Portfolio companies

8i is on a mission to enable the evolution of media and human communication by giving people the best way to connect with each other and express themselves through holograms. The proprietary 8i technology transforms video from an array of cameras into a photorealistic 3D hologram of a human that can be viewed from any angle, on any device, for virtual, augmented or mixed reality.

AiFi provides the most flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their business. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors, and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. 

Airlinq is accelerating the development and deployment of large-scale connected applications around smart mobility and ecosystem monetization for automakers, mobile network operators and consumers around the world.

Airship’s Customer Engagement Platform gives brands the user-level data, engagement channels, artificial intelligence (AI) orchestration and services they need to deliver push notifications, emails, SMS, in-app messages, mobile wallet cards and more to exactly the right person in exactly the right moment — building trust, boosting engagement, driving action and growing value.

BBG Ventures is a New York-based seed stage venture capital fund investing in women-led technology companies.

Loop® by Benbria Corporation is an omnichannel mobile messaging and engagement solution that helps brands to enhance the customer experience. By leveraging the customer’s preferred choice of communications, be it texting, web chat, native app, email or kiosk, Loop allows customers to communicate directly with a brand to make a request, express a concern or provide a compliment before, during and after their visit. Resolving guests' concerns and requests in real time helps brands to improve customer satisfaction, save at-risk customers, increase revenue and drive repeat visits.

Bug Labs offers the IoT industry’s easiest-to-use enterprise-strength development tools that enable everyone from C programmers to web developers to business owners to build, launch and maintain their own custom IoT solution. Bug Labs’ solution consists of two separate but integrated software platforms: dweet™ (www.dweet.io), a real-time messaging and alerting system, and freeboard™ (www.freeboard.io), a real-time visualization and dashboard platform. These tools are available directly via the Bug Labs website and also via co-branded developer portal versions hosted by OEMs and network services providers looking to capitalize on and participate in the exploding IoT market interest. The Bug Labs IoT application enablement capabilities have been incorporated into Verizon’s ThingSpace platform.

Civis Analytics is a data science company serving a fast-growing and diverse group of both public and private sector clients. Providing data analytics tools and analytics services, Civis empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions.

CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for accelerating software development and delivery. They have taken Jenkins – the most trusted DevOps platform – and added enterprise-grade security, scalability, manageability and support, so companies have the fastest path from great ideas to impactful software.

Cooler Screens is transforming retail cooler surfaces into IoT-enabled screens, creating the largest retail point-of-sale media platform in the world.

CoreTigo is unbinding the industrial space by providing high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators and industrial equipment manufacturers.

Edgybees’ pioneering platform delivers real-time, high-speed augmented reality (AR) experiences to anything that moves. Using sensors and streaming data, AR application developers deliver overlays that keep up with a three-dimensional human experience of high-speed motion.

Fan Controlled Football (FCF) is the only professional sports league that enables fans to call the plays in real time. Pioneering a new category of immersive sports, FCF is blending the sports and video gaming industries.

Fermata Energy’s proprietary vehicle-to-everything (V2X) energy management software and bidirectional hardware technology turn EVs into energy-storage assets, increasing energy resilience and reducing energy costs.

Glympse utilizes person-to-person time-based location sharing technology. With an intuitive design and enhanced features, the company easily integrates location sharing into everyday activities, meetings and events. Glympse is a fast, free and simple way to share your location in real time with the people you trust.

HEAVY.AI (formerly OmniSci) is the creator of the extreme analytics platform, used in business and government to find insights in Big Data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. The platform harnesses the massive parallel computing of GPUs for breakthrough performance at scale.

Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable and more profitable than ever before. As the first and only company to introduce an all-inclusive, property-specific management as a service (PMaaS) model, Home365 is disrupting the market as a new breed of property management.

Iris Automation is an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company building collision-avoidance systems for autonomous vehicles, focused on industrial drones.

Kumu Networks develops full-duplex technology, allowing a radio to send and receive signals simultaneously using a single frequency channel. With its Self-Interference Cancellation technology, the "unwanted" energy that leaks into a radio's receiver while transmitting is eliminated and the spectral efficiency of wireless systems is doubled. The technology can be used to improve spectrum reuse and remove limitations of hardware-based filters in existing systems.

Light Field Lab is building a holographic ecosystem by developing display technologies that enable holographic objects to float in space without head-mounted accessories. Light Field Lab is on a mission to enable a holographic future by building upon the founders’ collective expertise of light field technology innovation.

Media Tech Venture Studio is a program jointly run by Verizon and R/GA that functions as an accelerator and invests in participating start-up companies in the media technology space spanning areas such as video creation and consumption, data analytics, e-sports, commerce, video delivery performance, machine learning, and personalization.

Neural Magic is making deep learning faster, affordable, and flexible with automated model sparsification technologies that minimize footprint and allow models to run on CPUs at GPU speeds. 

Optibus is the vendor of city-wide mass transportation planning and operation. Based on proprietary AI and optimization algorithms, Optibus provides a dynamic platform to enable public transportation and fleet operators to optimize resource allocation and improve the transport experience, while saving their clients tens of millions of dollars annually. Powering some of the largest transit operators internationally, Optibus is developing the future operating system that will control and optimize multi modal, flexible transportation within cities.

