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Sports Tech

PlaySight Interactive is a leading sports technology company that specializes in providing advanced video analysis and coaching solutions for various sports. Their flagship product, SmartCourt, is a connected camera system that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning capabilities to offer live streaming, multi-angle video recording, and comprehensive performance analytics.
PlaySight's technology democratizes access to cutting-edge video analysis tools, making them available to athletes and teams at all levels, from youth sports to professional leagues. The SmartCourt system enables automated video capture, eliminating the need for human camera operators, and uses AI algorithms to track player and ball movements, providing valuable insights into performance metrics.
In March 2024, PlaySight was acquired by US tennis company Slinger for USD 82 million, with the acquisition aimed at scaling up the distribution of PlaySight's mobile AI-based technology globally.
PlaySight's solutions cover over 30 sports, with a strong presence in tennis, pickleball, volleyball, and other racquet sports.
Key customers and partnerships
PlaySight has established numerous partnerships with universities, sports organizations, clubs, and facilities worldwide. Some notable partnerships include:
- Atlantic Coast Hockey Academy (ACA)
- Boise State Beach Volleyball
- Rutgers Wrestling
- University of Wisconsin Tennis
- Cracked Racquets (Broadcasting partnership for racquet sports)
- RedPADEL Rating (USPA rating system partner)
- Magnus Sports Group (Optical tracking and analytics)
- Scorli (Fan engagement solutions)
- Pin Point Raleigh (Large tennis facility)
- DUPR (Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating system)
- Troy University (Streaming for 12 tennis courts)
- PickleRage (Indoor pickleball club franchise)
- Playbypoint (Reservation and video analysis integration)
- SpinInsight Analytics (Tennis analytics)
- SEE LiveSports (Balkan sports marketing)
- University of Richmond Tennis
- National Pickleball League, Australia
- Pickleball Kingdom (Premier pickleball locations)
- Scorebird (Sports viewing experience enhancements)
PlaySight's technology is widely adopted, with installations at over 20,000 venues across 57 countries as of March 2022. The company has grown rapidly, with partnerships spanning collegiate athletic programs, professional teams, and a diverse range of sports organizations worldwide.

Bepro Company Co., Ltd. offers AI-powered cloud software to analyze and collaborate with video for sports teams. Their flagship product, BEPRO, allows users to upload, watch, and clip match and training videos. It provides features like collaborating through video by sharing clips and adding graphics for visual feedback. Users can also control BEPRO cameras to watch live video feeds and create and share clips in real-time. For football teams, BEPRO offers detailed performance data, allowing review of event and tracking data through interactive visualizations and loading video clips for analyzed events.
Bepro's software has been widely adopted by sports teams across various leagues and countries. It helps coaches and analysts save time by providing an easy-to-use platform for video analysis and performance monitoring. The software's AI capabilities automate many aspects of video editing and data extraction, enabling teams to quickly analyze games and provide feedback to players.
Key customers and partnerships
Bepro's software is used by various high-profile football clubs, including Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, FC Barcelona, Sevilla FC, Real Betis Balompié, Levante UD, and Deportivo Alavés FC, among others. It has also partnered with clubs in other countries, such as Paris Saint Germain, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Sporting Clube de Portugal, River Plate, and Boca Juniors.
Bepro's clients span beyond football, with teams from basketball, athletics, handball, rugby, field hockey, and volleyball also utilizing their solutions. Prominent basketball clients include Valencia Basket and the Argentine and Chinese National Basketball Teams.

Metaverse Experience Platforms

Pinscreen offers the Avatar Neo software development kit (SDK), which allows developers to generate high-quality personalized CG characters for games and VR/AR applications from a single photo. Users can use its mobile app to upload a picture, with the company claiming that it is able to return a digital avatar in seconds. As of January 2024, the platform was in beta and was compatible with the Unity and Unreal game engines.Pinscreen also offers two face replacement solutions (a real-time version and a high-fidelity version) based on its proprietary paGAN facial synthesis technology. This enables users to replace their face with any person they want by providing a video or live stream. The technology is targeted for various media applications, such as film and entertainment, as well as TV broadcasts. Further, the company offers real-time 3D face tracking solutions via a video stream or webcam.Key customers and partnershipsKey customers include Apple, Adobe, Netflix, and Amazon Studios, among others.

ObEN is a decentralized AI platform with text-to-speech capabilities, avatar generation tools, image enhancement, and voice conversion features. It allows users to create intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound, and behave like them to use in various social and virtual interactions. ObEN has adopted the Project PAI blockchain protocol, an open-source decentralized public utility blockchain designed to secure and authenticate personal artificial intelligence (PAIs) and related user data, to provide users more control over their digital identity. In addition to metaverse applications, its avatars can be used in video content, livestreams, gaming, social media, virtual assistant applications, and virtual celebrity appearances.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2022, the company has worked with companies such as Caesars Entertainment, Discovery Channel, VICE, MedStar Health, and SM Entertainment.

