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Dino Mavrookas and the Case for a Thousand Boats
He left the SEAL teams for private equity, then left private equity to build boats. At Saronic, Dino Mavrookas is testing a blunt idea: an autonomous fleet matters only if a country can actually make it.
Canada Bet Billions on One Halifax Shipyard. Then It Had to Relearn How to Build a Navy.
Irving Shipbuilding turned a modernized Halifax yard into Canada's naval production line. Its first lesson was expensive: the real product is not a ship, but a workforce and supply chain that get better with every hull.
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.