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An IoT-enabled lab for cannabis farmers, a system for catching drones mid-flight and the Internet of Cows are a few of the 17 startups
what computers and cows have in common
The founders discovered the need while getting their MBAs at Stanford, after one had completed a PhD in aeronautics
But creating these experiences means creating 3D models of thousands of products
Today, artists slog through this process, outputting a few models per day
Lightbox wants to eliminate the humans
This duo of recent UPenn and Stanford Computer Science grads claim their approach to 3D scanning is pixel perfect without needing artists
revenue today and growing fast
Farmers today test the chemical composition of their crops through outsourced labs
The CEO has a PhD in chemical physics, and formerly helped the Department of Defense keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of
Walmart.com product search
They now want to solve two major problems facing the online apparel industry: the need to provide curated inspiration to shoppers and the
need to offset rising customer acquisition costs by selling more per order
Enterprises would use servers primarily for function-driven applications like billing
Today, servers are all about big data, analytics and insight
Intensivate thinks servers need a new chip upgrade to reflect that change
They are building a new CPU they claim gets 12x the performance for the same cost
Hardware plays like this are hard to pull off, but this might be the team to do it
It includes the former co-founder and CEO of CPU startup QED, which was acquired for $2.3 billion, and a PhD in parallel computation who was
Integry provides app creators their own integrations marketplace with pre-boarded partners so they can have apps working with theirs from
The vision is to enable app creators to mimic their own Slack app directory without spending the years or the millions
Because these integrations sit inside their app, Integry claims setup rates are significantly better and churn is reduced by as much as 40
year and make cows healthier at the same time
The product identifies cows in the barn by their unique black and white patterns
Algorithms collect parameters such as walking distance, interactions with other cows, feeding patterns and other variables to detect
Then the system sends alerts to farm employees when they need to take action, and confirms the problem has been solved
VadR thinks the cause is a broken feedback loop of analytics to the creators
This trio of IIT-Delhi engineers has built machine learning algorithms that get smarter over time and deliver actionable insights on how to
Managers use Tika as an AI-powered assistant over Slack to facilitate personalized conversations with engineering teams
The problem AR/VR is compute-intensive
Latency, bandwidth and poor load balancing kill AR/VR on mobile networks
and building edge clouds to offload the work
hundreds of thousands of false alarms, requiring lots of human involvement
The engineering trio founding team combines a secret sauce of contextual data with their own deep models to solve this problem
They claim a 6x reduction in human monitoring needs with their tech
inadequate embedded software options making products late to market and exposing them to security and interoperability issues
The Ubiquios wireless stack wants to simplify the development of wireless IoT devices
The company claims their stack results in up to 90 percent lower cost and up to 50 percent faster time to market
They have 16 employees, 92 customers and generate several million in revenue annually
Their goal is to convert that into a sales channel for hotspot owners
Their first product is a digital menu that transforms the login screen into a food ordering screen for hotels and restaurants
powerful type of AI called continual learning
LoadTap explicitly calls out that it is not one
This team, which includes an Apple software architect and founder with a family background in trucking, is an enterprise SaaS-only solution
for shippers who prefer to work with their pre-vetted trucking companies in a closed loop
LoadTap automates matching between the shippers and trucking companies using AI and predictive analytics
information visually, starting with the oil and gas industry
For these industrial customers, the platform provides a better way to understand real-time IoT data, operational and job site safety issues
and how reliable their systems are
The product launched two months ago, they have closed three customers already and are projecting ARR in the six figures
They have raised $350,000 in funding.
