SBIR Accelerator Showcase
Curious what kind of companies use the SBIR Program to snag non-dilutive capital and work with the DoD? Hear from the founders of three companies that recently completed the Capital Factory SBIR Accelerator.
What you’ll find out
- Meet OpsLab: Scheduling mission-critical resources at scale (00:05)
- Meet Foothold Labs: Making lab-quality results accessible (09:00)
- Meet Parasanti: Building the future of data with edge analytics (18:15)
Key quotes
Meet Opslab (00:05)
- “At Opslab, we focus on scheduling at scale and the two industries we’re focused on are commercial airlines and the Department of Defense.” — Arun Nair, Opslab (00:11)
- “With the Air Force, we are trying to automate the entire squadron operations for them. And we’re working with ATC which is the Air Education and Training Command, working on the pilot training program.” — Arun Nair (01:54)
- “You have to think about airspace availability. You have to think about maintenance, if they can handle the jet configurations and reconfigurations needed for each different mission type. You have to think about whether the instructor pilot is available, if they have the right currencies. A lot of these constraints have to go in before you can handle squadron scheduling.” — Arun Nair, Opslab Co-Founder (02:50)
Meet Foothold Labs (08:42)
- “We’re using electrochemistry to build a new generation of diagnostics. There are really three pillars to our technology. There’s the hardware that runs the electrochemistry, there’s the sensors that we can make at scale and we can essentially create a biosensor… and there’s the machine learning part.” — Sean Mcintosh, CEO and Founder, Foothold Labs (10:42)
- “It’s a game changer that allows this technology to finally be commercialized. It’s been called ‘lab on a chip’. It’s also been called ‘biology as a circuit’” — Sean Mcintosh, CEO and Founder, Foothold Labs (11:38)
- “We just won a Phase 2 with the Air Force, and it’s not for healthcare purposes, but for jet fuel. SO right now the way the Air Force tests for jet fuel quality is 40 years old…Our goal is to provide a device that can be on the tarmac where a sample can be pulled and tested in 5 minutes, or pulled from a jet when it comes back from a mission.” — Sean Mcintosh, CEO and Founder, Foothold Labs (14:22)
Meet Parsanti (18:15)
- “We’re an edge analytics company that’s out to build the future of data for those that work the hardest.” — James Hancock, Parasanti CEO (18:39)
- “There was a serious disconnect between the data that was shared with the people in the war room or STRATCOM and what was shared with the people who were on the battlefield actually doing the work, so we created Parasanti to steer towards that operator and build a more successful data future.” — James Hancock, Parasanti CEO (19:00)
- “We require artificial intelligence, machine learning capabilities and algorithms at the edge with the ability to connect to any sensor or any node and that’s what they have solved.” — Gen. (Ret.) Eric Wesley, Parasanti Executive Chairman (23:05)
Who you’ll hear from
Arun Nair, Opslab.com, CEO and Founder
Sean McIntosh, Foothold Labs, CEO
James Hancock, Parasanti, CEO
About Fed Supernova
Fed Supernova is a two-day annual conference highlighting defense innovation in Texas. This first-of-its-kind interactive experience draws national attention and connects leading entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders, corporations, and decision makers from around the world.About Capital Factory
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one startup state in the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas and Houston, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2013.
