Companiesfor Entrepreneurship / Advanced Engineering

NuVo Technologies has a long history of innovation in music, from instruments to amplifiers.  NuVo's niche is custom, high-end digital sound distributed throughout the home and it's continued a tradition of innovation through its engineering and manufacturing of multi-room audio systems.

Freeman Schwabe is an advanced manufacturing firm with its roots planted firmly in the Cincinnati machine-making tradition.  With a history dating to the 19th century, the company was purchased in a management-led buyout in 2006 and since then, its growth has been exponential. 

ThermalTech Engineering was into "green" building before it was hot, but the results of its work are usually not easily visible.  But that doesn't mean its expertise is not critical to sustainable, environmentally sound construction. ThermalTech handles the "mechanics" that go in to green building -- the mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering that is essential to conserving energy and resources.

Mason-based Intelligrated, one of the region's fastest-growing companies, doesn't build warehouses, but supplies just about everything that goes inside of them, from computer software to conveyor systems and other material handling equipment.

From one employee and one $350,000 project in the company’s first year, Megen Construction has grown to employ 57, posting revenue of more than $40 million. The firm, owned by a native of Nigeria, has been involved in many high-profile Greater Cincinnati projects, including the Fountain Square revitalization, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum and Great American Ball Park.

AtriCure has developed less invasive and less technically challenging technologies for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, a heart ailment that afflicts more than 2 million in the U.S. alone. The use of its surgical devices in other surgeries led to record revenue and growth in 2007.