Alchemist Connect

Initiative to accelerate the development of seed stage ventures that monetize from enterprises.

Social Fashion Shopping Platform Where We Combine AI with User Generated Contents to Help Plus Size Women Shop. Team: Terence Fong (Design Engineer @Fortune 500 Company MS Engineering @Stanford); Jonathan Brown (R&D Engineer @Boeing, MS Engineering @UC Berkeley)

Virtual Databases. Team: Eric Kish (CEO), William Candillon (CTO).

3TEN8 is building a deeply powerful platform for carriers -- it’s AI Automation for Mobile Network Operators. They are about to close a $4m contract with a Tier 1 carrier (having just completed a $250K successful pilot), with other seven figure deals in the pipeline. It takes a unique team with industry insights to pull this off -- and this is the team. The CEO is a former Ericsson architect, and advisor to AT&T’s VP of Engineering. We believe this will become a must have for all carriers, and the company evidenced real contracts closing now where other startups have failed.

Simplify Enterprise Cloud Adoption. Achieve Batch Processing Nirvana Using Public Cloud. Team: Paddy Raghavan (MS CS IIIT-B, EMC, 8KMiles Co-Founder) Jags Raghavan (8K Miles VP Ops) Praveen Aravamootham (8KMiles Co-founder, Mindtree Lead Engineer).

Enables selective outsourcing. Team: Cor Winkler Prins (Previous exits to HP and BMC Software), Laurens Pit (Previous exits to HP and ServiceNow).

Legacy Hardware Companies Use Aatonomy to Add Machine Learning Capabilities to their Products without In-House Expertise. Team: Wilson! Pulling (Cornell CS Masters, UPenn MechE + Wharton, Oliver Wyman); Yang Hu (Cornell CS Masters, Tsinghua University Microelectronics and Parallel Computing)

Develops an IoT Solution for Oil Wells by Leveraging Novel Sensors that will Make Field-Wide Production Optimization a Reality. Team: Sebastien Mannai (Post-doc, Aero/Astro, MIT); Charles-Henri Clerget (Post-doc, Mathematics, MIT); Louis Creteur (MS CS, EPSI Arras); Eric Zhang (MPA, UT Austin)

Provides A Real-Time, Secure and Scalable Connected Car Platform & API for Developers to Build Amazing Applications.Team: Abhay Jain (Co-Founder and CTO of Jinvani Systech and Chief Architect at AgreeYa Solutions.)

Software Service that Uses Breakthrough AI-Technology to Enable Commerce through Video by Making Videos Shoppable. Team: RaviKiran Gopalan (Product lead for 10+ yrs in High Tech., PhD in EE, GSB'17), Charles Han (AI and Conmputer Vision expert, Stanford MS in EE)

Next-Generation Push Notifications for Android. Team: Francis Doumet (Stanford Engineering, Wharton MBA)

SaaS Platform that Improves Agrochem's Supply Chain by Helping Manufacturers Trade in a More Efficient and Profitable Way with their Distributors and Farmers. Team: Juan MC (Engineer. Former Founder & CEO at Agroterra); Jose Puig (Former +10yr CTO At Agroterra); Victor Sanchez Ros (+15yrs as Tech CEO, Cambridge, MBA)

Machine learning to fully automate managing advertising campaigns; clients pay only for results. Aarlo Stone Fish (Yale CS, programming since 12)

Builds Hardware and Software to Make Drone Operations — Not Just Drone Flight — Truly Autonomous. Automatic Deployment, Remote Data Analytics, AI-Based Self Inspection, and Hassle-Free Maintenance Enable Companies to Unlock the Value of Commercial Drones. Team: Charles Neal (Developer for Ardupilot, Leading Open Source Autopilot; M.S. Unmanned Systems Design, Air Force Institute of Technology; B.S. Systems Engineering, US Air Force Academy); Ron Marconet (eBay, Amazon, M.B.A., MIT Sloan School of Management; B.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA); Daniel Neal (Master's Human Systems Integration, Naval Postgraduate School; B.S. Systems Engineering – Human Systems, US Air Force Academy)

Helps Farmers of Trees and Vines Manage Their Yield by Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Team: Cyrille Habis (Amazon, CFI, MS Robotics @Stanford), Abe Brody (Full Stack Engineer and Analytics @Campus Steps, Lootsie, Channel Factory), Prasad Nair (PhD Controls @UMass, 11 Patents, 20+ years Algorithms, Machine Learning and Computer Vision)

Enables Most Sustainable Lightweight Battery Using Highest Strength, Thin-Film, Metal and Nanofiber Materials. Team: Sergey Lopatin (AMD Prolific Inventor Awards); Richard Fraga (Intel Achievement Award for Technology Development)

A Significantly Disruptive Venture For those that Like Technical Product Ventures. This Team is Building the World's Most Powerful Drone, Focusing Initially on Automated Agtech Pesticide Spraying. Team: Elviss Straupenieks (MIT MOOC in Manufacturing); Matiss Ansviesulis ($60m ARR Fin-Tech Company); Ivars Ostapenko (Engineer, Worked on the Fastest Electric Racing Car); Kaspars Škerba (Engineer, 10 Years of Experience in Robotics); Tomass Pētersons (Engineer, 1st Place in World In FIA Drone Racing)

Cloud Security Management. Team: Angelo Rodrigues (created Box.com's SDK), Alam Karim (ninja software engineer), Navid Nathoo (Enterprise Sales). Contact: nav@airpost.io.

Transforming Video Analytics for Security with Customized Deep Learning. Team: Rishabh Iyer, PhD (UoW, Video Summarization expert), Anurag Sahoo (CS HKUST, Full-Stack, Microservice Architecture and Deep Learning expert), Vishal Kaushal (IIT Kharagpur and Bombay, Product Development in Oracle, BMC Software)

Automates Grain Management for Farmers Using Wireless Sensors and Data Analytics. Team: Lucas Frye (Farm Background with Wide-Range of Agribusiness Experience); Joseph Varikooty (Mechanical Design and Fabrication to Electrical Hardware Design and Fabrication to Firmware Creation to Simple Cloud Systems).

