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 Halcyon is an anti-ransomware and cyber resilience platform with automated encryption key capture and autonomous decryption capabilities. The company&rsquo;s platform leverages Capsule Networks (CapsNets) AI micro-models to train, test, and deploy protection mechanisms to address threats. The platform is designed to mitigate and counter both widespread and targeted ransomware attacks before they can execute or cause damage, using cutting-edge machine learning techniques trained exclusively on ransomware threats.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company uses several layers in order to prevent ransomware; if a single layer fails, Halcyon is able to respond accordingly. The company has further designed an autonomous isolation and recovery layer as a last resort for preventing the spread of ransomware. The platform can be deployed and managed entirely via API and is designed to be compatible with EPP/EDR/XDR, allowing organizations to deploy alongside existing solutions.
 
 
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 In June 2023, the company formed a collaboration with Revelstoke Security to improve the efficiency of security operations teams. The partnership involved integrating the cyber resilience and attack prevention capabilities of the Halcyon platform with the low-code security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) functionalities offered by Revelstoke.
 
 
 In May 2023, the company partnered with CISO Global to provide an integrated security offering to address ransomware and other cybersecurity threats.
 
 
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 In April 2023, the company raised 
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Query.AI provides a security investigations tool, which is a patented browser interface that allows security teams to gain real-time access to siloed data and derive centralized insights across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications using APIs. Query.AI provides an assistive-AI technology (IRIS) that incorporates natural language processing (NLP) to enable security teams to query their data in plain English. The company’s platform serves as a data hub that facilitates data access to all of the fragmented data without duplicating or centralizing the data. This helps the SOC team to understand data relationships, determine historical trends, investigate, and initiate response actions in real-time.Query.AI’s solution integrates with cloud infrastructure and security (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), SaaS and applications (Snowflake, Fidelis), endpoint (FireEye, CrowdStrike), threat intelligence (Reversing Labs, Symantec), and more platforms. As of October 2021, the company had a headcount of 20 and served 100 organizations.In October 2021, the company raised USD 15 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures. The company expects to use the funds to accelerate R&amp;D and customer growth.

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 Expel is a managed detection and response (MDR) provider. The company offers a security operations center (SOC) as-a-service with 24x7 monitoring and response for cloud, on-premises, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments. As of April 2021, the company&rsquo;s MDR platform had over 54 native integrations with commonly used endpoint, network and security information and event management (SIEM) tools, cloud services, and SaaS applications.
 
 
 In January 2020, the company announced a USD 1.4 million headquarters expansion which is expected to add 164 new jobs by 2023. The company employed 221 staff as of April 2021. Expel&rsquo;s investment in automation helped the company improve its security operations center&rsquo;s (SOC) analyst effectiveness by 260%, with an 80+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) rating. As of November 2021, the company had doubled its technology partner base since 2019 and had 45 solution provider partners. Expel also reported over a two-fold increase in the number of security investigations and experienced an 82% increase in security events handled per day. Expel&rsquo;s customers include Delta Air Lines, DoorDash, Esri, GreenSky, CDW, Hogan Lovells International, and Better Holdco.
 
 
 In November 2021, the company raised USD 140.3 million in a Series E funding round at a valuation of over USD 1 billion, co-led by repeat lead investors CapitalG (Alphabet&rsquo;s independent growth fund) and Paladin Capital Group. CapitalG led Expel&rsquo;s Series D round in 2020, while Paladin Capital Group led its Series A in 2016. The company will utilize the funds for R&amp;D, to launch new capabilities, drive sales and go-to-market efforts, expand partnerships and business operations, and accelerate international expansion by establishing a physical presence in Europe and Asia-Pacific in 2022.
 
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 Hunters provides an extended detection and response (XDR) platform which uses machine learning to collect and process data from a company's entire network, in order to facilitate real-time threat detection, investigation, and response. The XDR platform logs events and telemetry from various data sources on-premise and in the cloud which include endpoint detection and response tools (EDR), network detection and response tools (NDR), and firewalls. The platform offers a comprehensive summary with insights such as context, path, target, and potential impact. Hunters serves Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations, spanning across financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing and media industries. Notable customers include Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, Cimpress, TripActions, and Sika. The company&rsquo;s notable integrations with cloud, endpoint security, network and email providers include Microsoft Active Directory, Azure and Office 365, Amazon Web Services, Cisco Systems, CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform and Workspace, CrowdStrike, Snowflake, and Palo Alto Networks.
 
 
 Hunter Security&rsquo;s annual recurring revenue (ARR) rose by more than 4x, and its employee headcount doubled in size over 2021.
 
 
 In March 2020, Hunters partnered with CrowdStrike to offer XDR capabilities to users of the latter&rsquo;s endpoint protection platform.
 
 
 In January 2022, the company raised USD 68 million in a Series C funding round led by Stripe. The funding was expected to be utilized to further develop the platform and services, strengthen sales and partnership efforts across North America and EMEA regions, and more than double its current headcount of 110 over 2023.
 
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oak9 provides an infrastructure as code (IaC) security platform to automate cloud-native security across the entire software development lifecycle for developers. The platform continuously detects, analyzes, and remediates security and compliance issues in real time, as changes occur in IaC and cloud workloads. The company’s security as code (SaC) blueprints secure cloud applications by supporting over 20 compliance standards including the HIPAA and SOC2. oak9 opened its new office in India in February 2022.Funding and financialsIn June 2022, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11390">raised USD 8 million </a>in an additional round of funding led by Menlo Ventures, bringing the total funding raised to USD 14 million. The funds were expected to be used to expand its free Community Edition, grow its headcount and revenue, and launch its open-source SaC solution, which will extend oak9’s proprietary security blueprints for additional guardrails.

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 Mitiga offers a platform and human resources for enterprises to respond to cyberattacks. The company&rsquo;s platform automatically detects network breaches, carries out investigations, collates relevant data, and devises remediation steps for all relevant divisions within an organization. As of June 2021, the company employed 42 staff and serves companies across the sectors of financial services, e-commerce, law enforcement, and government agencies.
 
 
 
 
 In June 2021, Mitiga raised USD 25 million in a Series A funding round led by ClearSky Security, Atlantic Bridge, and DNX to significantly expand its workforce across its cybersecurity, engineering, sales, and marketing teams. After having 
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 with participation from new investors including Samsung Next and Blackrock, the company closed out its Series A funding round in March 2023. With a total of USD 45 million raised to date, Mitiga was valued at over USD 100 million at the close of this funding round. The new funding were expected to be deployed towards growth efforts, product development, and increasing headcount.
 
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 Exabeam offers a platform that integrates with security tools like Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), endpoint protection platforms, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms. Through these integrations, the company applies automated behavioral analytics and machine learning to support security teams in detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced threats. Exabeam&rsquo;s solutions are used by companies across financial services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. In November 2020, Exabeam was ranked 44th in Deloitte&rsquo;s &ldquo;Technology Fast 500&rdquo; list, which tracks the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Exabeam recorded revenue growth of 3,873% between 2016 and 2019.
 
 
 In July 2021, Exabeam partnered with Exclusive Networks, a cybersecurity and cloud solutions specialist, to distribute Exabeam&rsquo;s cybersecurity products in New Zealand.
 
 
 In June 2021, the company raised USD 200 million in Series F funding, at a valuation of USD 2.4 billion, in a round led by the Owl Rock Division of Blue Owl Capital for product development, scaling up its product, and expanding its leadership team.
 
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 Corelight offers a network detection and response (NDR) solution that commercializes the open-source network security monitoring technology Zeek (formerly known as Bro) to transform raw network traffic into actionable logs, extracted files, and security insights. This real-time data helps security teams to perform threat hunting, response, and remediation.
 
 
 The company has two main product lines referred to as Collections and Sensors to make Zeek more powerful. Collections are code packages that detect malicious port scanning behavior, brute force attacks, unencrypted connections, and other forms of cybersecurity threats. Corelight&rsquo;s Sensors&mdash;hardware, software, cloud, virtual&mdash;collect network traffic signals and export them to Zeek for threat analysis. The hardware/appliance sensors can be deployed in a high-volume on-premises data center or telecommunications network and are designed to monitor network traffic at speeds of up to 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) and beyond while the software sensor runs in Linux platform and within containers to perform network traffic analysis. The cloud sensors are available for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and the virtual sensors can be set up in areas such as branch locations, manufacturing floors, remote workplaces, and high-value enclaves to analyze network traffic at speeds of up to 8 Gbps. The company served over 70 customers globally, including Fortune 500 brands, large research universities, critical enterprises, and government agencies, as of October 2019.
 
 
 In September 2021, the company raised USD 75 million in a Series D funding round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP). The company expects to use the funding to develop new data and cloud solutions, grow its presence in the global NDR market, and expand its team globally. Corelight expects to remain private for the next few years and raise additional funding before it considers going public.
 
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Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Scale AI is a company focused on developing platforms for training and validating data for AI applications, and claims to be the only full-stack GenAI platform for enterprises. Its product range includes Scale GenAI Platform, Scale Data Engine, and Scale Donovan.The Scale Generative AI Platform helps organizations create their GenAI models using their own data, while Scale Data Engine features tools for data collection, curation, labeling, and model evaluation and optimization, leveraging reinforced learning with human feedback (RLHF) to facilitate AI model construction.Finally, Scale Donovan is a specialized Federal AI platform that utilizes RLHF to provide rapid decision support for military operators, analysts, and decision-makers, helping them understand, plan, and act quickly in response to large volumes of diverse data,In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23675">November 2023 </a>, Scale AI introduced its AI Safety, Evaluations, and Analysis Lab (SEAL), which is dedicated to creating automated rating systems using LLMs, conducting studies on potential AI-related risks, and employing red-team techniques to ensure the safety and dependability of AI software.Scale AI stands out for its ability to manage the entire machine-learning lifecycle, providing an end-to-end solution for better AI data management, leading to more performant models and faster deployment​​​​.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s services are utilized across various sectors, such as retail and ecommerce, defense, logistics, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. Prominent Scale AI customers include the US Department of Defense, US Air Force, Meta, Microsoft, Open AI, Cohere, Anthropic, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart, and Flexport.Notably, Scale AI partnered with the US Department of Defense in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26790">February 2024</a> to develop a thorough testing and evaluation (T&amp;E) framework for the controlled use of LLMs in its department. Earlier in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21280">August 2023</a>, the company collaborated with OpenAI to offer fine-tuning capabilities for OpenAI's GPT-3.5, enabling Scale's customers to utilize their proprietary data through the Scale Data Engine platform to customize GPT-3.5 for their specific business needs. In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23978">November 2023</a>, Scale AI partnered with Microsoft to provide its Platform on Microsoft Azure.&nbsp;