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Pinscreen is a technology company specializing in the creation of instant 3D avatars and digital humans. Founded by Hao Li, former director of the Institute of Creative Technology (ICT) research lead, Pinscreen focuses on developing advanced artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques to generate photorealistic and animatable 3D avatars from single mobile phone images. The company's proprietary technology, known as paGAN (photorealistic avatar GAN), enables the creation of high-fidelity digital humans from just one input picture, without the need for extensive video footage or training data. Pinscreen's approach utilizes deep learning and neural networks to predict accurate facial expressions, hair details, and other features for the avatars.
The company's technology has applications across various industries, including video games, fashion, visual effects, and communication platforms. Pinscreen has demonstrated its capabilities through projects like PinScape, an immersive chat application showcased at SIGGRAPH 2021's Real-Time Live! event. This VR-based communication system generates full-body avatars complete with rigged faces and bodies from a single selfie taken with a webcam. Pinscreen's technology aims to democratize the creation of complex 3D content, allowing anyone to capture and share immersive stories easily.
Key customers and partnerships
Pinscreen has been involved in the visual effects industry, contributing to high-profile projects. The company was listed among the VFX vendors for the Fallout TV series, released in April 2024 on Prime Video. This collaboration showcases Pinscreen's ability to work alongside established visual effects studios in major productions.

ObEN is an artificial intelligence company specializing in the creation of Personal AI (PAI) technology. Founded in 2014 and based in Pasadena, California, ObEN develops customized, intelligent digital avatars that can mimic the appearance, voice, and behavior of real individuals. The company's technology allows for the creation of digital likenesses capable of speaking in the user's voice in multiple languages, using only a small sample of speech and image data. These digital personas, known as PAIs, can be utilized in various applications including smartphone apps, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), gaming, and social networking.
ObEN's full-stack AI technology enables the rapid generation of 3D avatars from 2D selfies, complete with voice conversion capabilities and chatbot features. The company's products allow users and brands to create intelligent digital personas that can be customized to represent any person or character imaginable. ObEN's PAI Studio SaaS platform enables creators, enterprises, and developers to build, manage, and monetize unique interactive experiences using conversational, animated PAIs. This technology facilitates the economical generation of livestream, interactive, or video content.
Key customers and partnerships
ObEN has collaborated with several high-profile clients and partners. In February 2020, the company announced a partnership with Yoshimoto Kogyo, a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate, to bring AI-powered avatar technology to the Japanese market. This collaboration aimed to combine Yoshimoto's entertainment and celebrity IP with ObEN's avatar technology to revolutionize digital interactions between celebrities and fans.
ObEN has also worked with China Central Television (CCTV), creating AI avatars that appeared on the Network Spring Festival Gala in February 2019, which was viewed by nearly 300 million people. ObEN has developed celebrity avatars for Chinese music group SNH48 and formed a joint venture called AI Stars with S.M. Entertainment, Korea's largest entertainment company. This venture aims to connect celebrities with their fans through personalized AI avatars. Additionally, ObEN has worked on projects for investors and clients including SoftBank and NBA stars, demonstrating the wide-ranging applications of its technology across various industries.

Artificial intelligence is identifying and testing new therapies faster than ever.

AI Drug Discovery

An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery and development company, twoXAR has partnerships with Santen Pharmaceuticals from Japan, Adynxx, and Firecebiotech, among others. The company generates revenue through a combination of upfront payments, milestone, and royalty payments. As of September 2020, the company had over 18 different disease programs in the pipeline, including cancer, chronic kidney diseases, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, etc. with 10 candidates at the preclinical stage.

Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

Mythic specializes in developing innovative AI processors that leverage analog computing to enhance performance and efficiency.Mythic offers a unified hardware and software processor chip which enables edge artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing, by allowing AI systems to sift through their memory faster. The company launched its “Mythic Analog Matrix Processor” (Mythic AMP) in November 2020. The AMP looks to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying AI solutions, by enabling devices to analyze data and make decisions in real time without using data centers or the cloud. Accordingly, the chips can be used in a range of applications, including smart homes, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), drones, video surveillance, smart city, and factory automation.Mythic has developed the “M1076” AMP chip, which can deliver up to 25 TOPS of AI compute, and can also scale from the edge to server applications for multiple industries including smart cities, industrial applications, enterprise applications, and consumer devices.Furthermore, as per the company, the chips can deliver the AI compute performance of a desktop graphics processing unit (GPU), by consuming only a tenth of the power. It attributes this efficiency to its chips relying on analog currents and flash memory to perform their inference calculations.Its next product is the next-generation M2000 series product, which builds on the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor. The M2000 series is aimed at bringing even more efficiency and performance to edge AI applications in various fields such as defense, enterprises, industrial environments, smart cities, smart homes, and beyond.As a processor which is built for AI inferencing, it faces competition from a range of technologies including, system on chips (SoCs), tensor processing units (TPUs), GPUs, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).Funding and financialsIn February 2023, Mythic<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16992"> raised USD 13 million</a> in new funding from Atreides Management, DCVC, Lux Capital, Catapult Ventures, and Hermann Hauser to bring its M2000 series chip to market. During the same period, Mythic also appointed its co-founder and previous CTO, Dave Fick, as the new CEO.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

