Xcision Medical Systems is a medical technology company developing advanced stereotactic radiotherapy solutions with the potential to dramatically raise the quality of treatments and improve the lives of patients and their loved ones. The company’s solutions are designed to extend the benefits of radiation oncology to more patients and enable noninvasive treatments that allow patients to return to living fuller lives more quickly and less painfully after receiving a cancer diagnosis.

Xcision’s initial focus is on breast cancer, using stereotactic partial breast irradiation to treat patients eligible for breast-conserving therapy. The company’s first product, GammaPod™, is a new, stereotactic radiotherapy system optimized for the treatment of breast cancer in 1-5 sessions.

Information Technologies Curves, or IT Curves®, develops state-of-the-art transportation and logistics management software serving enterprises in over 30 cities in the U.S. IT Curves’ software allows enterprises to monitor and manage mobile resources (which operate outside of the office) with the same level of accuracy as inoffice staff and resources. IT Curves’ system allows enterprises such as taxi, limousine, shuttle, campus bus systems, trucking, and other logistics management enterprises to accurately monitor, assign tasks, verify completion of the task, and process payments for these resources while on the road. IT Curves uses standard, off-the-shelf cellular phones and tablets, wireless data communication, accurate GPS positioning, and built-in navigation to enable mobile resources to be managed as an integral part of the company at all times.

Stress Indicators was established with the goal of innovating and developing visual indication systems to meet the needs of commercial and industrial users. The company’s proprietary Visual Indication technology can be implemented into a wide variety of applications and products.

Stress Indicators’ SmartBolts® product enables users to visually check that critical bolts are properly tightened. The technology accurately displays bolt tension by measuring the elongation of a bolt and converting it into a visual indication.

Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) is a small, innovative economic and policy analysis research and software development firm located at the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. Optimal has conducted over 200 evaluations, nationally and in 28+ countries incorporating research rigor and innovative technology tools, such as business intelligence software, integrated data repositories, and machine-learning algorithms.

The mission of AHPharma is to conduct private research for the agriculture industry and reinvest in the core business of the design, development, and commercialization of new technologies for improving animal agriculture production, nutrition, health, energy savings and housing techniques.

AHPharma’s radiant floors are designed to provide heat closer to bird activity via hot-water piping. By only emitting heat where it is needed, growers can reduce propane usage by up to 75 percent.

The company’s LED lighting system for poultry houses, called AviLighting®, reduces energy cost for growers by up to 94 percent per year over incandescent bulbs.

Medcura (formerly gel-e Inc.), a privately held, clinical-stage medical device company, develops a broad range of hemostatic and wound treatment products, including bandages for the treatment of routine cuts and scrapes, foams and putties for traumatic and military injuries, and surgical gels and powders.

Universal Security Instruments Inc. (NYSE Amex: UUU) is an international designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of high quality, professional and easy-toinstall home safety and security products. From its founding in 1969, UNIVERSAL® has grown to be an industry leader, providing residential fire safety and security products from its own overseas manufacturing facility. The company presently has government regulatory approvals to distribute in 30 countries.

Beginning in 1973, UNIVERSAL began manufacturing smoke and fire alarms and has developed a complete assortment of UL-Listed battery powered and hardwired alarms, with various patented features. UNIVERSAL began shipping carbon monoxide alarms in 2000. In 2013, the company’s product line was expanded to include the industry’s first and only 10-Year Permanent Power sealed battery alarms. Powered by Duracell® Duralock Power Preserve Technology™, UNIVERSAL alarms are lithium-free, providing a safer, more eco-friendly solution to low-battery chirps.

UNIVERSAL has become one of the largest manufacturers of Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms in the world. In July, 2003, UNIVERSAL was listed on the American Stock Exchange.

FiberCell Systems offers hollow fiber bioreactor systems to academic and biotechnology markets. The company’s bioreactors utilize new, state-of-the-art filtration rates that offer many advantages over conventional cell culture methods, and are used by NASA at the International Space Station and endorsed by the European Medicines Agency.

FiberCell developed and patented a novel method for generating gas delivery to hollow fiber cartridges. Instead of passively exchanging gas with a medium and flowing that medium through the cartridge, it delivers alternating amounts of medium and gas directly to the interior of the reactor. Rather than using pumps, gravity feed is utilized to circulate the medium in both directions. A device using these technologies would be an entirely new concept in bioreactor operating principles. This was the subject of the company’s MIPS project.

OmniSpeech LLC develops speech extraction technology for cellular and similar communications. The company has developed a method for extracting speech from noise, making communications such as cell phone conversations clear, even in environments such as high wind or large crowds. The technology can be applied to a wide range of audio and voice-oriented commercial devices, including hearing aids.

Under Armour® (NYSE: UA) is a leading developer, marketer and distributor of branded performance apparel, footwear and accessories. The company’s products are sold worldwide and worn by athletes at all levels, from youth to professionals, on playing fields around the globe. The Under Armour® global headquarters is in Baltimore, Md., with European headquarters in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, and additional offices in Denver, Hong Kong, Toronto, and Guangzhou, China.

HY-TEK Bio is an early stage company developing a patent-pending system to remove carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases from smoke stack flue gas using a unique strain of algae while producing valuable byproducts from the algae. The company’s system mitigates greenhouse gas from flue gases by injecting the flue gas into a tank full of a unique strain of algae. The tank is a patent-pending, closed bioreactor produced in-house from a lamination of Mylar and Kevlar. This patent-pending construct allows the bioreactors to be produced inexpensively while being extremely light weight. In addition, patent-pending LED Grow Lights are used along with a nutrient developed in-house, made from fresh chicken manure and a blend of other proprietary components.

The algae feeds on the CO2 and NOx in the flue gas, as well as on the nutrient. CO2 consumption is enhanced through the use of proprietary LED Grow Light technology, yielding minimal greenhouse gas emissions and high yields of high-value algal biomass. The process produces little to no CO2 or NOx emissions, while enhancing the lipid-oil production in the algae as well as a by-product of Lutein-Zeaxanthin, an ultra-antioxidant that is in high demand in the market place. The algal biomass can be sold to brokers, who place the biomass into markets that produce Lutein-Zeaxanthin-based products, bio-plastics, skin care products, cosmetic and paint thickeners, additives for human and animal food products, and biofuel.