Ken Sobajima

Swift Navigation is a global technology company pioneering reliable, affordable high-accuracy satellite positioning to unlock autonomy and automation at scale. Its SkylarkTM Precise Positioning Service improves the accuracy of standard Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, from several meters to a few centimeters. Skylark powers more than 10 million vehicles and devices deployed by leading automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, robotics companies, and IoT system integrators. Learn more about how Swift is building the infrastructure to enable a safer and more productive future at swiftnav.com.

Secret Double Octopus provides the only passwordless MFA solution for all enterprise authentication needs. From workstations & SSOs to on-premises infrastructure & legacy applications – with zero employee-managed passwords and a highly secure yet user-friendly interface.

Mojo Vision is focused on developing and commercializing high-performance micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise, and government applications. The company combines breakthrough technology, leading display and semiconductor expertise, and an advanced 300mm manufacturing process to deliver on the promise of micro-LED displays. Mojo’s proprietary quantum-dot technology brings full color capability to its display platform and meets the superior performance demands for all form factors. Mojo Vision developed the world’s smallest, densest dynamic display for the first AR smart contact lens and is now applying this innovation and expertise to lead the disruption of the $160 billion display industry.

Mad Street Den® is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company, founded with a mission to make people all over the globe, A.I natives. The team’s mission is to build models of generalizable intelligence and create actionable ways to contextualize AI on scale, helping millions of people across the globe to become A.I native. The company’s first vertical, under its flagship brand, Vue.ai®, aims to bring this mission into the retail industry. The image and video recognition platform transforms traditional stores and online retail businesses with intelligent retail automation. Vue.ai® has succeeded in becoming one of the most well-known, value-driven retail A.I firms within the industry in a short span of 3 years. With the accelerated growth of its first vertical, the firm has now begun its expansion into other verticals including healthcare, education, finance, and more, inching closer to it’s bigger mission. Mad Street Den is funded by marquee investors, including Sequoia Capital and Falcon Edge Capital. With about $30M in funding and a star-studded AI team, we’re now looking to grow our organization across the globe rapidly and are hiring for the following positions. The company has over 220+ employees across the US, Japan, and India - and we’re still growing!

We're out to set a new standard for how people make buying decisions by leveraging AI to transform consumer opinions from a black hole of information to a smart shopping experience. In February 2019, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, acquired Aspectiva to form its first innovation center in Israel. We tackle mass-scale challenges around unsupervised and cross-domain topic modeling, sentiment analysis and relevance analysis, helping shoppers save time and money and buy with confidence.

Allganize helps insurance, finance, SaaS companies automate answering questions from a myriad of complex text documents. Its applications include assisting service representatives in customer support centers, enhancing the search experience on the website and mobile app for end users, providing customer support chatbot and extracting important entities from text contracts for underwriters and agents. Unlike its competitors in the enterprise AI space, Allganize’s proprietary technology does not require any manual data tagging, making it very quick to implement while providing best-in-class results accuracy. By adopting Allganize, it is proven that an agent can handle 3X - 5X more tickets per day as the AI is capable of answering 50% - 80% of questions automatically.

Jibo, Inc., creator of the world’s first Social Robot for the home, is a character-driven company dedicated to creating unforgettable experiences through advanced social robotics technology. Jibo, Inc. was founded by Cynthia Breazeal, a pioneer of social robotics and human robot interaction from the MIT Media Lab, and is staffed by robotics and consumer electronics leaders in both the Boston and San Francisco areas.

Yale and August Home are leaders in the smart lock and smart home security space. We create products and services that add everyday simplicity and convenience to our users’ lives by letting them control access to their front door, while providing peace of mind through visibility into who is coming and going. The August and Yale Access apps support our products in the U.S. and Canada, and we’re constantly adding partner integrations to our platform. We collaborate with industry leaders to seamlessly fit our locks into the smart home, making it possible for our users to come home to find a clean house, the dog walked, and those pesky repairs taken care of. What sets us apart from others? Our small but talented team takes ownership of everything we do, from start to finish. We are driven by a collective passion to create innovative products and services that make people’s lives easier and safer.

