Developer of autonomous car technology intended to improve intelligent driving experiences. The company develops mutual software and hardware that facilitate the compatibility of different operating systems and platforms, enabling intelligent vehicle manufacturers to improve development efficiency and reduce costs.
Alcatraz AI, Inc. specializes in developing a facial authentication platform aimed at enhancing security for physical access to government buildings and corporate campuses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company utilizes advanced technologies such as machine learning, 3D sensing, and deep neural networks to facilitate secure and seamless entry. Alcatraz AI's solution replaces traditional access methods like badging by employing real-time 3D facial mapping to identify individuals as they approach a secured entry point. The system combines software and hardware components, including sensors mounted next to locked doors, to automatically enroll users and grant access while also providing analytics and alerts for security breaches.
Phase Genomics, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2015 and located in Seattle, Washington. The company specializes in advanced genomic technologies, particularly ProxiMeta Hi-C genome assembly and metagenome deconvolution. Its mission is to assist scientists in making significant discoveries by delivering highly complete and accurate genomes and metagenomes. Through its innovative approaches, Phase Genomics aims to enhance the understanding of complex biological systems, facilitating research in various fields of life sciences.
Ravel Biotechnology
Venture Round in 2020
Ravel Biotechnology markets an analytic technology platform capable of early detection of disease from cell-free DNA. The technology platform enables the accelerated development and validation of screening tests for a wide range of diseases from a single analyte, cell-free DNA. Thus providing the opportunity to screen for a multitude of diseases from a single blood draw. The company was co-founded by Erik Gafni and Nathan Boley in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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X-37, LLC is a pharmaceutical discovery and development company based in South San Francisco, California, established in 2018. The company specializes in developing treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and coagulation disorders. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence technology from Atomwise, X-37 aims to discover novel drug candidates by screening extensive libraries of chemical compounds against significant pharmaceutical targets. This innovative approach enables the healthcare sector to expedite the discovery and development of new medicines, ultimately benefiting patients in need of effective therapies.
Smart Radar System is a radar vision technology company based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, specializing in advanced radar solutions for automotive and industrial applications. Founded in 2017, the company is known for its innovative 4D image radar products, including RETINA, which provides precise distance and velocity measurements with high angular resolution. Additionally, Smart Radar System offers the IRISv corner radar module, designed to monitor surrounding objects in a 360-degree view, and the RM68-01 industrial radar evaluation kit, which supports the development of high-performance industrial radar applications. The company also provides customization services for radar modules, along with essential tools such as a Carrier Board for PC integration and Radar PC Software for user interface control. Its technologies are applied across various sectors, including automotive safety, industrial automation, people counting, and vital sign monitoring.
MetaMe Health is focused on developing digital therapeutics specifically for gastrointestinal disorders, with a primary emphasis on its product, Regulora™ for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). This innovative therapy aims to be the first FDA-cleared prescription-only digital treatment for IBS, a condition affecting over 30 million Americans. Regulora™ leverages a standardized Brain-Gut therapy approach, which has demonstrated clinical effectiveness in alleviating IBS symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and constipation. The platform connects IBS patients with therapists, facilitating live video sessions and enabling the tracking of patient progress while managing scheduling and billing. Through these features, MetaMe Health aims to provide significant relief for patients and help reduce the severity of their symptoms.
Tensorflight specializes in providing accurate and comprehensive commercial property data through its advanced property intelligence platform. Utilizing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, the company analyzes various image types, including aerial imagery, to develop a global database of buildings. This platform delivers detailed features such as building footprints, square footage, number of stories, construction types, and roof attributes. By offering structured property data, Tensorflight enables insurance companies to enhance their underwriting and claims processes, allowing them to better price premiums and assess risks associated with their portfolios.
NAVAN Technologies, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which facilitates direct access to the cytosol of cells. This innovative technology addresses a significant challenge in the field of cell and gene therapies by enabling the efficient and gentle delivery of various materials into difficult-to-transfect cells. Through its NanoStraw platform, NAVAN aims to enhance the capabilities of researchers in their efforts to advance therapeutic solutions.
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.
Mendo provides highly complex liquid-handling in a portable, low-cost, and programmable electrofluidic device. The company utilizes the liquid-handling technology to condense and consolidate the manual and infrastructure-intensive aspects of the next-generation sequencing workflow in an automated handheld device, thereby enabling clients to construct programmable fluidic circuits that can autonomously execute arbitrarily complex liquid handling steps.
Nebula Genomics, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company focused on human genome sequencing and health data. It aims to create a comprehensive and trusted marketplace for genomic and health data, facilitating access for consumers, researchers, and the medical community. Utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics empowers individuals to control their genomic data while receiving compensation for its use. The marketplace aggregates extensive genetic information, which researchers can analyze to enhance drug development and streamline clinical trials, ultimately contributing to personalized medicine. The company's innovative DNA sequencing technology allows for the examination of all genes, regulatory regions, the Y chromosome, and mitochondrial DNA, enabling clients to explore genetic variants comprehensively. Nebula Genomics was co-founded by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church and has received backing from notable investors.
Upfort is a cyber security company that specializes in providing cyber protection as a service for small businesses. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aims to safeguard businesses from cyber attacks through tailored security solutions. Upfort's services are designed to address the unique challenges faced by small enterprises, ensuring they have access to effective protection against evolving cyber threats.
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.
Ample, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in electric battery stations and battery swap solutions for electric vehicles. Founded in 2014, Ample employs autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to address the energy delivery challenges associated with electric transportation. The company's innovative platform provides a rapid and economical charging solution, allowing electric vehicles to receive a full charge in just minutes. By making battery swapping widely accessible, Ample aims to facilitate the adoption of electric cars, supporting the vision of making electric vehicles available to a broader audience.