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 Blueshift offers a customer data platform (CDP) providing a unified view of customer data from different channels. It uses a proprietary AI system that enables 1:1 personalization and actionable customer insights for marketing teams. In addition, the platform provides a full suite of tools including 1) audience segmentation, 2) automating customer journeys, and 3) conducting A/B and holdout testing. The platform also has 70+ technology integrations including Adobe advertising cloud, Attentive, and Salesforce. In August 2022, the firm launched 
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 Blueshift&rsquo;s platform goes beyond a traditional CDP platform as it connects customer data with its full suite of campaign management platform (CMP) tools, providing visibility on customer data at every stage of the marketing journey, and thus, making it a complete marketing cloud solution. The firm claims that users of its recommendation studio have experienced 131% higher sales and 384% higher lead volumes.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
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 Funding and Financials
 
 
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 In 2020, Deloitte&rsquo;s Technology Fast 500 identified Blueshift amongst the fastest-growing firms in North America, recording revenue growth of 858% (2016&ndash;2019).&nbsp;
 
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Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

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 Israel-based Innoviz Technologies develops LiDAR sensors and perception software specifically catering to autonomous vehicles. Its LiDAR product portfolio includes 1) &ldquo;InnovizOne,&rdquo; a solid-state LiDAR sensor specifically designed for autonomous vehicles with a detection range of up to 250 m and field of view (FoV) of 115 x 25 degrees; 2) &ldquo;InnovizTwo,&rdquo; a next-gen automotive-grade LiDAR sensor with a detection range of up to 300 m and FoV of 120 x 40 degrees; and 3) &ldquo;Innoviz360,&rdquo; a 360-degree LiDAR sensor with a detection range up to 300 m and pitched toward automotive and non-automotive applications.&nbsp;
 
 
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 As of February 2024, Innoviz Technologies had 18 of Innoviz&rsquo;s products protected by US patents.&nbsp;
 
 
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 Innoviz released a strategic realignment plan for its operations from Q1 2024, which included a reduction of its workforce by ~13% (about 60 employees) to lower expenses and enhance its financial longevity. This was to mainly consolidate expenditures by transitioning the InnovizOne program to series production and focusing on the InnovizTwo sensor and software suite.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Innoviz Technologies has entered product collaborations with partners including Curium, a developer of automated calibration services for autonomous systems (August 2021); Ansys, a provider of simulation software (January 2022); Visionary.ai, a developer of software-based image signal processor technology (June 2022); and Japan-based software company Kudan 
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 Funding and financials
 
 
 Innoviz Technologies generated revenue of USD 20.9 million and reported an operating loss of USD 132.6 million during the year ended December 2023. The company has been listed on the Nasdaq since April 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which valued the combined entity at USD 1.4 billion (December 2020).
 
 
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Automation in clinical diagnostics to improve speed and accuracy in patient diagnosis and treatment.

Clinical Decision Support Systems

Lunit is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. The company's flagship product, Lunit INSIGHT, is a suite of AI solutions for radiology that has been approved for commercial use in Europe and the UK through the MDR CE and UKCA certifications obtained in November 2022. The suite includes Lunit INSIGHT CXR for chest X-ray analysis and Lunit INSIGHT MMG for mammography analysis. Lunit INSIGHT CXR can detect 10 chest abnormalities, including pulmonary nodules and pneumothorax, with 97-99% accuracy, while Lunit INSIGHT MMG detects breast cancer with 96% accuracy.
After receiving FDA clearance, Lunit's solutions are clinically used in approximately 3,000 hospitals and medical institutions across 40 countries as of March 2024. In April 2024, a study published in European Radiology demonstrated that Lunit INSIGHT MMG could potentially reduce radiologists' workload by nearly 70% and boost cancer detection accuracy by 30.5%, showcasing its ability to enhance operational efficiency and improve patient outcomes.
In May 2024, Lunit completed the acquisition of Volpara Health Technologies, a New Zealand-based company offering software for early cancer detection, for USD 193 million. The acquisition aimed to strengthen Lunit's presence in the US market and leverage Volpara's robust repository of over 100 million medical images to develop innovative solutions for cancer diagnostics.
Key customers and partnerships
Lunit has established strategic partnerships to expand its reach and integrate its AI solutions into healthcare systems worldwide. In March 2024, the company signed supply contracts with Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan and Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore to provide Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG, respectively. These collaborations aimed to enhance lung and breast cancer detection in the East and Southeast Asian regions.
In November 2023, Lunit partnered with NTT DATA Singapore to introduce Lunit INSIGHT CXR to Singapore's public healthcare system through the AimSG platform, a national medical imaging AI initiative. The solution was piloted at Singapore General Hospital and Changi General Hospital, two major public hospitals, to enhance the efficiency of chest screening and provide innovative medical services with improved accuracy.
Lunit has also collaborated with leading healthcare technology companies, such as GE healthcare, Fujifilm, Philips, and Guardant Health, to deploy its AI products and leverage their distribution networks.

