Tech Showcase highlights future of energy, agritech, health care

Rachel Kroeger

Staff

December 1, 2025

GREEN BAY – Last month, manufacturers, tech-industry leaders and entrepreneurs from across the region gathered at TitletownTech (TTT) for the venture capital firm’s annual Tech Showcase event.

“This is a really special experience for us to be able to share, and we love having your engagement and feedback,” TTT Managing Partner Jill Enos said.

Investing in 11 new companies in 2025, Enos said TTT prides itself on its two-sided mission, exemplified by the work of both its portfolio and investment companies.

“We really believe in this dual mission to both create financial returns, but really have an impact – meaning we’re advancing industry and changing innovation,” she said.

With the stage set, the showcase shifted from TTT’s big-picture vision to real-world examples of that innovation in action.

Investor insights

First up were two TTT investors – Faith Technologies Inc. (FTI) and Prevea Health.

In his presentation, Vice President of Software Engineering Controls Steve Nieland shared details on how industrialized construction is helping FTI respond to the soaring demand for data centers as AI accelerates.

“Between 2023-30, we’re going from about 38% of the demand for data centers being AI[-focused] to about 75-76% – almost double,” he said.

Nieland said this presents several issues in the energy and sustainability sectors, leading FTI to pursue streamlined solutions such as industrialized construction of data centers.

“It’s taking that work that you would do in the field [and] moving that into a manufacturing environment,” he said.

Instead of building a data center on-site, Nieland said industrialized construction gives FTI the ability to piece components together in a controlled environment for easier end installation.

“It’s true, continuous improvement,” he said. “We found ways to cut years out of [building] a data center by applying these techniques.”

Prevea Health followed with a look at how the healthcare organization is using technology to elevate the experience of patients and providers alike.

Examples of this, President and CEO Ashok Rai said – including the Davinci Surgical robot; digital patient platforms that offer tools for online appointment scheduling and remote communication; and medical device monitoring integration – demonstrate healthcare technology’s direct patient benefits.

“We look at technique and technology – what can we bring to the bedside or into the operating room to benefit the patient’s lives from a technology standpoint?” he said.

Furthermore, Brad Locke – Prevea’s chief medical information officer – said that also includes ambient AI listening that generates after-visit charting, an example of how technology can help reduce administrative burden, minimize burnout and support professional development.

“A lot of our physicians and staff want to be the best at what they do,” he said. “So, we need to give them the operational tools to be able to do that.”

Next-level innovation

Building on the perspectives shared by TTT’s investment partners, the showcase then shifted to several portfolio companies demonstrating how innovation is being put into practice.

OneRoom

Among them was OneRoom, a company working to transform healthcare technology.

“The company [the founders] started was called Indigenous Pact to bring better ways to deliver health care – both on the payment structure and also physical buildings [and] clinics in remote areas,” Enos said.

According to oneroomstreaming.com, Gary Richards and David Lutterman created an online video platform that enables physicians to treat patients remotely, using real-time data to replicate in-person care.

The platform, Enos said, allows for more comprehensive, remote care.

“The patient comes into the room, and in a life-size way, can interact with the specialist,” she said. “We think it’s really going to change health care… because these OneRooms can fit in [virtually, any building] to provide a different level of care that is so much more than telehealth.”

Ubicept

Shifting from health care to imaging, Ubicept CEO and Co-founder Sebastian Bauer showcased how their technology has the potential to improve the quality of more than 45 billion cameras globally.

“We make image processing software to essentially enable cameras to see hard environments [that are] challenging for today’s cameras,” he said.

In high-dynamic conditions, Bauer said Ubicept’s photon-level image processing capacity can provide end users with high-quality photo/video.

“These single-photon-sensitive sensors capture each photon that has all the information that light contains, but at the same time, it turns into a processing problem,” he said. “That’s where Ubicept essentially comes in – to innovate on the software side.”

With its use-case spanning across industries – such as consumer technology and Advanced Driver Assistance Technology (ADAS) – Bauer said Ubicept’s “processing toolkit” for laptops is its “first step” in getting this technology to consumers.

