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Fundação CERTI and the art of making ideas work
A missing screw, a leaking current, a forest product without a buyer. Brazil’s Fundação CERTI has built a business around the awkward distance between a clever idea and something people can actually use.
SIMCO Electronics and the expensive art of being right
A factory can lose its rhythm over one overdue measuring tool. SIMCO Electronics combines calibration, repair and cloud software to keep the instruments - and their paperwork - ready for work.
PSC Biotech and the business of being believed
A medicine needs more than a promising molecule. PSC Biotech sells the people, software and manufacturing support that help turn scientific ambition into evidence an inspector can examine.
Oxford Metrics Knows How You Move. Now Comes the Harder Part.
Its cameras help animate game characters, study human gait and guide robot research. Oxford Metrics now wants the business of measuring the world to produce more predictable returns.
Nikon Spent a Century Perfecting Light. Now It Is Betting the Company on Everything Except Cameras.
The camera brand your grandparents trusted now etches microchips, prints jet parts in metal, and photographs living cells. In 2026 that pivot is running at a loss - and Nikon says that is the point.
Pantec Group
Pantec Group is a family-owned engineering company based in Ruggell, Liechtenstein, that has grown from a two-person mechatronics shop founded in 1990 into a group of specialized business units spanning industrial automation, motion control, metrology controllers, print-decoration systems and medical laser technology. Its control systems run high-precision machines in printing, textile, semiconductor and coordinate-measuring applications worldwide, while its medical arm, Pantec Biosolutions, develops the P.L.E.A.S.E. laser microporation platform for needle-free, painless drug delivery.
SirenOpt
SirenOpt is a San Leandro deep-tech company turning measurement blind spots in advanced manufacturing into real-time intelligence. Its PlasmaSens platform uses cold atmospheric plasma plus machine learning to non-destructively fingerprint materials on the production line, helping battery, semiconductor, aerospace, and power generation makers see what was previously invisible.
EUV Tech
EUV Tech builds the at-wavelength metrology tools that let the world's chipmakers see what their extreme ultraviolet lithography lines are actually doing. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Martinez, California, the company supplies reflectometers, pellicle measurement systems, phase-imaging tools and SuMMIT software to every major semiconductor foundry running EUV. In 2023 it raised a Series A led by Intel Capital.