)

Glenn Vlogel (’92)

Fifth Season

Fifth Season creates food products intended to streamline vertical growing operation. The products are grown in a controlled growing environment that outperforms existing operations. They use of dozens of robots to control the entire production process from seeding, scouting, and pest management, to harvesting and packaging. This allows farmers to improve labor efficiency and crop output with data analysis.

Headquarters

Pittsburgh, PA

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

James Webb (’92)

Formsense

Formsense is a wearable technology that tracks your athletic data. There are over 20 sensors embedded into their machine washable activewear. These sensors allow athletes and trainers to track performance and injury risk through the app. Formsense’s goal is to reduce injuries and improve recovery for athletes.

Headquarters

San Diego, CA

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Nathan Ramasarma (’00)

Founderpath

Founderpath is a financing platform designed to help software as a service (SaaS) based companies thrive and develop. The platform offers collateral-free loans and equity-free short-term funding, enabling clients to launch their business without losing their stake.

Headquarters

Austin, TX

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Nathan Latka (’11)

Fringe

Fringe is an employee benefit marketplace. The company’s marketplace offers personalized, individual, and self-selected benefits services to those employees who are struggling with financial burden.

Headquarters

Richmond, VA

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Andrew Dunlap (’08), Chris Luhrman (’07), Isiah Goodall (’07), & Jordan Peace (’07)

Gizmatic

Gizmatic is an agile team of engineers, designers and fabricators who want to solve tough problems. In thier fully-equipped prototyping shop, they not only design, but also manufacture and test prototypes in-house. With their wide range of skills and equipment, they can make almost anything. This allows Gizmatic to iterate designs rapidly and efficiently come to better solutions and their services continue with tight integration with their manufacturing partners, for a smooth transition to manufacturing scale-up and production.

Headquarters

Oxon Hill, MD

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Will Vatis (’12) & Scott Freeman (’12)

GoCanvas

GoCanvas is a central platform to connect your field operations to the office. Through the platform you can manage your field work with greater visibility into your business. They offer daily reports on inspections, incidents, and PPE checklists. GoCanvas can also track timesheets, payroll sheets, invoices, and work orders.

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2008

Hokie Founder(s)

Chris Morrisette (’02)

Goodcall

Goodcall is a cloud-based conversational platform designed to manage incoming phone calls and boost customer service. The platform picks up every phone call and assists customers by giving information they’re looking for, inside and outside of operating hours, thereby enabling businesses to save time and increase revenue.

Headquarters

Cupertino, CA

Year Founded

2021

Hokie Founder(s)

Bob Summer (’98)

Goodfynd

Goodcall is a cloud-based conversational platform designed to manage incoming phone calls and boost customer service. The platform picks up every phone call and assists customers by giving information they’re looking for, inside and outside of operating hours, thereby enabling businesses to save time and increase revenue.

Headquarters

Washington, DC

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Sofiat Adbulrazaaq (’09), Kyle Miller (’13), & Lemaire Stewart (’09)

Gravy Analytics

Gravy Analytics is a location intelligence company. They deliver location analytics that allow organizations to make better business decisions. Their analytics can help with site selection, supply chain issues, and data enrichment. Gravy Analytics’ mission is to be the largest and most accurate source of location data.  

Headquarters

Sterling, VA

Year Founded

2011

Hokie Founder(s)

Jeff White (’91), Guy DeCorte (’83), & Jason Sarfati (’11)

Harbor Investment Advisory

Harbor Investment Advisory is a full-service investment firm that focuses exclusively on serving wealthy individuals, families, and institutions. Harbor offers portfolio management services, family office services, wealth management, and asset management services. All assets of the firm are managed by the executive management team.  

Headquarters

Lutherville Timonium, MD

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Fred Hill (’83)

Harmonia Holdings Group

Harmonia Holdings Group is at the forefront of innovative software solutions, catering to diverse sectors such as government, defense, and commercial industries. The company is committed to delivering breakthrough developments in software technology. Harmonia’s drive for continuous advancement has cemented its reputation as a leader in the dynamic field of software development.

