Azafran Capital Partners

tagSpace specializes in providing a no-code platform for location-based augmented reality, targeting markets such as music festivals, large events, and city experiences. The company's technology helps users navigate large, crowded spaces by overlaying real-time information, such as queue times, onto their surroundings. This functionality creates opportunities for promotional marketing, allowing both big brands and local businesses to engage with consumers in an immersive manner while delivering valuable information to users. Additionally, tagSpace offers a custom content management system (CMS) equipped with comprehensive analytics to enhance user experience and marketing effectiveness. The company holds several international patents for its proprietary technology, further solidifying its position in the augmented reality landscape.

Yobe, Inc. is a software company specializing in artificial intelligence-driven algorithmic solutions for advanced audio manipulation. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Yobe develops a downloadable SaaS application that enhances signal processing for speech and multimedia content. Its technology identifies and categorizes audio signals across various platforms, including telecommunications, VoIP, gaming, and streaming media. The company's innovative approach utilizes AI to enhance the clarity of individual voices in noisy environments, improving the listening experience and facilitating more accurate speaker identification. This capability also significantly boosts the performance of automatic speech recognition systems, enabling businesses to deliver sophisticated voice interactions in challenging acoustic settings.

Aspinity, Inc. is a company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in manufacturing reconfigurable analog modular processor (RAMP) chips designed for ultra-low-power electronics. These chips utilize neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology to analyze raw, unstructured analog sensor data, identifying significant events while filtering out background noise before the data is digitized. By focusing on early cues, Aspinity's RAMP chips significantly reduce the need for higher power processing, optimizing power consumption in always-on, battery-operated sensing devices. This technology is applicable across various markets, including consumer, industrial, and biomedical sectors, enhancing functionalities such as voice activation, industrial machine health monitoring, and wearable health monitoring. Aspinity was incorporated in 2012 and aims to revolutionize the architecture of sensing devices through innovative power and data management solutions.

Aterian is a technology-driven consumer products company that specializes in building, acquiring, and partnering with various brands. Founded in 2014, Aterian operates a diverse range of product categories, including home and kitchen appliances, kitchenware, environmental appliances, beauty products, and consumer electronics. The company utilizes proprietary software and an agile supply chain to efficiently create and market top-selling consumer products. Aterian manages several owned brands, such as Vremi, Healing Solutions, Xtava, TRUWEO, Spiralize, Pohl+Schmitt, and RIF6. With a global presence that includes offices in America, Canada, Poland, Israel, China, and the Philippines, as well as remote employees in France, Australia, and Croatia, Aterian focuses on generating revenue primarily through online sales of its various consumer products.

ArmorText provides secure text messaging for mobile enterprises to boost collaboration, ensure security, and help meet compliance standards. It enables regulated industries to maximize the potential of cloud computing and storage for collaboration by eliminating the possibility of data-mining, bulk-hacks, invoicing scams and third-party access that bypasses a customer’s legal counsel via subpoenas.