Chiefy is a hospital and health care company that specializes in zero waste and zero harm in surgery. Chiefy makes it easy for surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other stakeholders to align on the case plan earlier through asynchronous virtual huddles. It captures lessons, notes, and feedback after procedures and drives continuous improvement. With Chiefy, quality and communication best practices are seamlessly baked into daily operations, helping teams collaborate strikingly smarter and get closer to patients. Founded by Maya Ber Lerner and Assaf Ziv in 2020, it is located in New York, New York.
GigFinesse is an online booking platform designed to enhance the connection between artists and venues. By utilizing an AI-driven approach, GigFinesse simplifies the talent booking process for both parties, allowing artists and venues to find suitable matches efficiently. This platform aims to eliminate common obstacles in booking, ultimately helping clients to save time and boost revenue. Additionally, GigFinesse leverages data to maximize exposure for artists and venues alike, creating a more effective and streamlined experience for all users involved in the live performance industry.
Clarifai, Inc. specializes in advanced image recognition systems that enable users to detect near-duplicates and conduct visual searches. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a platform that employs machine learning to identify various categories, objects, and tags in images. This technology allows clients to locate similar images within large, uncategorized repositories by leveraging both semantic and visual similarities. Additionally, Clarifai provides a labeling tool called Labeler, which facilitates the organization of datasets, AI-driven data searches, and the training and scaling of AI models in production environments. The company also has an office in Tallinn, Estonia.
Revelio Labs specializes in labor market analytics, providing detailed insights into the workforces of companies globally. The company utilizes advanced AI technologies to analyze vast amounts of online profiles, resumes, and job postings, transforming this data into actionable insights. Its platform standardizes public employment records to create a comprehensive HR database, which allows corporate strategists, HR professionals, venture capitalists, and investors to understand workforce dynamics, identify skill gaps, and uncover trends in human capital. By offering valuable workforce analytics, Revelio Labs enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions in their strategic planning and workforce management.
Dathic, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence and data analytics software for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. The company offers Dathic growth, Dathic locator, consultancy, and Dathic ads products and services. It helps companies sell and advertise their products to Hispanic consumer. Dathic, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.
Wrapbook, incorporated in 2018 and based in New York, offers a comprehensive suite of software designed specifically for the entertainment industry. The platform streamlines payroll, contract payments, human resources, worker’s compensation, insurance, and production management, catering to the needs of producers, filmmakers, and creative professionals. By providing digital profiles for project-based workforces, Wrapbook simplifies the processes of onboarding, payment, and insurance, ensuring compliance while reducing costs. This user-friendly solution allows creative teams, including producers and HR personnel, to concentrate on their projects rather than navigating complex systems and managing expensive transactional challenges.
Developer of microbial technologies designed to remediate plastic in landfill sites. The company's technology produces plastic-eating microbes to prevent the build-up of harmful human-based waste products and pollutants in the environment while being nonharmful to the environment, enabling processing plants to plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and gather and sell the chemicals to virgin plastic manufacturers, completing the recycling circular economy.
Pepper is the direct-to-consumer bra brand that focuses on creating bras that are designed specifically for women that are size AA, A, and B.
Kinvolved, Inc. is a developer of mobile and web applications focused on enhancing communication between schools and families to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. Their flagship application, KiNVO, facilitates messaging between educators and parents, covering topics such as attendance, behavior, grades, and school updates. The platform allows users to send messages to entire classrooms or individual parents, track attendance and communication trends, and identify students with chronic absenteeism. Kinvolved's solutions are tailored for district leaders, school principals, teachers, and parents, particularly in underserved communities across the United States. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Kinvolved aims to create more economically viable communities and promote higher graduation rates through its comprehensive communication tools and community engagement initiatives.
KitSplit Inc. operates an online camera rental marketplace that connects creative professionals with equipment owners, including rental houses, production companies, and individuals. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, KitSplit enables filmmakers, photographers, and artists to access a wide range of gear, such as cameras, lenses, audio equipment, lighting, drones, and accessories. The platform allows equipment owners to earn income by renting out their gear when not in use. As a leading marketplace for gear rentals, KitSplit aims to support visual storytellers of all backgrounds and budgets, facilitating their access to high-quality equipment and services needed for production.
