A former commodities trader noticed homeowners were flying blind on their own electricity. So he sold them a $100 box - and started wiring 400,000 basements into a grid-scale power plant.
The company Werner von Siemens started with a telegraph in 1847 now wants to be the operating system for the physical world - one factory, train, and power grid at a time.
Simr, formerly UberCloud, is a Los Altos, California company that automates engineering simulation in the cloud. Its SimOps (Simulation Operations Automation) platform lets design engineers run compute-heavy simulations - CFD, FEA and multi-physics workloads - on any cloud or on-premise hardware with leading tools like Ansys, Siemens and Dassault, without wrestling with the underlying HPC infrastructure. Founded in 2014 by Burak Yenier and Wolfgang Gentzsch, the company raised a $20M Series A in 2024 and counts major manufacturers and tech giants among its users.
RIIICO is a Düsseldorf-based deeptech startup turning LiDAR scans of real factories into intelligent, editable 3D models. Its AI segments and classifies every object on the shop floor, exports it as OpenUSD, and plugs into NVIDIA Omniverse and Siemens Tecnomatix so planners can redesign brownfield plants in a fraction of the usual time.