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 C3 AI is an enterprise AI software application company that provides a comprehensive suite of products for developing, deploying, and operating artificial intelligence applications. Founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Siebel, the company offers the C3 AI Platform, an end-to-end solution for enterprise AI applications, along with a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications. C3 AI's offerings enable digital transformation across various sectors, with a focus on solving complex problems at scale. The company's product lineup includes C3 Generative AI, a suite of large AI transformer models designed for enterprise use. C3 AI's technology is utilized in diverse applications, such as predictive maintenance, data analytics, and decision support systems. In the defense sector, C3 AI has developed solutions like the Predictive Analytics and Decision Assistant (PANDA) for the US Air Force, which optimizes fleet maintenance and increases aircraft availability. The company's AI-driven analytics and data fusion capabilities have been applied to various military aircraft platforms, including the F-35A, to enhance warfighter capabilities and operational efficiency.
 
 
 
 
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 C3 AI's software is employed by major organizations worldwide, including Shell, Bank of America, Koch Industries, and ENGIE. In the public sector, the US Air Force is a significant customer, with C3 AI's PANDA solution designated as the system of record for Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) and predictive maintenance in April 2023. The company has established partnerships with leading technology and services providers such as Google Cloud, Microsoft, Amazon, Raytheon, FIS, and Baker Hughes to support its customers' success. C3 AI has also collaborated with Microsoft and a consortium of research universities to create the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which aims to accelerate the benefits of artificial intelligence for business, government, and society.
 
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HawkEye 360, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, is a pioneering defense technology company specializing in space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics. The company operates a constellation of satellites that detect, characterize, and geolocate radio frequency signals from various emitters. HawkEye 360's technology enables the identification and tracking of global transportation networks, assists with emergencies, and provides data analytics services to maritime, telecommunications, and security and defense sectors.
The company's primary product, RFGeo, launched in April 2019, offers customers access to RF analytics generated by its satellite constellation. RFGeo provides coordinates and observed characteristics of RF sources, delivered in a format compatible with common commercial Geographic Information System software tools. As of March 2024, HawkEye 360 operates 23 satellites, with plans to expand to a 30-satellite constellation by 2025, providing an average global revisit rate of 12-20 minutes.
HawkEye 360's technology has garnered significant interest from government agencies. In September 2021, the company secured a USD 10 million contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to detect and map radiofrequency emissions worldwide. This contract includes one base year with options for four additional years. In September 2022, HawkEye 360 was awarded a contract from the National Reconnaissance Office's Commercial Systems Program Office to integrate commercial RF intelligence into the NRO's integrated overhead architecture.
In December 2023, HawkEye 360 acquired Maxar's RF Solutions business unit, adding two existing RF satellites, intellectual property, and a vast database of radio frequency collections to its portfolio. This acquisition, the company's first, expanded its frequency coverage and enhanced its signal activity understanding globally.

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Orbex Space is a UK-based space launch company, providing launch services for the small satellite industry. The company facilitates the launching of customer satellites to low-earth orbit (LEO), polar orbit, and sun synchronous orbit (SSO) from its spaceport, Space Hub Sutherland located in A’Mhoine peninsula in Scotland. According to the company, its Prime launch vehicle can carry a payload of 180 kg (up to 200 kg depending on the final destination) and can accommodate various types of payloads ranging from single mini satellites to nano and cube satellites. The company’s first launch was slated for 2025; it would carry an experimental payload from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. Orbex Space is committed to supporting ESA’s Clean Space initiative, and claimed it was developing one of the most environmentally friendly space launch vehicles ever built. Orbex opened its first design facility in Denmark in 2016 and initiated its first engine test in 2017.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20025">July 2023</a>, Orbex announced plans to expand its Scottish and Danish facilities by over 30% to prepare for the launch of its Prime rocket.Key customers and partnershipsIn 2018, the company was selected by the ESA as its preferred micro launcher project. Orbex is also working with Europe’s largest supplier of bio-propane, Calor, to develop an environmentally friendly launch vehicle supporting its efforts to be carbon-neutral.Orbex partnered with Arianespace in June 2023 to collaboratively offer small satellite launch services to customers. In July 2024, the company also partnered with Syensqo to improve the durability of its launch vehicles using Syensqo’s adhesive polymer materials.