Headquarters

Blacksburg, VA

Year Founded

2006

Hokie Founder(s)

Pallabi Saboo (’93)

Henritze Dental Group

Their skilled dentists offer a wide variety of dental services, across nine offices in SW Virginia, ranging from simple dental cleanings and exams to more complex treatments like root canal therapy. Henritze Dental Group provide both restorative and cosmetic dentistry to ensure that they can meet all of their patients personal dental needs for a smile that is healthy and beautiful for life.

Headquarters

Roanoke, VA

Year Founded

1997

Hokie Founder(s)

Andy Henritze (’93)

Hylaine

Hylaine is a software consulting firm intended to resolve many technology challenges that exist for mid-market and Fortune 500 companies. They provide services like quality assurance, business intelligence, application development, and process consulting. This helps clients embrace digital transformation while maximizing their return on investment.

Headquarters

Charlotte, NC

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Adam Boitnott (’98) & T.J. Eberle (’89)

Intertial Labs

Inertial Labs creates position and orientation technologies designed for assistance in commercial/industrial and aerospace/defense applications. Their products and services are based on the combination of inertial sensors with a variety of other sensing technologies, enabling industry practitioners to develop small and low-cost sensor systems.

Headquarters

Paeonian Spring, VA

Year Founded

2001

Hokie Founder(s)

Jamie Marraccini (’93)

InGo


InGo is an event management software designed to allow event attendees to invite their friends to the event. The software makes word-of-mouth marketing easier by leveraging social search and ranking algorithms, coupled with a low-drag user experience, enabling event organizers and attendees to exponentially grow attendance at events.

Headquarters

Arlington, VA

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Michael Barnett (’06)

Insync

Insync is a conversational platform intended to design and build chatbots having applications in customer assistance and services. The platform increases revenue and engagement by reducing the friction to purchase and signup via human-like interfaces that answer all your users’ questions and can seamlessly integrate with any Customer Experience Management tool. This allows the developed bots to resolve customer queries by understanding their intent.

Headquarters

San Jose, CA

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Raj Ramaswamy (’02)

Jeli.io

Jeli is a one-stop incident response tool and culminates by allowing you to learn from incidents. Creating a proactive environment, that prevents burnout, improves retention, and relieves stress.

Headquarters

Denver, CO

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Nora Jones (’12)

KBH Thompson

KBH Thompson offers a diverse range of services with a particular focus on the power generation and industrial sectors. KBH Thompson has developed a reputation for high-quality construction services with world class safety, reliable scheduling, and cost predictability. New construction, including mechanical, electrical, civil, industrial and turbine services, and retrofit projects are executed by the KBH Thompson team throughout the United States. Being a self-performing general contractor allows us to better control the life cycle of your project—pre-construction through closeout.

Headquarters

Smyrna, GA

Year Founded

2021

Hokie Founder(s)

Tarun Ganeriwal (’94)

Kindred Motorworks

Kindred Motorworks is a motor work service intended to modernize vintage cars. They provide new features such as disc brakes and Bluetooth sound systems, without impacting the car’s classic designs, enabling customers to experience new modern cars made from vintage vehicles.

Headquarters

San Rafael, CA

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Rob Howard (’92)

KMS Technology

KMS Technology is a provider of offshore software development, testing services, and consulting services. It also provides information technology services across the software development lifecycle including research and development, application management, support, professional services, and staff augmentation.

Headquarters

Atlanta, GA

Year Founded

2009

Hokie Founder(s)

Josh Lieberman (’90)

Koalafi

Koalafi provides lease-to-own consumer financing services intended to assist in goods and services procurement. They specialize in point-of-sale financing for furniture, mattresses, appliances, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning purchases. Giving consumers access to financing so that they are able to get the merchandise they want with affordable regular payments.

Headquarters

Glen Allen, VA

Year Founded

2014

Hokie Founder(s)

Boomer Muth (’02)

LawnStarter

LawnStarter is an on-demand lawn care platform intended to provide scheduled lawn mowing and related lawn-care services from insured professionals. They offer services such as lawn mowing, fertilization, aeration, and bush trimming, thus enabling customers to easily remove grass, weeds, pests, and flowerbeds from the yard.

Headquarters

Austin, TX

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Steven Corcoran (’10)

LePrix

LePrix is an e-commerce platform intended to connect online shoppers with designer consignment stores around the world. The platform provides instant access to a curated network of designer boutiques and features a variety of designer resale stores across several countries. Customers can discover designer resale stores and make pre-owned luxury shopping safe and sustainable.

