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RISA Labs utilizes Multi-Agent Systems to reimagine healthcare, enhancing efficiency and elevating patient care. The company's MAS interface sparks innovation in healthcare, aiming to make healthcare administration more intelligent, responsive, and centered around patients.

Conifer builds compact and modular powertrains to power everything that moves.

Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for

The Energy Company focuses on facilitating the adoption of electric vehicles by offering advanced battery solutions that are faster, more affordable, and reliable. In addition to providing these batteries, the company has developed an energy storage platform that promotes economically and environmentally sustainable energy transactions. Their battery-enabled software-as-a-service platform allows for superior management and control over battery performance, ensuring they are primed for deployment in second-life applications. This innovative approach enables clients to benefit from rapid and adaptable charging capabilities, enhancing the overall efficiency of electric mobility.

Conifer Systems is a manufacturer based in Houston, Texas, specializing in emissions control systems tailored for various industries. With over 20 years of experience, the company designs, manufactures, and installs advanced solutions such as oxidizers, scrubbers, and carbon observers. Conifer Systems also provides comprehensive aftermarket services, ensuring that clients can maintain and enhance their systems effectively. The firm emphasizes quality and efficiency, utilizing standardized solutions to deliver reliable systems with reduced project timelines and costs. By focusing on both environmental compliance and business objectives, Conifer Systems supports industries in meeting their emissions control needs while fostering sustainable practices.

Greenjets, founded in 2019 and spun out of Blue Bear Systems Research in December 2022, specializes in developing quiet, safe, and efficient propulsion systems aimed at promoting sustainable aviation. The company provides an innovative approach to private flying that prioritizes environmental responsibility. By offering advanced propulsion solutions, Greenjets seeks to facilitate the transition to sustainable aviation practices, enabling companies and individuals to fly privately while minimizing their ecological footprint.

Lighthouz AI specializes in developing AI-driven procurement tools for businesses. Their primary product is an AI procurement assistant that automates repetitive tasks, such as data entry, creating purchase orders, invoice verification, vendor communication, and error identification. This streamlines operations, reduces bookkeeping costs, and allows procurement teams to focus on strategic business activities.

Breakout is a software company that offers workflow management solutions to automate business processes and increases efficiency.

Babblebots is a recruitment and talent acquisition platform that utilizes advanced voice technology and proprietary AI algorithms to enhance the hiring process. The platform is designed to facilitate candidate recruitment by employing voice AI, which harnesses speech and language understanding to manage long-form conversations. This innovative approach allows for the creation of near-human conversational voice bots, which help businesses and candidates address the challenges often encountered in recruitment and skill development. By streamlining communication and improving engagement, Babblebots aims to transform the way organizations connect with potential hires.

Rapidflare is a software company specializing in the development of a copilot business-to-business sales platform. This platform leverages generative AI to assist and train customer engagement teams, providing real-time insights and support before, during, and after customer calls. It aims to enhance sales efficiency, improve customer experience, and facilitate faster sales closures.

The Money Club is a mobile platform that facilitates peer-to-peer chit funds, allowing users to create and manage their own savings and investment groups. By verifying users and matching them to form Money Clubs, the platform enables participants to pool their resources and engage in a gamified experience where they progress from smaller to larger clubs based on their behavior. The Money Club aims to digitize the vast unregistered chit fund market in India, offering an alternative to traditional banking by enabling users to save, borrow, and invest with trusted peers at more favorable rates. Founded by a team with backgrounds from premier institutions, the platform seeks to empower individuals to manage their finances directly and efficiently.

Coverself is a developer of a cloud-native platform focused on analyzing and executing payment integrity programs in the healthcare sector. The platform is designed to address the challenges of claims and payment inaccuracies, helping to minimize complexity and administrative costs. By providing a unified service dedicated to healthcare, Coverself enables payers to gain better control over their payment processes, ensuring more accurate and efficient management of healthcare claims.

HEN Nozzles specializes in the development and manufacturing of innovative firefighting nozzles that utilize principles of fluid dynamics and thermal management. Their products include adjustable smoothbore nozzles, valves, and pressure regulating devices designed to enhance fire suppression capabilities. These nozzles allow firefighters to modify the solid stream while maintaining thermal balance, effectively improving penetration and cooling range. In addition to firefighting applications, HEN Nozzles' technology serves as a practical cleaning tool for residential use, making it suitable for home and garden tasks. By focusing on modern design controls and minimizing residual pressure, HEN Nozzles aims to revolutionize fire control and emergency response.