“It’s a desktop tool that runs on a PC [that] has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) and you can connect at least a couple of conventional cameras with that tool,” he said. “That’s the first engagement tool to get our processing capabilities in the hands of customers.”

Global Neighbor

Also harnessing the power of light, company president Jon Jackson said Global Neighbor is killing weeds and increasing farmers’ crop yield using its new, sustainable agritech – the Blue Seed Control and De Seed Priming Units.

“Agriculture is under an awful lot of pressure, and one of the points of the pressure is the profitability decrease,” he said. “Weeds themselves take away 30% of [crop] yield.”

Using blue and mid-infrared light, Jackson said Global Neighbor’s technology helps control weeds – both before and after harvest – and stimulates crop production.

“What we can do that nobody else can is kill or prevent weeds using light,” he said. “We can also stimulate crop seeds using similar light that will increase the farmers’ profitability while decreasing their impact on the environment.”

Though traditional methods of weed control often involve herbicides – Jackson said about 200 weeds are herbicide resistant across just the U.S., “so this is where we come in.”

Both “drop-in solutions” – per g-neighbor.com – the Control and the Priming units can be installed on existing, applicable farm equipment.

DANNAA

Following Global Neighbor’s agritech innovations, the showcase shifted to energy solutions and DAANAA Resolution Inc.

According to CEO Udi Daon, most power systems face three main problems: incompatible components, multiple devices and conversion steps that create errors.

To address this, Daon said DAANNAA developed a first-of-its-kind, chip-based semiconductor platform that replaces traditional hardware-heavy power conversion.

“We eliminate all of that and replace it with a single device – a high-conversion ratio, real-time programmable, omni-conversion, bi-directional system on a chip,” he said. “We’re agnostic to the source and to the load.”

The technology, Daon said, also yields “40% more power” from the same battery chemistry.

In the use-case example of electric vehicle charging, he said DAANAA’s fabless semiconductor can cut typical charging times “by almost half.”

“You basically don’t have to work 100 resistors to [charge the battery], and you get 50% more available power to the motor,” he said

Ateios Systems

From power conversion to battery innovation, Ateios Systems CEO Rajan Kumar said traditional manufacturing consumes excessive energy and relies on costly, toxic chemicals. 

To address this, the company developed RaiCure™ Technology, which Kumar said replaces heat-based processes with energy-curable polymers, improving energy density, cost, yields and environmental impact.

“Five years ago, we were ambitious, saying, ‘we’re going to go build all these batteries,” he said. “Instead of doing that…, we actually said, ‘Let’s just focus on making really good components.”

Partnering with Kodak, Kumar said together, the companies are able to manufacture electrode films battery manufacturers can then “drop into their existing form factors.”

“Instead of building our own factory, we’re leveraging Kodak, which has 130 years of film coating [experience],” he said. “We can drop our technology right onto their line and produce mass amounts of electrodes.”

Microsoft Discovery

In addition to the portfolio company presentations, TTT’s technologist in residence, Matt Adamczyk, introduced Microsoft’s latest platform, currently deployed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Discovery Center and Princeton University in New Jersey.

“We’re going to [debut] a new agentic AI, R&D capability that helps scale the ability to do science to a new level that would otherwise be impossible,” he said. “We’re doing that through this new collaboration that brings together TitletownTech, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and our new Microsoft Discovery platform.”

Adamczyk said the new platform focuses on providing support for researchers solving problems in the hard science industries – such as chemistry, biology and physics.

“It brings together an army of AI agents that are trained on a large corpus of published scientific data…, [helping researchers] go from an insurmountable problem posed by an expert in the domain, [to running and honing data] into a set of potential candidates or potential solutions to those problems.”

That’s a wrap

Enos said the Tech Showcase, now in its second year, once again proved that TitletownTech is where ideas become impact, connecting innovators, partners and companies that are shaping the future of technology and industry.

From emerging start-ups to established leaders, Enos said the event demonstrated how ideas are transformed into solutions that tackle real-world challenges.