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Sekilo
Sekilo is a Jakarta-based B2B company building an AI-powered halal protein supply chain for Indonesia's foodservice industry, starting with poultry. Formerly the quick-commerce grocery startup Dropezy (YC W22), it pivoted in 2023 to process and distribute chicken to caterers, restaurant chains, industrial buyers, and processed-meat factories. Sekilo unifies procurement, processing, cold chain, and delivery into a single asset-light operating layer, handling custom orders from 25kg for small caterers up to 10-20 tons for large buyers.
Oxipital AI
Oxipital AI is a Bedford, Massachusetts company building AI-enabled machine vision systems for food processing, agriculture and consumer-goods manufacturing. Emerging in 2024 from the rebrand of Soft Robotics after that company sold its gripper hardware line to Schmalz, Oxipital AI now centers on its V-CORTX vision platform and VX2 hardware, which use synthetic data and computer vision to handle quality inspection, foreign-object detection, yield optimization and vision-guided robotic picking in high-variability production lines.
RIOS Intelligent Machines
RIOS Intelligent Machines was a Menlo Park robotics company building AI-powered dexterous robots for factories, warehouses, and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by former Xerox PARC engineers, RIOS pioneered haptic intelligence and tactile sensing for industrial robots, deploying systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, food processing, and wood products before archiving the company in 2026.