Connected Insurance Client Platform. Insurers can connect with clients through IoT consumer devices, improving the risk prediction capability and building communication channels. Team: Gorjan Agačević (Volvo Car, Nike), Marijan Mumdziev (DT, Siemens, Nokia).

Helps Plant Managers in Factories Increase Machine and Labor Productivity by Having Real-Time Access to Key Metrics of Machines. Data is Captured Using a Simple, Non-Invasive Retrofit Sensor that Monitors Across Machine-Types. Team: Akshat Thirani (CS Northwestern University, won the Thiel Summit pitch prize); Phil House (CS Northwestern University); Sachin Lal (CS Northwestern University, won the 2016 MIT Clean Energy prize)

Don't Feel the Distance Between You and Your Children During the Day with Fully Configurable Mobile Calling & Messaging System, Symbol Language and GPS Tracking Function. Team: Jose Delmar (Delmar Ugarte Abogados, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500); Michael Barclay (TEDxTukuy, LEAP Game Studios)

3D Printing Construction Robots to Build Full-Scale Houses Cheaper and Faster. Team: Nikita Chen-iun-tai ( Cutlt, Kompositor Factory); Anna Chen-iun-tai (Undergraduate Degree in Space Physics)

Keeping Workers Safe and Healthy in the Most Dangerous Industrial Environments. Team: Jiaxi Fang (PhD, Energy Envr. and Chem Eng,WashU in St. Louis); Tandeep Chadha (PhD, Energy Envr. and Chem Eng, WashU in St. Louis); Pratim Biswas, (Professor and Chair, WashU in St. Louis, National Academy of Engineers)

Real Time Sales Coach During Phone and Video Calls. Team: Andy Zhou (Princeton University; Google); Rohan Sampath (Stanford University; McKinsey & Company); Chris Naco (Johns Hopkins University; Macquarie Group)

Fraud and Abuse Prevention for the World’s Most Targeted Businesses with Zero Friction to Users. Team: Kevin Gosschalk (BGames&InteractiveEnt, QUT); Matthew Ford (MA, Stanford; Lead; Microsoft; Game Designer, Atari)

Platform to Power the Last Mile for Enterprise Home Service Businesses. Team: Soban Hameed (Engineering Manager @ eBay Shipping & Logistics, Microsoft), Steve Guttman (Product & Marketing Executive @ Adobe, Microsoft, Proquest, Marklogic, Alphabox)

Drive Customer Experience and Growth through Augmented Expert Support using Human-Machine Interaction. Experienced Enterprise Team with Previous Exits. Team: Karpagam Narayanan (Adobe, TiE, Forbes Tech Council); Ramki Pitchuiyer (UCLA; Oracle, Paloras Corporation)

Provides Value Added Retail Solutions for Shelf Level Compliance Automation, Vending Automation and Master Data Management. Asterquanta's Solutions are AI and Machine Learning Driven with Seamless Integration Capabilities. Team: Pradeep V Pydah (MS, USC Los Angeles; TI, Intel, Cypress Semi), Mukunda Haveri (BS, 20+ yrs exp in Communications and Signal Processing; Centillium); Surya Prakash Kompali (Ph.D, New York State; Microsoft, HP Labs)

Help Teams to Productionize Machine Learning 10x Cheaper. Team: Bozhao Yu (GT CS, SamungNext & SEMC), Chaoyu Yang (UW CS/HCI, engineering product lead at Databricks).

Cloud-Based Optimization Service for Applicant Databases. Team: Laura I. Gómez (Former Head of Twitter Localization; Forbes, San Francisco Magazine's Most Powerful Women; UC Berkeley)

A Blockchain Based Platform and Network for the Industrial Supply Chain and Aftermarket. Team: Andrew Yang (University of Toronto, Bachelors of Arts, Political Science and Asian Studies), Jeongwoo Park (University of Toronto, Computer Science; Wattpad), Thanasi Karachotzitis (University of Toronto, Computer Science; Amazon).

Simply Automate Software Testing by AI. Team: Ryo Chikazawa (3 Times Founder, the Last One was Acquired by JASDAQ Listed Company); Sota (Sam) Yamashita (Contributor, Node.js)

AI Powered Multi-Cloud Security Platform. Team: Nikhil Gupta (20+ years in startups/ large companies - Buss Dev/Strategy @ForeScout, Product Mgr @ VMware, Cisco, Sales/Eng @Entrisphere/Ericsson, Bell Labs, MBA (Columbia Business School), B.S. & M.S); Ganesh Krishnan (20+ years of experience as Security Leader. Ex-Head of Security at LinkedIn, Vice President of Security at Yahoo, Ex-Head of Security at Atlassian. M.S. (Comp Sc - Purdue)); Deepak Yadav (16+ years Software Architecture , Chief Architect @Intel, Mcafee, Solidcore. Built product >100M+ revenue, MBA & B.S (Comp Sc))

Backend Platform for SaaS Applications. Team: George Batschinski (Sales, Stanford LP7, former GTAC Software, CHC Helicopters, Embraer), Antonio Davi Macedo Coelho de Castro (Product, Stanford LP7, former GTAC Software, IBM), Alysson Campos Melo (Marketing, Stanford LP7, former GTAC Software, Embraer)

Low-Code, AI Development Platform to Empower Developers to Add Out-of-the-Box AI Capabilities to their Existing Applications via APIs, and Deploy at Scale--NO Data Science or DevOps Skills Required. It's Like "Twilio for AI Apps." Team: Baha Abunojaim (Mixed Dimensions, Forbes Technology Council, MIT Technology Review Innovators U35, TechWorks); Tareq Aljaber (Adobe, Microsoft, Atlassian, and Samsung Research America)

Application-Centric Software for Secure, Agile, Multi-Cloud Networking. Team: Charles Stucki (Serial New-Product Launcher at Cisco, McKinsey Partner); Grigori Dzekon (CEO 10M customers, successful exits), Igor Tarasenko (CIO 100K EEs, CTO 10M End Customers, MEE)

