Bosch Ventures

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

Edge Computing

Sunlight.io is a UK-based edge computing company specializing in developing a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stack to significantly enhance the performance and efficiency of data-intensive applications.Sunlight.io's key product offering, NexVisor, is a lightweight hypervisor optimized for high-speed flash storage and network hardware. This product is integral to Sunlight's HCI stack, which also includes sophisticated software-defined storage and networking components. Unique for its ability to run on both x86 and ARM CPUs, Sunlight.io's solution claims up to 81% more CPU efficiency and 98% more RAM efficiency compared to traditional HCI solutions​.Key customers and partnershipsSunlight.io caters to a diverse range of industries, including education, energy and utilities, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, manufacturing &amp; industrial IoT (IIoT), and quick service restaurants.The company has formed strategic partnerships with significant players in the technology field to expand its offerings and reach. Notably, Lenovo has entered a reseller agreement with Sunlight.io to enhance its edge computing portfolio, demonstrating the company's strong position and recognition within the edge infrastructure domain​​​​.In March 2023, Sunlight.io partnered with Edgelabs.ai, a provider of next-generation AI-powered edge security solutions to integrate Edgelabs's edge security solutions with Sunlight's edge infrastructure platform.Moreover, in October 2022, Sunlight.io partnered with Litmus.io to streamline the deployment of Industrial IoT for companies at scale. In July 2022, it collaborated with Avassa to provide a comprehensive software stack tailored for secure, efficient, and seamless management of edge environments. Additionally, in June 2021, Sunlight.io joined forces with Altos Computing, a subsidiary of Acer Inc., to offer the “fastest and most efficient" hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances in the industry.Funding and financialsIn January 2023, Sunlight.Io <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15993">raised an undisclosed amount</a> in Series A funding led by Valedor Partners, bringing its total funding to USD 20 million. The funds were earmarked to enhance US-focused commercial growth via channel partners such as Lenovo and Avnet Integrated. Moreover, it announced the appointment of Tom Flink as chief executive officer (CEO).

Graphcore provides a microprocessor for AI and ML applications (dubbed intelligence processing units [IPU]) that allows developers to build, train, and deploy AI/ML models in the cloud using its Bow Pod hardware systems, which are designed for production deployment in enterprise data centers, private, or public cloud. The Bow IP‍U‍ is also the world’s first AI processor to use Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) 3D stacking technology, delivering 350 teraFLOPS of AI compute.In addition, the company’s Poplar graph framework software is designed with the IPU and integrates with ML frameworks to port existing models and run AI applications. Graphcore also provides a set of open-source code graph libraries to support ML models and an engine that executes models and streams data through models running on IPUs.Graphcore was <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31430">acquired by Softbank</a> in July 2024 to bolster its AI capabilities and tap into the growing demand for AI hardware. Graphcore will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, retaining its name, headquarters in Bristol, and additional offices in the UK, Poland, and Taiwan.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves customers in the finance, biotech, research, and consumer internet sectors. Notable customers include Citadel, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Carmot Capital, and Stanford Medicine.It partnered with Spell, a company specializing in operationalizing AI, to develop IPU-based infrastructure that allows developers to run AI applications quickly and easily at scale. In addition, it collaborated with Aleph Alpha to enable bulk semantic embedding on the latter’s Luminous-Explore model supporting semantic search.Funding and financialsIn December 2020, the company raised USD 222 million in a Series E funding round led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board at a valuation of USD 2.77 billion. The funds were used to accelerate future IPU silicon, systems, and software development and drive further global expansion.In 2022, the company reported revenue of GBP 2.7 million (USD 3.3 million), 46% lower than the previous year, and its net losses worsened 18.4% YoY to GBP 198.8 million (USD 245.9 million).

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 Headquartered in Germany, Ferroelectric Memory GmbH (FMC) provides ferroelectric hafnium oxide non-volatile memory chips for semiconductor and fabless manufacturers. This benefits Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including those at the edge, as the chips enable products like microcontrollers (small computers on integrated chips) to improve their speed and capability.
 
 
 The company claims its chips offer fast switching, ultra-low power and scalability enhancements over competitors. The chips are suitable for a range of applications including IoT, consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and aerospace. FMC also works with semiconductor companies and foundries in the US, Europe, and Asia.&nbsp;
 
 
 In November 2020, FMC raised USD 20 million in Series B funding to accelerate the commercialization of its artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and embedded memory applications, among others. The company also intends to expand the team at its Dresden headquarters and begin expanding internationally to the US and Asian markets.
 
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Syntiant offers edge-focused deep learning solutions via a combination of specialized processor architecture, an edge-optimized data platform, and a training pipeline for always-on edge AI applications. Syntiant’s “Neural Decision” neural network processors (NDPs) combine low power with high performance to support edge AI applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, such as earbuds, wearables, smartphones, smart speakers, laptops, automobiles, and internet-of-things (IoT).The company claims that its NDPs typically offer more than 100x efficiency improvement while providing a greater than 10x increase in throughput compared to other low-power MCU-based solutions. As of March 2022, the company reported that it had over 50 customer engagements.Key customers and partnershipsAs of March 2022, the company reported that it had over 50 customer engagements in smart electronic devices, automobiles, and IoT.Syntiant has partnered with several companies to launch industry-focused solutions. It partnered with Renesas Electronics to develop a voice-controlled multimodal solution for image processing in vision AI-based IoT and edge systems (July 2021), with CeramicSpeed to develop low-power autonomous sensors for Industrial IoT applications (January 2022) and with Eatron Technologies to deliver an AI-Ready battery management system (November 2022). Syntiant has also partnered with Tekro to grow its sales in South Korea (August 2021) .Funding and financialsIn March 2022, Syntiant <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9397">raised USD 55 million in new funding </a>to invest in enhancing software capabilities and accelerating deployment of the company’s third-generation Syntiant Core 3 architecture (which was expected to launch in 2023).

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

The UK-based Quantum Motion Technologies is engaged in developing quantum computer architectures based on silicon technology, which are compatible with standard silicon processing (CMOS process). The company believes this approach will enable it to create scalable quantum computers with thousands to millions of qubits. The company is working on a technology platform that is not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits based on the ubiquitous silicon technology already used in smartphones and computers.Quantum Motion’s goal is to fast-track the development of true fault-tolerant quantum computers and reach a million qubits and beyond by leveraging existing knowledge in device fabrication within the trillion-dollar silicon industry.Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2024, Quantum Motion entered into a project with the <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26533">National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) </a>to build the UK’s first silicon-based quantum processor test bed in its Oxfordshire site. In November 2023, Quantum Motion partnered with the University of Pennsylvania to further develop its silicon quantum computer chip technology.Funding and financialsThe company raised GBP 42 million (USD 50.5 million) in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16504">Series B </a>funding round in February 2023 led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC). The proceeds were allocated for the development of the company’s quantum processors based on silicon technology.

