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Wooptix S.L., founded in 2014 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, specializes in developing advanced imaging technologies. The company focuses on light field and wavefront phase imaging software that captures comprehensive information about light, utilizing the full resolution of sensors. Wooptix's platform enables the three-dimensional modulation of images, allowing for higher data points at elevated frame rates in volumetric images and videos. This technology facilitates enhanced image quality and advanced post-processing capabilities, providing users with innovative ways to interact with and visualize their environments. Wooptix aims to improve human experiences through its cutting-edge imaging solutions.

Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that develops artificial‑intelligence software for magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography imaging. Its flagship products, SubtleMR and SubtlePET, are FDA‑cleared and CE‑marked tools that enhance image quality by reducing noise and sharpening detail, allowing scans to be performed faster and with lower radiation or contrast dose. The company’s deep‑learning algorithms integrate with any scanner without changing existing workflows, enabling imaging centers and hospitals to increase throughput and improve patient safety. Subtle Medical also offers a vendor‑agnostic AI platform that delivers analytics and support to clinical imaging providers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has received an NIH SBIR grant and an RSNA award for its GAD technology.

D-Matrix is a computing platform dedicated to enhancing artificial intelligence inferencing workloads within data centers. The company aims to create and implement the world's first brain-inspired AI compute engine, catering to a diverse range of inferencing tasks in the expansive cloud and infrastructure edge markets. D-Matrix's innovative approach leverages in-memory computing techniques and addresses the challenges of memory-compute integration through a combination of mixed-signal and digital signal processing methods. This focus on efficiency enables clients to optimize their computing capabilities, particularly in the realms of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Phantom AI, Inc. is a technology company based in Burlingame, California, focused on developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016, the company offers a range of innovative solutions, including PhantomVision, a deep learning-based computer vision system that supports the detection of vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, and traffic signals. Additionally, Phantom AI provides PhantomFusion, a sensor fusion platform that integrates data from various sensors like cameras, radar, LiDAR, and ultrasonic devices to create a comprehensive environmental model. The company also features PhantomDrive, a vehicle control solution that ensures safe and natural vehicle movement by accurately predicting the motion of detected objects. By delivering high-performance AI solutions at a competitive price, Phantom AI aims to democratize access to ADAS technology, ultimately enhancing safety and driving enjoyment while laying the groundwork for future self-driving capabilities.

ANGELSWING, powered by AI and computer vision, provides a drone data platform for construction and city management.

NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up that specializes in designing AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding AI landscape across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company develops purpose-built AI-centric architecture, focusing on server-on-chip solutions that reconfigure inference technologies, including computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of advanced AI functionalities for organizations with limited technical expertise, allowing clients to reduce costs and energy consumption by moving away from traditional CPU-centric models. NeuReality aims to facilitate the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors, making them more accessible and efficient.

SLAMcore develops simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Its technology enables moving robots to localize, navigate, and understand unfamiliar surroundings using visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and event camera SLAM. The company's ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D methods demonstrate real-time, high dynamic range, and resolution intensity for event-based cameras. SLAMcore licenses its algorithms for smart technology like drones and self-driving vehicles.

TriEye Ltd., established in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles. The company's core business involves creating CMOS-based SWIR sensors that enable clear imaging and accurate depth perception in challenging driving conditions such as darkness, rain, fog, and dust. TriEye's proprietary technology significantly reduces costs compared to existing industry rates while delivering reliable image data, thereby enhancing vehicle safety and autonomy.

NEX Team is a mobile artificial intelligence company started by a team of second-time entrepreneurs and former Apple, Google, and Facebook engineers and employees. They combine cutting edge mobile, AI, and computer vision technologies with deep community engagement experiences to create utility and joy for athletes and sports communities worldwide. HomeCourt is the first application built with NEX Team’s core technologies. Using only an iPhone camera, HomeCourt can count, track, and chart basketball shots in real-time while providing instant video review and deep statistical analysis. HomeCourt is used by players in 100 countries around the world and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and in Sports Illustrated. It is free to download on the App Store. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with another office in Hong Kong, the company has raised $4 million in seed funding. Investors include Mark Cuban, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin, Sam Hinkie, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures, and Mandra Capital.