Promoting the health, well-being, and ethical treatment of animals

Animal Therapeutics

ImpriMed is a precision medicine company that specializes in utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance personalized cancer treatments for pets, primarily dogs and cats. The company pioneered an innovative approach where live cancer cells from the patient are analyzed to measure their response to various anticancer drugs. These drug sensitivity measurements are then combined with other biological data using proprietary AI algorithms to predict the most effective treatment regimens tailored for each individual patient's cancer.
ImpriMed's core offering is the Personalized Prediction Profile service for canine lymphoma and leukemia. This service involves measuring the patient's live cancer cells' responses to chemotherapy drugs like CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) and 13 other single-agent drugs. The report provides veterinary oncologists with predictions on the likelihood of response to each drug, expected response timing, and the efficacy probabilities of alternative treatments. As of 2023, over 15,000 such tests have been completed for canine and feline blood cancers.
The company's technology has demonstrated significant real-world results. A 2023 study involving 60 dogs with relapsed B-cell lymphoma treated according to ImpriMed's predictions showed a fourfold higher complete response rate and threefold longer median survival time compared to those treated with lower concordance to the predictions.
ImpriMed is expanding its AI-powered drug response prediction capabilities to human oncology applications, with its software for multiple myeloma prognosis and treatment planned for commercialization in the US in 2025. The company also offers contract research services to pharmaceutical companies, enabling them to evaluate new drug compounds' efficacy using live cancer cells from patients.
Key customers and partnerships
ImpriMed's Personalized Prediction Profile services have been widely adopted by veterinary oncologists across the US. As of 2023, over 350 veterinarians from more than 40 states have utilized the company's services, representing a significant portion of the estimated 600 board-certified veterinary oncologists nationwide.
The company has established strategic partnerships with notable organizations like SK Telecom, a leading South Korean telecommunications company. SK Telecom has developed an AI-based veterinary X-ray image diagnosis technology called X-Caliber, which complements ImpriMed's offerings.
In 2022, ImpriMed graduated from the Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate Program, where it validated its AI models using a large human patient database provided by the program. This collaboration highlights ImpriMed's focus on translating its expertise from veterinary to human cancer care.

Platforms to make the most of cloud infrastructure

Cloud Optimization Tools

Anodot is a cloud-based platform that provides AI-driven business monitoring and cloud cost management.Anodot’s autonomous monitoring solution identifies and provides recommendations on revenue-critical business metrics of a multi-cloud environment in real-time to better control cloud spend. The platform combines information from SaaS customers, features, engineering teams, and other areas into a single platform to provide holistic visibility for strategic and optimized business decisions.Anodot’s platform continuously learns service usage patterns to identify granular-level irregularities and notifies the engineering team for remediation. Further, it combines Kubernetes costs with non-containerized costs to provide an accurate view of cloud spend and to identify and eliminate idle costs at the node level.Anodot operates a direct sales modelKey customers and partnershipsAnodot’s customers span across multiple industries including gaming, AdTech, telecommunication, ecommerce, and FinTech. Its notable customers include T-Mobile, JP Morgan, UPS, NTT, Rivian, Payoneer, and Puma.Anodot collaborates with many technology partners to ensure compatibility and integration with platforms. Some of its key technology partners are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Datadog, Snowflake, and Databricks.In June 2024, Anodot <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30567">partnered with Yārken</a> to integrate its AI-based cost management with Yārken's FinOps platform, offering a single interface to manage costs across on-premises, private cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

Taking commercial activities to new heights

Commercial Drone Tech

B GARAGE is a company founded in 2017 by two PhD graduates from Stanford University with a vision to make autonomous aerial robots an integral part of daily operations across industries. The company develops autonomous drones and software solutions specifically designed for warehouse inventory management. Their key offering includes fully autonomous drones capable of navigating through multiple aisles without requiring additional infrastructure like markers or beacons.
A crucial feature of B GARAGE's drones is their ability to automatically swap depleted batteries with fully charged ones from a dedicated station, enabling continuous operation. The drones leverage advanced computer vision, robotics, and artificial intelligence technologies to map and track warehouse inventory accurately. As of June 2023, the company had secured USD 30 million in funding to further enhance its products and expand its teams.
In 2023, B GARAGE commenced proof-of-concept pilot tests with Kenco Innovation Lab, a unit of Kenco Logistics, and aimed to deploy its drones in over 10 Kenco warehouses across the US by the end of the year. Additionally, the company secured a project with the Incheon Port Authority in South Korea, scheduled to commence operations by the end of 2023.
Key customers and partnerships
B GARAGE has established partnerships with Kenco Innovation Lab, a unit of Kenco Logistics, and the Incheon Port Authority in South Korea. As of June 2023, the company aimed to deploy its autonomous drones in over 10 Kenco warehouses across the US to assist with inventory management operations.

