11.2 Ventures

Breaker Logistics is a venture studio focused on revolutionizing the freight logistics industry through innovative technology. The company is developing a patent-pending supply chain financing and freight enablement platform that leverages AI to enhance the relationship between shippers and carriers. Breaker Logistics offers AI-based tools for pricing and load matching, aiming to optimize logistics performance and provide improved visibility across supply chain networks. By facilitating direct connections between shippers and carriers, the platform enables businesses to reduce costs, enhance profitability, and elevate customer experience in freight management.

Career Highways is a joint venture in the education sector within the 11.2 studio. It is developing an AI-driven platform that collects and thematically clusters data on career pathways for students, enabling job exploration, search, and matching. The venture partners with STEM Fuse, which provides STEM curriculum to thousands of schools, to align career pathways with school programs. It also operates a workforce development platform focused on career mapping, personalized upskilling, employer pathway automation, and workforce engagement tools to help organizations generate career awareness and provide early access to exploration and opportunities.

K8 Ventures is an investment management company established in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm operates as a family office, focusing on building companies that address specific business challenges within various market segments. K8 Ventures specializes in sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the internet of things, with an overarching emphasis on investment management, finance, and financial services. The company's mission centers on developing innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and drive growth in these rapidly evolving fields.

DGX Assist is an 11.2 company within its studio. 11.2 has funded this company since inception and continues to develop the company. DGX expects to enter the market in late 2022. DGX is an AI platform providing a complete set of tools to intelligently manage all aspects of one's business day and coordinate it with one's family responsibilities. DGX is a post-pandemic digital assistant.

ZiRO (previously Smartsmoke) is developing a device and smartphone platform that can measure “puffs” and infer nicotine intake from vaping devices in real time. The device is compatible with Juul as part of phase 1 and uses Bluetooth to provide behavioral values in real time to the smartphone app, which is device agnostic. Tracking consumption with cigarettes is simple. In contrast, many vaping devices use cartridges, which can last for multiple days making it difficult to measure consumption. ZiRO is able to measure the cur- rent between the device and the cartridge, which is proven to be the most accurate way to measure exactly how much nicotine has been ingested. This would allow for additional features to be added such as restricting a puff. ZiRO’s AI is an implementation of a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short Term Memory, which will reveal keystone habits and triggers.

FuturesightIQ uses proprietary NLP (Natural Language Processing) to predict future decisions in a company by analyzing the company’s hiring information. FuturesightIQ is able to compile a company’s available positions and hiring status to identify changes and needs in a company. This can be used to predict a company’s future decisions and supply vital information to competitors, investors and financial analysts. Because of the sensitivity around the IP, there’s not a lot that can be discussed, suffice it to say this is a corporate competitive strategy tool based on jobs data. Refinements of the prototype are going very well and have outpaced our current computing power. More specifically, the load from the AI means we need to upgrade our server infrastructure.