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Fingermark
Fingermark is a New Zealand technology company that builds purpose-built AI, computer vision, and digital signage for quick-service restaurants. Its platform turns existing store cameras into operational intelligence (Eyecue), powers self-service ordering kiosks (Supersonic), and centrally manages digital menu boards (Supernova) - helping global chains like McDonald's, KFC and Yum! Brands serve customers faster and lift order accuracy and value.
Arcee AI
Arcee AI is a San Francisco-based open intelligence lab that builds small, efficient, US-made language models enterprises can own, customize and run inside their own infrastructure. Founded in 2023 by former Hugging Face and Roboflow operators, the company pioneered practical techniques like model merging (via its acquisition of mergekit) and Spectrum training, and has expanded from small language models into its own open-weight Arcee Foundation Model family, the Trinity mixture-of-experts models, and agentic products such as Arcee Conductor and Arcee Orchestra. Its pitch: smaller, domain-adapted models that rival frontier systems at a fraction of the cost while keeping data private.
Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs is a San Jose-based semiconductor company building optical input/output (I/O) technology that moves data between chips using light instead of copper. Its silicon-photonics chiplets - the TeraPHY optical engine and the SuperNova multi-wavelength light source - are designed to be co-packaged directly with GPUs and other processors, letting AI and high-performance-computing systems scale across thousands of accelerators with far higher bandwidth and far lower power than electrical interconnects. Spun out of a DARPA-funded university research effort, the company raised a $500M Series E in 2026 with backing from NVIDIA and AMD.