It's time to vote for Sacramento's startup community standouts.
Inno Madness is the Sacramento Business Journal's Inno section's bracket-style competition to highlight the startup and technology companies that drive our innovation economy.
Sixteen companies will go head-to-head through subsequent rounds of voting with our readers deciding who moves on from every matchup. At the end of all the matchups, we'll announce our Inno Madness winner. Along the way, local startups and tech companies will get a little ink to let the ecosystem know a bit about them.
There is no prize money, and there will be no pitches necessary. It's mostly just for fun and glory. And a little attention for the Sacramento region's startups. Here are the official rules.
Voting for the first round is open now. The first round will run through 9 a.m. on March 21.
Here are this year's competitors.
- Delix Therapeutics, which is developing therapies using non-hallucinatory psychedelic drugs.
- EV Life, a platform for prospective car buyers to research electric vehicles and find subsidies and financing.
- Invasive Species Corp., which is researching biological controls to replace chemicals in efforts to combat invasive species.
- Japa Inc., which is deploying hardware and software to better manage parking structures.
- OnSight Technology, which is building robots to help maintain solar farms.
- Pheronym, which is using biology to influence behavior of nematodes in agriculture.
- Unstructured, which is selling a platform to make information in more formats available for use in generative artificial intelligence.
- Eli Technologies. which offers subsidy and grant information about electrification upgrades.
- Pair Anything Inc., which uses AI to pair wines with food.
- Elve Inc., which makes amplifiers for high-bandwidth data transmission on Earth and in space.
- Rhombus Inc., which makes a suite of web-based remote security monitoring products.
- Norfolk Healthy Produce, which is developing modified tomatoes with high nutrition.
- Trifecta, which delivers organic prepared meals for fitness-minded customers.
- HuLoop Automation, which offers technology for AI-enabled workflow automation.
- Streamline Software, which makes and maintains software for government special districts.
- Oobli, which makes protein-sweetened foods and beverages.
