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Recycleye Limited develops AI powered machine learning tools to enable characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Threadloom is an internet company that specializes in the fields of platform, communities, search, and email marketing. It features a web-based platform that enables its users to Automatically curate their forum's content online. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in California, United States.

BabyWatch Inc. develops and delivers a system that connects home ultrasound devices with smartphones to enable pregnant women to hear, visualize, and share their unborn babies’ heartbeats. It also provides GlobalBeat, a social platform that allows pregnant women to interact among each other, exchange experiences, and share the information. The company also provides medical data visualizations and infographics based on analysis of uploaded pregnancy tracking data to its community. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Embarke increases engagement and revenue for marketers with 15 minutes of integration and a simple click of a button. We automatically deliver messages when each individual user is most likely to engage, and with content they actually care about. This optimization is automatic (set-it-and-forget-it), and has resulted in 5%-20% increases in opens and clicks.

HireAthena, INC. provides accounting and HR Web services to startups and non-profit businesses. It offers services from payrolls, benefits, FSA, and 401k management to accounting, bookkeeping, monthly financials, and tax. HireAthena, INC. was formerly known as BackOps, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TerrAvion, Inc. provides real-time aerial imagery services for the agriculture sector in the United States. Its aerial imagery service is used to optimize irrigation to improve yield and uniformity, or reduce water use; make scouting; detect anomalies caused by disease or pests; and supervise and monitor interventions. It offers natural color, color infrared, thermal, and oblique imagery solutions; normalized difference vegetation index maps; and relevant agricultural data solutions. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Dublin, California. On October 14, 2020, the voluntary petition of TerrAvion, Inc. for reorganization under Chapter 11 was converted to Chapter 7. It had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 31, 2020.

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Our solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Drones are enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Getable, Inc. provides an online rental service that enables consumers to search, compare, and rent equipment online. It enables clients to rent product in various categories, such as electronics and appliances, fashion wear, furniture and home goods, party and event supplies, sports and leisure products, storage and space solutions, tools and equipment, vehicles, and trade and conferences equipment. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fernride offers logistics customers the end-to-end integration of driverless vehicles into their processes. Building on 10 years of research, Fernride is developing the leading teleoperation platform which allows humans to safely remote monitor, assist and control vehicles from afar. Thus, Fernride is redefining the job of the driver who will evolve from a 1:1 remote operator to a highly effective fleet manager who assists up to 50 highly automated vehicles from the comfort of an office. Partnering with leading OEMs, Fernride enables the remote operation and full automation of driverless fleets - swap body or trailer trucks, forklifts, shuttles, or other vehicles.

Lunar Outpost creates technologies that enable a sustainable presence in cislunar space while driving a positive impact here on Earth. With product lines focused on robotics and advanced instrumentation Lunar Outpost has helped create the first oxygen on Mars as part of the Perseverance mission, has the first ever contract to sell space resources (specifically lunar resources) to NASA, and has successfully created product line from advanced technology work. Key products include the commercial lunar rover MAPP that can provide mobility to a variety of payloads on the lunar surface, and the Canary Air Quality and Monitoring System, an IoT system, which has collected over 20 Billion unique data points to date in over 20 different states.[

Newhound, Inc. provides mobile marketing solutions that help businesses to acquire and understand customers by making mobile marketing. It offers a mobile platform that automates the process of creating mobile Websites for business owners and then drives customers to those sites. Newhound, Inc. was formerly known as AppStack, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Figure Eight Inc. develops a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform. Its platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data into customized training data for a range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, consumer product identification, natural language processing, search relevance, intelligent chatbots, and others. The company’s platform also creates training data at enterprise scale for computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), audio use cases, and data enrichment and classification. Figure Eight Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Earth AI Pty Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software that locates areas of mineralization in greenfield and remote areas with no pre-existing geological data. The company gives geologists location suggestions for mineral exposure and auto generates precise geological maps from satellite, geophysical, and geochemical datasets. Earth AI Pty Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Parramatta, Australia.

Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Ellipsis Drive is an online tool that allows any professional to activate, manage, and share spatial content via the web in under 10 minutes. We understand that spatial data is key for optimizing sustainable and effective operations. We know that this requires exchange and collaboration between producers, users and owners of spatial data across organizations and disciplines. Ellipsis Drive is here to make this easy. We introduce the first spatial-data-optimized Drive, that: - Connects your content with the world: Publish data as an online project in under 10 minutes, findable and usable for anyone you grant access to - Is a Plug & Play solution: Provides frictionless access to content for platform independent use - Is always license free: So unlimited sharing and collaboration regardless of the number of users - Gives you full ownership: your data is your own, so share, collaborate, and commercialize without restrictions

Standard Treasury, a YC-backed company, is hoping to make it easier for businesses to deal with their banks through standard APIs that ease transfers and other transactions. The company says that integrating banking services for small businesses and startups is overly complicated. They can end up sending large files over FTP with specs that take up hundreds of pages.

Represent is the best way to generate funds and awareness online. Customize your T-shirts (or other products) using our simple designer & set up your campaign for free. Share your campaign with your community, supporters or fans and start selling immediately. Reach your sales goal, we’ll fulfill all your orders and pass the profits straight to you or your charity.

Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

AltspaceVR is a virtual reality software company. AltspaceVR is bringing two-dimensional web content into shared virtual spaces, and extending the web to create fully holographic experiences. Through the software users will be able to watch streaming video, play games, and get work done, together and entirely inside of virtual reality. The software is powered by, and fully embraces, the modern open web.

Gauss Surgical is a med-tech company that develops a vision-based platform for accurate and real-time measurement of surgical blood loss. They develop beautiful applications for iOS backed by sophisticated algorithms and a robust, HIPAA-compliant technical stack to enable real-time monitoring during surgery. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sqwiggle, Inc. develops Internet communication software applications. It offers Sqwiggle software that enables remote team to work together and discuss with their teammates; larger teams to stay organized; and users to share links, code, photos, and videos. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.

Kurbo Health is using mobile technology and personalized coaching to help millions of overweight children get their weight under control. Utilizing intelligent mobile apps and web-based tools, Kurbo's programs help children and their families eat healthier and lose weight. Based on research done by pediatric obesity experts at Stanford University and SUNY Buffalo, Kurbo Health is the first company with a scalable solution that combines virtual feedback, proven tracking methodologies, and personalized coaching to help adolescents control their weight using their favorite tool -- their smart phone.

Dark Inc. engages in creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler, and PaaS that allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill. Founded in 2014, Cape Analytics is backed by leading venture firms and comprised of computer vision and risk analysis experts.

Mirror operates an integrated platform that connects investors with underserved markets to facilitate price discovery in traditionally non-transparent ecosystems. Mirror allows its clients to construct security-based swaps that enable them to get long exposure into late-stage private companies, or short exposure to hedge current positions in their portfolio. Established in 2011, Mirror’s clientele is comprised of angel investors, venture capital funds, growth and private equity firms, hedge funds, and other institutional asset managers.

StatMuse is a sports statistics website that allows users to search for players and view customizable statistics. It's a creative technology company and is the leader in conversational AI for sports. It is powered by the personalities of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Todd Gurley, and Scott Van Pelt, StatMuse pioneered a platform for interactive storytelling by combining artificial intelligence with dynamic animation and augmented reality to bring digital personas to life. The company was founded in 2014 by two lifelong friends and is backed by Disney, Techstars Ventures, Greycroft, the NFL Players Association, and NBA Commissioner Emeritus, David Stern.

Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Safehub Inc. provides technology and structural health monitoring services to assist users in their property-related risk modeling and planning activities. It offers The Safehub Global Platform that helps corporations to manage catastrophe risk through physics-based technology, sensors, and AI. The company’s platform also enables corporations to refine and evaluate insurance and risk reduction programs, as well as expedite emergency response and recovery. Safehub Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mapbox is a location data platform providing maps, turn-by-turn navigation, location search, and data to over 2.6M registered developers — powering companies like Facebook, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Snapchat, Tableau, The Weather Channel, and Yahoo! JAPAN. Mapbox is built on a living map that learns from activity to make improvements over time, so developers building with Mapbox tools have access to the most up to date geospatial information anywhere in the world. Mapbox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

AltspaceVR is a virtual reality software company. AltspaceVR is bringing two-dimensional web content into shared virtual spaces, and extending the web to create fully holographic experiences. Through the software users will be able to watch streaming video, play games, and get work done, together and entirely inside of virtual reality. The software is powered by, and fully embraces, the modern open web.

