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Mesh specializes in facilitating secure cryptocurrency transactions. It connects over 300 exchanges and wallets, allowing seamless deposits and payments. Additionally, Mesh enables stock trading and cross-platform crypto transfers, fostering financial connectivity among users.

Nowadays is an AI-powered platform designed to simplify event planning by automating venue negotiations and logistics. The service allows users to input event details, and the AI handles communications with venues, streamlining the planning process for corporate events.

CalmWave offers an AI-driven platform that assists healthcare organizations in optimizing operations. It uses data analytics to help manage staff efficiently, lower turnover rates, and enhance patient outcomes.

Oort is a decentralized data cloud platform focused on enhancing privacy and reducing costs by integrating global computing and storage resources. It offers enterprise-grade solutions tailored for generative AI and data-driven businesses, positioning itself as a pioneer in intelligent decentralized data cloud technology. The company holds US patents and has published academic research to support its innovations. With a headquarters in New York, Oort has established partnerships with over 40 organizations, including notable companies like DELL, Tencent Cloud, and Cardano, as well as collaborations with more than 20 prestigious universities in the United States, such as Harvard and MIT. The core team comprises professionals with experience from renowned institutions like Columbia University, Qualcomm, and JP Morgan, ensuring a strong foundation for its web3-native product development and geo-distributed computing capabilities.

RadarFit develops an application that offers fitness challenges for individual and organizational health transformation. Founded in 2017, it operates globally with headquarters in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Defog integrates into applications, empowering users to query data instantly via natural language. Its platform leverages large language models to search and visualize both structured (SQL databases, data warehouses) and unstructured data (call transcripts), enabling businesses to embed insights widgets for intuitive user interaction.

Founded in 2017, Tradespace operates a platform facilitating the buying, selling, and licensing of intellectual property. Its AI-driven technology enables companies to quantify IP value, identify commercialization opportunities, and make informed strategic decisions without relying on intermediaries.

Mesh specializes in facilitating secure cryptocurrency transactions. It connects over 300 exchanges and wallets, allowing seamless deposits and payments. Additionally, Mesh enables stock trading and cross-platform crypto transfers, fostering financial connectivity among users.

Truewind develops an artificial intelligence-based platform that powers bookkeeping and finance operations. It offers a comprehensive financial back office experience through AI and concierge service, providing startups with reliable bookkeeping and detailed financial models for efficient operations.

Nextnet is a Silicon Valley-based generative AI startup focused on biomedical knowledge. It develops a cloud-based platform that discovers hidden connections in biomedical data by building a semantic web to organize, integrate, and contextualize biomedical knowledge. The platform serves knowledge workers in biotech and functions as a Generative AI-powered knowledge browser, enabling researchers to ask questions in natural language and obtain insights to support decision-making in research and development, helping to reduce costly oversights. The company aims to make biomedical knowledge more accessible and usable for scientific discovery.

BurnBot specializes in wildfire mitigation and vegetation management services. It combines expertise in forestry with advanced fire technology to systematically treat fuel sources, preventing destructive wildfires.

CalmWave offers an AI-driven platform that assists healthcare organizations in optimizing operations. It uses data analytics to help manage staff efficiently, lower turnover rates, and enhance patient outcomes.

Legion Health specializes in telepsychiatry services, enhancing patient access to mental health care through technology integration. The company focuses on streamlining interactions between patients and providers while ensuring insurance coverage for its services. It aims to support comprehensive mental wellness by offering personalized treatment plans and collaborating with other care team members.

MLtwist is a Data as a Service platform that accelerates the deployment of machine learning models by handling data preparation tasks. It streamlines the process from messy, unlabeled data to high-quality, organized, labeled data, reducing time and cost.

Optina Diagnostics is a diagnostics company focusing on retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to provide non-invasive tests that detect signs of neurodegenerative and ocular diseases. By analyzing retinal images, it identifies biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease, as well as eye conditions like age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, enabling clinicians to assess brain health and disease risk early. The platform aims to support timely diagnosis and treatment decisions with a simple eye exam.

Lariat Data provides a continuous data quality monitoring platform that helps teams discover data bugs before they affect users. With a rapid setup, it enables users to define, extract and monitor fine-grained data quality metrics from raw event data through delivered data products. The platform uses purpose-built alerting and dashboards to flag issues before downstream consumers are impacted and automates the optimization, scheduling, and visualization of quality metrics so data teams can focus on core features. It integrates with a broad data stack across streaming and batch environments, including Python pipelines, Apache Spark, AWS Athena and Kinesis, dbt, Snowflake, Apache Kafka, and Google BigQuery. It also links business metrics, ancillary data, and model outputs to identify performance issues in ML software, providing root-cause analysis and enabling proactive monitoring and alerts for production models.