IonQ develops general-purpose quantum computers using trapped-ion technology. Although the company calls itself a full-stack player, its focus has been on developing hardware. In December 2020, it revealed its quantum roadmap that introduced its new metric, “algorithmic qubits (AQ),” which represents the largest number of qubits that can be deployed while maintaining high performance and considering error correction. Its latest system IonQ Aria achieved 20 AQ, as of May 2023. In terms of physical qubits, IonQ’s latest hardware had 32 qubits, which were expected to hold 22 AQs. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23125">October 2023 </a>, the company achieved 29 algorithmic qubits (AQ) using barium qubits for the first time.Founded in 2015, IonQ’s main competitive advantage stems from its approach to designing qubits that allow computers to be operated at room temperature with lower error rates.&nbsp;IonQ unveiled the industry’s first glass-based trapped ion computing chip called the Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) technology, in August 2021, which the company believes will significantly expand the longevity of qubits and enable at least triple-digit scalability.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31824">July 2024 </a>, the company unveiled an accelerated roadmap with expanded 2025 technical milestones, focused on improving native two-qubit gate performance to over 99.9% (three 9s) in 2025, with further gains expected in 2026 from the transition to barium qubits.Key customers and partnershipsIonQ has entered several strategic partnership including with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25925">Rescale </a>(January 2024) to combine their cloud computing and quantum computing capabilities; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22265">Air Force Research Lab </a>(September 2023) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development in a deal valued at USD 25.5 million; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21158">BearingPoint </a>(August 2023) to offer its quantum systems and related professional services to the European market; SoftBank Investment Advisers (June 2021) to provide support in deploying the company’s quantum systems globally; and Accenture (September 2021) to accelerate the industrial application of IonQ’s quantum systems.The company offers access to its quantum computer via all major quantum cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Marketplace (GCM). It is also integrated with major software development kits (SDK) including IBM Qiskit and Google Cirq. In May 2023, IonQ began offering its IonQ Aria system on Amazon Braket.

Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

Based in Germany and founded in 2022, Cylib is a spinoff from the RWTH Aachen University that has developed an end-to-end hydrometallurgical recycling process for the recovery of all valuable battery materials from lithium-ion batteries. The company claims that its process has up to a 90% recycling efficiency and can reuse CO2 emissions from the recycling process for the recovery of lithium and graphite, compared to conventional recycling processes.&nbsp;In September 2023, Cylib commissioned its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21674">first pilot plant</a> in Aachen, Germany, to implement its proprietary lithium-ion battery recycling technology. The facility would recycle ~500 kg of batteries per day initially.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn December 2023, cylib <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24972">partnered with e.GO</a>, a German producer of urban BEVs, to refine battery recycling processes and enhance resource recovery from used batteries.Funding and financials<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13827">In October 2022</a>, the company raised EUR 3.6 million (~USD 3.55 million) in seed funding led by Vsquared Ventures and Speedinvest to support the construction of a pilot plant in Aachen, Germany. The company, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16435">February 2023</a>, raised EUR 8 million (~USD 8.6 million) in an extended seed funding round led by World Fund.

Li Industries is a developer of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery sorting and recycling technologies using machine learning and automation. The company offers two solutions: Smart Battery Sorting (SBS), and Direct Li-ion Battery Recycled (DLBR) technologies.The SBS solution is the company’s proprietary sorting method which uses machine learning to identify different kinds of battery chemistries and automates the process, allowing battery chemistries to be sorted and separated for recycling. The DLBR solution looks at safely discharging li-ion batteries, and separating battery components using its proprietary sorting method, after which it can regenerate cathode and anode waste to produce commercial-grade battery materials.&nbsp;As of August 2022, Li Industries planned to build a commercial battery sorting and recycling facility in the US, scheduled to open in 2023.Key customers and partnershipsIn April 2022, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates?industryIds=54">Call2Recycle</a>, a nonprofit organization operating recycling programs, to set up a lithium-ion battery recycling process using Li Industries’ technology, with plans to commercialize it in 2023.Funding and financialsIn August 2022, Li Industries had raised USD 7 million in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12021">Series A </a>funding round led by Khosla Ventures to bring its battery sorting and recycling technology and operation to full scale.

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation.
 
 The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
 
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TALPA Solutions is a data analytics company that provides an Industrial internet of Things (IIoT) and intelligence platform for heavy industry. Founded in 2016, the company specializes in industrial fleet management and aftersales solutions for fleet operators and manufacturers. The platform collects and processes sensor data from heavy machinery to deliver insights on asset availability, maintenance optimization, productivity, safety, and sustainability. TALPA's technology connects directly to machine ECU data through data logging devices and CAN bus interfaces, rather than using APIs for processed signals, ensuring comprehensive data collection. As of March 2023, the platform processed more data points per second than the German stock exchange, with over 450 machines connected across mines, quarries, and distributed sites on five continents. The company's SaaS-based interface enables users to monitor machine status and predictions in real-time, providing detailed diagnostics and alerts. In one implementation, TALPA's industrial AI platform identified a 5-10% potential increase in average payload for haul trucks by analyzing carrying capacity, tire diagnostics, and contextual data.

Reinventing how computers think based on biological neural networks

Neuromorphic Computing

Prophesee is a Paris-based company that has developed advanced neuromorphic vision systems using patented sensor design and AI algorithms. Founded in 2014, Prophesee's technology is inspired by human vision and mimics how the eye and brain work to reveal what was previously invisible using standard frame-based camera technology. At the core of Prophesee's innovation is its event-based vision approach, which is fundamentally different from traditional image sensors. Instead of capturing entire frames at fixed intervals, Prophesee's Metavision sensors have pixels that independently and asynchronously detect and transmit changes in the scene, resulting in a continuous stream of information with microsecond precision.
This event-based approach offers several key advantages, including ultra-low latency, high dynamic range (>120 dB), and significantly reduced power consumption and data processing requirements compared to conventional frame-based systems. Prophesee's technology enables high-speed vision capabilities of over 10,000 fps equivalent temporal precision while consuming less than 10mW of power. The company's neuromorphic vision systems have applications across various industries, including autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, mobile devices, and augmented/virtual reality.
Prophesee has developed both hardware and software products. Its hardware offerings include event-based vision sensors and cameras, with the latest being the GenX320 Event-based Metavision sensor launched in October 2023. This 320x320 pixel sensor is designed for edge applications like AR/VR headsets, eye tracking, and IoT devices. On the software side, Prophesee offers the Metavision Intelligence Suite, which provides a comprehensive toolkit for developers to work with event-based vision data.
Key customers and partnerships
Prophesee has established partnerships with several major technology companies to accelerate the adoption of its neuromorphic vision technology. In 2022, Prophesee announced a collaboration with Sony to develop a next-generation HD vision sensor combining Sony's CMOS image sensor technology with Prophesee's Metavision sensing technology. The company also partnered with Qualcomm in March 2023 to integrate its event-based vision technology into Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile platforms, aiming to enhance smartphone camera performance, particularly in fast-moving scenes and low-light conditions.
In the industrial sector, Prophesee has formed commercial partnerships with leading machine vision suppliers such as Lucid, Framos, Imago, and Century Arks. The company has also collaborated with BrainChip to combine their technologies for high-performance and low-power edge AI vision applications. Additionally, Prophesee has worked with companies in the AR/VR space, including a partnership announced in 2023 with Ultraleap and TCL RayNeo to develop low-power tracking technology for AR glasses.

