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Siemens
The company Werner von Siemens started with a telegraph in 1847 now wants to be the operating system for the physical world - one factory, train, and power grid at a time.
YC Corporation
YC Corporation is a Seoul-based digital transformation company that helps small and mid-sized Korean manufacturers go digital. As an official Autodesk partner, it supplies and consults on CAD/CAM/PLM software (Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Inventor, PowerMill), builds its own YC Smart Line MES, and sells the hardware - CNC routers, laser markers, 3D printers and IoT sensors - to run it. Founded in 2022 and bootstrapped, the company reached roughly 7 billion won in revenue by mid-2024 by focusing on shops that earlier smart-factory programs overlooked.
Garth Coleman
Garth Coleman is the CEO of Canvas GFX (Canvas Envision), a Boston-based manufacturing software company building tools that turn engineering data into interactive, 3D visual work instructions for frontline factory workers. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from Babson, he spent roughly 19 years at Dassault Systemes leading global strategy for 3D visualization, PLM, AR/VR, and generative AI before taking the top job at Canvas. He champions a 'connected knowledge' approach to manufacturing, arguing that the industry modernized its products and processes but left the people on the floor relying on static PDFs and printed checklists.
Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering builds an AI-native requirements and systems-engineering platform that lets complex hardware teams design, build, test, and iterate at software speed. At its core is a connected 'systems graph' that keeps requirements, CAD, code, simulations, tests, and certification artifacts in one live system of record - with AI agents running impact analysis and keeping everything aligned. Founded by mechanical engineer Pari Singh, Flow is used by companies like Rivian, Joby Aviation, Astranis, Stoke Space, and Figure, and raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia in October 2025.
Personal AI
Personal AI (legally Human AI Labs, Inc.) builds an identity-based memory layer and Personal Language Models (PLMs) - compact, individually trained AI models that capture a person's or organization's knowledge, voice, and decision-making. Instead of a single generic chatbot, the platform lets people and enterprises create AI personas trained on their own data, keeping ownership and privacy with the user. Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, the company positions its smaller, memory-grounded models as a more accurate, lower-cost, privacy-first alternative to centralized cloud LLMs for sales, healthcare, legal, HR and knowledge work.
Specright
Specright is the first cloud-based, patented platform for Specification Data Management - the digital backbone that captures the DNA-level data of products, packaging, formulas, and bills of materials in a single source of truth. Founded in 2014 by packaging veteran Matthew Wright, it helps the world's largest brands and challenger startups cut costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce waste by replacing scattered spreadsheets with connected, auditable specification data. The platform now hosts more than 5 million products and is layering AI across formulation and spec-first PLM workflows.
Symetri USA
Symetri USA - formerly Microdesk - is an Autodesk-focused technology consultancy serving the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry. Founded in 1994 and acquired by Sweden's Symetri (an Addnode Group company) in 2022, it helps design, construction and asset-owner teams work smarter through BIM, VDC, digital twins, enterprise asset management and its own Naviate software line. Together with its European parent, Symetri is the #1 Global Autodesk Solution Provider, serving more than 20,000 customers and 250,000 daily users with a stated mission of efficient, sustainable design.
QbDVision
QbDVision is an Austin-based software company building the first cloud platform for Digital CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), giving pharmaceutical and biotech teams a structured, single source of truth for product and process knowledge. By operationalizing Quality by Design principles, the platform replaces scattered documents and spreadsheets with connected, machine-readable data that accelerates drug development, tech transfer, and regulatory submissions. Founded in 2015 as CherryCircle Software, QbDVision now serves several of the world's largest biopharma organizations and CDMOs.
Alchemy Cloud, Inc.
Alchemy Cloud is an enterprise SaaS company building an AI-powered Applied Sciences Platform - a unified Electronic Lab Notebook, LIMS, and PLM system that helps specialty chemicals, materials, and consumer-goods R&D teams formulate, test, and commercialize products faster.