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Pillar Security specializes in AI security, offering a unified platform that helps businesses safely and swiftly deploy AI applications. Their solution proactively identifies and mitigates risks throughout the AI lifecycle, providing features like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails. This enables enterprises and AI development teams to accelerate deployment while minimizing security and compliance risks.

Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.

Distributed Spectrum is a defense technology company that develops software and sensors for signal processing, machine learning, and embedded systems to help understand critical radio signals across missions. Its spectrum monitoring system provides situational awareness and real-time, actionable alerts, with capabilities including passive signature detection, signal analysis, and anomaly identification. The system is designed to work with affordable, commodity hardware and incorporates patent-pending algorithms to interpret the radio environment and track transmissions across diverse settings for defense and security applications.

Tenex.AI is a cybersecurity company that specializes in AI-driven, automated security solutions. It protects digital assets, networks, and data by proactively identifying and responding to modern threats in real-time. Tenex.AI's platform combines AI-driven threat detection, proactive risk management, and automated response capabilities, enhancing threat detection, agility, and resilience while maximizing security investments.

Founded in 2019, Starfish Space develops autonomous space tugs for on-demand satellite servicing. Its innovative technology combines orbital mechanics, AI-driven machine vision, and low-thrust electric propulsion to enable precise navigation, docking, and maintenance of satellites across various orbits.

Apex designs and manufactures small satellites tailored for various space missions. The company focuses on streamlining satellite production by integrating modular hardware and standardized software systems. Apex offers platforms that support Earth observation, communications, and scientific research applications. Its approach emphasizes scalable manufacturing processes to meet the growing demand for satellite deployment. Apex collaborates with clients to customize satellite configurations based on mission-specific requirements.

Anetac is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing security solutions tailored for data centers and cloud environments. The company has developed a dynamic identity and security platform that employs a streaming approach to effectively address identity-related challenges. This platform enhances organizations' security posture by enabling users to discover, monitor, and respond to vulnerabilities, particularly concerning service accounts in hybrid environments. By focusing on these areas, Anetac helps protect companies from potential threats and blind spots associated with their service accounts, thereby strengthening their overall security framework.

Danti is a search engine that leverages artificial intelligence to process and analyze vast amounts of information from diverse sources such as drones, satellites, ground sensors, news outlets, social media platforms, and analyst reports. It empowers users, regardless of their skill level, to ask complex questions and receive actionable answers swiftly.

Vorlon is a cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time detection and identification of third-party applications consuming data within a client's environment. Its agentless, patent-pending solution facilitates risk profiling of these applications and employs AI-driven behavioral analytics to provide response recommendations, enabling clients to swiftly detect, investigate, and respond to abnormal third-party app activity and potential security incidents.

Knostic is a developer of a risk management and governance platform specifically designed for enterprise large language models (LLMs). The company's software addresses the challenges associated with LLMs, particularly in managing their tendencies to generate excessive or inappropriate responses. Knostic provides essential access controls that enable enterprises to deploy LLMs effectively while ensuring security, safety, and the preservation of value. Through its knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic facilitates AI-powered innovation, allowing organizations to harness the potential of LLMs in a responsible and efficient manner.

Albedo designs and manufactures aviation and aerospace components and operates a constellation of low-flying satellites that capture high-resolution visible and thermal imagery. Its Earth observation technology serves commercial applications such as environmental monitoring and precision agriculture by delivering globally accessible, affordable imagery that is easy to task and applicable across industries.

Xeol is a technology company that specializes in software supply chain security. It offers a visualization platform that uses data enrichment and graph analytics to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities, manage software dependencies, and ensure license compliance. This helps businesses protect their software from code to deployment, reducing the risk of security breaches and compliance violations.

Armada develops an edge computing platform that connects individuals and businesses for real-time data processing and decision-making. It aims to bridge the digital divide by offering secure, scalable infrastructure alongside compatible software components.