Groq is a manufacturer of advanced chips engineered for inference processing, enhancing systems for real-time AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Groq provides hardware and software solutions, including GroqChip processors, GroqCard accelerators, GroqNode servers, GroqRack compute clusters, and GroqWare suites.Notably, Groq’s chips feature its proprietary tensor streaming processor (TSP) architecture, which delivers consistent, low-latency, and high-throughput performance built for machine-learning applications and other computationally intensive tasks.Groq also developed the Language Processing Unit (LPU) Inference Engine, which is a novel processing system designed to efficiently handle computationally intensive applications with a sequential component, like LLMs. These LPU Inference Engines address the primary bottlenecks for LLMs, offering substantial compute power and memory bandwidth, significantly improving the speed of text sequence generation compared to Graphics Processors (GPUs). Groq was the first to achieve 100 tokens per second (T/s) per user for Llama-2 70B, and by August 2023, its LPU system was generating more than 240 T/s per user.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27223">March 2024 </a>, Groq acquired Definitive Intelligence to scale its cloud platform and provide on-demand access to its AI chips. Further, the company stated in July 2024 that plans to deploy 1.7 million of its AI processors by end 2025, as it aims to capture half of the global AI inference market.Key customers and partnershipsIn July 2024, the company disclosed that it attracted 280,000 developers to its platform in a span of four months. Overall, Groq's products cater to various sectors, such as finance, industrial automation, cybersecurity, and scientific research. Notable customers include Argonne National Laboratory and In-Q-Tel, a non-profit investor dedicated to expediting the advancement and implementation of state-of-the-art technologies for US government agencies.Key partnerships include its collaboration with OneNano to create a next-generation CEX (cryptocurrency exchange) with scalable, ultra-low latency AI acceleration solutions (December 2022) and a partnership with Samsung's Foundry business, where it would be Groq’s next-gen silicon partner (August 2023).

CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider, offering a range of products such as GPU clouds, clusters, servers, and workstations designed to accelerate deep learning and AI processes. Initially founded in 2017 as an Ethereum mining venture, the company has transitioned into a general-purpose cloud computing platform, focusing on GPU computing for applications such as AI, machine learning, visual effects, rendering, batch processing, and pixel streaming. It delivers GPU-accelerated compute resources on demand, catering to various industries with high-performance computing solutions. It claims that its infrastructure, tailored for Kubernetes, is designed specifically for compute-demanding tasks such as machine learning, VFX rendering, pixel streaming, and batch processing, with up to 35x faster speeds and 80% less costly than traditional cloud providers.CoreWeave delivers GPU-accelerated compute resources on demand, using NVIDIA GPUs like H100s, A100s, A40s, and RTX A6000s. CoreWeave's virtual servers are built on top of Kubernetes and offer a range of features tailored to enhance artist workflows and productivity. These virtual servers provide dedicated GPUs through PCI pass-through without shared resources. Users can choose from a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs, and both Linux and Windows environments are supported. The company offers blockchain and Web3 infrastructure services, providing data and digital identity solutions as a service.&nbsp;In January 2023, CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies to expand its offerings for VFX and animation studios to enable the easy integration of workloads to the cloud with ease.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn December 2023, Coreweave partnered with Dell Technologies to use Dell PowerEdge XE9860 servers with NVIDIA GPUs as the key infrastructure powering its cloud solutions. <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19067">In June 2023 </a>, Coreweave collaborated with Microsoft to provide cloud computing infrastructure for AI. In November 2022, CoreWeave was announced as NVIDIA's first Elite Cloud Solutions Provider for Compute in the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) program.

Xscape Photonics develops photonic platform solutions for ultra-high-bandwidth connections inside data centers to power AI systems. Xscape's multi-wavelength photonics technology can handle hundreds of colors on a single fiber, providing flexibility and efficiency for AI workloads. The ChromX platform reportedly maximizes "escape bandwidth" out of GPUs by 10x and reduces power consumption by 10x compared to incumbent solutions.Xscape's technology provides hyperscale customers with a scalable data center fabric solution that meets volume, cost, and density requirements. The company's first product is a programmable laser to power data center fiber-optic interconnects, specifically the links among GPUs, AI chips, and memory hardware.

Enfabrica develops networking chips designed to handle GenAI workloads. Enfabrica emerged from stealth mode in 2023 with its flagship product, the Accelerated Compute Fabric Switch (ACF-S). This hardware solution is designed to deliver multi-terabit-per-second data movement between GPUs, CPUs, AI accelerators, memory, and networking devices within data center server racks. The company optimizes data movement and parallelizes workloads, enabling efficient AI training and inferencing with fewer GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators without sacrificing performance.Enfabrica's chip tackles bottlenecks by enabling AI computing chips to communicate with more parts of a network simultaneously compared to existing networking chips. The company claims that its ACF-S eliminates the need for traditional server I/O and networking chips, such as rack-level networking switches, server network interface controllers, and PCIe switches, by providing a converged solution.Additionally, the company announced that its Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) SuperNIC chip will be available from Q1 2025 onwards. The chip provides 3.2 Tbps connectivity with 4x the bandwidth and multi-path resiliency over other network interface controllers. Enfabrica claimed to be the first company to develop a ground-up SuperNIC chip, providing infrastructure for AI workloads such as training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Puppet is a provider of infrastructure automation and configuration management software. With its flagship product, also named Puppet, the company helps organizations automate the management of their infrastructure, applications, and data.Puppet's software allows users to define infrastructure as code, meaning infrastructure configurations are expressed in code and can be version-controlled, shared, and reused. This approach enables organizations to automate the provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure at scale.Puppet primarily focuses on enterprise customers and offers commercial versions of its software with additional features, support, and enterprise-grade capabilities. It also provides professional services, including training, consulting, and support.Puppet was acquired by Perforce Software (a company that provides enterprise-scale software development tools and solutions) in 2022 but continues to operate as a separate enterprise.Key customers and partnershipsPuppet is used across various industries, including technology, finance, healthcare, and government. Its customers range from small businesses to large enterprises, and it has a strong presence in both on-premises and cloud-based environments. Its notable customers include Walmart, Salesforce, Splunk, NYSE, Royal Bank of Scotland, NTT Data, and the NSA.Puppet collaborates with many technology partners to ensure compatibility and integration with various tools and platforms. Some of its key technology partners are VMware, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco, and Red Hat.

Isovalent is a software company specializing in eBPF-based (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) networking and security solutions for cloud-native environments.Its main products include Cilium and Hubble, which address challenges in Kubernetes networking and observability. Cilium provides enhanced network connectivity, security, and load balancing within Kubernetes clusters, while Hubble offers network visibility and monitoring capabilities.Isovalent has played a significant role in the development and advancement of eBPF. It co-maintains the eBPF codebase upstream in the Linux kernel with ongoing development, and thus ensure its compatibility with mainstream Linux distributions.Isovalent follows a direct sales model.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25490">December 2023 </a>, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Isovalent for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year.Key customers and partnershipsIsovalent serves companies from startups to large enterprises across various industries. This list includes HP Enterprise, Polish Railways, University Hospital Basel, Comcast, and Daily Motion.Isovalent has alliances with many prominent companies in the industry, either as an application partnership (Veeam, Splunk, Oracle, Philips, and Rubrik) or a Cloud Partnership (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Wasabi).Funding and financialsAs of June 2023, Isovalent’s latest fundraising was in 2022 from a USD 40 million Series B round led by Thomvest Ventures. The funds raised were to advance the development of Cilium and eBPF, expand Isovalent’s team, strengthen partnerships, and provide enhanced products and support to enterprise customers.

Rookout is a technology company that provides a debugging and data extraction platform to simplify and accelerate the debugging process in modern software applications.Rookout enables developers to gain real-time visibility into their code's execution and extract valuable data without code changes or redeployments. By enabling on-the-fly code instrumentation and data collection, Rookout promises faster development cycles and improved application reliability.Rookout’s sales model is a subscription-based pricing model.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20590">July 2023 </a>, Dynatrace, a leader in unified observability and security, agreed to acquire Rookout. Integrations of Rookout to the Dynatrace platform will provide developers with increased code-level observability in production environments.Key customers and partnershipsRookout’s portfolio of customers consists of Santander, Seagate, Autodesk, Hexa, Cisco, and UPS.Rookout integrates with most major cloud service providers and technology platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dynatrace, Gitlab, and Datadog.

MuleSoft is an API and integration platform provider.MuleSoft’s primary product is the Anypoint platform, an API and integration platform that allows users to build APIs, deploy in any environment and architecture, automate security, and manage and monitor APIs. It provides pre-built APIs and other integration assets. The platform’s API management features include API Governance, API Manager, Monitoring, and Flex Gateway. Its integration features include API Designer, Anypoint Studio, Anypoint Connectors, Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint DataGraph, Anypoint Partner Manager, Anypoint MQ, and Anypoint Code Builder. Among MuleSoft’s other products are MuleSoft Composer, which connects applications and data instantly, and MuleSoft RPA, which automates tasks with bots.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22757">October 2023 </a>, Mulesoft announced the general availability of Anypoint Code Builder, an integrated development environment that allows developers to build APIs and integrations using modern tools.MuleSoft follows a direct sales model.In August 2021, MuleSoft acquired Servicetrace, a robotics solutions provider, which was absorbed into the company.In 2018, MuleSoft was acquired by Salesforce, a cloud-based software company. The company continues to operate under its brand.Key customers and partnershipsMuleSoft’s customers operate in industries and sectors such as consumer goods, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, and technology. Among Mulesoft’s customers are ASICS, Unilever, Cisco Meraki, AT&amp;T, Watchbox, Splunk, Hologic, Siemens, New Relic, Wells Fargo, and Cox Automotive.MuleSoft’s partners include Accenture, AWS, Bluesoft, Coupa, Datacom, Fujitsu, HCL, IBM, Infosys, Ipswitch, KPMG, MTX, Nexus, Oracle, PayPal, SAP, Tech Mahindra, Virtusa, and Zennify.

Threat Prevention Toolchain

Wabbi is a cybersecurity company that offers a continuous security platform designed to integrate application security processes into development pipelines. Founded in 2018 by Brittany Greenfield, Wabbi aims to bridge the gap between security and development teams. The platform enables organizations to deploy end-to-end application security programs, allowing them to confidently ship code that meets their specific security standards without sacrificing agility or velocity. Wabbi's technology orchestrates each enterprise's unique application security program, providing centralized, automated governance for security teams while empowering development teams to manage security within their existing workflows.
The company's approach focuses on unifying processes between Development, Security, and Operations teams. Wabbi's platform allows security teams to have visibility and accountability for application security management across all stakeholders in a single platform. According to a study conducted with IDG in March 2022, companies utilizing continuous security have decreased vulnerabilities by 50%. The platform's capabilities include vulnerability management, policy management, compliance monitoring, and automated security quality checks. It can be integrated with several widely used development and security tools.
Wabbi has gained traction in the market, serving Fortune 1000 organizations and securing a US Air Force SBIR Phase I Contract in 2021. The company was recognized as a finalist in the RSA Innovation Sandbox Contest in 2021 and has received multiple industry awards and recognitions since then.

