Startups + VC
The 10-week program pairs emerging dual-use companies with defense buyers, mentors and investors, running from mid-September through mid-November and closing with a Demo Day. At least three of the 10 selected companies are Ohio-based, two with roots at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Ten leadership moves across Ohio's investment, health care and technology sectors, including a general counsel for The O.H.I.O. Fund, a new chief executive at Proformex and a managing director building ventures at Cincinnati Children's Innovation Ventures.
Columbus
The Columbus digital commerce consultancy spent four years scaling inside COhatch's Polaris and Westerville locations. Now roughly 225 people strong and a two-time Inc. 5000 honoree, Aries has taken its own suite at Easton Town Center, steps from the retail clients it serves.
Fueled by logistics dominance and aggressive site development, the state’s rise reflects years of coordinated economic strategy. Major investments in semiconductors, energy, and AI infrastructure are accelerating its position as a national hub for industrial-scale innovation.
AI25, presented by Ohio Tech News and OhioX, recognizes leaders turning artificial intelligence into real-world impact across Ohio — from startups and classrooms to hospitals, public agencies, manufacturing floors, and the capital backing what comes next.
Resilience’s move from San Diego to Blue Ash cements Southwest Ohio as a million‑square‑foot hub for sterile injectables and advanced packaging, tying corporate leadership directly to its expanding West Chester manufacturing network and new high‑skill jobs in the region.
Facing a projected shortage of more than 540,000 skilled workers over the next decade, Ohio is launching a $300 million workforce initiative. The program aims to reach roughly 25,000 Ohioans by providing financial incentives for hybrid work-and-education models in critical industries.
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Two family-founded stamping companies, one in St. Marys and one in Brooklyn Heights, join a Cleveland-based platform that already ran six plants and $300 million in revenue. The capital comes through private funds advised by The O.H.I.O. Fund rather than its own balance sheet.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is the first participant in the Airports AI Alliance's Open Innovation Programme, working with Columbia University researchers and INRIX to model vehicle movement across a campus the size of a small city.
JumpStart's two-day gathering brings founders, investors and corporate leaders to the Huntington Convention Center for panels on agentic AI, industrial innovation and connected health.
The Findlay managed service provider launched days before 9/11, when national carriers were skipping over northwest Ohio and the community decided to build its own network. Twenty-five years and six or seven reinventions later, it runs cybersecurity out of a former Defense Department bunker.
The Cleveland company's ARWell PRO beat entries from 42 countries at this year's Games for Change Festival. CEO Lindsay Watson, a physical therapist of 25 years, built it around a problem she kept running into: most patients never do their home exercises.
The Cincinnati company measures what ChatGPT, Claude and other answer engines say about roughly 100 brands, and co-founder Pete Blackshaw says market share no longer predicts what the models recommend. New capital will fund an industry-by-industry expansion.
Alex “Fro” Frommeyer’s Columbus startup is betting that fixed employer allowances, employee-owned plans, and local care-navigation tools can give small businesses an alternative to escalating health-plan renewals.
The fintech, which says it is on pace to process more than $6 billion annually, plans to use its first major outside funding to add staff, broaden payment-rail integrations and push beyond its real-estate base into additional vertical-software markets.
A new NSF-backed consortium will develop a shared testbed to determine where entanglement-enabled measurement can outperform conventional tools, with Ohio State researchers targeting applications in biomolecular science, radiation detection, and advanced manufacturing.
More than 200 people registered for the first Ohio Tech Night: SF, bringing founders, investors, and operators together as Ohio State expands its Bay Area presence and companies like Upstart and Path Robotics show how the two ecosystems are already increasingly connected.
Led by The O.H.I.O. Fund with backing from Khosla Ventures, the NASA-alumni-led startup will use one of the state's largest-ever seed rounds to accelerate certification and scale Cleveland manufacturing for its waterless acoustic fire suppression systems.
The funding will expand year-round electric-bill aid, raise grants to as much as $500 and broaden eligibility for qualifying AEP Ohio customers. The initiative connects Ohio’s fast-growing data-center footprint with direct support for households facing utility-payment challenges.