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

Mythic is an AI processor company that has developed innovative analog compute-in-memory technology for edge AI applications. The company's Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) utilizes flash memory to store neural network weights and perform computations directly in memory, eliminating the need for constant data movement between memory and processors. This approach allows Mythic's chips to deliver high performance at very low power consumption, making them suitable for edge devices with strict power and size constraints.
Mythic's flagship product, the M1076 AMP chip, can deliver up to 35 trillion operations per second (TOPS) while consuming only 3-4 watts of power. The company claims this represents a 10x improvement in power efficiency compared to digital solutions. Mythic's technology enables running complex AI models like YOLOv5 for object detection on full HD video at low latency, suitable for applications in computer vision, robotics, drones, augmented reality, and more.
In addition to single-chip solutions, Mythic offers multi-chip configurations on PCIe cards for more demanding applications. Their MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe card combines four M1076 chips to deliver up to 100 TOPS at 25 watts. Mythic provides a full software stack to optimize and deploy neural network models on their hardware.

Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI

Generative AI Applications

You.com is a multimodal search engine named “YouChat,” which can provide detailed answers to questions with citations, relevant web findings, and media data. YouChat is offered for free, while “YouPro” is a paid version named. Enterprise plans are also available.&nbsp;The platform is equipped with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25958">“AI Modes,”</a> which include various functionalities named Smart, Genius, Create, and Research, to offer varying levels of depth and sourcing to any queries. The Smart Mode, available for free users, can complete tasks, generate content, and access news and live web results. The other modes are only available through the paid version and allows to perform advanced tasks like multistep computations, data visualizations, file uploads, generate images, and conduct thorough research. The Pro version also offers the ability to choose between several foundation models, including GPT-4 Turbo, Claude Instant, Claude 2, Gemini Pro, and Zephyr.&nbsp; In November 2023, You.com launched a new product known as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23932">YOU API</a> to provide real-time access to internet data. The primary features of the YOU API included real-time web search, multilingual responses, extended snippets for AI, and usage rights for AI inference and data citation, addressing common challenges faced by LLMs and AI chatbots, such as hallucinations, source citation issues, and outdated information. It also offers a feature called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29912">Custom Assistants</a> that allows customizable AI assistance for specific inquiries, eliminating the need for lengthy instruction.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsThe company has partnered with MacOS browser SigmaOS (November 2022) and web browser Vivaldi (December 2022), which made the You.com platform their default browsers.&nbsp; Funding and financialsIn July 2022, You.com raised USD 25 million in a Series A funding round led by Radical Ventures. The funds were slated to develop premium features for the platform and collaborate with third parties.&nbsp;

Foundation Models

South Korea-based Upstage specializes in the development of LLMs. The company’s flagship, LLM Solar, is claimed to be fast, cost-efficient, and powered by the Depth-Up Scaling (DUS) technique with its ability to scale LLMs efficiently. The LLMs can be customized for various use cases, including healthcare, customer support, finance, insurance, ecommerce, law, and media. The model is available on-premise, and API integration through platforms like Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The company also offers a Document AI solution, an AI-powered OCR (optical character recognition) technology to automate workflows and process unstructured data.Key customers and partnershipsIn January 2024, Upstage partnered with SK Networks to expand globally and combine Upstage's private language model capabilities with SK Network’s en-core data management services.The company’s product, Document AI, caters to demand in the finance, healthcare, and legal industries, with notable clients like Samsung and Hanwha.In May 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29352">Upstage signed a memorandum of understanding with Flitto,</a> a provider of translation platform, to create an AI-based dataset that can handle under-resourced Asian languages.In June 2024, Upstage announced a<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30956"> multi-year Strategic Collaboration with Amazon Web Services</a> (AWS) to expand the global reach of its AI offerings (namely its flagship LLM, SOLAR) via AWS’s “ISV Accelerate” co-selling program.

Preserving aquatic life for future generations

Sustainable Aquaculture

Aquabyte is a technology company founded in 2017 that provides computer vision and machine learning solutions for the aquaculture industry. The company's core product is a smart underwater camera system that uses artificial intelligence to gather real-time data on fish behavior, health, and growth in fish farms. Aquabyte's platform analyzes video footage to track individual fish, optimize feeding schedules, detect diseases, estimate biomass, and monitor various welfare indicators without removing fish from the water. The system can accurately count sea lice, assess fish welfare, and calculate fish weight, providing farmers with insights to make data-driven decisions that improve fish health, reduce waste, and increase overall efficiency.
Aquabyte's software tools and analytics dashboards allow farmers to visualize and analyze data in real-time, enabling them to optimize various aspects of fish farming operations. The company's technology aims to address challenges in the aquaculture industry such as inefficient monitoring, disease outbreaks, and environmental concerns. Aquabyte has deployed hundreds of systems monitoring salmon and trout across multiple countries. As of July 2022, the company had processed over 300 million unique fish images. Aquabyte was the first to receive approval by dispensation for automatic sea lice counting from the Norwegian Food Safety Authorities.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

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 Mythic is a developer of AI processor chips that combine hardware and software capabilities, facilitating faster memory access for Edge AI inferencing.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s key products include its Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP and M1108 Processor.
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s proprietary Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP leverages the Mythic Analog Compute Engine (Mythic ACE) to provide GPU-level computational power with significantly lower power consumption. This enables edge devices to efficiently run complex AI applications at higher resolutions and faster frame rates, leading to improved inference results.&nbsp;
 
 
 Its M1108 Processor is designed to deploy Edge AI in a broad spectrum of applications, encompassing smart residences, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and video monitoring.
 
