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ThisFish Inc. gives fish a paper trail. Without the paper.
A seafood traceability project found its real problem on the factory floor. Now ThisFish turns scales, scanners and cameras into a running account of what a fish is worth - and where it came from.
Teach the truck. Move the mountain.
Pronto took self-driving technology off the highway and into the quarry. Its bet: the trucks you already own can learn a new job.
OptiSol makes the old code move
The next chapter of enterprise AI may begin with an old Oracle report. OptiSol Business Solutions is building a business around getting that unglamorous work done.
Sama puts people inside the machine
Before AI can recognize a shoe, a tomato, or a dangerous mistake, someone has to teach it what to see. Sama built a business around those people - and a promise that their work could change their lives.
GumGum wants to read the room
The company that started with photographs now sells advertisers a better sense of timing. Its wager: what you are paying attention to can matter more than who you are.
Rainscales gives old cameras a new job
A camera can record a near miss and change nothing. Rainscales wants the same footage to trigger a useful decision - with a human still in charge.
The shelf has a secret.
Vision Group Retail turns shelf photos and cooler signals into instructions people can use. Its bigger bet: a better view of the aisle can change the decisions made far beyond it.
Matterport makes the second visit optional
A building can answer a surprising number of questions after everyone has gone home. Matterport turns a single visit into a shared 3D record that keeps working.
Trax Retail sees the missing sale
A camera, a shelf, and a surprisingly expensive blind spot. Trax turns store photographs into instructions for the people who can put a missing product back in front of a shopper.
365 Retail Markets sells the shortest trip to lunch.
A sandwich is only convenient if you can reach it on your break. 365 Retail Markets built a business around that small problem - then made an $848 million bet on the machinery behind it.
Zeitview and the art of looking closer
Zeitview began by putting cameras in the sky. Its bigger business is helping the people who own power plants, roofs, and power lines decide what deserves fixing first.
VisionNav Robotics and the Art of the Second Try
A misplaced pallet can stop a warehouse robot. VisionNav is building autonomous forklifts that can adjust, try again, and get on with the shift.
Path Robotics gives the robot a second look
A welding robot can repeat a movement all day. Path Robotics is building one that notices when the metal has moved - and changes its plan.
Carbon Robotics puts weeds in the crosshairs
A laser can kill a weed. The harder trick is teaching a machine which plant deserves to live - and making the answer pay for a farmer.
Artisight gives nurses back the room
A hospital can be full of technology and still waste a nurse’s afternoon. Artisight’s bet: connect the room, share the work, and make the next interruption count.
ParallelDots Makes the Shelf Talk
A photograph of a supermarket shelf looks ordinary. ParallelDots turns it into a list of things a brand can fix - and built its business by learning which problems were worth seeing.
World Labs wants you to walk inside the picture
A photograph is a view. World Labs is turning it into a place - and its pending $8.2 billion AMD deal puts the machinery behind that ambition in the spotlight.
Fundação CERTI and the art of making ideas work
A missing screw, a leaking current, a forest product without a buyer. Brazil’s Fundação CERTI has built a business around the awkward distance between a clever idea and something people can actually use.
Ivideon gives the security camera a second job
A camera can catch a thief. Ivideon also wants it to explain a queue, connect distant branches, and show you who walked past the shop without coming in.
Taranis sees the leaf. The farmer sees the bill.
A field can look healthy from the road and still be losing money. Taranis turns close-up crop imagery into a better question: which problem is worth fixing first?
Inspiren wants to catch the fall before it happens
A nurse-founded company is turning the quiet minutes between care rounds into useful information. The wager: better senior care begins with seeing what everyone else misses.
Attentive.ai and the expensive art of counting
Before a contractor can win a job, someone has to count it. Attentive.ai built a business around giving that someone their week back.
Worlds gives the factory floor a memory
The cameras were already there. Worlds turns what they see into live spatial data, helping industrial teams measure work, spot danger, and act before the footage becomes a post-mortem.
Shiftsmart and the art of shrinking a job
A job can be too large a commitment. A shift can fit. Shiftsmart built a labor marketplace around that distinction - and is now asking what those hours actually accomplish.
Binah.ai wants your next health check to be a selfie
A face, a camera, 35-60 seconds. Binah.ai is putting health checks inside other companies’ apps - and discovering how much depends on what happens after the scan.
Sola wants to retire your copy-and-paste career
A screen recording becomes a bot. Behind Sola’s simple proposition is a bet that the people doing the paperwork should be able to automate it themselves.
Throne Science wants you to stop flushing the evidence
A $399 toilet sensor turns bathroom visits into a personal health history. The awkward part is the camera; the interesting part is what happens after a hundred ordinary mornings.
Bowery Farming grew the salad. Could it grow the business?
Bowery put leafy greens under LEDs, taught software to tend them, and reached grocery shelves. Its 2024 closure exposed the expensive distance between a working farm and a working business.
Plus One Robotics gives robots a very human advantage
Two billion picks later, the San Antonio company has a useful lesson for anyone buying automation: plan for the package that confuses the machine.
Vermeer taught drones to frame a shot. Then to find their way.
A Hollywood drone business became a supplier of GPS-free navigation. The revealing part is how a tool for getting the picture right found a customer who needed to get the aircraft home.