Headquarters

Bethesda, MD

Year Founded

2010

Hokie Founder(s)

Emily Erkel (’03)

Logikcull

LePrix is an e-commerce platform intended to connect online shoppers with designer consignment stores around the world. The platform provides instant access to a curated network of designer boutiques and features a variety of designer resale stores across several countries. Customers can discover designer resale stores and make pre-owned luxury shopping safe and sustainable.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2004

Hokie Founder(s)

Andy Wilson (’01)

Mangata Networks

Mangata is a satellite-enabled network services company. Using highly elliptical orbit and medium earth orbit they can extend their network around the globe. Their unified network can provide scalable B2G and B2B connectivity that is affordable and accessible. Mangata’s goal is to provide internet to everyone bringing about global connectivity.

Headquarters

Phoenix, AZ

Year Founded

2020

Hokie Founder(s)

Brian Holz (’86)

Metistream

Metistream is an interactive healthcare analytics platform. They use AI and NPL to automate the process of integrating, transforming, and analyzing unstructured data for health and life sciences organizations. Their platform can increase efficiency in quality reporting, optimize trials and reduce costs, and accelerate drug and therapeutic discoveries.

Headquarters

Vienna, VA

Year Founded

2014

Hokie Founder(s)

Chiny Driscoll (’91)

MixMax

MixMax is a sales engagement platform. Their platform provides web services that include features like email tracking, email scheduling, templates, advanced calendar invites and other scheduling tools. They help make SDRs, AEs and CSMs more productive directly through gmail.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2014

Hokie Founder(s)

Brad Vogel (’05)

Mythic

Mythic is a computer chip manufacturer. They have developed integrated circuit technology designed to deliver desktop-grade graphics processing units in a button-sized chip. This technology utilizes artificial intelligence to perform hybrid digital and analog calculations untethered inside flash arrays without compromising performance, power life, and accuracy.

Headquarters

Redwood City, CA

Year Founded

2012

Hokie Founder(s)

Mike Henry (’07)

Nailbiter

Nailbiter is market research platform designed to help marketers understand how consumers make product purchase and usage decisions. Their platform offers consumers to make videos and take surveys in-store and at home, enabling marketers and researchers to make immediate decisions that drive market success. Headquartered in Reston, VA and founded in 2015 by Amit Dhand (98’).

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Amit Dhand (’98)

Octo

Octo is an IT solutions company. Octo works with federal agencies to help them modernize faster. Their services include scalable agile software development, user experience design and cloud engineering solutions to improve, modernize and optimize government IT systems.

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2006

Hokie Founder(s)

Mehul Sanghani (’98)

OnSiteIQ

OnSiteIQ is a construction documentation platform designed for risk assessment for development projects. The platform uses machine vision to monitor building progress, pinpoint issues, and collaborate with teammates. OnSiteIQ bridges the gap between construction and artificial intelligence.

Headquarters

New York, NY

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Ardalan Khosrowpour (’16)

Our Next Energy

Our Next Energy is a battery manufacturer. They have developed transformative battery technology intended to significantly improve range while lowering the cost of batteries and electric propulsion systems. The company uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve the life and safety of high-energy-density batteries and offers long-lasting power. Their mission is to promote clean energy by making sure EVs meet the demands of everyday life.

Headquarters

Novi, MI

Year Founded

2020

Hokie Founder(s)

Mujeeb Ijaz (’90)

Oxygen

Oxygen is financial application designed to offer bank account, transaction card, and affordable loan. The application provides a digital account with instant zero-interest loans and fees, tracks bills, and projects income. Their goal is to make online banking easy and convenient.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Hussein Ahmed (’08)

Ozmo


Ozmo is an enterprise tech support platform intended to solve device and application support at scale. The company serves as the single authoritative source for all app and device support issues, helping OEMs, mobile operators, insurance providers and their consumers solve any software-driven issue.

Headquarters

Blacksburg, VA

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

David Catalano (’05)

Pathfinder Digital

PathFinder specializes in the development of satellite ground terminal solutions engineered to meet the unique and particular needs of each project, primarily for military and government agency programs.

PathFinder specializes in “ruggedizing” COTS equipment ensuring compliance with environmental and MIL-SPEC requirements.  They adapt COTS products for their customers so that their products can successfully be sold into the U.S. DoD and other military markets.