REZI a rental company that uses our proprietary analytics, technology and financial products to improve the rental experience for landlords and tenants alike.

Standard Treasury, a YC-backed company, is hoping to make it easier for businesses to deal with their banks through standard APIs that ease transfers and other transactions. The company says that integrating banking services for small businesses and startups is overly complicated. They can end up sending large files over FTP with specs that take up hundreds of pages.

Enview is a 3D Geospatial Analytics company protecting people and critical infrastructure, and enhancing national security by mapping the world in 3D. The company’s solutions combine expertise in remote sensing, computer vision, and geospatial big data to enable energy and government customers to predict future threats, and prevent those threats from becoming incidents.

ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Audiodraft helps companies to outsource their music and audio production to a global community of over 20,000 sound designers and music composers. For the first time we are providing easy and fast access to custom made music. Our plan is to change boring stock music into something exciting with custom scored soundtracks and audio production. Audiodraft offers a music crowdsourcing platform with a truly global community. Our community members have scored anything from Hollywood blockbusters to audio brands and triple A games. Audiodraft has worked with production companies, advertising agencies and brands such as Red Bull Media House, TBWA and Nokia. We want to emphasize the meaning of audio branding and make the world a better sounding place.

Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation

Vennfi is a financial technology company for tax-exempt payments.

True Fit Corporation develops and provides an online fit recommendation engine that manages databases of apparel, footwear, and consumer fit data profiles to help consumers, brands, and retailers unlock the online footwear and apparel market. It allows shoppers to analyze data points and discover various style fits and sizes to buy. The company has a strategic partnership with Bamboo Rose. True Fit Corporation was formerly known as True Apparel Company and changed its name to True Fit Corporation in 2009. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Layer, Inc. develops an open communications layer platform for the Internet that enables developers to add rich messaging, voice, and video to any application. It offers Atlas, a customizable UI kit to power rich messaging in applications; SDKs for iOS and Android; Client API that enables browser based applications to add chat and communications services; and Platform API that enables developers to automate, extend, and integrate with other services and applications. Layer, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rocket Lab Ltd. designs and manufactures rocket systems and space systems. It provides carbon composite technologies, thermal protection products, and recovery systems, as well as parachute control devices, such as line cutters and spreader guns; propulsion systems, high density monopropellant, and hybrid propulsion systems; electronic systems with applications in avionics, guidance and control, optics, and communications; and high resolution miniature optics solutions for highly space constrained rocket platforms. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracy and take weeks to complete.

Finmark is financial planning software for startups; making it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. The platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and distills them down into a simple to use interface so companies can easily update, inspect, and share their financial metrics. Companies, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, rely on Finmark to align teams, drive collaboration, reduce costs and resources, and build the next generation of great startups. Greg Lissy, Jeremy Neuberger, and Rami Essaid founded the company in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2020.

Virool, Inc. develops and offers a native video advertising platform for brand marketers. Its platform enables brands to host their video, design the campaign, target audience, and analyze results on the Web. The platform for publishers is a supply-side platform for video and customizable layout and design to maximize revenue; and for advertisers to maximize brand impact with programmatic video distribution platform, advertainment, eIQ emotional insights, and real-time analytics. The company serves advertisers and publishers. Virool, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; St. Petersburg, Russia; Toronto, Canada; and Los Angeles, California.

Spire Global Inc. is a space to cloud data analytics company that utilizes proprietary satellite data and algorithms to provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. Spire’s data analytics is backed by a wholly owned and developed constellation of nanosatellites, global ground station network, and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth over 100 times per day. Spire identifies and tracks movement of the world's resources and weather systems in order for businesses to make smart decisions. Spire is founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tulip Retail is the world’s first cloud-based retail platform built exclusively for store associates. It was founded in 2013 by a team of mobile and e-commerce experts who are passionate about shaping the future in-store experience. Dedicated to store associate empowerment, Tulip is bringing the best of online shopping to the selling floor with an intuitive, simple to use mobile app that enables: assisted selling, endless aisle, clienteling, store communications and point of sale. Leading retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, Coach, Frye Boots, Bonobos, and Toys”R”Us use Tulip to help them deliver an unparalleled omnichannel shopping experience.

