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Developer of artificial intelligence-enabled submetering technology designed to decarbonize the built environment. The company's technology automates commercial and industrial energy management with an ai-based natural gas submetering and provides wireless, battery-powered sensor clamps onto any existing utility meter and uses signal processing algorithms to derive granular consumption data from it, enabling businesses to identify operational savings and plan their decarbonization strategy.

Expertia is a platform that provides Deep Learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and Explainable AI to predict the right candidate.

Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks. Its research and tech are backed by Entrepreneur First, Europe's most successful accelerator and seed fund.

EyePick automates manual tasks in the food industry using vision-guided robots and industrial systems. They also provide automation solutions for the logistics, retail, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries.

Optimize manufacturing performance using data analytics. Products: IoT-based sensors and gateways for data collection, proprietary AI for predictive maintenance, and a SaaS platform, Integrate+, for insights generation.

Vivid Machines is a startup focused on enhancing agricultural production for fruit and vegetable farmers through innovative technology. The company develops advanced vision sensors and machine learning systems that deliver plant-specific insights, allowing farmers to capture critical information about their crops that was previously unnoticed. This technology enables farmers to digitize the physical and chemical attributes of their fields, facilitating more informed decision-making and increasing the proportion of produce that reaches grocery stores. Vivid Machines' system operates in real-time, quantifying fruit and size distribution, identifying pests and diseases, and evaluating overall plant health. By integrating seamlessly into existing workflows, the company provides valuable data to growers, pack houses, and fruit marketers, ultimately optimizing the fruit supply chain.

Optimize manufacturing performance using data analytics. Products: IoT-based sensors and gateways for data collection, proprietary AI for predictive maintenance, and a SaaS platform, Integrate+, for insights generation.

Unbox Robotics is a company based in Pune, India, specializing in automated parcel sorting solutions for the logistics industry. Founded in 2019, it has developed a patent-pending, AI-powered robotic system that significantly enhances sorting efficiency. This innovative platform allows for rapid installation, taking ten times less time than traditional systems, and requires 50% fewer robots, leading to space savings of over 50%. By utilizing swarm intelligence and advanced algorithms, Unbox Robotics' technology improves productivity by more than fivefold, enabling logistics operators to optimize their sorting and order consolidation processes while minimizing the need for extensive warehousing. The company's subscription-based model further supports its mission to streamline operations within a limited footprint and capital investment.

Expertia is a platform that provides Deep Learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and Explainable AI to predict the right candidate.

Rightbot is a technology company focused on warehouse automation through the development of artificial intelligence-driven robotics. The company's flagship product, Sherlock, automates the unloading and loading of floor-loaded containers, streamlining logistics processes. Additionally, Rightbot offers bin-picking autonomous mobile robots that enhance various inventory management functions, such as order fulfillment, inventory replenishment, cycle audits, and consolidation. By leveraging advanced robotics technology, Rightbot aims to help online commerce businesses efficiently meet consumer demands and improve overall operational productivity.

Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.

Synchronous is a software company that helps manufacturers make better production decisions in real-time. Every day, every factory in the world makes critical production decisions and codifies them in a long-term plan and a short-term schedule. By combining a new data paradigm with performant algorithms, Synchronous generates and updates near optimal production plans and schedules in real-time.

Unbox Robotics is a company based in Pune, India, specializing in automated parcel sorting solutions for the logistics industry. Founded in 2019, it has developed a patent-pending, AI-powered robotic system that significantly enhances sorting efficiency. This innovative platform allows for rapid installation, taking ten times less time than traditional systems, and requires 50% fewer robots, leading to space savings of over 50%. By utilizing swarm intelligence and advanced algorithms, Unbox Robotics' technology improves productivity by more than fivefold, enabling logistics operators to optimize their sorting and order consolidation processes while minimizing the need for extensive warehousing. The company's subscription-based model further supports its mission to streamline operations within a limited footprint and capital investment.

Carnot Innovations is developing a software platform to assist buildings in operating effectively with equipment maintenance and energy conservation. Its main services include building industry-specific AI predictive analytics and algorithms. By merging data science and energy engineering knowledge, it aims to transform the HVAC system of traditional buildings into a green one. Additionally, they support important stakeholders in achieving sustainability objectives including monitoring carbon emissions and ESG targets.

