Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award-winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering Ph.D. Yun Fu. We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google. Our advisors include Adam Cheyer (Co-founder of Siri), Lary Heck (Co-founder of Microsoft Cortana), and Greg Holmes (Zoom's first CRO).
Vestwell develops a digital savings platform to create a retirement plan for employees. It offers automated retirement investing options for RIAs depending on the rules and regulations and other defined contributions to companies and their employees to help advisers engage with their clients with compliance and automation.
Embrace empowers engineers to manage the complexity of mobile to build better, bolder experiences. At a time when mobile is more crucial than ever, teams often face fragmented solutions, missing data, and an inability to surface issues. With Embrace, engineers can identify and prioritize the impact of any issues with detailed behavioral and technical context to resolve them instantly. By eliminating guesswork, Embrace illuminates opportunities to perfect performance and build the best mobile experiences possible.
restor3d enables surgeons to improve the reconstruction and repair of the human body through 3D printed implants. The company is leveraging expertise and experience in 3D printing of key biomedical materials spanning a wide range of properties, restor3d seeks to improve medical device solutions.
Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talent across all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
Humanity is making critical decisions with technology prone to hallucinations, bias, and opacity, believing that’s the necessary price to pay for powerful AI. That’s unacceptable. We’re doing something about it. From Alexa to Chat-GPT, we’ve seen explosive growth of AI applications in everyday life. Unfortunately, that explosion has been built upon “black box” neural networks, which can go wrong in surprising ways and can’t be debugged. Howso co-founder Dr. Chris Hazard spent decades focused on understanding deeply complex, interactive computing systems. His research lies at the intersection of trust and AI. Recognizing the inherent dangers in deep neural nets and black box AI, Chris set out to build AI that’s as powerful as it is understandable. His first systems were built in the defense sector, where the “why” is just as critical as the “how.” Chris, his longtime collaborator Michael Resnick, and advisor Dr. Michael Capps founded Howso (formerly Diveplane) in 2017. Capps had retired after a decade as President of Epic Games (Fortnite, Unreal Engine) and shared Hazard’s concerns about the direction of AI development. The vision was simple: they would work towards positive social impact first, profits second. A group of like-minded angel investors and philanthropists came together for the seed round, and the company began its mission to bring Chris’ maturing research to the world. More than sixty patent assets later, we’ve deployed our ever-evolving technology in academic institutions, non-profits, global financial enterprises, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. Our users are empowered to make decisions directly from data, rather than relying on abstract black box models. They can interrogate outcomes, correct mistakes and bias, and make critical decisions responsibly.
Pryon is an artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on enterprise knowledge management (KM). Its natural language processing (NLP) platform transforms unstructured data into experiences that increase productivity with unmatched accuracy and speed. Pryon’s automated machine learning (ML) engines deliver rapid time to value by enriching existing content. This no-code approach prevents operational disruption and allows organizations to quickly maximize the business value trapped within their information assets. Pryon was founded by Igor Jablokov, whose previous company defined the state of the art for AI assistants and was acquired by Amazon to form the basis for Alexa.
Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. Levitate is built by Real Magic.
AiFi provides a flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their businesses. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. AiFi works with retailers worldwide such as ALDI South Group, Carrefour, Compass Group, Morrisons, Żabka Group, REWE, and Verizon. AiFi has the highest number of computer vision-powered autonomous stores across the globe. The company has raised a total of $80 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Mithril Capital, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital, Plum Alley, Duke Angel Network, Reaction, GS Future, Drive Catalyst, and Evolution. For more information, please visit aifi.com.
InSoma Bio integrates biology and materials science to solve problems in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. It offers genetically engineer protein-based materials that can mimic the naturally found elastin found in extracellular tissues. The company also offers reconstructive plastic surgeries and injectable materials.
410 Medical has developed a simple, intuitive solution that allows a single healthcare provider to rapidly deliver fluid to critically ill patients, improving care, and saving lives. Their device allows fast set-up, improves resuscitation speed, minimizes provider fatigue, and frees providers to address other patient care issues simultaneously. This solution is particularly useful in pre-hospital settings and the emergency department and where speed is critical and resources may be limited. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.