Deeping Source Inc. is a South Korea-based company that specializes in data anonymization technology, focusing on the secure handling of data for artificial intelligence applications. The company develops an open data platform that removes personally identifiable information from various data types, including images and videos, while maintaining their usability for AI inference and training. Deeping Source holds worldwide patents for its core technology, which underpins two primary AI products: an AI video analytics solution that leverages existing CCTV footage to provide insights into customer behavior in retail and public spaces, and a data anonymization solution designed for autonomous driving applications. This technology allows companies to gather extensive datasets from real-world environments without breaching privacy laws, facilitating the development of accurate autonomous driving systems. Through its innovative approach, Deeping Source aims to enhance data collection and sharing practices while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.

DeepMotion is a technology company founded in December 2014 in Redwood City, specializing in motion intelligence for digital humans and virtual creatures. The company develops a cloud-based platform that utilizes deep learning, physics simulation, and computer vision to create lifelike animations and movements for 2D and 3D characters. By reconstructing realistic motion from real-world examples, DeepMotion's technology enables applications in augmented reality, virtual reality, gaming, film, and robotics. The company aims to enhance creative capabilities and interactivity in digital content, allowing users to train digital actors in various motion skills such as parkour, dancing, athletics, and martial arts. With a team comprising experts from renowned organizations like Blizzard, Pixar, Disney, and Microsoft, DeepMotion is positioned at the forefront of the evolving field of motion intelligence.

Nanolux develops imaging sensors and infrared color night vision technology for cameras and related systems. The company designs and manufactures night vision cameras and electronic device systems used in security, surveillance, and related applications, including in-vehicle and medical imaging. Its technology allows capture of infrared images in complete darkness, enabling data collection without visible illumination. Founded in 2012 and based in Tsukuba, Japan, Nanolux aims to support safe and efficient social infrastructure and medical sectors through unobtrusive imaging solutions.

Loom.ai is a San Francisco-based company that converts a single photograph into a realistic, animatable 3D avatar using deep learning, computer vision and visual effects. The platform personalizes avatars from selfies for use in mobile messaging, games, social media, virtual reality and AR experiences, as well as video conferencing, broadcasting and e-commerce; avatars are animatable in real time and capture facial nuances. The company aims to enable a new era of virtual communication by providing a scalable solution for creating expressive 3D identities embedded in digital interactions.

Raytec develops and manufactures hyperspectral complex inspection, egg quality inspection, and vision inspection systems.

PerceptIn is a visual intelligence company that develops perception and interpretation technologies for autonomous systems and devices. The company provides hardware, a software development kit with embedded algorithms, and reference applications for mobile and VR/AR contexts. Its robotics vision system features a visual inertial module that enables real-time tracking and mapping with centimeter-level accuracy for indoor environments, delivered through a user-friendly SDK. PerceptIn serves robot makers, VR/AR device makers, content creators, smartphone OEMs, gaming companies, and early adopters of immersive technologies. With offices in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara in California and Shenzhen, China, the company focuses on deploying full-stack visual intelligence across devices ranging from IoT-grade robots to autonomous driving, targeting low-speed applications such as campuses and industrial parks. PerceptIn collaborates with leading technology partners and supports a growing base of more than 100 customers, employing about 30 people.

Sualab is a company focused on developing artificial intelligence-based solutions aimed at enhancing industrial efficiency through automation. By leveraging advanced image analysis technology, Sualab's smart factory system automates tasks traditionally performed by humans, specifically in sectors such as textiles, leather, and steel. This innovative approach allows for unmanned automatic inspection and process optimization, enabling companies to monitor and control essential variables to maintain optimal production conditions. Sualab's mission is to increase the value of human time by automating repetitive tasks, thereby facilitating a more efficient and effective industrial landscape.

Founded in 2013, Imagry designs and develops a mapless autonomous driving platform. Its technology uses real-time software to identify roads, vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles without relying on maps or GPS. Imagry's Aleph Star algorithm enables physics-based planning to compensate for perception errors in real-time. The company operates autonomously on public roads since 2019 and supplies its Perception and Motion Planning L3 software stacks to automotive Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs worldwide.

