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Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Plotly specializes in data science tools for businesses. It enables users to create, deploy, and share interactive web apps, graphs, and visualizations using various programming languages.

Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Deep Instinct Ltd. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, New York. The company specializes in developing advanced cybersecurity solutions that utilize artificial intelligence and deep learning technology to detect and prevent zero-day threats and advanced persistent threat attacks in real-time. Its platform offers comprehensive protection across various mobile devices, endpoints, and operating systems, regardless of whether they are connected to a network or the Internet. By leveraging deep learning's predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct enables enterprises to safeguard their infrastructures against unknown and evasive cyber threats, identifying and blocking attacks before they can cause harm.

H2O.ai is a Mountain View-based company established in 2011, specializing in AI-driven predictive analytics. It offers an open-source platform, H2O, for data scientists, developers, and analysts to perform machine learning tasks on big data. The platform includes H2O Driverless AI for automated machine learning and H2O Wave for real-time application development powered by AI. H2O.ai serves over 20,000 global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, empowering them to solve complex business problems and discover new ideas. Its customer-centric approach has earned it a Net Promoter Score of 78, the highest in its industry. The company's AI Hybrid Cloud platform is used across various sectors such as marketing mix modeling, risk analysis, fraud detection, advertising technology, and customer intelligence. H2O.ai collaborates strategically with companies like Alteryx and has backing from investors including Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo.

DeepMap, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in high-definition mapping and localization solutions for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Beijing and Guangzhou, the company focuses on enabling safe navigation in complex driving environments. DeepMap offers precise HD maps and ultra-accurate real-time localization, which are essential for self-driving cars to operate effectively across various road types and conditions. The company's solutions also include a robust infrastructure designed to support large-scale deployments of autonomous technology, thereby enhancing the safety and efficiency of self-driving vehicles.

HEAVY.AI develops a big data analytics and visualization platform that helps governments and businesses analyze and visualize opportunities and risks hidden in large location- and time-based datasets. The platform combines a structured query language–compliant database optimized for graphics processing units with an advanced visual analytics engine and a web-based front end for rendering multi-billion-record data sets. By leveraging the parallel processing power of modern GPU and CPU hardware, it supports high-impact decision-making across sectors such as government, telecommunications, energy, utilities, and higher education.

Deep Instinct Ltd. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, New York. The company specializes in developing advanced cybersecurity solutions that utilize artificial intelligence and deep learning technology to detect and prevent zero-day threats and advanced persistent threat attacks in real-time. Its platform offers comprehensive protection across various mobile devices, endpoints, and operating systems, regardless of whether they are connected to a network or the Internet. By leveraging deep learning's predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct enables enterprises to safeguard their infrastructures against unknown and evasive cyber threats, identifying and blocking attacks before they can cause harm.

Zebra Medical Vision is an Israel-based company that develops an imaging analytics platform for healthcare. The platform supplies clinicians with imaging research tools, provides advanced learning and computer-vision diagnostic algorithms for developers, and offers risk management and preventative care tools for providers. The company also offers researchers access to tools and datasets to accelerate the development of decision-support and diagnostic technologies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shefayim, Zebra Medical Vision collaborates with partners such as USARAD Holdings and TELUS Ventures and has deployed its AI-enabled imaging analytics across hospitals worldwide.

Fastdata developed its PlasmaENGINE®, a high-performance computing software engine, to exploit the massively parallel processing capability of NVIDIA’s GPU platform. The PlasmaENGINE® accelerates stream processing up to three orders of magnitude faster, while simultaneously cutting power and space requirements in the data center.

Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Skydio designs, manufactures, and supports AI-powered drones for consumers, enterprises, and government customers. Its drones use computer vision technology to recognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict future movements, enabling autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance.

H2O.ai is a Mountain View-based company established in 2011, specializing in AI-driven predictive analytics. It offers an open-source platform, H2O, for data scientists, developers, and analysts to perform machine learning tasks on big data. The platform includes H2O Driverless AI for automated machine learning and H2O Wave for real-time application development powered by AI. H2O.ai serves over 20,000 global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, empowering them to solve complex business problems and discover new ideas. Its customer-centric approach has earned it a Net Promoter Score of 78, the highest in its industry. The company's AI Hybrid Cloud platform is used across various sectors such as marketing mix modeling, risk analysis, fraud detection, advertising technology, and customer intelligence. H2O.ai collaborates strategically with companies like Alteryx and has backing from investors including Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo.

BlazingSQL, Inc. develops an open-source, GPU-accelerated SQL engine designed to improve database management and query execution. The company offers BlazingSQL Notebooks, a cloud-based platform that provides users with a managed Jupyter environment equipped with a CUDA GPU and pre-installed, GPU-accelerated Python packages. This platform enables efficient querying of various file formats, including CSV, JSON, Apache Parquet, and Apache ORC, by leveraging Apache Arrow to run queries directly in GPU memory. Established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Lima, Peru, BlazingSQL aims to deliver fast and user-friendly database solutions that enhance performance and simplify setup for users.

Graphistry is a software company that provides a cloud-based visual investigations platform for connecting, analyzing, and investigating data. The platform supports incident response, SIEM optimization, threat hunting, anti-fraud detection, and data science by transforming complex data into interactive visual maps and graphs. It uses graph reasoning and GPU-accelerated visual analytics to enable scalable, responsive investigations, with features such as visual pivoting and templated investigations. By turning diverse datasets into visual intelligence, the platform helps analysts explore event and entity data more efficiently than traditional search and dashboards. Graphistry was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TuSimple operates self-driving trucks in Tucson, Arizona, with a focus on developing fully-autonomous driving solutions for the logistics industry. Founded in 2015, the company aims to enhance safety, reduce transportation costs, and decrease carbon emissions.

