Jim Brandt

The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. We’re harnessing that resource to produce the cheapest energy on the planet for clean compute at sea and renewable fuels to shore.

At Formic, we make automation simple. Were dedicated to helping manufacturing businesses across the United States supercharge their productivity. Our cutting-edge robot fleet empowers factories to pack goods and stack onto pallets with confidence, savings, and simplicity that they cant find anywhere else. Our versatile robots play a role in producing a wide array of products you know and love - from delicious chocolate chip cookies and matcha powder to specialty chemicals and hardware fasteners, and more. Were on a mission to create a world of abundance through innovative automation solutions. Discover the impact of our technology at www.formic.co.

Array Labs builds advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world. We’re launching a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create a high-resolution 3D map of the Earth – updated in real time – enabling faster, smarter decision-making for government and commercial organizations supporting disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical geopolitical intelligence. We design and build our satellites end-to-end, producing the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites. Our fleet will deliver unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and responsiveness to power critical insights precisely where they’re needed most.

Lemurian Labs is a software-first, hardware-agnostic AI platform that simplifies development by enabling organizations to write once and deploy anywhere across CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and edge. We help companies lower costs, boost efficiency, and scale sustainably in the post-Moore’s Law era. Discover how we are making AI accessible to all: lemurianlabs.com.

Machina Labs unlocks manufacturing with AI & Robotics. Machinas Robotic Craftsman is introducing unseen flexibility and agility to the centuries-old manufacturing industry, enabling rapid iteration and innovation to design, engineering, and production. Machina helps leading companies quickly and affordably turn great ideas into reality.

GeerGarage is a marketplace to rent and lend outdoor gear. We aim to change humanitys consumption habits by building a sharing economy among individuals that also grows retail businesses. Our society must consume more sustainably. Many things today are bought, used a few times and then put into storage on the shelf or simply thrown away. This current model of consumption must be changed to allow for more reuse of the goods that are produced by society. Everyone can and should have access to these unused resources. Every item shared among community members represents a potential lost sale to retailers. In this way, the sharing economy could be viewed as a competitor to business. We aim to change that. Retail sales will not disappear. They are essential to our daily lives and to the economy. But, a sustainable society must purchase fewer new goods and reuse our existing goods more. Our mission is to meld the two – to increase sharing in a way that also increases profits for retail businesses. Getting businesses to embrace the sharing economy creates a triple win - a win for consumers, a win for businesses and a win for the planet.

Alleviate makes musculoskeletal pain relief accessible to every body. We design and make self-treatment systems for specific, common, chronic pain pathologies - combining digital and physical technologies and sold direct-to-consumer.

Vonova is developing the less invasive pathway to the brain surface for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and other neurological disorders. The novel system employs the latest in catheter-based technology to interface with the brain surface for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Rotender automates the service and sale of alcoholic beverages. Say goodbye to waiting in line at stadiums, music festivals, and busy venues. It's faster and cheaper than a traditional bar, and won't forget to wash its hands. https://www.instagram.com/rotenderbar/

We’re creating a secure, collaborative new phone system. Our mission is to eradicate the need for work mobile handsets and legacy landline telephones in offices, to provide a better communications experience for SMEs. We bring simplicity to the phone experience for businesses who want to manage their workforce with the next generation phone system. Follow us here to get a glimpse into our journey - www.devyce.com

Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.

Karma Biotechnologies is a Los Angeles startup dedicated to solving autoimmunity, allergies, and food sensitivities with our Xavine™ tolerogenic vaccine platform. General immune suppression is still the standard of care for most autoimmune disease patients; there is a critical unmet need to develop antigen-specific therapies that inhibit only the disease-causing rogue immune cells. To meet this need, Karma is leveraging expertise in immunology and lipid nanoparticle engineering to develop tolerogenic vaccines designed to elicit antigen-specific immune tolerance in vivo.