Whiteboard Collaboration Platform, Helping the Remote Team Get on the Same Page as if They’re Sitting Side by Side. Team: Raymond Hong & Jake Kyung (Product Hustlers, 13-year Friendship, 5-year Work Partnership); Edward Park (Business, Stanford GSB); Anthony Roman (Growth, UCSB); Stella Huang (UX, Cornell)

A Tech-Driven Auction Marketplace for Discovering, Buying, & Selling the Best New Construction Homes & Condos in the Market. Team: Mikael Hastrup (Stanford GSB, former IrvineCo., Fifth Wall VC, Matterport, Deutsche Bank), Akshay Rampuria (Stanford CS, President of Stanford VC, various early-stage startups, machine learning expertise), Erin Allard (RE Broker, Formerly CS Instructor @ Girls Who Code, CS Fellow @ Hackbright)

Transforming Under-Utilized Real Estate into Productive and Flexible Offices for Startups. Team: Nick Jiang (Duke MBA, Princeton Engineering); Ray Choi (Kellogg MBA; Intuit; Accenture)

Talk to 1000s of People at Once. Team: Jess Lee (CEO, Serial Entrepreneur, Community Organizer, Physics @ Bryn Mawr College); Omid Ahourai (CTO, Serial Entrepreneur, @Constant Contact @Birst)

A Video, AI and AR Powered Workflow Platform for Field Service Teams. This Platfrom is to Provide Exceptional Support Especially for Physical Equipment, Devices and Hardware Where Visualization is the Cornerstone of Support. Team: Rama Sreenivasan (Product Support, Scientist, MIT, Applied Materials), Keyur Patel (Developer, Intel, Ex-Googler) Scott Swisher (Sales Coach & Advisor, Service Max, SuccessFactors)

Blockchain-Powered Smart-Contracts Solutions for the $2.5 trillion Securitization Market in the Financial Industry. Team: Ivan Zone (Wharton; Machine Learning Quant at $4B Hedge Fund - Petra Capital)

Smart Business Platform to Modernize Cities' Economic Development. Team: Sophia Zheng (MBA, Stanford GSB; MS Systems Eng, UPenn; BS Finance, Wharton), Carlos Garcia (BS Computer Science, 10+ Years in Government Technology Contractor)

1st B2B2C Marketplace & Booking Saas for In-Store Beauty Services. Team: Monique Salvador (Techstars, UBS)

Captures in Person Feedback from Customers while the Experience is Top-of-Mind. Our Gamified Software Solution Makes the Experience of Giving Feedback Easy and Engaging. Bobly Produces 50x more Operational Feedback and Improves Overall Score at Review Sites which Results in a Significant Lift in Revenue. Team: Marianne Haugland Hindsgaul (Serial Entrepreneur with 2 Previous Exits, Top 3 Finalist for Female Entrepreneur 2017 in Norway); Kim Hindsgaul (MECS, Serial entrepreneur with 3 Previous Exits, Several Worldwide Patents); Alexander Bergo (Ph.D Communication and Information Sciences)

Intelligent Chat Nurturing, Powered by AI. We Help Businesses Convert More Customers through Immediate Responses. Team: Rebecca Clyde (ASU - W. P. Carey School of Business, MBA; Intel, Ideas Collide); Chris Maeda (Carnegie Mellon, PhD in CS; Brick Street Software, Mail Monitor); Anu Shukla (Youngstown State University, MBA, Doctorate (Hon); Tapjoy, Inc., RewardsPay, Inc.)

Voicemail 2.0 for Local Businesses in LatAm. Team: Emmanuel Oquendo (Undergrad Researcher at MIT); Israel Figueroa (Undergraduate Researcher at MSU 3D Vision Lab)

Automated Privacy Incident Response and Recovery Tool. Team: Andy Lunsford (JD/MBA Wharton); Nagesh Gummadivalli (Capital One, JP Morgan Chase)

Software that Makes Mobile Apps Work Without Internet. Team: Jorge Rios (Twitt2Go, StartupBus); Julian De La Orta (Naranya Studios, Mobalis)

Intuitive Collaboration for the Future of Work. Describe your Thoughts Visually by Dropping Comment Bubbles Anywhere on the Screen and Inviting your Teammates. Team: Tom Medema (CTO at Bloomon 0 - 130 FTEs; $27m raised, BsC / MsC in Economics & Business
, Software Engineer 12+ Years)

Helps Feed the 99% of Offices with No Fresh Food on Site. Uses RFID-Enabled Refrigerators to Offer the Most Affordable Fresh Food Solution for Workplaces. Team: Megan Mokri (Yahoo, Cornell, Haas MBA); Lee Mokri (Visa); Ben Purvis (Chevron, Haas MBA); Adam Sah (Buyers Best Friend, Google).

Unlocking the 3D Economy by Making it Easy to Capture 3D Data with Your Smartphone or Tablet. Team: Abheek Basu (Wharton + UPenn CS, ex-PM, NEA Product Resident) Mahamad Charawi ( Ex-Senior Software Engineer at Cisco, UPenn CS + Wharton)

Marketplace for planned healthcare procedures. Team: Sachin Jain (Booz&Co., Chicago Booth, IIT Delhi), Frank Bird (Humana, Aetna, United, Stanford), Sumant Kaul (Dignity Health, AON Hewitt, UIC, Kellogg), Brent Nicholson (Booz&Co., Accenture, USC).

An Analytics Engine for Data-driven Operational and Clinical Effectiveness. Team: Matt (on CERN team that discovered Higgs boson, 10+ software engineering/AI), Anna (math and economics degrees, Credit Suisse), Jamie (MIT AI)

Dairy Farms Without Humans. Team: Artem Timanov (Co-Founder & CEO/Computer Vision in retail), Anton Slesarev (10+ years of experience in Computer Vision, deep learning and face recognition), Ilya Kolin (CEO of Dairy Equipment Manufacturer).