 
 The company's technology is distinguished by its analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architecture, which stores neural networks entirely on-chip, providing a more compact, power-efficient, and cost-efficient solution compared to traditional digital solutions. This technology allows Mythic to deliver high-performance AI processing, comparable to a desktop GPU, across a range of devices from low-cost drones to immersive AR headsets.
 
 
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 Mythic's products offer solutions across various uses and industries such as smarter cities and spaces, intelligent machines and robots, smart homes, AR/VR and metaverse, and drones and aerospace.&nbsp;
 
 
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Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.

Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

Bering Lab is an AI-powered machine translation startup.

Aerodynamic Hardware and Software Solutions

You.com, founded by top AI research scientists, is a revolutionary AI chatbot and search engine. You.com uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to deliver personalized responses to queries with human-like replies. Its AI tools YouChat, YouCode, YouWrite, and YouImagine provide efficient web search, content and image creation, and code generation. With advanced machine learning, You.com streamlines answers to complex questions, aids in tasks, and supports research with citations and up-to-date information, enhancing productivity and saving time.

Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.

Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.

Pasa is an online store that offers sleep care products.

Upstage AI is a provider of customized AI services designed to help businesses with artificial intelligence. The company delivers AI models based on the demands of the business to address the customer's core activities while also improving the efficiency and progress of the business process, allowing clients to solve problems and meet the company's AI innovation goals.

Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.

ImpriMed is a company that creates individualized drug response prediction technology to help veterinarians fight lymphoma. The company's technology provides precision medicine techniques that allow veterinary oncologists to find appropriate anticancer drugs by developing a patient-derived database for pet cancer treatment that can eventually be translated into human cancer care, allowing doctors to decide on a final treatment regimen based on a data-driven prediction of response success in each individual patient's body.

Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.

Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.

SUNRATE is an intelligent global payment and treasury management platform for businesses worldwide. Since its inception in 2016, SUNRATE is recognised as a leading solution provider and has enabled companies to operate and scale both locally and globally in 190+ countries and regions with its cutting-edge proprietary platform, extensive global network, and robust APIs. With its global headquarters in Singapore and offices in Hong Kong, Jakarta, London and Shanghai, SUNRATE partners with the top global financial institutions, such as Citibank, Standard Chartered, Barclays and is the principal member of both Mastercard and Visa. To learn more about SUNRATE, visit https://www.sunrate.com/

Zuzu Hospitality is a chain of independent hotels that delivers revenue growth through distribution and revenue management. They are the indisputable primary partner for hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, they power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being hoteliers.

B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.

Lapotable is a ecommerce platform that trades food products that come directly from agricultural and farm lands.

Syncly empowers businesses to automatically categorize and analyze customer feedback using AI, providing a scalable solution for feedback management and enabling prioritization based on revenue impact.

Sprout is a payroll and HR software provider, focusing on emerging markets. Sprout fully automates timekeeping and attendance, replacing spreadsheets and printed forms with biometrics, single-click processing, and prescriptive analytics. Sprout has strong traction in the Philippines and a growing presence in Singapore and Indonesia.

KREAM is a resale marketplace for authenticated limited-edition sneakers and streetwear. The platform of the company employs a bid-ask model with dynamic pricing mechanics and a thorough verification process, allowing buyers and sellers to trade limited releases in a secure manner.

With the mission to provide the most effective education for all, QANDA(Mathpresso) operates the world’s leading learning platform, QANDA, an AI-based learning app that allows students of all levels to receive instant answers and customized learning sources. Recognized for its technological advances, QANDA(Mathpresso) was selected as GSV Edtech 150, national representative of Google AI for Social Good APAC event in 2018, and guest speaker at AWS Public Sector Summit ASEAN in 2019. Since 2015, QANDA(Mathpresso) has raised over $105 million in total from investors including SoftBank Ventures Asia, Legend Capital, Mirae Asset Investment, GGV, and Goodwater Capital. Headquartered in Seoul, QANDA(Mathpresso) has offices in Tokyo, Hanoi, Jakarta, and Bangkok.

Laundrygo is a on-demand laundry service.

Amondz is a jewellery ecommerce platform that provides buyers and sellers with quick access to a production list, price quotations for consumers, and customer support.

Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals. Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires more application speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint. Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed. The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments.

MarqVision creates an intellectual property platform that allows creators to create, manage, protect, and monetize intellectual property in a single location. They help global brands remove counterfeits from online marketplaces. They  use artificial intelligence to automatically detect and remove counterfeits from global online marketplaces.

