Celebrating RAMP Alumni in the News (2024)

Verge is pleased to acknowledge some RAMP Alumni in 2024, who have been featured in the news! We would love to hear from all of our RAMP Alumni when they are showcased in the news, simply by contacting Verge via email with your news link! 

• VIPC’s Virginia Venture Partners Invests in The Tiny Cargo Company to Scale and Protect Novel Drug Delivery Platform (Feb. 2024)
• Top-Line Results from Clinical Trial Show Capsadyn™ Does Not Burn (Mar. 2024)
• Video from Dr. Spencer Marsh, Chief Scientific Officer of the Tiny Cargo Company, a spinout from Dr. Rob Gourdie’s research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC (Mar. 2024)
• Alumni Spotlight: An Interview With Dr. Sarah Snider, BEAM Diagnostics CEO & Co-Founder (April 2024)
• Hexagon Acquires Itus Digital (RAMP Alumni, 2020 Cohort) to Expand Asset Performance Management Capabilities (April 2024)
• Several RAMP Alumni were 2024 TechNite Award Winners, on May 8th at The Hotel Roanoke, including Fermi Energy Inc. (Rising Star in Tech), BEAM Diagnostics (Rising Star in Biotech), CytoRecovery (Leading Small Tech Company), and The Tiny Cargo Company (Hart of the Entrepreneur Impact Award)
• CytoRecovery Places First in the Innovation Technology Showcase at the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, in Edinburgh, Scotland (May 2024)
• RAMP Alumni to Pitch Minesweeping Solutions at NATO Pitch Contest (June 2024)
• RAMP Alumni Spotlight: Fermi Energy Inc. (June 2024)
• RAMP Alumni Spotlight: Micro Harmonics (June 2024)
• Research-inspired weight-loss bars set to launch (July 2024)
• RAMP Alumni, Fermi Energy’s $206,500 SBIR/STTR grant awarded from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (August 2024)
• Alumni Spotlight: Baraka Kasongo of Volatia (October 2024)
• Research-inspired weight loss bars featured on WDBJ7 (October 2024)
• Biotech Startup / Research Spinoff “Tiny Cargo” Expands In City of Roanoke (November 2024)
• USDA awards MOVA Technologies $649K grant for agricultural research (November 2024)
• Fralin Biomedical Research Institute spinoff company, Acomhal Research (RAMP Alum), translates science into peptide drugs targeting cancer stem cells (November 2024)
• RAMP Alumni, Scanlily Featured on WDBJ7: Blacksburg developers create app that uses AI to keep track of inventory and organize (December 2024)