Binarly is a cybersecurity company founded in 2021 that specializes in firmware security and supply chain protection. The company has developed an AI-powered firmware security platform designed to identify vulnerabilities, malicious firmware modifications, and provide firmware SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) visibility without access to source code. Binarly's technology focuses on detecting and mitigating security risks below the operating system level, particularly in the complex layers of code that expose attack surfaces in firmware.
The company's flagship product, the Binarly Transparency Platform, was released in April 2023. This platform enables device manufacturers and endpoint protection products to comprehensively analyze both firmware and hardware to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious code implantation. The platform integrates into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) or CI-CD pipeline, offering capabilities such as Firmware Similarity Analysis, Deep Vulnerability Analysis, and SBOM and Dependency Analysis.
Binarly's approach combines machine learning and deep code inspection at the binary level, allowing security teams to gain visibility into hardware and firmware failures and respond to sophisticated attacks below the operating system. The company's technology uses semantic properties of binary code to improve detection accuracy while limiting false positives. In 2022 alone, Binarly coordinated the disclosure of 228 high-impact vulnerabilities affecting the enterprise device ecosystem, working with major vendors to mitigate security issues across the computing landscape.

JupiterOne is a cloud-native cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) platform that helps organizations map, analyze, and secure complex cloud environments. Founded by Erkang Zheng, JupiterOne uses a graph-based approach to provide visibility and context across an organization's entire cyber asset universe. The platform connects to over 180 systems and data sources to collect, integrate, and model cyber asset data, including cloud resources, devices, identities, access rights, code repositories, and more. JupiterOne's technology allows teams to discover, monitor, understand, and act on changes in their digital environments.
The platform's core features include a custom query language (J1QL), pre-built queries, and natural language search capabilities that enable users to ask complex questions about their environment and get answers within seconds. JupiterOne offers over 500 out-of-the-box English-language questions and the ability to create custom queries. The company's graph-based data model exposes intricate relationships between cyber assets, providing contextual insights for security investigations and incident response.
JupiterOne addresses multiple use cases, including cloud security posture management, security operations and engineering, and governance and compliance. The platform helps organizations assess and monitor compliance with regulations like GDPR and identify vulnerabilities.
As of June 2022, JupiterOne had raised a total of USD 119 million in funding and achieved a valuation of over USD 1 billion.
Key customers and partnerships
JupiterOne's client base includes cloud-native enterprises such as Cisco, Databricks, Indeed, and Robinhood. The company has formed strategic partnerships with several major technology firms. In November 2021, JupiterOne and Cisco announced the launch of Secure Cloud Insights, an expanded cloud security and security operations partnership. This solution integrates JupiterOne's cyber asset context into Cisco technologies to provide enhanced cybersecurity capabilities for Cisco customers.
JupiterOne has also established partnerships with other cybersecurity companies. In April 2023, the company announced an integration with Splunk to provide better data visibility for Splunk users. Additionally, JupiterOne is part of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and was recognized as an AWS Rising Star Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of Year 2022.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Securiti emerged out of stealth in 2019 with the launch of its platform Privacy.ai, which enables companies to meet the compliance requirements of regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The solutions are AI-driven automating processes such as data discovery, data subject rights management, and consent management, among others. The bot can also provide answers to queries and carry out tasks upon request through a natural language interface. Securiti.ai’s platform can integrate with 1,000+ data sources and comes pre-built with templates for privacy regulations to identify data, in line with regulatory requirements.In October 2022, the company launched Data Controls Cloud—a solution that acts as a centralized command center for businesses to monitor and control digital privacy workflows across typically siloed enterprise tools.Key customers and partnershipsThe company caters to notable organizations across various industries, including Cisco, Alaska Airlines, Skechers, DELL, Toyota, and Comcast.Funding and financialsIn October 2022, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13499">raised USD 75 million</a> in a Series C funding round led by Owl Rock Capital. In March 2023, Securiti <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17068">received undisclosed investments</a> for Capital One Ventures and Citi Ventures. The new funding was to be funneled towards bolstering Securiti’s DataControls Cloud platform.During FY2022, Securiti reported 4x growth in total contract value, more than tripled its annual recurring revenue and had plans to double its 370-strong workforce by 2023.

Theta Lake provides a solution that integrates with major video conferencing platforms (such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex) and uses patented AI technology to monitor calls on the platform to detect regulatory and other compliance risks across what is said and shown in these calls. The platform supports sector-specific regulations such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) and privacy regulations such as GDPR. The company also provides solutions for archiving video and audio recordings in compliance with the above regulations. In February 2021, the company announced an expansion into the UK.Key customers and partnershipsThe company also counted more than 50 customers (75% in financial services) such as Wells Fargo, TD Securities, Advisor Group, Longview Partners, Attivo Group, Reeves Independent, and Tupicoffs. The company has more than 40 integrations with collaboration and unified communications platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Innovid started off as an independent AdTech firm providing ad serving solutions for traditional linear TV. Since then, the firm has expanded its capabilities to specialize in digital TV advertising, in particular, connected TV (CTV). The firm’s ad serving platform provides a range of solutions, including, 1) an omnichannel ad serving platform that works across 25+ devices including mobile, desktop, and video game consoles, 2) ad personalization tools, and 3) an ad measurement and analytics platform. The firm has also developed a proprietary identity resolution system, “Innovid key”, which maps consumer data gathered from 95 million CTV homes and other first-party data on a privacy-compliant basis.&nbsp;The firm claims to be the only purpose-built ad server for CTV advertising, with more than 60% of the firm’s revenue accounted for by CTV. The firm has positioned itself as an independent source for advertising analytics, where it receives no revenue from media publishers and hence competes with legacy systems such as Nielsen (focused on broadcast TV).&nbsp;The firm has extended its capabilities through a series of acquisitions, the most recent being in February 2022 when it <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8323">acquired TVSquared</a>, a TV ad measurement and attribution platform for USD 160 million. In addition, in June 2022, the firm launched InnovidXP,&nbsp; unified cross-platform ad server solution to enable cross platform measurement capabilities. In July 2023, the firm introduced a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20457">cross-device solution</a> designed to match multiple devices to user interactions to improve the accuracy of conversion rate measurement.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe firm’s solutions are targeted at brands and ad agencies, which, as of June 2022, included 100+ core clients, including Honda, Whirlpool, General Motors, and Anheuser-Busch.Innovid has also entered into a number of multi-year strategic partnerships including with AdImpact (ad intelligence data provider), FreeWheel (international audience measurement platform by ComCast)&nbsp; and Tubi (streaming service owned by Fox) to broaden its CTV analytics capabilities. In June 2022, the firm was also recognized as certified partner of <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1267626">Magnite’s</a> (a supply-side ad platform) measurement and attribution program to addcurrency optionality to its programmatic CTV offerings. In June 2023, the firm <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19220">partnered with Infillion,</a> an advanced media buying platform to streamline the workflow and expand publisher reach for choice-based interactive ads on connected TV (CTV).

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 Originally headquartered in Singapore before moving to the US in 2021, Near provides a suite of location data enrichment and insight solutions for location-based and data-driven marketing. In 2017, Near launched Allspark, a cloud-based AI platform, which provides users access to 1.6 billion anonymized, location-based profiles of users across 70 million locations in 100+ countries that are gathered sources from mobile carriers, data partners, carriers, and WiFi operators. In May 2022, the firm launched Pinnacle, an interactive visual interface providing location-based intelligence for 1.2 million locations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. 
 
 
 The firm’s competitive edge is its use of patented machine learning algorithms and other inferential AI technology, which it uses to merge customer details to create unified individual profiles, without needing a customer name or real identifiers of any kind. The firm claims that its unique approach enables it to create specific profiles with a high degree of confidence in a privacy-compliant manner. 
 
 
 The firm has expanded its geographical presence via acquisitions, which include Teemo, a French location intelligence platform, to grow its presence in Europe (November 2020) and UberMedia, an ad attribution and location data service, to expand its presence in the US (April 2021).   
 
 
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 The firm solutions are used by 200+ global brands across a wide range of industries  including 60% of the Fortune 500 across more than 20 countries. As of August 2022, its customers include News Corp, MetLife, Mastercard, McDonald’s, and Ford.
 
 
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 In May 2022, the firm announced that it planned to list on the Nasdaq via a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) KludeIn I Acquisition Corp and was expected to generate USD 268 million in gross proceeds with a valuation of ~ USD 1 billion. The firm raised USD 100 million in a committed equity financing facility from CF Principal Investments. The firm also stated that it achieved revenue of USD 33 million in 2020 and was estimated to achieve a revenue of USD 46 million and USD 63 million in 2021E and 2022E, respectively. The company also estimated its gross profit margin to be 72% for 2022E while expecting its EBITDA to continue to remain negative until 2024.
 
 
 
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Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Cohesity offers a cloud data management platform for securing and managing enterprise data. The platform eliminates data silos, providing users access to data stored in data centers, edge sites, and public cloud environments. It also incorporates zero-trust features, such as encryption and role-based access control, along with ML- and AI-powered threat detection and recommendations to protect data. The platform also provides backup and recovery for traditional and modern data sources and ensures business continuity with automated failover and failback orchestration for mission-critical workloads.Cohesity offers its platform as a managed service—either through Cohesity directly or via one of its partners—or as a self-managed platform on private or public cloud platforms. The platform caters to enterprises in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, and media. The company operates through a usage-based SaaS model.In February 2024, Cohesity <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26517">announced</a> plans to acquire the data protection arm of Veritas, which specializes in multi-cloud and on-premises data security, for USD 3 billion. The deal was expected to close by the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval. The merged companies will reportedly operate as a single entity under the Cohesity name, with the combined company expected to exceed USD 7 billion in value, with USD 1.6 billion in revenues, including USD 1.3 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and a 27% profit margin.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Cohesity served over 4,300 customers, including five of the Fortune 10 companies and seven of the top 20 US banks. Its notable customers include Nasdaq, AutoNation, California Department of Finance, Nationwide, Siemens, and Cisco.Cohesity has formed multiple partnerships with other technology companies to enhance its platform and offer new solutions. It teamed up with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/74939">Infosys</a> to provide a data-resiliency-as-a-service solution as part of Infosys Cobalt and with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/341503">Hewlett Packard Enterprises</a> to improve the security and management of enterprise data.

Dremio is a data lakehouse platform company that provides solutions for self-service analytics and data management. Its platform offers i) Sonar, an SQL engine for open data platforms, and ii) Arctic, an intelligent metastore for Apache Iceberg. The platform also includes features that automatically update materialized views and aggregations when changes occur in the base Iceberg tables. It also speeds up the retrieval process by storing frequently accessed query results and supports seamless data loading from Amazon S3 to Iceberg tables. The company offers its services through a freemium, usage-based model.In December 2023, Dremio <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24955">launched</a> a GenAI-powered data discovery feature to simplify data contextualization and analytics, building on previously developed text-to-SQL capabilities to provide in-depth business context and minimize manual tasks. The company also announced in parallel that it was expanding its analytics engine for the open-table Apache Iceberg format, allowing users to convert multiple databases into the format with a single click.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, its key customers included Amazon, Adobe, Bentley, Carter's, and Bose.

Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

SeaLights is a software quality intelligence platform that uses machine learning to identify quality risks during software releases. Founded in 2015, the company provides end-to-end visibility of quality risks across the delivery pipeline, enabling organizations to prioritize their quality investments and deliver better quality software faster. SeaLights' technology maps code to tests and evaluates modified code, allowing enterprises to minimize functional tests, save time, and accelerate release delivery.
The platform offers comprehensive support for popular programming languages, architectures, testing frameworks, CI, and build tools. It analyzes test execution data and correlates it with changes to the codebase, identifying test gaps - critical code changes that lack specific tests. SeaLights provides insights into code coverage for various test types, including end-to-end, regression, integration, API, manual, and automated tests. The company's Test Impact Analytics feature allows development and QA teams to streamline testing cycles by skipping tests unrelated to recent code changes in each build and release.
SeaLights integrates with project management tools like Jira, offering user story code coverage analysis that highlights untested code changes. The platform also enables the establishment of intelligent quality gates and thresholds that can trigger build failures for critical user stories containing untested code changes. In July 2023, SeaLights was acquired by Tricentis, a global leader in AI-powered continuous testing and quality engineering, further enhancing its capabilities in software quality intelligence.

Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that enables software engineers to debug and troubleshoot code in production environments. The company's technology allows developers to collect any piece of data from live code without requiring additional coding, redeployments, or restarts. This capability is particularly useful for debugging cloud-native applications, including those based on Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless architectures. Rookout's platform is designed to work across various industries and is utilized by numerous Fortune 500 companies.
The core functionality of Rookout's solution is its ability to provide instant insight into cloud-native applications, addressing developers' needs for rapid troubleshooting and debugging. By allowing engineers to capture application state accurately and efficiently, Rookout significantly reduces the mean time to resolution (MTTR) for most issues, with some customers reporting up to an 80% reduction in debugging time. The platform also introduces "Snapshots" as a fourth pillar of observability, complementing traditional metrics, logs, and traces. Snapshots offer a secure method to capture and process data, eliminating risks associated with traditional logging practices.
In August 2023, Dynatrace announced a definitive agreement to acquire Rookout. The acquisition aims to integrate Rookout's capabilities into Dynatrace's unified observability and security platform, enhancing the ability of software engineers, security personnel, and IT teams to identify and remediate issues quickly in production environments.
Key customers and partnerships
Rookout's platform is used by several prominent companies across various industries. Notable customers include Amdocs, Cisco, Dynatrace, Jobvite, Santander Bank, and UPS. The company's technology has been particularly well-received in enterprise environments.
In October 2022, Rookout announced the release of IDE plugins for JetBrains, enabling developers to integrate Rookout's capabilities directly into popular development environments such as IntelliJ, PyCharm, Webstorm, and Goland. This partnership aims to help developers catch and address issues earlier in the development process, potentially saving significant time and resources in debugging efforts.

Old CRMs were complicated, expensive, and limited. Simpler, cheaper CRMs targeting SMEs have arrived.

SME CRM

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 Originally founded in Singapore, Deskera provides an all-in-one suite of cloud-based business management platforms including a Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Financial Management System (FMS), and Human Resource Management System (HRMS) specialized for SMEs. It’s CRM solution features lead generation, customer segmentation, marketing automation, customer forms and quotation builders, sales pipeline tracking, and an email helpdesk for after-sales operations. The solution can be integrated with Microsoft 365 for scheduling activities, contacts, and meetings. In addition, its FMS capabilities which include invoicing, multi-currency payment reconciliation, cash flow management, and financial and business reporting. Its HRMS provides solutions for payroll, leave, appraisals, and claims management. The firms solutions have a number of built in integrations including those with payment providers (Stripe, PayPal, and Paytm), logistics (FedEX and Unites States postal service), and e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Shopify, and Woo) to extend its capabilities. In February 2020, the firm launched “Desk app”, an all-in-one mobile app that provided a single access point to all its solutions. 
 
 
 Deskera claimed that its integrated solutions are highly rated as it provides enterprise-level functionality with a “pay as you use” pricing model with no additional setup cost making it accessible to small businesses.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The firm's solutions are geared toward a variety of small businesses and startups across a number of industries including cafes and restaurants, e-commerce sellers, travel agencies, retail, and IT resellers. As of February 2020, Deskera’s solutions were used by 25,000 companies across 15+ countries while its mobile app had attracted 300,000 users as of July 2020. 
 
 
 Funding and Financials
 
 
 As of its last fundraising round in May 2019 where the firm raised USD 100 million in Series A funding from Naver Corp the firm was reportedly valued at ~USD 500 million.
 
 
 
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The tools that power remote work are define the next generation of enterprise software.

Remote Work Tools

Mio is a company that facilitates interoperability between communication platforms like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Zoom. It offers solutions such as Directory Sync, Chat Sync, and File Sync to enable cross-platform communication and collaboration without changing existing workflows. Mio is focused on security, ensuring that it never stores messages or files. It automates user identity syncing and is recognized as Google’s official interoperability partner.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s clientele includes notable companies such as Broadcom, MoneyGram, and Talcott.&nbsp;In April 2024, Mio partnered with SADA, the cloud solutions provider for Google Workspace customers, to deliver a combination of software and services designed specifically for organizations with hybrid collaboration environments.&nbsp;&nbsp;Funding and FinancialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7265">December 2021</a>, Mio ​​raised USD 8.7 million in Series A funding co-led by Zoom and Cisco Investments, with participation from Goldcrest Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures. The funds were earmarked for product development, which includes adding support for platforms such as Google Chat, Facebook Workplace, and Symphony.&nbsp;Key competitors: None comparable (Mio is the only tool that allows to sync different communication platforms).

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

Quantum Computing

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 Massachusetts-based Aliro Technologies is a quantum software company spun out of the NarangLab at Harvard University in 2019. It focuses on offering hardware-independent toolkits for developers of quantum algorithms and applications, including network simulation and emulation tools compatible with existing quantum systems.&nbsp;
 
 
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The innovative cost dynamics of serverless computing allow more customers onto the cloud without breaking the bank.

Serverless Computing

Triggermesh’s platform allows users to create serverless apps that integrate multiple cloud, data center, and on-premise software and environments, on top of Kubernetes. Through these integrations, the platform aims to break “silos” between enterprise customers and their software development and IT operations (DevOps) teams. The cloud and infrastructure integration development speed is reportedly enhanced by reusing connectors and customizable templates.In March 2022, the platform announced broad support for KNative (an open-source platform to build and deploy serverless workloads) which includes any conformant Knative deployment, along with the provision of Knative distribution. TriggerMesh also announced broad support for creating event-driven architecture that runs on Kubernetes in Google Cloud, to enable users to create integrations to sync data or drive event-driven workloads. Triggermesh went on to launch a service to enable enterprises using Kubeless migrate to Knative in May 2022.

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Gong is a provider of conversational intelligence solutions designed to improve customer engagement for sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Its Reality platform leverages AI to analyze customer interactions and provide insights that improve sales strategies and coaching.Gong's core offerings include features such as call recording, transcription, and interaction analytics that help teams understand customer behavior and preferences. By capturing and analyzing every conversation, Gong enables sales professionals to identify key trends, buyer signals, and common objections.In addition to its conversational intelligence capabilities, Gong also provides sales intelligence solutions. These include tools for pipeline management, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11241">revenue forecasting,</a> and comprehensive analytics to support strategic decision-making. The platform has over 100 integrations (as of August 2024), including popular CRM platforms such as HubSpot, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.In June 2021, Gong reported a post-money valuation of USD 7.25 billion. In 2022, the company reported an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of USD 200 million.&nbsp;In September 2020, the company acquired Vayo, an Israel-based data analytics startup, to strengthen its revenue intelligence solution. In June 2022, Gong acquired Yobs, a smart interviewing platform, to further expand its platform capabilities.&nbsp; &nbsp;Gong claims that its optimized speech-to-text transcription model achieves 85%–90% accuracy, significantly higher than the less than 75% accuracy of off-the-shelf models. Key customers and partnerships &nbsp;As of August 2024, the platform served 4,000+ companies, including Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow.In January 2020, the firm partnered with Sandler, a sales coaching solution provider, to empower sales professionals. A month later, the company partnered with sales engagement startup InsideOut to provide AI-powered sales playbooks with analytics. In November 2021, Gong expanded its partnership with sales coaching platform <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/245256">Highspot </a>to scale best practices across sales teams. In June 2022, the company partnered with sales intelligence solution providers <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/379260">Apollo.io, </a>Clearbit, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/355913">Cognism </a>to strengthen its product capabilities. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30877">June 2024,</a> Gong partnered with sales intelligence platform <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/202987">6sense</a> to connect its sales engagement solution <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19832">Gong Engage</a> with 6sense Revenue AI for Sales to increase workflow efficiency.&nbsp;

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

Luma Health offers a Patient Success Platform that streamlines and unifies various aspects of the patient journey in healthcare. Founded in 2015, the company's technology integrates with electronic health records (EHRs) to provide solutions for patient scheduling, engagement, and communication. Luma Health's platform enables healthcare providers to automate appointment reminders, manage referrals, facilitate patient intake, and support two-way messaging between patients and providers. The company's solutions aim to reduce the administrative burden on healthcare staff while improving patient access and engagement.Luma Health's platform includes features such as smart scheduling, which allows patients to self-schedule appointments 24/7, confirm or reschedule via text message, and join waitlists. The company also offers digital call deflection, which redirects phone calls to self-service SMS options, reducing hold times and inbound call volume for healthcare providers.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2022/luma-health-debuts-lumapay-patients-can-pay-via-text/">June 2022</a>, Luma Health launched LumaPay, a service that enables patients to pay bills via text messages or provider websites, as part of its LumaFinancial product suite.The company's technology utilizes AI and natural language processing to provide automated conversational responses to patient texts, which helps reduce manual work for healthcare staff. Luma Health's platform is designed to integrate with various EHR systems, including Epic, Cerner, and Meditech, to maintain a single source of truth for healthcare providers.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34889">October 2024</a>, Luma launched Spark AI, a multi-model GenAI system integrated into its Patient Success Platform. Spark AI was launched with the aim to address operational challenges in healthcare systems, such as high call volumes and manual fax processing.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of <a href="https://www.lumahealth.io/">July 2024</a>, Luma Health served more than 650 health systems, integrated delivery networks, federally qualified health centers, specialty networks, and clinics globally. The company orchestrates the care journeys of more than <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenway-health-and-luma-health-partner-with-patient-connect-to-enable-patient-self-service-reduce-staff-burden-and-improve-healthcare-access-302073065.html">50 million patients</a>.In <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenway-health-and-luma-health-partner-with-patient-connect-to-enable-patient-self-service-reduce-staff-burden-and-improve-healthcare-access-302073065.html">February 2024</a>, Greenway Health partnered with Luma Health to create Greenway Patient Connect, a patient engagement portfolio integrated into Greenway's EHR solutions. Additionally, in August 2023, NextGen Healthcare announced a strategic alliance with Luma Health to offer AI-enhanced solutions for patient engagement, including NextGen Patient Engage and NextGen Self-Scheduling powered by Luma.In <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/luma-health-expands-patient-success-capabilities-of-meditech-expanse-301820413.html">May 2023</a>, the company announced an integration with MEDITECH as part of the MEDITECH Alliance program, bringing new capabilities to healthcare providers using the MEDITECH Expanse EHR.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.memorahealth.com/news/memora-health-announces-partnership-with-luma-health-to-streamline-patient-communications">October 2022</a>, Luma Health partnered with Memora Health to create a streamlined patient experience across multiple entry points of health systems.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/luma-health-partners-with-health-tech-leader-to-develop-solutions-to-unify-all-journeys-clinical-operational-and-financial-for-patients-301538281.html">June 2022</a>, Change Healthcare launched a Patient Engagement suite in collaboration with Luma Health, combining Change Healthcare's revenue cycle management capabilities with Luma Health's patient engagement solutions.&nbsp;

A concentration of wealth and a willingness to adopt age-in-place technologies present new opportunities.

Age Tech

Israel-based Voiceitt provides a speech recognition API that enables users with speech disabilities to communicate with others. The software can be trained with on-screen prompts, an edge device, or integrated with other automatic speech recognition systems or applications. Voiceitt was designed for individuals with dysarthria, a speech disability caused by various conditions, such as cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, Down’s syndrome, multiple sclerosis, head injury, or brain tumors. Voiceitt uses AI to translate non-standard speech into standard speech that can be understood by others and also allows users to dictate text, communicate via email or messaging, and talk to ChatGPT.Voiceitt is accessible on a website and is therefore operating system-agnostic. The company operates on a subscription basis, charging users a monthly fee for use of its platform. Key customers and partnerships In August 2023, Voiceitt partnered with RAZ Mobility to release Voiceitt 2, an application developed for individuals with speech disabilities. The partnership entailed RAZ handling the distribution of the application. The application was initially released in English across North America, with releases in the UK and Australia and other language options slated for 2024.Prior to this, Voiceitt partnered with Webex by Cisco in May 2023 to make video meetings more accessible for people with disabilities. Through this partnership, Voiceitt’s application was integrated into Webex’s platform, allowing it to be used during meetings hosted on Webex’s platform.Voiceitt also partnered with Amazon in October 2020 to make Amazon’s Alexa more accessible to users with disabilities. Through this partnership, individuals with speech impairments were able to use the Voiceitt mobile app to access and interact with Amazon's Alexa.

Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

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 Founded in 2014 by Khadim Batti and Varakumar Namburu, Whatfix is a digital adoption solutions (DAS) company that aims to disrupt application training, learning, and support content by providing specialized digital solutions to companies globally.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 In August 2021, Whatfix acquired Nittio Learn, a learning management system (LMS) for an undisclosed figure. Founded in 2013, Nittio Learn is a learning management platform with a focus on corporate training. The LMS delivers a number of tools and features allowing companies to design and curate learning content for their distributed workforces. This acquisition allows Whatfix to add Nittio Learn&rsquo;s toolset which includes content options, assessment capabilities, and training course allocation into its own digital adoption platform as well as improve the company&rsquo;s application training capabilities.
 
 
 In February 2024, Whatfix announced the launch of &quot;Mirror&quot;, a hyper-realistic training and product showcase tool, scheduled for beta release in Q2 2024, that is expected to transform system training and product showcasing for businesses.
 
 
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 In 2021, Whatfix secured partnerships with several notable companies including Microsoft, Red Cross Netherlands, Coca Cola Beverages Africa, Mr Price Group, Messer Americas, and Grant Thornton.&nbsp;
 
 
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 operating revenue growth increased 73% YoY to INR 1.72 billion (~USD 20.8 million). Meanwhile, overall spending increased threefold to INR 8.97 billion (~USD 108.4 million) in FY2022. This was primarily due to finance costs, which made up 51% of total spending, increasing by 6.7x, and employee benefit expenditures, which made up 33% of total spending, increasing by 80.3% YoY. Consequently, in FY2022, the company's net loss increased by 3.7x to INR 7.06 billion (~USD 85.3 million).
 
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Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

Descycle is a British e-waste recycling startup that uses the deep eutectic solvents (DES) recycling technology to process e-waste. The patented DES technology, which has been under development for nearly 20 years, looks at dissolving the target metals in a formulated solution without the need for toxic chemicals or high temperature, eliminating costly smelting processes involved in recycling e-waste. The DES solution can also be recycled and reused making the process a zero-carbon method of recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The company claims that its solution is 80x quicker than cyanide, allowing 99% metal extraction across a range of metals from e-waste.As of January 2024, the company was building a large-scale pilot plant in the North East of England capable of recycling 5,000 tons of printed circuit boards and high-value WEEE annually, expected to start operations in 2024. After piloting, the company aims to construct its first commercial recycling plant in Gateshead.Key customers and partnershipsIn March 2022, the company partnered with UK’s waste processing logistics company, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9258">GAP Group</a>, to build a pilot plant to scale up the DES process. During the same period, Descycle completed a Proof-of-Concept Study for Australian Mines on using Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) for extracting transition metals from lateritic ores.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18017">April 2023</a>, Descycle raised GBP 4.85 million (~USD 6.06 million) in an upsized and oversubscribed pre-Series A funding round led by TSP Ventures. The company also secured a GBP 1 million (USD 1.2 million) grant from the UK government. The company intended to use the funds to advance commercialization and support delivering a lab pilot, a completed 18-month technical study, and the design of a large-scale pilot plant.

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

Israeli startup Upstream Security provides a cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform dubbed “AutoThreat,” for connected and autonomous vehicles. Its platform - pitched toward automotive OEMs, Tier-1/-2 suppliers, and mobility services providers - uses vehicle data to secure vehicles against cyberattacks and to generate data-driven actionable insights for insurance, predictive maintenance, business intelligence, etc. The company claims to be the first cloud-based solution that protects connected and autonomous cars from the cloud. It also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27764">integrates GenAI technologies </a>to facilitate the analysis and management of extensive cyber data and alerts. The company has offices and representatives in Israel, the US, Europe, and Asia.Key customers and partnershipsAs of February 2024, the company reportedly monitored 25 million vehicles worldwide.&nbsp;Upstream Security has technology partnerships with&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35764">Google Cloud,</a> Arilou, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM, Karamba Security, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, and Sital Technology and also maintains partnerships with managed security service providers (MSSPs) and system integrators such as Accenture, Atos, BT Security, Capgemini, Deloitte, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, Hitachi, IBM, Nippon Telegraphic and Telephone, Orange, Tata Consulting Services, and Tech Mahindra.

HR Tech

Mya Systems, founded in 2012 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, developed a conversational AI platform to address challenges in talent acquisition. The company's primary offering is an intelligent chatbot designed to streamline the hiring process from search to onboarding. Mya's technology leverages natural language processing and understanding to engage job seekers in natural conversations, gathering crucial data and keeping dialogues ongoing. The platform integrates with standard HR systems such as CRM, ATS, and HRIS platforms, enhancing its functionality across the entire talent acquisition cycle. Mya's success stems from its ability to make bots feel more human-like, utilizing semantic parsing, intent classification, and dynamic dialogue management. The company's AI continuously evolves, benefiting from millions of data points collected from job seeker interactions. By May 2021, Mya Systems had expanded its services to support over 500 brands globally, including Fortune 100 companies and major staffing agencies. The company's mobile app further increased accessibility for job seekers. In May 2021, Mya Systems was acquired by StepStone, a leading online job marketplace, to enhance StepStone's Autonomous Matching platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Mya Systems' technology has been adopted by numerous Fortune 100 companies and large staffing agencies. The company expanded its reach across North America, EMEA, and APAC, serving customers in more than 35 countries. Mya Systems also established partnerships with global HR software providers such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors, integrating its AI chatbot with these widely-used platforms to enhance its functionality and reach.

Simplifying healthcare administration with intuitive tech tools

Hospital Management

Luma Health is a leading provider of patient engagement solutions for healthcare organizations. The company's Patient Success Platform empowers patients and providers by connecting and orchestrating all the steps in the patient journey, along with the operational workflows and processes in the healthcare ecosystem. Luma Health's technology employs AI and natural language processing to provide automated conversational responses to patient texts, enabling seamless communication between patients and providers.
The platform integrates with over 80 electronic health records (EHRs) and other healthcare IT systems, offering customizable solutions that streamline patient-provider communication, boost access to care, and drive increased revenues. Luma Health's solutions enable patients to schedule appointments, receive reminders, complete intake forms, and provide feedback, all from their mobile devices without logging into a portal.
As of June 2024, Luma Health serves over 600 health systems, integrated delivery networks, federally qualified health centers, specialty networks, and clinics across the US, orchestrating the care journeys of more than 50 million patients. The company has experienced significant growth, doubling year-over-year since its founding in 2015 and achieving nearly 900% three-year growth by 2021.

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Cohere is a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst. The company specializes in developing large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) tools for enterprise use. Cohere's technology enables businesses to generate text, analyze content, moderate discussions, and perform various language-related tasks through its API. The company's models are trained on vast amounts of data, including web pages and discussion boards, allowing them to understand and generate human-like text responses.
Cohere's product offerings include Command, a text generation module trained to answer business-related queries, and Embed, a contextual embedding model for extracting insights from unstructured data. The company also provides tools for content moderation, semantic search, and chatbots. Cohere differentiates itself by focusing on enterprise customers and emphasizing data privacy and security. Unlike some competitors, Cohere does not offer a consumer-facing chatbot, instead concentrating on providing AI solutions that can be integrated into businesses' existing systems.
The company has experienced rapid growth since its inception. As of March 2024, Cohere reported an annualized revenue of USD 35 million, up from USD 13 million the previous year. In June 2023, Cohere raised USD 270 million in a Series C funding round, and in July 2024, the company secured an additional USD 500 million in financing, valuing the company at USD 5.5 billion. Cohere has expanded its operations beyond Toronto, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.
Key customers and partnerships
Cohere has formed strategic partnerships with several major technology companies. In June 2023, Oracle announced a partnership with Cohere to develop generative AI services for organizations. The company also has partnerships with cloud providers, making its models available on multiple platforms including Amazon's SageMaker, Google Cloud, and Microsoft's Azure.
In February 2022, Cohere entered into a partnership with Google Cloud to use its supercomputing infrastructure. The company has also collaborated with Mila, the world's largest non-profit deep learning research institute, to expand research and accelerate accessibility to cutting-edge NLP tools. This partnership aims to develop the next generation of NLP toolkits and talent.