Syntiant is a deep learning chip technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, California. The company specializes in developing ultra-low-power, high-performance deep neural network processors called Neural Decision Processors (NDPs) for edge AI applications. Syntiant's technology combines deep learning with semiconductor design to enable AI functionality in battery-powered devices without relying on cloud connections.
Syntiant's NDPs are designed to execute deep neural networks natively on various topologies, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and fully connected networks. The company's chips typically offer 100x efficiency improvement and a 10x increase in throughput compared to traditional low-power microcontroller-based solutions. This allows for larger networks at significantly lower power consumption, extending battery life and reducing infrastructure costs.
The company's product lineup includes the NDP100, NDP101, NDP200, and NDP115 processors. The NDP200, built on the Syntiant Core 2 architecture, provides 25 times the tensor throughput of the Syntiant Core 1 found in the NDP100. The latest NDP115, introduced at CES 2023, is designed for ultra-power and size-constrained applications, capable of running speech inferences at 280 microwatts.
Syntiant has achieved significant milestones in its short history. By January 2021, the company had shipped over 10 million of its NDP100 and NDP101 processors. This number increased to more than 20 million processors shipped by March 2022. As of May 2023, Syntiant has expanded its offerings to include hardware-agnostic deep learning computer vision models that can be deployed on various platforms, including the Renesas RZ/V2L microprocessor.
Key customers and partnerships
Syntiant's technology has found applications across various industries and devices. The company's Neural Decision Processors are being used in earbuds, wearables, smartphones, smart speakers, laptops, vehicles, and other IoT consumer and industrial use cases.
Syntiant has established partnerships with several prominent companies in the tech industry. In July 2021, Syntiant announced a collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation for a voice-controlled multimodal solution combining Renesas' RZ/V Series MPUs and Syntiant's NDP120 Neural Decision Processor. This partnership aims to enable low-power contactless operation for image processing in vision AI-based IoT and edge systems.
The company has also worked with Infineon Technologies, signing a smart microphone reference design agreement in 2018. This collaboration aimed to complement Syntiant's NDPs with Infineon's high-performance microphone technology.

Sustainably solving the food shortages of the future

Smart Farming

CropX develops a crop management platform that collects data using soil sensors and aerial imagery; the data is then analyzed to offer farmers precise predictions on information such as soil and weather conditions. CropX also launched a new feature in August 2022 for its farm management system that tracks movement of nitrogen and salts in the soil. Through this feature, farmers can reduce the environmental impact of nitrogen leaching by identifying and managing it when it happens. As of October 2020, the company reported serving more than 1,200 farming customers worldwide and having deployed almost 9,000 sensors. CropX has completed a string of acquisitions to expand its product offering and market presence. It acquired Nebraska-based cloud-based precision irrigation tool provider CropMetrics to expand its presence in the US (January 2020); New Zealand Cloud-based precision irrigation provider Regen to expand into New Zealand’s farm market (September 2020); and Dacom Farm Intelligence, a Dutch crop management platform, to gain access to the European market ( <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4866">August 2021 </a>). To continue growing its US presence and irrigation offering, CropX also partnered with Reinke, an irrigation management leader operating across 40 countries, including the US (August 2020,). The company also ran its soil application on Amazon’s AWS, gaining 4x as much data as it had two years ago, and in the process, enabled farmers to make better decisions (2020). CropX signed an investment agreement alongside a product development partnership with multinational fluid management systems provider Aliaxis ( <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9850">April 2022 </a>). <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9230">In March 2022 </a>, CropX announced that it received an investment of an undisclosed amount from HELM AG, a German multinational chemical company. <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19914">HELM AG</a> also joined CropX as a strategic partner following the investment and would combine their technologies to expand the latter’s fertilizer management and crop protection offerings. Later that month, the CropX also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9492">partnered with Proman </a>to expand the former’s fertilizer management solutions. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16040">January 2023 </a>, the company acquired precision irrigation company, Tule, for an undisclosed amount to provide additional insights and recommendations to farmers, leveraging Tule’s data collection technologies and expanding its offerings to Californian drip-irrigated specialty crops. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17073">March 2023 </a>, CropX completed an API integration with Talgil, a global producer of irrigation control systems. The CropX agronomic farm management system was integrated with Talgil controllers to simplify the irrigation management process for users, as they no longer have to deal with multiple user interfaces. In December 2023, the company acquired <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24759">Green Brain </a>, a provider of digital irrigation management solutions, for an undisclosed amount, enabling CropX to expand in Australia. In September 2023, CropX partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22223">Zuari FarmHub </a>, an Indian AgriTech company, to introduce advanced sensor-based agronomic farm management systems in India.In August 2024, CropX partnered with CNH Industrial, a leading manufacturer of agricultural and industrial equipment and commercial vehicles, to introduce a new application programming interface connection which links their farmer management system with CNH's argicultural equipment. Funding and financialsIn April 2023, CropX raised USD 30 million in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17868">Series C funding </a>round led by Aliaxis SA for developing its agronomic farm management system and acquiring companies with complementary technologies and market reach. Later in October 2023, the company raised an undisclosed amount in an <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22453">extended Series C </a>funding round from Newtree Impact to expand globally.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company that provides security across operation technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and industrial IoT (IIoT) corporate assets. The platform provides visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access for corporate digital infrastructure. The company also operates across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America with deployments across the world in industries such as energy, consumer products, critical manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and utilities. Claroty is backed by top industrial automation vendors such as Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, and Siemens who are both customers and investors.
 
 
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 Since 2020, Claroty has experienced 110% year-over-year (YoY) growth in new customers and maintained 100% customer retention. The company expects 133% YoY growth in annual recurring revenue between H1 2020 and H1 2021. The company also expanded its partner coverage by 50% over 2020 with the additions of companies such as Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, CrowdStrike, Atos, and Yokogawa.
 
 
 In June 2023, Claroty announced an integration with Siemens Healthineers, incorporating the firm&rsquo;s Medigate platform into Healthineers&rsquo; ActSafe healthcare cybersecurity solution to offer healthcare providers deeper visibility into their networks, along with vulnerability and management insights. 
 
 
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 Claroty raised USD 400 million in Series E funding, in a round co-led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Schneider Electric, and Bessemer Venture Partners that reportedly valued the company at nearly USD 2 billion. Claroty had earmarked most of the funding for the acquisition of healthcare-focused IoT security startup, Medigate. The new funds were also to be used to support Claroty&rsquo;s product development and international expansion. Medigate provides IoT security solutions, such as anomaly detection, to over 1,000 healthcare facilities. Claroty expects this acquisition to help expand its footprint beyond the industrial and manufacturing spaces. 
 
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Leveraging personal data for custom-fit diagnosis and treatment

Precision Medicine

Variantyx is a precision medicine company offering genetic testing services for rare genetic disorders, reproductive health, and precision oncology. Its proprietary whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and data analysis platform, Genomic Intelligence, identifies unique genetic mutations in a patient’s tumor and predicts treatment response, offering healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies diagnostics, treatment recommendations, and clinical trial information.Its WGS-based approach, which uses multiple genomic technologies, can sequence the entire DNA and this data can be sliced based on the required analysis. It detects multiple types of variants including small sequence changes, large structural variants, mitochondrial variants (common in tumors), and tandem repeat mutations (found in neurological diseases). The company claims this approach allows it to provide insights and analytics that are currently not available through other diagnostic tests at the shortest turnaround time.