Scotty Labs, Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, specializes in technology that allows remote control of self-driving cars. Founded in 2017 as a spin-out from SRI International, Scotty Labs focuses on enhancing the interaction between humans and autonomous vehicles. The company has developed a tele-operations platform that enables operators to control vehicles in dynamic environments, emphasizing the importance of human oversight in addressing the challenges faced by driverless technology. By integrating human-centric autonomy with advanced teleoperation capabilities, Scotty Labs aims to improve safety and efficiency in the transportation sector. As of August 2019, Scotty Labs operates as a subsidiary of DoorDash, Inc.
melo.ai is building a new way to automatically taking meeting notes and let every meeting become more efficient and actionable. The 1st-gen product includes 6 camera + 6 microphone array which will be placed on the table inside the meeting room. It will record the voice and video for each speaker automatically without any touch or operations. Meanwhile it will transcript the voice of each speaker, then index topics and action items to relative voice/video/transcription in cloud. The product will allow users to check, follow up, share the meeting content efficiently. It also allows user to share with colleagues or partners who cannot participate that meeting due to location or time challenge, in order to 'let everyone in the loop’, more productive and better coordination. It’s a new type of service for business combining technology(vision+speech) with great user experience. The revenue model will be: annual fee for hardware rent + service fee charged by meeting hours.
Nebula Genomics, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company focused on human genome sequencing and health data. It aims to create a comprehensive and trusted marketplace for genomic and health data, facilitating access for consumers, researchers, and the medical community. Utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics empowers individuals to control their genomic data while receiving compensation for its use. The marketplace aggregates extensive genetic information, which researchers can analyze to enhance drug development and streamline clinical trials, ultimately contributing to personalized medicine. The company's innovative DNA sequencing technology allows for the examination of all genes, regulatory regions, the Y chromosome, and mitochondrial DNA, enabling clients to explore genetic variants comprehensively. Nebula Genomics was co-founded by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church and has received backing from notable investors.
Tanvas, Inc. engages in the development of Surface Haptics technology-based products. The company develops touch screen technology which uses electrostatic fields to create computer-controlled variable friction on the glass and enables people to feel what they see on a screen. Tanvas, Inc. was formerly known as Tangible Haptics LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Chicago. Illinois.
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.
Tensorflight specializes in providing accurate and comprehensive commercial property data through its advanced property intelligence platform. Utilizing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, the company analyzes various image types, including aerial imagery, to develop a global database of buildings. This platform delivers detailed features such as building footprints, square footage, number of stories, construction types, and roof attributes. By offering structured property data, Tensorflight enables insurance companies to enhance their underwriting and claims processes, allowing them to better price premiums and assess risks associated with their portfolios.
BioAesthetics Corporation, founded in 2015 as a spin-out from Tulane University, specializes in developing innovative reconstruction solutions for breast cancer patients who have undergone mastectomies. The company's primary product is a tissue-engineered nipple-areolar complex (NAC), designed to facilitate the regeneration of the nipple and areola during the breast reconstruction phase. This biologically derived graft serves as an acellular, off-the-shelf option for plastic and reconstructive surgeons, allowing the patient's own cells to integrate and restore the NAC. Currently in the pre-clinical phase, this patent-pending technology aims to improve surgical outcomes and enhance the quality of life for patients with incomplete or removed NACs due to disease, surgery, or birth defects. BioAesthetics is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving. They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.
Cypre, Inc., founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in drug discovery, translational research, and clinical research. The company focuses on oncology and immuno-oncology applications, as well as disease modeling and stem cell research. Cypre develops hydrogel patterning technology and utilizes patented three-dimensional bioprinting methods to enhance cancer drug development and precision medicine. Its innovative platform combines these technologies with high-content imaging to assess the efficacy of immunotherapy, allowing medical institutions to effectively identify therapeutics that can address resistance to cancer treatments.
Epinomics Inc. specializes in advancing personalized medicine by leveraging big data analytics and proprietary epigenomics technology. Founded in 2013 and located in Menlo Park, California, the company focuses on decoding the human genome to enhance drug development and clinical applications. By utilizing innovative DNA sequencing technology, Epinomics aims to improve existing methodologies in the field, facilitating deeper scientific research and the development of clinical applications. As of March 31, 2018, Epinomics operates as a subsidiary of 10X Genomics, Inc., furthering its mission to revolutionize healthcare through precision medicine.
Alcatraz AI, Inc. specializes in developing a facial authentication platform aimed at enhancing security for physical access to government buildings and corporate campuses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company utilizes advanced technologies such as machine learning, 3D sensing, and deep neural networks to facilitate secure and seamless entry. Alcatraz AI's solution replaces traditional access methods like badging by employing real-time 3D facial mapping to identify individuals as they approach a secured entry point. The system combines software and hardware components, including sensors mounted next to locked doors, to automatically enroll users and grant access while also providing analytics and alerts for security breaches.
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.
PolySync Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing a comprehensive platform for building, testing, and deploying applications for driverless vehicles. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and other locations, PolySync provides software tools and services aimed at accelerating the research, development, and production of autonomous vehicle components. The company’s technology enables high-bandwidth and high-fidelity data capture, facilitating advanced testing and development processes. PolySync's solutions are utilized by automotive engineering services, government agencies, and universities worldwide, with products operational in over 17 countries. This focus on safety and efficiency allows partners to expedite their journey from development to market deployment of autonomous vehicle solutions.
Point One Navigation is building a localization service accurate down to a few centimeters at a cost 100x less than existing solutions. Using proprietary sensor fusion algorithms between computer vision and satellite navigation data coupled with a network of sensors, the solution out performs inferior single sensor techniques and does so without the need for special hardware.
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