Emerging technologies that redefine industries and expand the frontiers of innovation.

Developer of a security software designed to recognize firearms and other public safety threats in security camera feeds. The company's software utilizes computer vision and artificial intelligence that connect with the existing security camera system to detect guns, intruders, people flow, crowds, loitering and social distancing issues, enabling security teams to get real-time alerts to improve safety outcomes.
- Information Technology
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Cybersecurity
- Security & Defense
- Software
- 2018 Accelerator Program
- 2019 NVC

Agreefy simplifies the deployment of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) using technologies such as UWB, NBIoT, LoRaWAN, RFID, Bluetooth, and WiFi. The platform enables businesses to track assets and people, optimize operations, and enhance safety across industries including healthcare, education, hospitality, and enterprise.
- Information Technology
- Software
- Platform
- Automation
- 2018 GNVC

All Fair is the operating system for small businesses — a business intelligence tool that centralizes information to enable small business owners to assess and translate their data into informed decisions.
- Information Technology
- AI Software
- Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- 2026 NVC
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Boltzmann builds AI systems that understand your world and help safely design decisions, workflows, and systems inside it.
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CavilinQ develops photonically coupled interconnect modules enabling real-time quantum entanglement between heterogeneous quantum processors.
- Quantum Technology
- Photonics
- Quantum Hardware
- 2024 I-Corps Spring
- 2025 I-Corps Spring
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The company targets graph analytics, which are critical for applications like social networks, scientific discovery, and fraud detection. Current computer architectures are optimized for linear algebra (dense operations) and struggle with the complex data movement required by large, sparse graphs.
The core innovation is the UpDown accelerator, a programmable processor that sits between the main CPU and memory. It uses "intelligent data movement" and fine-grained parallel threads to process data efficiently where it is stored (near-memory computation), rather than moving it all to the CPU. Early evaluations suggest the UpDown architecture can achieve significant speedups, in some cases as high as 631x over a single x86 core for graph processing applications.
- Quantum Technology
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Self-Aware™ and AdaptiveAI™ Computing.” Developer of hardware + software technologies aimed at enabling systems that can manage dynamic operating conditions (e.g., power, configuration, environment) and adapt in real time
- AI Hardware
- AI Infrastructure
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- 2026 CNVC
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Digital Keeper provides cybersecurity-as-a-service for startups and SMBs in Latin America, combining endpoint protection, email security, mobile security, virtual SOC with 24/7 monitoring/detection/response, security awareness training, regulatory compliance, and cyber insurance in a flexible monthly subscription.
- Information Technology
- Cybersecurity
- Software
- Platform
- 2022 ANVC

Developer of video conferencing platform designed to conduct market research and gather consumer insights. The company's platform offers an end-to-end conversation that combines industry-leading video with qualitative research tools, as well as reaches customers and streamlines, work worldwide from home or office, enabling market researchers, sales professionals, brand managers, HR, CX departments, and others to stay on track during interviews and streamline the work that follows without leaving home
- Professional Services
- AI Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- Software
- Marketing
- Research Tools
- Future of Work
- Platform
- 2013 NVC

entropia AI is an enterprise AI company building applied intelligence solutions including conversational commerce agents, tactical intelligence platforms for security/defense, autonomous agents, and modular business intelligence platforms for industries such as agribusiness, finance, real estate, and manufacturing.
- AI / Data Science
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Security & Defense
- Software
- Platform
- 2022 ANVC
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Developer of an AI-driven testing and personalization platform for websites and apps. The platform enables users to test multiple variations of their digital content, including visual changes, pricing, and messaging, to identify the most effective elements for their audience. The no-code Visual Editor allows for easy creation of variations, and the platform offers plans for businesses of all sizes, with insights into performance over time. The company emphasizes the importance of testing for digital optimization and personalization.
- Information Technology
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Marketing
- Software
- Automation
- Platform
- 2024 NVC
- 2023 I-Corps Spring
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- 2026 CNVC
- 2026 I-Corps Spring
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- 2025 I-Corps Fall
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Developer of large-scale quantum network designed to transmit data over optical fiber and satellite communications. The company offers high-rate and long-distance entanglement distribution, quantum teleportation for applications such as unhackable encryption, data transmission with eavesdropping detection, quantum-enhanced sensing, and more, enabling companies to boost quantum repeater protocols for long-range quantum networking.
- Quantum Technology
- Quantum Hardware
- Quantum Software
- Photonics
- Semiconductors
- General Hardware
- Commercial Aerospace
- Security & Defense
- Research Tools
- AI Infrastructure
- 2023 Duality
- 2024 Duality
- 2024 NVC

