Axmed

We're an enterprise integration company that's been around for over 20 years, quietly working behind the scenes to digitally transform enterprises of all sizes – more than 11,000 in 100 countries at last count. Our years of experience as pioneers in managed file transfer, B2B integration, API management, content services, and other mission-critical solutions continue to be a big difference-maker to our customers. But it's your customers' experience that really drives us. After all, no matter what your industry, you're in the customer experience business. Our team helps deliver brilliant digital experiences that extend the value of your heritage infrastructure and empower you to interact with customers wherever and however they want to engage. We give heritage IT infrastructure new life, helping organizations build on what they already have to digitally transform with secure, scalable, and reliable AI-ready ecosystems.

Axfood exists to make good, sustainable food accessible and affordable for everyone in Sweden. As the country's second-largest food retailer, the company operates through distinctive concepts including Willys, Hemköp, Snabbgross, and other brands that together serve millions of customers each week. Founded in 2000, Axfood has grown from SEK 30 billion to over SEK 80 billion in annual turnover, driven by a purpose to create more quality of life for all through food that's both responsibly sourced and competitively priced. The company operates an extensive IT organization with nearly 400 technology specialists building some of Sweden's most advanced digital solutions in e-commerce, logistics, automation, planning, and AI. Axfood's integrated approach spans the entire value chain - from procurement and logistics through its Dagab subsidiary to retail operations across urban and rural Sweden. With 13,000 employees and over 1,000 stores (274 group-owned), Axfood leverages scale and collaboration to challenge industry norms while driving sustainable growth that benefits customers, suppliers, and society at large.

Axi is a global, multi-regulated online trading broker trusted by thousands of customers in over 100 countries. Founded in 2007, the company has grown from a two-person startup in Sydney to an industry-leading trading platform with 360+ team members across 9 global offices. Axi provides access to 220+ financial instruments including forex, commodities, shares, indices, and cryptocurrency CFDs, with clients placing over $3.45 trillion in trades during FY25 alone. With more than 35 industry awards, Axi has established itself as a top global online trading company known for ultra-competitive pricing, lightning-fast execution, and innovative trading technology built on the industry-standard MetaTrader 4 platform. The company partners with major sports organizations including Manchester City, EC Bahia, and Girona FC, and offers unique programs like Axi Select - a funded trader program providing up to $1 million in capital to qualifying traders. Axi's commitment to transparency, reliability, and customer service has earned it recognition as "Most Trusted Broker" in multiple jurisdictions.

Axiado is redefining the very foundation of platform security in an era where software-based defenses are proving insufficient against sophisticated ransomware, supply chain attacks, and physical side-channel exploits. The company exists to secure the world's digital infrastructure from the silicon up, addressing a critical gap where traditional cybersecurity solutions fail to detect threats that can remain hidden for hundreds of days. By embedding artificial intelligence directly into hardware, Axiado's Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) provides the preemptive, real-time threat detection that modern cloud data centers, 5G networks, and accelerated computing platforms desperately need. The company's hardware-anchored approach integrates multiple critical security functions - including Root of Trust, Baseboard Management Controller, Trusted Platform Module, Hardware Security Module, and firewall capabilities - into a single system-on-chip protected by AI-driven threat detection. This innovative architecture doesn't just detect attacks; it stops them in real-time while also optimizing data center efficiency through dynamic thermal management that can reduce energy consumption by up to 50%. Backed by over $100 million in funding and recognized by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative companies, Axiado is partnering with industry leaders like Jabil and Gigabyte to make AI-driven platform security the default standard for the digital infrastructure powering our world.

In 1978, four pioneers - Geoff Ryding, Peter Rose, Andrew Wittkower, and George Swanson - founded Nova Associates in a converted chicken hatchery in Middleton, Massachusetts, with a singular vision: to build the world's first high current production implantation system. Their revolutionary NV-10-60 became the industry's first commercial high current implanter, setting the stage for decades of innovation. What started in a humble shed evolved through acquisitions by Eaton Corporation and eventually became Axcelis Technologies, which spun off as an independent company in 1995. Today, Axcelis stands as a global leader in ion implantation, delivering precision, purity, and productivity to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Built on the next-generation Purion platform, the company's equipment powers the production of everything from smartphones and computers to electric vehicles. With over 3,000 tools installed globally, 800+ technology patents, and 47 years of industry experience, Axcelis combines deep technical expertise with collaborative partnership to help customers achieve the highest quality and yield at the lowest cost of ownership.

In 2024, a team of world-renowned professors from MIT, the University of Toronto, and ICFO Barcelona recognized a fundamental limitation in artificial intelligence: while Large Language Models excelled at language and poetry, they struggled with the rigorous logic required for scientific and engineering applications. Traditional black-box AI couldn't provide the verification and reliability that engineers and scientists needed for mission-critical work in photonics, semiconductor design, and hardware development. This realization sparked the creation of Axiomatic AI - a company built on the belief that AI should empower human reasoning, not replace it. Axiomatic AI developed Automated Interpretable Reasoning (AIR), a revolutionary approach that combines reinforcement learning, LLMs, world models, and formal verification to create AI systems that prove their own correctness. Rather than generating hallucinated outputs, Axiomatic's platform delivers mathematically verifiable, error-free results by integrating formal proof systems with deep learning. Their mission, dubbed 'Mission 10X30,' aims to achieve a tenfold decrease in the time engineers spend tackling technical challenges by 2030. With backing from Kleiner Perkins and a team spanning Boston and Barcelona, Axiomatic AI is transforming how scientists and engineers approach discovery - enabling faster iteration without sacrificing rigor, and making the world's technical information truly intelligible.