Bennie Brimage
Founder/Product Developer
Every month, founders demo live products and standout community members get spotlighted. Here are some of the innovators featured at recent DC Tech Meetups.
A rotating spotlight on community members — founders, operators, investors, and builders — who've shaped recent DC Tech Meetups.
Founder/Product Developer
Biomedical Engineer | Oncology & Diagnostics Scientist | Adjunct Faculty, GWU
Founder and CEO
Founder and CEO
Partner
Co-founder
CEO and Founder
Co-Founder & CEO
"We're aiming to raise $1M from angels and early stage VCs in the therapeutic and biotech sectors."
Co-Founder, Focus Flow (Working Title)
"Focus Flow (working title) — an AI-powered digital assistant specifically designed to support adults with ADHD. Looking for beta testers!"
Founder
Founder
"Always a fun time at the DC Tech Meetups — you never know who will be sitting next to you in the auditorium, and what starts as simple small talk turns into big ideas and potential partnerships!"
Principal, Quantitative Risk Partners Independent Director, Celtic Bank
"DCTM has been beneficial in connecting me with key players in the tech community and entrepreneurs in AI application."
CEO, Founder
"Building on the real-time collaborative foundation of Apex Engine, we are designing Apex CoCast, a multi-view desktop collaboration layer that eliminates the one-presenter bottleneck common in remote workflows. It's a natural extension of our work in parallel, live systems."
Shadow Junior Analyst, Eagle Venture Seed Fund, American University
"I have yet to attend a DCTM event, though my team at the Eagle Venture Seed Fund at American University has, and they absolutely RAVE about the connections made there!"
Cause Marketing Consultant
AI BUSINESS CONSULTANT
President
"The local startup ecosystem has grown up fast over the last few years, but DCTM is still the big-tent event — bringing together every part of the community."
Independent Researcher, AI Governance & Healthcare Systems
Founder/CEO
Founder
"I am a recent founder of Longevitae, a personal health decision support layer that translates wearable and behavioral data into structured guidance. I've developed an MVP web application that's currently in closed beta. Longevitae is pre-incorporation."
Chief Technology Officer
"Health Innovations is ready to debut its Clinical Science Industry Knowledge Graph: who is doing research in which fields and where, across the industry."
Founder & CEO
Co-founder
CEO
Founder & Full-Stack Engineer
Managing Director
Founder
"AI Powered Tools or Platforms which deliver early wins/traction instead of those promising the moon and the stars."
CEO and Co-Founder
Co-Founder / CEO
"DC Tech Meetup felt less like networking and more like alignment. It helped me see how foundational principles and modern tools could work together, and showed me what I was capable of building."
Finance Student
"Anyone who can facilitate genuine meaningful human connections will win"
"After soft launching in 2025, District Innovation is open for business in 2026. Partnering with and supporting startups and founders connect the dots between what they offer, who it's for, how we tell the story, and the websites and products that make it happen."
Co-Founder
"The system is transitioning, where the people and companies who can show true value and take the time to build relationships will be the winners."
Founder and Principal
"I got my start in marketing and communications in Minnesota's tech and startup ecosystem. I'm excited to attend a DC Tech Meetup for the first time and get to know the movers and shakers here in the District. In 2025, I'm proud to have supported numerous healthcare and education startups with their communications and marketing. I also secured a DC Supply Schedule Contract for Quintet Creative."
Senior Marketing & Revenue Director (DMV) of ARTECHOUSE
Co-founder of PotentialU
Founder of Natureverse
Founder & CEO of BarnWiz Inc.
Senior Marketing & Revenue Director (DMV) of ARTECHOUSE
Chief Information Officer, DC Department of Employment Services (DOES)
"I’m here to reconnect with the energy of builders and ambitious thinkers. To stay sharp, I stayed active, spoke to the European Innovation Council on LLM security vs. AppSec (in Spain), and recently built an AI-powered Reddit bot for r/LLMSecurity. Reach out and let's have a coffee!"
Founder / CEO, 4RL
"I’m attending DCTM because the future of DC’s tech scene is being decided now— I’m not here to watch it unfold; I’m here to shape it."
Founder, Stealth AI Startup
"AI has already improved our productivity, but it's easy to get stuck on outdated techniques. I'm looking forward to learning cutting edge, actionable tips on how to use AI to ship even faster."
Senior Manager
"I am looking forward to bringing over 25 years of tech and product experience to connect with others for mutual benefit. I’m excited to see how folks are scaling AI from cool demos to sustainable businesses. Feel free to use as quote or massage as needed for your media goals."
Chief of Staff
Founder, Mulcare Labs
"The key, if you want to develop a new skill, is to join a group where the desired behaviour, is the normal behaviour.” -James Clear I'm looking for a community of people that do hard things and celebrate the pursuit."
Senior Technical Product Manager The Vanguard Group
"I’m attending DCTM to connect with innovators who are using AI to solve real-world problems, especially in healthcare and public sector applications where responsible AI deployment is critical."
Here are some of the innovators featured at recent DC Tech Meetups.