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C3 AI is an enterprise AI application software company providing a comprehensive suite of AI solutions. The company offers the C3 AI Application Platform, which enables organizations to develop, deploy, and operate enterprise AI applications at scale. The platform utilizes a model-driven architecture that simplifies the development process by allowing developers to use conceptual models instead of complex programming code. C3 AI's product portfolio includes over 40 turnkey Enterprise AI applications targeting specific industry needs in manufacturing, financial services, government, utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, agribusiness, defense, and intelligence sectors. These applications address various use cases including inventory optimization, supply network risk, customer churn management, production schedule optimization, predictive maintenance, fraud detection, and energy management. The company's software solutions can be deployed across public cloud infrastructures, private cloud, hybrid environments, or directly on servers. In FY23, C3 AI generated revenue of USD 266.8 million, with subscription revenue accounting for 82% of total revenue in FY22. In December 2021, the company secured a USD 500-million five-year production contract with the US Missile Defense Agency for modeling and simulation services.

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HawkEye 360 is a commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics. The company operates a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit that detect, characterize, and geolocate various RF signals. Through its RFGeo product, launched in April 2019, the company maps and analyzes RF signals from multiple sources, including maritime VHF radio channels, emergency distress beacons, vessel Automatic Identification System signals, UHF and VHF communications, and radar systems. The satellites orbit at an altitude of 575 km in special formations using water propulsion systems. Each satellite contains a Software-Defined Radio capable of detecting various radio frequencies, with three satellites working together to trilaterate signals. The company's satellite constellation enables coverage of areas spanning millions of square kilometers, with data delivered in formats compatible with common commercial Geographic Information System software tools. As of September 2022, HawkEye 360 was funded to develop and operate 20 clusters of satellites to provide global revisit rates of 12-20 minutes.
Key customers and partnerships
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) contracted HawkEye 360 in September 2022 to integrate commercial RF capabilities into its architecture. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded the company a USD 10 million contract in July 2021 with one base year and options for four more years. In August 2018, the company partnered with Eagle Technology to distribute and build upon its analytics for Maritime Domain Awareness and spectral mapping applications around New Zealand and Antarctica. HawkEye 360 also works with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) for ground station services, with KSAT's facility in Svalbard, Norway, handling satellite data downlink operations since April 2018.

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 C3 AI is an open-source platform that develops, deploys, and operates large-scale AI applications. The company&rsquo;s portfolio includes a suite of 40 ready-to-use enterprise AI applications for several use cases. In addition, the company offers a no-code solution to build AI models along with deep-code tools and a low-code environment to develop, deploy, and operate enterprise AI applications. The platform provides data ingestion, data modeling, ML feature engineering, model lifecycle management, and UI development tooling.
 
 
 In addition, the company offers a 
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 that includes 28 domain-specific generative AI offerings. This includes offerings targeting the defense, aerospace, healthcare, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries, as well as those targeting business processes and enterprise systems.
 
 
 The company provided its platform under a consumption-based pricing model.
 
 
 C3 AI operates in the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Netherlands, Mexico, India, Singapore, and Italy.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 C3 AI serves Fortune 500 companies and customers in the manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, financial services, defense and intelligence, government, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and transportation industries. Notable customers include Shell, Bank of America, US Air Force, Koch Industries, and ENGIE.
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s partner base includes Google Cloud, Microsoft, Amazon, Raytheon, FIS, and Baker Hughes.
 
 
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 In December 2020, the company went public on NYSE and raised USD 651 million in funding at a USD 10 billion valuation.
 
 
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 , the company generated total revenue of USD 266.8 million (up 5.6% YoY) and a net loss of USD 268.8 million, compared to USD 192.1 million in the prior year.
 
