Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in October 2023

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• SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
• teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
• Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.

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• OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
• Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.
• ZippedScript — ZippedScript is an application programming interface system developer that specializes in automatically verifying educational details. ZippedScript is located in Toronto, Ontario.

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• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
• Evidence — Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools. Build polished data products with just SQL and markdown.

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• CellFE — CellFE is a company developing a microfluidics based device to deliver gene-editing molecules. CellFE developed microfluidic device and process that can efficiently deliver gene-editing molecules into the human cells.
• rabbit — Revolutionizing human-machine interaction
• Vayu Robotics — Vayu Robotics is an AI robotics company that develops and commercializes automotive sensing, autonomous vehicles, and robotics technology.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
• Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.

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• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Aaritya Technologies — Because when you trade, we want you to trade like a pro.

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• Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
• Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Mogic AI — Mogic AI is an advertising technology platform that provides tools to create and launch campaigns by pulling product images into ads using AI.
• Levinthal — Levinthal is an AI-driven protein design platform. They offer services for artificial intelligence in food safety and medical care. They offer synthetic biology, food, feed, and environmental protection.
• Altos Radar — Altos Radar accelerate the development and implementation of 4D Imaging Radar technology in driver-assisted and fully autonomous driving systems.

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• Evvy — Evvy is for people with vaginas who want to be empowered with information about their microbiome. Their mission is to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body — starting with the vaginal microbiome.
• QuriousBit — QuriousBit is a gaming studio that develops casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.
• Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.

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• Stampli — Stampli's AI-powered Accounts Payable automation solution brings all AP-related communication, documentation, & workflows into one place.
• Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
• Yurts Technologies Inc — Yurts is a Generative AI platform that is enterprise-ready. Its mission is to help individuals connect with their finest work. The company is revolutionizing knowledge management and enterprise processes at scale by combining Large Language Models (LLMs) and the practical power of GenAI applications.

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• CH4 Global — CH4 Global is bending the curve with climate change solutions. We leverage red seaweed to help with methane reduction. Learn more our AgTech Solutions today!
• Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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• Deduce — Deduce protects businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. We eliminate fraud in real-time using risk algorithms and behavioral analytics across the most comprehensive network of consumer identity data. This empowers any organization to harness the value of collective identity-based threatintelligence and cybersecurity.
• Lex — Lex is a modern writing tool that helps people think through their ideas and communicate more effectively.
• Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
• Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
• Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.

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• SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• MerQube — MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG.
• wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using

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• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• MotherDuck — Making analytics ducking awesome with DuckDB. Sign up to stay in touch.
• Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.

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• Yaysay — Yaysay is a first-of-its-kind shopping software that mixes AI-powered customization with gamification to enhance the off-price shopping experience.
• Plan A — Automate your company's ESG and carbon footprint reporting and reduce your emissions. Create decarbonisation plans plans based on data and science.
• Farther Finance — Everything we do is to help you grow and protect your wealth. We strive to expand your choices and remove obstacles to building the life you want to live.

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• Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
• Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
• Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.

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• Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
• LastMile AI — Prototype and productionize generative AI apps. Built for engineers, not just ML practitioners
• Elemental Cognition — Elemental Cognition (EC) provides a revolutionary hybrid AI platform with superior natural language understanding that powers expert problem-solving intelligence in conversational and discovery applications. EC was founded in 2015 by Dr. David Ferrucci, the renowned AI researcher and inventor of IBM’s breakthrough Watson technology. EC AItransparently engages with people to understand, reason, and explain complex problems. EC customers are in several verticals, including but not limited to healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, and travel.The mission of Elemental Cognition (EC) is to transcend conventional AI, aiming to aid individuals in comprehending intricate content, engaging in logical thinking about it, and locating as well as elucidating solutions.Elemental Cognition remains devoted to creating ethical and lucid AI, designed to contribute to resolving issues and providing proficiency in a manner that is both comprehensible and reliable.Recognizing AI's potential to function as a cogitative partner akin to a human, EC envisions a landscape of transparency, where the rationale behind outcomes is on par in significance with the outcomes themselves.What sets EC apart is its distinctive methodology, intertwining varied AI strategies within an innovative framework. This framework assimilates and ratiocinates upon knowledge that is understandable to humans, fostering collaborative and dynamic problem-solving. The outcome manifests as an expert problem-solving acumen that is more lucid and resource-efficient, seamlessly integrated into conversational and exploratory applications.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
• Nextdata — Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.

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• Nonna Lab — Make the Most. Le laboratoire qui vous rend la vie meilleure.
• Altior — Altior is an IT company that offers cloud industrial management software and ERP solution.
• Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.

