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CafeX wants your old systems to learn new tricks
From in-app customer support to private AI, CafeX keeps returning to one awkward enterprise problem: the systems you depend on rarely work together as well as the people who use them.
Lifesize and the room that changed its mind
Lifesize helped put high-definition video in the boardroom. Its more revealing story is what happened when the meeting escaped the room - and the camera had to learn to welcome its rivals.
Appfire Killed Its Side Projects - Then Built a $200M Software Shelf
The company spent 12 years mixing software with services. Then it made one sharp bet on marketplace apps, raised $149 million, and turned the missing pieces inside Jira into a profitable portfolio with more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
Cyril Daloz
Cyril Daloz is the founder and CEO of iObeya, a French enterprise software company that digitizes the Japanese lean concept of the Obeya, a visual war room, so distributed teams can run their planning, brainstorming and problem-solving rituals on shared virtual boards. After two decades in enterprise IT and a first company, KAP IT, Daloz spotted the idea in 2011 while helping PSA Peugeot Citroen digitize its physical visual-management rooms. He has since grown iObeya into a platform used by large manufacturers, banks and aerospace and defense organizations, raising $17 million in Series A funding and opening offices across Europe, Asia and the United States.
Owl Labs
Owl Labs is a Boston-based company that builds AI-powered, 360-degree video conferencing devices for hybrid organizations. Its flagship Meeting Owl line is an all-in-one camera, microphone, and speaker that automatically pans and zooms to whoever is talking, aiming to give remote participants an equal seat at the table. Combined with its Owl Intelligence System software and its widely cited annual State of Hybrid Work report, Owl Labs positions itself at the intersection of meeting-room hardware and the broader conversation about how distributed teams work.
Emovid
Emovid is a Seattle-based B2B platform for asynchronous, multimodal business communication - video, audio, and text messages meant to replace long email threads and unnecessary meetings. Founded in 2023 by former Evite CEO Victor Cho, it layers AI summaries, transcripts, and 60+ language translation on top of each message, and pairs every video with a patent-pending Seal of Authenticity that verifies the speaker's identity and flags any AI alterations - positioning itself as 'Verified Human Communication' in an era of deepfakes and synthetic media.
Webex
Webex is the collaboration platform born from one of the web's first conferencing companies and now run by Cisco. It bundles meetings, calling, messaging, webinars, contact center, and a line of conference-room hardware into a single suite, layered with AI for transcription, real-time translation across dozens of languages, and agent assistance. It serves enterprises, governments, schools, and hospitals that need secure, large-scale communication for distributed teams.