The laboratory software veteran survived an IPO, a $123 million sale, a 12-year corporate hibernation and a private-equity rebirth. Its next experiment is harder: turning a sprawling enterprise stack into one usable thread from scientific idea to released product.
Its first workflow engine could handle bespoke academic experiments, then routine pharma studies exposed the cracks. RockStep rebuilt with scientists, turned paper-and-spreadsheet chaos into Climb, and found the strategic buyer that needed its missing half.
The founders thought music services had an accounting problem. The data pointed to something stranger: bots, click farms and stolen accounts competing with real listeners for a finite royalty pool. Beatdapp built the referee - then widened the field.
The 1968 mainframe sorting company you have never heard of quietly became the plumbing behind 95 of the Fortune 100's data - and it is now betting the house on making that data safe for AI agents to act on.

Zero-Error Systems (ZES) is a Singapore deeptech semiconductor company and Nanyang Technological University spin-off that builds radiation-hardened integrated circuits, radiation-tolerant system-on-modules, and irradiation testing services. Its patented radiation-hardened-by-design technology protects low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics from radiation effects such as single-event latchup, letting satellite and space-system makers achieve space-grade power reliability and data integrity at a fraction of traditional rad-hard cost.
Graid Technology is a Silicon Valley and Taiwan storage startup that builds SupremeRAID, the first GPU-based RAID solution for NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics SSDs. By moving RAID processing off the CPU and onto an NVIDIA GPU sitting out of the data path, the company unlocks the full performance of modern flash-delivering millions of IOPS and tens of gigabytes per second of throughput-while protecting data for AI, HPC, cloud, and enterprise workloads.