After a months-long nomination process and weeks of whittling down to 16 promising startups from across the Land of Enchantment, it's here — New Mexico Inno's 2024 Inno Madness competition!
Inno Madness is our friendly, bracket-style startup contest where readers vote to advance companies based on one primary question: Who would you invest in? The bracket, full of the 16 startups for which you'll get the chance to answer that question, is designed to spotlight innovative, fast-growing companies in New Mexico.
The New Mexico Inno editorial team assembled the bracket based on reader nominations and other community input. Seeding is based on performance in prior Inno Madness competitions, previous coverage and startup traction, with the 2022 and 2023 Inno Madness champions holding each of the No. 1 seeds, respectively.
Check out the full bracket below, and read the contest rules here.
The goal of Inno Madness is to give a snapshot of the most promising tech companies in New Mexico. It's by no means a complete list of New Mexico's best startups, which is a testament to the growing tech scene in the state; it's meant to represent the full breadth and diversity of the ecosystem, including some of our 2024 Startups to Watch.
Below you'll find brief descriptions of the 16 startups in this year's bracket. Use the button in the bracket above, or the link here, to vote in round one.
Now, let's kick off our 2024 Inno Madness competition!
Terra Vera — Last year's champion has an amino acid-based germicide technology for crop protection.
Solstar Space Co. — Our 2022 champion develops communications technology for satellites and other spacecraft.
Build with Robots — Offers automated robots that spray disinfectant to clean areas like airports or schools.
WaveOn Health — Last year's runner-up is creating an app-based digital athlete health management system.
Circular Genomics — Using circular RNAs to diagnose and treat psychiatric and neurological diseases.
Hoonify Technologies — Selling high-performance computing software and hardware.
Both& — An apparel company and brand making clothes for transmasculine and nonbinary people.
BabyQuip — Runs an online service to allow families to rent baby and party gear.
TNeuroPharma — Developing a novel Alzheimer's diagnostic method using T-cells.
VisionQuest Biomedical — Commercializing an AI-based peripheral neuropathy screening technology.
VastVision — Rolling out a software and RFID chip-based platform to help businesses track physical assets.
Ganymede Games — Game developer working on a flagship card-based role-playing game.
PainScan — Medical device startup developing gloves to find and treat pain more accurately.
Flow Aluminum — Building aluminum-based batteries that can store energy efficiently and capture carbon.
Tartle — Growing a platform that lets customers securely provide information about themselves that companies can pay to access.
Growvera — Marketing a technological device to help cannabis cultivators more efficiently dry their crops.
