Jason Sydow

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app. For more information, visit www.emporiaenergy.com

Mitigating the worst impacts of climate change by developing the world’s most cost-effective DAC technology to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Our technology rapidly accelerates the natural processes that enable limestone to absorb carbon dioxide from the air from a timespan of years to days. In 2023, Heirloom established the first and only Direct Air Capture facility in North America that permanently captures CO2. Our customers are the world’s biggest buyers of carbon removal including Microsoft, JP Morgan, McKinsey, Stripe, Shopify and more.

CarbonCapture Inc. is a climate tech company that makes modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) machines that can be connected in large arrays to remove massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.

BuildOps is the AI-native platform for commercial contractors. Built for the complexity of large-scale commercial work, it replaces disconnected tools and manual workflows with a single system that runs every job from quote to close. At the center of the platform is OpsAI, BuildOps intelligence layer designed for real work in the trades. OpsAI helps dispatchers send the right tech in seconds, gives field crews the context they need before they step onsite, and helps offices bill clearly and stay on top of cash — all inside the workflows teams already use. Founded in 2018 by a U.S. Army veteran, BuildOps exists to give mission-critical trades technology as strong and reliable as they are — so they can operate with clarity when the work is on the line. Today, more than 1,000 leading companies across North America trust BuildOps to power their businesses, backed by Founders Fund, N47, Meritech Capital, and other top investors.

Realtime has invented a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds, enabling robots to function in unstructured, collaborative work-spaces, reacting to other motions as soon as they are perceived

Seeq Corporation develops software and services that accelerate industrial process analytics on industrial process data. Industrial process data is the collection of time-series data, events, and signals, as well as related contextual data, generated by production and manufacturing organizations. Due to the high volume, velocity, and variety of these data streams, industrial process data typically requires extensive manipulation to enable insight and analytics. Seeqs sophisticated yet easy-to-use analysis tools are applicable for industrial markets like oil refineries, pharmaceuticals, and energy production. Seattle-based Seeq also has satellite offices in the western United States and Canada. Launched in May, 2013, the experienced founding team includes executives, engineers, and data scientists formerly with OSIsoft, Honeywell, Microsoft, and Insitu. Seeq is led by Dr. Lisa Graham, CEO. Learn more about Seeq at www.seeq.com.

Citrine empowers product experts with vanguard AI technologies. With no background in data science, product experts apply Citrine to deliver next generation products faster than any other time in history. Citrine’s software learns easily from the knowledge of its users and their idiosyncratic data to enhance all aspects of the product lifecycle across all industries with a physical product. Citrine’s users increase supply chain efficiency, rapidly improve product quality, enhance customer experience, expand product reach and increase the velocity of product delivery. With Citrine, product experts unlock the capability to solve our society’s greatest environmental and productivity challenges. Citrines customers include Eastman, Panasonic, Grace, LyondellBasell, LANXESS, Morrow Batteries and some of the biggest and most respected names in the materials and chemicals and CPG industries in Asia, North America, and Europe. For more information visit our website at https://citrine.io.

Falkonry enables plant operators to make smarter operational decisions by applying AI and acting on events that adversely impact operations. By analyzing process and operational data, Falkonrys patented AI creates significant improvement in production uptime, quality, and yield. Falkonrys products scale easily across the enterprise and can be deployed onsite, at the edge, or in the cloud, and are optimized for Azure and AWS IIoT platforms.

Microsoft acquired Bonsai, an AI platform that empowers developers to build, teach and use intelligent systems, in June 2018. Its platform greatly simplifies the programming of control and optimization to create more intelligent systems and business processes. Bonsai's fundamentally different approach results in far more accessible, efficient and explainable models compared to alternatives. Bonsai’s platform combined with rich simulation tools and reinforcement learning work in Microsoft Research becomes the simplest and richest AI toolchain for building any kind of autonomous system for control and calibration tasks. This toolchain will compose with Azure Machine Learning running on the Azure Cloud with GPUs and Brainwave, and models built with it will be deployed and managed in Azure IoT, giving Microsoft an end-to-end solution for building, operating and enhancing “brains” for autonomous systems. For more information about the Bonsai acquistion visit: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/20/microsoft-to-acquire-bonsai-in-move-to-build-brains-for-autonomous-systems/

The Identify3D technology suite protects confidentiality and integrity of data in digital manufacturing by providing intellectual property protection, manufacturing repeatability, and traceability — from initial design to finished product. By providing tight control of the digital supply chain, we unlock the potential of distributed manufacturing. For more information, visit www.identify3D.com.

Riffyn is a cloud software and scientific services company working to make scientific R&D work better. We provide our customers with the software and training to design R&D processes, globally integrate scientific data, and apply machine learning in routine science practices.

Guavus, a Thales company, is at the forefront of AI-based big data analytics and machine learning innovation, driving digital transformation at the world’s largest telecommunications providers. Using the Guavus-IQ analytics solutions, customers are able to analyze big data in real time and take decisive actions to lower costs, increase efficiencies, and dramatically improve the end-to-end customer experience – all with the scale and security required by next-gen 5G and IoT networks. Guavus enables communications service providers to leverage applications for advanced network planning and operations, mobile traffic analytics, device management analytics, marketing, customer care, security and IoT.

Developer of advanced power management devices or power systems on chip (PwrSoC).

We connect Siemens with best-in class startups that solve specific use cases and serve defined strategic purposes. With a partner-first approach, we selectively invest in startups to strengthen collaboration with Siemens. We are accelerating new Siemens businesses, and embedding innovation DNA into one of the worlds most powerful global platforms.

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app. For more information, visit www.emporiaenergy.com

Mitigating the worst impacts of climate change by developing the world’s most cost-effective DAC technology to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Our technology rapidly accelerates the natural processes that enable limestone to absorb carbon dioxide from the air from a timespan of years to days. In 2023, Heirloom established the first and only Direct Air Capture facility in North America that permanently captures CO2. Our customers are the world’s biggest buyers of carbon removal including Microsoft, JP Morgan, McKinsey, Stripe, Shopify and more.

CarbonCapture Inc. is a climate tech company that makes modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) machines that can be connected in large arrays to remove massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.

BuildOps is the AI-native platform for commercial contractors. Built for the complexity of large-scale commercial work, it replaces disconnected tools and manual workflows with a single system that runs every job from quote to close. At the center of the platform is OpsAI, BuildOps intelligence layer designed for real work in the trades. OpsAI helps dispatchers send the right tech in seconds, gives field crews the context they need before they step onsite, and helps offices bill clearly and stay on top of cash — all inside the workflows teams already use. Founded in 2018 by a U.S. Army veteran, BuildOps exists to give mission-critical trades technology as strong and reliable as they are — so they can operate with clarity when the work is on the line. Today, more than 1,000 leading companies across North America trust BuildOps to power their businesses, backed by Founders Fund, N47, Meritech Capital, and other top investors.