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M.C. Dean, Inc.
The 77-year-old family company has turned electrical contracting into a $3 billion cyber-physical infrastructure business - one that builds critical systems in a factory before they ever reach the job site.
DeNexus
DeNexus is a Boston-based cyber risk company that quantifies the financial impact of cyber threats to industrial and operational technology (OT) environments. Its DeRISK platform uses AI, machine learning and simulation to predict where breaches are likely in OT/ICS networks, express that risk in dollar terms, and prioritize mitigation by ROI. The company serves CISOs, boards, risk managers and cyber insurers across data centers, energy, manufacturing and transportation, and has expanded into agentic-AI underwriting automation for the industrial cyber insurance market.
Forescout Technologies Inc.
Forescout Technologies is a San Jose-based cybersecurity company that gives organizations agentless visibility and control over every connected device on their networks - from laptops and phones to industrial controllers, medical equipment and IoT sensors that cannot run traditional security agents. Its platform, now branded Forescout Vistaro, spans IT, OT, IoT and IoMT environments and combines asset discovery, network access control, segmentation, threat detection and exposure management, backed by the Vedere Labs threat-research team. Serving roughly 3,200 customers including one in five Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies, Forescout competes in the fast-growing market for securing the sprawling, mixed device estates of modern enterprises and critical infrastructure.
Alexander Lavin
Alexander Lavin is an AI researcher and former rocket scientist who founded Pasteur Labs and the Institute for Simulation Intelligence (ISI) in New York. He is building what he calls 'the IDE for reality' - simulation engines fused with AI that let scientists and engineers run experiments in software before touching the physical world. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and lead author of the landmark 'Simulation Intelligence' paper, Lavin's path runs from lunar rovers and Blue Origin rocket structures through Numenta, Vicarious, and a probabilistic-medicine startup acquired by Johnson & Johnson, to a focused-research mission aimed at Nobel-Turing breakthroughs in energy, climate, and fusion.
Dispel
Dispel is an Austin, Texas-based operational technology (OT) cybersecurity company that builds a Zero Trust Engine for industrial control systems. Its platform combines secure remote access, real-time industrial data streaming, unified OT connectivity (OTFusion), and 24/7 threat monitoring, all built around Moving Target Defense - a technique that constantly shifts network paths so attackers never get a stable target. Dispel lets manufacturers, utilities, energy operators, and government agencies give vendors and engineers fast, audited access to plant equipment without the friction of legacy VPNs and jump boxes.
Saurabh Ladha
Saurabh Ladha is the founder and CEO of Doxel, the computer-vision platform often called the 'Waze for construction.' Doxel uses AI to track building sites in real time and predict delays before they derail a project. Ladha built it after a two-year construction delay nearly cost his family their home. Before Doxel, he led an eight-person team that won the AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition with an autonomous drone. A Stanford-trained engineer and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he has raised $56.5M from Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, and Doxel has tracked more than 3 billion square feet of construction.
ORDR
ORDR is a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity company that brings order to the chaos of connected devices, using AI to discover, profile, and protect every IT, IoT, IoMT, and OT asset on an enterprise network - from MRI machines at Cleveland Clinic to manufacturing PLCs - without agents.
João Diogo Falcão
João Diogo 'JD' Falcão is the CEO and co-founder of AiFi Inc., the San Francisco-based company building the world's largest autonomous retail network. A PhD from Carnegie Mellon and Master's from Cornell in Robotics, JD spent years shaping AiFi's core technology as CTO before stepping up as Chief Executive in September 2025. Under his and the team's leadership, AiFi has deployed 300+ camera-only autonomous stores globally, processes over 90 petabytes of spatial data annually, and counts Microsoft, ALDI, and 7-Eleven among its partners. His central thesis: the physical world deserves to be as queryable as the internet.