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Using data and automation to achieve 24/7 production.

Smart Factory

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 Drishti utilizes computer vision and AI to offer video analytics and video traceability for manual assembly lines. From each workstation on the factory floor, video is streamed into the cloud, where the collected data is processed. This provides operators data (historical and live data, backed by video), accessed via apps, to support decision-making. Using neural networks and AI, worker actions are analyzed to generate warnings if certain actions were missed. This also helps to gain insights on work durations to identify bottlenecks and efficiency improvement points. Drishti was named a Manufacturing Leader by NAM (2021), one of America&rsquo;s &ldquo;most promising AI companies&rdquo; by Forbes (2020) and recognized as a &ldquo;Technology Pioneer&rdquo; by the World Economic Forum (2019). Drishti&rsquo;s technology is utilized by manufacturers such as Ford, Flex, Nissan, and DENSO. 
 
 
 Drishti&rsquo;s most recent funding round was Series B funding worth USD 25 million in June 2020, led by Sozo Ventures. The funds will be used to expand into factories in North America and gradually globally, including Japan.
 
 
 In July 2021, the company appointed Gary Jackson (former CEO of early-stage enterprise technology companies including Tempo Software, Codiscope, and Ounce Labs) as its Chief Executive Officer, replacing Dr. Prasad Akella, who founded the company. The new CEO will oversee all operational strategy and execution, leveraging his go-to-market background to accelerate Drishti&rsquo;s market growth. Meanwhile, founder Dr. Prasad Akella will transition to Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategy Officer.
 
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More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

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 Lisa Health is a women-focused digital health startup has developed an app for menopausal care called Midday. The app can be used to track, treat, and consult specialists regarding menopause symptoms. Additionally, the app provides educational content and tailored insights, healthy aging recommendations, and suggestions for treating symptoms. The app uses an algorithm to determine which stage of menopause the user is in and prepares them for symptoms in the next stage.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 As of August 2022, the app works on a subscription basis and offers two options, a three month subscription for USD 29.99 and an annual subscription for USD 77.99.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
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 . Through the partnership, Lisa Health gained access to Mayo Clinic&rsquo;s team of clinical expertise on menopausal care. These clinicians were also part of the app&rsquo;s development process and ensure the app uses current evidence-based approaches.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In August 2022, the company raised USD 2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Radical Ventures. Mayo Clinic also participated in the round.
 
 
 
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A concentration of wealth and a willingness to adopt age-in-place technologies present new opportunities.

Age Tech

Seismic (known as Superflex up until August 2018) is a spin-off of R&amp;D company SRI International. The company develops apparel fused with robotics to assist users with daily tasks by improving their independent mobility. The company primarily focuses on supporting the elderly; however, its technology could be used in sports and recreational markets as well.&nbsp;The garments work with flexible electric motors, which helps the wearer with simple tasks such as standing up, walking around, and carrying groceries and laundry, by enhancing core strength in the torso, hips, and legs. Moreover, the clothes function as intelligent powered clothing, as they can detect actions automatically, such as standing up, and provide the necessary power automatically.&nbsp;The company launched its first collection of powered clothing in September 2018, about a year after it was founded.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsIn January 2019, Seismic entered four strategic partnerships with Cintas Corporation, Obayashi Corporation, Transforming Age, and Solid Biosciences for the distribution of its product.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 AccuKnox, formed in partnership with Stanford Research Institute (SRI), offers a zero-trust cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) based on patented container security, network security, anomaly detection utilizing unsupervised AI/ML, and data provenance inventions.
 
 
 From development to runtime, the CNAPP platform continuously monitors applications with the use of AI-driven anomaly detection to identify anomalous and malicious activity and auto-generates bespoke zero-trust policies for each application.
 
