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Zing Robotics: Ground service autonomous vehicles
Founded in 2021 by Ray Ames, Dante Zeviar and Brent Shedd, Zing Robotics provides purpose-built electric, Level 4 autonomous vehicles, with applications in aviation, industry, military and delivery operations.
YData: Ensuring high-quality data for successful AI
Founded in 2019 by Fabiana Clemente and Goncalo Martins Ribeiro, YData is the first development platform for data quality. YData helps Data Scientists access sensitive and better quality data which is essential to build and deploy scalable AI solutions.
Crispify: Air quality monitoring for Uber
Founded in 2018 by Adam Feldman, Yoad Langer and Ori Koren, Crispify is an air quality monitoring system for mobility-as-a-service fleets like Uber, Avis and Zipcar.
Neatleaf: Data-driven yield optimisation
Founded in 2020 by Ralf Schoenherr and Elmar Mair, Neatleaf is creating data-driven & autonomous agriculture for yield optimisation to impact both humans and the planet positively.
Spiden: Real-time continuous monitoring
Founded in 2017 by Leo Grünstein, Spiden develops an optical AI based technology to analyse blood, urine and other body fluids through real-time, continuous monitoring, thereby helping to increase safety and optimise treatment of critical and high-risk patients.
Trexo Robotics: Robots for children with disabilities
Trexo Robotics is building mobility devices for children with disabilities. The assistive technology can help children with a range of conditions such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, stroke and many other conditions affecting the mobility of the lower body. Children with physical disabilities often spend a lot of time sitting, which can adversely affect their health and wellbeing. Walking can have many functional and physiological benefits like improved cardiovascular health, maintenance of bone density and prevention of muscle contractures.
FYTO: Food for dairy cows and hens
Improving food production processes to increase sustainability and reduce the environmental impact from the meat and dairy industries is of utmost importance to meet the ever-increasing demand for food in an environmentally conscious way.
Wings: Autonomous Robots vor any business
Founded by Haitham Al-Beik, Wings is revitalising the services industry by introducing autonomous businesses designed with purpose-built robotics and intuitive end-to-end experiences — beginning with food service.
Lullaai: 109 min more sleep per night with: Baby Sleeping App
Studies have estimated that parents lose an average of 109 minutes of sleep per night in their baby’s first year, equalling around 40,000 minutes per year, and that’s just for one parent!
yoona.ai: Digital garment design to minimise production waste
Founded in 2020 by Anna Franziska Michel, an experienced fashion designer, artist and IT scientist, yoona.ai is disrupting the fashion sector with its software that creates infinite designs digitally without the production of physical garments, therefore saving corporate resources and allowing companies to minimise production waste.
Ryp LABS: Keeping fruit fresh longer
The UN estimates that over $2.6 trillion worth of food goes to #waste per year, which equates to a staggering 50% of all food produced.
Circuit Mind: Automating circuit board design
Founded by Tomide Adesanmi and Basilio Gentile in 2018, Circuit Mind is on a mission to inspire the next generation of hardware inventions. The startup is building Artificial Intelligence that automates the design of electronics circuit boards, empowering engineering teams to develop high quality and reliable electronic systems at lightning-fast speeds.
Faceki: Facial recognition for financial services
Founded by Hamza Al-Ghatam and Nabeel Radhi, FACEKI is leveraging the power of AI with their leading-edge facial recognition technology. Using biometric authentication, Faceki’s technology aims to enhance KYC and identity verification processes for customers accessing financial services.
Greencovery: Recovering organic acids and amino acids from side stream waste
Food production creates large amounts of waste during the manufacturing process, known as by-products or side streams. Upcycling the waste can help make use of the otherwise discarded ingredients and thereby reduce the CO2 footprint of the factories and help create more sustainable food products.
Wasteless: Supermarket item markdown based on expiration dates
Founded by Yossi Regev and Oded Omer in 2016, Wasteless helps supermarkets and online grocery stores to recapture the full value of their perishable products and cut their food waste by utilizing its AI-powered markdown optimization solution, pricing items based on their expiration date and perishability.
microTERRA: Cultivating algae in wastewater and utilising it as pet food
The fertilizer runoff from agriculture and animal manure are the two leading causes of water pollution. This causes excessive nutrients to end up in the waterways and directly impacts people's health, food and water security and biodiversity. To combat the problem, sustainable and scalable agriculture methods need to be employed.
Powermarket: Enabling locally produced electricity
Our communities are becoming more and more localized, especially as sustainability has come into greater focus… we have made increased efforts to support small businesses, get our food and get our clothes locally. But what about our electricity?
FORMULA: Personalised nootropics supplements
Founded in 2017 by Adam Greenfeld and Daniel Freed, Formula is a personalized nootropics company that uses data to offer tailored nootropic supplements for peoples' unique needs.
BioMilk: Sustainable production of high-value dairy products
As the consumption of dairy products is on an upward trend, sustainable and environmentally low impact production of #milk that fulfils similar nutritional needs is essential.
Aleph Farms: Lab-grown steaks from non-genetically engineered cells
Founded in 2017 by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg, Aleph Farms is a foodtech company that operates in the sustainable food ecosystem by cultivating real steak directly from the natural cells of cows.