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

AppOmni is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) security management company founded in 2018. Its platform offers a comprehensive security framework that enables customers to identify, protect, and monitor risks across their entire SaaS ecosystem. The solution performs in-depth scans of application programming interfaces (APIs), security controls, and configuration settings to assess the current state of SaaS deployments against best practices and business requirements.
AppOmni's platform provides centralized visibility into data access across SaaS applications, allowing organizations to establish and enforce rules for data sharing, user activity, and third-party integrations. It secures sensitive data from unauthorized access, loss, and compromise. As of June 2022, AppOmni protected over 78 million users and secured more than 230 million exposed data records across a wide range of SaaS platforms, including Box, Confluence, Fastly, GitHub, Google Workspace, Jira, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Workday, and Zoom.
In April 2022, AppOmni introduced the AppOmni Developer Platform, enabling customers to extend its security capabilities to custom applications and any SaaS application, whether purchased from a vendor or built in-house. The company has achieved strong triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth and a near 100% customer retention rate since its inception.
In December 2023, AppOmni was named the Global Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for its comprehensive SaaS security posture management (SSPM) solutions, which address the industry's most pressing security gaps through automated application discovery, identity governance, control, and visibility into SaaS applications.

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

Digital Twin

Seeq is a provider of data analytics enabling insights, predictions, and collaboration for better production and business outcomes.The company’s product portfolio includes software for data analytics including 1) Seeq Workbench for advanced analytics, 2) Seeq Organizer for publishing reports and dashboards, 3) Seeq Data Lab for accessing Python libraries, and 4) Seeq Cortex for IT governance, data connectivity, and calculation features. Furthermore, the company provides deployment via cloud, SaaS solutions, and on premise depending on the customer’s system.Key customers and partnershipsThe company provides its services in more than 40 countries focusing on process manufacturing industries, including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, and food and beverage. In June 2024, Seeq partnered with Equinor, an international energy company, to leverage Seeq's platform across Equinor's global assets.Seeq’s software is built on long-term vendor partnerships such as SIsoft, Honeywell (since 2017), and Siemens (since 2017). Seeq has also partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to develop features specific to their offerings, recognizing Seeq's expertise in providing cloud solutions for the manufacturing and industrial sector. Other partners include Schneider Electric and Inductive Automation.

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Scale AI provides a platform called Data Engine that collects, curates, and annotates data to train and evaluate AI/ML models, either by automatically leveraging AI or through human annotators. The company also offers solutions to augment real data or generate fully synthetic data based on rare or dangerous real-world scenarios. Scale AI offers the ability to deploy annotated data via APIs or direct download. It also offers features to fix model failures and data quality issues by computing performance metrics on ingested model predictions.Scale AI also provides a full-stack platform to customize, build, test, and deploy enterprise-ready GenAI applications, including foundational models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The platform also offers features to fine-tune models with enterprise data and its Data Engine.In addition, the company offers an AI safety lab called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23675">SEAL</a> (Safety, Evaluations, and Analysis Lab). SEAL focuses on developing automated rating systems based on LLMs, conducts research on potential AI harms, and utilizes red team methods to ensure the safety and reliability of AI software. Additionally, the lab helps enterprises and governments comply with AI standards and regulations.The company offers its data annotation services either as a fully-managed or a self-managed service, with pricing based on the type and volume of data (usage-based model).Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s notable customers include the US Department of Defense, US Air Force, Microsoft, Meta, Toyota, PayPal, Etsy, General Motors, and Pinterest.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21279">August 2023</a>, Scale AI formed a partnership with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/362567">OpenAI</a> to provide fine-tuning tools for the latter’s GPT-3.5 large language model, allowing its customers to develop tailored ML models for their unique business requirements. Moreover, the fine-tuned models will be reviewed by Scale’s human experts to ensure that it meets performance expectations and other safety and regulatory requirements.Funding and financialsIn May 2024, the company raised USD 1 billion in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29644">Series F</a> funding round at a valuation of USD 13.8 billion. The fundraising was a mix of primary and secondary funding, led by Accel and featuring participation from prominent investors such as Amazon, Meta, Cisco, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Y Combinator, and Tiger Global Management, among others. It had planned to use the fresh capital to progress on its journey of becoming the primary data foundry for AI and to foster the production of frontier data.

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power microcontrollers and AI solutions for battery-powered smart devices. The company's core technology, Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT), enables devices to operate at subthreshold power levels, significantly extending battery life. Ambiq's product lineup includes the Apollo4 Plus SoC, featuring an Arm Cortex-M4 core, two MB embedded MRAM, and 2.75 MB SRAM. This chip is designed for always-on AI applications, with current consumption as low as four μA/MHz when executing from MRAM.
In February 2023, Ambiq launched its Neural Spot AI SDK, which combines with the company's sub-threshold and near-threshold technologies to enable efficient AI inference on IoT devices, particularly wearables. The SDK includes optimized libraries based on CMSIS-NN, with added features for fast Fourier transforms and other functionalities. It also offers an open-source model zoo with examples for health and speech detection/processing applications. Ambiq's technology allows for more complex AI models in resource-constrained environments, as demonstrated by their internal benchmarks showing significantly lower energy consumption compared to other Cortex-M4 devices.

Harnessing tech to provide exceptional customer experiences

Customer Service Platforms

Kustomer is a customer service CRM platform that helps businesses manage high support volume across multiple channels. The platform consolidates customer data and interactions from various sources into a unified timeline view, providing agents with comprehensive context for each customer. Kustomer's omnichannel support capabilities enable companies to handle customer inquiries via email, chat, phone, social media, and other channels from a single interface. The software utilizes AI and automation to streamline workflows, route tickets, and provide agents with suggested actions and responses. Kustomer's features include ticketing, knowledge base management, analytics and reporting, customer self-service options, and integrations with ecommerce and other business systems. The platform aims to empower agents to deliver personalized, efficient customer support at scale.
Key customers and partnerships
Kustomer serves businesses across various industries, with a focus on ecommerce, retail, and technology sectors. In November 2020, Facebook (now Meta) announced its acquisition of Kustomer for approximately USD 1 billion, seeing potential in the platform to enhance customer interactions for advertisers on Meta-owned products like WhatsApp and Messenger. However, in May 2023, Meta spun out Kustomer as an independent company. Kustomer's original investors, including Battery Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures, reinvested USD 60 million in the company. Kustomer's integrations with platforms like Shopify, Magento, and WooCommerce suggest its use by ecommerce businesses.

Foundation Models

Cohere is a Canadian startup founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, with backgrounds in natural language processing and prior experience at Google Brain. The firm specializes in the development and deployment of large language models (LLMs) for various applications across enterprise and business use cases. Its foundation model, Cohere Command, is a large natural language text generation model with 52.4 billion parameters, focused on task-oriented dialogue, creating summarization, copywriting, dialogue extraction, and question answering.Cohere also provides Cohere Embed, a model designed to generate vector embeddings that capture the essence of text, improving capabilities in search, content moderation, and intent recognition. These embeddings help empower Cohere's multilingual customizable models, which can be fine-tuned to cater to specific use cases and industries. Additionally, Cohere ensures secure deployment options, including private cloud solutions, for added data security and privacy. In November 2023, Cohere unveiled <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23446">Embed V3</a> with advanced capabilities in matching documents to queries, increasing the efficiency of retrieval augmented generation, and reducing the operational costs of LLM applications. In February 2024, the company introduced <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26583">Aya,</a> an open-source LLM that supports 101 languages.According to Stanford University's HELM benchmarks, Cohere's Command model ranks among the highest-performing models available.In March 2024,<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27502"> Cohere released an advanced language model, “Command-R,</a>” for enterprises. The model offers improved performance on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and tool usage, with longer context windows of up to 128,000 tokens.In April 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28198">the company released an advanced language model, Command R+</a>, for business applications. The model offers enhanced retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with citation, supports 10 business languages, and automates workflows. Additionally, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28463">Cohere also released Rerank 3,</a> a model designed to enhance enterprise search and RAG systems. In the same month, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28509">the company also introduced a private beta for Cohere Compass,</a> a foundation embedding model designed to allow multi-aspect data indexing and searching, and also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28789">launched a toolkit available for developers to build AI applications</a> faster, offering production-ready applications that can be deployed across cloud providers, with enhanced security and customization options.In May 2024, Cohere introduced <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29350">Command R Fine-Tuning</a> for enhanced performance for business application workload and<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29761"> released Aya 23, </a>a multilingual language model capable of handling 23 languages,available in 8 billion and 35 billion parameters.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34141">In September 2024</a>, Cohere released updated versions of its APIs for its AI models Chat, Embed, Rerank, and Classify. These updates, collectively called “API V2,” introduced several upgrades to its existing models, including mandatory model version specification in API calls, consolidation of input parameters for Chat API, and improved tool integration capabilities.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn November 2021, Cohere partnered with Google Cloud to leverage its infrastructure support and TPUs for product development and deployment. Cohere also partnered with other major cloud providers like AWS and Oracle.In March 2024,<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27307"> Cohere partnered with consultancy firm Accenture</a> to integrate its Command model and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities to offer GenAI solutions for businesses.In April 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28932">Cohere partnered with Amazon </a>to incorporate Command R+ and Command R to Amazon's cloud platform, Bedrock.In June 2024, the company<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30492"> partnered with Borderless AI,</a> a provider of AI-powered HR solutions, to create tailored AI agents for HR tasks.The company entered into a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31052">strategic partnership with i-5O,</a> a provider of AI solutions for manufacturing, as part of Cohere's Startup Program and also partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31590">Fujitsu</a> in July 2024 to develop a Japanese LLM.In September 2024, Cohere <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33458">partnered with Nomura Research Institute (NRI)</a>, a Japanese consulting firm, to develop the NRI Financial AI Platform.

VISO Trust is a SaaS third-party cyber risk management for the modern enterprise. VISO Trust puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decision-makers who need to make informed risk assessments.

Aviz Networks is enabling SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks by delivering platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. Our vision is to drive open-source networking via disaggregated cloud-native applications and provide data-driven intelligence for multi-vendor network fabrics.

Enfabrica develops groundbreaking hardware, software, and system technologies that solve the critical bottlenecks in the next generation. It designs networking chips to handle AI workloads, allowing businesses to get upgraded and advanced information technology solutions to tackle modern problems.

