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RAVV puts the startup pieces together
A restaurant robot, a Berkeley partnership, and a media operation belong to the same idea: young technology companies need more than a cheque.
KoderLabs and the space between apps
A poolside scan, a freight booking, a healthcare kiosk. The Texas software consultancy’s most revealing work happens where one task is supposed to become the next.
Put curiosity in charge.
Guru Experience builds digital guides for museums and cultural places. Its most useful insight is about the work that happens after the app launches.
EON Reality’s Italian test: make learning real
EON Reality wants teachers and trainers to turn knowledge into experiences. Its Italian story shows why the software is only half the lesson.
Solution Analysts and the art of getting unstuck
A banking app, a remote machinery expert, a finance team waiting on its data. Solution Analysts builds software around the awkward constraints that decide whether technology gets used.
Medivis wants the surgeon to stop looking away
A neurosurgeon and a radiologist built a company around a small, consequential inconvenience: the scan is on a screen, but the patient is on the table. Medivis brings the two into the same field of view.
Activ Surgical wants surgeons to see what a sharper camera cannot
A small module, a dye-free view of blood flow, and a deceptively large question: when does seeing more change what a surgeon does? Activ Surgical is putting that question into the operating room.
VisionX gives the physical world a desk job
A coffee table, a parcel label and a utility complaint have something in common: they need translating into a decision. VisionX builds the AI that does the translating.
Flatirons Solutions makes the aircraft manual earn its keep
An aircraft manual has to survive revisions, local edits and a journey to the shop floor. Flatirons Solutions turns that paperwork into a connected maintenance workflow - and is now adding visual guidance to the job.
EON Reality wants your first mistake to be virtual
A Mississippi college wanted students to practise on engines before touching one. EON Reality is taking that same idea from the classroom to the factory floor, with AI now helping write the lesson.
StayinFront and the Case of the Missing Sale
A brand can win the advertising campaign and still lose in aisle seven. StayinFront builds the software that helps field teams find the gap, fix the shelf, and make the next visit count.
RoofStacks: What Happens After the Ticket Sells
A travel-software business grew into a family of banking, gaming and cloud ventures. The revealing part of RoofStacks is how often those apparently unrelated businesses need the same things.
Metadome.ai and the things a photograph cannot tell you
A car showroom can run out of room. A parts catalog can run out of clarity. Metadome.ai is betting that interactive 3D can solve both - provided the picture tells the truth.
Seerslab Lost the Selfie - and Found the Machine Behind It
A pioneering camera app was overtaken by larger rivals. Seerslab's answer was to stop fighting for the selfie and start selling the vision engine underneath it - then put that intelligence into streets, shops and a pair of glasses.
Pure Imagination Studios puts a zombie apocalypse in a taco truck
The studio behind Alien: Descent and LEGO screen adventures turns familiar stories into places people can enter. Its next setting is a $41 million studio and learning center in Kansas.
Holovis Builds the Part of the Magic You Are Not Supposed to Notice
The British company turns cameras, code, screens, sound and scenery into attractions for the names above the gate. Its real product is the seam between spectacle and reliable operation.
The $880,000 Shelf Bet: InContext Solutions Built a Store Where Failure Is Cheap
Before a retailer resets 22,000 displays, InContext Solutions lets the bad ideas lose inside a digital twin. What began as custom virtual-store research is now a software, services and AI business built around one useful proposition: make the expensive mistake on a screen.
Tilt Five Bet the Future of AR on a Place Big Tech Ignored: Your Table
Jeri Ellsworth rebuilt a failed AR dream by narrowing it to one stubbornly social surface. The result is clever, compromised and full of lessons for anyone tempted to fight Big Tech head-on.
Dopple Wants to Turn Every Complicated Product Page Into a Digital Showroom
The Charleston company makes products spin, swap and appear in your room. Its real trick is less cinematic: turning a snarled catalog into a buying decision people can understand.
Brilliant Labs Keeps Rebuilding the Same $349 Bet: AI Glasses You Can Rewrite
The Singapore startup learned that putting AI in your sightline is easy to demo and hard to live with. Halo is its third attempt - thinner, longer-lasting, more private, and open enough for developers to make the glasses useful in ways the company has not imagined.
