Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical device ecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care. Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical device ecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care. Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
SpaceIQ is an innovative technology driven software company that provides cloud-based workplace management platform. SpaceIQ is a Silicon Valley, VC backed technology company founded by seasoned business and technology leaders to transform every workplace from a cost center into a competitive advantage. The SpaceIQ workplace management platform is a smart IWMS and CAFM solution with a suite of powerful and easy-to-use workplace optimization features such as space planning, move management, real estate forecasting, and more, helping companies of any size to increase engagement, fuel productivity and reduce costs through operational efficiency, and centralized visibility. SpaceIQ is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Sandy, Utah. The company was founded on 2016.
SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
JoyRun is a peer-to-peer platform that makes group deliveries for the community, by the community, social, affordable and rewarding. JoyRun’s feed lets you see who wants what in your area, create or spontaneously join existing requests, and then connects the groups with community members willing to do JoyRuns. And when you do a JoyRun, you get paid a few dollars and build your social cred. For local businesses, JoyRun wakes up latent demand, builds brand preference and grows top line revenue. Started in 2015, JoyRun is based in Silicon Valley. Today, college campuses nationwide. Tomorrow, offices and neighborhoods around the world.
JoyRun is a peer-to-peer platform that makes group deliveries for the community, by the community, social, affordable and rewarding. JoyRun’s feed lets you see who wants what in your area, create or spontaneously join existing requests, and then connects the groups with community members willing to do JoyRuns. And when you do a JoyRun, you get paid a few dollars and build your social cred. For local businesses, JoyRun wakes up latent demand, builds brand preference and grows top line revenue. Started in 2015, JoyRun is based in Silicon Valley. Today, college campuses nationwide. Tomorrow, offices and neighborhoods around the world.
Lifekee is a customer data and identity platform with a cool app where users update their contact information on behalf of enterprises and other users, changing the way people share contact information and creating a new model for connecting people and businesses all over the world.
Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform to accumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.
Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts. The platform provides a free cross-platform experience for consumers. Its patented, AI-powered matching algorithm enables real-time discovery of new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental products, taking comparison shopping to new heights. Price.com is available as a desktop and mobile website, browser extension, native app, and chatbot. RJ Rain founded Price.com in San Francisco, California in 2016.
Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who needed it. Since then, the company has built a quick delivery drone and an autonomous logistics network. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers their distribution.
Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment, and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.
Modbot brings industrial precision and power to consumer assembled robots. Imagine automated manufacturing and consumer robots within reach of everybody, assembled like Lego. Modbot is a system of affordable and re-usable modules that snap together, filling the gap between $100 hobby and $20,000 industrial motion equipment.
Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical device ecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care. Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
Zoox is a California based robotics company founded by Tim Kentley-Klay and Dr. Jesse Levinson to create autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of design, computer science, and electro-mechanical engineering, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working to imagine and build an advanced mobility experience that will support the future needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.
Mavrx uses satellite and high resolution crop imagery to deliver services to the agriculture inputs supply chain, input manufacturers, and large farms. Mavrx’s award winning precision agriculture platform and Mavrx Scout mobile tool are used by agriculture professionals around the world on more than 30 crops from corn and soybeans to cotton and sugarcane. The system uses sophisticated computer vision, data compression, and machine learning algorithms to detect abnormalities like weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease/insect infestations, water damage, equipment problems and more so that farmers can address issues quickly and understand the impact on yield and cost of production.
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
The world is more connected than it has ever been before - but access to healthcare is still one of their biggest challenges. At CaptureProof, they strive to set the standard for medical media: create and implement innovative technologies that allow patients and physicians to capture, compare, share, search and analyze pertinent media. Their goal is to positively impact medicine: enabling physicians and patients to objectively compare data, make more informed decisions and take better care. CaptureProof is a HIPAA compliant solution for patients and providers to communicate through sharing of photos and/or video with the entire care team. They are a community of providers who want to treat their patients with modern tools. Currently, an invite is necessary to set up an account.
Pathover's proprietary and patented AI technologies help businesses around the world manage payment, commercial digital transactions, financial management, back-office management, and order delivery. We empower businesses to manage their operations and finances easier. Pathover started in the grocery industry, and have since expanded our technologies to retail, restaurant, hospitality and more industries. Pathover is software solution that optimizes every step of running a business, from demand and resource management to delivery logistics. Physical stores and online marketplaces can now integrate with Pathover to automate their online digital, last mile, and back-office operations, saving time and money (on average 71%). Pathover's proprietary AI and machine learning technology provides the tools for merchants to accept payment easier online, manage finances with our back-office application, fulfill orders quickly, load-balance demand across all stores, and find the fastest and cheapest delivery options to customers.
CANVAS Technology is a robotics company with a mission to provide end-to-end autonomous delivery of goods. We’re creating safe and powerful autonomous technology that can power both indoor and outdoor driving.
