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Tocaro Blue Wins 2024 IBEX Innovation Award
Tocaro Blue has won the 2024 IBEX Innovation Award, OEM Electronics category, for our flagship product Proteus. Judge Theresa Nicholson explains what the judging panel saw in the product: “Tocaro Blue Proteus distills RADAR information to bring an easy awareness of waters around the boat. Proteus helps the user digest and understand information from their…
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DB Technologies Acquires Brigand Arms
Brigand Arms has been acquired by DB Technologies LLC for an undisclosed amount. Jeremy Wootten, CEO of DB Technologies, sees the Brigand Arms technology acquisition as a way to accelerate the growth of their advanced textiles business: “We see an opportunity to build on the intellectual property developed at Brigand Arms, leveraging our experience with…
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Tocaro Blue Acquires Moxie IoT
Tocaro Blue has acquired Moxie IoT, the engineering services company owned by Deft Dynamics, for an undisclosed amount in order to accelerate the development of navigation assistance systems and autonomous boating technology for the recreational marine industry. Moxie IoT has worked as Tocaro Blue’s lead engineering firm since 2019 and will now be fully integrated…
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New Headquarters
Deft Dynamics has moved into new headquarters in the Lakeview District of Birmingham, Alabama. “We have been leasing offices in Lakeview for the last five years; the area feels like home with great restaurants, other businesses in the area, as well as easy access to the interstate and airport. We were fortunate to find this…
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Gentle Machine Company
Gentle Machine Company was founded as a vehicle to pursue dexterous household robotics using the Deft Dexapod platform. When “robots” become ubiquitous household appliances, no one is going to call them robots anymore, and thanks to Hollywood “robot” implies a hazardous machine to many people – we’re getting ahead of that problem by accurately calling…
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Moxie IoT Wins Launchpad (Made in Alabama)
“The founders of MOXIE, which specializes in cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for industrial companies, say the Birmingham startup is preparing for growth after securing funding in an Alabama Launchpad competition. MOXIE earned a $100,000 seed-stage award in Launchpad’s recent 2020 Cycle 2 contest, sponsored by the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA). The…
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APEX Pro Wins Alabama Launchpad (al.com)
Alabama-based machine-learning tech startup APEX Pro is honored to be selected as the winner of EDPA’s Alabama Launchpad $100,000 startup competition, which took place during Birmingham’s annual Innovation Week. “It’s an honor to receive this award from Alabama Launchpad,” stated Andrew Rains, Director of Marketing at APEX Pro. “We are so fortunate to be in…
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Deft Dynamics Founded (Birmingham News)
Deft Dynamics‘ business is hard to pin down. Their first products to market don’t seem to have anything to do with one another: a lightweight AR-15 handguard, and an artificial intelligence device used in racecars. The owners – Austin Gurley and Ross Wesson – have a long list of ideas they want to bring to…
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