Headquarters

Sanford, FL

Year Founded

2007

Hokie Founder(s)

Roger McGarrahan (’84)

PingBoard

PingBoard is an organizational chart software designed to simplify the process of organizing teams, planning for growth, keeping everyone informed. The software lets organizations create a visual, live org chart and keep it up-to-date automatically by integrating with their existing HR system. This enables companies to manage hiring plans across the organization and adopt new agile organizational models.

Headquarters

Austin, TX

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Bill Boebel (’01)

Placemkr

Placemakr is an accommodation booking platform intended to turn empty apartments into pop-up hotels that could be booked for a stay. The platform displays a live gallery enlisting locations and snaps of flats, apartments, and related vacant accommodation spaces available for reservations and stays for a given tenure.

Headquarters

Washington, DC

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Steve McCord (’06)

PlanetiQ

PlanetiQ provides weather and climate data services. They offer satellite-based weather forecasting and climate monitoring data and applications services. The company’s satellites collect data for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and space weather predictions.

Headquarters

Golden, CO

Year Founded

2012

Hokie Founder(s)

Chris McCormick (’82)

Plus Up, Inc.

Goodtimer, an innovative tech company, recently launched a cutting-edge educational toy designed to transform the way children learn and form good habits. The company stands out for its unique blend of technology and educational theories, creating products that foster positive reinforcement learning environments. Goodtimer is making significant strides in shaping the future of educational technology.

Headquarters

Crownsville, MD

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Adam Ashley (’00)

Procon Consulting

Procon Consulting provides comprehensive services in project management, real estate, and facilities management. They continue to excel in delivering exceptional solutions to clients across various industries.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

2000

Hokie Founder(s)

Kyu Jung (’96) & Mark Ilich (’96)

pulsora

pulsora is a compliance tracking and insight software designed to manage and improve ESG footprint. The platform gives deep analytics that can be integrated with both the source and destination ESG systems of customers. It can also be customized by end-users to define their own framework from a collection of existing standards. This helps enterprises in compliance tracking to stay current with evolving stakeholder requirements.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2021

Hokie Founder(s)

Murat Sönmez (’89)

Qolo

Qolo is a business-to-business payment application designed to navigate complex payments and financial transactions landscape. The platform offers multi-currency payments, cross-border businesses, simplicity, speed, and security. Qolo enables organizations to manage payments efficiently and focus on growth. 

Headquarters

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Daren Beyer (’89)

Questis

Questis a personal finance solution platform designed for businesses that transform employees’ relationships with money. The platform is purpose-built to make a scalable, secure, and actionable approach for personalized guidance to leverage trusted coaches. 

Headquarters

Charleston, SC

Year Founded

2004

Hokie Founder(s)

John Tabb (’03)

Quintar

Quintar augmented reality platform intended to amplify the live game fan experience. The platform uses a combination of long-range registration, dynamic augmented reality content, and live stereoscopic streaming, to help content creators deliver personalized, social, and gamification experiences. This enables fans to watch live game experiences on augmented reality wearables. 

Headquarters

Santa Clara, CA

Year Founded

2020

Hokie Founder(s)

Sankar Jayaram (’86)

R.W. Murray

R.W. Murray Co. is a leading provider of high quality construction planning, estimating, and workmanship. They offer a variety of construction services, which includes design/build commercial, industrial, and retail facilities, as well as interior office space build-outs and renovations.

Headquarters

Manassas, VA

Year Founded

1992

Hokie Founder(s)

Steve Daves (’89) & Jonathan Barbour (’01)

Relay

Relay is a digital payment platform designed for instant electronic lumper payments. The company’s platform offers a payment network that allows users to manage fleets on the road with contactless, fast, and trackable digital payments. Relay allows the logistics industry including carriers, brokers, and shippers to get receipts instantly.

Headquarters

Atlanta, GA

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Ryan Droege (’11)

Rendyr

Emerging desktop robotics company developing a portable laser cutter to improve rapid prototyping and making anywhere.

Headquarters

Blacksburg, VA

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Kaelum Hasler (’21), Martin Angst (Masters ’19), & Ron Flanary (’89)

Scite_

Scite_ is a research validation tool intended to identify the veracity of scientific work and scientists. The tool utilizes machine learning and a network of researchers to validate research. This protects researchers from false and unverified claims.

