AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

In 2016, AiFi's founders recognized a critical gap in how businesses understand their physical spaces. Traditional analytics relied on point-in-time audits, fragmented signals, and guesswork - leaving retailers and venue operators with incomplete pictures of what was happening in their environments. Seeing an opportunity to bring the same clarity to the physical world that data provides to the digital realm, they built AiFi - a spatial intelligence platform that uses computer vision to create real-time, 3D digital twins of any space. Today, AiFi has grown into the world's largest spatial intelligence platform, deployed across 16 countries with a team of 100+ employees representing 22 nationalities. Their camera-only technology enables autonomous shopping experiences, eliminates checkout lines, and provides continuous insights into occupancy, dwell times, journey paths, and conversion rates. By making the physical world as searchable and observable as the digital one, AiFi empowers major clients like ALDI, LA Clippers, Golden State Warriors, and Compass Group to unlock 24/7 operations, reduce fraud, and create seamless customer experiences - all while maintaining privacy by design with GDPR and CCPA compliance.

Percipient.ai is a Silicon Valley-based advanced analytics firm delivering artificial intelligence products and services to solve the most pressing intelligence and national security missions. The company's flagship Mirage platform transforms raw data into actionable intelligence through state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning technologies. Used by multiple organizations in the US Intelligence Community, Mirage provides faster-than-real-time exploitation of unstructured multimedia visual and intelligence data, enabling critical analysis from ground, air, and space-based sources. Founded in 2017 by Balan Ayyar, a retired US Air Force Brigadier General with combat experience in Afghanistan, Percipient.ai was built on the principle that well-crafted machine learning software supporting human decision making is essential for modern national security. The company's HUMAN WORK AT MACHINE SPEED™ philosophy emphasizes accelerating human understanding through integrated AI-powered workflows, allowing analysts to know what can be known in the time required to protect shared values and national interests.

Twosense builds continuous authentication platforms that eliminate passwords and secure user identities through behavioral biometrics. The company's AI-powered system analyzes unique user patterns - including typing speed, mouse movement, and device interaction - to verify identity in real-time without interrupting workflows. Organizations across healthcare, financial services, and contact centers deploy Twosense to achieve passwordless access, stop session hijacking, and enforce zero-trust security policies automatically. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, Twosense launched with the U.S. Department of Defense as its first customer before expanding to enterprise clients. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing IAM infrastructure from providers like Okta, Microsoft, and OneLogin, using Continuous Access Evaluation (CAEP) signals to maintain real-time security posture. By replacing manual authentication with automated behavioral analysis, Twosense removes the single largest vulnerability in most organizations: human behavior.

In 2015, Kata.ai's founders recognized a critical gap in how businesses were engaging with customers through conversational interfaces. They saw that existing chatbot solutions were rigid, impersonal, and fundamentally unable to truly understand the nuances of human conversation - especially in Indonesia's complex linguistic landscape. So they built Kata.ai, an Indonesian Conversational Artificial Intelligence company with a focus on enhancing the understanding of human conversations and improving the way humans collaborate with machines. The company's proprietary Natural Language Processing technology powers intelligent chatbots and virtual assistants for major corporations across Indonesia, serving industry leaders like Unilever (FMCG), Telkomsel (Telco), Bank BRI (Financial Services), and Alfamart (Retail). Through their Kata Bot Platform, businesses of any size can build feature-rich chatbots on any messaging platform while focusing on designing engaging customer interactions. From Jakarta, the team has grown into a trusted partner for global technology companies including Microsoft, Accenture, and Line. Backed by Series-A funding in 2017 from Trans-Pacific Technology Fund and Series-B funding in 2020 from TransPacific Technology Fund and MDI Venture, Kata.ai continues to push the boundaries of what conversational AI can achieve for enterprises.

In early 2021, as marketers grappled with the exploding potential of generative AI and its complex implications for brand consistency, Jasper emerged as the purpose-built AI platform that marketing teams actually needed. The founders recognized that while generic AI tools could generate content, they couldn't maintain brand voice, understand strategic context, or integrate into existing marketing workflows at enterprise scale. So they built Jasper - a comprehensive AI platform that combines advanced language models with deep marketing intelligence and proprietary brand knowledge. Today, Jasper has evolved from an AI writing assistant into a full-stack marketing AI platform trusted by nearly 20% of the Fortune 500. The company's platform includes intelligent agents for automating workflows, a Brand IQ system that ensures on-brand content at scale, and an API-first architecture that integrates seamlessly into existing marketing technology stacks. With over 100,000 active customers and recognition as one of Fast Company's Top 15 Most Innovative AI Companies of 2024, Jasper continues to pioneer how marketing teams operationalize AI. The company, which reached unicorn status in 2022, remains headquartered in San Francisco with a remote-first team spanning the US, France, and Australia.

Norm Ai transforms regulatory compliance by converting complex laws, regulations, and corporate policies into AI agents. The company's proprietary Legal Engineering Automation Platform empowers organizations to embed compliance checks directly into business workflows, reducing what once took days into minutes. Trusted by institutions managing over $30 trillion in assets, Norm Ai delivers reliable, transparent, and scalable compliance solutions that enable enterprises to move faster while maintaining rigorous regulatory standards. Founded by John Nay following a decade of research at Stanford's intersection of AI and law, Norm Ai has pioneered Legal Engineering - a discipline that enables lawyers to build and supervise domain-specific AI agents. The platform combines frontier AI technology with deep legal expertise to provide context-aware compliance determinations. With SOC2 Type 1 & Type II certification and backing from leading investors including Blackstone, Bain Capital, and Vanguard, Norm Ai sets the standard for regulatory AI across global enterprises.