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Jackie Wu
Jackie Wu is the founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics, a company that builds fully autonomous drones that fly indoors and count warehouse inventory without beacons, GPS, Wi-Fi, or a human at the controls. A Northwestern-trained roboticist who spent time inside warehouses on four continents, he grew tired of watching people climb ladders with clipboards and barcode guns, and decided to teach a drone to do it instead. Corvus designs and manufactures its drones in California, went through Y Combinator, and raised a Series A in 2024 to push warehouses toward a lights-out future.
Marc Gyoengyoesi
Marc Gyoengyoesi is the founder and CEO of OneTrack.AI, a Chicago company that puts AI cameras on forklifts to give warehouses the kind of real-time visibility that factory floors take for granted. He started out building autonomous inventory drones at Northwestern's startup incubator as Intelligent Flying Machines, crashed one on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in front of 2,500 people, picked up 12 stitches from another crash in development, and concluded that the cameras mattered more than the things flying them. Today OneTrack runs on deep learning, computer vision and distributed computing across trillions of images, turning forklift footage into safety alerts, shipment validation and operational intelligence.
Corvus Robotics
Corvus Robotics builds fully autonomous indoor drones that count warehouse inventory without human operators or any added infrastructure. Its flagship system, Corvus One, flies through aisles using an onboard AI world model - no GPS, Wi-Fi, fiducial markers, or beacons required - scanning barcodes and pallets to deliver near real-time inventory visibility at claimed 99.9% accuracy. Founded in 2017 out of MIT and backed by Spero Ventures and S2G Ventures, the company targets the slow, manual, error-prone problem of physical inventory counts in distribution centers and production plants.