Our FDA-Cleared, Cloud-based, Mobile Software Application is Designed to Help Surgeons Develop More Accurate and Confident Surgical Plans through Advanced Medical Images and Data Analytics. Team: Russ Yoshinaka (University of Washington, magna cum laude, BS & JD), Ken Koster (Stanford University, BS & MS), Dr. Joseph Shirk (MD Medical College of Wisconsin, BS University of Wisconsin)

Device centric classroom management and content distriubtion platform for the education vertical. Team: Samujjal Purkayastha (Tufts BS CS, Microsoft), Yorman Garcia (Tufts BS EE, Microsoft)

iPhone-Based Device for AI-Driven Microscopy. Team: Ansar Zhalyalov (MSc Medical Physics); Muammar Al-Shedivat (Facebook, Yandex); Maruan Al-Shedivat (CMU, Open AI, Google AI, h-Index 10+)

Plugin to Instantly Automate Simple Conversations for Zendesk Chat. Team: Jorma Jürisaar (Technical, started his first web-agency at 17, Sold his First Startup by 21); Juhan Kaarma (Built and Sold his First Startup with Jorma by 25)

Shopper exchange network for eCommerce stores. We are creating a new revenue stream for eCommerce stores by exchanging shoppers across a network of highly relevant eCommerce stores. It would be 12X more profitable than using product display ads for monetization. We are a team of 11 with relevant experience in eCommerce for last 5 years. Founders: Ram Ganesan (CEO, Retail Intelligence, Data Science, Strategy); Pavan Kumar (CTO, Large data sets, Software Architect)

Solving Food Hassles for Enterprises. Team: Fahad Jalal (Wharton, MBA, Stanford, MSc); Mubeen Arbab (SJS, BSc Electrical Engineering, Cray Computing); Muddsar Jamil (SJS, BSc CS, Sugar CRM, Workday); Hassaan Sophie (SJS, B.S Marketing)

A Leader in Developing Technology to Scale the Delivery of Genomic Services and Increase Access to Genomic Expertise. Our Chatbot Platform Provides Personalized Genomic Information Consistently and Cost-Effectively, Allowing to Incorporate Genomics More Broadly into Patient Care. Team: Moran Snir (Medtronic strategy, Wharton MBA, M.Sc Biomedical engineering, Software engineer in elite technology unit, Israel); Guy Snir (Product management Twitter/Snappy TV/Motorola/Google, MBA Duke/TAU, B.Sc Computer science, Software engineer in elite technology unit, Israel); Motti Shohat (Medical Genetics Fellow from UCLA/Cedars Sinai; World renowned in prenatal genetic testing; Head of Genetics for the larget health systems in Israel)

ClearMetal is a Predictive Intelligence SaaS Company, solving the most complex operational problems in Logistics. Team: Adam Compain (Stanford MBA; ex-Google), Will Harvey (Stanford MS&E, Stanford CS), Diego Canales (Stanford MS&E, Stanford CS)

Simplifying Vehicle inspections and Damage Assessment Using Computer Vision. Team: Venkat Sreeram (10+ Years In Tesla + JLR, IIT Madras Mech Engineer, 5 Years as an Entrepreneur Previous Venture Cartisan.In); Sharath Murthy (10+ Years in KPMG+ Infosys, Comp Sci Engineer, Previous Venture Cartisan.In)

Enables The Delivery Of Highly Interactive Digital Media And Applications -- Cloud-Delivered Streaming Games, Augmented And Virtual Reality, Interactive IPTV -- From The Cloud. Team: (1) Madhu Sharma - IIT Bombay, UIUC, MIT; Chips and Systems Architect, XBOX Advanced Projects; Leading Architect for Supercomputer-class systems, Networking and Data Center gear; 20+ patents (2) Raj Yavatkar - IIT Bombay, Purdue; Noted architect, though leader, and product builder in Internet, Cloud and DC Infrastructure, Virtualization, and other spaces. Intel, VMWare Fellow. 30+ patents, 60+ papers.

An AI-Based Customer Intelligence Platform. Team: Rohit Nistala (MS ECE CMU, ex Google Engineering, Cask Data), Eugene Kim (MSIS UW, ex Microsoft, Madworks Accelerator)

Migration as a Service (MaaS) Platform to securely migrate to and from public and private clouds and manage their assets in real time. Team: Naveen Nimmu (20 years of expertise in Enterprise /Data Center segment, virtualization, hybrid cloud; IIT, Madras; Giri Vayalapalli (Engineering Lead at Ericsson; First Data Corp; MBA and NIT, Warangal); and Srikanth (20 years in Sales- Cloud Computing, Information Security & Infrastructure Management; IIM Ahmedabad)

Cloud-Controlled Infrastructure for Enterprise Physical Security. Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applied to Access Control and Video Surveillance together, in a Cloud model. Team: Rick Bentley (UC Berkeley, Advisor Google X, Founder/CEO Televoke/deCarta (acq by Uber); Glenn Forrester (Harvard, Interim CEO ChowTime, Founder/CEO Coral SW (acq by Apple)

Creating the Next Revolution in AI: Continual Learning Will Allow Machines to Improve at Everything They Do, Continually and Autonomously. Team: Mark Ring, PhD (Pioneer in Continual Learning and Reinforcement Learning); Peter Stone, PhD (World-renowned Expert in Reinforcement Learning, Winner of Multiple Robocup Robotic Soccer Competitions); Satinder Baveja Singh, PhD (World-renowned expert in Reinforcement Learning, one of the fields most prolific contributors)

Automate Building Operations for HVAC, Lighting, and Safety and Security and Save 20-35% in Energy and Operational Costs. Team: Kittur Nagesh (Sr. Dir Solutions at Juniper, Dir. Pdt Mgmt, Cisco, Dev. HP, Intel. MSEE, MBA - Wharton, 32+ patents filed, 16 granted), Ajit Sarnaik (SW Engr. AMD, NetBoost, Procket, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks. MS; 7 patents filed, 2 granted)

Crowdsourced Application Security. Connecting businesses with security researchers. Team: Jacob Hansen (M.Sc. CBS/UCLA, Accenture), Esben Friis-Jensen (M.Sc. DTU, Accenture)

Advocacy empowerment platform for B2B service providers. Team: Sumithra Jonnalagadda (IIT CS, Sony, Amgen). Contact: sumi@connectbright.com

Enterprise Sales and Expansion Platform that Uses AI to Maximize Revenue for Sales and Account Management Teams. Team: Will Cheung (Head of Sales Eng at Sequoia-backed startup, Netflix, CS/MS from CMU), Jochen Bedersdorfer (Intel AI Group, VP Eng of text analytics startup)

Sentiment Analysis Search Engine & Dashboard Supplementing Traditional Polling and Surveys for Campaigns and Marketers. Team: Alex Drummond (CPO StudyCloud acq by Avant, Oxford Software Eng), William Widjaja (UIUC Electrical Eng), Cody Pawlowski (UIUC CS).