Element AI is an artificial intelligence company that develops and delivers AI solutions for organizations to identify opportunities to deploy AI and machine learning. It operates an AI as a Service platform that enables businesses to launch and scale AI initiatives in partnership with large corporations. The company maintains an in-house research and development laboratory to advance AI technologies and their deployment in computing infrastructure. Element AI serves industries including insurance, banking and capital markets, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and consumer packaged goods. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Montreal with an additional office in Toronto, it combines software products, services, and tools that help clients operationalize AI, augment decision-making, and improve business performance. Element AI also maintains collaborations with academia and engages in policy discussions related to technology's societal impact, while acting as an integrator to help organizations adopt and implement AI solutions.

Drive.ai, established in 2015 by former Stanford University AI Lab colleagues, specializes in developing artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating hardware components like sensors and control systems, along with communications infrastructure and an in-car interface. Their deep learning-first approach enables their technology to learn new driving scenarios independently, adapting to diverse environments safely. As of June 2019, Drive.ai operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Guangzhou WeRide Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in developing autonomous driving technology for level 4 vehicles, including its own hardware solutions that ensure comprehensive sensor coverage. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Guangzhou, China, WeRide has established research and development centers across several major cities in China, as well as in Silicon Valley. The company has received strategic investments from leading global automotive groups and holds the distinction of being the first startup to obtain driverless test permits in both China and the United States. In November 2019, WeRide launched its first publicly accessible Robotaxi service in Guangzhou, which covers an area of 144 square kilometers and has since integrated with Amap, a popular ride-hailing app in China. The service has completed over 147,000 trips for more than 60,000 passengers within its first year. WeRide's offerings include a range of autonomous vehicles, such as Robotaxis, Robobuses, and Robovans, and the company continues to focus on enhancing safety and efficiency in transportation.

HEAVY.AI develops a big data analytics and visualization platform that helps governments and businesses analyze and visualize opportunities and risks hidden in large location- and time-based datasets. The platform combines a structured query language–compliant database optimized for graphics processing units with an advanced visual analytics engine and a web-based front end for rendering multi-billion-record data sets. By leveraging the parallel processing power of modern GPU and CPU hardware, it supports high-impact decision-making across sectors such as government, telecommunications, energy, utilities, and higher education.

Datalogue is a technology company founded by computer scientists, business leaders, and designers aiming to simplify data preparation for experiments. They develop AI-powered platforms that automate data mining processes, including finding, cleaning, and normalizing data, thereby enhancing efficiency and safety in complex environments.

SoundHound Inc. develops voice-enabled artificial intelligence technology for conversational experiences across various industries. Its platform enables businesses to create customized voice interactions while providing valuable data insights.

Founded in 2014, TempoQuest specializes in developing advanced environmental and weather forecasting software systems. The company aims to deliver next-generation forecasts by leveraging GPU accelerators for faster and more accurate analysis of comprehensive weather data. Its solutions cater to commercial users and government agencies worldwide, with a focus on high-value sectors such as commodity trading, insurance, power utilities, and agriculture.

Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company located in Boston, Massachusetts, focused on developing technologies that promote efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems. As a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the company leverages over 30 years of interdisciplinary research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. Optimus Ride specializes in creating self-driving technology systems tailored for geofenced environments, utilizing innovations in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision, and machine learning. The company's expertise is further enhanced by a team with extensive industrial and entrepreneurial experience in manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management, allowing it to offer versatile transportation solutions that range from commercial vessel operations to transit options.

HEAVY.AI develops a big data analytics and visualization platform that helps governments and businesses analyze and visualize opportunities and risks hidden in large location- and time-based datasets. The platform combines a structured query language–compliant database optimized for graphics processing units with an advanced visual analytics engine and a web-based front end for rendering multi-billion-record data sets. By leveraging the parallel processing power of modern GPU and CPU hardware, it supports high-impact decision-making across sectors such as government, telecommunications, energy, utilities, and higher education.

AImotive develops automated driving technology, including self-driving software, simulation tools, and neural network acceleration hardware IP. It seeks to enable deployment of automated driving by offering scalable, modular, and hardware-agnostic solutions that suit a range of partners and environments. With expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive builds an ecosystem to support real-world autonomous driving workloads and industry collaboration. Its technology aims to provide a safe and affordable autonomous mobility option across diverse climates and cultures, delivering a practical self-driving alternative for everyday rides.

Founded in 2013, Clarifai specializes in advanced image recognition systems for detecting near-duplicates and enabling visual search. Its platform recognizes various categories, objects, and tags in images, and finds similar images in large uncategorized repositories using a combination of semantic and visual similarity.

Founded in 1994, Anark Corporation specializes in visualization collaboration software for manufacturing organizations. Its flagship product, Anark Core, automates publishing of technical content from engineering to knowledge workers across the supply chain. Additionally, it offers Anark MBEWeb for cloud-based communication and collaboration with technical web content. Anark's solutions are used in engineering, manufacturing, quality inspection, and supplier procurement applications.

Acceleware is a Calgary-based technology company serving the oil and gas industry with two main lines of business: RF heating technology for heavy oil and oil sands production, and seismic imaging software. Its RF XL is a low-cost, low-carbon thermal recovery method that uses no water or solvent, has a small footprint, and is redeployable across sites to help reduce emissions and enable cleaner production; it is being piloted with industry partners. The seismic imaging unit provides high-fidelity software for imaging complex geology, including AxFDTD, AxHeat, AxRTM, AxWAVE, and AxFWI, which model electromagnetic absorption, simulate heating, accelerate migration, and generate subsurface velocity models. The company also offers software-related consulting and training services and pursues partnerships to broaden environmental and economic benefits of its technologies. Acceleware was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.