Ingenii is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of quantum computing within high-impact life and environmental science use cases. It is doing this by bringing together quantum algorithm content with consumers in a ready-to-use format with benchmarking and error mitigation, enhanced with automation and AI.
- Quantum Technology
- Quantum Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Research Tools
- Climate Technology
- Therapeutics
- Software
- Platform
- 2023 Duality
- 2024 Duality
- 2023 I-Corps Spring

Developer of a laser technology intended to help the rapidly growing silicon photonics market. The company's technology helps to increase the bandwidth and energy efficiency of light chips through a proprietary, scalable method of depositing multiple lasers on a chip, all inside the chipmaker, enabling users to use it for applications in optical communications, optical sensors and emerging areas such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors.
- Telecommunications
- Photonics
- Semiconductors
- General Hardware
- 2018 I-Corps Winter
- 2019 NVC

- 2026 CNVC
- 2026 Accelerator Program
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Laxis is an AI-powered productivity platform for revenue teams that provides meeting transcription, real-time insights and coaching, automated follow-ups, and CRM updates. The company has expanded into hardware with OSO AI Earbuds and the Panocore 360 camera for capturing in-person meetings.
- Information Technology
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- AI Hardware
- Automation
- Future of Work
- General Hardware
- Marketing
- Platform
- Software
- 2023 ANVC
The company builds AI agents that integrate into a company's existing ERP, CRM, email, and operational systems to automate routine but high-value commercial and procurement workflows. Rather than replacing human decision-making, the platform augments decisions companies already make—such as pricing, purchasing, invoicing, and collections—and executes them faster, with more context, and at lower cost. The emphasis is on practical AI for "real economy" businesses rather than consumer AI or standalone copilots.
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- 2015 GNVC
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Developer of quantum repeaters designed to distribute photonic qubits across the existing C-band telecom infrastructure. The company's memory and interconnect technology enables the distribution of quantum information across the network facilitating the connection of quantum computers and sensors, enabling companies with scalable on-chip devices for quantum information storage, distribution, and processing.
- Telecommunications
- 2022 I-Corps Summer
- 2021 George Shultz Innovation Fund
- 2021 Compass
- 2022 Duality
- 2023 Duality
- 2020 I-Corps Winter
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MPath is a cloud-based AI software that analyzes facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language to quantify human emotions into actionable insights for market research companies.
- AI / Data Science
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Software
- Marketing
- 2020 GNVC
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Developer of network monitoring and analytics software for businesses.
- Information Technology
- AI & Machine Learning
- 2019 I-Corps Autumn
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Nexus Q-Link is a compact and modular microwave-optical quantum transduction platform that enables coherent, low noise conversion between superconducting quantum processors and optical communication networks. The technology addresses a fundamental bottleneck in scalable quantum systems by bridging the frequency gap between cryogenic microwave devices and room temperature photonic infrastructure.
The system integrates superconducting radio frequency cavities with high finesse optical resonators in a cryogenic environment, enabling bidirectional quantum state transfer with high efficiency and near quantum limited noise. Nexus Q-Link supports modular quantum computing, long distance quantum networking, and distributed quantum sensing. The project aims to transition the technology from laboratory prototype to a validated, scalable platform for commercial quantum hardware and network applications.
- Quantum Technology
- Quantum Hardware
- Quantum Software
- Photonics
- Commercial Aerospace
- Quantum Adjacent
- 2026 I-Corps Spring
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- 2026 CNVC
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Developer of a cloud-based parallel computing technology platform designed to transform technical studies into cloud computing. The company's technology runs large-scale workflow jobs in parallel, enabling users to run the compute-intensive simulation, modeling, and data analytics workflows all in one single platform.
- Information Technology
- AI Infrastructure
- Software
- Platform
- Automation
- 2014 I-Corps Autumn

