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)