Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that make 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 PhD Yun Fu.InvestorsWe 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.
Vestwell is a digital platform that makes it easier to offer and administer 401(k) plans. Vestwell removes traditional friction points through seamless plan design, automated onboarding, streamlined administration, and flexible investment strategies, all at competitive pricing. By acting as a single point of contact, Vestwell has modernized the retirement offering while keeping the plan sponsor's and plan participant's best interests in mind. The company was founded in 2016 and based in New York, New York.
Teamworks is a provider of collaboration software for athletic organizations based in Durham, NC. Teamworks helps nearly 2,000 top-level college and professional athletic teams, departments and organizations around the world improve the way they share information and communicate. They’re on a mission to provide tools and services that help groups of people work together.
Xilis is an oncology and precision health company that diagnoses cancer and finds the right treatment. The company uses “micro-organoids” to make thousands of 3D replicas of a patient’s tumor in about six days, which the company says can be used for testing for drug compatibility faster. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
Embrace is the only performance monitoring and debugging platform built for mobile apps. Whether an unsolved crash, a bug in the checkout flow, an error log without resolution, or a startup that takes too long, developers need to find every issue and not take days. With Embrace, mobile teams instantly look up any user, see every user’s sessions on command, and understand what happened seconds and minutes before any error of any type.
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.
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.
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.
AiFi provides the most 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 top 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.
Adyn is a precision medicine company that develops personalized birth control methods. It provides medically actionable scientific insights and empowers individuals to proactively optimize their health—from birth control to fertility and beyond. The company's first product, the Birth Control Optimization Test, is an at-home kit enabling users to collect both saliva and finger prick samples to measure hormone baseline levels and aims to assess genetic risk for blood clots and depression. Adyn's technology then synthesizes a medical biography with side effect profiles of estrogens and progestins used in hormonal contraception. Elizabeth Ruzzo headquartered the company in Seattle, Washington in 2019 and is backed by Lux Capital, M13, Civilization Ventures, Concrete Rose Capital, Y Combinator, Madrona Pioneer Fund, and Ascend VC.
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.
Pryon turns hours of searching into moments of clarity that confer decision advantage. Founded in 2017 by the minds behind Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and IBM’s Watson, the Company’s full-stack AI-enhanced knowledge management platform transforms untapped digital assets from multiple sources into solutions that measurably improve outcomes. By weaving trusted content into a knowledge fabric, any user can unlock verifiable answers derived from complex, unstructured data. Pryon’s no-code technology can be deployed in a matter of days and is scalable to meet the advanced needs of multinational entities and the most secure federal government agencies. By reducing the distance between knowledge and people, Pryon fosters a more informed, resilient, and responsive organization.
Hinge Health is a patient-centered digital clinic that treats chronic musculoskeletal conditions such as back and joint pain. It offers a platform that combines wearable sensors, an app, and health coaching to remotely deliver physical therapy and behavioral health. The company's services are available to nearly 200 enterprise customers and it aims to empower people to reduce chronic pain, opioid use, and surgeries. Hinge Health is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, Insight Partners, Atomico, 11.2 Capital, Quadrille Capital, Heuristic Capital, Coatue, and Tiger Global. In 2015, Daniel Perez and Gabriel Mecklenburg co-founded Hinge Health in San Francisco, California.
RackN provides open hybrid automation for SRE & DevOps teams to scale infrastructure. The RackN Unified Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure software platform solves the problem of how to make traditional IT, cloud, and DevOps technologies and teams work well together in order to bring solutions to production. RackN ensures that CIOs, CTOs, and data center and cloud managers can reduce cost and risk while accelerating innovation and automating operationally efficient deployments of complex technologies across hybrid infrastructure.
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.
Baebies was founded in 2014 by Richard West and Vamsee Pamula, following the successful development of digital microfluidics technology, the development and launch of multiple products, and the eventual sale of Advanced Liquid Logic to Illumina, Inc. Baebies has now licensed its core technology, acquired product and manufacturing assets, and built a seasoned management and technical team to pursue opportunities in newborn screening and pediatric testing. The Baebies mission is to save lives and make lives better for millions of children by bringing new technologies, new tests and new hope to parents and healthcare professionals worldwide.