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

Masters of Pie, a UK-based startup, offers real-time extended reality (XR) collaboration solutions for the defense and enterprise sectors. Its software, Radical, integrates with existing enterprise applications, enabling secure sharing of complex 2D and 3D data across various platforms. This approach is beneficial for data-sensitive industries, as it allows secure data sharing and collaboration within existing workflows. The software is used for immersive design reviews, remote expert assistance, robotic simulation, and more. Radical for Unity enhances Unity applications with real-time collaboration functionalities. It allows almost any data to be integrated into the Radical Scene, offering out-of-the-box synchronization.In the defense sector, Masters of Pie's AR solution integrates multiple real-time data sources, digitizing and simplifying processes, and ensuring decision-making is based on the latest data. It also enables remote collaboration on complex 2D and 3D data to diagnose issues, support maintenance processes, and train teams.For the engineering sector, the company offers a data-agnostic XR collaboration solution that brings people and real-time data together. The Radical software supports a range of solutions for product design, robotic simulation, and planning, creating a flexible environment for engineering and manufacturing teams.In the manufacturing sector, Masters of Pie's XR Factory Simulation allows manufacturers to conduct factory planning and production simulations using a digital twin, enabling them to identify and rectify issues in the software before real-world deployment. This solution also facilitates remote collaboration on complex 2D and 3D data to diagnose issues, support maintenance processes, and train teams.The company generates revenue through annual subscriptions and licenses, with optional support models for customers.Key customers and partnershipsKey customers include the British Army, Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Hyperbat, with 18 industry segments using the Radical software and ~300 enterprise customers licensing its technologies.Funding and financialsIn January 2020, the company raised USD 4.7 million in a funding round. Utilization of funding remained undisclosed.

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

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 Recogni offers a visual perception platform for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and vehicles with Level 2 to Level 4 automation (i.e., Level 2 refers to vehicles that can control both the speed and the steering but require a vigilant safety driver; Level 4 refers to fully autonomous vehicles limited to specific locations and/or conditions). Recogni's AI-powered perception inference chip Scorpio reportedly enables object detection accuracy up to ~300m in real time under multiple road/environmental conditions. It can also process multiple streams of ultra-high resolution and very high frame rate cameras. The company also claims that the product has low latency and consumes less power.&nbsp;
 
 
 In 2023, Recogni launched the Phoenix ADAS/AD, a computing platform for autonomous driving and advanced driving assistance system applications for autonomous driving applications. The platform combines Scorpio AI processor and the Renesas R-Car V4H ASIL D support processor, for configurations up to 2,000 TOPS, reportedly the highest TOPS per watt capacity on the market. It also 
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Additive manufacturing makes objects by systematically adding material via a CAD program

Additive Manufacturing

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 ARRIS offers end-to-end on-demand additive manufacturing (AM) solutions from design to production, targeting consumer and sports products, consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, drone manufacturing, and other industrial use cases. The company&rsquo;s patented additive molding tech uses continuous 3D-aligned fibers like carbon and glass as well as thermoplastics to automate the manufacturing and molding of complex products and parts. This ensures better performance, surface quality, and part-to-part repeatability. ARRIS technology is also claimed to be capable of precisely making thin, intricate parts that do not require post-processing.&nbsp;
 
 
 ARRIS has a production base, R&amp;D facility, and product introduction center in California, with another production facility in Taiwan. In February 2023, ARRIS signed up with a contract manufacturing partner in Malaysia (name undisclosed) to increase the company&rsquo;s production capacity to one million parts per year.&nbsp;
 
 
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 Some of the company&rsquo;s customers include unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturer Skydio, the US Army&rsquo;s Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center (DEVCOM GVSC), and aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
 
 
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 In November 2021, ARRIS raised USD 88.5 million in Series C funding, bringing the company&rsquo;s total funding to USD 147 million. The funds were expected to be used to scale global operations to fulfill the increasing demand for medium to high-volume production. 
 
 
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Technologies that automate and optimize building operations using data-driven insights.

Smart Building Technology

SENSORO is an IoT and artificial intelligence company from China that has developed an end-to-end integrated technology and product system for smart city solutions. Their offerings include smart sensing terminals, IoT communication base stations, chips, edge computing servers, and a global data visualization service platform. SENSORO's ESG smart solutions, branded as "SENSORO SOLUTION", are focused on applications such as climate monitoring, ecological protection, livelihood improvement, animal welfare, and garbage classification.
In December 2021, SENSORO implemented its ESG smart solutions on a large scale in Yichang, Hubei Province, serving as a benchmark smart city case. The company's technology has played a role in areas like Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control, weather monitoring and early warning, Yangtze River ecological protection, care for vulnerable groups, grassroot-level inclusive medical care, and animal welfare protection. SENSORO aims to harness the power of IoT and AI to drive urban development toward a low-carbon, energy-efficient, and intelligent future, revitalizing traditional industries with its revolutionary smart data solutions.

Deriving insights from uncommon data streams

Alternative Data

Aclima is a climate tech company that has pioneered a novel approach to mapping and analyzing air pollution and greenhouse gases at an unprecedented scale and resolution. Utilizing its network of roving and stationary sensors, Aclima provides the broadest set of pollutant measurements available in the market, offering block-by-block resolution. The company's groundbreaking data and analytics empower its customers across various industries, government agencies, and communities to reduce emissions, improve public health, and deliver clean air for all.
In July 2022, Aclima commenced a historic collaboration with New York State, deploying its mobile-mapping technology to measure hyperlocal air pollution and greenhouse gases at the community block level across 10 disadvantaged communities. This statewide initiative collects data on criteria pollutants, greenhouse gases, and toxics through a fleet of specialized vehicles equipped with advanced sensors. The vehicles measure fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, methane, carbon dioxide, black carbon, and benzene, among other pollutants, at different times, days, and seasons to create a comprehensive understanding of typical pollution levels.
Aclima's proprietary software, Aclima Pro, empowers users to analyze and visualize the company's unique data, combining it with hundreds of additional contextual layers to drive climate and public health actions. The results will inform New York's efforts, in collaboration with partners, to reduce emissions and address health burdens and inequities in communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution. This initiative supports New York's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2050, as mandated by the state's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

A new generation for mobile connectivity with 5G and beyond

Next-gen Private Mobile Networks

PHYTunes is a company that specializes in developing solutions for Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) and improving 5G connectivity inside buildings. The company's technology utilizes existing wireline infrastructure to transport high-frequency wireless signals over various cables, including telephone lines, fiber-optic, Ethernet, and coaxial.&nbsp;PHYTunes' “MARS” (Multipoint Antenna Replication System), a patented wireless wireline converged technology, employs an intermediate frequency band to transmit signals through common wireline infrastructure, delivering multiplexed wireless spatial streams and control channels. This method reportedly allows industries to reduce latency and power consumption while enhancing in-built connectivity of communication infrastructure. It also addresses the 5G signal loss challenges when penetrating physical barriers.The company's technology suits the gaming, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail industries.

Next-gen Displays

Light Field Lab is a Silicon Valley-based company founded in 2017 by Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and Ed Ibe, who previously worked at Lytro. The company has developed SolidLight, a groundbreaking holographic display technology that creates true 3D images visible without the need for special glasses or headgear. SolidLight uses modular panels containing billions of pixels to generate light fields that form holographic objects appearing to float in mid-air. These holograms are viewable from multiple angles and behave like real objects, responding to focus changes and occlusion.
The SolidLight system comprises three layers: a photonic array of light-emitting nanoparticles, a modulated-amplitude plane, and a static PhaseGuide modulation plane. Together, these components manipulate light to create holographic images with a density of 10 billion pixels per square meter. Light Field Lab's proprietary WaveTracing software enables real-time rendering of holographic content from standard 3D engines like Unity and Unreal. In February 2023, the company demonstrated its Defy interactive experiences, which allow users to engage with responsive holographic characters in real-time.

