Marking 10 Years of Innovation

As part of the FedTech10 countdown, we’re highlighting key milestones that demonstrate the measurable outcomes of FedTech’s first decade of impact. Since its founding, FedTech has connected federally funded research with entrepreneurs, corporations, and government partners to accelerate technology deployment and strengthen the national innovation ecosystem. The results are clear: new companies, new jobs, and new opportunities emerging from public-sector innovation.

Over the past decade, FedTech has catalyzed the transition of university research into scalable deep-tech ventures, targeting urgent challenges across energy, health, infrastructure, and security.

FedTech is accelerating innovation across regions of the U.S. and abroad, turning lab-developed R&D into new ventures, jobs, and economic growth. Here’s how our regional work is driving measurable outcomes while aligning with security, energy, and technology priorities.

As FedTech celebrates a decade of building bridges between federal R&D, entrepreneurs, and industry, we’ve gathered eight powerful reflections from our leaders and advisors. These insights highlight the lessons learned and trends shaping the future of deeptech: from federal innovation policy and global market entry to defense innovation, climate tech deployment, and commercialization strategies. Together, they tell the story of how FedTech has grown over the past ten years and offer a vision for the breakthroughs and collaborations that will define the next decade.

These nine companies represent what’s possible when innovation is connected to the right resources and commercialization pathways. Some launched inside a FedTech startup studio, while others joined later to accelerate their growth.

For over a decade, FedTech has partnered with federal labs, university research teams, and entrepreneurial talent to transform groundbreaking research into thriving ventures.These technologies represent the very best outcomes of that mission: breakthrough innovations with the potential to reshape industries, strengthen national security, and solve critical societal challenges.