Exnodes Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Fremont, California, specializes in designing and developing advanced computational imaging and machine learning technologies for the semiconductor industry. The company focuses on rapid detection, identification, and root-cause analysis of nanoscale defects in semiconductor fabrication processes. Exnodes' technology enables increased fabrication yields and resource preservation by leveraging modern sensors, electronics, optics, mechanics, and high-speed digital processing. Its innovative computational parallel inspection (CPI) method uses visible light to achieve an 8.9 nanometer sensitivity breakthrough, allowing for unpatterned wafer inspection without the need for deep ultraviolet (DUV) systems. Exnodes' technology is licensed to semiconductor companies aiming to enhance their product yields and efficiency.

Quanergy Systems designs and markets 3D LiDAR sensors and smart sensing software for security, automation and smart spaces. It offers mechanical and solid-state LiDAR sensors and a Flow Management Platform that provides real-time analysis for people counting, object detection, classification and tracking. The company’s solutions are used in mapping, security, smart city and smart space deployments, as well as industrial automation and transportation applications. Based in Silicon Valley, Quanergy aims to advance safety and efficiency by enabling AI-powered perception and automation in physical environments.

CarVi, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and a data platform for analyzing driving behavior and habits. Founded in 2014, CarVi offers a unique solution that combines a vision-based ADAS with a contextual data platform, enabling the collection of critical information related to driver behavior, 3D road data, and environmental conditions. The company's technology enhances safety by minimizing accident risks and includes features such as smoke detection, drunk driving detection, parking violation detection, and keyless lock/unlock solutions tailored for insurance providers, fleet operators, and car-sharing services. With its experience as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in the automotive sector, CarVi is now concentrating on telematics, a rapidly growing market projected to reach significant valuations in the coming years. The data collected by CarVi holds essential value for the development of self-driving cars, particularly through the creation of comprehensive 3D road maps.

CARVI is a mobility insurtech company focused on preventing car accidents through a driving assistance platform and device. It analyzes current driving habits and models a driver’s future accident probability, using big data to quantify safety metrics such as lane changes, collision danger, and reckless driving. The platform converts standard vehicles into smart vehicles by providing real-time analytics and guidance to support safer driving, with the goal of reducing risk for drivers and insurers alike.

Quanergy Systems designs and markets 3D LiDAR sensors and smart sensing software for security, automation and smart spaces. It offers mechanical and solid-state LiDAR sensors and a Flow Management Platform that provides real-time analysis for people counting, object detection, classification and tracking. The company’s solutions are used in mapping, security, smart city and smart space deployments, as well as industrial automation and transportation applications. Based in Silicon Valley, Quanergy aims to advance safety and efficiency by enabling AI-powered perception and automation in physical environments.

Mantis Vision Ltd. is a technology company specializing in 3D content creation tools and solutions. Founded in 2005 and based in Petach Tikva, Israel, the company focuses on developing advanced 3D capturing technologies, including its handheld MVC-F5 camera, which is designed for field use. Mantis Vision's proprietary MV4D technology enables the accurate capture of 3D data in dynamic scenes, facilitating user-generated content creation across various applications. The company's products serve a diverse range of markets, including security, architecture, engineering, construction, research, and consumer electronics. Mantis Vision also maintains strategic partnerships, such as with Digital Nation Entertainment, to enhance its offerings. By providing innovative software and hardware solutions, Mantis Vision aims to integrate 3D technology into mobile devices and business environments, allowing for the creation of dynamic volumetric content for virtual reality and robotic vision applications.

Quanergy Systems designs and markets 3D LiDAR sensors and smart sensing software for security, automation and smart spaces. It offers mechanical and solid-state LiDAR sensors and a Flow Management Platform that provides real-time analysis for people counting, object detection, classification and tracking. The company’s solutions are used in mapping, security, smart city and smart space deployments, as well as industrial automation and transportation applications. Based in Silicon Valley, Quanergy aims to advance safety and efficiency by enabling AI-powered perception and automation in physical environments.

Enswers is a South Korean company specializing in automatic content recognition (ACR) technology, which is used to analyze sound, image, and video content. The company's technology has a wide range of applications, including second screen services, interactive television systems, broadcast monitoring, subtitle casting, audience measurement, and copyright filtering. Enswers originated as a specialist in automatic speech recognition and has since expanded its capabilities to encompass video and image recognition. The company provides its ACR technology to notable manufacturers, including Samsung for their smart TVs and Galaxy smart devices. Additionally, Enswers develops second screen applications for major broadcasting stations and advertising firms globally, facilitating interactive advertising and enhancing viewer engagement.