3dB Labs

At Draper, we believe that the most impactful solutions emerge when diverse disciplines converge to tackle our nation's toughest challenges. As an independent nonprofit engineering innovation company, our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work collaboratively across domains from space exploration to biomedical engineering, where lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our culture thrives on the cross-fertilization of ideas, bringing together experts in guidance, navigation, control systems, biotechnology, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous solutions to push the boundaries of what's possible. We've been engineering solutions that matter for over 90 years, from the Apollo Guidance Computer that enabled lunar landings to cutting-edge organ-on-a-chip technologies transforming healthcare today. Our 2,000+ employees tackle complex problems in national security, space systems, strategic defense, and human health with an unwavering commitment to delivering working solutions that make a real difference. We foster an environment where technical excellence meets mission-driven purpose - where your work contributes to safeguarding democracy, defending our nation, and improving humanity.

In 1983, founder David Evans Shaw started IDEXX with just five employees in Portland, Maine, responding to a new niche market: the detection of diseases in livestock and poultry. What began as a focused diagnostic solution provider for the agricultural industry has evolved into something far more transformative - a global leader in pet healthcare innovation. The company recognized early on that veterinarians needed better tools to deliver optimal care, and this insight drove expansion beyond livestock testing into companion animal diagnostics, software, and comprehensive veterinary practice solutions. Today, IDEXX serves veterinarians worldwide with an integrated ecosystem that includes reference laboratories, in-house diagnostic analyzers like Catalyst One and ProCyte Dx, practice management software such as Cornerstone, Neo, and VetConnect PLUS, and educational resources through the IDEXX Learning Center. The company's roughly 11,000 employees across 80+ countries are united by a single mission: helping pets lead longer, fuller lives by giving veterinarians the clarity and answers they need. From pioneering SDMA testing for early kidney disease detection to developing digital cytology platforms that connect veterinarians with pathologists globally, IDEXX has consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in veterinary diagnostics, making advanced care accessible to practices of all sizes.

Ruby Labs is a leading tech company that creates innovative consumer products across health, education, and entertainment sectors. Founded in 2018 in London, the company has established itself as a self-funded, independent player in the technology space, free from external investor pressures. Through a lean, agile approach and engineering-led culture, Ruby Labs has successfully launched seven consumer products that are now used by over 100 million users annually across the globe. The company operates with a focus on technological innovation, having developed proprietary systems including a billing and payments gateway, first-party marketing attribution, state-of-the-art data analytics, and sophisticated experimentation frameworks. Ruby Labs believes in being analytical, technologically advanced, and highly structured in their approach to product development. Their independence fuels innovation, allowing them to take calculated risks and make rapid decisions while maintaining a long-term vision for sustainable growth.

ProCaps Laboratories is a manufacturer of premium vitamins and nutritional supplements, founded in 1979 by Andrew Lessman. The company operates from a state-of-the-art 125,000-square-foot facility in Henderson, Nevada, featuring one of the largest private solar energy installations in the world. ProCaps is one of the few supplement companies that actually manufactures the vitamins it distributes, maintaining complete control over quality, safety, and potency. The company holds LEED Existing Building (EB) GOLD certification for its commitment to green energy production and environmentally responsible practices. What began as The Winning Combination in 1979 has evolved into ProCaps Laboratories through a journey of innovation and growth. Andrew Lessman started creating vitamins for elite athletes while in law school, using his biochemistry background to develop 100% pure, additive-free formulas. The company transitioned from retail to direct response marketing, eventually becoming a pioneer in television home shopping on QVC and later HSN. Today, ProCaps continues to lead the industry in research, development, and innovation, offering products based on solid science without hype or deceptive marketing tactics.

We build AI-native agents that actually do the work for financial institutions - not just dashboards and insights. Spring Labs helps banks and fintechs automate their most critical compliance and customer experience workflows, from complaint detection and QA scoring to conversation summarization and dispute resolution. Our agents orchestrate LLMs, specialized small models, and traditional machine learning to deliver 97% accuracy while completing tasks end-to-end. Founded in 2017, we serve sponsor banks, fintech lenders, enterprise banks, BaaS platforms, and ARM companies. Our platform goes live in two weeks, not six months, integrating seamlessly with existing telephony, CRM, and data warehouse systems. We're not another GPT wrapper - we've built purpose-built agentic AI that understands regulatory nuance and takes autonomous action across downstream systems. The result? Financial institutions can scale service, reduce manual work, and stay audit-ready without adding headcount.

Prior Labs is building breakthrough foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases - the lifeblood of science and business. While foundation models have transformed text and images, tabular data has remained largely untouched. The company is tackling this opportunity to revolutionize how organizations approach scientific discovery, medical research, financial modeling, and business intelligence. Their flagship TabPFN model has been published in Nature, achieved state-of-the-art performance for tabular machine learning, and garnered over 2.5 million downloads with 5,500 GitHub stars. Backed by Balderton Capital, XTX Ventures, and the Hector Foundation, and advised by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, Prior Labs is scaling fast with a team of 20+ engineers and researchers from leading institutions. Their vision extends beyond prediction to create truly agentic AI systems capable of understanding high-level goals, fusing tables with language and images to reason, integrate domain knowledge, and infer insights.