Launcheazy operates an AI-powered Demand Center Platform designed to support pre-sales CRM and demand generation teams. The platform allows users to manage and track engagement with millions of prospects at the contact level, facilitating personalized outreach through hyper-targeted messaging. It includes tools for creating effective email campaigns that drive revenue growth and enhance marketing efficiency. Additionally, Launcheazy offers a library of over 2,000 ChatGPT prompts and a comprehensive AI toolkit that covers various applications, including image, text, and audio processing. This combination of features enables businesses to streamline their marketing efforts and improve overall productivity.

Zime is a sales coach who helps drive best practices adoption using behavioral science and AI. It stitches a company’s tribal knowledge and coach reps on it with just-in-time actions.

Gimbal Space specializes in providing affordable and dependable satellite components tailored for the modern space market, particularly focusing on low Earth orbit (LEO) applications. The company offers both integrated and custom solutions to meet the specific needs of its clients. By delivering timely design services and sourcing cost-effective components, Gimbal Space enables space mission companies to optimize their time and reduce expenses.

vHub.ai operates an influencer marketing platform that streamlines campaign management and enhances profitability. Its key features include influencer discovery tools, search democratization, collaborative tools, and comprehensive metrics for tracking and measuring return on investment.

Flashaid operates a health-tech platform designed to enhance the hospitalization experience for patients and healthcare providers. This platform connects patients and hospitals with various stakeholders, streamlining the process of hospital e-admission, treatment financing, service payments, and insurance information. By consolidating these services into a single interface, Flashaid allows hospitals to automate front-office operations, ultimately improving patient care and maximizing revenue potential. The technology aims to simplify and optimize the overall experience of hospitalization for all parties involved.

Basepair Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform aimed at managing, analyzing, and interpreting genomic sequencing data. Founded in 2013, Basepair addresses the significant challenges associated with data analysis in genomics, which can impact fields such as medicine, research, and agriculture. The platform is designed to simplify genomic data analysis, making it as user-friendly as booking a flight online. It offers features such as workflow automation, web-based applications, and interactive visualization for next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. This approach significantly reduces the turnaround time for scientists and clinicians, transforming weeks of work into hours while maintaining high-quality results. In addition to its software offerings, Basepair provides technical consulting services to aid in the interpretation and integration of genetic data.

The Energy Company focuses on facilitating the adoption of electric vehicles by offering advanced battery solutions that are faster, more affordable, and reliable. In addition to providing these batteries, the company has developed an energy storage platform that promotes economically and environmentally sustainable energy transactions. Their battery-enabled software-as-a-service platform allows for superior management and control over battery performance, ensuring they are primed for deployment in second-life applications. This innovative approach enables clients to benefit from rapid and adaptable charging capabilities, enhancing the overall efficiency of electric mobility.

Gloroots is a provider of global employment solutions aimed at simplifying the complexities of international workforce management. The company offers a platform that facilitates the recruitment, onboarding, and management of employees worldwide, addressing the challenges associated with remote hiring. By providing services such as payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax management, Gloroots allows businesses to focus on growth without the burden of establishing local entities. Their innovative Employer of Record and Contractor management services create a cost-effective and hassle-free approach to global employment. With a commitment to transparency and compliance with various local labor laws, Gloroots empowers businesses to harness the potential of a borderless workforce, ensuring a seamless experience for employers and employees alike.

Meomind is a developer of a mental health application aimed at making mental health care accessible to all. Its platform features a comprehensive library of pre-recorded therapy sessions that address various mental health needs, allowing users to engage in personalized therapy programs. This approach enhances psychological well-being while removing the barriers often associated with traditional in-person therapy. Additionally, Meomind provides customer support through email and phone contact, ensuring users have access to assistance when needed.

Coverself is a developer of a cloud-native platform focused on analyzing and executing payment integrity programs in the healthcare sector. The platform is designed to address the challenges of claims and payment inaccuracies, helping to minimize complexity and administrative costs. By providing a unified service dedicated to healthcare, Coverself enables payers to gain better control over their payment processes, ensuring more accurate and efficient management of healthcare claims.

Furnishka is a furniture company that operates an e-commerce platform. It offers a wide range of durable furniture products, including sofas, coffee tables, dining tables, chairs, beds, wardrobes, and home decor items, along with associated upholstery. The company aims to provide value to customers by being frugal, transparent, and honest in its business practices.

Develo offers a software platform for pediatric practices that allows streamline scheduling, charting, billing, and patient engagement.

earKART specializes in providing advanced hearing technology aimed at assisting individuals with hearing difficulties. The company's platform facilitates remote administration and smart diagnosis of hearing aids, enabling seamless communication between hearing aid dispensers and patients. By offering access to a wide range of top global hearing aid brands, earKART ensures transparency in pricing and quality. This approach allows individuals with hearing issues to connect with a nationwide network of dispensers, promoting best practices and simplifying the process of obtaining necessary hearing solutions.

