News & Updates

We are excited to announce that DARE Labs has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 Startup World Cup Dallas Regional, chosen among the top 12 from more than 120 applicants. On October 15 at Acacia Collective in Rowlett, TX, we will pitch Cerebro live in a five-minute pitch followed by five minutes of jury Q&A, competing for a spot at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley and a shot at the $1,000,000 global investment prize.

We are thrilled to announce that World Business Chicago has accepted DARE Labs into the official 2026 Future of Health Startup Portfolio. On Tuesday, October 20, we will be on the floor at the Chicago Venture Summit in Chicago's West Loop, showing investors, health systems, and AI teams how Cerebro turns operational records into model-ready datasets, gradeable reinforcement learning environments, and verifiable evaluations.

We are thrilled to announce that DARE Labs partnered with NALEJ to compete as team ARTY Blue in the NDIA Global Defense Hackathon, taking 3rd place at both the main event and the AFCENT outstation. At the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, held September 8-10 alongside the 2026 Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition, our project, Additive Magic, scored 79.38 to finish third among 10 finalists from a field of 31 teams. At the AFCENT outstation, Additive Magic placed 3rd among six teams with a weighted score of 65.69.

DARE Labs was proud to celebrate fifty years of the National GEM Consortium at its 50th Annual Conference, held September 3-5 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. From the Gala Awards Ceremony to the Fellows, university, and alumni sessions, we connected with the people building GEM's next chapter and met the engineers and scientists we hope to bring onto DARE Labs teams in 2027.

Cerebro has evolved. Our flagship platform is now the data refinery that turns raw operational data into training-grade datasets: SFT data, RL data, and RL environments graded on real outcomes. Slop in. Gourmet tokens out.

DARE Labs joins the Young Entrepreneurz Solutions National Business Plan Challenge as a judging partner, evaluating the business plans of young founders from across the United States.

Black Impact Media spotlights DARE Labs' expansion of its AI product line across public-sector and commercial markets.

Our poster, "Cerebro: Transforming Fragmented Data into Trusted AI for Defense Decision Advantage" by Dr. M. Edwards and D. Rogers, has been accepted for the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit & Expo.

Selected as one of ten finalists from a national field of AI and space-communications innovators, DARE Labs will pitch live at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit.

Selected from a national field of AI and space-communications innovators, DARE Labs advances to the virtual pitch round of the AI × SatCom Launch Vehicle at Defense TechConnect.

DARE Labs took home 3rd place at the Small Language Model Build Day hosted by AGI House and Amazon Web Services in Brooklyn, pitching a small vision-language model (SVLM) for injury prediction in sports.

We are honored to announce that DARE Labs has been selected to serve on the judging panel for the prestigious YES National Business Plan Competition.

We are thrilled to announce that DARE Labs has been accepted into the exclusive 2025 AfroTech Insider Founder Circle.

In a remarkable milestone for our Atlanta-based startup, DARE Labs has successfully secured over $1 million in contracts within our first year of operation.

We are excited to announce that DARE Labs has been selected as one of only 20 semifinalists for the prestigious InvestFest Open Pitch Competition.

Howard University's The Dig featured an in-depth article about DARE Labs' remarkable journey from a student's vision to a million-dollar AI company.