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HSI Turned the Safety Binder Into a Feedback Loop - and 22,000 Customers Bought In
The company began with emergency-care instruction. Nearly five decades and a long acquisition campaign later, it sells a connected operating system for the unglamorous, consequential work of keeping people safe.
The Safety Software Bet: VelocityEHS Wants 10 Million Workers to Report the Thing That Almost Happened
The Chicago software company spent three decades assembling the unglamorous machinery of workplace safety. Its next wager is that better reporting - plus tightly supervised AI - can spot danger before a near miss becomes a headline.
Yu-Sung Chang
Yu-Sung Chang is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Vivity AI, an industrial AI company building software for heavy industries like petrochemicals, shipbuilding and manufacturing. A computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, he spent years at Wolfram Research working on Mathematica's graphics and geometry systems before moving into e-commerce technology leadership as CTO of Korea's SSG.COM and co-founding the healthcare AI startup Huma.AI. In 2022 he founded Vivity AI, which raised roughly $8.4M in a round backed by Hanwha Systems, to close the gap between the physical and digital worlds on the factory floor.
Vivity AI
Vivity AI is an industrial AI company building software that connects the physical factory floor to real-time machine intelligence. Its containerized Vivity Edge platform plugs into standard PLCs, IIoT sensors and CCTV systems to run computer-vision and anomaly-detection models on-site - powering Safety AI for accident prevention and Analytics for equipment failure detection. Founded in 2022 with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seoul, the company targets heavy industries like petrochemicals, energy, shipbuilding and heavy manufacturing, and is backed by South Korean strategic investor Hanwha Systems and Plug and Play.