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C3 AI offers a suite of AI products enabling enterprises to deploy AI applications. The company's AI software product lineup includes the C3 AI Platform, C3 Generative AI Suite, and C3 AI Applications.The C3 AI Platform is a platform streamlining the development, deployment, and management of large-scale AI applications, while the C3 Generative AI Suite includes domain-specific GenAI solutions designed to cater to the distinct requirements of various industries. C3 Generative AI solutions are compatible with the customer's choice of cloud platform, including Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure. Notably, C3 Generative AI solutions address common security and accuracy challenges associated with LLMs in the commercial enterprise sector by offering deterministic answers, traceability to ground truth, enhanced data security, restricted LLM reasoning to enterprise-owned data, and the ability to switch between LLMs, thereby reducing the risk of generating erroneous information. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates">March 2024 </a>, C3 AI launched a “Standard Edition” on Google Cloud Marketplace to enable easy access to data insights from enterprise documents and files.Under its C3 AI Applications, the company provides a collection of ready-to-use enterprise AI applications tailored for diverse sectors, such as oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, manufacturing, financial services, defense, intelligence, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications.&nbsp;C3 also offers its AI Ex Machina no-code AI platform, which allows users to develop, scale, and apply AI insights into enterprise systems without needing to write any code.C3 also offers its C3 AI Pilot Program, designed to help businesses implement a C3 AI application within six months.&nbsp;The company went public on December 9, 2020, at a market cap of ~USD 4 billion. The company’s total revenue for FY2023 was USD 266.8 million, an increase of 5.6% compared to FY2022 and a GAAP net loss per share of USD (2.45).Key customers and partnershipsC3 AI’s has a prominent clientele in the private and public sectors. Notably, its customer base includes energy companies like Shell, Duke Energy, and Meg Energy, while its public sector clients include the US Army, NY Power Authority, The Department of Defense, and San Mateo County.Notable partnerships include its collaboration with Microsoft (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36327">November 2024</a>) to become the latter’s preferred AI cloud provider, and enhance adoption of enterprise AI solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.Other partnerships included that with Amazon where AWS was to utilize C3 AI products to offer AI solutions, a partnership with Google Cloud to make C3 AI's GenAI product suite available on Google's Public Cloud Marketplace (May 2023), and a partnership with Raytheon to expand AI adoption across the US military (December 2020).&nbsp;

Orbex is a space startup that develops orbital launch technology for small payload reusable satellites. Its technology is developed in-house, including rocket engines, avionics, GNC, software, and structure technologies to launch small, micro, and nano-satellites into low orbits. They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications, and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles, and a regular, scheduled launch service.

HawkEye 360 is a data analytics company that develops space-based radio frequency mapping. The company operates a commercial satellite constellation to identify, process, and geolocate a broad set of RF signals. Its products include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring.

Ozo Innovations Ltd (Ozo) is a fast growing company built by a team of experienced professionals who have a vision to bring to market a new generation of safe, energy efficient and eco-friendly sanitisation and cleaning products.  At Ozo, we do not believe that one size fits all applications. Our solutions scale from small domestic fridge devices reducing food spoilage in the home, to large scale devices for the commercial hotel/restaurant trade to truly massive installations across whole food factories, greenhouses and farms.  Ozo has a variety of different technologies and platforms which are suitable for a range of applications in different markets, but where these aren’t quite right, we work with our customers to understand their requirements and constraints, and design appropriate solutions for them.

Medical Surgery Technologies (MST) was founded in 2005 by Ziv Tamir and Moti Sholev, entrepreneurs with extensive experience in medical devices. MST leads the field of surgical analytics with its core image analytics technology designed to empower and automate the surgical environment, with a focus on medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery (MRCAS).  The company's core technology is a software-based image analytics information platform powered by advanced visualization, scene recognition, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. The platform is positioned to enable the operating room of the future through real-time image analytics, connectivity and automation, providing value-added functionality for surgeon, provider and patient.  MST’s initial offering is AutoLap™, the only robotic image-guided laparoscope positioning system. Powered by MST’s image-analysis software, AutoLap™ interacts with the surgeon’s movements in the surgical cavity, guiding the robotic laparoscope positioner in real time, offering the surgeon full and natural control of the surgical procedure and an optimal field of view.

C3 AI (NYSE:AI) is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With approximately $14 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.

<div> At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With approximately $14 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. </div>

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