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Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.

At Phaseshift, we develop novel high performance alloys using Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning models are trained to predict material properties associated with a large range of alloy compositions in a a few seconds. This, along with our computational chemistry models, enable us to model the behavior of any alloy composition in a time and cost efficient way without any compromises with the accuracy. We use our solution to develop materials for our clients that have a very specific set of needs that are unmet by existing material choices. Currently we are focused on a specialized class of materials - Amorphous Alloys and High Entropy Alloys. These materials are often considered as some of the toughest materials known to us but are less easily commercialized than traditional alloys. Some use cases of these alloys are found in the bio-medical industry, aerospace industry, nuclear industry, etc. We can also optimize our materials for the ever evolving manufacturing landscape and are currently working on projects that involve optimizing are materials for Additive Manufacturing.

Resilinc is the leading cloud provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics. Industry leaders like Amgen, GM, and EMC rely on Resilinc to mitigate risks end-to-end, while achieving long-term competitive advantage, and building brand and shareholder value. Resilinc’s flagship solution platform and services deliver the fastest time-to-value while ensuring the lowest resource impact. It accomplishes this by providing the world’s largest repository of supplier and part intelligence leveraging the power of our “LinkedIn” supplier community; the most robust set of dashboard visualization and patent-pending analytic functionality for proactive planning and risk quantification; and the only solution that personalizes your impact analysis by automatically connecting incidents with your supply chain map so you don’t have to.

VistaPath Biosystems develops a tissue grossing platform that automates the process of inspecting, describing, inking, and measuring tissues that are to be processed for diagnosis. The company's platform automatically locates, measure and image tissue as it's placed into the cassette, eliminate mix-ups and errors, visualize specimens and easily see and react to changes in workload, enabling pathologists to prepare samples for diagnosis automatically and reduce errors involved with the process.

MotionHall is built by a world-class team of data software and business development leaders. We focus on predictive matching algorithms for biopharma deals. Our tools streamline optimal deal planning - improving financials and confidence in product success. Meet the MotionHall expert system, providing predictive advisory on deal partners and deal transactability. A smarter (and easier) way to get to yes.

Jellyfish is the leading Engineering Management Platform, providing complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate. By analyzing engineering signals and contextual business data, Jellyfish enables engineering leaders to align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software, efficiently, on time. With Jellyfish, engineering leaders can focus their teams on what matters most to the business, driving strategic decisions and delivering results.

Oculii is an advanced radar sensor developer specializing in 4D radar design and fusion. 4D sensors have traditionally been the domain of high power, expensive military grade radar or laser systems. Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley angel investors and VCs - they've turned this paradigm on its head, leveraging advanced sensor fusion techniques to manufacture smarter, high precision sensors and systems. Their technology allows us to extract unprecedented accuracy, range, and 4D positioning information from commodity off the shelf low-cost radar elements, bringing high resolution radar imaging to the next frontier.

Weft, Inc. operates as a global logistics data company that combines sensors and supply chain analytics to help businesses to gain real-time asset intelligence, reduce disruption, and improve operational productivity. The company provides insights and visibility through its Web and mobile-accessible operations room to help customers in making logistics decisions. It enables companies to track various internal and external things; access its platform to interface with their assets in real time by using Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, satellite, and GPRS; interface with their assets against various analyses, including routes efficiency, fuel consumption, strike likelihood, traffic, throughput, anomalies, weather, and more; and know when something is going to be happened, which impacts their business to plan around it. Weft, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of June 30, 2016, Weft, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Genscape, Inc.

Genialis is a precision medicine data science company focused on new ways to treat disease. Blending computational biology and AI-based methods, Genialis merges and models data at the intersection of clinical and translational medicine and drug discovery. Genialis is trusted by biopharma and big pharma alike, to validate targets, predict biomarkers and optimally position novel drugs. Together, Genialis and its partners are bringing improved solutions to drug discovery to change people's lives.

Fast enough to stream your favorite videos without interruption, stutter, or stalling. Fast enough to upload photos, share content, move files in and out of the cloud, and watch high definition video effortlessly. Fast enough to keep you connected to an ever-changing world. Their unique, patent-pending technology improves Internet speed over every type of connection-fiber, cable, DSL, wireless, and satellite – enabling high speed, high quality connections everywhere. In short, it can and transform your online experience.

Infrastructure for decentralized trust

FYTO provides innovative solutions which improve the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture for farmers around the world. FYTO is developing: NOVEL NUTRIENT-DENSE CROPS that have ultra-high yields and ultra-low resource requirements, STATE-OF-THE ART CULTIVATION AND HARVESTING SYSTEMS for exceptional quality and consistency, CLIMATE-FRIENDLY METHODOLOGIES for resiliency and long-term sustainability, and a range of GROUNDBREAKING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS such as animal feed and biofertilizer.

FYTO provides innovative solutions which improve the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture for farmers around the world. FYTO is developing: NOVEL NUTRIENT-DENSE CROPS that have ultra-high yields and ultra-low resource requirements, STATE-OF-THE ART CULTIVATION AND HARVESTING SYSTEMS for exceptional quality and consistency, CLIMATE-FRIENDLY METHODOLOGIES for resiliency and long-term sustainability, and a range of GROUNDBREAKING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS such as animal feed and biofertilizer.

EnPowered helps businesses take charge of their energy usage and costs. We provide free audits on energy bills to deliver up to 70% in cost reductions. We also run analytics on our customers’ energy usage to help them save even more, offering energy retrofits to reduce energy consumption. We are working to give Power to the People. We help our customers control their energy usage and costs, and also allow small businesses to group together to get lower electricity rates; group-buying for energy.

Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions. They mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the integration of off-the-shelf high performance manipulators with their advanced vision capabilities, your robots will bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and supervised autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant.

Parallel Wireless, Inc. develops a wireless cellular network in New Hampshire. It focuses on developing the architecture of the cellular radio access network. The company offers HetNet gateway 3GPP-compliant, SDN and NFV-based, carrier-grade network orchestrator that enables operators to scale and grow multi-vendor and multi-technology (3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi) networks; and converged wireless system, a 3GPP-compliant and carrier-grade multi-RAT node that is available in outdoor and in-vehicle form factors delivering coverage anywhere. Parallel Wireless, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Plex Research, Inc. designs and develops a search engine for drug discovery. The company's platform uses search algorithms and analyzes compound’s mechanism of action and toxicity, characterizes hits, and optimizes leads. It also generates screening sets for selected targets, pathways, therapeutic indications, and phenotypes. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

EnPowered helps businesses take charge of their energy usage and costs. We provide free audits on energy bills to deliver up to 70% in cost reductions. We also run analytics on our customers’ energy usage to help them save even more, offering energy retrofits to reduce energy consumption. We are working to give Power to the People. We help our customers control their energy usage and costs, and also allow small businesses to group together to get lower electricity rates; group-buying for energy.

Contastic Inc. provides a CRM system that generates emails with personalized content for users to send to remain relevant. Its system analyzes email and contacts over a secure encrypted channel; connects with Gmail to find the last time the users were in touch with a contact; and provides users with a daily digest of news. The company serves salespeople, realtors, freelancers, and consultants. Contastic Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California. As of March 2, 2016, Contastic Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SugarCRM Inc.

Infrastructure for decentralized trust

rENIAC, Inc. designs and develops an intelligent data-aware architecture for applications, servers, and data stores. It develops a data engine platform that accelerates and optimizes open source database implementations for data-centric application. The company also provides Cassandra I/O accelerator; distributed and persistent cache; and storage engine for graphs and SQL databases. rENIAC, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional locations in Hyderabad, India; and Richmond, Canada.

Winterlight Labs Inc. develops a speech-based platform for detecting cognitive and mental diseases such as, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Its AI (artificial intelligence) diagnostic platform assesses and monitors cognitive health by quantifying speech and language patterns. The company's platform has applications in clinical trials, long-term and primary care, and speech-language pathology. Winterlight Labs Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions. They mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the integration of off-the-shelf high performance manipulators with their advanced vision capabilities, your robots will bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and supervised autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant.

Feature Labs, Inc. builds tools and application programming interfaces to deploy machine learning solutions by combining open source software and proprietary algorithms for automated feature engineering. The company's tools allow data science teams to utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence with structured data to deploy new products or services, identify critical insights, and understand what their data says about the future of their business. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. As of October 3, 2019, Feature Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc.

Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

Infinite Analytics is the most advanced predictive marketing and analytics company. Co-founded by two MIT graduates, it has its genesis in a class taught by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. The company has built a real-time personalization platform that learns and predicts by utilizing all available data to match a customer to a product or service. It creates a complete view of every customer based on the user and catalog structured and unstructured data from online, offline and macro-trends from the web. Through the use of NLP, Machine Learning and a lot of predictive analytics, they can predict user’s behavior for retail and e-commerce applications.

NPlex Biosciences develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels. It allows nanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.

Seven Bridges is the industry-leading infrastructure and data analytics company accelerating precision medicine by enabling the understanding of biomedical data. Our platform, services, and support expertise are driving discovery and drug development at the world’s leading academic, biotechnology, government, hospitals, and pharmaceutical entities. Through our collaborations with the largest genomics projects, we connect the world’s biomedical information to enable the most efficient analysis at scale. Named one of the world's smartest companies by MIT Technology Review, and a three-time Bio-IT World Best of Show winner, Seven Bridges has offices in Belgrade, Boston, Istanbul, and San Francisco.

We're building a next-generation global security fabric to connect and secure the digital ecosystem on which enterprise businesses depend. Join us in helping solve complex systems problems at the intersection of cloud, networking, security, and distributed computing. If you're interested in learning more, please email hello@oort.io or visit our website. Our team combines an unparalleled mix of talent, skill, and passion with years of experience at industry-leading networking, security, and infrastructure companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, and Cloudflare. Our investors include Bain Capital Ventures, 645 Ventures, First Star Ventures and Dreamit Ventures.

Nebulous, Inc. operates and builds blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It offers Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace; Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs; and SiaStream that provides cheap storage for media files using cloud storage technology to provide fast streaming. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tranquil is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of digital transformation, cloud, governance, context, and business policy. It enables compliance officers take control over their rules and requirements, and business roles can map data to its intention and opportunities. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Massachusetts, United States.

Everbloom develops a platform for decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. The exchange offers services including non-custodial which utilize the blockchain for settlement and Ethereum & ERC20 Token which support for trading ether and ERC20 tokens. Everbloom was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Enzymit combines a state-of-the-art computational design platform augmented with deep-learning, bringing next gen chemistry to modern industry.

Robigo is a biopesticide engineering the plant microbiome to reduce disease in crops.

Nebulous, Inc. operates and builds blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It offers Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace; Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs; and SiaStream that provides cheap storage for media files using cloud storage technology to provide fast streaming. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.