40 North Ventures

Vertical Aerospace builds technology to revolutionize how people fly, by making air travel personal, on-demand, and carbon-free. Since its inception in 2016, Vertical Aerospace has grown to over 70 world-class engineers and technical experts, recruited from the likes of Airbus, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and Jaguar Land Rover. In 2019 they launched its second aircraft, the Seraph, making the first company in the world to release flight footage of an aircraft capable of carrying 250kg.

Verbit.ai is an AI company that specializes in combining capturing the spoken word using artificial intelligence and supported by humans. It provides transcription and captioning solutions as well as Audio description, Translation, Dubbing and Note taking. It also offers Generative AI applications for unlocking the value of the spoken word. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.

Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company that helps customers reveal, protect, and manage OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company provides a platform that connects seamlessly with customers' existing infrastructure and programs while offering a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk, and vulnerability management, and secure remote access with a significantly reduced total cost of ownership.

Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decision engine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Atlast Food is a food technology company that produces ingredients for plant-based and whole cut meat products. Its mission is to bring delicious, planet-friendly foods, and rooted in nature. Atlast's focus is on creating whole cut plant-based meats like bacon and steak.

Fictiv is the operating system (OS) for custom manufacturing that makes it faster, easier, and more efficient to source and supply mechanical parts. Its intelligent OS, supported by best-in-class operations talent, orchestrates a network of highly vetted and managed partners around the globe for fast, high-quality manufacturing, from quote to delivery. To date, Fictiv has manufactured more than 25 million parts for early-stage companies and large enterprises alike, helping them innovate with agility and get products to market faster.

Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Everactive's custom ultra-low-power chips enable completely battery-less wireless sensors that form the foundation of end-to-end IoT data services. The company technology allows for low-cost, long-lived, and intelligent instrumentation of industrial operations. Its end-to-end solutions are built upon innovative advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that enable the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy.

Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Carbon provides printing solutions for products that outperform. The company helps businesses develop better products and bring them to market in less time. Carbon is a venture-backed company. They serve industries including automotive, consumer, industrial, life sciences, and dental.

Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Volta Charging is a marketing and advertising company that designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations funded by sponsor brands. The company provides a valuable community amenity in markets across the U.S. helping brands meet consumers at the optimal moment of the purchase decision. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Enbala provides the advanced technology needed to ensure the operational stability of the world’s power grids by harnessing the power of distributed energy. Enbala’s real-time energy-balancing platform provides a highly flexible approach for creating controllable and dispatchable energy resources from flexible loads, energy storage and renewable energy sources. The platform underpins Enbala’s award-winning and industry-leading DERMS and VPP technology and dynamically optimizes and dispatches distributed energy resources to respond to the real-time needs of the power system. The platform gives energy retailers and utilities the flexibility to operate in real-time and to better manage the escalating complexities of increasingly variable energy assets and evolving market opportunities.

Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is accessible to any enterprise. Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale and cost-effectively. Tamr is deployed in production at a variety of organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms, and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker, and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner, and Alex Pagan.

Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand. The company helps more than 30% of the Fortune 100 get from strategy to execution faster, with software that helps businesses accelerate mission-critical work and more than 65,000 experts and 1,000 firms who help them deliver it. Catalant platform is designed to enable the process of strategy execution, starting with entering in a business’ most important strategic objectives, aligning work and breaking it down into distinct elements, accessing and deploying needed internal and external resources, collaborating to execute it, measuring the work’s value, and providing insights to keep improving how it all gets done. It has built a global network of more than 27,000 boutique firms, custom teams, and independent experts, as well as best-in-class software tools for engaging and managing this market. Catalant is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves customers around the world.

Desktop Metal is a leading provider of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and applications for industrial, medical, and consumer product production. The company's innovative 3D printing systems, materials, and software enable on-demand, digital mass production that delivers the speed, cost-efficiency, and part quality required for this transformative shift in manufacturing.

Nexar creates powered dash cams that enable new vision-based applications for better driving. Nexar's mission is to reduce the chance of collisions and to make the road safer for everyone. Like a school of fish or a flock of birds, we want to get every car on the road moving safely and smoothly together. Using a Nexar-powered dashcam, AI, and inter-vehicle networking, Nexar makes every car a smart car and is building the world’s first safe driving network.

Aras is a suite of open source product life cycle management (PLM) software solutions that run on a model-based SOA application framework. Aras functionality includes Bill of Materials (BOM), engineering change workflows, document management, CAD / EDA integrations, product costing, new product development & introduction (NPDI), phase-gate project management, supplier collaboration, quality compliance, manufacturing process management, tooling management, and more. It was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Superior Sensor Technology is an innovative, high technology company committed to producing a new generation of integrated, high-performance, low-pressure sensors for industrial, medical and automotive applications. Our proprietary pressure sensor technology with advanced programmable software features enable customers to develop higher performing, more reliable equipment with a reduced bill-of-materials (BOM) cost basis.

ZincFive is an intelligent energy storage and delivery solutions company providing nickel-zinc battery based UPS solutions for mission-critical applications in data centers, intelligent transportation, motive power, and other industries. With 74 patents awarded and 29 patents pending, ZincFive leverages nickel-zinc chemistry within our solutions to provide high power density and performance simultaneous with superior safety and environmental advantages. ZincFive was founded in 2016 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon.