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Bend Labs is a soft silicone sensor platform bringing smarter motion sensing to today's products. It has developed a new soft sensor platform for motion measurement, particularly around human and soft structure motion. The company's patented soft silicone bending, stretch and pressure sensor platforms will be the enabling technology underlying a significant portion of the tens of millions of smart garments, virtual reality gloves, and remote medical devices that are predicted to ship within the next five years. Bend Labs' primary goal is to enable sensor integration by partnering with companies working in the prototyping phase all the way up through large-scale commercial manufacturing and licensing. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Mantle is an engineering and manufacturing company that has developed metal 3D printing technology to produce high-resolution parts that meet the critical needs of applications from automotive and aerospace to consumer product design and prototyping.

Theta Labs, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Cupertino, California, is the developer of the Theta Network, a decentralized blockchain-powered video streaming platform. The network enables users to share their bandwidth in a peer-to-peer manner, facilitating efficient video delivery while rewarding them with cryptocurrency. By leveraging existing streaming applications, Theta Network allows users to stream live content from popular platforms with reduced latency, thereby lowering content delivery costs for video providers. The company has attracted strategic investments from notable corporate entities, including Samsung NEXT and Sony Innovation Fund, as well as various media and venture capital firms. Theta Labs operates as a subsidiary of Sliver VR Technologies, Inc.

One in two people experience debilitating back, neck, shoulder, or joint pain — but traditional treatments have failed to meet their needs. Physical therapy can be expensive and hard to access; appointments often involve long commutes and missed work. Making matters worse, unresolved pain can trigger the overuse of opioids and surgeries. We’re making high-quality care accessible by pairing wearable sensors and computer vision with a world-class clinical team. Hinge Health puts a digital clinic in every member's pocket. Now millions of people can access personalized digital care from a physical therapist, guidance on behavior change from a health coach, and expert consultations with an orthopedic surgeon. With a single app and wearable technology like our Enso device, we’re helping empower people to move beyond pain.

LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably through innovative technology combined with inspirational design. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Foster City, California.

Pointcloud is a developer of a 3D imaging platform on a chip. The company offers a technology for big data analytics on 3D point clouds based on machine learning. It enables the future of augmented reality, robotics, and autonomous mobility.

One in two people experience debilitating back, neck, shoulder, or joint pain — but traditional treatments have failed to meet their needs. Physical therapy can be expensive and hard to access; appointments often involve long commutes and missed work. Making matters worse, unresolved pain can trigger the overuse of opioids and surgeries. We’re making high-quality care accessible by pairing wearable sensors and computer vision with a world-class clinical team. Hinge Health puts a digital clinic in every member's pocket. Now millions of people can access personalized digital care from a physical therapist, guidance on behavior change from a health coach, and expert consultations with an orthopedic surgeon. With a single app and wearable technology like our Enso device, we’re helping empower people to move beyond pain.

Enspectra Health, based in Mountain View, California, has developed the world’s first hand-held multiphoton imager for human use and is delivering imaging systems to researchers investigating the structure and function of muscle, tendon, cartilage, skin, and other tissues.

BIOS Health uses data-driven insights from the nervous system to build neural digital therapies - the next big trend in precision medicines. The human nervous system carries vast quantities of data, and BIOS’ ability to precisely link nerve activity to specific conditions through the discovery of their neural biomarkers is a game changer for precision medicine. BIOS’ research could hold the key to new treatments for conditions including hypertension, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and even diseases of the brain itself such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. BIOS is positioned to provide the neural code on which a new generation of treatments can be built that can enable millions of people suffering from chronic diseases to improve their quality of life. Co-founded by Cambridge University researchers Emil Hewage, a computational neuroscientist, and Oliver Armitage, a biomechanical engineer, BIOS is made up of a wide range of experts from neuroscience, machine learning, software engineering, applied biomaterials, biotechnology and medicine. Advisors include Oxford University Professors David Paterson and Tim Denison, CEO of Candel Therapeutics Paul Peter Tak, and IQVIA VP of Genomic and Precision Medicine Joanne Hackett (Chair of the BIOS Board).

ROAM is a San Francisco-based robotics company. Their goal is to reinvent the way they make powered orthotics - otherwise known as exoskeletons - making them inexpensive, comfortable, and safe for home use. They are also developing a new class of exoskeleton that uses high strength fabrics and a pneumatic powertrain, resulting in power to weight ratios that are unmatched by existing exoskeleton systems at a significantly lower cost.

Blumio, they are looking for a better approach to monitor a person's vitals, starting with blood pressure. Today, most of their knowledge on blood pressure is based on data collected with a sphygmomanometer on the upper arm, while at rest. However, they know that blood pressure is different throughout the body and changes based on what they're doing. There simply isn't a device out there that can give us that information. They're solving this problem by developing a sensor that can measure blood pressure continuously, without the use of an inflatable cuff, providing an ultra convenient way for you to accurately measure and track your blood pressure as you go about your daily activities.

KitchenMate provides premium food vending and micro-market service to offices, commercial buildings, schools, and hospitals in Toronto.

WaterBit’s automated irrigation solution enables control of local irrigation taking into account growth stage and soil conditions at a level of granularity and accuracy that is not possible with other current methods. WaterBit translates technology into tangible value for growers to improve yields, ensure crop quality, optimize water usage and implement labor saving strategies.

Ario is building intelligent lighting products to help people lead healthier lives. It's flagship product, the Ario lamp, programs itself to adjust light direction, color, and intensity throughout the day to support your body's natural hormone production and circadian rhythm. Ario is driven by a mission is to help people improve their health through smart lighting. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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.

Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.

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.

Theta Labs, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Cupertino, California, is the developer of the Theta Network, a decentralized blockchain-powered video streaming platform. The network enables users to share their bandwidth in a peer-to-peer manner, facilitating efficient video delivery while rewarding them with cryptocurrency. By leveraging existing streaming applications, Theta Network allows users to stream live content from popular platforms with reduced latency, thereby lowering content delivery costs for video providers. The company has attracted strategic investments from notable corporate entities, including Samsung NEXT and Sony Innovation Fund, as well as various media and venture capital firms. Theta Labs operates as a subsidiary of Sliver VR Technologies, Inc.

Theta EdgeCloud is the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment. The platform empowers AI teams with unrivaled GPU price-to-performance as the first hybrid cloud-edge computing architecture. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

Ario is building intelligent lighting products to help people lead healthier lives. It's flagship product, the Ario lamp, programs itself to adjust light direction, color, and intensity throughout the day to support your body's natural hormone production and circadian rhythm. Ario is driven by a mission is to help people improve their health through smart lighting. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Lucid is a computer vision startup based out of Silicon Valley and specialized in applying AI to images and videos for analysis, summarization, and recommendation of content to increase customers' revenue, retention, and sales.

Kali monitoring technology integrates smart sensors, data analytics and cloud services. In clinical trials Kali system replaces assumption and self-reporting for medication adherence by collecting objective data and automatically integrating the data into study database resulting in shorter and more efficient clinical trial. In clinical practice Kali adherence score provides critical information for explaining the incongruity between recommended treatment and actual treatment outcomes. Kali clinical trial monitoring platform is currently deployed in twenty countries.

Kali monitoring technology integrates smart sensors, data analytics and cloud services. In clinical trials Kali system replaces assumption and self-reporting for medication adherence by collecting objective data and automatically integrating the data into study database resulting in shorter and more efficient clinical trial. In clinical practice Kali adherence score provides critical information for explaining the incongruity between recommended treatment and actual treatment outcomes. Kali clinical trial monitoring platform is currently deployed in twenty countries.