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The Agency That Refused to Pick a Lane
KPS3 built a national agency from Reno by treating specialization as a team sport - then letting the search data, the public mood, and the occasional wine-splash machine decide what happens next.
The Reno Company That Decided a House Is Just Data Waiting to Be Read
Clear Capital started as a foreclosure-vendor directory run out of Lake Tahoe. Twenty-five years later it valuates homes for Fannie Mae, scans floor plans with a phone, and just took its first-ever outside check from a Chicago buyout shop.
Elemental LED Inc.
Elemental LED (now operating as Elemental Brands) is a Reno, Nevada engineering and manufacturing company that designs, builds and sells linear low-voltage LED lighting. Founded in 2008 at the dawn of the LED era and led by founder Randy Holleschau, it has grown into a multi-brand platform - Diode LED, Lucetta, Lucetta CI, Gammalux and Elemental LED - covering distribution, specification, custom integration and architectural markets. The company holds patents across optics, LED light engines, drivers and power, manufactures in the United States for Buy America compliance, and serves customers ranging from electrical contractors to Apple, Google, NASA and Marriott.
Positron AI
Positron AI designs purpose-built inference hardware for transformer models, aiming to make Nvidia GPUs optional for running large language models at production scale. Its first product, Atlas, ships from US fabs and claims roughly 3x lower latency and 4x better performance-per-watt versus an H100 system.