LoginID is a cybersecurity company that designs and develops secure biometrics software and provides a platform for biometric authentication across smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Founded in 2018 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company offers biometrics-enabled security features for websites, applications, and eCommerce platforms, enabling strong customer authentication, data privacy, and tokenization of personal identifiable information through a compliant decentralized network. It supplies APIs and SDKs to integrate FIDO-certified authentication quickly and at scale, helping enterprises meet regulatory requirements such as PSD2 and GDPR while reducing authentication costs. The solution emphasizes user identity protection and privacy, combining biometrics with privacy-first architecture to empower individuals to control their personal data.

Konnecto is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform aimed at enhancing customer engagement for brands across various social media environments. The platform is recognized as the world's first prescriptive marketing tool, providing consumer brands with daily recommendations to boost online sales by analyzing competitors' customer journeys and identifying vulnerabilities in the path to purchase. Konnecto's technology allows brands to gain deep insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors while prioritizing user privacy. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple platforms, the company helps clients create detailed consumer profiles that inform future marketing strategies and campaigns. Its clientele includes notable companies such as Coca-Cola and MyHeritage, among others.

Botpress is an open-source chatbot platform that designs and develops tools for building, deploying, and managing conversational experiences. The platform supports scripted, AI-driven, and application-based chatbots and offers on-premises deployment. It provides a conversational flow management system, natural language understanding, and extensibility that can be managed by non-developers after deployment. Hundreds of thousands of developers and organizations use Botpress to power their conversational strategy.

Founded in 2017, Mekonos specializes in the development of gene and cell therapies. The company designs integrated system-on-a-chip technology to create predictive models for discovery and development, and operates a proprietary cell-engineering platform based on scalable silicon technology.

Konnecto is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform aimed at enhancing customer engagement for brands across various social media environments. The platform is recognized as the world's first prescriptive marketing tool, providing consumer brands with daily recommendations to boost online sales by analyzing competitors' customer journeys and identifying vulnerabilities in the path to purchase. Konnecto's technology allows brands to gain deep insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors while prioritizing user privacy. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple platforms, the company helps clients create detailed consumer profiles that inform future marketing strategies and campaigns. Its clientele includes notable companies such as Coca-Cola and MyHeritage, among others.

Chef Jasper, operating under YPC Technologies, is a Montreal-based startup specializing in food robotics. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on making gourmet food more accessible through the development of automated robotic kitchens. These innovative kitchens utilize artificial intelligence, computer vision, and advanced cooking appliances to prepare a diverse array of dishes with fresh ingredients. By implementing small-scale robotic automation in cooking processes, Chef Jasper's food kiosks offer consistent, high-quality meals at a low cost, catering to restaurants and arenas alike. The company's vision aims to revolutionize the culinary experience by enhancing efficiency and accessibility in food preparation.

Waverly specializes in AI-driven experiences for businesses. It enables creation of applications that enhance customer value through features like customizable content feeds, user interactions, and creation tools powered by natural language processing.

Founded in 2017, Phenomic AI is a Toronto-based company that develops artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery platforms. Its technology analyzes phenotypes in complex disease models like high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs more efficiently.

Founded in 2015, Pitstop is a Canadian company that develops artificial intelligence software for vehicle fleet management. Its platform integrates data from various sources such as connected vehicles, dealerships, and suppliers to provide real-time predictive maintenance insights, enabling enterprises to optimize asset performance and lower operational costs.

Satis.ai develops a comprehensive operating system for autonomous restaurant kitchens, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making and minimize errors. The company targets the substantial market of refunded orders in the EU and USA, estimated at approximately $3.4 billion, while aspiring to create automated kitchens for the broader $4 trillion global food service market. Satis.ai's technology leverages computer vision to address operational challenges in kitchen environments, including order accuracy, supply and inventory management, labor optimization, and compliance with hygiene standards. With proven technology and ongoing pilots with major global food chains, Satis.ai is positioned to drive innovation in a sector that has largely optimized its processes. Additionally, the company is part of the Nvidia Inception program and the Techstars Farm to Fork accelerator, collaborating with leading industry players such as Ecolabs and Cargill.