British e-waste recycling & metal recovery startup

CorPower Ocean AB was founded in 2009 to develop high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs).  CorPower's Wave Energy Converters deliver five times higher annual energy output per ton of device compared to previously known wave power solutions. The step-change improvement in performance and efficiency allows a Cost-of-Energy that can compete with offshore wind. The products are currently in pilot with Iberdrola.   CorPower has assembled a team with extensive experience in energy generation, design and manufacturing of production equipment, system engineering as well as the market expertise to allow us to continue transforming the technology of tomorrow into renewable energy applications of today.

Xscape Photonics provides photonic chips for high-speed connections in high-performance computing systems and data centers. The company uses photonics to realize scalable, high-bandwidth, energy-sustainable, and cost-effective solutions that enable the next generation of AI, ML, and simulation hardware.

CoreWeave developed a cloud infrastructure platform that provides computer power for blockchain and other initiatives. The company's platform includes a specialized GPU cloud system that accelerates the team's workflows with a production pipeline and provides access to compute resources that match model complexity, allowing clients to scale efficiently, design the variety of compute they require to create and innovate and adapt to rapidly changing compute requirements.

Query simplifies search for security teams.  We provide complete visibility into security relevant data with the visual context and detailed answers your teams need to answer security questions. One place to search across all your security data wherever it is stored (in the cloud, third-party SaaS or on-prem), without requiring additional centralization. Federated search for security is here.

Groq develops AI inference technology for cloud and on-prem solutions at scale. Groq's technology is designed to handle complex computations required for machine learning models, particularly in deep learning and neural networks. Groq focuses on delivering high performance with lower power consumption, making its processors suitable for large-scale AI deployments. The company emphasizes deterministic performance, ensuring predictable outcomes in AI computations.

Halcyon is a cybersecurity business that develops tools to protect enterprise clients from ransomware. It also offers layered ransomware protection that combines pre-execution detection, behavioral modeling, and deception techniques.

Cohere is a platform that gives developers and businesses access to NLP, powered by the innovative generation of large language models. Cohere is used to build machines that understand the world and make it safely accessible to all.

Scale AI develops a data-oriented platform that provides training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. The company's LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb to focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.

StrongDM helps organizations manage and secure access to critical infrastructure by using a zero-trust approach. The platform provides users with controlled access to databases, servers, and applications, while also giving administrators clear visibility and audit trails.

Corelight offers network traffic analysis solutions for cybersecurity. It helps security professionals to understand network traffic and to detect and stop cyberattacks. Its solution was built on Bro, a widely-used open-source framework that provides a real-time understanding of network traffic. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upstream Security provides a cloud-based data management platform purpose-built for connected vehicles, delivering unparalleled automotive cybersecurity detection and response (V-XDR) and data-driven applications. The Upstream Platform unlocks the value of vehicle data, empowering customers to build connected vehicle applications by transforming highly distributed vehicle data into centralized, structured, contextualized data lakes. Coupled with AutoThreat® Intelligence, the first automotive cybersecurity threat intelligence solution, Upstream provides industry-leading cyber threat protection and actionable insights, seamlessly integrated into the customer’s environment and vehicle security operations centers (VSOC). Upstream’s customers include some of the world’s leading automotive OEMs, suppliers, and others, protecting millions of vehicles.

Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021.  The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious code implantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world.

SGNL enables just-in-time access, at enterprise scale, for the modern workforce. As the enterprise and workforce evolve, access must be intelligent and dynamic. SGNL ensures that your most valuable resources are being accessed by the right people, at the right time, in the right context. SGNL was established in 2021 by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson in Palo Alto, California.

Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includes world-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks. Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C.

Mitiga is the cloud-based solution for Incident Readiness and Response in the cloud and hybrid environments.

Automated Investigation and Response Platform Powered by Digital Forensics

RangeForce is a SaaS-based human cyber defense readiness platform that continuously develops defensive skills against the latest threats. It offers networks and servers in a cloud-based simulator that simulates cyberattacks and other threats in a sandbox environment.

Nobl9, the software reliability platform startup, is in the noble pursuit of reliable software. Founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singer, who joined Google via acquisition of Orbitera, Nobl9 helps software developers, DevOps practitioners, and reliability engineers deliver reliable features faster through software-defined Service Level Objectives that link monitoring and other logging and tracing data to user happiness and business KPIs. The company is backed by Battery Ventures, CRV, Bonfire and Resolute Ventures and is headquartered in Boston with a distributed team. More at nobl9.com.

Voiceitt is an automatic speech recognition technology platform. Voiceitt provides a new dimension of independence and quality of life for people with speech and motor disabilities, and a useful tool for those who care for and about them.

Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space for work to flow, boosting both security and productivity.

Elevate identifies users most likely to cause a ransomware, data loss or account takeover breach and orchestrates additional security to minimize the likelihood of an incident.

Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform for enterprise security. With over 60% of security breaches involving the abuse of valid identity credentials, identity is the new perimeter, and organizations can no longer defend it with people alone. Oort enables cybersecurity and IT professionals to easily see and secure their identity and access management (IAM) program with a SaaS platform that takes just minutes to deploy and reduces identity vulnerabilities at scale. Oort is a fully remote startup based in Boston, MA, and is backed by leading investors including Bain Capital Ventures, 645 Ventures, and First Star Ventures. Visit us at oort.io to learn more or to start your free 30-day trial of Oort.

Tidelift makes open source work better—for everyone. Through the Tidelift Subscription and in direct partnership with maintainers, Tidelift is a single source for proactively managed open source components and professional assurances around those components. Tidelift makes it possible for open source projects to thrive, so we can all create even more incredible software, even faster.

Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect any piece of data - including logs, traces, and metrics - from the deepest levels of live code in their production environments, with the click of a button. Unlike traditional monitoring tools and APMs, which tend to focus on metrics that DevOps engineers and SREs care about on the infrastructure level, Rookout is built from the ground up for developers, who care more about the actual code and business logic of their applications.

AppOmni is the leading provider of SaaS security. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management, and security of SaaS solutions, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. Its patented technology deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare against best practices and business intent.  With AppOmni, organizations can establish rules for data access, data sharing, and third-party applications that will be continuously and automatically validated. The company’s leadership team brings expertise and innovation from leading SaaS providers, high tech companies, and cybersecurity vendors. Backed by Cisco Investments, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and more, AppOmni was recently named as a PURE CYBER 100 “Companies To Watch In 2023” and one of CyberTech 100’s Companies for 2022. The company has been recognized as a Dark Reading Cyber Security Vendor to Watch and a SINET16 Innovator.

oak9 is a Cloud native security built into application design so you can develop fast and innovate. oak9's Security as Code platform dynamically secures Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploys cloud workloads, automatically.

HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud data protection as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup and recovery to both on-premises and cloud-native environments, the company provides unparalleled data protection, migration, disaster recovery and ransomware protection to thousands of companies worldwide. As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. HYCU has raised $140M in VC funding to date and is based in Boston, Mass. Learn more at www.hycu.com.   Keeping people and businesses safe is what drives us.  We are a passionate, highly ambitious group of data protectors, innovators, game changers, and simplifiers. Join our team and make a positive impact on the lives of many while building a rewarding career. Named a BBJ “Best Places To Work” in 2022, based on employee survey responses. Visit our careers website to learn more about culture and opportunities at HYCU: www.hycu.com/about/careers  Mission: HYCU, data anywhere, protected everywhere Founded in 2018, HYCU that stands for Hybrid Cloud Up Time is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

JupiterOne is a security product designed to help organizations manage their cloud-based infrastructure. It reduces the cost and complexity of cloud security, replacing guesswork with granular data about cyber assets and configurations. Its software helps security operations teams shorten the path to security and compliance and improve their overall posture through continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling across all assets.  The company was founded as a subsidiary of LifeOmic, a cloud-native healthcare software company.

Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Edge Delta believes there is a better way to do observability. A more efficient, simple, and faster way that no longer requires tough decisions regarding which datasets are valuable enough to monitor.   With Edge Delta, DevOps, Developer and SRE teams can control costs and maximize visibility, end overages, remove blind spots in data, and stay ahead of data growth. Edge Delta was founded in 2018 by Ozan Unlu and Fatih Yildiz and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data. It accelerates analytical processing for BI tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients, learns from data and queries and makes data engineers, analysts, and data scientists more productive, and helps data consumers to be more self-sufficient. Jacques Nadeau and Tomer Shiran founded the company in 2015 in Mountain View, California.

Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM.

Corellium is the only platform offering ARM-based mobile device virtualization using a custom-built hypervisor for real-world accuracy and high performance. Enterprises and researchers use Corellium to automate and scale mobile app security testing and perform advanced security research in the cloud. On-premise options available.

Based in Austin, Texas, Mio is the leading provider of messaging interoperability solutions. Mio Universal Channels enable intercompany collaboration by connecting users on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webex Teams. By enabling external contacts to chat in Universal Channels, everyone can share files, reply to threads, and edit messages—all from their tool of choice. The company, founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle, has raised $12m from investors including Goldcrest Capital, Eniac Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, and Capital Factory. Ready to chat better, together? Install directly at www.m.io

Luma Health patients should be able to connect to their healthcare provider in a way that’s modern and mobile-first. Their services include healthcare, patients, appointments, scheduling, patient messaging, patient engagement, patient communication, public health, patient access, and more.

Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting. Expel’s technology and people work together — each doing what they do best — to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. The collaborative experience in the Expel Workbench™ platform enables customers to choose how they run their security operations — whether that’s following along with live investigations, or receiving alerts at every step from when an investigation starts until it’s done. This unmatched transparency means customers always know what’s happening in their investigations into incidents like business email compromise (BEC), business application compromise (BAC), phishing, ransomware, cryptojacking, and supply chain attacks, to name a few. This allows security operations center (SOC) teams to dedicate their time to strategic security priorities rather than sifting through alerts.

Wabbi offers a continuous security platform that enables businesses to ship code that meets their application-specific security standards. Their security teams capture centralized, automated governance by orchestrating each enterprise's unique application security program, while development teams are empowered to manage security as part of their day-to-day workflows, unifying processes between development, security, and operations teams.

Cogniac enables enterprise customers to extract information from ever-increasing streams of video and image data. Using modern advances in deep learning, their products achieve better-than-human performance at many highly-focused observation tasks.

The SeaLights Software Quality Governance platform revolutionizes the way software teams deliver software changes. It protects the integrity of production and ensures that quality risks are mitigated as early as possible in the process. With SeaLights, software and QA teams can focus their testing efforts where it matters, and deliver quality software at scale.

Qwilt’s mission is to deliver connected experiences at the quality they were imagined. Its model is built on partnerships with service providers and content publishers, globally, to create a fabric that powers high-performance delivery of media and applications at the very edge of neighborhoods, big and small. Qwilt’s open architecture and inclusive business model make local edge delivery more accessible than ever before, unlocking more reliable, higher quality-of-experience at greater scale than previously possible. A growing number of the world’s leading content publishers and cable, telco, and mobile service providers rely on Qwilt for Edge Cloud services, including BT, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Italia, and Verizon. Founded in 2010, Qwilt is a leader of the Open Caching movement and a founding member of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance. Qwilt is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Ventures, Disruptive, Innovation Endeavors, Marker, and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, visit www.qwilt.com.