Cobalt Robotics, Inc. builds indoor robots that work alongside human guards to provide security. It offers indoor security robots that do patrolling in the premises, as well as look for intruders or anything that's out of the ordinary; and comprise intruder and anomaly detection, human-robot interaction, and mapping and sensing capabilities. The company offers robotics for warehouse, school, office, hospital, data center, and museum security. Cobalt Robotics, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Newhound, Inc. provides mobile marketing solutions that help businesses to acquire and understand customers by making mobile marketing. It offers a mobile platform that automates the process of creating mobile Websites for business owners and then drives customers to those sites. Newhound, Inc. was formerly known as AppStack, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Binpress helps developers build a profitable business from working on open-source projects. It brings the business model of open-source giants such as MySQL and Red-Hat to the long-tail of open-source projects with dual and commercial licensing, and through providing customization, integration and support services. At the same time, Binpress reduces risk and friction for businesses to adopt open-source, with permissive commercial licensing and with guaranteed support. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Enview is a 3D Geospatial Analytics company protecting people and critical infrastructure, and enhancing national security by mapping the world in 3D. The company’s solutions combine expertise in remote sensing, computer vision, and geospatial big data to enable energy and government customers to predict future threats, and prevent those threats from becoming incidents.

Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

HireAthena, INC. provides accounting and HR Web services to startups and non-profit businesses. It offers services from payrolls, benefits, FSA, and 401k management to accounting, bookkeeping, monthly financials, and tax. HireAthena, INC. was formerly known as BackOps, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OwnerListens provides real time, location aware, private messaging between businesses & customers. 1. Text messaging (SMS/IM) is people's preferred form of communications, esp Millenials 2. Businesses & customers can't effectively engage in two way messaging because businesses don't have tools to handle real time text messaging effectively, particularly when the best first responder is an on site employee such as at hotel or store 3. OwnerListens builds to tools capture, route and effectively respond to customer texts 4. OwnerListens also provides analytics & reporting that uncover performance improving insights about employees & customers Businesses love OwnerListens because responding to text messages: 1. Is cheaper than phone calls 2. Reaches customers while on site, responding and salvaging revenues/relationships at first point of contact 3. Delights customers & increases NPS and LTR (likely to recommend) 4. Holds employees accountable with time, date & location stamped reports

Deako, Inc. manufactures electrical switches. It offers modular light, dimmer, rocker, scene controller, and motion sensor switches. The company sells its products online and also offers an application for controlling the switches. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Arch Systems Inc. designs and develops a device-to-cloud modular hardware platform for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s device-to-cloud hardware is used for a range of custom IoT applications from electronics to mobile and cloud. Its hardware platform allows clients to design custom connected devices and take them to production, as well as enables software developers to create physical applications for sectors, such as food, water, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Optisys manufactures an RF design and metal additive to provide metal 3D printed antenna products for aerospace and defense applications. Its products enable groundbreaking system and product performance through low SWaP-C, and solution capability and are enabled by the novel design process and metal additive manufacturing for component production.

SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.

Fernride offers logistics customers the end-to-end integration of driverless vehicles into their processes. Building on 10 years of research, Fernride is developing the leading teleoperation platform which allows humans to safely remote monitor, assist and control vehicles from afar. Thus, Fernride is redefining the job of the driver who will evolve from a 1:1 remote operator to a highly effective fleet manager who assists up to 50 highly automated vehicles from the comfort of an office. Partnering with leading OEMs, Fernride enables the remote operation and full automation of driverless fleets - swap body or trailer trucks, forklifts, shuttles, or other vehicles.

Rocket Lab Ltd. designs and manufactures rocket systems and space systems. It provides carbon composite technologies, thermal protection products, and recovery systems, as well as parachute control devices, such as line cutters and spreader guns; propulsion systems, high density monopropellant, and hybrid propulsion systems; electronic systems with applications in avionics, guidance and control, optics, and communications; and high resolution miniature optics solutions for highly space constrained rocket platforms. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Resilient, modular, reconfigurable, no-integration-code automated material flow and storage system enabled by robotics and AI

Platform for influencers to fundraise for their favorite causes through the offering of once-in-a-lifetime experiences and rewards to their fans. Prizeo has already worked with top celebrities such as Kobe Bryant, One Direction, Muhammed Ali, Kristen Bell, and Alicia Keys.

YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Layer, Inc. develops an open communications layer platform for the Internet that enables developers to add rich messaging, voice, and video to any application. It offers Atlas, a customizable UI kit to power rich messaging in applications; SDKs for iOS and Android; Client API that enables browser based applications to add chat and communications services; and Platform API that enables developers to automate, extend, and integrate with other services and applications. Layer, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill. Founded in 2014, Cape Analytics is backed by leading venture firms and comprised of computer vision and risk analysis experts.

Gauss Surgical is a med-tech company that develops a vision-based platform for accurate and real-time measurement of surgical blood loss. They develop beautiful applications for iOS backed by sophisticated algorithms and a robust, HIPAA-compliant technical stack to enable real-time monitoring during surgery. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

Solve Media, Inc. develops a hosted security platform for publishers, advertisers, and agencies. It offers an online and mobile advertising platform that creates branding opportunities (for brands) to engage consumers through CAPTCHA, displays, videos, pre-rolls, and mobile formats. The company provides its solutions to protect Website publishers from automated submissions, spams, attacks, and other fraudulent activities; and increase brand message deliveries, recall rates, and return on investments for advertisers. Solve Media, Inc. was formerly known as AdCopy, Inc. and changed its name to Solve Media, Inc. in September 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in New York, New York; Dearborn, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; and London, United Kingdom. As of October 23, 2015, Solve Media, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adiant.

Merlon Intelligence services banks, helping them cut down on risk and put a stop to money laundering.

Kurbo Health is using mobile technology and personalized coaching to help millions of overweight children get their weight under control. Utilizing intelligent mobile apps and web-based tools, Kurbo's programs help children and their families eat healthier and lose weight. Based on research done by pediatric obesity experts at Stanford University and SUNY Buffalo, Kurbo Health is the first company with a scalable solution that combines virtual feedback, proven tracking methodologies, and personalized coaching to help adolescents control their weight using their favorite tool -- their smart phone.

SeeMe connects contemporary emerging artists to a global audience and sells limited edition prints and original artwork online. On SeeMe, creators share images that matter, from the artful to the beautiful to the amusing and anything in between. Through the website or mobile app, viewers can connect with creators through comments, likes, or by bringing the images into the real world through eco-friendly postcards or unique all-over-printed t-shirts. Hundreds of thousands of creators from around the world are being supported by millions of viewers through the SeeMe website and mobile app.

Gauss Surgical is a med-tech company that develops a vision-based platform for accurate and real-time measurement of surgical blood loss. They develop beautiful applications for iOS backed by sophisticated algorithms and a robust, HIPAA-compliant technical stack to enable real-time monitoring during surgery. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Developer of satellite-enabled telecommunication technology designed to help businesses create a bridge between connectivity and access. The company's technology enables seamless integration into networks and lets scaling of data connectivity across geographies, enabling businesses to save money and have access to continuous connectivity.

Rhombus Systems, Inc provides video security services. The company offers wi-fi enabled cameras, cloud management of live feeds, facial and object recognition through artificial intelligence, video streaming, people analytics, and security alerts. It installs its system that enables its customer to share video clippings and to share a live stream of a corporate event. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Sacramento, California. It has an additional office in Oakland, California.

Wakeo is a SaaS platform to bring real-time visibility on B2B transport flows (sea, air, road). They help shippers and forwarders improve customer experience and optimize operations. They do this by consolidating multiple transport partners into a central Saas platform to bring real-time visibility on all transport flows. They use satellite data and they connect to trucks embedded GPS & IoT systems. Through machine learning, they adjust dates of arrival on a dynamic basis and send alerts to operational teams for them to anticipate. They turn the Supply chain from reactive to predictive.

Swift Navigation, Inc. develops hardware and software in the area of global positioning system (GPS). It offers Piksi Multi GNSS Module, a multi-band, multi-constellation RTK GNSS receiver that provides centimeter-level accuracy; Duro Ruggedized Receiver, a ruggedized version of the Piksi Multi RTK GNSS receiver for agricultural, robotics, maritime, and outdoor industrial applications; Skylark cloud corrections service; Starling, a GNSS positioning engine designed for automotive and autonomous vehicle applications; and accessories, such as GNSS modules, radios, antennas, and cables. It offers its products online. Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Melbourne, Australia.