Board BuilderBootcamp
The 2026–2027 cohort. Twelve New Mexico founders building category-defining companies in aerospace and defense, advanced energy, bioscience, and advanced computing.
With The Fourth Effect and NM EDD
This is New Mexico's most investable early-stage pipeline, in one room for ten months.
Backed by NIH, NSF, DoD, DOE, and Army SBIR awards. Sponsors get direct line of sight to these companies before the rest of the market does.
Twelve companies. Four strategic sectors.
Selected from thirty-three applications against a weighted 100-point rubric across leadership, traction, board readiness, growth potential, and strategic fit. Sectors overlap; several founders work across multiple categories.
NeuroGeneces
Patented at-home brain health assessment that measures Brain Age and identifies opportunities to support healthier brain aging.
CAMINNO
Hybrid AI cutting design-to-market cycles by 50% in advanced engineering and manufacturing.
EnviTrace
Physics-informed AI turning fragmented geoscience and environmental data into confident decisions.
HidrogeniCs
Zero-waste hydrogen and battery-grade carbon from a single process, addressing U.S. graphite supply risk.
Carbogenics USA
Upcycling primary and secondary waste biomass into valuable biocarbon products that generates energy and treats polluted water.
Firescape
AI-powered wildfire intelligence helping electric grid utilities prevent catastrophic fire.
DeployHub
Runtime vulnerability defense for the software supply chain, cutting response from months to days.
Shape Health
Evidence-based health coaching delivered at no cost to Medicaid members · 96 active members
Equility
Agentic AI accounting assistant running on-demand internal audits and automating data entry.
BGS Engineering
Moldable carbon fiber with intrinsic UV protection and conductivity allowing for reduced part counts, lower maintenance costs, and lower weight by removing parasitic coatings.
Flobiotik Foods
Probiotic-rich brain and gut health foods made from rescued eggs on patent-protected science.
Kytyra
Low-latency drone detection and classification for next-generation Counter-UAS defense.
Back the pipeline.Build the state.
Sponsorship funds Technical Assistance grants, Board Members-in-Residence, and the final pitch showcase that moves these twelve companies toward institutional capital.
First look at deal flow
Direct access to twelve vetted, revenue-and-federally-backed New Mexico companies across ten months of programming.
Brand alignment
Visibility alongside NMSA, The Fourth Effect, and the New Mexico Economic Development Department.
Named presence
Recognition across cohort sessions, program collateral, investor introductions, and the final pitch showcase.