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Sentry Data and the $400 million paper trail
A hospital can dispense the right drug and still buy its replacement on the wrong terms. Sentry Data built a business connecting those two moments - and Craneware paid $400 million to bring it inside.
Ary Indarapu Is Building the Part of Robotics That Begins After the Demo
The Avea Robotics co-founder is betting that robots will reach the real world through better operations, not prettier demos - one remote intervention at a time.
Avea Robotics
Avea Robotics builds Sentinel, ultra-low-latency software that lets a human operator step into a robot from anywhere in the world. When an autonomous robot gets stuck on an edge case, an operator teleoperates it back on track - keeping fleets running and capturing the intervention data that makes the next model better. Founded in 2026 by UIUC engineers Ary Indarapu and Vikram Vadrevu and backed by Y Combinator (P26), the company reports roughly $18K MRR and has helped deploy close to 30 robots.
Artis
Artis, LLC (Advanced Real-Time Information Systems) is a Herndon, Virginia defense and technology developer that builds systems for problems measured in microseconds. Founded in 1999 by Keith Brendley, the company is best known for active protection systems for military vehicles - Iron Curtain and its third-generation successor, Sentinel - that detect and defeat incoming rockets, missiles and drone-borne threats in fractions of a second. Beyond defense, Artis applies its high-speed sensing and parallel-processing work to highway worker safety, 3D imaging and pedestrian monitoring.