The Garage That Sold Google Cardboard, Then Sold America Its Whole VR Stack
A bootstrapped LA outfit began by folding cardboard goggles in a garage. A decade and 10,000-plus headsets later, it sells the whole spatial-computing stack to hospitals, factories and defense labs.
The Finnish startup that reads 120 things in your selfie so beauty brands don't have to guess
It began with a founder's own unexplained skin problem. It turned into an AI advisor now embedded in roughly 120 beauty brands and retailers - and, lately, inside ChatGPT.
The Invisible 3D Engine Behind the Sofa in Your Shopping Cart
3D Cloud has spent 15 years turning sprawling furniture catalogs into things shoppers can rotate, rearrange and actually understand. Its quiet advantage is not the photorealistic sofa - it is the product logic hiding underneath.
Snap Is Building the Computer That Hopes You’ll Look Up
Snapchat made disappearing photos feel natural. Now Snap is using that private, camera-first habit - plus ads, subscriptions and an army of Lens creators - to finance a much stranger bet on what comes after the phone.
Audax Labs
The Seattle-area technology company pairs consulting muscle with a shelf of homegrown products - betting that enterprise transformation works better when the people drawing the blueprint can also build the machinery.
Arimac Digital
Arimac Digital is a full-stack digital product engineering company founded in Sri Lanka in 2011 and now operating out of Colombo, Dubai and beyond. It builds enterprise-grade web, mobile, AI, immersive and robotics products for global brands across fintech, telecom, aviation and consumer sectors - clients include Emirates, Etihad, Coca-Cola, Tesco, Visa and Ooredoo. With 400+ specialists, 850+ solutions delivered and a claimed 330 million+ digital lives reached, Arimac positions itself as one of South Asia's leading engineering-led digital studios, and made headlines building Diyazen, Sri Lanka's first humanoid robot.
Big Happy
Big Happy is a New York-based advertising technology company that turns everyday screens into immersive, cinematic brand experiences. Founded in 2019 by adtech and media-buying veterans, it operates an end-to-end platform spanning creative development, media activation and campaign measurement across high-impact mobile formats and 3D digital out-of-home (DOOH). The company works with 300+ brands including Coca-Cola, Verizon, Samsung and the U.S. Army, reaching 7,000+ premium mobile publishers and over one million DOOH screens across North America.
BILT Incorporated
BILT Incorporated is a Grapevine, Texas software company that replaces paper manuals and static PDFs with 3D, voice- and text-guided Intelligent Instructions for assembling, installing, maintaining, and repairing physical products. Through its mobile app and, increasingly, extended-reality headsets, BILT lets people rotate and zoom animated 3D models step by step, cutting setup time, support calls, and product returns. Brands from Weber and NordicTrack to Siemens, Chamberlain, and Clearfield use BILT to turn the first-use experience into a source of customer loyalty, while government and military customers use it for training and readiness.
Lumiode, Inc.
Lumiode is a New York-based fabless semiconductor startup building truly-monolithic micro-LED microdisplays. By depositing low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film-transistor backplanes directly onto LED epiwafers - skipping the wafer-bonding step used by most rivals - Lumiode produces ultra-high-brightness, low-power, small-form-factor displays aimed at augmented reality, head-up displays and projection. Spun out of Columbia University in 2012 and led by co-founder and acting CEO Ioannis (John) Kymissis, the company raised roughly $16 million in venture funding before agreeing in December 2025 to be acquired by Taiwan's PlayNitride.
TechSee
TechSee is an Israel-based enterprise software company that uses computer vision, augmented reality and multimodal generative AI to add sight to customer service. Its Sophie AI platform lets customers and technicians point a smartphone camera at a device so the system can recognize the product, diagnose the issue and guide a step-by-step fix - either fully self-service or as an assist for a human agent. Founded in 2015, TechSee works with global brands such as Verizon, Vodafone, Orange and Telus to raise first-call resolution and cut costly truck rolls.