Perseus Defense
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America's Golden Dome for Drones
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States
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Replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
burnt
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Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI operating system for home improvement manufacturers
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Exonic
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Exonic is an AI-native cell and gene therapeutics company.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lightberry
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Robots with soul
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Asimov
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Real-world human movement data for humanoid robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Visibl Semiconductors
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Custom silicon for power electronics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Servo7
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Container unloading robots for warehouses
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HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Robot Cowboys that Herd Cattle with AI Drones
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PerfectBit, Inc.
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Robotics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
LightSprint
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Software factory for product teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nine Fives
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RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
AquaShield
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AI water leak detection for buildings
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Arlo Industries
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Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Neuromorphic
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Building robots to automate wetlabs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
83 Sciences
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AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vernius Systems, Inc.
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Mass-deployable radars for air defense
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Energy Superintelligence, AI that operates critical infrastructure
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The Subvocal Company
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Talk to your computer without talking
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Flexible printed OLED displays.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Lucy’s mission is to reduce tobacco-related harm to zero. We provide…
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Vena Medical is providing physicians with the world's smallest camera…
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Building the NASDAQ for Real Estate.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AWS for precision manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Empowering anyone to build cellular network
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Automating procurement and finance for construction companies
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI for product formulation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Buoyant Aero
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Bringing back blimps
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Adventris makes cancer vaccines
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HQ: Baltimore, MD, United States
Osium AI
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Speed up materials innovation with Artificial Intelligence
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AI Supply Chain Manager for CPG
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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An AI physics simulator for AI chip design
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States