Prior 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.

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.

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.

3dB Labs is a software and hardware engineering company focused on shaping the future of signal processing and analysis. Founded in 2004 by three engineers driven by a desire to maintain the highest quality customer relationships, the company has established a 20+ year track record of successful deployments for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, NATO, research laboratories, and system integrators worldwide. Enabled by their proprietary Sceptre software technology combined with innovative hardware applications, 3dB Labs provides advanced signal processing capabilities even in the most challenging environments. The company's flagship Sceptre software is a customizable, remote-able signal processing suite capable of real-time and offline spectrum and temporal analysis, integrated with over 50 receivers. Their Monarch systems house Sceptre software for monitoring and archiving across various applications, supporting a wide variety of receivers and digitizers from over a dozen manufacturers. Additionally, 3dB Labs offers application-based systems including Kirby for geolocation, Citadel for in-place monitoring, and LTMS for laptop-based monitoring stations. With a team of advanced degree engineers and former military SIGINT, TSCM & TEMPEST experts, 3dB Labs operates from four offices across Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, providing global reach with specialized training and field support.

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.

At Outset, we believe the best research happens when you can ask anyone anything - and actually understand the answer. Our AI-moderated research platform empowers teams to conduct in-depth qualitative interviews at unprecedented scale, turning what used to take weeks into hours. Our AI interviewer leads natural, human-like conversations, asking thoughtful follow-ups and adapting to responses in real-time, then automatically synthesizes findings into actionable insights. We've seen teams run 100 interviews in days, conduct 75 overnight with a single researcher, and finally give research the seat at the table it deserves. We're a tight-knit team of 30 based in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator, 8VC, Radical Ventures, and M12 (Microsoft's venture arm). Our growth has been explosive - an 8x year as enterprises like Microsoft, Nestle, Uber, and Hubspot adopt AI-moderated research as their new standard. We move fast, ship constantly, and maintain the mindset that AI should deepen human understanding, not replace it. Whether you're shaping product roadmaps, exploring new markets, or evaluating brand positioning, Outset helps you get to the 'why' behind the 'what' - faster and at a scale traditional methods simply can't match.