PainQx is a diagnostic/software company that has developed a next generation approach to objectively measure pain in humans. The PainQx platform achieves this by assessing neural activity from a patient’s brain and processing and decoding the data through proprietary algorithms. The output is a scaled pain and neurological side effects biomarker that is directly correlated to a patient’s pain state.
The PainQx system is currently being used as a clinical assessment tool by companies using pain as a primary or secondary clinical end point to measure their drug’s and/or device’s efficacy.
Vidcode is an award-winning software that teaches students computer programming through their favorite hobby: video-making. Project-oriented lessons allow students to create memes, video filters, interactive games, virtual reality and beyond with real programming languages. Vidcode offers full semester coding courses that prepare students for AP CS. Voted Best Learning Site 2015 by Common Sense Media
Opentrons is a company focused on developing pipetting robot technology to automate laboratory experiments. By utilizing open-source principles and programming in Python, Opentrons creates automated lab equipment that streamlines various scientific processes. Their product offerings encompass lab robots, workstations, hardware modules, consumables, reagents, and labware, all designed to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of research. This automation helps scientific researchers reduce human error and expedite their experimental workflows, making lab work faster and less labor-intensive.
Kinvolved, Inc. is a developer of mobile and web applications focused on enhancing communication between schools and families to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. Their flagship application, KiNVO, facilitates messaging between educators and parents, covering topics such as attendance, behavior, grades, and school updates. The platform allows users to send messages to entire classrooms or individual parents, track attendance and communication trends, and identify students with chronic absenteeism. Kinvolved's solutions are tailored for district leaders, school principals, teachers, and parents, particularly in underserved communities across the United States. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Kinvolved aims to create more economically viable communities and promote higher graduation rates through its comprehensive communication tools and community engagement initiatives.
Kinvolved, Inc. is a developer of mobile and web applications focused on enhancing communication between schools and families to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. Their flagship application, KiNVO, facilitates messaging between educators and parents, covering topics such as attendance, behavior, grades, and school updates. The platform allows users to send messages to entire classrooms or individual parents, track attendance and communication trends, and identify students with chronic absenteeism. Kinvolved's solutions are tailored for district leaders, school principals, teachers, and parents, particularly in underserved communities across the United States. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Kinvolved aims to create more economically viable communities and promote higher graduation rates through its comprehensive communication tools and community engagement initiatives.
Clarifai, Inc. specializes in advanced image recognition systems that enable users to detect near-duplicates and conduct visual searches. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a platform that employs machine learning to identify various categories, objects, and tags in images. This technology allows clients to locate similar images within large, uncategorized repositories by leveraging both semantic and visual similarities. Additionally, Clarifai provides a labeling tool called Labeler, which facilitates the organization of datasets, AI-driven data searches, and the training and scaling of AI models in production environments. The company also has an office in Tallinn, Estonia.
Framed Data specializes in transforming business data into actionable insights by leveraging machine learning techniques. The company offers an analytic marketing platform that identifies high-value users, predicts user behavior, and monitors user retention. By training, optimizing, and storing production-ready models in the cloud, Framed Data provides predictions through an API, thereby reducing the need for extensive infrastructure management. Additionally, their platform features dashboards and scenario analysis tools that highlight the key drivers of important business metrics, allowing organizations to make informed decisions based on data-driven insights.
Keen Home Inc. is a developer of home automation products based in New York City, established in 2013. The company specializes in innovative solutions that enhance residential comfort and efficiency through its smart HVAC devices. Key offerings include the Smart Vent, which wirelessly controls airflow on a room-by-room basis; the Temp Sensor, which monitors temperature and humidity; and the Smart Bridge, which integrates and manages the entire Keen zoning system. Additionally, the Ecovent Whole Home System optimizes airflow throughout the home, while the Smart Filter protects against allergens and pollutants. Keen Home’s products are compatible with various smart home platforms and are supported by a mobile app that allows users to manage their home environment effectively. The company aims to provide homeowners with improved living conditions and proactive maintenance of their home systems.
Brooklinen Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of luxury bedding and bath products, including sheets, towels, comforters, pillows, and loungewear. Founded in 2014 by Rich and Vicki Fulop, the company is based in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklinen aims to provide high-quality products at accessible prices by eliminating middlemen and unnecessary costs associated with traditional retail, such as wholesaling and designer fees. The company operates primarily through its e-commerce platform, allowing customers to purchase stylish, luxury-grade linens without the typical luxury markup.