Wearable Muscle Gesture Control Device for Human: Computer Interactions in Industrial Use Cases and Beyond. Team: Jack Wu (ITRI, MS of Biomedical Engineering NCKU); Will Lee (Mediatek, EE NTU); Leo Hsu (Operation, Management)

The Missing Piece to the Next Generation of Advanced Batteries. Team: Jonathan Tan (10+ Yrs of Product & Technical Biz Dev in Polymer Membranes); Roger Basu (10+ Yrs of Materials R&D in Thin-Film Solar & Electrochromics)

AI Digital Lending Platform for Safer, Faster, Cheaper Loans. Team: Abhijit Onkar (Deloitte, Dell Services, ISB MBA); Sameer Chakraborthy (Infosys, Tata Capital)

Bringing AI to Cloud Efficiency. Team: Haamid Ali (Co-Founder/CTO Narvar, Worked at Google, Macys, Oracle, Walmart Lab. Stanford University - MS CS, IIT Delhi); Zuhier Qureshi (VP of Cloud and Platform Engineering Teams at Macys. Worked at Intel, Sun, IBM and Gap. Research work at MIT. BTech CS Univ of Pune)

Compostable Packaging from the Ocean for the Ocean. Team: John Felts (MS Materials Eng, UW; Santa Cruz Innovator of the Year 2018); Xiaolin Zhang (PhD Materials Eng, UW); Marco Rolandi (PhD Applied Physics, Stanford; Chair, Electrical Eng, UCSC; KitoTech Medical, Co-founder)

Active Defense Data Protection. Team: Boris (Oracle, PostPath, Cisco, SQL Comm., invented Hello language); Mike Burshteyn (UC Berkeley, Emory JD, #1 debater USA, Cybercrime lawyer). Tim Draper-VC & F500 CISO advisors.

Smart authentication and fraud detection leveraging context and behavioral biometrics. Team: Anand Desai (ex Chief Security Architect Visa, PhD CS UCSD), Kumar Viswanath (ex Research Director NTT, PhD CE UCSC)

Speech enabled device that provides domain-specific, on-site information and services. Starting with hotels where we are live and have paid contracts each worth $20K+ in ARR. Team: Cam Urban (Y Combinator alum; Co-founded a hardware and software company, both acquired); Peng "Michael" Shao (Led the Amazon Speech Cloud team responsible for the Amazon Speech APIs, Speech Cloud services, and Amazon Mobile Speech SDKs. 10 years experience doing NLP); Le "Grace" Huang (Built the front-end experience for Amazon Coins purchasing, payments, and gifting across various device platforms. Automation undergrad. Masters in computer science)

C2B Data Marketplace That Allows Companies To Source Any Personal Online Data Possible Based Upon Expressive Personal Consumer Consent. Team: Serafin Lion Engel - CEO (BSc IBA Rotterdam School of Management), Daniel Hawthorne - CTO (PhD Cognitive Science, Stanford University)

Internal Fraud Monitoring Platform that Uses Behavioral AI to Help Finance & Audit Teams Prevent Employee & Vendor Fraud. Team: Kiran Ratnapu (VP Risk Technology, Merrill Lynch, MIT, IIT Bombay), Prasanna Kumar (Healthcare & Machine learning at Epic & startups, IIT Bombay CS)

Human-In-The-Loop AI Platform for Active Threat Detection Inside of Retail Businesses and Public Spaces. Team: Sean Huver (PhD Physicist, veteran of DARPA projects), Sam Tkach (CS Columbia).

Delivering Expert Insights on Demand and Empowering Enterprises to Create their Own Knowledge Networks through a SaaS Model. Team: Derek Hans, Nikhil Punwaney, Yishi Zuo, Devin Basinger (MIT Grads)

AI-Based To-Do App for Deskless Employees in Franchises. Team: Tushar Mishra (Founded Tnine, Built Sales Engine); Madhulika Mukherjee (Founded Tnine, Research At MIT, CMU, IISc)

Easy-to-use collaboration tool for mid-market companies for running RFPs and managing supplier interactions. We have a strong procurement background with 30+ years of experience. Founders: Erkki Brakmann (CEO, MBA in Telecommunications from TallinnTech, 7 years in Procurement), Rain Opik (CTO, Ph.D from TallinnTech in computer science, built ERP and Business Analytics), Andres Kuuse (Head of Marketing, MBA in Mathematics, 4 years in Procurement).

Peer To Peer Content Distribution Network (CDN). Albert Wang (MIT, built load balancer for 1000 node compute cluster), Dauren Tatubaev (USF, >10 years industry experience)

AI-assisted digital personal assistant that helps employees with their auxilliary tasks. Team: Ram Ravichandran (Machine Learning @ CMU, first data scientist at Twitter) Vitor Lourenco (first designer at Twitter, Envoy, Expa)

ML-Powered Sales Quotes Automation Solution for Custom Manufacturing. Helped Customers Increase Revenue by 25% and Expand Customer Base by 50% in the First Year. Team: Konstantin Ivanov (Built Profitable Manufacturing Company In The Past); Peter van der Zouwen (20+ Years In Eng), Dmitry Vlasov (10 Years, MFG Software), Craig Malak (25+ Years Sales, Ansys, Solidworks)

Document Security Made Simple: Protect and Track Confidential Files After Sending. Team: Augustine Lim (Masters EE & IT, Technical University of Munich); Advisors: Donna Wells (Former CMO of Mint), Steve King (Former CEO, Docusign)

