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Fungible creates hardware and software platforms for data centers. The company's mission is a chip responsible for data movement. This chip is low latency, high throughput, and highly programmable. Its founders have a track record leading and impacting the networking, silicon and software industries. The company is based in Santa Clara, California and was founded on 2015.

Blaize, formerly Thinci, is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets. It was created to meet growing consumer demands for new interactive products. The company innovates and patents a set of remarkable new technologies that bring unheard-of Vision Processing to all types of consumer devices. Next-generation products require 10x-100x more performance and longer battery life - and Blaize is poised to meet those needs. These innovations will delight end-users around the world, and significantly benefit those companies that embrace Blaize's game-changing advancements. Blaize was founded as Thinci in 2010 and is based in El Dorado Hills, California.

Genome Medical, Inc. operates a platform that provides genetic consultation and medical consulting services to individuals. The company through its Genome Care Delivery technology platform provides genetic solutions in the areas of clinical care, such as cancer, cardio, proactive, reproductive, pediatric, and pharmacy. Genome Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. Ring was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

LVL Technologies, Inc. develops wearable lactate threshold sensors. It manufactures wearable device that reads, reports, and records real-time muscle oxygen levels and data that is used as a metric for effort, fatigue, recovery, and fitness level. The company was formerly known as Performance Athlytics, LLC. LVL Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of October 11, 2019, LVL Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of GIDEON Informatics, Inc.

Founded in 2008, TetraVue’s Smart Vision products takes an entirely new approach to Time of Flight (TOF) technology and is the successful result of several years of experimental research. It’s designed to optimally perform in a wide array of industries, ranging from autonomous vehicles, to manufacturing, engineering, robotics, as well as for Virtual and Augmented reality applications in gaming and filming. As the visualization needs of businesses and consumers become more sophisticated, increasingly complex machines require intelligent 3D vision for maximal efficiency. TetraVue’s technology captures high definition images, in three dimensions, indoor or outdoor, and at long range with less power than a night light.

GBS German Bionic Systems GmbH develops and manufactures exoskeleton devices for use in industrial production. The company offers German Bionic CRAY X, a wearable human-robotic exoskeleton, which supports users in various industries while manual handling of goods and tools. It deploys micro mechanical components and an ergonomic, lightweight carrying system which allows a comfortable wearing of the exoskeleton. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany with additional offices in Berlin, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan.

IonQ, Inc. develops general-purpose quantum information computers. The company combines physical performance, qubit replication, optical networkability, and optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer. Its product quantum computing represents a radical departure from classical computing and overcomes limitations, such as superposition and entanglement that emerge at atomic scale. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

solarisBank AG develops a banking platform. Its platform enables startups, fintechs, and established digital companies to create custom solutions for their unique financial needs. The company also provides various compliant payment services, including e-money issuing and escrow solutions; support services for account creation and maintenance, and transaction services, as well as deposit and credit business. solarisBank AG is based in Berlin, Germany.

Quobyte GmbH provides software storage infrastructure services. It offers Quobyte, a data center file system that turns servers into a software storage system; persistent storage for containers; software storage that eliminates data silos; storage for financial modeling and backtesting; and storage for the life sciences and bio IT. Quobyte GmbH was formerly known as Xtreem Storage Systems GmbH. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Habana Labs Ltd. operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops AI processors for the specific needs of training deep neural networks and for inference deployment in production environments. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices in Caesarea Industrial Park, Israel; and San Jose, California. As of December 12, 2019, Habana Labs Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Rescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. Their mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development. It has grown rapidly to become a leading cloud simulation provider. Rescale brings the latest Silicon Valley technologies to its customers around the world. Rescale's team consists of industry thought leaders, computer scientists, and domain experts in the industries it serves. Rescale was founded in early 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Datrium is the leader in tier 1 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for hybrid clouds. Datrium converges tier 1 HCI, scale-out backup and cloud disaster recovery for vastly simpler administration, protection of hybrid cloud infrastructure, and higher IO performance than available with traditional HCI alternatives. Founded in 2012, Datrium is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

Argus is an automotive cyber security pioneer, helping car manufacturers, their Tier 1 suppliers and aftermarket connectivity providers protect connected cars and commercial vehicles from car-hacking. Founded in 2013 by cyber security experts, Argus solutions combine innovative security methods and proven computer networking know-how with deep understanding of automotive best practices. Argus’ R&D is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, with offices in Michigan, the Silicon Valley, Stuttgart and Tokyo.