Technologies and processes that revolutionize the traditional construction industry

Construction Tech

Versatile offers an AI and IoT platform that transforms construction sites into smart, data-collecting environments. The company's flagship product, CraneView, is a solution that mounts under the hook of any crane to capture and analyze thousands of data points in real-time. This technology provides unparalleled production data on jobsites, including information on materials, redundancies, construction progress, and crane utilization. CraneView enables construction digitalization through the automated capture and analysis of field data, empowering project teams to work safer and faster.
The company's solution aims to increase efficiency, safety, and cost-savings on construction sites. Versatile's technology has been shown to deliver value, insights, and critical learnings to get the most out of construction projects. By December 2020, CraneView was being used by top General Contractors on projects across the US and Canada. The company's approach turns traditionally time-consuming, manual processes into a controllable manufacturing process with fast feedback loops.

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

SiteAware provides a digital twin platform, Digital Construction Verification (DCV), to provide insights to maintain and monitor a building’s structure, shell (facade), and interiors. Using its proprietary AI, drones, and robotic cameras, it verifies installed elements in the building against the plan in real time. The company aims at reducing reworks, improving processes, and assisting in decision-making.&nbsp;The company operates a B2B business model targeting its services toward investors, real estate developers, and general contractors in the construction industry. As of November 2022, the company had verified around 16 million square feet and made more than 21,000 observations.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s key customers include Gilbane, Hines, Brookfield, Granite, and Bjarke Ingels Group.&nbsp;In 2017, the company partnered with construction productivity software company, PlanGrid, to integrate the PlanGrid software into the SiteAware platform. During the same year, the company also partnered with cloud-based application provider Procore to integrate SiteAware in Procore’s platform and thereby expand its customer base.&nbsp;Funding and financialsThe company raised USD 15 million in January 2022 in a Series B funding round led by Vertex Ventures Israel. The new funds were allocated toward growing its DCV platform across the US. The company experienced 3x revenue growth YoY in 2021 and its customer base grew to more than 40.&nbsp;

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Iguazio provides a serverless platform based on its open-source Nuclio framework that helps users to develop, deploy, and manage real-time AI applications without requiring them to manually manage underlying infrastructures such as servers and storage. The platform creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the edge, public cloud, and on-premise data centers and reduces bandwidth constraints by consolidating data into a repository and making it available for applications as required. The platform can ingest and transform data from any source, which is then used to train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models in production.The company leverages Big Data and ML software such as Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes to manage software containers that enable applications to run across different computing environments.Key customers and partnershipsIguazio serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, smart mobility, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, healthcare, energy, and utilities sectors. Notable customers include Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS, Google, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn January 2020, the company raised USD 24 million in a funding round led by INCapital Ventures. The funds were utilized to accelerate its growth, expand its reach into new global markets, grow sales, and facilitate new sales channels that include companies such as Dell Technologies

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

Syntiant Corp., founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, California, is a leader in delivering end-to-end deep learning solutions for edge AI applications. The company specializes in developing ultra-low-power, high-performance neural decision processors that enable always-on voice, audio, sensor, and vision applications across various consumer and industrial use cases. Syntiant's technology combines deep learning with semiconductor design to produce Neural Decision Processors (NDPs) that can run multiple neural networks concurrently at extremely low power levels.
The company's flagship products include the NDP series, such as the NDP200, which is designed for always-on edge AI vision applications and can run multiple independent networks concurrently at powers less than 2mW. Syntiant's processors are capable of executing deep neural networks natively on various architectures, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and fully connected networks. The company's solutions typically offer more than 100x efficiency improvement and a 10x increase in throughput compared to current low-power MCU-based alternatives.
Syntiant's technology is applicable to a wide range of devices, including earbuds, wearables, smartphones, smart speakers, laptops, automobiles, and other IoT consumer and industrial applications. The company's processors enable edge devices to hear, speak, see, and feel, bringing cloud-free advanced machine learning solutions to the edge of the network. This allows for mission-critical and time-sensitive decisions to be made faster, more reliably, and with greater security.
As of March 2022, Syntiant had shipped over 20 million of its Neural Decision Processors. The company continues to innovate, with plans to introduce its third-generation Syntiant Core 3 architecture in the future.
Key customers and partnerships
Syntiant has established partnerships with several prominent companies in the technology industry. In July 2021, Syntiant announced a collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation for a voice-controlled multimodal solution combining Renesas' RZ/V Series MPUs and Syntiant's NDP120 Neural Decision Processor. This partnership aims to enable low-power contactless operation for image processing in vision AI-based IoT and edge systems.

Foundation Models

Aleph Alpha is a German technology company known for its collection of autoregressive (causal, decoder-only) transformer large language models (LLMs) under the Luminous series. The Luminous series includes three primary models:1.Luminous-Base, the smallest model in the Luminous family with 13 billion parameters (15 billion with multimodality) prioritizes tasks such as classification and labeling, and supports multimodal input capabilities to handle prompts consisting of a combination of images and text.2.Luminous-Extended, with 30 billion parameters (42 billion with multi-modality), excels in tasks such as information extraction and language simplification. It also supports multimodal input capabilities (images and text).3.Luminous-Supreme, with 70 billion parameters, excels in all natural language tasks and is particularly well-suited for creative text generation and tasks requiring deep text understanding.The Luminous models have been trained on a dataset that includes web crawls, books, political and legal sources, Wikipedia, news articles, and other specialized datasets. It was also trained on five of the most commonly spoken European languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.Aleph Alpha provides access to these models through its API and playground and offers options for on-premise installations or AI-as-a-service. It prioritizes ethical use and transparency and offers explainability features for understanding model outputs. Additionally, Aleph Alpha claims to emphasize environmental responsibility by powering its data center with 100% renewable energy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32936">In August 2024,</a> the company launched Pharia-1-LLM-7 billion-control and Pharia-1-LLM-7 billion-control-aligned, LLMs to provide concise, length-controlled responses in European languages.Key customers and partnershipsAs of August 2023, the platform served 10,000 customers across both business and government.In June 2022, the company partnered with Graphcore, which specializes in AI hardware and software, to jointly advance the research, development, and deployment of advanced multimodal AI models by leveraging Graphcore's hardware acceleration and Aleph Alpha's Luminous AI model for various applications across industries. In August 2023, Aleph Alpha partnered with Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), an initiative focused on strengthening Germany's position in AI, to enhance AI development, promote ethical AI research and application, and establish a platform for applied AI in Europe to strengthen digital sovereignty and competitiveness.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Iguazio is an Israel-based AI and machine-learning company that offers an enterprise data science and machine-learning operations (MLOps) platform. The Iguazio MLOps Platform automates data science workflows from end-to-end, accelerating the process of development of AI applications to deployment to management. The platform enables the ingestion and processing of data from any source, training of models at scale, deployment, and monitoring and retraining of models, reducing the time taken to create business value with AI. In 2023, Iguazio was acquired by McKinsey &amp; Company to accelerate and scale AI deployments for its clients. The Iguazio team was set to be integrated with McKinsey’s QuantumBlack AI team. Iguzio follows a direct sales model. Key customers and partnerships The company serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, and healthcare sectors. Its customers include Google Cloud, Intel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, Samsung, Ecolab, Sheba Medical Center, NetApp, Payoneer, PadSquad, and Microsoft Azure. Iguazio’s partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Intel, Rackspace Technology, Snowflake, Boston Limited, Microsoft Azure, and Seagate. Funding and financials Iguazio concluded a venture funding round in January 2020 when it raised USD 24 million, led by INcapital Ventures.

Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company that helps customers reveal, protect, and manage OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company provides a platform that connects seamlessly with customers' existing infrastructure and programs while offering a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk, and vulnerability management, and secure remote access with a significantly reduced total cost of ownership.

Greentech startup cylib is on a mission to revolutionize how lithium-ion batteries are recycled in Europe, making the process more efficient and sustainable.

Li Industries is a start-up company focusing on developing the next generation of lithium-ion battery recycling technologies.  Li Industries focuses on recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and other energy storage systems. The company specializes in recovering valuable materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and other essential metals used in battery production. By efficiently extracting these resources, Li Industries helps reduce environmental waste and supports the creation of new batteries from recycled components, contributing to a more sustainable battery supply chain.

ARRIS develops an additive molding technology for manufacturing 3D-aligned continuous fiber thermoplastic composite parts at scale. Its composites manufacturing technology combines continuously aligned fibers, electronics, and metallic components within topology-optimized structures.

Based on clinical whole genome sequencing (WGS) and using a single patient sample, Variantyx's Genomic Unity® test identifies and reports all major variant types including small sequence changes, structural variants, mitochondrial variants and short tandem repeat expansions. This comprehensive test test eliminates the need for traditional step-wise, reiterative genetic testing.

Point2 Technology develops a dielectric waveguide for high speed interconnect for both datacenter applications. The company is a solution provider that allows high-speed, short-range connectivity with reliable, low-cost, low-power solutions. It was founded in 2016 and based in Seoul, South Korea.

Aleph Alpha transforms human-machine interactions. The company researches, develops, and operationalizes AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. Its generative AI solutions enable enterprises and governmental organizations to build intelligent products.

JETCOOL Technologies develops microjet cooling modules for advanced electronics, publishing the results in several papers. The technology behind JETCOOL was developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, by a team led by Bernie Malouin. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

Pico MES develops a manufacturing execution system designed for factory and machinery control. It enables a connected environment to limitless factory tools, capturing data for visibility into the supply chain. It has migrated dozens of mid-sized factories of paper-based systems and helped improve product quality for American factories in battery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace.

Bynav specializes in the development of GNSS high-precision positioning core components, and is committed to providing reliable high-precision positioning in demanding environments. With GNSS signal processing algorithm, RTK algorithm and multi-source fusion algorithm as the core, the company has developed a series of products such as GNSS ASIC, GNSS OEM board and GNSS/INS receiver used in autonomous driving, surveying and mapping, aerospace and industrial control.

AutoCore is an intelligent mobility software, automotive electrical, and electronic architecture solution provider. It helps OEMs and Tier1s through the life cycle, from design to production. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.

PHYTunes is a Palo Alto, CA based deep tech company focused on improving High Frequency 5G, 6G and Wi-Fi 6 coverage inside of buildings.  High Bandwidth mobile networks require high frequency, and high frequency signals do not propagate well through barriers such as walls, tinted windows and other building materials.  PHYTunes has addressed this critical problem by developing a wireless-wireline convergence solution that enables propagation of mid-band and mmWave 5G signals over existing in-building cabling such as cat 5, cat 6, and coax at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.  PHYTunes leverages this same technology to efficiently increase 5Ghz (and above) Wi-Fi coverage with a stable, secure single frequency signal throughout the building.   These solutions allow for easy and fast deployments and breakdown the barriers to high bandwidth, low latency mobile communications.

talpasolutions a predictive SaaS analytics provider for the mining industry that helps companies optimize machine performance, reduce breakdowns, and improve safety by making data more understandable. talpasolutions makes it possible for operators and machine manufacturers in heavy industry to use machine data that would have otherwise been lost. talpasolutions concentrates on building visualization and analysis applications for the industrial internet. In the first step, large amounts of data from the machines are recorded. Comprehendable visualizations allow for different stakeholders to understand relationships based on sensor data and contextual data and to react to critical information, which would otherwise have been buried in the data transfer. In the second step the newest predictive models are applied to eliminate events such as errors and the breakdown of machines critical to the process. This increases not only the availability but also the workload of the machines. talpasolutions has built a network out of industry partners to develop solutions that stretch across various sectors and unify industry experience, data science, and workflow connectivity. Using predictive instructions our platform recognizes problems before they occur and supports users with workflow-based processes. Our applications make it possible to collect performance data from machines in order to recommend optimal fleet combinations for respective scenarios to customers. This leads to more operating hours, higher efficiency, and an improved lifetime value of the machines.

Quantum Motion Technologies is building a universal quantum computer in Silicon, using CMOS compatible processes.

Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering high performance IT by 70%. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Prophesee’s patented sensors and AI algorithms, introduce a new computer vision paradigm based on how the human eye and brain work. Like the human vision, it sees events: essential, motion information in the scene, not a succession of images. This Metavision® method allows for unprecedented speed (>10 000fps time resolution equivalent), dynamic range (>120dB), data volume (10x to 1000x less) and power efficiency (<10 mW). Prophesee bio-inspired revolution opens a new path to absolute efficiency and safety in autonomous driving, Mobile, IoT and Industry 4.0. Prophesee was founded within iBionext Start-up Studio (Paris) in 2014 by Ryad Benosman, Bernard Gilly, Christoph Posch and Luca Verre. The quartet brings a strong combination of experience in image sensing, neuromorphic computing, VLSI design, entrepreneurship and business development. Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Inno-Chip, Intel Capital, Renault Group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Xiaomi.

TULU is the Usage Economy platform that elevates products and services brands to win today’s needs-driven consumers. We provide building tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand-name appliances, grocery staples, and micro-mobility and entertainment devices, in residential buildings, student housing, and offices.   TULU’s IoT-based smart rental units are customized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging data to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. We are a global company with operations in 15 cities across the US and Europe, working with the largest landlords in the world, such as Greystar Real Estate Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Invesco, RXR Realty and CA Ventures, and top brand manufacturers such as Bosch, Hoover, Kärcher and Unagi.

Garvis is a software company. They provide bionic demand planning and stock optimization system. Access to POS, weather, distributor, social media, pricing, and other demand signals, translation of forecasts into optimized stock and supply orders. Their services are forecasting, demand planning, artificial intelligence, data mining, demand sensing, supply chain planning, inventory management, optimization, demand signals, bionic planning, machine learning, and collaborative planning.

SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions combine the best of Silicon (Si) and Indium Phosphide (InP) materials using wafer-scale bonding of InP on Si and rely on commercial silicon foundry processes to build fully integrated photonic circuits (comprising multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors).

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.  Arduino created the worldwide trademark Genuino used as brand name outside the United States.

OpsMx secures and intelligently automates software delivery. OpsMx offers a comprehensive “security first” CD and Its Deployment Firewall adds  security to existing CI/CD. Customers include several Fortune 10 companies.

Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops.

CelLink is an early-stage hardware startup that is developing a flexible conductive backplane for power electronics, including batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, solar cells, and other devices requiring power transmission.