Syntegra operates a privacy-preserving synthetic healthcare data platform that generates synthetic data derivatives from health system information. The synthetic data matches the statistical properties of the underlying data but contains no identifiable information, enabling analytics, predictive modeling, and the creation of synthetic control groups for clinical trials without exposing patient data. The platform supports diverse data types, from health records to images and sensor streams, and is designed for secure deployment within health systems and data aggregators, meeting HIPAA and GDPR compliance. Data at rest training and containment ensure that only model parameters are transmitted off-platform, preventing leakage of identifiable information. The solution is scalable and aimed at improving patient care and clinical outcomes by facilitating research and innovation while maintaining rigorous validation and benchmarking.

Medmain is a technology company that develops software for pathology diagnosis. It offers PidPort, an AI-driven platform for rapid pathology analysis and remote telepathology consultations, and Medteria, an online education portal for medical students. The cloud-based platform supports deep learning–driven screening, secure storage, and remote diagnostics to help medical institutions and professionals enhance diagnostic accuracy and efficiency and improve patient care. Founded in 2018 and based in Fukuoka, Japan, with offices in Tokyo and the United States, Medmain focuses on expanding access to expert pathology services through technology.

Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence platform that automates report generation for radiologists. Its solution integrates with existing workflows, automating repetitive tasks to enhance efficiency, reduce burnout, and improve patient care.

FleetOps is a Toronto-based freight technology company that operates a freight marketplace and a carrier-focused platform to connect brokers, shippers, and trucking capacity. The company automates the allocation of loads to drivers by analyzing telematics data from providers to determine truck locations, routes, idle time, available driving hours, and driver behavior, and it uses AI to match loads with suitable drivers. The platform also delivers tailored analytics and KPIs for carrier trucking operations, helping to optimize dispatch and execution.

CYR3CON, established in 2018 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in predictive cybersecurity. The company employs artificial intelligence to anticipate cyber-attacks by monitoring online hacker communities and quantifying potential threats before they materialize, aiming to mitigate numerous cyber incidents. CYR3CON's platform combines human analysis with advanced machine learning to comprehend the evolving threat landscape and identify emerging attacks against enterprises, facilitating proactive cybersecurity measures.

Pragma Bio is a biotechnology company that uses microbiome-based approaches to discover therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases, combining genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to identify biomarkers and develop therapeutics through a data-driven platform that aggregates public and private data to build a microbiome database and reveal connections across microbial and clinical data. The company pursues small-molecule discovery from human-associated bacteria, focusing on the gut-immune axis, and aims to deliver health-indicative molecules with robust safety profiles, while the platform supports risk stratification and outcome prediction for patients by leveraging real-world data. Pragma Bio was founded in 2018 in Millbrae, California by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala and Kareem Barghouti.

Pragma Bio is a biotechnology company that uses microbiome-based approaches to discover therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases, combining genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to identify biomarkers and develop therapeutics through a data-driven platform that aggregates public and private data to build a microbiome database and reveal connections across microbial and clinical data. The company pursues small-molecule discovery from human-associated bacteria, focusing on the gut-immune axis, and aims to deliver health-indicative molecules with robust safety profiles, while the platform supports risk stratification and outcome prediction for patients by leveraging real-world data. Pragma Bio was founded in 2018 in Millbrae, California by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala and Kareem Barghouti.

Everest Labs, founded in 2018 and based in Fremont, California, specializes in developing advanced robotics solutions for the waste management and scrap metal industries. The company's flagship product, Celer, employs artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision to enhance the sorting and quality control processes at material recovery facilities. By integrating these technologies, Everest Labs aims to increase the quality of recyclables while minimizing reliance on human labor, thereby supporting revenue growth for waste management companies. The company is focused on fostering sustainability in the industry by encouraging the use of recycled materials in manufacturing and packaging. Ultimately, Everest Labs aspires to establish itself as a leading provider of AI and robotics solutions in complex environments like waste management.

CYR3CON, established in 2018 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in predictive cybersecurity. The company employs artificial intelligence to anticipate cyber-attacks by monitoring online hacker communities and quantifying potential threats before they materialize, aiming to mitigate numerous cyber incidents. CYR3CON's platform combines human analysis with advanced machine learning to comprehend the evolving threat landscape and identify emerging attacks against enterprises, facilitating proactive cybersecurity measures.