Helpshift is the only customer service platform built for the unique needs of the mobile era. It delivers a great in-app help experience for many of the world's top mobile apps and mobile games. Helpshift pioneered in-app messaging for support that works just like modern mobile messaging apps, ensuring users never have to leave the app. Using bots, Helpshift can automate up to 90% of user issues, improving response times while reducing costs. With Helpshift, users get a fast, always-on help experience that feels as natural as talking to friends and family. Helpshift today delivers the help experience for many of the world's top mobile apps and mobile games, including Supercell, Square, Tencent, Brex, Xfinity Home, Microsoft, Virgin Media, Zynga, Viacom, and hundreds of other leading brands Helpshift is installed on two billion devices worldwide and serves more than 820 million active consumers monthly. To learn more about Helpshift, visit helpshift.com and follow @helpshift on Twitter. Helpshift is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by True Ventures, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Nexus Venture Partners.
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.
TAPPP makes it easy for consumers to access sports content and bet by unlocking multiple payment options. TAPPP has made MLB and NFL streaming products available across the largest physical and digital retailers in the US. TAPPP is now extending those payment options for sports betting, making it safer and easier for millions of customers to top up their accounts using cash. Headquartered in New York City, TAPPP's mission is to make sports content more engaging and accessible to fans.
Enhatch is pioneering Intelligent Surgery by harnessing artificial intelligence for smarter, faster, and safer surgeries. Our products offer advanced surgical planning tools, patient-matched instrumentation from x-rays, unmatched collaboration platforms, real-time inventory visibility, and the next generation of enabling technology for orthopedic surgery. For more information, visit enhatch.com.
FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.
Kii Corporation, established in July 2010 through the merger of Servo Software and Synclore Corporation, specializes in providing Internet of Things (IoT) platforms and solutions for various sectors, including Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Logistics, and healthcare. The company offers a mobile backend-as-a-service platform that simplifies the development of IoT and mobile applications by managing multiple vendors and providing essential backend functionalities, such as user management and push notifications. This approach allows businesses to reduce both development and operational costs by eliminating the need to manage or operate servers, thereby streamlining the application development process.
Dasher is a Messaging app company. Dasher is a chat app that’s all about features. The app has live location sharing, map sharing, GIFs, photos, the ability to poll your group of friends with yes-or-no questions, and the ability to delete messages after they’ve been sent. It also offers peer-to-peer payments through an integration with Venmo, a beta feature it launched months before Facebook Messenger announced payments.
Mavrx uses satellite and high resolution crop imagery to deliver services to the agriculture inputs supply chain, input manufacturers, and large farms. Mavrx’s award winning precision agriculture platform and Mavrx Scout mobile tool are used by agriculture professionals around the world on more than 30 crops from corn and soybeans to cotton and sugarcane. The system uses sophisticated computer vision, data compression, and machine learning algorithms to detect abnormalities like weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease/insect infestations, water damage, equipment problems and more so that farmers can address issues quickly and understand the impact on yield and cost of production.
Great Hires helps deliver an awesome onsite candidate interview experience. Based in Oakland, California our team is passionate about ensuring hiring success for both companies and candidates during the recruiting selection process. If you would like a demo of the Candidate Experience software platform please click below.
CANVAS Technology is a robotics company with a mission to provide end-to-end autonomous delivery of goods. We’re creating safe and powerful autonomous technology that can power both indoor and outdoor driving.
Sitch shows you everything fun that is happening around you right now. Find festivals, fun runs, live music performances.
Mavrx uses satellite and high resolution crop imagery to deliver services to the agriculture inputs supply chain, input manufacturers, and large farms. Mavrx’s award winning precision agriculture platform and Mavrx Scout mobile tool are used by agriculture professionals around the world on more than 30 crops from corn and soybeans to cotton and sugarcane. The system uses sophisticated computer vision, data compression, and machine learning algorithms to detect abnormalities like weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease/insect infestations, water damage, equipment problems and more so that farmers can address issues quickly and understand the impact on yield and cost of production.
RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.
Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who needed it. Since then, the company has built a quick delivery drone and an autonomous logistics network. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers their distribution.
Captiv8 is a full-service influencer marketing solution that redefines end-to-end, inspiring you to think bigger, enabling you to plan smarter, and empowering you to execute better. Through our intuitive workflow, brands can uncover actionable insights on trends, discover and vet influencers, seamlessly activate campaigns at scale, amplify branded content across the digital ecosystem, and prove business impact through our measurement dashboard. Our platform gives you the tools you need to build relationships and effective content, while our teams lend experiences and strategic services to steer you clear of common influencer marketing pitfalls.
AnyRoad is the market leader in Experiential Marketing. AnyRoad’s industry-leading platform enables businesses to operate and optimize their events, tours, classes, and activations to grow consumer brand loyalty and drive greater ROI.
GOFACTORY industrial IoT solutions connect machines, sensors, systems and people to drive insight and intelligent action. Rather than taking hours to diagnose a problem, The GOFACTORY cloud service, connected assets, and mobile application work together to maximize asset life and optimize service time. GOFACTORY analyzes data from all these inputs in real-time, and then arms the right people with the right information to solve critical issues quickly. GOFACTORY also seamlessly manages predictive maintenance to improve efficiency and service levels.Solutions are currently being developed in renewable energy, cell towers, supply chain and logistics, oil and gas and general field service, fleet management, and asset management. GOFACTORY was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Adventure Bucket List provides an enterprise SaaS to tourism destinations bringing activities and tours online, driving more visitors spending. The platform monetizes traditional tourism listing websites and empowers the local businesses. Think of OpenTable for experiences.