Building Latency Optimized AI Processors for Edge Cloud Computing and Cars. Team: Jay Hu (Top Tier ASIC Chip Architect and Designer in SV); Tong Wu (Cisco, Amazon Lab126, Capsovison); Patrick Ang (COO of ESS, a Public Company)

Predictive Sales and Marketing for Medical Device Companies. Team: Michael Jue (Medical Device Sales Leader, $100M sales, 10K lives impacted, UPenn), Nick Ng (Dir Sales Eng Autonomy, MemSQL, UPenn)

Builder-Friendly System and Analytics Platform for Healthy, Efficient, Sustainable Buildings. Team: Jim Baldwin (MSFT CTO Television, Intel VP Eng); Gladys Wong (Cisco/Insieme/Nuova, Marvell)

Construction Software for Drones. Team: Saurabh Ladha (Stanford/Ex-DroneDeploy/Winner, International Aerial Robotics Competition) and Robin Singh (University of Michigan/Lead Developer of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles research group, Winner of International Aerial Robotics Competition).

Empowers Gig Workers to Run their Own Highly Personalized Businesses. Shoppers Earn 3X and their Customers’ Experience Gets Better with Every Shop. Passionate Team that Believes the Future is Powered by Millions of New Solopreneurs; Nate D'Anna (M&A at Cisco, Harvard MBA); Joel Shapiro (Marketing and Sales at NI, UT MBA); Tom Schoellhammer (Google and Cisco, Phd CS UCLA); Cal Leung (Mobile and UX).

High Density Internet of Things for Industrial IoT, Smart Agriculture, and other Use Cases that Involve Scaling Sensors and Actuators to 1000s in Close Proximity. Co-Founding Team: CTO Rana Basheer (PhD, Principal Scientist Broadcom, Garmin), CEO Atul Patel (OneScreen, Jornaya and OptimalSocial)

Machine Vision Analytics for Mining and Construction. Team: Anirudh Reddy (Stanford, Built industry-leading Site Management System for family's highway construction business); Mike Beebe (Ex-Co-Founder, Matterport; exp. in Robotics, Machine-Vision); Vijay Vishwanathan (Ex VP-Product, Civil Maps, Telenav, exp. in Comp Vision and Telematics); Martin Fischer (Stanford, Prof of Civil Eng, Head Of Construction-Tech Think-Tank)

Developed the AI Technology NASA Uses to Remotely Monitor Astronauts and is Now Applying it to Monitor Patients with Chronic Conditions and Improve Health Outcomes. Working with Kaiser Permanente in Heart Failure Monitoring & Rapidly Expanding Pilots with Health Providers Across the US. Team: Rachna Dhamija (3rd Startup, PhD UC Berkeley); Maarten Sierhuis (AI Expertise Nissan Autonomous Vehicles, NASA)

A Platform for the Storage, Verification and Exchange (Trade) of All Things Genuine, so we may Easily Deal with – "Is This Real?". Team: Pruthvi Rao (India Nominee for Citibank FastTrax Program); Gaurav Prakash (SVP, Citibank); Mahantesh Kumar (AVP, Business Head, Zenith Software)

Builds High Quality AI Customer Service Agents, Offloading Most Conversations to the AI and Freeing Up Customer Support Agents to Handle the Creative Cases. Team: Gabor Angeli (UC Berkeley, Stanford Ph.D.); Keenon Werling (Stanford).

Bot to Bot Protocol Automating the Future of Work. Google/Apple/Facebook/Harvard/MIT Team with Multiple Exits. Team: Darren Kaplan (MIT; Recognized HR Technology Thought Leader); Adam Sah (Google Gadgets, AdSense, Shopping); Chris Bourdon (Upthere, Apple)

Stress Tracker for Seniors. Team: Lisa Voronkova (MS in Mathematics, MS in Engineering), Illia Kukharenko (Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering), Alex Tulko (MA, MPM in Financial Management)

Fleet is re-imagining mass transit. We are applying the power of the sharing economy to a transportation market constrained by limited public options. Team: Isaac Maden (Stanford CS) Shaurya Saluja (Stanford CS)

Visual Collaboration Tool that Empowers Enterprises to Intelligently Capture, Share and Present Organizational Knowledge. Team: Niles Lichtenstein (Harvard, Monitor, Ansible (Acq:IPG), Velti (Nasdaq: VELT), Michael Devin (Principal Tech Architect at Frog, DARPA Director's Medal, GE), Ben Yee (ITP, Senior UX Design at G

At Home Stem Cell Banking. Team: Nabeel Quryshi (23andMe, Harvard); Zeel Patel (Harvard, Astrazeneca, Previous Biotech Exit); Michael Chen (Harvard, HBS); Dr. Vittorio Sebastiano (Stanford Stem Cell Professor, Turn.bio)

The Revolution of Access Control - Everykey can Unlock your Phone, Laptop, Car, House, or any other Device when you’re close by, and also log you into your Website Accounts! Team: John Mcafee (Founder of Mcafee Antivirus), Simon Boag (Former President of Chrysler & GM), Chris Wentz (Made over $100k in college selling iPads), Max Simon (Started a business in middle school and grew it to millions in annual revenue)

Develops enterprise software which enables Cloud IT Leaders to provision applications 12x faster than VMware while achieving 2x more datacenter density.

Offers Personalized Electrical Stimulation Therapy to Rehabilitate Walking. Team: Pierluigi Mantovani (UCSF Neuroengineer); Juan Rodriguez (EECS Berkeley, Maxim Integrated); Dr. Andrew Ekelem (Phd Vanderbilt, Bioengineering)

Team of top tier scientists and engineers building the fastest way to discover new materials. Founder: Timur Bazhirov (physics PhD @ UC Berkeley)

A Platform that Connects Construction Companies to Construction Workers. Team: Justin Locke (UX/UI Designer, BHk), John Reid (Former Sales/Operations Doordash), Harp Dhinsa (BSc), Sebastian Jacob, Jordan Squire, Daniel Allyen VP Engineering, Chris Nsimbe Lead Developer.

