After decades running imaging operations, Richard Jones crossed to the software side. His wager at Glassbeam is practical: the best medical machine is the one ready when people need it.
The software started as a Google-like search box for baffling server logs. Two decades, 20,000 customers and one enormous acquisition later, Splunk is trying to make security and operations teams faster without making every byte take the expensive route through its index.
The Seattle startup wires up off-highway equipment - tractors, cranes, fire trucks - and hands technicians an AI that reads the machine's mind before anyone opens the panel.
A Princeton-and-Pune software company spent a decade wiring up shop floors. Now it is betting the most useful worker in the plant will be a piece of software you can talk to.