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Ideagen built a billion-pound business on “prove it”
A missing signature. An outdated procedure. Sixty people reviewing the same document. Ideagen sells order to organizations that cannot afford to lose the paper trail.
The Quality-Control Room That Learned to Listen
MaestroQA turned the dreary ritual of spot-checking support tickets into a searchable record of what customers actually say. Its next act is bigger, stranger, and now called Rippit.
The Machine Shop That Fired Its ERP - Then Sold the Shop to Build a Better One
ProShop began as a survival tool inside a growing CNC business. Now more than 700 manufacturers use its all-in-one system to quote work, guide the floor, prove quality and remember what their best machinists know.
Andrea Walter Put a Lean Factory Mindset Inside the Marketing Department
The Ease.io CMO has spent more than 20 years moving from brand campaigns to enterprise software. Her sharpest idea is also her simplest: marketing should work like a good production system - visible, useful and built to improve.
SafetyChain Found Millions Hiding in the Factory's Most Boring Problem
Food plants do not usually lose money in one cinematic breakdown. They lose it a gram, a form and a late corrective action at a time. SafetyChain built a business by making those small failures visible while there is still time to fix them.
Trustwell Wants to Follow Your Food From Recipe to Recall
Food companies still run critical work through spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected systems. Trustwell is stitching formulation, labels, suppliers and recalls into one long chain of evidence.
Propel Put the Product Record on Salesforce. Now It Wants AI to Do the Chasing.
The Redwood City software company made one unfashionable bet in 2015: the product record should live beside the customer record. A decade later, that shared data model is the pitch - and the price of making it real can run from five figures to nearly seven.
Qualio Turned the FDA’s Paperwork Problem Into a $64 Million Software Bet
A pharmacist saw life-science teams trying to prove product quality with paper, spreadsheets and disconnected software. Fourteen years and roughly $64 million in funding later, Qualio is betting that audit readiness can become a continuous operating system - with humans still holding the pen.
Brandon Henning Built a Career in the Quiet Machinery Behind Modern Labs
From factory-floor systems to AI-assisted research, Brandon Henning has spent three decades making regulated work easier to trace, manage, and improve.
The Factory Software Behind Fighter Jets Has a New Assignment: Make AI Auditable
iBASEt spent four decades turning aerospace shop-floor paperwork into a digital record. Now it is betting that the same governed data can make factory AI useful without asking engineers to trust a black box.
Greenlight Guru Put Medical-Device Paperwork in the Cloud - Now It Wants the Whole Product Lifecycle
A medical device can be brilliant and still die in a badly managed document trail. Greenlight Guru built a business around preventing that expensive, deeply unglamorous failure - then expanded from quality records into product development, clinical evidence and AI-assisted work.
The Contact Center Winner Depends on the Work
Six platforms promise a better customer conversation. The useful choice starts with the work your team actually does, the systems it already runs and the operational muscle it is ready to build.
The Contact Center Compliance Shortlist Is Smaller Than It Looks
Eight cloud contact center vendors promise control. The real divide appears in audit evidence, data architecture, accessibility and the fine print around recordings, payments and resilience.
The Contact Center Has Plenty of Data. SuccessKPI Wants It to Make a Decision.
SuccessKPI built its business around a stubborn enterprise problem: customer conversations generate mountains of evidence, but too little action. Its platform connects the listening, scoring, coaching and staffing work that contact centers usually handle in separate systems.
Sitemate
Sitemate is a Sydney-based software company building no-code tools for the 'built world' - construction, infrastructure, energy, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing. Its flagship platform Dashpivot lets field and office teams replace paper forms, spreadsheets and PDFs with customisable digital workflows for safety, quality, compliance and project records, while Flowsite connects that data to other business systems. Used by thousands of companies across 150+ countries and backed by Blackbird, Sitemate is now positioning itself as a front-line AI company for industrial teams.