Nexla is a data operations platform that enables secure, scalable data collaboration and centralized management of data flows across organizations. The cloud-based SaaS solution supports sending, receiving, transforming, and monitoring data in diverse formats, with options for on-premise deployment. It unifies multiple data sources and schemas by automating connectors and transformations into standardized data products, helping analysts, business users, and data engineers automate data integration, ensure repeatable data flows, and provide reliable access for analytics, AI, and operational use cases. By simplifying data integration and governance, Nexla aims to improve data quality, visibility, and speed across teams and partners.

Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.

Apex designs and manufactures small satellites tailored for various space missions. The company focuses on streamlining satellite production by integrating modular hardware and standardized software systems. Apex offers platforms that support Earth observation, communications, and scientific research applications. Its approach emphasizes scalable manufacturing processes to meet the growing demand for satellite deployment. Apex collaborates with clients to customize satellite configurations based on mission-specific requirements.

Armada develops an edge computing platform that connects individuals and businesses for real-time data processing and decision-making. It aims to bridge the digital divide by offering secure, scalable infrastructure alongside compatible software components.

Founded in 2019, Vannevar Labs develops advanced machine learning products focused on critical national security challenges. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company combines expertise from technologists and former defense/intelligence officers to create cutting-edge computer vision and natural language processing solutions for military branches and allied governments.

Ponea Health is a company dedicated to improving access to healthcare through technology. It develops cloud and mobile applications that simplify the process of searching, comparing, booking, and paying for health and well-being services. The platform connects patients with clinically vetted healthcare professionals, offering both in-person care at health facilities or at the patient's location, as well as tele-consultations via a mobile app. Ponea Health aims to create a transparent marketplace where all details of consultations, tests, treatments, products, and services are clearly listed. The platform is designed to integrate with various healthcare ecosystem partners, including insurance companies, banks, employers, pharmaceutical firms, medical device suppliers, and AI diagnostic services, to enhance the overall healthcare experience for patients and professionals alike.

Howso is an AI-driven platform that assists enterprises in preparing and analyzing data for AI use cases. It offers the Understandable AI® Platform, a data-centric AI solution providing transparency and human comprehensibility, aiming to establish trustworthy AI as the global standard.

Albedo designs and manufactures aviation and aerospace components and operates a constellation of low-flying satellites that capture high-resolution visible and thermal imagery. Its Earth observation technology serves commercial applications such as environmental monitoring and precision agriculture by delivering globally accessible, affordable imagery that is easy to task and applicable across industries.

Overwatch Imaging designs and manufactures multispectral imaging systems with onboard AI software for piloted aircraft and unmanned systems. The systems automate the search for small objects of interest across large geographies and continuous data streams, supporting applications such as automated land surveillance, maritime patrol and search, and linear infrastructure inspection. The software is compatible across sensor platforms and uses computer vision, GPU processing, AI and sensor fusion to autonomously collect and analyze geospatial data in real time, delivering mission-specific intelligence for operators to review and act. Founded in 2016 and based in Hood River, Oregon.

Rebellion Defense, Inc. is a software development company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for national defense. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Seattle and London, Rebellion Defense focuses on analyzing, securing, and transporting defense data to enhance the capabilities of the United States, United Kingdom, and their allies. The company aims to provide a comprehensive view of the threat landscape, enabling warfighters to detect and respond to security challenges effectively. By integrating expertise from both the private technology sector and defense veterans, Rebellion Defense develops advanced software solutions that strengthen cyber readiness and support military operations, helping clients stay ahead of adversaries and achieve mission success.

Founded in 2015, Cogniac designs and develops an enterprise platform for AI-grade visual observation. Its platform enables users to automate various visual tasks by connecting diverse media sources, defining use cases, monitoring performance, and integrating real-time alerts.

Founded in 2014, mPower Technology specializes in manufacturing interconnected meshes of miniature solar cells. The company aims to revolutionize solar power globally by leveraging materials and processes from silicon photovoltaic and microelectronics industries.