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The Safety Company That Knows Your Training Is Already Fading
Intertek Catalyst built a business around an awkward fact: the safety lesson everyone understood on Monday may be gone by Friday. Its answer is part agency, part classroom and part behavioral nudge - repeated until the right action becomes habit.
HSI Turned the Safety Binder Into a Feedback Loop - and 22,000 Customers Bought In
The company began with emergency-care instruction. Nearly five decades and a long acquisition campaign later, it sells a connected operating system for the unglamorous, consequential work of keeping people safe.
The Safety Software Bet: VelocityEHS Wants 10 Million Workers to Report the Thing That Almost Happened
The Chicago software company spent three decades assembling the unglamorous machinery of workplace safety. Its next wager is that better reporting - plus tightly supervised AI - can spot danger before a near miss becomes a headline.
KPA Spent 40 Years Expanding. Then It Put the Whole Company Back in the Dealership.
The compliance company built a broad industrial software portfolio, then split it apart. Now KPA is betting that 150 consultants, 400-plus courses, and one dealer-specific dashboard beat a generic safety platform.
Omnigo Is Turning the Mess After an Incident Into One Searchable Record
Police reports, casino watchlists, hospital incidents and evidence lockers rarely speak the same language. Omnigo's bet is that they do not have to - as long as one configurable system can keep the record straight.
Avetta Turned Contractor Paperwork Into a Passport to Work
Avetta built a $3 billion business around an unglamorous question: is this contractor actually ready to step onto the site? Its answer combines software, audits and a network - while asking suppliers to do some of the paying and plenty of the paperwork.
Voxel Turned the Security Camera Into a Safety Coach
Warehouses already had the cameras. Voxel gave them a second job: spotting the near miss before it becomes an injury - and turning footage into a daily operating habit.
Black Diamond Radio Built a Business for Teams That Can't Afford a Dead Radio
The Aurora manufacturer started with an earpiece and discovered the bigger product was certainty: one-button communication, a human on the phone, and a replacement when somebody runs the radio over.
SFM Built a $1 Billion Balance Sheet by Trying to Stop the Next Injury
The Midwest workers' compensation mutual sells a required product, then spends its energy trying to make that product less necessary - through safety advice, medical coordination and an unusually patient view of the customer relationship.
The Company That Puts a Label on Almost Everything You Touch at Work
For 110 years, Brady has made the humble label a serious business. Now, fresh off a $1.4 billion deal for Honeywell's barcode-and-scanner unit, the Milwaukee manufacturer is betting that whoever labels the thing should also track it.
ArcLab
ArcLab is a Singapore-based mobile learning SaaS platform built for the frontline deskless workforce - the roughly 2.7 billion workers who don't sit at desks. Organisations use its AI-powered tools to turn documents into bite-sized 'nano learning' modules, deliver them on mobile in any language, and track uptake, compliance and skills gaps. It serves construction, logistics, manufacturing, food & beverage, retail and non-profit teams across Southeast Asia.
Foresight
Foresight is a San Francisco-based commercial insurtech that ties safe work practices to insurance savings. It writes workers' compensation coverage for hard-to-place middle-market businesses in industries like construction, manufacturing, agriculture and landscaping, bundling its Safesite safety platform, virtual safety coaching and AI-informed underwriting into every policy to prevent injuries, reduce claims and lower rates.
Intenseye
Intenseye is a New York-based enterprise AI company that turns existing factory and warehouse cameras into a 24/7 safety monitoring system. Its computer vision platform watches for unsafe acts and conditions - missing hard hats, people in forklift paths, blocked exits, ergonomic strain - and alerts safety teams in real time to help prevent serious injuries and fatalities. Founded in 2018 by Sercan Esen and Serhat Cillidag, the company protects more than 100,000 workers across 25+ countries and has raised over $90 million, including a record $64M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2024.
Impairment Science, Inc.
Impairment Science, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts neuroscience company behind DRUID, a smartphone app that measures cognitive and motor impairment from any cause - cannabis, alcohol, fatigue, medication, or illness - in about one to three minutes. Conceived in 2016 by longtime UMass Boston psychology professor Dr. Michael Milburn and incorporated in 2018, DRUID scores a person's reaction time, decision-making, hand-eye coordination, and balance against their own sober baseline. It is the only impairment technology with three published, peer-reviewed studies validating its accuracy, including research led by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty. The company now sells DRUID Enterprise, a cloud portal that lets employers in construction, mining, EMS, and other safety-critical industries run fitness-for-duty checks without a breathalyzer or urine sample.
Teamforce AI
Teamforce AI is a San Francisco-based B2B software company that helps manufacturers, warehouses, and logistics operations surface the hazards and near misses their formal reporting systems never catch. Built on the premise that frontline workers know the real risks but rarely speak up, its anonymous capture-and-verify platform surfaces hidden hazards, confirms that fixes actually changed behavior on the floor, and quantifies the dollars avoided - positioning itself as a 'system of proof' for operational risk rather than another suggestion box.
CompScience
CompScience is a San Francisco-based insurtech that runs computer vision and generative AI on a company's existing security cameras to spot more than 50 workplace hazards before they become injuries. It pairs that 'Visual AI' safety analytics with an active commercial workers' compensation insurance product, rewarding employers who act on the data with better insurance economics. The company says its system gives safety leaders roughly 300 times more data than a traditional walkthrough inspection, and it has set a public goal of preventing one million workplace injuries by 2035.
Coram AI
Coram AI is a Sunnyvale-based AI video security platform that transforms existing IP camera infrastructure into an intelligent security operation. Founded in 2022 by two PhD-holding ex-Lyft autonomous driving engineers, Coram replaces outdated, hardware-locked surveillance systems with a cloud-native platform featuring natural language video search, real-time AI threat detection, access control integration, and emergency management — all without requiring customers to rip out their existing cameras. The company serves industries from healthcare and education to manufacturing and warehousing, and in January 2025 raised a $13.8M Series A led by Battery Ventures.