EthonAI
EthonAI (now branded Ethon) is a Zurich-based industrial AI company, spun out of ETH Zurich in 2021, that builds a Manufacturing Analytics System for factories. Its no-code platform layers on top of existing factory data sources to detect visual defects, monitor processes and run autonomous root cause analysis, using causal AI to explain what drives production variation. Customers including Siemens, Lindt & Sprüngli, Bosch and Roche use it to cut quality losses by up to 50% and raise productivity while keeping engineers in the decision loop.
Ease.io
Ease.io is an Irvine, California software company that makes EASE, a cloud-based audit and inspection platform for manufacturers. The platform digitizes and automates plant-floor workflows - layered process audits, safety inspections, 5S evaluations, Gemba walks and custom audits - along with scheduling, task assignment, data collection, corrective actions and reporting. What began as an on-premises work-instructions tool has become a native SaaS platform used by leading manufacturers such as Dana, Tenneco, Eaton, 3M, Bosch and Aston Martin across 50+ countries, helping quality and operations teams turn plant-floor data into real-time insight and closed-loop issue resolution.
Ideagen EHS
Ideagen EHS is the environmental, health and safety arm of Ideagen, a UK-headquartered governance, risk and compliance software company. Built on technology that includes the acquired DevonWay platform, Ideagen EHS gives manufacturers, energy and nuclear operators, aviation, maritime and government organisations one place to run incident reporting, risk assessment, audits and inspections, environmental compliance, occupational health and industrial hygiene. It layers AI over that data to draft investigations, map regulations and surface risk, aiming to move regulated, high-consequence workplaces from disconnected spreadsheets to continuous, audit-ready compliance.
Katalon
Katalon is an Atlanta-based software company that builds an AI-augmented, all-in-one quality management platform for software testing. Its flagship products - Katalon Studio, TestOps, TestCloud, and the newer TrueTest - let QA and DevOps teams create, run, and analyze automated tests across web, mobile, API, and desktop applications with both low-code and full-code approaches. Spun out of KMS Technology, Katalon is used by more than 30,000 teams across 80+ countries and has repeatedly been named a G2 Leader in software testing.
RegDesk
RegDesk is an AI-powered regulatory information management platform for medical device, IVD, and pharma companies. It gives regulatory teams 24/7 access to up-to-date requirements across 120+ markets, automates submission-ready applications (GSPR checklists, Essential Principles, Declaration of Conformity), tracks changing regulations with daily alerts, and coordinates distributors - compressing submission work that once took three to six months into roughly a week.
ValGenesis
ValGenesis is the pioneer of digital validation for the life sciences industry. Founded in 2005 in Santa Clara, California, the company invented the Validation Lifecycle Management System (VLMS) - the first proven, 100% paperless, end-to-end validation platform - and now builds Smart GxP, an AI-enabled platform that unifies risk-based validation and process lifecycle management. Trusted by 30 of the world's top 50 life sciences companies, ValGenesis helps pharma, biotech, and medical device makers replace paper-based validation with governed, auditable, AI-assisted digital workflows.
Tulip Interfaces
Tulip Interfaces is a Boston-area software company that gives factory-floor workers a no-code platform to build the apps, dashboards, and connected-machine workflows that run modern operations. Spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2014, Tulip treats human operators as the most valuable resource on the shop floor rather than something to automate away. Its composable platform stitches together people, machines, sensors, and AI into 'frontline operations' apps used by more than 200 manufacturers across pharma, medical devices, aerospace, and consumer goods. In January 2026 the company raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi Electric at a $1.3B valuation, crossing into unicorn territory.
Robert Felton
Robert 'Bob' Felton is a serial entrepreneur and nuclear-turned-software pioneer who has founded three enterprise software companies over a 40-year career - TENERA, Indus International, and DevonWay - each leveraging new computing paradigms to serve the nuclear and utilities industries. After Ideagen acquired DevonWay in September 2023, Felton now serves as CEO of Ideagen EHS, bringing his lifelong mission of transforming industrial operations through software full circle. A Cornell-trained mechanical engineer and decorated Navy submarine officer, Felton coined the term 'Enterprise Asset Management' alongside Gartner Group and took two companies public before building DevonWay's no-code platform for EHS, quality, and workforce management.