Preventice Solutions, a leading developer of mobile health solutions and services, was created by a strategic combination of Preventice Services, formerly eCardio Diagnostics® and Preventice Technologies, formerly Preventice® in 2014.Together, we are designing the industry’s superior customer service experience. Using insights to create revolutionary monitoring technologies and services that connect patients and caregivers, this tech-enabled, service-based approach can ultimately reduce the cost of care and improve health outcomes.

Created by mobile and hardware veterans from Google, Apple, Nest, Amazon, Twitter, and Netflix, Afero is a comprehensive and secure platform for cloud-connected devices in any industry. The Afero turnkey architecture incorporates a secure Bluetooth® Smart module, scalable cloud services, and a range of development tools that enable companies and developers to quickly prototype and build connected devices, then gather meaningful analytics. Afero connects your smart devices and enables them to work together. Afero empowers entrepreneurs and companies to improve the way people communicate with each other and everything around them.

Valens Semiconductor Ltd., a fabless chip company, provides semiconductor products for the distribution of uncompressed high-definition (HD) multimedia content. It offers transmitters and receivers for applications, such as DVD players and recorders, digital set-top-boxes, game consoles, PCs, HDBaseT switches, and A/V receivers, as well as HDMI repeaters, splitters, and switches; and DTVs, LCDs, and plasma displays, rear and front projectors, and digital signage. The company offers chips that transmits and receives uncompressed HD video, audio, Internet, power, and control signals. Its products are used in home, office, hotel, airport, and other public places. Valens Semiconductor Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Hod Hasharon, Israel with additional offices in the United States, Tokyo, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Commsignia Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes cooperative intelligent transportation systems. It offers vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies; and various connected car solutions; Commsignia V2X Software Stack, an embedded solution that provides a modular framework and small footprint for various resource-constrained target platforms. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

iniVation provides neuromorphic vision systems. Our products offer unprecedented advantages over conventional camera systems; including ultra-low response latency, low yet informative data rates, high dynamic range and low power consumption. iniVation combines decades of world-leading experience in research and development with over 300 customers and deep industrial market access.

Keyssa, Inc. develops and manufactures contactless connector and wireless semiconductors based on millimeter-wave technology for data transfer. The company provides KSS104U, an embedded, single-chip, USB 2 link that automates the production line test of Internet of things (IoT) devices as well as any consumer electronic product or component, substantially lowering the overall test time. Keyssa, Inc. was formerly known as WaveConnex, Inc. and changed its name to Keyssa, Inc. in May, 2014. Keyssa, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Campbell, California. It has additional offices in Tigard, Oregon; Shenzhen, China; Seoul, South Korea; and Taipei, Taiwan.

Eliyan's team has created enterprise and server class semiconductors. The company consists of a team of PHY designers and chip architects who have produced generations of semiconductor products and have a profound understanding of systems. Eliyan's Interconnect technology, developed using ordinary organic chip packaging, gives the same performance as advanced packaging technology, allowing The Ultimate Chiplet Systems to be realized at a fraction of the total cost of ownership. You get more cores, computing performance, test coverage, and yield without the drawbacks of sophisticated packaging.

Inorganic Intelligence is a Neuromorphic Photonic AI Computing solution that serves as deep learning and machine learning applications. The company was founded in 2020 by David Lazovsky, Michelle Tomasko, and Preet Virk and is based in San Jose, California, United States.

WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS. WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.

solarisBank AG develops a banking platform. Its platform enables startups, fintechs, and established digital companies to create custom solutions for their unique financial needs. The company also provides various compliant payment services, including e-money issuing and escrow solutions; support services for account creation and maintenance, and transaction services, as well as deposit and credit business. solarisBank AG is based in Berlin, Germany.

Inorganic Intelligence is a Neuromorphic Photonic AI Computing solution that serves as deep learning and machine learning applications. The company was founded in 2020 by David Lazovsky, Michelle Tomasko, and Preet Virk and is based in San Jose, California, United States.

