Meet the Cohort

Please join us on October 10 to meet RAMP’s Fall 2024 Cohort! The event will begin at 5 PM with programming beginning at 5:30 PM.

• Drivingo (Blacksburg, VA) pioneers customer experience with touchless interfaces, conversational AI, and bespoke omnichannel retail systems. Drivingo boosts interactions across the hospitality and tourism industry from banks to grocery stores and airports, and the fast-food industry.

• DentAI (Richmond, VA) is revolutionizing the dental industry by automating the design of dental splints through advanced artificial intelligence. Our refined workflow offers a powerful tool for high-volume labs and dentists providing in-house treatments. DentAI’s mission is to reduce treatment design costs, enable more same-day appointments, and free up dental technicians to focus on complex cases, ultimately improving dental care efficiency and accessibility. 

• Accordium.AI (Blacksburg, VA) is developing a large language model platform to revolutionize the way users negotiate. This innovative application aims to assist sales, procurement professionals, executives, negotiators, and individuals involved in mergers and acquisitions by offering a comprehensive platform for negotiation preparation, role-playing, coaching, and execution. By creating a bounded universe embedded with a proprietary negotiation system, users will be able to enhance their negotiation skills effectively. The application will provide tailored role-play scenarios and coaching sessions to meet the unique needs of each user, ultimately empowering them to excel in complex sales, price negotiations, and various other high-stakes situations.

• Portcullis Research (Blacksburg, VA) is developing techniques to improve supply chain and lifecycle security for physical documents, trusted supply sources, and other routine business processes. These techniques integrate existing technologies to give companies and government agencies better lifecycle management of documents and assured supply chain artifacts.

RAMP will host a “Meet the Cohort,” open to the public, on October 10 at 5 p.m. at The Shenandoah Club in Roanoke for members of the community to meet the RAMP-in-Residence participants. The Fall 2024 Cohort will conclude their RAMP-in-Residence experience with “Demo Day,” scheduled for December 11 at the Inn at Virginia Tech when the entrepreneurs will present their companies to the region’s business leaders and investors.

Meet the Cohort is presented by Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) and National Bank of Blacksburg.