Arima Genomics provides unparalleled access to the spatial and temporal changes in the 3D structure of the genome that alters gene regulation and cellular function. #3DGenomics

Namecoach aims to solve the common problem of name mispronunciation. No matter your position within an organization, being on either end of a name mispronunciation doesn’t exactly leave you with a good feeling. So, we provide a simple and effective solution: audio name pronunciations seamlessly integrated with your online tools to easily learn and remember how to say them - perfectly. Our product is useful in many education and corporate settings.

Lynx Biosciences | Reimagining Translational Research with Patient-Centric Models Lynx Biosciences (LynxBio) is reshaping translational and reverse translational research by combining patient-derived cell models, microphysiological systems (MPS), and integrated multi-omic analyses to generate clinically meaningful insights—earlier and without reliance on animal models. Our platform supports high-content functional profiling of antibody and cell-based therapies in complex ex vivo co-cultures. These models preserve the native biology of the tumor and immune microenvironment, enabling more predictive, human-relevant data from the outset. As the field shifts toward more scalable, patient-centric approaches to drug development, LynxBio offers a solution built to meet this moment. We work across oncology and immunology indications to: • Profile therapeutic activity in ex vivo models • Integrate imaging, cytokine analysis, and transcriptomics from the same culture • Identify predictive biomarkers and stratify responders • Uncover resistance mechanisms and guide target refinement Our approach enables the resolution of responder and non-responder profiles, mechanistic biomarkers, and functional signatures from limited clinical material—accelerating the development of novel biologics and cell-engaging therapies. Whether you are advancing bispecific antibodies, cell engagers, or radiotherapeutics, LynxBio offers a plug-in, human-relevant platform to de-risk development, guide patient selection, and inform smarter, earlier decisions. Unlock deeper insight from fewer cells. Partner with LynxBio.

The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. We’re harnessing that resource to produce the cheapest energy on the planet for clean compute at sea and renewable fuels to shore.

Qloos Taste AI decodes consumer preferences. We are a leading AI-powered personalization engine for cultural preferences, providing completely anonymized consumer taste data and recommendations for leading companies in the tech, entertainment, publishing, retail, travel, hospitality and CPG sectors. Qloo’s proprietary Taste AI predicts consumers preferences and tastes across over a dozen major categories, including music, film, television, podcasts, dining, nightlife, fashion, consumer products, books, and travel. Launched in 2012, Qloo combines the latest in machine learning, theoretical research in Neuroaesthetics, and one of the largest pipelines of detailed taste data —and makes all of this intelligence available through an API. By allowing companies to understand and connect with their target customers more effectively, Qloo helps its clients solve real-world problems such as driving sales, saving money on media buys, choosing real estate locations, and building brands. Qloo is the parent company of TasteDive, a cultural recommendation engine and social community that allows users to discover what to watch, read, listen to, and play based on their existing unique preferences.

At Formic, we make automation simple. Were dedicated to helping manufacturing businesses across the United States supercharge their productivity. Our cutting-edge robot fleet empowers factories to pack goods and stack onto pallets with confidence, savings, and simplicity that they cant find anywhere else. Our versatile robots play a role in producing a wide array of products you know and love - from delicious chocolate chip cookies and matcha powder to specialty chemicals and hardware fasteners, and more. Were on a mission to create a world of abundance through innovative automation solutions. Discover the impact of our technology at www.formic.co.

Array Labs builds advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world. We’re launching a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create a high-resolution 3D map of the Earth – updated in real time – enabling faster, smarter decision-making for government and commercial organizations supporting disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical geopolitical intelligence. We design and build our satellites end-to-end, producing the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites. Our fleet will deliver unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and responsiveness to power critical insights precisely where they’re needed most.

Lemurian Labs is a software-first, hardware-agnostic AI platform that simplifies development by enabling organizations to write once and deploy anywhere across CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and edge. We help companies lower costs, boost efficiency, and scale sustainably in the post-Moore’s Law era. Discover how we are making AI accessible to all: lemurianlabs.com.