AIR provides a training platform for humans and AI agents to collaborate, learn and grow together. Using entertainment to engage users in rich, two-way interactions allows them to tackle challenges that are too complex for traditional reinforcement learning, such as AI assistants for people with cognitive disorders or AI-assisted crisis management tools to name a few.

By now, every industry has woken up to the power of big data: leveraging complex, voluminous data sets to gain valuable market insights and optimize customer offerings. Ascend puts the power of big data analytics directly in the hands of business people, obviating the need to hire and manage data scientists and data engineers as intermediaries. Think Siri for big data.

Bench is North America’s largest bookkeeping service. By pairing intuitive software with a team of dedicated bookkeepers, Bench gives small businesses affordable access to quality financial insights and tax-ready financials. Since launching out of Techstars NYC in 2012, Bench has raised $53 million in funding to date and for the past two years has been among the top 30 fastest growing tech companies in North America, according to Deloitte.

From decades of experience leading tech teams, the founders of Compaas knew that the hardest problems they faced were people-problems. After talking with hundreds of HR professionals, founders, and legal experts, they learned that they weren’t alone. They built Compaas to provide proactive insights and analytics about employee compensation, without tedious spreadsheets. Compaas Rewards provides a secure and seamless workflow backed by valuable analytics.

Compensation matters. It’s also one of the hardest problems facing companies.

Concentric was founded to help enterprises solve the massive and ever-growing data security challenge they face around being able to discover, monitor and protect the high volumes of sensitive data — e.g. documents with PII, sensitive IP, confidential information, financial statements — that are continuously being generated. The Concentric solution uses innovative AI techniques to easily identify, monitor and protect sensitive content without requiring customers to write complex rules that need prior knowledge of what constitutes high value content or placing the burden on end users to perform that function. In short, a SMART and EASY button to secure what an enterprise most worries about protecting — Its Data.

Create & Learn delivers next generation of Computer Science Education to students K-12. Students learn a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Data Science, with a strong focus on connecting with the real world and developing creativity and critical thinking skills. The delivering platform also addresses the top challenges in the wide adoption of CS education in K-12, leading to breakthrough opportunities.

Feed was founded by music lovers who know that music delivers authentic connections and who are committed to leveraging music in a fundamentally new way for business results. Feed.fm works with leading brands to deliver uniquely curated media experiences that drive commerce and boost brand engagement. The Feed plug and play media solutions have helped clients double their app user retention rates and drive 2X visit-to-purchase conversions.

Knowledge workers and managers hack several tools (email, shared documents/spreadsheets, messaging tools) in an attempt to make high-level team updates more efficient. Since these tools are not specifically designed around update processes, they become difficult to manage and require a lot of manual work. Humble Dot is a tool specifically designed around the update process that helps managers and team members be more efficient with updates.

Kueski is the largest online-only payday lender in Mexico. Users apply for a small loan on-line, specifying how much money they need and when they would like to pay it back. Kueski’s machine learning risk engine assesses a loan application within seconds. Upon approval, a wire transfer is made instantaneously. In a market where 85% of citizens don’t have access to credit, Kueski is enabling a individuals, families and small businesses to leverage short-term loans.

Liftoff is a full-service mobile app marketing and retargeting platform that uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized user acquisition and retention campaigns. With Liftoff, campaigns are optimized to drive actions beyond the install, like booking a hotel, subscribing to a service, or making a purchase. Liftoff placed 2nd in engagement in front of Facebook and Twitter and just behind Google adwords.

Ockam is an open source tools company that empowers developers to build trusted IoT systems with easy-to-use tools, processes, and protocols. Using Ockam it’s simple to interconnect hardware at the edge with software services in the cloud.

Our mission is to generate predictive insights about audience behavior in the real world so our clients can give their customers the best-possible experiences. Serving CIOs, CROs and Chief Digital Officers, we install a network of sensors in indoor locations such as shopping centers, to provide a level of audience analytics and measurement that until now has only been possible in the digital world.

Other Machine Company (OMC) is at the forefront of the digital desktop manufacturing movement: the future is small-batch, ultra-customized, and on-demand. Like at HP and Apple, OMC transforms industrial tools into consumer products and aims to put them in every home and business. OMC is full-stack, with an ecosystem of computer-controlled hardware, software, marketplace, and community that enables everyday people to directly harness the power of modern manufacturing.

Major corporations are finally breaking away from hosting mission critical databases and monolithic applications in their own data centers and migrating to the cloud and service based applications.  VORSTELLA automatically sets up cloud applications and operates them for customers, then uses machine learning on system-wide data to continually tune and optimize performance better than human experts can.

Wizeline transforms how business build technology products. Through advanced analytics that leverage engagement data, the SaaS intelligent platform enables business to focus their product strategy on the opportunities with the highest return and accelerate their time to market. Our goal is for all companies to one day use Wizeline to decide which products to build and market.

Zippin has developed the next generation of checkout-free technology enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores. Its patent-pending approach uses AI, machine learning, and sensor fusion technology, to create the best consumer experience. Zippin’s vision is to banish checkout lines and self-scanners for good, so shoppers can zip in and out with their purchases.