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We support tech entrepreneurship and startups through economic research, policy analysis, and advocacy.
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To fully realize the potential of our startup ecosystem, we must dismantle the barriers that hinder underrepresented founders and ensure that entrepreneurship truly reflects the diversity of our society.
Innovation can and should be accessible to all.
Seattle-area startup Sound Games is building a distribution platform like Shopify for games, streamlining indie developers’ simultaneous launches across various storefronts.
We sat down with co-founder Mike Schmid to talk about his journey from the App Store to building his own platform, the challenging landscape of raising capital in the current gaming market, and the operational burdens of navigating state-by-state compliance for a remote startup.
RelateXR is an addiction recovery software that has been making waves at Indiana University since it was founded three years ago.
Izzy Branam is the CEO and co-founder of RelateXR. We sat down with him to talk about his company, RelateXR’s experience with Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants, and more.
Learn more: engine.is/news/startupsevery…
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🗣️How will ongoing copyright battles shape how startups train AI models? Join Re:Create member @EngineOrg on Sept 16 (12–1 PM ET) for a virtual panel featuring Re:Create Executive Director @bc_butler, @runwayml’s Evan Engstrom, @EFF’s Corynne McSherry, and Engine’s Jill Crosby.
Learn more & register here: engine.quorum.us/event/36058…
After pioneering commercial in-space manufacturing and leading the team that designed the cameras for the Artemis II mission, Andrew Rush set out to solve the need for magnitudes more power for satellites in low Earth orbit. – at Florida, USA
Star Catcher is building a power grid in space, concentrating energy from the sun and beaming optical and near-infrared beams of light that can greatly increase the energy output of solar panels on existing satellites.
We sat down with Andrew to talk about Star Catcher, the importance of patenting technology, the evolution of capital formation in the space sector, and more.
engine.is/news/startupsevery…
Alehra, an Atlanta-based startup co-founded by Ayobami "Ayo" Adewole and Adekunle "Ade" Oyaniyi, is a purpose-built "operating system" for behavioral health created to eliminate the administrative burnout caused by fragmented software systems.
Their approach enables providers to prioritize patient care over manual paperwork by unifying scheduling, clinical documentation, and billing into a one-stop-shop platform, while also allowing practices to integrate their own preferred tools.
We sat down with Ayo and Ade to discuss the origins of Alehra, the role of agentic AI in modern care, their talent and funding journeys, and the policy hurdles that founders in highly regulated industries face.
engine.is/news/startupsevery…
After an idea conceived and prototyped in business school went viral, founder and CEO Chris Lucas raised a $2 million pre-seed round for his company Secondsense.
Secondsense is a platform that aggregates data across resale listings to determine the fair market value of commercial goods on the secondhand market.
We sat down with Chris to talk about his company, the perception of algorithms versus their actual use, and more.
Learn more: engine.is/news/startupsevery…
Offleash’d, a Los Angeles, CA area-based startup, is building a social ecosystem to bridge the gap between digital connection and physical community for pet parents. Since its launch in 2022, Offleash’d has rolled out its proprietary AI companion and added hyper-local features.
We spoke with Terry James, CEO & Co-founder, about scaling responsible content moderation, introducing their AI agent “EVE,” the unique pet-parent demographic, and advocacy for policy changes to make pet parenthood more accessible.
engine.is/news/startupsevery…
Barnwell Bio is modernizing disease analysis in the poultry industry without compromising the efficiency and biosecurity that farmers depend on.
Their metagenomic sequencing platform—analyzing all DNA present in a sample—converts traditional reactive disease testing into a proactive health management system.
We sat down with CEO and co-founder, Michael Rhys, to discuss his transition from COVID-19 wastewater tracking to animal agriculture, the role of AI in characterizing the microbiome, and his experience navigating federal grants and research funding.
engine.is/news/startupsevery…