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Easily record and share AI-powered video messages with your teammates and customers to supercharge productivity.

Lambda is an AI computing platform that provides supercomputers and infrastructure for AI development, aiming to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity.

Luminar is a technology company specializing in advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) hardware and software solutions to enable the world’s safest and smartest vehicles.

nTop provides computational design software, formerly known as nTopology, which focuses on advanced design and engineering solutions.

Cents.com is a financial website offering personal finance advice. It focuses on budgeting and saving money. The site aims to help users manage their finances better.

FOSSA provides a SaaS solution focused on real-time license and vulnerability management for open source software, helping organizations manage software supply chain risks and compliance requirements.

Rainmaker is ending water scarcity with next-generation cloud seeding. Their technology modernizes the proven, American-made process of cloud seeding through an integrated system of advanced radar, unmanned aircraft, and a cutting-edge weather awareness platform.

Eeva is a compact 2-in-1 laundry device that washes and dries clothes in one go without the need for a direct water connection, designed for residential and hospitality use.

Early-stage investor in deep-tech—AI, cybersecurity, quantum, robotics, space tech, synthetic biology—with rare bioengineering focus and technically deep partners who engage with complex product and R&D.

Early institutional backer that sources tech from academia and government labs, partnering with scientist- and engineer-led teams to deeply interrogate science, dual-use/defense opportunities, and amplify through an in-house media platform. Explicitly aims to "turn science fiction into science fact" by backing companies at the intersection of the new and the not-yet-imagined, built around scientists, engineers, and polymaths rather than traditional finance backgrounds who can deeply interrogate emerging science and complex tech. The firm systematically mines academia and government labs for "technological gems" and has become one of the earliest institutional backers of dual-use and defense technology.

Targets companies applying modern computation (AI, simulation) to agriculture, mining, manufacturing, health and defense, leveraging partners's hard-science and national-security expertise to navigate regulation and dual-use challenges.

Founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Innovation Endeavors invests exclusively at the intersection of three converging technical forces they call the Super Evolution — ubiquitous sensors, advanced machine learning and cloud systems, and robotics/3D printing/CRISPR. The firm runs an invite-only unconference called Curiosity Camp and operates a venture creation program that helps form founding teams before ideas exist rather than backing pre-packaged startups.