Reserve Media, Inc. operates a digital dining concierge service that connects restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, receive personalized service, and facilitate seamless payment. By partnering with notable restaurateurs, Reserve aims to enhance the dining experience while helping restaurants manage their reservations more effectively, reduce cancellations, and gain valuable customer insights. The platform also enables restaurants to maintain customer databases and manage their tables, ultimately improving customer relationships. As of November 2018, Reserve operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.
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DabKick is a real-time social entertainment platform that combines live video experiences with patented media sharing technologies. Through DabKick’s iOS app, people can live stream with friends while enjoying videos, music, photos and memes together all on the same screen. Advised by Apple pioneer Andy Grignon (QuickTime, FaceTime) and funded by a team of international investors including GREE, PlugAndPlay, and Digital Garage, DabKick is pioneering the future of media sharing and consumption for this generation of viewers and creators. DabKick is based in Cupertino. Visit us online at www.DabKick.com, on Medium (https://medium.com/@dabkick), and on Twitter @DabKick.
FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.
Kit. is a virtual marketing assistant that leverages messaging to help businesses market their online stores.
Dasher is a Messaging app company. Dasher is a chat app that’s all about features. The app has live location sharing, map sharing, GIFs, photos, the ability to poll your group of friends with yes-or-no questions, and the ability to delete messages after they’ve been sent. It also offers peer-to-peer payments through an integration with Venmo, a beta feature it launched months before Facebook Messenger announced payments.
Leeo began as collaboration between a group of innovators with roots in safety technology, data analytics, and beautifully built consumer products. The founding team shared a vision of combining powerful technology with beautiful design to make connected home products that are accessible, elegant, and truly smart.
RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.
Gbox is a Direct-to-consumer multimedia monetization to empower YouTubers, MCNs, and any other video creators. Its patented technology “wraps” anything of value and controls decentralized content access on the web. Unique transaction engine allows a variety of business models (subscriptions, PPV, advertising, eCommerce, social currency, and more). It is the best way to sell and distribute videos on the web. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Helpshift is the only customer service platform built for the unique needs of the mobile era. It delivers a great in-app help experience for many of the world's top mobile apps and mobile games. Helpshift pioneered in-app messaging for support that works just like modern mobile messaging apps, ensuring users never have to leave the app. Using bots, Helpshift can automate up to 90% of user issues, improving response times while reducing costs. With Helpshift, users get a fast, always-on help experience that feels as natural as talking to friends and family. Helpshift today delivers the help experience for many of the world's top mobile apps and mobile games, including Supercell, Square, Tencent, Brex, Xfinity Home, Microsoft, Virgin Media, Zynga, Viacom, and hundreds of other leading brands Helpshift is installed on two billion devices worldwide and serves more than 820 million active consumers monthly. To learn more about Helpshift, visit helpshift.com and follow @helpshift on Twitter. Helpshift is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by True Ventures, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Nexus Venture Partners.
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.
Great Hires helps deliver an awesome onsite candidate interview experience. Based in Oakland, California our team is passionate about ensuring hiring success for both companies and candidates during the recruiting selection process. If you would like a demo of the Candidate Experience software platform please click below.
Savioke develops and deploys autonomous robots that work in human environments to improve people’s lives. The company’s flagship product, Relay, is a beautifully simple yet sophisticated delivery robot that increases productivity, revenue, and delight for people across a range of markets, industries, and applications. Relay is the first delivery robot that works autonomously alongside people in busy environments such as hotels, high rise residential, industrial, and healthcare. Founded in 2013 by a team of leading robotics engineers, Savioke is backed by investors such Intel Capital, EDBI, Northern Light Venture Capital, Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Recruit Partners, and Google Ventures. For more information, visit www.savioke.com.
Cliptone is a messaging application that enables its users to send creative voice messages to their friends. It allows its users to record a clip up to 10 seconds; apply voice filters and background music; and more. Cliptone was launched on March 3, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario.
Talech is a simple yet powerful point of sale system that combines rich analytics and deep insights to help merchants run their businesses better. The product consists of an iPad based POS experience combined with a web-based dashboard. It focuses on retail and restaurant segments.
Content Analytics is an e-commerce optimization platform for brands. The company's machine-learning based item optimization platform helps brands get found among the more than 1 Billion SKUs now available online. Brands can store and catalog content, syndicate it to retailers and optimize their business to increase sales. Investors include Almaz Capital, Joe Schoendorf and Nancy Schoendorf, Eric Hahn, Cameron Myhrvold, Visionnaire Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners.
PartsMarket allows automotive professionals and private buyers to source the best quality parts from the most trustworthy licensed auto dismantlers.
Vioozer is an enterprise crowd-sensing platform that provides a mobile service that allows users to have updated information from various locations by matching their search request with a source of information. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Cruz, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California.