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Entropica Labs
Entropica Labs is a Singapore-based quantum software company building the infrastructure layer between quantum hardware and applications. Its tools - the Loom framework, Entwine visual IDE, and Quilt packager - let engineers design, validate, compile and deploy fault-tolerant quantum circuits with quantum error correction. Founded in 2018, the company works with hardware and control-stack makers including Xanadu, Quantum Machines, Rigetti and Quobly to close the programmability gap that stands between today's noisy qubits and useful, error-corrected quantum computers.
Swarmer
Swarmer builds combat-proven, hardware-agnostic autonomy software that lets a single operator command hundreds of drones - across air, sea and ground - as one coordinated swarm. Born out of the war in Ukraine and founded in 2023, its STYX, MINAS and TRIDENT products translate human objectives into autonomous action while keeping people in control of life-or-death decisions. The company's software has supported more than 100,000 real-world combat missions, raised a record $15M Series A, and went public on the Nasdaq in 2026 under the ticker SWMR.
Viam
Viam is a New York-based software platform that lets engineers build, deploy, and manage AI, data, and automation in the physical world across any hardware - from a single prototype to a global fleet. Founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam treats robots, sensors, cameras, and machines as programmable building blocks, giving hardware and software teams a common, modular, largely open-source stack. It powers everything from arena concession lines to robotic kitchens, marine sonar, and industrial equipment, and has raised $117M to date.
Flipturn
Flipturn is a New York-based software company building the unified control center for EV fleet and charger operations. Its hardware-agnostic, cloud platform connects to any OCPP-compliant charger, giving fleet operators and property managers real-time visibility into charger health, automated load balancing and demand-charge mitigation, driver billing with no app required, and AI-powered diagnostics. Founded in 2022 by Samsara and Stripe alumni Katie Siegel and Sashko Stubailo, Flipturn serves Fortune 500 fleets, municipalities, and multifamily operators, and raised an $11M Series A led by CRV in November 2024.
signageOS
signageOS is the hardware-agnostic operating layer for the world's digital signage networks. Born in Prague in 2016 from a frustration with proprietary device chaos, it gives developers a single set of APIs to write one HTML5 app and deploy it across 50+ signage platforms - Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, BrightSign, ChromeOS and the rest - while ops teams remotely monitor, troubleshoot and update every screen from one cloud console.
Stan Richter
Stan Richter is co-founder and CEO of signageOS, the company that built a unification layer between digital signage hardware and the CMS platforms that run on top of it. Founded in Prague in 2016, signageOS solves the fragmentation problem that has plagued digital signage for decades - dozens of SoC operating systems, dozens of manufacturers, no common API. Richter turned that chaos into a business, bootstrapped growth to global scale, raised $4.2M from Reflex Capital, relocated to San Francisco, won the 2025 Outstanding Individual award at the Global Digital Signage Awards, and in January 2026 unveiled Supra - an encrypted edge-streaming platform that extends the usable life of existing hardware by two to five years.