SiteAware solves quality control for construction exterior by transforming physical inspections performed on the jobsite into a digital, cloud based automated processes. Siteaware's online and continuous quality conformation technology and analytics enables timely correction of errors and omissions that eliminate costly rework and project delays. Real estate developers and their providers can make data-driven decisions that enable higher  performance, better quality and improved profitability with lower risk to workers.

PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage real-time applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives the ability to easily connect and operate real-time applications and IoT devices.  PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco.

VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction processes. It captures and analyzes data points to deliver real-time insights on job site performance and streamline decision-making. Mounted under the hook of any crane, this first-of-its-kind technology offers unparalleled production data on any job site including information on materials, redundancies, construction progress, and crane utilization. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Veego is an Israeli high-tech startup committed to becoming the world leader in Visibility, Customer Experience (CX), and Insights. The company is uniquely able to apply breakthrough AI and ML capabilities, along with other cutting-edge technologies, to overcome the challenges facing CSPs, Content Providers, Device and Service Vendors, and other Data Consumers. From its vantage point in home routers, hubs, and extenders, and delivering unique, real-time services from the Cloud, Veego provides accurate fingerprinting, classification, and measurement of the performance and behavior of each connected device and service in every home, and the experience of users engaging with them. Veego’s SaaS Home Insight Platform (HIP) and innovative solutions automatically and continuously perfect each home-user’s experience while generating vast volumes of new data that enable a wealth of valuable insights and opportunities. Veego customers slash Customer Care costs, while upgrading their users’ CX and gaining incisive understanding of their installed base, internet usage, trends, markets, competition, and more.

Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity.  By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

MegaRobo is an AI and robotics company that specializes in the fields of life sciences, clinical diagnosis, and applied chemistry. They focus on the research and development of robotics and artificial intelligence technology and deeply integrate it into industry applications to provide customers with advanced intelligent automation products and solutions.  MegaRobo was founded in 2016 and is based in Beijing, China.

Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Recogni develops AI-based inference processing solutions for Generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms. Recogni delivers solutions for high compute, low power, and scalability.

Graphcore is a startup that develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications. It has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster.  The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Aclima is a climate-tech company that focuses on mapping and analyzing air pollution through advanced measurement and analysis platforms. Aclima measures air pollution and greenhouse gases at unprecedented scales and block-by-block resolution. Their professional analytics software, Aclima Pro, translates billions of scientific measurements into environmental intelligence for governments, companies, and communities. Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and delivers clean air for all—investors, including Social Capital, Kapor Capital, and the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund back them.

FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond.

Xometry is a AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, transforming one of the largest industries in the world. Xometry uses its proprietary technology to create a marketplace that enables buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, and empowers sellers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses.

IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors to solve the world’s complex problems. Its unique trapped ion approach combines unmatched physical performance, perfect qubit replication, optical networkability, and highly optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer that is as scalable as it is powerful and that will support a broad array of applications across a variety of industries. It was founded in 2015 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

UISEE provides leading-edge products on autonomous driving and transformative services on mobility on demand. UISEE starts with an ambitious goal which is encoded in its name: (U-)utilization of time: turn driving hours (10s of billions every day) into productivity; (I) indiscrimination: everyone, including elderly, disabled people and kids, can ride a car; (S)-safety: reduce 90% accidents, and save a million lives every year; (E)-efficiency: provide zero-latency mobility services, forget about traffic jams, and release parking lots for other purposes; and (E)-environment friendliness: farewell to air pollutions (e.g. smog). UISEE is committed to using AI driving to create future-oriented travel and logistics, reshape the human lifestyle, bring people a multi-functional, equal, safe travel experience and an efficient, eco-friendly resource operation model.

FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications.

UltraSense Systems is a consumer electronics company that offers sensor solutions for smartphones, home appliances, automotive, and medical industries. It features TouchPoint sensors enable a low-power user interface that detects touch and force through virtually any material and material thickness using UltraSense’s patented 3D ultrasound technology. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Masters of Pie’s journey to becoming to a software development company began life in a cafe in London Borough Market. Masters of Pie was founded in 2011 to bring expertise from the real time Game industry to the Enterprise sector. Masters of Pie began life as a services company delivering digital twin prototypes and products for blue chip companies using game engine technology and game design methodologies. Today, Masters of Pie develops software to enable immersive collaboration. The fully extensible software framework, called Radical, integrates natively into existing platforms to support the seamless and secure sharing in real time of large and complex 2D and 3D data across AR, VR, Desktop & Mobile devices. Masters of Pie initial focus was to address the PLM Manufacturing market and CAD applications specifically. In 2017, Masters of Pie signed an OEM agreement with Siemens PLM for the Radical software framework to be integrated into the Siemens NX CAD service to deliver immersive collaboration (VR, AR). The Siemens NX VR capability has been live in the market for over 12 months securing adoption by global leaders in the aerospace, private space industry and the automotive sector. Master of Pie recently completed a fund raise totalling £3.6m. The round included investment and industry validation of the Masters of Pie approach to the Enterprise market from both Williams Advanced Engineering and Bosch Ventures. The investment will accelerate plans to scale the business by expanding the adoption of the Radical software framework to other PLM vendors and penetrate new verticals such as AEC, Healthcare and the Energy sector.

TrunkTech is committed to the industrialization of intelligent driving technology, and cooperates with several OEMs at home and abroad to develop automatic driving floor products for industrial group customers.Mainline Technology is located in Tsinghua Science Park. It has more than 20 members and its core members have served in well-known institutions such as Google, Baidu, MSRA and Tesla. The team's technical capabilities cover the smart driving full stack, leading a number of world-renowned smart driving projects, and has achieved several key technological breakthroughs in the fields of environmental awareness, driving awareness, intelligent control and automotive electronics.

WaveOptics is a designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides for wearable Augmented Reality (AR) devices. The company aims to be the key optical component in wearable augmented reality devices.    WaveOptics was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Light Field Lab is a breakthrough technology startup that builds an innovative holographic ecosystem. It re-creates what optical physics calls a real image for off-screen projected objects by generating a massive number of viewing angles that correctly change with the point of view and location just like in the real world. They enable entirely new business opportunities across consumer and enterprise markets. The company was founded in 2017 by Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and Ed Ibe, with the single mission to enable a holographic future by building upon the founders’ collective expertise of light field technology innovation. Based in San Jose, CA, Light Field Lab is backed by top-tier venture firms including Khosla Ventures.

Teralytics provides an unrivalled insight into people’s mobility needs.  Our mission is to transform how people’s journeys are planned, operated and accounted for. Using big data and advanced machine learning to arrive at transformative insight, we help our customers to create sustainable mobility solutions that work for everyone, now and in the future.  From improving journey times and making sure that mobility options are accessible to everyone, to increasing operational efficiencies and reducing environmental impact - Teralytics insight helps tackle some of the crucial mobility challenges of our time.

GNA Biosolutions is a molecular technology company based in Martinsried, Germany. Their breakthrough technology, Pulse Controlled Amplification, transforms molecular testing by combining ultrafast nucleic acid amplification with intrinsic sample prep, to enable powerful solutions for the laboratory, on-site applications and the Point of Care. Their  vision is to bring the power of molecular testing, from sample to answer, to everyone, everywhere.

