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Lumana
Lumana is an enterprise AI video security company that turns ordinary IP cameras into real-time monitoring, detection and response systems. Founded in 2021 by former Intel computer-vision leaders and based in Los Gatos, California, Lumana pairs its proprietary VIA-1 vision model with vision language models and agentic AI to run analytics on more than a billion images a day - flagging weapons, fires, falls and unauthorized access, cutting false alerts, and letting security teams search footage across 100+ attributes. The company raised a $40M Series A in 2025, bringing total funding to $64M, and counts McDonald's, Meta, the Minnesota Twins and NYU among its customers.
Phaidra
Phaidra is a Seattle-based industrial AI company that builds self-learning, reinforcement-learning control agents for the world's most complex mission-critical facilities - chief among them the data centers powering the AI boom. Founded in 2019 by alumni of Google DeepMind and the HVAC and defense industries, Phaidra's software plugs into existing building automation and SCADA systems without new hardware, learns a facility's behavior, and continuously adjusts cooling, power and workload setpoints to cut energy use while improving reliability. The company raised a $50M+ Series B in October 2025 led by Collaborative Fund with participation from NVIDIA, positioning itself to make 'AI factories' radically more resource-efficient.