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AMPL Optimization
AMPL Optimization builds the algebraic modeling language of the same name - a tool that lets engineers and analysts describe huge, messy real-world decision problems in clean mathematical notation and then hand them to any of dozens of solvers. Born at Bell Labs in the 1980s and now an independent California company, AMPL is used by more than 100 corporations across 40-plus industries to run optimization in production, from power grids and supply chains to portfolios and airline schedules.
SmarTrak.ai
SmarTrak.ai is an AI-native sales engine built by Cisco partners for Cisco partners. It unifies fragmented install-base data pulled from 30-40 sources across Cisco, distributors, partners, and customers, then turns it into prescriptive intelligence that tells channel partners what to sell, when to sell it, and how to grow adoption. Instead of static dashboards, the platform surfaces renewals, upsell gaps, and expansion opportunities so sales, customer success, and operations teams work from a single view of recurring revenue.
Augury
Augury is an industrial AI company that helps manufacturers hear what their machines are trying to say. By bolting IoT sensors onto pumps, motors and fans and feeding their vibration, temperature and magnetic data to machine-learning models, Augury predicts and prevents mechanical failures before they cause unplanned downtime. Founded in 2011 in Israel and now headquartered in New York, the company pioneered the 'Machine Health' category, expanded into 'Process Health' for production-line optimization, and serves 500+ manufacturers including PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, DuPont and Heineken. It reached unicorn status in 2021 and maintained a $1B+ valuation with a $75M Series F in 2025.
Ian Christopher
Ian Christopher is the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Qventus, the AI-powered hospital operations platform backed by KKR and Bessemer Venture Partners. A Stanford-trained computational engineer, he co-built Qventus from a 2012 YC startup into a $400M+ company that automates how hospitals manage patient flow, surgical scheduling, and care coordination - reducing staff burnout and cutting length of stay for major health systems across the US.
Hypersonix Inc.
Hypersonix is an agentic AI platform purpose-built for retail and eCommerce profitability. Its flagship product, ProfitGPT, gives merchants autonomous decision-making across pricing, promotions, forecasting, and inventory - replacing weeks of analyst work with minutes of AI-driven insight. With 5M+ SKUs optimized and 100K+ daily autonomous pricing decisions, Hypersonix helps retailers like LVMH, Woodman's Market, and Rogers Sporting Goods capture margin lift of 10-12% within 90 days.
Alok Aggarwal
Dr. Alok Aggarwal is the CEO and Chief Data Scientist of Scry AI, a San Jose-based enterprise AI company he founded in 2014. A Johns Hopkins PhD with deep roots at IBM Research and as co-founder of Evalueserve - where he coined the term 'Knowledge Process Outsourcing' - Aggarwal has spent four decades building AI systems that actually work in regulated industries. His 2023 book 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution & 100 Years of AI (1950-2050)' topped Amazon bestseller charts in multiple categories. Scry AI serves banking, insurance, manufacturing, and government clients with explainable, audit-ready AI deployed on 60+ proprietary models.