Announced this week, Ohio's second innovation hub, Dayton's onMain Innovation Hub, will serve as a center for collaboration among the Dayton region’s government, academia, and private industry leaders.

Niobium, a leading custom silicon provider based in Dayton, has raised a $5.5 million seed round to revolutionize the field of Zero Trust Computing with its cryptography hardware. Niobium’s flagship product is a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) hardware accelerator, which allows for computing on encrypted data, providing a mathematical guarantee of data privacy.