Headquarters

Brooklyn, NY

Year Founded

2018

Hokie Founder(s)

Josh Nicholson (’15)

Seismic

Seismic is a sales enablement platform designed to help marketing and sales perform better. The platform automates the creation of personalized sales materials with content that finds sales repetition. This improves close rates and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Seismic’s goal is to help clients streamline their marketing process and drive sales.

Headquarters

San Diego, CA

Year Founded

2010

Hokie Founder(s)

Doug Winter (’91)

SHEEX

SHEEX is a fabric bedding and sleepwear company. They offer bedding and sleepwear products made using performance fabrics that allow ventilation and control body temperature.

Headquarters

Marlton, NJ

Year Founded

2007

Hokie Founder(s)

Susan Walvius (’86)

Smallstep

Smallstep is a comprehensive suite of infrastructure components and operational tools designed to build and maintain zero trust systems. The software securely connects people and services on any platform, anywhere in the world. Enabling users to improve security and eliminate the need for virtual private networks (VPNs) and firewalls.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Michael Malone (’06)

Socially Determined

Socially Determined is a social risk analytic technology intended to measure the impacts of social determinants of health (SDOH). The technology is a secure, cloud-based platform that manages data fusion, analytics, and visualizations of community and individual SDOH risk. enabling organizations to prioritize and match targeted social interventions to the needs of patients.

Headquarters

Washington, DC

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Trenor Williams (’92) & Anthony Beverina (’88)

Sonny Merryman

Socially Determined is a social risk analytic technology intended to measure the impacts of social determinants of health (SDOH). The technology is a secure, cloud-based platform that manages data fusion, analytics, and visualizations of community and individual SDOH risk. enabling organizations to prioritize and match targeted social interventions to the needs of patients.

Headquarters

Evington, VA

Year Founded

1967

Hokie Founder(s)

Floyd Merryman (’81)

Sonosa Medical

Socially Determined is a social risk analytic technology intended to measure the impacts of social determinants of health (SDOH). The technology is a secure, cloud-based platform that manages data fusion, analytics, and visualizations of community and individual SDOH risk. enabling organizations to prioritize and match targeted social interventions to the needs of patients.

Headquarters

Baltimore, MD

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Stephen Restaino (’11)

SourcePoint

SourcePoint is a content compensation platform designed to protect consumer privacy. The platform offers subscription-based consultative services for publishers to obtain privacy law-compliant consent from consumers to use their data.

Headquarters

New York, NY

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Benjamin Barokas (’05)

South Block

South Block, known for its OneBlock initiative, is a business committed to improving communities by offering healthier food options and encouraging positivity. Beyond being a popular juice bar, they inspire people to feel good about themselves and their community. They operate under the belief that small actions, like serving fresh juice, can significantly improve people’s lives and the community, one block at a time.

Headquarters

Arlington, VA

Year Founded

2011

Hokie Founder(s)

Amir Mostafavi (’98)

Stateless

Stateless is an enterprise software platform intended to make network functions flexible and scalable. The platform integrates scalable network functions with virtualization facilities. This allows for the building of multi-tenant L3+ connectivity solutions at scale.

Headquarters

Boulder, CO

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Eric Keller (’99)

Steampunk

Steampunk is an IT consulting service intended to help clients capture, process, store and exploit the value of data in support of strategic and tactical decision-making. They provide vision mapping workshops, process mapping and strategy development, brand analysis, service designing, cybersecurity engineering, penetration testing, and test automation. This allows government markets to engage offsite in a customized environment for truly distraction-free workshops and design sessions.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Leader(s)

Matt Warren (’96), Dan Parker (’95), & Tom Stepka (’82)

Synthonics

Sythonics makes metal-coordinated pharmaceuticals that incorporate proprietary metal coordination chemistry. The company is committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of safer and more effective drugs.

Headquarters

Blacksburg, VA

Year Founded

2006

Hokie Founder(s)

Tom Piccariello

ThreatQuotient

ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform designed to empower security teams to respond to cyber threats. The platform integrates with an organization’s existing processes and technologies to form a single security architecture. Enabling companies to identify, understand, prioritize, and act on high-priority threats faced by them.