Landing.AI (Us) Corp. develops artificial intelligence transformation programs for manufacturing industry. The company develops solutions around visual inspection, controlling and automating, calibration and tuning, and automated issue identification for large manufacturer partners. It serves manufacturing, retail / ecommerce, automotive, agriculture, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical industries. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Empower Semiconductor. They are the industry’s first company dedicated to enabling the design of high efficiency, integrated voltage regulators (VR) in SoCs. Their world class team has developed a patent pending breakthrough power management architecture which is re-defining the cost, size and energy efficiency of voltage regulators for applications ranging from low-power mobile devices to higher powered server and communications systems.

Rescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. Their mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development. It has grown rapidly to become a leading cloud simulation provider. Rescale brings the latest Silicon Valley technologies to its customers around the world. Rescale's team consists of industry thought leaders, computer scientists, and domain experts in the industries it serves. Rescale was founded in early 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Allegro AI helps companies develop, deploy and manage deep learning & machine learning based solutions with a focus on unstructured data. Our customers span diverse industries and use cases from automotive, drones, radiology & healthcare to security, manufacturing and silicon. With Allegro AI, businesses are able to bring to market and then manage higher quality products, faster and more affordably. Allegro AI’s products are based on the Allegro Trains open source solution, a complete ML & DL experiment manager and AI DevOps package. Allegro Trains - a full server, SDK & FE integrated solution, with its trademark “automagical” integration - enables data science teams to track, manage, collaborate and efficiently train ML and DL models, significantly improving productivity and provenance.

Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health. Ada’s core system connects medical knowledge with intelligent technology to help all people actively manage their health and medical professionals to deliver effective care. Ada is proud to collaborate with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations to carry out this vision. The #1 medical app for 130 countries, almost 20 million assessments have been completed since its global launch in 2016.

SoundHound Inc. is the innovator in voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. SoundHound Inc.’s Houndify is the first independent AI platform that enables developers and business owners to deploy it anywhere and retain control of their brand and users while differentiating and innovating. Houndify provides all the technology ingredients necessary for voice and AI integration, including the world’s fastest speech recognition, the most sophisticated natural language understanding, easy to use developer tools, knowledge graphs, and a large and rapidly growing number of domains. Houndify technologies represent 10 years of R&D. SoundHound's voice search & assistant app, Hound, leverages their Speech-to-Meaning™ and Deep Meaning Understanding™ technologies on a consumer app experience. Their SoundHound music recognition app applies the technology to the listening experience, enabling people to discover, explore, and share the music around them.

Innoviz is a manufacturer of solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software that enable the mass-production of autonomous vehicles. InnovizPro is a solid-state LiDAR that offers outstanding performance and value for automotive and other applications. InnovizOne is a cutting-edge, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor that provides superior 3D sensing for Level 3-Level 5 autonomous driving. The company is backed by top-tier strategic partners and investors, including Magna International, Samsung, Aptiv, Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, China Merchants Capital (SINO-BLR Industrial Investment Fund, L.P.), 360 Capital Partners, Glory Ventures, Naver, Shenzhen Capital Group, New Alliance Capital, Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services, Phoenix Insurance Company, and others.

Unispectral is developing a hyperspectral imaging sensor technology which applies MEMS technology to distinguish material properties in solids, liquids and gases and provide low light and rich color photography capabilities.

Sentiance is an intelligence-driven data science and behavior change company. We turn motion data into contextual insights and use behavioral change techniques to personalize engagement for safer and sustainable mobility and wellbeing experiences. Sentiance empowers the world's leading companies to create personalized engagement services and products through intelligent contextual recommenders, delivering technology for a new human-centric economy where the user is in control of data.

Mapillary AB operates an online street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping through collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. The company enables users to collect photos that are combined into a collective street level photo view through tools, such as smartphones and action cameras. It offers updated maps, automated mapping, mapillary driver, desktop uploader, and command line tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Malmö, Sweden. As of June 18, 2020, Mapillary AB operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

wefox Group is an insurtech company in Europe. It operates two businesses: wefox and ONE. wefox is the first service platform for all your insurance needs, which enables you to easily access all your insurance contracts at any time from anywhere and request and enter into new contracts or quit the old ones with just one click. All services are available online and you can choose your personal assistant by yourself, who supports you if wanted or needed – vendor-neutral. they offer that all-around service web-based or as an app – for free! ONE is the first digital insurance carrier in Europe fully integrated into the wefox wallet.

Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

Sensifree Inc. develops contactless sensors for wearables. The company offers heart rate sensors, including fitness trackers, activity monitors, smartphones, interactive shoes, smart watches, and sports apparel and smart clothing sensors; RF based technology that senses changes in the artery wall and tracks heart rate; and SensiCor, a silicon chip that is the basic of the sensor front-end and associated software libraries. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Autotalks, Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, provides V2X automotive-grade vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure chipset for vehicle safety and mobility applications. It offers CRATON (ATK4100), an automotive-grade integrated vehicular communication processor; and PLUTON (ATK3100) V2X RF Transceiver, an automotive-grade highly integrated optimized 802.11p RFIC. The company also provides PANGAEA4 V2X communication module, security verification and trustable signing, mobility, and software solutions. It serves OEMs, and Tier1s and Tier2s worldwide. Autotalks, Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Kfar Netter, Israel. It has local offices in North America, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, and China.

Leman Micro Devices’ V-Sensor health sensor & App is the only cuffless and calibration free smartphone solution that measures blood pressure with medical accuracy. And, also with medical accuracy, body temperature, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate and respiration rate. Leman Micro Devices’ unique sensor and software system has been designed to meet all the international medical standards and is small enough and cheap enough to be integrated in all smartphones, wearables and and other mobile devices.

Mantis Vision Ltd. engages in developing content creation tools and technologies in the 3D field. It offers MVC-F5, a handheld 3D camera for field use. The company sells MVC-F5 directly and through distributors in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and Israel. It primarily serves security, architecture, engineering, construction, research, and consumer electronics markets worldwide. Mantis Vision Ltd. has a strategic investment and partnership with Digital Nation Entertainment. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Petach Tikva, Israel.

Pixeom, Inc. develops a software platform that puts the power of cloud infrastructure in home and offices. It offers edge computing solution, enabling cloud service providers to package, deploy, and orchestrate containerized applications at scale, running on premise Edge IoT Cores. Pixeom, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Ineda Systems is a startup company that was created by industry veterans from the US and India with the ultimate goal of becoming a leader in developing low power SOC’s for use in both consumer and enterprise applications. The advisory and management team has world-class experience of working in both blue-chip companies as well as fast-paced technology start-ups. Ineda's expertise is in the area of low-power SOC/IP development, architecture, and software that is necessary to design silicon and systems that would be of use in future applications. Their products will address the wearable platforms from a ground-up manner including vertical engineering of the wearable device: silicon, system, software, application ecosystem. In addition, they will enable the ecosystem with API’s and the application development framework. In combination with their leading-edge technology Ineda silicon will be the first in the world with power usage in the envelope required by wearable devices.

TidalScale, Inc. develops software for in-memory applications that binds multiple commodity hardware servers into a unified software virtual machine. It offers TidalScale software-defined servers that represent the next wave of compute. The company’s technology also helps users to configure virtual servers of various sizes, and achieve in-memory performance for the big data workloads. Its solutions include Oracle database, SAP HANA, and data analytics. TidalScale, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Campbell, California with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan.

Developing self-driving software, proprietary simulation tools and neural network acceleration hardware IP, AImotive is building an ecosystem to aid the deployment of automated driving. To catalyse industry collaboration our products are scalable, modular and hardware agnostic. We build on our team’s expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, 3D graphics and real-world automated driving workloads, to support partners in realizing their self-driving goals.

Skylo develops IoT devices intended to connect a variety of devices. Its sensors can connect on millions of objects and machines in remote areas across a wide range of industries including agriculture, fishing, railways, logistics, and utility infrastructure, enabling organizations to mobilize the machine data.

Commsignia Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes cooperative intelligent transportation systems. It offers vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies; and various connected car solutions; Commsignia V2X Software Stack, an embedded solution that provides a modular framework and small footprint for various resource-constrained target platforms. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

Tenstorrent Inc. develops and manufactures processor application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for machine learning and hardware. The company’s architecture is used in battery-powered internet of things (IoT) devices and cloud servers. It also offers artificial intelligence architecture facilitating scalable deep learning. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional office in Austin, Texas.

It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs. Avicena’s ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.

DreamBig Semiconductor provides SmartNICs as the perfect blend of hardware and programmable accelerations enabling secure and high-performance network solutions for big data centers, cloud, storage, machine learning and edge computing while increasing productivity. Their customers contact through email only.

Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI. Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.