Nikos Iatropoulos

Maitly is the AI receptionist built specifically for restaurants. We help restaurant owners capture every missed call, booking, and customer question 24/7 without hiring more staff. Our AI answers phones in natural language, checks real-time table availability, books reservations, sends SMS confirmations, and handles common inquiries like hours, menu, and directions. Whether you’re a bustling local spot or a growing hospitality group, Maitly ensures no call and no revenue goes unanswered.

Tymeline is autonomous initiative orchestration for engineering leaders. Modern engineering programs lose roughly 30% of every engineers day to coordination work — drafting status, chasing dependencies, synthesizing meeting outputs, watching for slips. Tymeline absorbs that work with verified AI Employees that take complete roles inside your organization. Not copilots. Not assistants. Named teammates that own RTL design, verification, project coordination, vendor liaison, and code review — each one a verified identity in your IdP, each action cryptographically anchored, every consequential decision human-approved. The platform is operated under a Plan / Execute / Govern framework, powered by HyperOrg — Tymelines Autonomous Organizational Intelligence framework. AI Employees show up to the rituals your team already runs (standups, PR reviews, incident response, release trains, promotion gates), inside the channels your team already uses (Slack, Teams, Jira, Cadence, Synopsys, GitHub), without imposing new workflows. Tymeline deploys above your existing stack — not instead of it. SaaS, customer VPC, or fully air-gapped. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR compliant. Headquartered in Austin, with offices in Bangalore and London. Founded in 2021 by five co-founders carrying 89 combined years across enterprise software, distributed systems, hardware, and trust infrastructure. Built for engineering leaders running silicon, software, systems, and services & delivery programs at scale. tymeline.app

Turn your store into an AI Sales Agent. Recomaze is the AI Commerce OS for e-commerce. We make your products discoverable and sellable to AI everywhere. AI Discoverability – Audit your catalog. Fix whats broken. Score your AI readiness. AI Sales Agent – Deploy a conversational concierge that recommends, answers objections, and sells. AI Commerce OS – One data engine powering every AI touchpoint via APIs & MCP. Trusted by brands seeing +23% agent-influenced revenue. Works with Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce. Get your free AI audit → recomaze.ai

MixComm is the World Leader in mmWave Antennas-to-Algorithms Solutions. MixComm, based in Chatham, N.J., was co-founded in 2017 by Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy of Columbia University’s Engineering School and Frank Lane, formerly Senior Director at Flarion Technologies and Vice-President of Technology for Qualcomm. The company’s technology is based on breakthroughs from Dr. Krishnaswamy’s CoSMIC lab at Columbia University and is funded by Kairos Ventures. The founding team has a proven track record in RFIC research and development and in commercializing cutting-edge RF silicon at both startup and large semiconductor companies.

Actinobac Biomed, Inc. is a New Jersey based company with headquarters in North Brunswick. The current focus of its activities involves the development of pharmaceutical technologies based upon agents which target Leukocyte Function Antigen-1 (LFA-1).

Linnaeus Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel small molecule oncology therapeutics that target G protein-coupled receptors. The company was formed and launched in partnership with the UPstart incubator at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Center for Innovation (PCI).

Tanvas is pioneering the next generation of multi-touch haptic technology. Despite advances in graphics, sound and vibration, today’s touchscreen is still a lifeless window to the digital world. TanvasTouch surface haptics add a new dimension of interaction by bringing software-defined textures and feelings to smooth, physical surfaces. TanvasTouch can be built into any touch-enabled product across many applications including automotive, visually impaired, laptops, trackpads and commercial displays. The company was spun out of Northwestern University and is headquartered in Chicago.

Behavioral Signals (Behavioral Signal Technologies, Inc.) develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice-data. Transform your customers’ experience with AI-Mediated Conversations technology. Automatically match each customer to the best-suited agent using voice data and emotion AI, and see the overall performance and outcomes of your conversations reach higher levels

Maitly is the AI receptionist built specifically for restaurants. We help restaurant owners capture every missed call, booking, and customer question 24/7 without hiring more staff. Our AI answers phones in natural language, checks real-time table availability, books reservations, sends SMS confirmations, and handles common inquiries like hours, menu, and directions. Whether you’re a bustling local spot or a growing hospitality group, Maitly ensures no call and no revenue goes unanswered.

Tymeline is autonomous initiative orchestration for engineering leaders. Modern engineering programs lose roughly 30% of every engineers day to coordination work — drafting status, chasing dependencies, synthesizing meeting outputs, watching for slips. Tymeline absorbs that work with verified AI Employees that take complete roles inside your organization. Not copilots. Not assistants. Named teammates that own RTL design, verification, project coordination, vendor liaison, and code review — each one a verified identity in your IdP, each action cryptographically anchored, every consequential decision human-approved. The platform is operated under a Plan / Execute / Govern framework, powered by HyperOrg — Tymelines Autonomous Organizational Intelligence framework. AI Employees show up to the rituals your team already runs (standups, PR reviews, incident response, release trains, promotion gates), inside the channels your team already uses (Slack, Teams, Jira, Cadence, Synopsys, GitHub), without imposing new workflows. Tymeline deploys above your existing stack — not instead of it. SaaS, customer VPC, or fully air-gapped. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR compliant. Headquartered in Austin, with offices in Bangalore and London. Founded in 2021 by five co-founders carrying 89 combined years across enterprise software, distributed systems, hardware, and trust infrastructure. Built for engineering leaders running silicon, software, systems, and services & delivery programs at scale. tymeline.app

Turn your store into an AI Sales Agent. Recomaze is the AI Commerce OS for e-commerce. We make your products discoverable and sellable to AI everywhere. AI Discoverability – Audit your catalog. Fix whats broken. Score your AI readiness. AI Sales Agent – Deploy a conversational concierge that recommends, answers objections, and sells. AI Commerce OS – One data engine powering every AI touchpoint via APIs & MCP. Trusted by brands seeing +23% agent-influenced revenue. Works with Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce. Get your free AI audit → recomaze.ai

About Austin AI Lab The Austin AI Lab, launched by Shokworks, International Accelerator, and Austin AI Valley, is an initiative aimed at driving AI adoption and innovation within Austin’s tech ecosystem. Our mission is to empower Texas businesses of all sizes with access to scalable, enterprise-grade AI resources, enabling digital transformation with cost-effective delivery. From Austin, Texas, we make advanced AI tools accessible for prototyping, testing, and real-world problem-solving. Our core services include AI Agents as a Service, Model Execution, Workflow Automation, and Data Analytics, all designed to streamline operations, reduce costs, and give Texas businesses a competitive edge. The lab combines expertise from Shokworks’ extensive experience in AI solutions, International Accelerator’s mentorship, and Austin AI Valley’s focus on building an AI ecosystem in Texas. This collaboration fosters innovation, education, and success, bridging academia, industry, and entrepreneurship. With specialists and advisors on hand, we help businesses implement AI securely, protecting data and intellectual property. Join us in transforming Austin into a hub for applied AI and setting new standards for tech innovation.

We believe in the boundless potential of foreign-born entrepreneurs. Our mission is to identify, empower, and invest in the innovative ideas and ventures these dedicated individuals lead. From every corner of the globe, they bring diverse perspectives, resilience, and an unwavering drive for success that resonate with the American dream. We’re not just providing capital; we’re investing in dreams, fostering communities, and building a global network of innovation and ambition within the US landscape. By focusing on foreign-born founders eager to flourish in the United States, we’re bridging borders and ensuring that every entrepreneurial dream has the opportunity to grow and thrive on American soil.