Headquarters

Reston, VA

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Wayne Chiang (’06)

Toffler Associates

Toffler Associates brings cross-industry experience and a cross-functional methodology that gets beneath the surface of a complex issue to clarify the strategic issues in play. Founded in 1996, global leaders have engaged this distinctly integrated approach to pursue opportunity, mitigate risk, and create lasting value.

Headquarters

Arlington, VA

Year Founded

1996

Hokie Founder(s)

Maria Bothwell (’90)

Tribute

Tribute is an online video platform designed to be used for creating and sharing video montages. The platform offers a video application where users can create a video compilation to congratulate or thank their loved ones on special occasions.

Headquarters

New York, NY

Year Founded

2013

Hokie Founder(s)

Andrew Horn (’08)

Triumph NIL

Triumph NIL is a dedicated Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) company at Virginia Tech. They specialize in assisting student-athletes with the management and monetization of their NIL rights. Through their services, they aim to create opportunities for student-athletes to leverage their personal brand, while complying with NCAA regulations, and ultimately, shape their future careers.

Headquarters

Blacksburg, VA

Year Founded

2022

Hokie Founder(s)

Kelly Woolwine (’90)

TrustPoint

TrustPoint offers high-quality GPS tracking solutions for vehicles, designed to help businesses manage their fleets more effectively and securely. From real-time tracking to detailed reporting, TrustPoint provides businesses with the tools they need to optimize operations, enhance safety, and improve customer service.

Headquarters

Leesburg, VA

Year Founded

2020

Hokie Founder(s)

Chris DeMay (’02)

Veho

Veho is an end-to-end e-commerce delivery service intended to offer personalized next-day package delivery. The service helps clients cut shipping costs and gain full visibility into all of their shipments, allowing clients to increase customer loyalty and reduce costs.

Headquarters

Claymont, DE

Year Founded

2016

Hokie Founder(s)

Fred Cook (’08)

Venus Aerospace

Venus Areospace is a space company intended to provide a new approach to hypersonic transportation. The company is focused on engine efficiency, aircraft shape, and cooling technology for aircraft. Their goal is to enable clients to have fast global transport in a cost-effective manner.

Headquarters

Houston, TX

Year Founded

2019

Hokie Founder(s)

Sarah Duggleby (’06) & Andrew Duggleby (’06)

Versa Networks

Versa Networks is a software-defined networking (SDN) platform designed to provide integrated cloud, networking, and security services. The platform provides network and security infrastructure that runs on x86 servers or white box appliances. Versa Networks helps enterprises and service providers lower WAN, branch infrastructure, and circuit costs.

Headquarters

San Jose, CA

Year Founded

2012

Hokie Founder(s)

Kumar Mehta (’82)

Visbanking

Visbanking offers modern digital banking tools. They help banks and credit unions make their services digital and improve their customers’ banking experience. Using smart technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

Headquarters

Oklahoma City, OK

Year Founded

2022

Hokie Founder(s)

Brian Pillmore (’00)

Vistant

Vistant (formerly PM Consulting Group) is a company on a mission to make the world a better place. By harnessing the power of innovative technology and a team of dedicated professionals, Vistant works tirelessly to improve lives and create positive change on a global scale. Whether it’s through strategic solutions, logistics support, or innovative implementation, Vistant is committed to delivering meaningful impact and driving progress in communities around the world.

Headquarters

Washington, DC

Year Founded

2015

Hokie Founder(s)

Walter Barnes (’00)

W.M. Jordan Company

W.M. Jordan Company works with customers who want quality buildings that meet budget and schedule demands. They work to reach a building solution that is feasible, cost-effective and of the highest quality, using the latest technologies for optimal efficiency and innovation.

Headquarters

Newport News, VA

Year Founded

1955

Hokie Founder(s)

John Lawson (’75)

W2 Communications

W2 Communications is a full-service integrated marketing firm focused on creating awareness and credibility campaigns for information technology companies in the business-to-business and business-to-government markets.

Headquarters

McLean, VA

Year Founded

2003

Hokie Founder(s)

Evan Weisel (’93)

Weights & Biases


Weights & Biases is a dataset optimization tool designed to build quality software for deep learning practitioners. The tool develops performance visualization for machine learning that helps teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2017

Hokie Founder(s)

Shawn Lewis (’06)