SENSORO is committed to uniting the physical and digital world with advanced sensing technologies. Connectivity with our environments at home, in public, at work, and everywhere in between, brings improved comfort, security, and health. It allows businesses to reduce operating costs and boost productivity. SENSORO’s Alpha Suite delivers a comprehensive solution to enhance our world and elevate our lives.  The Alpha Suite forms an industrial-grade wireless sensor network that merges ultra-long-range communication with proximity Bluetooth Low Energy technology. With the Alpha Suite, SENSORO provides a simple to implement, easily managed and scaled system that is ideal for smart cities and buildings, asset tracking, energy management, and environmental monitoring.

AutoAI is an intelligently networked system developer and operator for a new generation of self-driving cars, which was established by many well-known domestic investment institutions and leading Internet companies.

DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world's best autonomous mapping and localization solutions. DeepMap delivers the technology necessary for self-driving vehicles to navigate in a complex and unpredictable environment. The company addresses three important elements: precise high-definition (HD) mapping, ultra-accurate real-time localization, and the serving infrastructure to support massive global scaling. DeepMap was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., with offices in Beijing and Guangzhou, China. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, GSR Ventures, Generation, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

ABAX is developing an ultra-low cost, small form factor automotive grade Lidar solution based on Frequency-Modulated Continuous Waves. The company is headquartered in Xian (CN).

Feixin Electronic Technology is a Smart Hardware company.

AIRY:3D is a startup based in Montreal bent on answering one question: our world has three dimensions, so why can’t our pictures? Our suite of passive light-field recovery technologies ensures that AIRY:3D powered cameras aren’t held hostage by auto-focus, all without sacrificing battery life or image quality.   We deliver depth, simply.

Zimplistic is a kitchen robotics startup founded by husband-wife duo Rishi Israni and Pranoti Nagarkar in 2008. We aspire to help people lead a healthier lifestyle by building intelligent solutions to hard problems. By integrating consumer robotics and Internet of Things (IoT), Zimplistic aims to create enterprising appliances that make healthier eating easier and sustainable. At Zimplistic, our mission is to tackle real-world problems to improve the daily lives of people. This gave rise to Rotimatic, our flagship product. It is the world's first kitchen robot that makes fresh, healthy, homemade rotis with a touch of a button.  About Rotimatic -  Rotimatic is a roti-making appliance that uses artificial intelligence to make rotis (flatbreads) without the need for human supervision. It is a fully automatic robot that processes all the essential ingredients and produces hot and delicious rotis in under a minute. Rotimatic is a technology marvel, packed with some cutting-edge technology innovated by a talented group of health-conscious people. A complete game changer globally - it is compact, user-friendly, and makes preparing rotis a cakewalk. Since its launch in 2016, Rotimatic has disrupted the kitchen appliances segment by piquing the interest of many. By knocking the hassle out of healthy eating, and helping everyone eat fresh food made at home with handpicked ingredients, we believe that people will eat healthier and live better with Rotimatic. It's become a worldwide kitchen sensation with over 3 million rotis served in thousands of households until June 2017. Rotimatic is available for purchase in Singapore, US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Order now - https://rotimatic.com/order/

Pyreos develops and supplies a specialised infra-red sensor platform focused on three markets where it has particular USPs: food safety, gas detection/analysis and fuel/oil condition monitoring.  These markets, worth over $1.2bn, are perfect for the Company's tiny, high performance rugged sensors, working in the mid-IR spectrum – the key ‘fingerprint’ region where the molecular composition of materials can be accurately identified.

Developing self-driving software, proprietary simulation tools and neural network acceleration hardware IP, AImotive is building an ecosystem to aid the deployment of automated driving. To catalyse industry collaboration our products are scalable, modular and hardware agnostic. We build on our team’s expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, 3D graphics and real-world automated driving workloads, to support partners in realizing their self-driving goals.

ROBART is focused on developing autonomous mobile robots for consumer and industrial applications based upon its AICU (Artificial Intelligence Control Unit) technology. ROBART is an Austrian high-tech start-up that enables the vision of ''a robot in every home''. Since its founding in February 2009, ROBART's approach to the challenge and opportunity of next generation intelligent robots has been to focus on the development of a low cost control unit (AICU), which enables industry-leading companies to produce novel robotic products, such as intelligent robotic vacuums, security robots, mobile entertainment devices, or new classes of innovative products. Since today's robots do not satisfy consumer needs, ROBART's unique technology is focused on precise accomplishing of consumers tasks, robust functionality and intuitive interaction with the user.

Cheetah’s proprietary CHEETAH NICOM system is CE marked and FDA cleared.  It is the only non-invasive cardiac output monitor with substantial equivalence to the Swan Ganz thermodilution system for U.S. regulatory purposes.  The CHEETAH NICOM is now used by leading medical centers around the globe providing clinicians with invaluable clinical information in complicated scenarios. Cheetah Medical is committed to ongoing research and development and close cooperation with clinicians.

A deep tech semiconductor company at the leading edge of the intelligent IoT, XMOS’ mission is to change the way systems are deployed on silicon. The company disrupts system-on-chip economics and time to market by enabling embedded software engineers to create custom SoC solutions quickly and easily, simply by loading software onto XMOS’ uniquely flexible and accessible hardware platforms.   XMOS’ xcore® technology is used to deliver applications that range in diversity from the highest quality audio reproduction to the highest precision motor control; from license plate recognition to factory automation, all using the same chip, off the shelf, with a different software load. xcore enables integrated and differentiated IoT solutions to be developed purely in software for an ever-widening range of smart things that span the primary IoT pillars of consumer, industrial and automotive. By using the company’s xcore technology, the creativity of embedded software engineers can be unleashed. With three generations of xcore technology in the market, each using a proprietary instruction set, XMOS recently announced a new architecture which will adopt the RISC-V ISA. This advancement and introduction of a familiar ecosystem makes the revolutionary benefits of XMOS’ platforms even more accessible to an even broader range of applications.

Iguazio is a data science platform that enables enterprises to develop, deploy and manage AI applications at scale. It can run AI models in real-time, deploy them anywhere, multi-cloud, on-prem, or edge, and bring to life their most ambitious data-driven strategies.

Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Actility is an industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). ThingPark by Actility offers a carrier-grade IoT platform, with a growing ecosystem of partners; low-power, long-range wireless networks for sensors and devices; an operating system and middleware that enables web applications to connect seamlessly with data from different sensors; and a B2B e-commerce market featuring tested and approved IoT device, connectivity, and application partners. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™.

Founded in 2008, TetraVue’s Smart Vision products takes an entirely new approach to Time of Flight (TOF) technology and is the successful result of several years of experimental research. It’s designed to optimally perform in a wide array of industries, ranging from autonomous vehicles, to manufacturing, engineering, robotics, as well as for Virtual and Augmented reality applications in gaming and filming. As the visualization needs of businesses and consumers become more sophisticated, increasingly complex machines require intelligent 3D vision for maximal efficiency. TetraVue’s technology captures high definition images, in three dimensions, indoor or outdoor, and at long range with less power than a night light.

Bosch Ventures (Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH) is the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technology and services. Bosch Ventures invests worldwide in innovative start-up companies at all stages of their development. Its investment activities focus on technology companies working in areas of business of current and future relevance for Bosch, above all, automation and electrification, energy efficiency, enabling technologies, and healthcare systems. Bosch Ventures also invests in services and business models as well as new materials that are relevant to the above-mentioned areas of business. Bosch Ventures invests from EUR 500k for a seed funding to more than EUR 15m per company for usually 10% to 25% equity position. Bosch Ventures prefers to syndicate their investments with existing or new investors in the company and can take the lead as necessary.

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