Sustainable Farming, at Scale. Team: Sebastien Boyer (CS MIT), Thomas Palomares (MS&E Stanford)

Quality system management solutions to keep medical device companies compliant to FDA regulations. Team: Alvin Tai (Stryker, BS UC Berkeley), Kevin Wu (Salesforce, BS UC Berkeley)

Developing an Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Device to Diagnose Neurological Emergencies in the Ambulance - the Faucet. Team:Mark K. Borsody (Serial Medical Device Entrepreneur and the Inventor of the Vitalflow Stimulator); Renata Barreto (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law); Grace Montenegro (13 Yrs Experience Managing IT and Computer Services Teams for Major European and Latin American Corporations)

Outcomes Focused Nutrition Program to Lower Enterprise Healthcare Cost. Employee Engagement 5x Higher than Alternatives. Team: Arun Nijhawan (FirstFuel, XPV, Physics + Math @ UofToronto) and Kartik Shastri (GE, ArcEnergy, MEng + BS + BA @ Cornell)

Corporate Video Production Simplified and Made on On-Demand. Team: Tomás De Matteis (Seasoned Audio Visual Producer); Jorge Soto (Twitter, Mopub, Kickapps, 3 Exits); Lucy Richards (Stanford, Machine Learning, NLP); Alex Lim (Lendingclub.Com, CBS Radio); Nicole Laniado (Boston College, Visa, Plaid Inc)

Fleet Management Platform for Mobility as a Service. Team: Balqis Chepkwony (University of Nairobi, Bsc. Actuarial Science, C.A, Hass Petroleum Limited, CFO, Texas Energy Ltd); Salim Omar (University of Nairobi, Political Science and Sociology; UI/UX Designer, 5+ Yrs in Mobility); Kenny Awosika (George Washington University, MIS-IST,15+ years in Federal Government Contracts as Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst and Microsoft Exchange Administrator, 9+ Yrs Entrepreneur)

Labor Free, Low Infra Cost, Fully Autonomous Drone Delivery Solution. Team: Lei Kang (Google PhD Fellow); Jun Ma (UIUC, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., 2016); Thomas Jorgensen (Co-founder of Napatech, IPO'd in 2013)

Provides an open API to make it easy for B2B marketplaces to offer financing seamlessly. Team: Ken So (Corp Dev Exec at Ericsson, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Haas MBA); Winnie Cheng (Chief Data Scientist at Bankrate, JPM, AMEX, IBM, MIT PhD); Jim McGuire (Data Science Lead at ZestFinance, UCSD PhD)

Uplifting Neighborhoods by Solving the Last Mile. Team: Thu Nguyen (Wireless/Biz Dev at TELUS/Marvell, Waterloo Engineering), Andrew Ta (Manager, Technology Strategy at TELUS/BELL, Ivey MBA, BSc Physics and Computer Science at WLU ), Chris Yap (Engineering Manager, Marvell, Stanford Engineering)

Leveraging Technology to Revolutionize Mental Healthcare. Team: Matt Milford (BioE @Berkeley); Doug Hapeman (EECS @Berkeley); Jerry Gelbart, MD (Medical Director, 30+ Years of Psychiatry Experience, Stanford Adjunct Clinical Faculty)

Enabling Immediately Available & Automated Quality Inspection with Any Camera System. Team: Florian Ziesche (M.Sc. Technology & Management TUM, Mostly Worked in Business Development and as AI Consultant); Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat (3x Certified Cloud Professional, 2 Patents, 4 Startups)

Makes it easy and cheap to send, spend, pay and get money in multiple currencies. Team: John Biggs - CEO (Carnegie Mellon; NYU; Former Editer TechCrunch); Richard Svinkin - COO (Carnegie Mellon; Merck, Kodak, HP); Paul Goudas - CTO (Bell Atlantic/Verizon).

Autonomous Vacuum for the Janitorial Industry. Team: Xiao Xiao (UC Berkeley PhD Automatic Controls, Algorithm Scientist at Apple 5yrs); Andrei Zimin (PhD Econ Moscow, Haas MBA, Dell)

Advanced 3D Bioprinting for Printing Human Tissue. Team: Eric Bennett (5 Years Bioprinting Experience, 3 Engineering Degrees); Sina Moeinzadeh (Stanford, 50+ Publications in Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials and Bioprinting); Sasha Galitsky (MIT Engineer); Matt Lee (MBA @ Carnegie Melon, MechE @ UC Davis, Spacecraft Manager at Lockheed Martin)

AI Driven Account Based Sales. Uses Deep Learning Across 1B URLs and Enterprise Silos to Deliver a Holistic Account View, Deep Sales Signals, Personalized Outreach and Next Best Actions for Sales Teams. Team: Rafat Alvi (Stanford MS, Citrix, Zenprise (acq), Kno (acq), HisBlackBox (acq), eBay), Mirjana Marjanovic (UC Berkeley MBA, Incyte Genomics (IPO)), Umair Rashid (Vocera, Citrix, Zenprise (acq), Kno (acq)), Ted Benakis (UserTesting, JobVite)

Fuse is a next generation inventory SaaS solution. In the US, $1 trillion or 20% of retail sales are lost every year due to stockouts and overstocks. Fuse prevents this loss by algorithmically generating a demand forecast, which has been shown to help customers reduce stockouts by 10% and overspend by 70%. The team hails from Stanford, MIT, Google, and Tableau.

Mobile, enterprise, platform for organizations to track, monitor, and manage field assets and related operations in real time. Team: Vinodh Subramanian (16 year veteran in the Geographic Informations System (GIS) industry); Jeff Smith (Berkeley, 10+ years experience in the Geographic Informations System (GIS) industry)

Enterprise Software Company that Provides Dermatology-Grade AI Skincare Technology Solutions to Dermatologists, Beauty Brands and Retailers. Team: Gbemisola Ogunyomi (Stanford GSB-Ignite, Petroleum Engineering and Engineering Management); Martin Maltz (MIT PHD Physics, Former Xerox and PARC); Steven Ingram (Stanford PhD EEE); Stephen Lewelis MD (Stanford School of Medicine Dermatology Resident, with a PHD,M.S and MD from NYU)

Streamlining Communication Between Healthcare Providers and Health Plans. Team: Ashish Dua (JHU BME/EE, Switchmate Founder (acquired)), Robert Romano(JHU BME, Stanford Ph.D. Robotics, Switchmate Founder (acquired)), Max Wu (BS/MS Stanford MechE, Nest developer).