Aquabyte builds machine-learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. The company's diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact. Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine-learning platform and smart camera system. The company's solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Super is a social commerce platform that enables leaders to become self-made entrepreneurs and builds logistics networks. The company features Superagen, an agent-led commerce group buying that enables community leaders to become retailers within their communities.

Doctornow is a leading digital healthcare platform in South Korea and the pioneer of the nation's first remote medical consultations & drug delivery services. Doctornow offers a range of services, including medical AI assessments and real-time consultations with medical practitioners.

To be the world’s most engaging investment platform for digital assets, Coinvestor provides an interactive digital space for investors and traders seeking profit-making opportunities from digital assets through a seamless and secure service. Coinvestor believes that running a transparent operation, enhancing investment processes, and creating a collaborative environment set it apart from other crypto-investment platforms. On Coinvestor, all crypto-market players can access insights, share strategies, and monetize expertise, feeling assured at any time.  Join us in building this journey.

BC Labs is a blockchain development and crypto investment banking company.

Mabang Technology is a company that specializes in full-process cross-border e-commerce ERP management software solutions. It includes professional ERP, Amazon-specific ERP, Southeast Asia overseas ERP, WMS, cloud warehouse, TMS, cross-border distribution, SCM, and other product modules aimed at serving cross-border e-commerce practitioners at various stages and fields. Foreign sellers create digital technology infrastructure, reengineer processes, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. It primarily offers services to cross-border overseas sellers such as store opening, product selection development, order management, warehousing and logistics, supply chain, finance, and sales channel expansion.

Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.

OHouse is a all-in-one lifestyle platform that integrates content, community, and commerce. The company believes that beautiful homes can change peoples' lives for the better. Its mission is to help users decorate homes with fun, ease, and confidence.  OHouse revolutionizes the lifestyle(home furnishing and remodeling) market in Korea with its user-generated style gallery, which helps users discover their preferred styles before purchasing products. On top of the marketplace for home furnishing products, it provides home remodeling services. As the leading innovators of the home furnishing industry, Ohouse aims to become an lifestyle super application that provides the best customer experience. Ohouse won the Best App Award by Google Play in 2018, and its app is downloaded by more than 20 million users.

ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.

Zhoupu Data is a domestic smart supply chain overall solution and business process service platform. They offer complete business process management systems, store connectivity and transaction solutions, intelligent warehouse allocation, and unified warehouse allocation technologies. The company's main products also include a big data service platform for the quickly evolving consumer market that uses big data and AI technology to support production and operational decisions in a variety of links, including brand owners, distributors, warehousing, logistics, and retail.

Howbuild is an architecture and construction company.

SEMIFIVE is a provider of design solutions and a pioneer of platform-based custom silicon solutions. It is the pioneer of platform-based SoC design, collaborating with customers to efficiently implement innovative ideas into custom silicon. Its SoC platforms provide a strong foundation for new chip designs by utilizing configurable domain-specific architectures and pre-validated key IP pools.  With a strong partnership with Samsung Foundry as a leading SAFETM DSP partner, as well as the larger ecosystem, SEMIFIVE provides a one-stop shop solution for any SoC design needs. It offers comprehensive spec-to-system capabilities with end-to-end solutions so that custom SoCs can be realized faster, with reduced cost and risks for key applications such as data centers or AI-enabled IoT.

Beta Data is a SaaS service platform based on financial big data.

Feng eFood is an unmanned retail operator under Fengyi Technology. Fengyi Technology is a smart vending machine company. Fengyi Technology focuses on the office field and uses AI smart cabinets as a carrier to provide urban white-collar workers with a wealth of breakfast, afternoon tea, snacks, beverages, and other commodity sales services.

Rapport Labs create a service that will change the online shopping experience that created the 4050 fashion platform.

Youibot has researched and developed autonomous mobile robot platform independently, based on the latest generation of laser radar and visual real-time SLAM map creation and navigation technology. Equipped with indoor and outdoor robot navigation systems with core technology advantages, Youibot provides domestic first-class intelligent mobile robot systems and highly competitive industry solutions.

CHAI they develops infrastructure technologies to create an efficient digital economy.

Press.A is a game and software development company.

Lunit, abbreviated from “learning unit,” is a venture company devoted to developing advanced software for medical data analysis and interpretation via cutting-edge deep learning technology. The company's main area of expertise lies in processing medical imaging data. It envisions a near future when its systems will greatly help physicians make accurate, consistent, and efficient clinical decisions, not limited to diagnoses, through our data-driven imaging biomarker technology.  The high level of our deep learning technology has been well demonstrated, ranked top 5 at ImageNet Challenge 2015, which is the world’s largest and most prestigious image recognition competition. What distinguishes our technology from that of other similar parties is the full accommodation of weakly labeled data, challenging the boundaries of human understanding in terms of pattern recognition.

Dawin is a real estate brokerage company that provides buying and selling services.

Korea Senior Lab is a senior home care center for elderly people.

Manufacturer of ultra-precision parts intended to offer micro-parts and micro-systems, and miniaturization

Sketchsoft is a software development company that makes 3D drawing apps.

