The Andover software maker spent seven slow years selling PLM the usual way. Its 2007 reset - free software, paid certainty, and customizations that survive upgrades - turned a near-stall into an enterprise foothold.
The quiet low-code veteran built a business on replacing brittle spreadsheets with governed web apps. Its next bet is that the same database layer can make enterprise AI useful, permissioned and boring enough to trust.
Cogniac Corporation is a Silicon Valley company building an enterprise-grade, no-code computer vision platform that lets non-experts train and deploy AI models on visual data. Founded in 2015 by Ruckus Wireless veteran Bill Kish and Amy Wang, Cogniac turns cameras and images into operational insight - inspecting products, detecting defects, monitoring safety, and automating document handling across manufacturing, transportation, automotive, government, and logistics. Backed by roughly $46M from investors including National Grid Partners, Cisco Investments, and Autotech Ventures, it counts BNSF Railway, Ford, Georgia-Pacific, Doosan Bobcat, and Trimac among its customers.
Modo Labs is a Boston-based software company that lets universities and enterprises build branded mobile and web apps without deep engineering teams. Born from an open-source MIT project, its no-code/low-code platform stitches together backend systems - student records, HR, calendars, building controls - into one personalized digital experience for campuses and workplaces. Its Modo Campus and Modo Workplace products serve organizations across 100+ countries, and the company was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications.
VANTIQ is a Walnut Creek, California software company that builds a low-code platform for real-time, distributed, event-driven applications. The platform acts as a master orchestrator for agentic AI, generative AI, edge computing and IoT - letting enterprises sense events as they happen, reason over them with AI and multi-agent systems, and act in the moment for mission-critical outcomes across healthcare, defense, disaster response, manufacturing, energy and the public sector.