Spring 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the founders witnessed hospitals across the world struggling to secure basic PPE and essential medical supplies. The problem was clear: healthcare systems lacked real-time data, automated processes, and modern software tools to manage their supply chains effectively. They saw frontline healthcare workers forced to make critical decisions with incomplete information, and supply chain teams overwhelmed by manual, fragmented systems. This realization became Clarium's founding moment. They vowed to create a provider-centric data platform that would help hospitals modernize and optimize their supply chain operations. Today, Clarium's Astra OS unifies data from across healthcare systems and suppliers, using AI-powered insights and intelligent automation to predict disruptions, identify substitutes, and unlock millions in savings for major health systems like Yale New Haven Health, Stanford Medicine, and Geisinger.