TainAI is a mobile app that offers asset allocation and investment services.

Ajaib is a financial super app that allows Indonesians to buy and sell stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. The company is committed to opening the door to access investment instruments that are safe, trusted, and affordable. Its stock and mutual fund services can be accessed online, by all walks of life. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta,  Indonesia.

June Homes is a leading tech platform for the flexible living category

OPay designs a mobile payment service and consumer platform for users to send and receive money, pay bills, and order food and groceries. It empowers and enables users to accomplish more with their money by providing smart financial services. It is a one-stop mobile-based platform for payment, transportation, food and grocery delivery, and other important services in everyday life. Millions of users rely on OPay every day to send and receive money, pay bills, and order food and groceries.

Neolix is a technologically innovative company that specializes in the production of physical and sports scenes.  Neolithic Century Technology is an innovative design team. Committed to design research, industrial design, structural engineering, product customization, providing customers with creative value enhancement services. Service customers include Lenovo, Siemens, Midea, GE, State Grid, CSIC, Honeywell, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank, etc.

Karrot is a hyperlocal community app which offers a secondhand marketplace. Karrot supports an eco-friendly lifestyle and local economy by promoting buying and selling secondhand goods locally. Since its launch in 2015, Karrot has become South Korea's largest second-hand marketplace and second-biggest e-commerce company. Karrot is currently available in select cities in four countries outside the home country, including the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Japan. As of March 2021, Karrot runs one of the largest and fastest growing consumer-to-consumer (C2C) mobile marketplace, receiving 15 million monthly unique visitors.

Danggeun Market is the developer of an app-based marketplace that facilitates second-hand goods transactions online. Its platform provides an online GPS service where buyers and sellers of goods can connect directly through the portal. It enables users to locate and buy their desired product as per their location.

Parcel Perform is the leading delivery experience platform. It enables modern e-commerce enterprises to create unique end-to-end customer journeys and optimize logistics operations with powerful data integrations, parcel tracking, delivery notifications, and logistics performance reports in real-time.  Parcel Perform's scalable SaaS platform executes more than 100 million parcel updates daily and integrates with 900+ carriers. The data-first company is pioneering innovative ML / AI use cases in e-commerce logistics, including its 'Date of Arrival' prediction engine. Parcel Perform is the partner of choice for top brands, marketplaces, and carriers across all major verticals globally.

Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.

Tanma SCRM is a full-process private domain traffic solution provider that helps customers improve their private domain traffic operations.

OY! is a fintech application that simplifies the management of finances. It is providing a free and easy way of transferring money directly from debit cards, viewing of bank account balances and bank statements as well as providing various financial products. The Jakarta, Jakarta Raya-based fintech company was co-founded in 2017 by Hilfi Alkaff, Jan Kristanto, and Jesayas Ferdinandus.

Endowus is a supplier of financial advice and customized investing services designed to help clients develop their money. The company's services enable investors to access institutional share-class funds at institutional-level fees, charging a single access fee that includes advice, investment, rebalancing, transfers, and brokerage.

VoyagerX offers a speech recognition-based video editor powered by artificial intelligence that cuts down on the time it takes to edit cuts and subtitles. A mobile book scanner that uses artificial intelligence is called vFlat. It is a smartphone app that enables book scanning using smartphones. It can correct crooked photos, recognize text, and even automatically recognize portions of book pages. Additionally, they offer typefaces made from the actual handwriting of K-pop stars and artificial intelligence-based handwritten font generators.

Standard Energy is a South Korea-based tech startup and developer of vanadium ion battery that is on the verge of revolutionizing the current lithium ion-based energy storage system

Devs United Games is a virtual reality (VR) gaming studio that specializes in creating immersive and realistic VR content..

Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where.

Energy Monster is a power bank rental company that allows its users to rent power banks by scanning QR code. It is designed to help people to live their life without interruptions. Energy Monster reportedly covers 100 cities and 100K merchants. Energy Monster belongs to Shanghai Zhi Technology.

Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. Its smart hub cdp uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. It gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver experiences in real time across the entire customer journey.  Blueshift's platform leverages patented AI technology to integrate, enrich, and mobilize comprehensive customer data across diverse channels and applications. By achieving unified data, orchestrating omnichannel interactions, employing intelligent decision-making, and boasting unparalleled scalability, Blueshift equips brands with complete capabilities to provide personalized experiences in real-time throughout the entire customer journey.

LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance.  Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the native online leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease. LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital.

Seoul Trading Unlisted is a stock trading platform that provides financial investment, transactions, and consulting services.

SODA is a CMS software development media management business.

LUNASOFT provides chat solutions for e-commerce platforms.

Wangdiantong ERP is an enterprise-level e-commerce ERP, supporting Taobao, Tmall, Jingdong, Amazon, Dangdang, No. 1 shop, Alibaba and many other platforms, supporting multi-warehouses, support online stores and physical store cashiers. Including goods management, inventory, orders, purchasing, after-sales, accounts, statistics, CRM and other rich features.

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