 
 Built on open source, AccuKnox&rsquo;s platform has applications and use cases spanning multiple aspects of cloud computing, including networks, applications, IoT/Edge, and 5G environments.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 AccuKnox is a key supporter and collaborator of cloud-native computing foundation&rsquo;s (CNCF) Kubernetes runtime security platform KubeArmor, which had seen 300,000+ downloads as of March 2023.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In March 2023, the company 
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 in a seed prime funding round led by MDSV with participation from Avanta Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, and other new and returning investors. The new funding was to be funneled toward commercialization and R&amp;D efforts for its platform and CNCF&nbsp; platform KubeArmor.
 
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Digitizing the commercial real estate value chain

Commercial PropTech

REScan is a spatial data company that specializes in rapidly digitizing and efficiently annotating large indoor spaces from a human perspective. Their technology involves an end-to-end solution comprising a scanner helmet, a 3D reconstruction and streaming pipeline, and a mobile viewer application. The company has developed a proprietary system, protected by 18 issued and one pending patent, that enables remote viewing, analysis, editing, and spatial computing applications for scanned spaces.
REScan's solution allows for the creation of 3D digital copies or "Digital Twins" of indoor and outdoor areas. These digital replicas provide remote access to distant locations and enhance professional workflows by facilitating machine understanding of the physical world. The company's technology enables the rapid onboarding of these Digital Twins, streamlining the process of digitizing large spaces.
One notable demonstration of REScan's capabilities is their ability to capture a 350,000 square foot 3D scan of indoor and outdoor areas in Redwood City within a span of under two hours. This scanned data can be viewed on both Android and iPhone devices through their mobile viewer application, showcasing the efficiency and accessibility of their solution.

From counting steps to saving lives and beyond

Wearable Tech

Seismic is an apparel company that designs and manufactures Powered Clothing, a fusion of apparel and robotics technology. Their flagship product, the Seismic Suit, is specifically designed for the Worker Safety market. Introduced in June 2022, the Suit is a vest-style garment inspired by traditional workwear, featuring a tool belt form-factor hardware carrier at the waist.
The Seismic Suit automatically senses and responds to workers' movements, delivering powered strength from its seven twisted string actuators in awkward and hazardous postures such as standing, leaning forward or backward, squatting, stooping, and kneeling. It can provide 100% sustained powered support, essentially suspending the wearer without any muscle engagement required. The battery-powered Suit has a runtime of up to 10 hours per shift.
Lightweight, breathable, and comfortable, the Seismic Suit incorporates the latest cooling materials and an integrated lumbar mechanism. It meets OSHA standards, doesn't interfere with existing PPE, and can be put on or removed in under 60 seconds. The garment is designed for over 50 industrial laundry cycles and easy servicing.
Seismic's technology originated from research at SRI International for a DARPA program aimed at reducing injury risk and enhancing soldier endurance. In addition to worker safety apparel, Seismic offers Powered Clothing for wellness and mobility, providing core support and sit-to-stand assistance.