WEKA is the AI-native data platform company that is setting the standard for AI infrastructure with the industry’s only cloud and hardware-agnostic software solution for performance-intensive applications. The WEKA® Data Platform delivers unprecedented performance at scale, transforming stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines that help enterprise AI, ML, and GPU workloads run faster and more efficiently and providing seamless data access on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments. WEKA helps hundreds of the world’s leading enterprises and preeminent research organizations overcome complex data challenges to reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster – including 11 of the Fortune 50.

Triggermesh is a serverless software company that provides a serverless management platform for deploying, orchestrating and migrating serverless workloads across clouds.

Whatfix offers a digital adoption platform, simulated application environments for training, and no-code application analytics. Using GenAI supports companies in improving user productivity, ensuring process compliance, and improving user experience across internal and customer-facing applications.

Styra offers a platform that allows companies to enforce and monitor authorization policies across cloud-native applications. Styra delivers a fully managed Open Policy Agent platform with a built-in library of policies that allow customers to implement authorization policy-as-code. Prerunning supports the monitoring and validating of policy changes before committing, mitigating risk predeployment. Meanwhile, declarative models outline the desired state to prevent security drift and eliminate errors before they occur. Styra works with cloud-native APIs to define, enforce, and keep tabs on policies before runtime. The platform takes in a business context and outputs security decisions across namespaces and clusters, letting customers write policy once and enact it where necessary.

Panaseer is the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform for enterprise cybersecurity.  Our platform shows you every asset, application, user and data set across your IT estate in real-time. This identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards and substantiates regulatory compliance.  Our automated reports significantly reduce reporting time and tailor insights to stakeholders at every level, enhancing decision-making from the boardroom to the analyst. These reports can also be mapped to the organisation’s structure, so you can prioritise risk based on impact to the business. Enterprise security leaders around the world trust our platform to help them make better security decisions.

Blind is a trusted community where verified professionals connect to discuss what matters most.  Professionals anonymously communicate in private company channels and openly with users across industries.  Blind is a place where 4.1M+ professionals worldwide share advice, provide honest perspectives, discuss company culture and discover relevant career information.   Blind is a platform for change.  Our mission towards transparency breaks down professional barriers, empowering informed decisions and inspiring productive change in the workplace.

Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

SafeGuard Cyber is a SaaS security platform providing cloud-native defense for critical cloud communication applications that organizations are increasingly reliant upon, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, and social media.  A blind-spot is growing for security operations as adoption of these tools increases, creating more risk and vulnerability to ransomware, business compromise, and confidential information leakage. Email security lacks the ability to both create visibility outside of email, and primarily defend against malicious files and links. CASB/SASE solutions are difficult to deploy and manage, and the control function is typically left “open” to prevent false positives from affecting business productivity SafeGuard Cyber's award-winning platform helps businesses gain the unprecedented visibility they need to detect and respond to internal and external risks hidden in the cloud communication ecosystem. Our platform’s agentless architecture creates a portable security layer wherever your workforce communicates, no matter the device or network. Manage day-to-day business communication risk extending beyond email and into enterprise collaboration applications. According to the Verizon DBIR, 92% of social engineering attacks achieve infiltration. Secure your business by protecting the human attack vector from advanced social engineering and targeted threats.

Securiti is the pioneer of the Data Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securiti's Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including ''Most Innovative Startup'' by RSA, ''Top 25 Machine Learning Startups'' by Forbes, ''Most Innovative AI Companies'' by CB Insights, ''Cool Vendor in Data Security'' by Gartner, and ''Privacy Management Wave Leader'' by Forrester. For more information, please visit Securiti.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. It provides Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. It improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with a platform that accelerates and simplifies investigations and collaboration within and across teams and tools. Integrating an organization’s existing processes and technologies into a unified workspace, ThreatQuotient’s solutions reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate processes to provide greater focus and decision support while maximizing limited resources. Its threat-centric approach supports multiple use cases including incident response, threat hunting, spear phishing, alert triage, and vulnerability management, and also serves as a threat intelligence platform. ThreatQuotient has been recognized for product excellence and industry leadership by several award programs in 2021. It has won four 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Gold for Security Investigation, Silver for both Threat Intelligence Technology and Hot Security Company of the Year, and Bronze for Threat Hunting, Detection, Intelligence, and Response. ThreatQuotient also won three 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Gold for Security Investigation, and Silver for both Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response, and Best Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, ThreatQuotient was recognized as McAfee Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year and the company was listed in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang.

Uniphore is a leading B2B AI-native company with decades of proven success. Engineered for scalability and tailored for enterprise needs, we drive AI transformation that delivers real business impact across multiple industries and the largest global deployments. Our multimodal AI and data platform is at the heart of this transformation, enabling businesses to swiftly deploy AI agents. With our AI Engine Room, organizations can harness their data and create scalable, domain-specific AI models to democratize enterprise knowledge—all while ensuring security, sovereignty, and rapid value delivery. Today, Uniphore’s technology empowers over 750,000 end-users across 1,600 enterprises in 20 countries. Discover the unmatched capabilities of Uniphore—because there’s no AI like it™.

Valtix makes network security for public cloud applications shockingly simple. Designed with a cloud-native approach, Valtix automatically discovers apps and enables admins to specify deep inspection policies within minutes. This DevOps-friendly approach empowers security teams to deploy an auto-scaling security service without incurring the costs and complexity of multiple WAF and NGFW vendor appliances.

Voodle is a video application. They provide short videos for business applications.

Isovalent is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technology Cilium is the choice of leading global organizations including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more. Isovalent is headquartered in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.

Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality, and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real-time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale.

MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed.

Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities.

Mya Systems is a conversational AI platform for hiring teams that serves enterprises and agencies. Mya Systems, formerly known as FirstJob, was co-founded in 2012 by Eyal Grayevsky, CEO, and James Maddox, CTO. The San Francisco-based company launched Mya, its conversational AI-recruiter, in July of 2016 to address major inefficiencies in recruiting and improve the process for both job candidates and recruiters. Mya quickly gained an A-list of customers and established itself as a leading A.I. solutions provider in the recruiting industry. The company has signed on four of the largest global recruiting agencies, 15 of the Fortune 100, and 40 of the Fortune 500. Mya has raised $32.4M of venture funding in three rounds from top-tier investors including Emergence Capital and Foundation Capital. The team is comprised of seasoned recruiting, sales, marketing and business executives as well as world-class scientists and engineers, including many with PhDs and/or Masters in Machine Learning, NLP and Data Science. Mya has garnered industry recognition and awards from CB Insight’s AI 100, Bersin by Deloitte's 2017 Disruptions Report,  Recruiter.com’s Top 10 Recruiting Tools, and Kairos Society's K50, among others.

Secure Code Warrior makes secure coding a positive and engaging experience for developers as they increase their software security skills. With its flagship Learning Platform, they guide each coder along their own preferred learning pathway, so that security-skilled developers become the everyday superheroes of their connected world. It succeeded through a human approach that uncovers the secure developer inside of every coder - helping development teams ship quality code faster, so they can focus on creating amazing, safe software for their world.

Gong is a technology company that offers a Revenue Intelligence Platform using AI to analyze customer interactions, helping businesses improve decision-making and accelerate revenue growth. Their platform captures and integrates customer data, supporting go-to-market strategies for thousands of companies worldwide.

NS1 is an internet company that provides accurate control over application delivery that values interaction with customers. They build the world’s most intelligent DNS and traffic management technologies, enabling their customers to take unparalleled control over their traffic and infrastructure as conditions change in application environments and across the global network. They're relentlessly focused on helping their customers succeed in their digital transformation initiatives. Their platform is 100% API driven and DevOps is in their DNA. Through native integrations with leading DevOps tools and vendors, NS1 is removing the barriers to full infrastructure automation. NS1's comprehensive platform technology leverages infrastructure, application, and network data to make intelligent routing decisions in real-time, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability. The company's platform is delivered through its world-class Managed DNS Network for customers including Imgur, MaxCDN, DropBox, SalesForce, and many more.

Theatro is a software company that creates productivity, safety, and knowledge apps for the indoor mobile workforce. With an initial focus on retail and hospitality market, Theatro creates a suite of SaaS apps (sometimes including hardware) providing real-time management command, control, and information to busy people in busy environments.  Augmenting Theatro's platform automation, Theatro leads in collecting behavioral and contextual information of its users, along with leading in patents for mobile user data collection methods and applying user context for decision making or GenAI optimization.  Using the combination of apps, speech segments, and real-time user context, Theatro provides users, internal apps, or external GenAI systems the critical contextual information for efficient information distribution and precise AI interactions with minimal processing overhead.  Theatro was founded in 2011 in Menlo Park, CA and is now based in Richardson, Texas, United States.

Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations. High-integrity data ingestion, powerful analytics, and workflow automation power the industry’s most advanced self-managed and cloud-native security operations platform for threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). With a history of leadership in SIEM and UEBA, and a legacy rooted in AI, Exabeam empowers global security teams to combat cyberthreats, mitigate risk, and streamline security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.

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.

Voicea is the creator of EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA is an intelligent meeting facilitator that helps people have more productive meetings by making meetings searchable, taking note of decisions, and encouraging follow-up on action items. Leveraging a blend of artificial intelligence and speech recognition, EVA is built to propel professionals to be more efficient, effective and creative. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. Voicea is led by veterans from Oracle, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-critical problems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA.

Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Deskera Cloud ERP is an integrated cloud ERP suite designed to run your business on the cloud. Its solutions allow SMEs to track finances, manage customers, and hire and manage employees. Their modules include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, manufacturing resource planning, project management, and human capital management.

CloudCherry is the next generation Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways.  Today, leading global organizations deploy and scale their experience management program with CloudCherry quicker than any other solution. The product offers out-of-the-box integrations with existing business applications, delivers predictive, prescriptive insights that enable business leaders to better understand customer needs, and derive tangible business outcomes that can help drive true ROI.  CloudCherry is based out of Salt Lake City, with offices in Singapore, India & Dubai. The company is backed by Vertex Ventures, CISCO Investments & IDG Ventures India, The Chennai Angels & Capillary Technologies.

Puppet is an information technology company. They provide automation solutions for configuration management, compliance, CI, CD, patch management, and IT automation. Their software tools include development, management, version control, and code-analysis technologies and services.

Cisco Investments is an active investor with more than 40 investment professionals with deep market and technology expertise located in major geographies, including US, Canada, China, India, Israel, and Europe. Over the last 20 years, Cisco Investments has invested in hundreds of companies across different segments and helped them build to successful IPOs or acquisitions. They currently have an active portfolio of $2B with over 80 direct investments around the world, and they also hold Limited Partner positions in over 35 funds globally.

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