"You yourself said that the engineers in the Bespoke department — the very best — had led interesting lives, rather than coming from the straight and narrow. Which implies a correlation, does it not?" — Neal Stephenson ...much more to unveil.

Ossia® is challenging peoples core assumptions about what is possible with wireless power. Ossias flagship product, Cota®, redefines wireless power by safely delivering remote, targeted energy to devices at a distance. Cota, Ossias patented smart antenna technology automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention, enabling an efficient and truly wire-free, powered-up world, that is always on and always connected.

Edmodo is a blended learning and distance learning platform for schools and districts, educators, and learners, providing flexible tools for classroom instruction, professional collaboration, communication, and community building—all in one platform.

For open positions please visit: https://issuu.com/careers Issuu is where the worlds most innovative and growth-oriented content creators publish digitally. As the industry’s leading digital publishing platform, we give publishers the tools to deliver over 5 billion page views each month to the 80+ million readers who care most about their content. We help publishers find, understand, monetize and grow a massive global audience on any device — while helping readers all over the world discover, enjoy and share new content. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Issuu is backed by Sunstone Capital and KDDI.

Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is the leading source for transformative tech news and events that provide deep context to help business leaders make smart decisions and stay on top of breaking news. VB is recognized as the leading media authority in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data. It also offers the most incisive coverage of the game industry. Whether you come for the articles, read our newsletters, or attend our events, you will emerge from VentureBeat with new knowledge, perspective, influences, and connections. News: We live, breathe, and cover transformative technology — from AI to gaming, small business to enterprise, AR/VR to 5G, and more. Newsletters: Want to stay on top of the latest without leaving your inbox? We send you all the news and analysis you need — and nothing more — with our daily and weekly newsletters. Events: Whether it’s one of our large flagship events, or an intimate private gathering, our events are always authentic, unique, in-person experiences formed around innovative technology, discussions, and ideas.

Pogoseat builds innovative ticketing technologies on behalf of sports teams, ticketing systems, live-entertainment venues, artists and promoters. Its purpose built solutions, proven methodologies, and best practices are designed to drive incremental revenue, fan experience and provide more flexibility to fans. Our white-labelled solution enables fans to purchase last-minute tickets, upgrade seats, purchase unique VIP experiences, both before and during events. Pogoseat’s mobile application allows fans to improve their live entertainment experience and provides teams & venues a platform to increase fan engagement, monetize unused inventory and gather data that can be used to enhance the fan experience and sell additional tickets. Pogoseat is partnered with professional & collegiate sports teams as well as select concert & theatre venues. Pogoseat is also integrated with back-end ticketing systems, creating a turnkey solution that automates the ticket-buying process.

The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded, AI-powered startups. Since 2009, our structured methodology, global mentor network, and platform have helped over 8,900 founders across 100+ countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Whether you’re an employee ready to make the leap, a solo founder with a big idea, or a first-time entrepreneur looking for direction, we provide the AI toolkit, structured sprints, expert feedback, and investor network to take you from Zero to Founder, faster and cheaper than ever before. And when you’re ready, our venture fund Founder Capital and global investor network are there to write your first check.

MS&AD Ventures is an early stage venture fund looking broadly at technology companies in Fintech, InsurTech, AI, IOT, Big Data and Cybersecurity.

Tomorrow Access helps your business between the US and Japan as a cross-border business.

Swift Navigation is a global technology company pioneering reliable, affordable high-accuracy satellite positioning to unlock autonomy and automation at scale. Its SkylarkTM Precise Positioning Service improves the accuracy of standard Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, from several meters to a few centimeters. Skylark powers more than 10 million vehicles and devices deployed by leading automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, robotics companies, and IoT system integrators. Learn more about how Swift is building the infrastructure to enable a safer and more productive future at swiftnav.com.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 375+ start-ups since launching in 2011. Our alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization. ERA runs two four-month sessions per year one each in the winter and summer. We invest $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company selected. In addition to this financial investment, our companies are immersed in our mentor-driven program. We also provide free office space, free hosting credits with several major cloud providers, and additional benefits through our legal, finance, accounting, and other business-service partners.