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Smarten Spaces
Smarten Spaces is a Singapore-founded proptech company that builds AI, IoT and big-data software for managing hybrid workplaces and commercial real estate. Its flagship platform - marketed as Jumpree and, more recently, SpaceOnAI - lets enterprises book desks and meeting rooms on 3D floor maps, forecast space demand, roster teams, and analyze how offices are actually used. Founded in 2017 by former Cisco India president Dinesh Malkani, the company serves Fortune 500 clients across 30+ countries and integrates deeply with Microsoft Teams.
Lambent
Lambent is a Boston-based B2B software company that turns existing Wi-Fi and sensor data into anonymous, predictive occupancy and space-utilization analytics. Its SaaS platform, Lambent Spaces, helps space planners at colleges, universities and corporate campuses understand how buildings are actually used - without installing new hardware or tracking individuals - so they can make data-driven decisions about renovations, capacity, energy use and real estate. Founded in 2017 as Armored Things and rebranded to Lambent in 2022, the company works with customers including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and partners such as Siemens, Planon and HPE Aruba Networks.
Zerocater
Zerocater is a San Francisco food-tech company that helps businesses build better workplaces through food. It runs three core products - corporate catering, fully managed corporate cafeterias, and event catering - in a dozen U.S. cities, blending local restaurant and caterer partnerships with onsite hospitality teams and an in-house AI platform (FoodIQ) that personalizes menus and forecasts demand. Founded in 2009 out of a Y Combinator class, it serves companies like Robinhood, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey and is going after a roughly $182B corporate catering and cafeteria market.
Heartwork
Heartwork is a New York-based commercial furniture company that designs and manufactures steel storage solutions for the modern workplace. Founded in 2012 by Karen John, the company builds modular cabinets, credenzas, desks, and cloud-connected smart lockers from heavy-duty American steel, all GREENGUARD Gold certified and made to order in the USA. Heartwork turns the overlooked, drab world of office storage into design-forward, customizable furniture that helps companies express their culture while minimizing environmental impact.
Ali Sabeti
Ali Sabeti is the CEO and cofounder of Zerocater, the San Francisco food-tech company turning corporate cafeterias and catering programs into data-driven hospitality. A UC Irvine accounting summa cum laude who came up at Salesforce while it scaled from 5,000 to 30,000 people, he now runs a 180-person company that survived losing 98% of its business in the pandemic, tripled revenue in 2022, and raised a $15M Series C in 2023 to wire the hybrid office's lunch hour with AI-personalized menus and 450+ supplier partners.