Photon Commerce is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in providing AI-as-a-Service solutions tailored for B2B SaaS providers. The company offers a white-labeled platform that automates document understanding and supply chain collaboration, allowing businesses to streamline processes such as invoicing and payment data management. By employing generative AI and optical character recognition, Photon Commerce enables its clients to transform disorganized data from various sources like paper documents, PDFs, and invoices into a centralized analytics dashboard. This technology helps reduce labor, minimize errors, and eliminate delays in financial operations, thereby enhancing efficiency in accounts payable and receivable processes. Photon Commerce's innovative solutions position it as a key player in the evolving landscape of intelligent financial services for B2B platforms.

Botpress is an open-source chatbot platform that designs and develops tools for building, deploying, and managing conversational experiences. The platform supports scripted, AI-driven, and application-based chatbots and offers on-premises deployment. It provides a conversational flow management system, natural language understanding, and extensibility that can be managed by non-developers after deployment. Hundreds of thousands of developers and organizations use Botpress to power their conversational strategy.

Founded in 2015, KangarooHealth develops AI-powered software for post-surgery recovery care. Its platform tracks patient movements remotely, provides real-time feedback, collects objective measurements, and reports performance to providers, enhancing care accountability and improving recovery outcomes.

BeatDapp is a music technology company that provides streaming fraud detection and data integrity solutions for the music industry. The platform authenticates and validates media streamed in real time to reduce discrepancies between digital service providers and rights holders, helping labels, artists, and distributors ensure fair compensation and lower audit costs. With offices in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Toronto, BeatDapp serves streaming services, labels, collection societies, creator tools, and distributors by delivering accurate streaming data and insights to combat fraud and improve royalty reporting.

Percept.AI is a technology company that specializes in developing an AI-powered platform designed to automate business functions, particularly in customer support. Founded in 2016 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers a 24/7 AI support system that efficiently reduces support tickets and addresses recurring customer requests. Its innovative platform utilizes a proprietary AI engine to facilitate natural language understanding, enabling seamless interactions across multiple channels such as chat, email, and web portals. By integrating with popular customer communication tools and CRM software, Percept.AI's solution can predict case priorities, convert help center entries and live chat histories into actionable insights, and enhance the overall customer support experience. This technology not only streamlines support processes but also anticipates customer issues, thereby improving service efficiency for businesses.

Founded in 2015, Pitstop is a Canadian company that develops artificial intelligence software for vehicle fleet management. Its platform integrates data from various sources such as connected vehicles, dealerships, and suppliers to provide real-time predictive maintenance insights, enabling enterprises to optimize asset performance and lower operational costs.

Greeneye Technology develops AI-powered precision agriculture solutions that transform weed control by enabling real-time, selective herbicide spraying. Its proprietary selective spraying system turns standard sprayers into smart machines by detecting weeds and applying herbicides only where needed, reducing herbicide usage by up to 90%. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company brings expertise across computer vision, artificial intelligence, agronomy, mechanical engineering, and spraying applications to help farmers implement sustainable, data-informed crop protection. The technology supports field insights and automated decision making to optimize spray applications, enabling farmers to lower chemical inputs while maintaining effective pest control.

Optina Diagnostics is a diagnostics company focusing on retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to provide non-invasive tests that detect signs of neurodegenerative and ocular diseases. By analyzing retinal images, it identifies biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease, as well as eye conditions like age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, enabling clinicians to assess brain health and disease risk early. The platform aims to support timely diagnosis and treatment decisions with a simple eye exam.

FleetOps is a Toronto-based freight technology company that operates a freight marketplace and a carrier-focused platform to connect brokers, shippers, and trucking capacity. The company automates the allocation of loads to drivers by analyzing telematics data from providers to determine truck locations, routes, idle time, available driving hours, and driver behavior, and it uses AI to match loads with suitable drivers. The platform also delivers tailored analytics and KPIs for carrier trucking operations, helping to optimize dispatch and execution.

Founded in 2017, Phenomic AI is a Toronto-based company that develops artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery platforms. Its technology analyzes phenotypes in complex disease models like high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs more efficiently.

Founded in 2018, Cognition IP is a San Francisco-based law firm specializing in intellectual property law. It offers a range of services including IP strategy, patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, and portfolio management to clients across various sectors such as life sciences, advanced software, consumer goods, transportation, cryptocurrency, hardware, and university spinouts.

Salmon is the AI engine for enterprise growth teams to autonomously accelerate revenue generation by providing real-time, accurate prospect insights at scale. The company helps the growth function – revenue ops, marketing/sales ops, pipeline expansion – quickly and accurately source, verify, and qualify their prospects.