proxiML provides a federated infrastructure platform that enables customers to deploy AI workloads—from traditional ML to computer vision to agentic AI—while maintaining full custody of their data. Its proprietary CloudBender® and EverywhereFS® technologies allow cryptographically provable AI clean rooms to be activated on any infrastructure, including on-premises servers.
- AI / Data Science
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Infrastructure
- Cybersecurity
- Platform
- Software
- 2022 ANVC
- 2024 I-Corps Fall
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The startup hopes to ensure the benefits of quantum advancements are accessible to all, paving the way for a future where quantum technology transforms industries, education, and the world.
- Quantum Technology
- Quantum Hardware
- Security & Defense
- Commercial Aerospace
- General Hardware
- Research Tools
- 2024 I-Corps Fall
- 2023 I-Corps Spring
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Developer of an image recognition tool intended to help brands with visual AI in online shopping. The company's image recognition tool offers a visual search algorithm that allows retailers to eliminate lost sales from stockouts and irrelevant product suggestions, enabling clients to increase revenue by suggesting products that deliver according to customers' needs.
- Retail / Commerce
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Marketing
- Software
- 2016 I-Corps Winter
- 2017 PF3
- 2016 NVC
- 2026 CNVC
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SAI: Science with AI is a company building AI-native infrastructure designed to accelerate scientific discovery and enhance collaboration among researchers. The company addresses major challenges in the current scientific ecosystem, such as information overload from millions of papers published yearly, collaboration inefficiencies within large teams, and a replicability crisis due to missing context and untracked decisions. SAI aims to transform the current landscape by developing an "AI Scientist" with long-term memory and context-aware reasoning capabilities, enabling a more rigorous and replicable scientific output.
The core technology of SAI is based on state-of-the-art research in hypothesis generation and unique datasets derived from a weekly competition called Agents4Science. The company's solution, described as "Proactive Claude Code + Scientific Context," is designed to foster effective human-AI collaboration. The business model is subscription-based, targeting individual researchers, labs and groups, and large enterprises in fields like biotech, materials science, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded by Chenhao Tan, an associate professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Human+AI Lab, who has extensive research experience in human-AI collaboration.
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- 2026 CNVC
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staC12 seeks to provide quantum and semiconductor device-makers an easy solution to leverage the potential of diamond for next-generation technologies.
- Semiconductors
- 2024 I-Corps Spring
- 2024 I-Corps Fall

TaskWatch is a zero-code Computer Vision Workflow platform company that allows cross vertical enterprise customers to design, build and deploy custom CV applications and response workflows within weeks.
- AI / Data Science
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Software
- Platform
- 2022 NVC
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Tensormesh cuts inference costs and latency by up to 10x with enterprise-grade, AI-native caching
- AI & Machine Learning

Developer of a graphical word processor designed to visually edit a hand-coded website. The company's word processor offers a folder that can be installed on any website permitting editing content to live on any device, designers can customize the editing experiences by synchronizing content across pages or making pages multilingual, thereby enabling designers to customize their editing experience.
- Information Technology
- Software
- 2019 I-Corps Spring
- 2019 Accelerator Program
- 2020 NVC
UniSignal is a platform that enables Internet policymakers, regulators, and researchers to detect and analyze network disruptions granularly across both space and time. The platform integrates different Internet measurement data sources, such as active network probe deployments and crowdsourced speed test datasets into a unified analytical framework. The overarching goal is to address measurement blind spots that arise because of irregular or sparse data sampling schemes if these datasets are analyzed in isolation.
- Telecommunications
- Platform
- Software
- Climate Intelligence
- Research Tools
- 2026 I-Corps Spring
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Vibrato is building a next-generation memory infrastructure layer for real-time AI systems. Unlike conventional vector databases that retrieve similar data points, Vibrato is an in-process, time-native memory engine that enables AI models, agents, and robotics applications to recall prior sequences of events and predict what happened next—all within the application's runtime. By treating time and ordered experience as first-class primitives, the platform allows AI systems to leverage historical trajectories in real time, unlocking more intelligent decision-making for applications such as autonomous robotics, AI agents, industrial forecasting, and anomaly detection.
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AI-powered vulnerability management platform that unifies security scanning tools, resolves conflicting asset data, scores risk using real-world threat intelligence, and automates remediation workflows for managed security service providers.
- Information Technology
- Cybersecurity
- AI Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- Automation
- Software
- Platform
- 2026 NVC
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