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Activ Surgical

Healthcare

Activ Surgical

Activ Surgical is a digital surgery pioneer, envisioning a future of collaborative surgery, with surgical intelligence empowering scopes and robots to see what humans cannot see. The top surgeons in the world cannot be everywhere, but with Activ Surgical, their data and insights can be. Founded in 2017, Activ Surgical completed the world ￃﾢ￢ﾂﾬ￢ﾄﾢs first autonomous robotic surgery of soft tissue and is building hardware-agnostic surgical software that allows surgical systems to collaborate with surgeons.

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Galy

Biotech

Galy

GALY is growing the future.We are an army of dreamers that believe scientists are artists of a new era. We are envisioning a world where we can still produce sought-after materials without the physical turmoil we place on disadvantaged people and the planet. That is why we are revolutionizing the way we produce goods today and therefore sparking a much more sustainable form of doing agriculture.However, nobody takes innovation seriously until you scale it. We are on it! By developing intelligent scale-up strategies with cotton cells, as the in-vitro cotton production market has never been done on an industrial scale, we are capable of doing something truly new. With this mind, we gather a team of highly diverse subjects, ranging from genetic engineering, plant cell culture, bioreactor development, mathematics, statistics, designers, high-performance automation, stylists, illustrators, creative business development, marketing and branding strategies. A group with a strong sense of purpose on a mission to find ways to save our planet.

Hourwork

HR Tech

Hourwork

HourWork offers a new, better way to hire and retain hourly workers in today’s understaffed world. Our best-in-class recruitment and retention solutions help match employers with top hourly talent, uncover what matters most to employees, and automatically check in at key milestones to prevent early attrition. Our name is rooted in our commitment to celebrate and build the interdependent relationship between employers and employees. We partner with clients who see themselves as skill providers and who have a deep belief that their business is most successful when their employees feel successful, too. This understanding – coupled with our advanced HourWork technology – differentiates our customers from the abundance of employers ready to hire today as an employer of choice.

Appcues

Software

No-Code

Appcues

Appcues makes it easy to measure and improve product adoption—without a developer. The no-code platform empowers non-technical teams to track and analyze product usage, and publish beautiful in-app onboarding tours, announcements, and surveys, in minutes. Appcues is trusted by thousands of innovative product-led businesses around the world, including Amplitude, Yotpo, Pluralsight, MongoDB, Codepen, and SquareSpace. True to form, Appcues also makes it easy to get started.

Asimov

Biotech

Asimov

Headquartered in Boston, Asimov's mission is to advance humanity's ability to design living systems, enabling biotechnologies with outsized societal benefit. The company is developing a synthetic biology platform – from cells to software – to design and manufacture next-generation therapeutics, including biologics, cell/gene therapies, and RNA. Founded by bioengineers from MIT and Boston University, the company has raised over $200 million from top institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CPP Investments, Horizons Ventures, and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Asimov builds tools to program living cells. By integrating mammalian synthetic biology, computer-aided design, and machine learning, our multi-disciplinary team is advancing the design and manufacture of biologics and gene therapies.

FireCompass

Software

FireCompass

FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) & Attack Surface Management (ASM). It continuously indexes and monitors the deep, dark & surface web to map out an organization's digital attack surface including Shadow IT blind spots. The platform then automatically launches safe multi-stage attacks, mimicking a real attacker, to help identify attack paths before hackers do. The platform eliminates the need for multiple tools and significant manual effort while providing continuous and proactive security. FireCompass is a cutting-edge cybersecurity platform that focuses on continuous pen testing and red teaming. Their services ensure that businesses take a proactive approach towards their security, testing not just a fraction but the entirety of their external attack surfaces. This comprehensive approach ensures that peripheral assets, which might typically remain untested for extended periods, are continuously monitored. FireCompass is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, including top telecom companies in the USA, leading banks, financial services, insurance providers, IT/ITES companies, and major players in manufacturing and e-commerce.

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