
Oshiorenoya Agabi grew up taking discarded things apart in Lagos. At Koniku, he is putting living cells and electronics together to give machines a sense of smell.

A professor told Osh Agabi to find a field where little had been measured. He chose neurons - then built a company around giving machines a biological sense of smell.
Shift5 is an operational intelligence and onboard observability company that taps the raw data already flowing across the internal networks of planes, trains, tanks, and ships. Founded by former U.S. Army cyber officers, it plugs into serial-bus and RF traffic on military and commercial fleets to deliver real-time cyber threat detection, predictive maintenance, and compliance insight at the edge. Backed by $185M+ in venture funding, Shift5 serves the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, SOCOM, and several of the largest U.S. passenger rail systems.