Origin Wireless is innovating usages of wireless signals with technology that enables users to build a wide range of Wi-Fi smart home, health, well-being, and indoor tracking applications with high performance, low cost, and ease of use.

OV Loop is a new voice-powered communications and commerce channel for people and businesses to better interact, transact and build relationships.

Phenix Real Time Solutions is a real-time streaming technology platform that delivers synchronized streams with sub-half second latency at broadcast quality and scale.

PICadvanced is a developer of cost-effective optics and photonics solutions for telecom applications. PICadavanced has been active in the development of optoelectronic transceivers for a new telecommunications network standard called Next-Generation Passive Optical Network 2 (NG-PON2).

As a recognized pioneer of mmWave technology, Pivotal Commware develops software-defined antennas and radios that use holographic beamforming to increase network speed and capacity.

PrecisionHawk is the provider of aerial data and safety platforms for drones. The Lancaster is PrecisionHawk’s fixed-wing, autonomous drone built to collect the highest quality terrestrial data using a host of integrated sensors. PrecisionHawk houses three divisions that support its mission: DataMapper aerial mapping and analysis software, TerraServer satellite imagery, and Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety (LATAS).

SAM Seamless Network is a cybersecurity company that offers a unified, all-in one, device-agnostic software solution to protect unmanaged networks and IoT devices.

Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Sfara is advancing mobile safety technology by harnessing the raw processing power and sensors of today’s smartphones and tablets, combined with patented machine learning algorithms.

ShotTracker provides an innovative system that delivers 70+ unique and completely autonomous basketball stats and insights to teams, broadcasters and game partners with sub-second latency.

SparkCognition’s award-winning AI solutions allow organizations to predict future outcomes, optimize processes, and prevent cyber-attacks. Their patented AI, machine learning, and natural language technologies lead the industry in innovation and accelerate digital transformation. They partner with the world’s industry leaders to analyze, optimize, and learn from data, augment human intelligence, drive profitable growth, and achieve operational excellence.  

StatusPRO is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products that revolutionize the way coaches, players, and fans experience their favorite sport.

Swiftmile is a scalable, turnkey e-bike and e-scooter transit system that provides alternative transportation solutions for short city distances, reducing harmful carbon emissions. The company aims to solve the pollution pain point caused by single-rider commuter vehicles on the road through scalable charging systems for riders of e-bikes and e-scooters. Swiftmile can scale to support any number of fleet sizes, efficiently reducing parking and traffic as well as solving transportation challenges around the world.

Swim delivers Swim Continuum, the first open core, enterprise-grade platform for building, managing and operating continuous intelligence applications on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge. Swim Continuum provides unprecedented performance and efficiency for operationalizing high-frequency, contextual data analytics and real-time visualizations of massive amounts of streaming and batch data.

The Fabric is a pre-Series A startup foundry designed to co-create, fund and accelerate companies in the cloud and IoT infrastructure space. The team works with early-stage entrepreneurs as well as venture capitalist firms through the entire lifecycle of idea creation through company building. The Fabric has successfully built and launched VeloCloud (acquired by VMWare), Perspica (acquired by Cisco), Appcito (acquired by A10 Networks), IoTium, Pensa, Spanugo, KMesh and Rosetta Cyber Security.

The Hive is a venture fund and co-creation studio that builds and fosters startups focused on AI-powered applications in the enterprise. The fund focuses on the enterprise and a variety of sectors including industrials, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and health.

TileDB transforms the lives of analytics professionals and data scientists with a universal database so they can access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at planet scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array engine and extreme interoperability across the data science ecosystem. With its totally serverless infrastructure, TileDB delivers access control and enables distributed computing at global scale, eliminating all cluster management and minimizing TCO.

Designed for the on-demand economy and the connected car revolution, Urgent.ly provides a roadside assistance experience without a subscription or membership. It offers transparent service with clear, flat-rate pricing; accident detection and Family View; and cashless, reliable help for motorists in need of a tow, tire change, fuel delivery, jump start or lock-out service.

Verana Networks is a 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) solution for service providers and enterprises that have access to licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The company has a track record of developing innovative RAN products, from the world’s first all-IP 3G base stations to pioneering residential femtocell and enterprise small cell solutions.

Verdigris is an artificial intelligence and IoT platform that makes buildings smarter and more connected while reducing energy consumption and costs. By combining proprietary hardware sensors, machine learning and software, Verdigris “learns” the energy patterns of a building.

Versa Networks’ virtualized network functions and services allow customers to transform the data center and network edge to achieve unprecedented business advantages. Versa Networks provides unmatched flexibility and efficiency without the need to install expensive, proprietary equipment.

VOOM is an on-demand, telematics-based insurtech platform for specialized mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly or sail. VOOM's data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats and small planes.

WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SOC platforms for the IoT market.

YBVR, a next-generation XR video distribution platform, redefines the way fans experience live sports and engage at home, in mobility and in stadium.