Technology providers that enhance satellite operations

Next-gen Satellites

LeoLabs, based in California, specializes in space situational awareness, providing advanced tracking and monitoring services for satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). LeoLabs employs a global network of phased-array radars for real-time data delivery, supporting satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and government agencies.&nbsp;Its key offering is its platform, LeoLabs Vertex™, which provides comprehensive solutions for monitoring and managing satellites in LEO.&nbsp;The system integrates a global phased-array radar network, located across six sites including the US, New Zealand, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Australia, which provide continuous, all-weather tracking capabilities. The radars are electronically steered with no moving parts, ensuring reliability and longevity. They track a wide range of objects, from large satellites to small debris, enhancing space situational awareness and safety.Key services within the LeoLabs Vertex™ platform include (1) LeoTrack for precise satellite tracking, (2) LeoSafe for collision avoidance, (3) LeoLaunch for identifying new payloads, (4) LeoRisk for mission risk assessment, (5) LeoGuard for defense applications, and (6) LeoClear for real-time conjunction screenings for launch windows.&nbsp;LeoTrack is an advanced satellite tracking service featuring continuous tracking, real-time dashboards, and integration with applications including telemetry support, GPS calibration, maneuver validation, image scheduling, and debris removal planning.LeoSafe provides real-time collision avoidance services for satellite operators, with features such as continuous search and identification of close approach events, real-time conjunction alerts, on-demand ephemeris screening, and comprehensive dashboards and reports.&nbsp;LeoLaunch offers support during the initial phase of satellite missions, including initial orbital element delivery, payload identification for rideshare missions, pre-launch coordination, and operational resiliency support. LeoRisk offers orbital collision risk assessments by calculating collision probabilities based on various parameters like altitude, inclination, size, and mission lifetime. The service features robust data visualizations and provides detailed risk summary reports.&nbsp;LeoGuard is designed for defense departments to enhance space domain awareness and protection with features such as prioritized radar tasking, mission planning with threat notifications, real-time neighborhood watch, and advanced analytics for threat engagement analysis. Finally, LeoClear offers real-time conjunction screenings for launch windows, enabling launch providers and regulatory agencies to screen multiple launch trajectory profiles against a dynamic catalog of over 20,000 objects in LEO.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsA noteworthy client of LeoLabs is <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/26250">SpaceX</a>; LeoLabs helped track Starlink satellites during their initial deployment and orbital travel (Oct 2020). Others include the European Space Agency (ESA), the US Air Force, Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF), BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, Planet, and Swarm Technologies.Partners of LeoLabs include the US defense contractor SAIC to jointly develop a space-tracking software platform (September 2023) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) for the development of the Traffic Coordination System for Space ( TraCSS) (January 2024). Other partners include Aalriya, the Saudi Space Agency, ClearSpace, and the New Zealand Space Agency (NZSA).

Pienso is a machine-learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end-to-end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their machine-learning models without the need for external support.

We're a generative artificial intelligence company leading the development of a goal-driven and multimodal engine: Charlie! Charlie helps entrepreneurs and enterprises create content that performs across text, images, and more. Imagine asking an AI to write a social media post that maximizes engagement with your target audience. At GoCharlie we know engagement means commerce, and we want to give you the tools to drive business through all your marketing channels.

Midday is an app that leverages AI, sensor technology, and digital therapeutics to support women on their menopause journey using personalized insights that illuminate what is happening physically and emotionally during menopause, providing the right intervention at the right time to manage menopause symptoms and promote healthy aging.

Tauk is a platform that enables developers to release their apps with confidence at massive scale.

Medical Devices Corner specializes in providing commercial medical products.

Prevasio is a next-generation cloud security posture management with a built-in vulnerability and anti-malware scan for docker containers. The mission of prevasio is to combine in one affordable solution the lightness and convenience of a classic CSPM with the attack prevention capabilities of a CWPP. Prevasio achieves that by combining 3 products in one solution. 1. Cloud Security Posture Management Prevasio requires only a few minutes to complete a full scan of all your assets. The scan will reveal any misconfiguration issues in the cloud platform according to best practices and compliance standards. 2. Vulnerability Assessment and Anti-malware If you have any public or private containers, Prevasio will also perform a full vulnerability assessment of all packages and libraries found to be installed in those containers. Prevasio will perform an anti-malware scan of all files found to be present in any discovered public or private containers. Main features: - Prevasio creates no agents and runs no code in your cloud - It uses no servers, thus having a very low cost per scan - Being serverless, it scales up quickly to process any load - It starts an analysis in milliseconds and finishes in minutes It only takes a few mouse clicks to connect Prevasio to your Cloud account. Once connected, it will scan your assets within minutes, revealing any misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, or malware. 3. Secret Sauce - As a portfolio company of SRI, Prevasio is also leveraging proprietary SRI AI intellectual property to empower Virtual Private Assistant (VPA) technology to assess and detect cybersecurity threats using unsupervised machine learning.

