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Alloy Enterprises operates as industry disruptors looking to tackle inefficiencies in conventional manufacturing. The company is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

OpenEnvoy provides insight, automation, and cash flow solutions to finance teams of all sizes. Invoice reconciliation for overworked finance teams. OpenEnvoy audits every invoice for duplicate billings, excess charges, and supplier fraud and has audited over $2 billion in spending to date through automation.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company that focuses on developing AI-powered systems to enhance the safety of service members and civilians. Shield AI's key products include Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone with lidar technology that navigates in GPS-denied environments, providing real-time imagery and mapping for military operations. Their Hivemind software enables drones and aircraft to function autonomously without GPS, communications, or human pilots, ensuring maneuverability in contested environments. Additionally, the V-BAT, a VTOL aircraft acquired from Martin UAV, has been deployed in regions like the Black Sea and the Middle East, proving its resilience against advanced electronic warfare threats. The company aims to enhance defense operations through advanced AI and machine learning technologies.

Rugged Robotics is a construction technology company that develops robotic intelligent automation for construction industry. The company's technology Mark I is used to mark architectural and engineering designs directly onto concrete floors so that construction workers know where to build. The robot is commercially available, and the company provides layout as a service (a derivative of Robots as a Service). It develops a portfolio of robotic platforms for use on commercial construction sites and creates hardware-enabled solutions to real-world problems. Each product they offer addresses an existing problem does tangible work and saves contractors time and money.

Route elevates the online customer journey by providing a simple way to protect and track all of the user's orders. It automatically connects to everything ordered from all retailers while allowing the user to visually track its packages, anytime, anywhere.

Parallel Systems designs an autonomous, zero-emissions freight transportation system. The company believes the future of freight transportation should be fast, inexpensive, and clean while also reducing congestion on the highways. Parallel Systems develops automated, battery-electric freight rail vehicles aimed at converting freight transportation from trucking to rail. The company focuses on building innovative rail vehicles and integration tools that work seamlessly with existing railroad operations. By utilizing its technology, Parallel Systems enables railroads to serve new markets, particularly for routes less than 1,000 miles. This solution provides a more flexible, zero-emissions alternative for freight movement, complementing traditional freight rail services while expanding operational capabilities and reducing environmental impact.

Elementary is a full-stack robotics startup that tackles Machine Learning for robotic hardware from the ground up with the goal to create assistive tools to improve the human output of repetitive tasks. Elementary provides easy-to-use software, deep learning AI, and camera systems are built to capture visual data, deliver fast and reliable real-time judgments, and provide lasting value to the business. Elementary builds a hardware and software platform for applying machine learning and computer vision for intelligent automation of quality and traceability workflows in manufacturing and logistics.

Duro provides a cloud-based PLM solution to help hardware companies manage the design and manufacturing of their custom hardware products. Duro’s workflow management solution is as simple to use as a spreadsheet but integrates automated data entry and validation to enforce hardware product development best practices.

LynkState provides a digital experience monitoring application that allows clients to create actionable insights and marketing campaigns. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut, California, United States.

OpenEnvoy provides insight, automation, and cash flow solutions to finance teams of all sizes. Invoice reconciliation for overworked finance teams. OpenEnvoy audits every invoice for duplicate billings, excess charges, and supplier fraud and has audited over $2 billion in spending to date through automation.

Alloy Enterprises operates as industry disruptors looking to tackle inefficiencies in conventional manufacturing. The company is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

BodesWell provides self-service financial planning software so financial institutions can extend the benefits of planning to the millions of people who don’t already have an advisor. Deployed as part of your existing online experience, BodesWell helps established financial services companies bring the benefits of planning to millions of under-served customers. BodesWell was acquired by American Express in June of 2022.

Standard Metrics is an automated financial cooperation platform that assists investors and creators in smarter, more forward-thinking decisions. Say goodbye to data silos in spreadsheets, personal inboxes, and archaic applications. Access firm data throughout the portfolio, from financial metrics to investment information, and engage in real-time with the team and founders.

Oxide Computer Company is a maker of server racks for on-premises compute infrastructure. The company uses technology to bring cloud hyper-scale innovations in the areas of density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security of hardware and software, as well as the ability to segment racks into zones or regions based on where the rack is located, allowing companies and IT professionals to access computer infrastructure built with innovation and to deliver hyper-scale cloud computing.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company that focuses on developing AI-powered systems to enhance the safety of service members and civilians. Shield AI's key products include Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone with lidar technology that navigates in GPS-denied environments, providing real-time imagery and mapping for military operations. Their Hivemind software enables drones and aircraft to function autonomously without GPS, communications, or human pilots, ensuring maneuverability in contested environments. Additionally, the V-BAT, a VTOL aircraft acquired from Martin UAV, has been deployed in regions like the Black Sea and the Middle East, proving its resilience against advanced electronic warfare threats. The company aims to enhance defense operations through advanced AI and machine learning technologies.

Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space. As a cloud-based system built specifically for restaurants, Toast offers advanced functionality including tableside ordering, quick menu modifications, real-time enterprise reporting, online ordering, and labor management on an easy-to-use interface. The company powers successful restaurants by combining point-of-sale, front-of-house, back-of-house, and guest-facing technology with an unequaled commitment to customer success. It enables the community of restaurateurs to delight guests and thrive.

Desktop Metal is a leading provider of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and applications for industrial, medical, and consumer product production. The company's innovative 3D printing systems, materials, and software enable on-demand, digital mass production that delivers the speed, cost-efficiency, and part quality required for this transformative shift in manufacturing.

Elementary is a full-stack robotics startup that tackles Machine Learning for robotic hardware from the ground up with the goal to create assistive tools to improve the human output of repetitive tasks. Elementary provides easy-to-use software, deep learning AI, and camera systems are built to capture visual data, deliver fast and reliable real-time judgments, and provide lasting value to the business. Elementary builds a hardware and software platform for applying machine learning and computer vision for intelligent automation of quality and traceability workflows in manufacturing and logistics.

Rugged Robotics is a construction technology company that develops robotic intelligent automation for construction industry. The company's technology Mark I is used to mark architectural and engineering designs directly onto concrete floors so that construction workers know where to build. The robot is commercially available, and the company provides layout as a service (a derivative of Robots as a Service). It develops a portfolio of robotic platforms for use on commercial construction sites and creates hardware-enabled solutions to real-world problems. Each product they offer addresses an existing problem does tangible work and saves contractors time and money.

System1 Biosciences, Inc., is a San Francisco-based neurotherapeutics company that employs phenotypic screening to discover novel drugs for complex neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy, autism, and schizophrenia, disorders for which current discovery techniques have proved least successful. System1 combines cerebral organoid science, systems neuroscience, robotic automation, and advanced data analytics to discover characterizations of disease never before achievable. These “deep phenotypes” are exploited to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug treatments.

Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time. Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructure for machine learning and predictive applications.

Simbe Robotics automates repetitive tasks in retail execution. Tally, performs the repetitive and laborious tasks of auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors. Tally operates safely during normal store hours alongside shoppers and employees.