Orca Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a biotechnology company based in Abingdon, United Kingdom, founded in 2012. The company specializes in developing oral medications aimed at treating chronic inflammatory diseases, particularly autoimmune conditions such as psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Orca Pharmaceuticals focuses on addressing imbalances in pathogenic T cells and regulatory T cells by targeting pathogenic Th17 cells and innate lymphoid cells. The company’s innovative technology is rooted in research conducted at New York University, in collaboration with its founders in the UK. Funding for Orca Pharmaceuticals has been provided by BioMotiv, a therapeutics accelerator from Cleveland, Ohio, and the New York University Innovation Venture Fund.
BioDigital Systems LLC develops biomedical visualization systems to improve training, communication, and the interpretation of medical information. The company specializes in 3D animation, training environments, and medical information systems. It offers BioDigital Human, a cloud-based, 3D human visualization platform platform that virtually explores the human body and offers real-time interactive training programs for anatomy, disease, medical devices, and treatments/surgical procedures; device emulators/computer based simulators for physicians and trainees to practice their skills and techniques; and information systems that enable the collection, storage, analysis, and visualization of medical data that is used by scientists, hospital staff, and patients. The company also provides data visualization systems, multimedia modules, imaging reconstruction systems, and open-source cancer data management systems. It provides biomedical information more accessible for a diverse list of clients, including hospitals, biotech and medical device companies, pharmaceuticals, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and students. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in New York, New York.
TB Biosciences, Inc. is an early stage development medical diagnostics company founded in June 2013 to develop a rapid point-of-care tuberculosis test that meets performance standards around the world. The goal of TB Biosciences is to commercialize a simple to operate and use tuberculosis test that replaces the 125 year old sputum smear test. The Company is using an array of patented peptides developed and exclusively licensed from the NYU School of Medicine.
Vengo Labs LLC is a company that designs and manufactures interactive vending kiosks aimed at enhancing consumer engagement at the point of purchase. Founded in 2012 and based in Bethpage, New York, Vengo's innovative vending machines utilize touchscreen technology and interactive software to gamify the shopping experience while collecting valuable consumer behavior data. These kiosks enable brands, including Trident, Snapple, and Sour Patch Kids, to effectively re-engage consumers and achieve favorable financial returns, with a projected six-month payback on new units. Vengo has established strategic partnerships with prominent organizations such as Mondelez, Verizon, and CC Vending, facilitating a broad network for its products. The company combines digital media with traditional vending, creating a modern solution that benefits both businesses and consumers.
numberFire, Inc. is an online platform specializing in sports analytics, particularly in the realm of fantasy football. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the company utilizes quantitative analysis and statistical reasoning to help users evaluate player performance and make informed decisions for their fantasy teams. The platform allows users to browse for players, engage in community forums for advice, participate in daily polls, and create their own fantasy teams. Additionally, numberFire analyzes games and situations, providing users with comparable scenarios to enhance their strategic approach. As of August 2015, numberFire operates as a subsidiary of FanDuel, Inc.
Tagasauris, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a data platform focused on enhancing visual content through the development of a human-assisted computing system. This innovative platform generates content-aware and relationship-aware metadata for images and videos, transforming them into rich, searchable media. By utilizing this technology, Tagasauris enables clients to improve engagement, traffic, and discoverability of their visual content. Notable corporate customers such as Disney, AOL, and ABC have benefited from Tagasauris' services, with significant increases in website traffic reported in various use cases. Founded in 2010, Tagasauris brings together experts in linked data, dynamic semantic publishing, and human-assisted computing, and is supported by a member of the original IBM Watson team.
Fondu (formerly SpotOn) was a community for sharing bite-sized reviews about places to eat and drink. Users wrote a short review of places they visited and gave it a rating of 1-4 "petals" that got pushed to their followers in the community. After launching SpotOn as an NYC only beta at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, the team spent a lot of time refining the recommendation engine and testing with users. Based on extensive user feedback, the team decided to evolve their product into a social network for bite-sized reviews and renamed the company to Fondu. Fondu was acquired by [Airbnb] (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-buys-fondu-2012-10) in 2012