Creative Ventures

FORT Robotics makes wireless safety systems for dangerous machines. Formerly part of HRI, FORT is a VC-backed company built on more than a decade of experience in safety technology. FORT Robotics is building a first-of-its-kind safety and security platform for smart machines. FORT’s mission is to unlock the full potential of automation by accelerating development, reducing risk, and building trust in autonomous systems.

Terra CO2 Technologies specializes in the production of low-carbon alternatives for cement replacement. The company converts inexpensive, abundant, and local feedstocks from existing aggregate mines to high-performing and cost-competitive cementitious materials. Its climate-friendly, cost-competitive supplementary cementitious materials and zero-carbon cement undergo extensive third-party testing under harsh conditions to independently verify performance.

Sepion is an advanced membrane company offering a platform suite of highly-tunable nanoscale membranes for multiple industrial markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California, United States.

Leveraging single cell high-throughput biology and AI/ML to dramatically increase the success of cancer therapy.

AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year. The company's technology is made from a new class of shape-memory polymers that are primarily used as an external stent in coronary artery bypass surgery and do not require sutures, allowing doctors to reduce surgery time, infection risk, and wound resuming in hemodialysis patients while also reducing failure from vein occlusion.

VEERUM is a SaaS provider that applies digital technology to asset ownership, helping our clients build and maintain a better world. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform provides stakeholders with the latest tools and information to optimize asset outcomes. VEERUM provides a secure cloud-based web solution enabling data transparency across the entire asset lifecycle. It allows asset stakeholders to view aggregated asset data in the context of a 3D model. All information is available for a total audit history of the asset. We are the simplest and easiest to use solution on the market so you can stay ahead of the competition on your journey to digital adoption. Our clients are accelerating the transition to digital asset ownership, effectively building and maintaining the world’s critical infrastructure. Founded in 2014, VEERUM is a global software provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

C. Light is a neurotech company utilizing advanced machine learning and the most accurate commercially-available eye tracker (by 150X) to assess neurological health, starting with multiple sclerosis. it is a developer of a retinal eye-tracking platform used to improve the monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases.

Peanut Robotics offers a robot that cleans commercial spaces such as restaurants, hotels, airports, and offices.

Terra CO2 Technologies specializes in the production of low-carbon alternatives for cement replacement. The company converts inexpensive, abundant, and local feedstocks from existing aggregate mines to high-performing and cost-competitive cementitious materials. Its climate-friendly, cost-competitive supplementary cementitious materials and zero-carbon cement undergo extensive third-party testing under harsh conditions to independently verify performance.

Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Picnic is a fast-growing tech company that has developed the modern milkman, a mass-market home delivery system for fast moving consumer goods.

AirWorks is changing the mapping process for the construction industry, an untapped $12T market. Our AI-powered platform creates automated maps from aerial data, solving a massive data bottleneck in the pre-construction process. AirWorks has established itself as the leader in automated mapping and its solution has been deployed with some of the largest civil engineering companies. AirWorks spun out of MIT in the summer of 2018 and plans for its technology to be the base-layer of geospatial analytics for any industry.

To address the exploding demand for efficacious mental healthcare globally, Mobio Interactive has developed and commercialised an AI-powered digital theragnostic platform that delivers clinically validated psychotherapy programmes personalised to every patient using digital biomarkers that quantify human brain states without relying on a wearable.

Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Riven was acquired by Stratasys in September 2022. Riven Accelerates Product Introduction with 3D Reality. Quickly Diagnose and Fix Deviations from Design Intent. Reach better decisions with your team and customers. New Product Introduction (NPI) is the most critical stage of manufacturing and it’s broken. An overwhelming majority of companies miss critical ship dates and suffer cost overruns due to NPI issues. Our experience designing and manufacturing thousands of physical products led us to deeply understand the costly mistakes, inefficiencies and frustration caused by sparse, error-prone analog 2D information and poor communication during NPI. These perpetual problems are only getting worse with shorter product windows, more geometrically complex products, higher quality expectations, engineering capacity constraints and fragile supply chains. Riven accelerates product introduction by vastly simplifying how teams develop, iterate and build physical products. Riven fixes broken workflows and enables everyone across the supply chain to work together – visually – on the same product by applying ‘rich as-made’ 3D part insights and digital models. By combining accurate digital 3D copies of real physical 3D parts with intelligent, collaborative software, we are creating a digital-first NPI workflow that improves customer responsiveness, time-to-market, part accuracy and production processes while minimizing development iterations and waste. Riven software is used today by innovative manufacturers across a variety of production methods including additive manufacturing, injection molding, casting and press & sinter. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

MODit provides smart, automated quality control for manufacturing. MODit's mass-deployable 3D scanning systems and cloud platform increase yields and streamline quality communication across the supply chain.

Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in breakthrough hardware, software and biotech solutions for the massive, worldwide Food System. We believe in feeding people better by leveraging responsible science & technology to improve the quality, access and enjoyment of food. FTW Ventures was founded by Brian Frank, a serial entrepreneur turned investor, that now serves as its General Partner.

Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bleximo is building full-stack superconducting application-specific systems. Our core thesis is that integrated solutions, with a focus on the unique challenges of each high-value practical problem, will offer a competitive advantage to our customers. The ability to co-design processors, software and control stack in one product development process is our strategic differentiator: everything from the fundamental physics of superconducting technology to the dynamics of the software in a deployed system is considered in an integrated way. With state-of-the-art coherence times, our superconducting processor technology provides the foundation for building the most advanced systems on the market. Bleximo was established in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Vericool is a provider of cold chain packaging services intended to manufacture compostable coolers for sustainable shipment, storage and delivery. The company's services offer a line of packaging products that include customized, compostable, recyclable, sustainable and eco-friendly shipment boxes that have inbuilt temperature sensors for long-time storage, enabling logistics and warehouse operators to improve cold chain shipping of non-durable goods without depending on external freezers.

Sepion is an advanced membrane company offering a platform suite of highly-tunable nanoscale membranes for multiple industrial markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California, United States.

Caper (caper.ai) focuses on compacting Amazon-Go's technology (image recognition, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence) into a smart shopping cart, allowing each shopper to throw her groceries into the cart and self-checkout without cashiers. The technology is looking to fundamentally transform physical retail and rapidly scale into existing grocery stores.

VEERUM is a SaaS provider that applies digital technology to asset ownership, helping our clients build and maintain a better world. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform provides stakeholders with the latest tools and information to optimize asset outcomes. VEERUM provides a secure cloud-based web solution enabling data transparency across the entire asset lifecycle. It allows asset stakeholders to view aggregated asset data in the context of a 3D model. All information is available for a total audit history of the asset. We are the simplest and easiest to use solution on the market so you can stay ahead of the competition on your journey to digital adoption. Our clients are accelerating the transition to digital asset ownership, effectively building and maintaining the world’s critical infrastructure. Founded in 2014, VEERUM is a global software provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

ALICE Technologies is the developer of an AI-powered construction simulation platform. It leverages artificial intelligence to analyze a project's complex building requirements, generate efficient building schedules, and tune those schedules as needed during construction. The company's platform enables contractors and owners to plan, bid, and build more effectively, reducing construction times and labor costs by $30 million for a typical $500 million construction project. ALICE Technologies works with construction leaders in the infrastructure and commercial construction segments, such as Parsons, HDCC, and Kajima Corporation.

Visolis, a bioengineering company, develops carbon-negative and sustainable chemicals. Its systems approach integrates innovations in synthetic biology, chemical catalysis, and process scale-up to enable new bio-based manufacturing platforms. Visolis' bio-based process helps in achieving true carbon negative chemical synthesis. It began operation in 2012, with its headquarters in Berkeley in California.

AgriData helps farmers of trees and vines manage their yield by using machine learning and computer vision.

Dishcraft is revolutionizing commercial kitchens with robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and innovative mechanical design. It provides a dishwashing delivery service that uses robotics and AI to increase productivity and reduce waste in commercial food service operations. Dishcraft Robotics was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Sales Bootcamp is a training organization focused on developing and placing sales development representatives and interns. Founded in 2015, it offers an immersive, three-month program that equips students with practical sales experience and essential skills, including knowledge of CRM tools and sales methodologies. The organization aims to address the challenge many tech companies face in finding qualified entry-level candidates by bridging the gap between training and employment. By providing part-time workshops and a supportive ecosystem, Sales Bootcamp fosters professional growth for individuals from diverse backgrounds, ensuring that all students have access to quality training and job opportunities. The company is dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech industry and allocates a portion of its enrollment for women and underrepresented minorities, creating a more inclusive workforce.

Lioness is a team of designers and engineers building a vibrator that helps you understand, discover, and take control of your own body, paired with an app that allows you to easily visualize what your body is telling you and ask questions to a supportive community. Using advanced biometric sensing and statistical methods, we help you characterize your sexuality—how fast you get aroused, how long it generally takes to orgasm, and when sex would feel best—both individually and within the diverse sexual spectrum of the aggregate female population. Finally, as a company with strong female technology, design, and executive leadership, their product is women-centric at its core, from their choices to use the same materials as those used in medical devices to tailoring their device's ergonomics to how women actually hold vibrators. Changing the conversation around female sexuality is hard, but their team is determined to take on the challenge.

IOTAS is a Portland, Ore.-based developer of a premier smart home technology platform that delivers a fully-connected, smart home experience for residents and property managers that integrates IoT technology directly into multifamily units. IOTAS enables property developers to quickly install numerous smart devices by streamlining the set-up and deployment process. With this premium offering, building owners and operators attract new tenants at premium rents, while lowering utility and management costs. Residents have smart home technology as they move in that is managed from one app, voice control, and automation.