For health care payers that suffer increasing costs due to 7 out of 10 patients not performing their physical therapy exercise at home, BeneKinetic provides AI led Virtual Group rehabilitation classes that improve patient adherence, for better patient health and lower costs.
Your health, elevated.
An AI health companion that integrates lab results, wearable data, and health history to deliver personalized daily actions for chronic condition management. Bridges clinical diagnostics with lifestyle medicine and agentic AI for preventive care.
For the 1.3B people with vision impairment, Feyenally is the first app to provide objective eye tests using only a smartphone. Unlike subjective charts (“Which is better, 1 or 2?") or bulky $15k+ hardware, our AI scans the eye to deliver clinical-grade results in seconds.
Mindframe is a conversational care navigation platform for healthcare systems that helps their patients get to the right level of care at the right time.
Chiplet SoCs expected to operate in contested environments. We allow on board AI computation such as image recognition, semantic segmentation and object tracking to stream to other devices or command under active jamming conditions while maintaining secure communication.
Food safety and quality, digitized at scale.
An enterprise SaaS and AI platform for food and beverage companies that digitizes safety and quality operations — replacing manual processes with AI tools for sanitation, environmental monitoring, and process control. Trusted by Coca-Cola, Ferrero, and General Mills.
TellPastell helps you record a memory or idea, and transform it into an illustrated book in minutes.
Apex Engine is a cloud-native, real-time collaborative 3D platform that runs through a lightweight local client, with core simulation, state, and orchestration handled in the cloud. It enables multiple users to build, iterate, and interact within the same live 3D environment simultaneously.
CORAnet offers a 360-Degree Health Mobile Personal Health Information Exchange (MOBPHIE) SaaS platform that aggregates, secures, and exchanges patient data from multiple sources into a unified, patient-controlled record. It supports telehealth, emergency access, and wearable-device integration to enable real-time care coordination and interoperability across providers.
Drivingo is an AI-powered self-service and kiosk automation platform that streamlines ordering and payments for quick-service restaurants using touchless interfaces, conversational AI, and gesture recognition. By enhancing speed, accuracy, and accessibility, Drivingo transforms the drive-thru and in-store experience, reducing wait times and optimizing operations for the future of smart retail and urban automation.
Decentralized open-source Git-native social network
Think of us as the backend developers for the corporate training world: we automate the hard-coded logic required to build effective learning solutions. By managing the structural architecture of a course, we allow L&D teams to ship training products in minutes rather than months.
Think of SorsX as Google Maps for hiring: you tell it who you’re looking for, and it does the rest. Our patent-pending AI codifies eight years of recruiting best practices to source, evaluate, interview, and shortlist candidates—across both active applicants and passive talent—so hiring teams can make confident decisions in minutes, not hours.
Our software expedites the process of validating the voter registration of signers on political petitions.
AI-Powered social media background screening for a stronger workplace culture. Ferretly analyzes online behavior to uncover risk signals that traditional background checks overlook.
Flowbot Forge helps growing businesses streamline sales, marketing, operations, and customer success with AI-powered workflow automation that eliminates repetitive tasks and integrates seamlessly into existing tools. Through tailored solutions, strategic audits, and ongoing support, we free up teams to focus on high-value work while driving efficiency, scalability, and growth.
Gateway is an AI-powered onboarding and training platform that helps companies turn scattered knowledge into structured, engaging, and trackable learning - across employees, customers, and partners. Reduces time and cost of training by up to 75% and improves knowledge transfer by 80%.
Scale your hiring without the burnout.
An AI recruiting platform featuring an AI avatar recruiter that conducts automated first-round interviews and a real-time interviewer copilot. Reduces time-to-hire from 42 to 8 days with 34% higher offer acceptance rates.
Keep Company is a modern coaching & mentoring platform that builds meaningful human connection. We combine smart matching, program delivery automation, and proven outcomes so organizations can easily run high-impact engagement programs, that truly connect and strengthen their people.
Build OS is the personal AI co-pilot that transforms your chaotic thoughts into streamlined progress, and keeps you moving forward!
Where reality meets imagination.
An XR enterprise firm that develops story-centric digital products using emerging technologies — VR/AR experiences, mobile and web apps, AI integration, and video production. Serves government, defense, education, real estate, and healthcare.
Stop searching. Start winning.
An AI-powered grant discovery platform that instantly profiles organizations and matches them against hundreds of thousands of funding programs. Serves nonprofits, universities, research institutions, and startups.
Your AI-powered EV assistant.
An AI-powered assistant for electric vehicle owners that helps navigate charging infrastructure and plan routes. Surfaces reliable fast chargers and optimizes EV-specific routing to take the friction out of driving electric.
SiteNsight is a mobile app that uses scanning technology to identify construction materials, tools, and buildings, providing users with detailed information and educational context. It bridges the gap between DIY users, developers, tourist, professionals, and students by making construction knowledge easily accessible in real time.
Small actions, big results.
A platform focused on helping people build momentum through small, achievable wins powered by AI coaching and habit-tracking. Designed to make personal and professional growth feel accessible and sustainable.