EyePick automates manual tasks in the food industry using vision-guided robots and industrial systems. They also provide automation solutions for the logistics, retail, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries.

SixSense is an AI-powered industrial visual inspection platform for smarter manufacturing. SixSense uses cutting-edge technologies in the field of AI such as deep learning and computer vision to automatically identify defects on the manufacturing floor. They are building the future of self-intelligent factories by enabling automation for image-based industrial applications.

Unbox Robotics is a company based in Pune, India, specializing in automated parcel sorting solutions for the logistics industry. Founded in 2019, it has developed a patent-pending, AI-powered robotic system that significantly enhances sorting efficiency. This innovative platform allows for rapid installation, taking ten times less time than traditional systems, and requires 50% fewer robots, leading to space savings of over 50%. By utilizing swarm intelligence and advanced algorithms, Unbox Robotics' technology improves productivity by more than fivefold, enabling logistics operators to optimize their sorting and order consolidation processes while minimizing the need for extensive warehousing. The company's subscription-based model further supports its mission to streamline operations within a limited footprint and capital investment.

FireVisor Systems Pte. Ltd., founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, offers an AI-powered software platform that transforms the manufacturing sector by leveraging previously untapped data. The company focuses on automating manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency and quality control. By utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, FireVisor's platform detects, analyzes, and monitors defects in production, thereby minimizing the reliance on human inspectors and process control engineers. This innovative approach aims to create self-aware factories that can autonomously optimize operations, reducing costs associated with poor quality and increasing overall profitability for clients. In a global manufacturing industry valued at $17.2 trillion, FireVisor seeks to harness the vast amounts of data generated by machines to drive significant enhancements in productivity and operational effectiveness.

Automata is an automation company focused on transforming the life sciences sector through the use of robotic technology. By providing simple and affordable robotic devices, Automata enables laboratories and other organizations to enhance their capabilities in innovation, diagnosis, and discovery. The company’s robots are designed to be easily reconfigurable, allowing users to adapt them for various tasks. This accessibility empowers professionals in laboratories, classrooms, and production environments to integrate robotic automation seamlessly into their processes, facilitating quicker results and improved efficiency.

SensorFlow is a Singapore government-funded company who make smart energy-efficient hotels a reality. Their wireless room automation & energy management solutions are flexible, easy to install and have provided proven energy savings of up to 30% per room per year. Their goal is to make the world a greener place and develop new innovative, affordable sustainable solutions.

Flexciton is an optimisation technology company that has developed a genuinely unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes using cutting-edge AI technology. Flexciton enables more semiconductor wafers to be produced for the same cost, faster. Since being founded in May 2016, Flexciton has rapidly expanded to a team of 45, the majority of whom are engineers and researchers with deep tech expertise. Manufacturing is critical to the human race; everything around us is manufactured. Human innovation has been enabled by manufacturing innovation. Manufacturing has stagnated because innovation has reached the limit of what human intelligence alone is capable of. Further innovation demands Artificial Intelligence. The company's vision is to bring Flexciton optimization technology to every factory in the world to enable manufacturing to operate at a level never before possible.

Synchronous is a software company that helps manufacturers make better production decisions in real-time. Every day, every factory in the world makes critical production decisions and codifies them in a long-term plan and a short-term schedule. By combining a new data paradigm with performant algorithms, Synchronous generates and updates near optimal production plans and schedules in real-time.

Exited to Ascalia (2024) Metis Labs develops advanced AI-driven Process Control and Quality Assurance systems for the manufacturing sector. Since 2017, we have been at the forefront of using AI to enhance the efficiency of production lines, delivering products used by consumers globally. Key Achievements: • One of the world’s first companies to use Generative AI to control real-world equipment in operationally critical environments, verified by top global brands to deliver over 80% waste reduction. • Developed a safe, repeatable methodology to deploy Generative AI control systems across some of the largest Consumer Packaged Goods production lines worldwide. • Pioneered the miniaturization of AI control solutions, enabling deployment on low-powered, legacy Programmable Logic Controllers in critical manufacturing environments. Our mission is to reduce the environmental impact and enhance the profitability of large-scale manufacturing processes globally.

CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world, virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today. They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry. CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge.

FireVisor Systems Pte. Ltd., founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, offers an AI-powered software platform that transforms the manufacturing sector by leveraging previously untapped data. The company focuses on automating manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency and quality control. By utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, FireVisor's platform detects, analyzes, and monitors defects in production, thereby minimizing the reliance on human inspectors and process control engineers. This innovative approach aims to create self-aware factories that can autonomously optimize operations, reducing costs associated with poor quality and increasing overall profitability for clients. In a global manufacturing industry valued at $17.2 trillion, FireVisor seeks to harness the vast amounts of data generated by machines to drive significant enhancements in productivity and operational effectiveness.

Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks. Its research and tech are backed by Entrepreneur First, Europe's most successful accelerator and seed fund.

Flexciton is an optimisation technology company that has developed a genuinely unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes using cutting-edge AI technology. Flexciton enables more semiconductor wafers to be produced for the same cost, faster. Since being founded in May 2016, Flexciton has rapidly expanded to a team of 45, the majority of whom are engineers and researchers with deep tech expertise. Manufacturing is critical to the human race; everything around us is manufactured. Human innovation has been enabled by manufacturing innovation. Manufacturing has stagnated because innovation has reached the limit of what human intelligence alone is capable of. Further innovation demands Artificial Intelligence. The company's vision is to bring Flexciton optimization technology to every factory in the world to enable manufacturing to operate at a level never before possible.

CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world, virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today. They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry. CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge.

SousChef is a Singapore based startup building modular, plug&play devices for automated beverage dispensing. Their technology enables us to provide digital bartending setups that are fast, consistent and customisable.

SensorFlow is a Singapore government-funded company who make smart energy-efficient hotels a reality. Their wireless room automation & energy management solutions are flexible, easy to install and have provided proven energy savings of up to 30% per room per year. Their goal is to make the world a greener place and develop new innovative, affordable sustainable solutions.

Neo AI develops a technology that makes using machine learning cheaper and faster, enabling new applications around different industries and making complex computations available to more customers.

Alpha-i is the predictive maintenance platform for aerospace and wind energy. It uses machine learning to provide actionable insights to reduce downtime. Founded in 2016, Alpha-i has a world-class research & development team and is backed by top-tier Venture Capital.

Accelerated Dynamics X Ltd develops artificial intelligence software and data analysis tools for drones and other robotic systems, facilitating their use as autonomous agents in various industries. The company provides a command and control solution known as Mission Manager, which allows for decision-making and planning in complex environments, tailored to meet specific client mission requirements. Its offerings cater to sectors such as security, agriculture, logistics, humanitarian relief, inspection, and defense. Accelerated Dynamics also focuses on collaborative robot missions through a unified AI platform that enhances autonomy, enabling seamless data collection and analytics. The company is recognized for its advanced technologies, including machine learning and multi-agent systems, which support autonomous decision making, fleet management, and effective human-robot interaction. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Accelerated Dynamics operates as a subsidiary of Animal Dynamics Limited.

CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world, virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today. They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry. CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge.

Automata is an automation company focused on transforming the life sciences sector through the use of robotic technology. By providing simple and affordable robotic devices, Automata enables laboratories and other organizations to enhance their capabilities in innovation, diagnosis, and discovery. The company’s robots are designed to be easily reconfigurable, allowing users to adapt them for various tasks. This accessibility empowers professionals in laboratories, classrooms, and production environments to integrate robotic automation seamlessly into their processes, facilitating quicker results and improved efficiency.

FireVisor Systems Pte. Ltd., founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, offers an AI-powered software platform that transforms the manufacturing sector by leveraging previously untapped data. The company focuses on automating manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency and quality control. By utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, FireVisor's platform detects, analyzes, and monitors defects in production, thereby minimizing the reliance on human inspectors and process control engineers. This innovative approach aims to create self-aware factories that can autonomously optimize operations, reducing costs associated with poor quality and increasing overall profitability for clients. In a global manufacturing industry valued at $17.2 trillion, FireVisor seeks to harness the vast amounts of data generated by machines to drive significant enhancements in productivity and operational effectiveness.

Intelligent Robots is a supplier and integrator of Fanuc industrial robots.