Wingsure is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise that provides simple solutions for risk management to help farmers. It is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise.

Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions.

AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP is an industry leading cloud security product. With its differentiated DevSecOps and open-source approach, it secures infrastructure and applications, ensuring comprehensive safeguarding of the software development lifecycle. Our support covers public clouds, private clouds, Kubernetes, VMs, bare metals, IoT Edge, and 5G security.

Confidencial is a maker of privacy-enhancing tools for modern dispersed companies to secure sensitive information and collaborate.  Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Decoded Health provides a clinical hyperautomation platform that combines explainable ML with human-in-the-loop task autonomy to automate patient conversations and augment physicians' clinical workflows. Decoded Health's platform automates clinical tasks, allowing physicians to manage a panel of over 8,000 patients instead of 2,000, improving population health and deepening the physician-patient relationship.

Authenticiti Platform is a service layer built on blockchain technology to enable the secure hand-off of physical & digital assets.

Bedrock Surgical a Silicon Valley based data company that utilizes computer vision, RFID, advanced sensing, automation and robotics in order to optimize the inspection, reprocessing and supply chain of re-usable medical devices for operating room use. Incubated at SRI, we leveraged the leading expertise in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, Biophotonics and information systems to address a large unmet need for improved quality, efficiencies and reliability in re-processing and supply of re-usable medical devices to support surgical operations.

Curie AI is a tech-enabled respiratory care company providing virtual personalized disease management through proprietary AI that passively detects symptoms. This approach results in high adherence, reduction in adverse events, cost savings, and improving overall quality of life for people with chronic respiratory conditions

OTO Systems develops a next-generation language processing voice technology to unlock valuable data from voice interactions.  OTO Systems is an SRI International spin-off venture building the next generation in speech tech by merging the modalities of words + intonation for a much deeper understanding of conversations. OTO Systems' platform uses AI to coach call center representatives in real-time during each call, allowing businesses to deliver a hyper-personalized customer experience at scale.

Presence and status have not evolved since ICQ. Skype made some improvements in 2008 with mobile, by making you online from your phone but otherwise, presence and status have remained a green dot. With teams now distributed, remote work challenges are front and center. Teams have reported less ad-hoc collaboration, more loneliness, more distraction, notification fatigue and more. Pulse makes remote work better. It goes beyond the green dot to signal availability, reduce interruptions, increase collaboration or however you choose to configure it. In the office, you see and feel presence. Your appearance is your status but while distributed all of that is lost. Automatic status keeps you in control while completely changing the workplace experience.

REscan is digitizing the physical world starting with large commercial real estate portfolios, making them remotely viewable, analyzable, editable, and XR ready.

Drishti provides AI-powered video analytics technology that gives visibility and insights for manual assembly line improvement, Its training function uses AI, video and best practices reinforcement to train new employees, cross-train existing employees and identify what it considers “brilliant outliers”: creative line associates who excel in certain roles or develop new ways to improve standardized work.

Scotty Labs is a spin-out of SRI International.  They are a driving company. They believe that the true opportunities for the future of autonomy lie in unlocking the ability for human and machine to work together to solve the most difficult problems driverless vehicles face.  The path of progress for the autonomous vehicle is blocked by the idea that complete vehicle autonomy is the goal. They believe safe tele-operation subsumes level 5 autonomy, so instead of removing humans from the driving experience entirely, we’re keeping the humans in, virtually.

Seismic produces and develops custom garments with built-in flexible electric motors that help the wearer with everyday tasks. Seismic has hired a team of leaders in textiles, industrial design, robotics, biomechanics, and data science to develop the new category of Powered Clothing: lightweight, connected apparel, comfortably worn under any outfit, with integrated electric “muscles” that add intelligent wearable strength and natural mobility to muscles and joints, enabling everyone — from seniors to athletes, to people with a wide range of physical disabilities — to achieve their full physical potential. Seismic technology was originally developed at SRI International for a DARPA-funded program to reduce injury risk and enhance soldier endurance. Recognizing its profound application beyond the military, Seismic spun out of SRI to explore the technology for a wide range of consumer applications, starting with the aging market because of the size of the opportunity and the need this population faces.

