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EX.CO
EX.CO is a machine learning-driven video technology platform that helps publishers and media owners run, manage, and monetize video across web, mobile, CTV, and DOOH. Founded in 2012 as the interactive-content company Playbuzz and rebranded to EX.CO in 2019, the New York-based, Disney-backed company now offers an online video platform (OVP), a CMS, player technology, and an LLM-powered recommendation and yield engine used by publishers including Advance Local, Hearst Newspapers, The Arena Group, and Ziff Davis.
Aizon
Aizon is a San Francisco-based software company that builds AI solutions exclusively for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing. Its GxP-compliant platform ingests structured and unstructured production data to run electronic batch records, real-time process monitoring, predictive analytics and, increasingly, agentic AI that helps quality and operations teams cut deviations, improve yield and speed batch review. Formerly known as Bigfinite and founded in 2014, the company has raised roughly $45 million and counts pharma names such as Grifols and Curia among its users.
FloVision Solutions
FloVision Solutions builds AI-powered sensors that bolt onto food processing lines to measure yield, monitor quality, and track staff performance in real time. Founded in 2020 by Rian McDonnell and Elise Weimholt, the South Bend, Indiana company helps beef and poultry processors recover lost yield and cut waste at the source. Its compact vision, depth, and load-cell sensors have scanned over 23.2 million kilograms of food across North America, Europe, and Australia, with customers reporting up to 1.5% yield recovery and as much as 15x ROI. In July 2025 it raised an $8.7M Series A led by Insight Partners.
Instrumental Inc.
Instrumental is a manufacturing AI and data platform that helps brands like Meta, NVIDIA, Cisco, and Bose catch defects on the factory floor by aggregating images and signals from production lines and running discovery-driven machine learning on them. Founded by ex-Apple engineers, the company turns the noisy, siloed world of high-mix electronics assembly into a searchable, controllable dataset.
ZeeMee
ZeeMee is a higher education technology platform that bridges the gap between college-bound students and institutions through authentic community and behavioral intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, ZeeMee gives students a social space to showcase their personalities beyond transcripts while giving colleges AI-powered insights that predict enrollment intent with up to 98% accuracy. With 2.6M+ active student users, 300+ institutional partners, and a 4.7-star app rating, ZeeMee has quietly become one of the most influential platforms in college enrollment - helping students find roommates, discover campus culture, and connect with admissions teams before ever setting foot on campus.