Rexera transforms stagnant and manual real estate processes into streamlined and fast workflows. Powered by the astonishing development of AI, proprietary data, and our team’s vast real estate experience, we’re not just changing the rules; we’re rewriting the playbook. Real estate professionals no longer have to bury themselves in repetitive tasks and can focus on the most important work—building connections with their clients and providing exceptional customer service. Rexera’s product suite now includes HOA Documents Acquisition, Condo Project Review, Mortgage Payoff, Municipal Lien Search, and most recently, HOA Access, HOA Payments, and HOA Violations.

Perceptyne Robots is a deep-tech robotics firm developing dexterous, affordable, and contextually aware robots. Its robots are sector agnostic and can be used in applications like product assembly, kitchen automation, packing, and machine tending among others.

The Money Club is a mobile platform that facilitates peer-to-peer chit funds, allowing users to create and manage their own savings and investment groups. By verifying users and matching them to form Money Clubs, the platform enables participants to pool their resources and engage in a gamified experience where they progress from smaller to larger clubs based on their behavior. The Money Club aims to digitize the vast unregistered chit fund market in India, offering an alternative to traditional banking by enabling users to save, borrow, and invest with trusted peers at more favorable rates. Founded by a team with backgrounds from premier institutions, the platform seeks to empower individuals to manage their finances directly and efficiently.

Optiwise is a California-based company that specializes in marketplace optimization, focusing on enhancing e-commerce performance for brands and retailers. The platform assists clients by identifying issues with product listings on their Walmart seller accounts, including content, inventory, and advertising concerns. By offering insights into key metrics such as quality score, conversion rate, and revenue, Optiwise enables brands and retailers to pinpoint and address challenges that may hinder their marketplace performance. This approach facilitates informed decision-making and helps clients scale their e-commerce businesses effectively.

livSYT is a technology company specializing in construction management software. Their cloud-based platform streamlines on-site processes, automating task allocation and reducing communication overhead. This system-driven approach enhances accountability, mobilizes resources efficiently, and optimizes on-site output, ultimately improving productivity and profitability for construction clients.

Conifer Systems is a manufacturer based in Houston, Texas, specializing in emissions control systems tailored for various industries. With over 20 years of experience, the company designs, manufactures, and installs advanced solutions such as oxidizers, scrubbers, and carbon observers. Conifer Systems also provides comprehensive aftermarket services, ensuring that clients can maintain and enhance their systems effectively. The firm emphasizes quality and efficiency, utilizing standardized solutions to deliver reliable systems with reduced project timelines and costs. By focusing on both environmental compliance and business objectives, Conifer Systems supports industries in meeting their emissions control needs while fostering sustainable practices.

KidEx operates an educational platform focused on the holistic development of children. The company provides a range of programs designed to enhance child development beyond traditional academics, including self-learning opportunities, live classes, and peer-to-peer learning experiences. Additionally, KidEx offers assessment services to help parents and children track and improve their development profiles, ultimately aiming to unlock each child's innate potential and support their future career prospects.

Inito is a company that specializes in developing a medical testing device aimed at improving fertility monitoring. The device combines test strips with a mobile application, allowing users to track their ovulation cycle conveniently from home. It provides clear and accurate results, helping individuals understand their hormonal variations. Additionally, the application sends reminders based on these hormone level changes, enabling users to easily manage and measure their health information effectively.

Inito is a company that specializes in developing a medical testing device aimed at improving fertility monitoring. The device combines test strips with a mobile application, allowing users to track their ovulation cycle conveniently from home. It provides clear and accurate results, helping individuals understand their hormonal variations. Additionally, the application sends reminders based on these hormone level changes, enabling users to easily manage and measure their health information effectively.

HEN Nozzles specializes in the development and manufacturing of innovative firefighting nozzles that utilize principles of fluid dynamics and thermal management. Their products include adjustable smoothbore nozzles, valves, and pressure regulating devices designed to enhance fire suppression capabilities. These nozzles allow firefighters to modify the solid stream while maintaining thermal balance, effectively improving penetration and cooling range. In addition to firefighting applications, HEN Nozzles' technology serves as a practical cleaning tool for residential use, making it suitable for home and garden tasks. By focusing on modern design controls and minimizing residual pressure, HEN Nozzles aims to revolutionize fire control and emergency response.

TrueFoundry is an enterprise platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage large language model applications efficiently. The platform streamlines the AI deployment process by automating the post-model pipeline, which includes application programming interface deployment and auto-scaling features. Additionally, it offers built-in monitoring and observability tools, allowing machine learning teams and data scientists to create explainable demo web applications for quicker feedback from business stakeholders. With its emphasis on proactive maintenance and centralized access controls, TrueFoundry aims to enhance productivity and facilitate the effective use of AI technologies across various enterprises.

The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hence aren't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex. Location: 420 S 4th Street Unit 15, Ames, IA, us, 50010