LeoLabs is an aerospace company that supplies and provides low Earth orbit mapping and space situational awareness services. The company's software platform offers an open API and provides the basis for a new generation of SSA and traffic safety services. LeoLabs was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Gridspace provides natural-sounding virtual agents and voice observability software to contact centers. The company is a true, full-stack provider of conversational AI – building and integrating its own enterprise-grade softswitch, real-time conversational ASR, LLMS, semantic search engine, neural TTS, dialog management system, authoring interface, management dashboards and analytics modules.

Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere. Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices. The company was founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York.

Tempo AI is a developer of a smart calendar application used to enhance work activities and schedules. In February 2013, Tempo AI launched the Tempo Smart Calendar mobile app, the first intelligent calendar that’s like having a personal assistant prepare what’s next to save users time and eliminate hassles. Tempo is context-aware to personalize experiences so routine tasks take the fewest taps. It learns patterns and behaviors to constantly optimize the smart calendar experience.

Desti is changing the way people search and plan their travel. Instead of sifting thru hundreds of search results and reading countless travel reviews, Desti can find precisely the right places to stay and things to do based on your needs. They harken back to the days of travel agents, where consumers could ask tough travel questions like ” What are the best hotels near the beach that are kid-friendly?”.  A recent spinout from SRI International, They are working on game changing technology that leverages natural language search technology and artificial intelligence to let users find precisely what they are looking for based on multiple criteria, not just price or travel dates. Their mission is to make travel planning as fun and painless as possible.

Tout is the TV network for the Internet. A spin-out from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), Tout's Personalized TV Technology is the first patented AI technology that delivers targeted video programming based on who you are and where you are across the web. Tout works with more than 300 leading content producers and over 3,500 publishers to significantly grow online video revenue and drive deeper engagement with consumers. Delivering over 400MM video streams to 85MM unique viewers every month, Tout provides unprecedented scale and brand-safety to hundreds of Fortune 1000 advertisers who want to align their brands with the highest quality and contextual relevant video content. Headquartered in San Francisco, Tout works with top media brands like CNN, Fox Sports and Time Inc. to deliver personalized TV across the Web.

Trapit is the platform for authentic employee advocacy and social selling. Its technology empowers employees on social with content that is proven to spark engagement and drive sales.  It is dedicated to helping brands connect their employees, customers, and prospects with authentic conversations inspired by high-quality, relevant content. Its customers, including Everbank, HD Vest, and Microsoft, rely on our technology to power innovative campaigns that consistently deliver ROI.  Trapit is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Siri is now a product of Apple Corp. Siri is a virtual personal assistant incorporated as a feature of [Apple](/organization/apple) iPhones beginning with the 4S generation. Siri was originally developed by [SRI International](/organization/sri-international). SRI spun off Siri, Inc., in 2007, and this company launched a personal assistant app in February 2010. Siri, Inc., was acquired by Apple in 2010, and in October 2011 Apple announced that the iPhone 4S would be using this technology.

Silicon Valley-based SRI International is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Its mission: World-changing solutions to make people safer, healthier, and more productive.   Founded by Stanford University as Stanford Research Institute in 1946, SRI became independent in 1970. Perhaps best known for its invention of the computer mouse, interactive computing, and Siri, SRI is responsible for major advances in computing, chemistry and materials, education, energy, health and pharmaceuticals, national defense, robotics, sensing, and more.   The nonprofit institute performs sponsored research and development for government agencies, businesses, and foundations. SRI brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, new products, and spin-off ventures. In 2014, SRI's consolidated revenues were approximately $540 million.

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