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• Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
• Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
• Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
• HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
• BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

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• Kombai — Convert your Figma designs to flawless front-end code effortlessly with Kombai.com's AI-powered Figma to code conversion tool. Unlock the potential of automated development handoff, save time, and bring your designs to life with pixel-perfect precision.
• Ikigai Labs — From data reconciliation to forecasting and what-if analysis - automate manual, data-intensive operations within clicks.
• Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

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• IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
• Advantive — Advantive provides specialty manufacturing and distribution software solutions that scale and streamline operations. See how we can help your business succeed!
• Superluminal Medicines — Superluminal Medicines is a generative biological and chemical company accelerating new possibilities in drug discovery and development. Its platform creates candidate-ready compounds with speed using a comprehensive combination of deep biology and chemistry expertise, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure.

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• FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
• Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
• Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.

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• Cofactr — Whether managing shortages today or planning for next year, Cofactr is the place to get all the parts you need, when you need them.
• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
• Apollo.io — Search, engage, and convert over 265 million contacts at over 70 million companies with Apollo's sales intelligence and engagement platform.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Gem — Gem Security gives SecOps teams the tools they need to respond to cloud threats with context, fast, providing the industry's leading platform for cloud detection and response.
• Ronovo Surgical — Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai, Ronovo Surgical is founded by industry veterans from global leaders in surgical and industrial robotics, such as Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and KUKA. Aiming to transform how surgery is performed in China, Ronovo is leveraging robust R&D capabilities and strategicpartnerships globally to accelerate the development of a broad portfolio of MIS and digital surgery solutions that exemplifies the core themes of simplicity, precision, and intelligence.

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• Humata — Humata is an AI research assistant that provides answers to questions asked by the user on files such as technical papers and reports. It also allows users to upload files and documents.
• Openly — Openly provides exceptional insurance by delivering truly comprehensive coverage through independent agents without surprise or concern. We do this because we exist to make insurance remarkably simple.
• LastMile AI — Prototype and productionize generative AI apps. Built for engineers, not just ML practitioners

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• Pontoro — Pontoro is building a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to address the $20 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance by enabling broader investor participation in these private assets. Pontoro's team has collectively underwritten, invested in, or built over $100 billion of large-scale infrastructure assets globally.Pontoro has sourced an initial $500M infrastructure loan pipeline from some of its large originating bank relationships. Pontoro is also speaking with several large financial institutions about opportunities to distribute its digital assets to these institutions’ RIA, family office, and ultra-high net worth investor distribution channels.
• Leadsales — Leadsales es el primer CRM para Redes Sociales para integrar tus mensajes de WhatsApp Facebook e Instagram en una plataforma multiagente
• Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

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• RoboK — A Cambridge University spin-out building cost-effective 3D sensing software technology
• Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
• Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.

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• Infinimos — Infinimos is a Cosmos ecological liquid staking derivatives platform that aims to build a decentralized and democratized ecosystem capable of maximizing staking rewards while retaining liquidity.
• Xbotspace — Xbotspace is the generative AI middleware startup investigates the implementation and deployment of huge language models.
• Biotyx Medical — Biotyx Medical manufactures and sells iron-based biodegradable vascular materials and stents.

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• Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
• Nimbus Therapeutics — Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinicaldevelopment. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.
• ROME Therapeutics — ROME Therapeutics is developing novel therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases by harnessing the power of the repeatome – vast stretches of uncharted genetic material that have long been dismissed as “junk DNA.” With several drug targets identified and multiple discovery programs underway, ROME is moving rapidly to leverage this new frontier inbiology. To lead this exploration, ROME has assembled a team of world-class leaders across fields including oncology, immunology, virology and machine learning.

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• Aryn — Answer questions on all of your data.
• ClearFeed — Conversational Support Platform on Slack
• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.

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• FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
• Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
• Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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• Relevize — Relevize is the only partner execution platform built for sellers and partners to maximize their channel sales revenue.
• Allstacks — A single source for software leaders to forecast delivery dates, view team performance and track trends to eliminate surprises, and build software better.
• Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse

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• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
• Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.

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• Frec — Next-level investing without a wealth advisor. Low-cost direct indexing with supercharged tax savings. Earn high interest on cash with Treasury.
• PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
• Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.

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• d-Matrix — d-Matrix takes a clean-slate approach to AI compute efficiency, solving some of the most teething problems for the largest datacenter customers in the world.
• Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
• HiddenLayer — HiddenLayer helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models.

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• Paro — Paro empowers businesses & finance professionals to pursue meaningful work & achieve success, harnessing the power of people and technology.
• Qualiti — Qualiti uses AI to test any software product with no human input.
• PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.

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• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
• Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

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• Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
• Headroom — Headroom Embedded is the best way to bring intelligent video conferencing to your platform. Give your users focused space to connect, understand and remember everything.
• Everestlabs.AI — Everest Labs uses AI analytics to implement customized software and robotics MRF solutions recover more, exceed government standards and help manufacturers meet their recycling responsibilities.

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• Gable — Bridge the communication gap between data producers and data consumers
• Tabular — Tabular Technologies is building an independent cloud-native data platform powered by the open-source standard for huge analytic datasets, Apache Iceberg.

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• Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
• PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
• Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.

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• GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
• Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
• Accredible — Accredible is the world's leading digital credential platform offering digital badges and digital certificates. Start your credentialing journey today.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

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• Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.
• Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.

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• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.