23andMe is a human genome research company enabling users to study their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. A startup co-founded by Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 23andMe has plans to make the human genome searchable. Brin, along with Google, gave 23andMe $3.9 million as part of a series A in May of 2007. The company was named after the number of chromosome pairs in humans. They aim to help people understand what their genes mean by indexing them and highlighting significant findings. 23andMe allows its clients/users to study their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. The company also markets to researchers and scientists, for whom they provide neatly categorized and easily searchable data. One reason the Google investment in 23andMe made sense, was that this company could enable the search giant to index another facet of the world's information. With the Biotech and Health Care industries growing rapidly, 23andMe could help Google get and maintain a market hold in these already multi-billion dollar areas.
Approximate Labs is a research and product lab working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and tabular data. We intend to give every person in the world access to data. To do this, we are building a large AI foundation model for tabular data and tools to enable people to work with data in natural language.
Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Service offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.
Augmentus is a robotics technology company that is a leader in robot vision and robot motion planning solutions. Our proprietary technologies enable easy-to-use and rapid digitization of the work environment, automated robot path generation, and an intuitive graphical interface that eliminates the need for robot expertise and downtime robot programming. Augmentus' products are being used by the world's leading robotics and advanced manufacturing companies for applications such as robot welding, finishing, sandblasting, shot peening, and painting. We empower manufacturers to recoup ROI faster by lowering the time, cost and skill barriers in industrial automation. Companies using Augmentus have experienced up to 95% downtime reduction in industrial automation. We are on a mission to accelerate the transition to full automation, enabling local manufacturers everywhere to thrive.
Citcon offers an integrated cross-border payment and marketing platform. It enables merchants to accept fast-growing mobile wallets on a global scale and also provides both in-store and mobile, web, and e-commerce payment solutions for merchants worldwide.
CNEX provides revolutionary solid-state storage semiconductor and software solutions for cloud, hyper-scale, and enterprise data centers. The company delivers innovative storage semiconductor and software solutions, partnering with solid-state storage manufacturers, data center and systems customers to develop revolutionary NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs that deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability and flexibility for software-defined-storage. CNEX controller products are key to accelerating the capabilities of big data compute and analytics for the next generation of cloud, hyperscale and enterprise data centers. The customers use CNEX SSD controllers to deliver differentiated SSD solutions for low-power and high-performance in M.2, U.2, U.3, HHHL, EDSFF, and other form-factors. CNEX Labs was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.
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