Helping Manufacturing Companies Train the Millennial Generation for the Shopfloor. Team: Hasan Khan (Startup CTO of the Year Award from Dell & the CIO Association of India); Vaishali Neotia (Stanford GSB Ignite, Startup Leadership Program, UNCTAD Empretec, Goldman Sachs)

We Create a Photo-Realistic and Fit-Realistic Virtual Try-On Aimed to Reduce Returns and Increase Sales for Fashion Manufacturers/Retailers. Team: Dmitry Ulyanov (Ph.D., ex. Samsung AI, Yandex, Google intern); Vadim Lebedev (Ph.D., ex. Yandex); Ekaterina Batyuk (ex. Prometeia, MSc Economics)

Uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises. Team: Ahryun Moon (Freescale, Samsung, UT Austin Business); Jasper Sone (Yelp, Paypal, UT Austin CS); and Peter Lee (Facebook, Guidebook, UC Berkeley EECS)

B2B2C Marketing Platform Delivering Personalization Needed for Utilities and Auto Retail to Thrive in a Market with Changing Dynamics. Team: Adrian Gomez (LUCID, OPG, UC Berkeley MBA); Sam Saxena, PhD (R&D100, Top 20 Under 20 Finalist, LBNL Scientist)

Built the Next Generation of Spreadsheet Analytics and Tools to Unlock Financing for Any Type of Projects. Through a Proprietary and Patent-Pending AI-Powered Technology Gridline Accelerates the Due Diligence and Financing Process of Any Large Project, Starting in the Commercial Solar Space, Gridline Has Helped Unlock Million of $ for the Construction, Engineering and Delivery of Solar Projects Across the US. Team: Michele (Mike) Lunati (Mckinsey, Harvard MPA / Wharton MBA); Marc Suter (Head of Swiss Solar Team, ABB); Ramin Ghelichi (MIT, Phd, Semanteon, Smartassets)

Build a Cloud-Based Platform for Powering High Quality AR/VR on Mobile Platforms.. Team: 40+ years of experience in building, deploying and shipping next-gen network based products such as 3G/4G-Wimax/VOIP with 12 patents. Rishi Ranjan, (15+ Yrs as Lead Systems Engineer, Broadcom, Beceeem, Qualcomm, M.S/Georgia Tech), Dijam Panigrahi, (Texas Instruments, Freescale, 14+ yrs across of taking products to multiple international markets), Yaranama Venkat Ramana Dass (14+ years in system architecture, software development and deployment/ Broadcom, Beceem)

A Marketplace and Saas Platform Connecting Consumers to Practitioners Focused on Nutrition, Lifestyle and Environmental Factors. Team: Chelsea Rowe (+5 Years at Morgan Stanley, Cornell Undergrad)

Talent Marketing Platform Designed to Help Enterprise Companies Source Talent from Facebook. Team: Michael Fritz (Excel Venture Management, Parthenon, Dartmouth), John Drago (Health Fidelity, Inflection)

Designer and Manufacturer of the World’s Only Modular and Internet Enabled Laboratory Equipment. Team: Aaron Hardin (Scientist, Philosopher, Engineer, US Army Veteran); Andrei Klimanov (Serial Entrapreneure, Software Engineer, Expert with Data Analytics and ML applications)

Chat-Based HR Platform with Hundreds of Customers. Team: Ujjwal Grover (Disney, Linkedin); Kanav Abrol (Tuck MBA, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Yahoo, Flipboard)

Intelligence Platform for Advancing Innovation Communities. Team: Jeremy Hammer (Veteran, UC Berkeley Haas); Tammy Gu (3 Yrs UI/UX Designer); Bryce Reich (Veteran, Sales Houzz); Edgar Valderrama (6 Yrs SWE)

Mobile Salesforce.com for healthcare. Team: Neng Bing Doh (CEO, online ad expert, Cornell MBA, BS CS), Clive Wu (CTO, serial tech entrepreneur, multiple exits, Stanford PhD, MS EE) Contact: bing@healthcrowd.com .

Replacing SDRs with AI. Team: Brendan Short (built sales team at Wiser.com, took them from 13k MRR to just shy of $10M ARR), Anders Fredriksson (2 exits as CTO and CEO, 12 years of startup experience), Marcus Sandberg (LSE, ex Head of Sales at Odin)

Talent introductions, fostered collaboratively, for high-growth companies. Team: Evelyn Hu and JJ Hancock, both technical.

Assessment Software to Help Companies Evaluate and Hire Heroes, Providing a Hand Up to Veterans Towards a New Career. Team: Matt Carrasco (SVP Interpbulic Group, programmatic advertising, USC/Purdue), Ben Baysinger (data scientist with experience in ANI for unmanned avaiation systems, MSSC, BS Economics US Naval Academy) - MIL veteran aviators

Peer-to-Peer Talent Acquisition. Team: Patrick Hillstrom (Self-Taught Front-End Engineer, LinkedIn BizOps/Product, Penn), Oliver Zhou (Apple/AMD, Scuba Instructor, Columbia MS EE/Texas BS EE)

Big Data Platform for Public Transit, Contextualizing Petabytes of Performance Data to Help Agencies Improve Service. Team: Cole Calhoun (Santa Clara University, Finance/CS; Salesforce); Stephen Coyner (University of Washington, Interaction Design BDES; Salesforce, Amazon); Daniel Radding (UC Berkeley, CS; PocketSuite, Ripple)

A Social TV Layer for Media Enterprise. Keep your TV Audience Engaged Across your Web, Mobile, and Smart TV Apps. Realtime Viewership, Sentiment, and Engagement Analytics. Team: Andres Aranguibel (UX/UI - Google, AAA, NeoReach); Ravel Antunes (Engineering - Disney Imagineers, AAA); Leonardo Aranguibel (Production - HBO, NBCU, Disney Media)

Multi-Cloud HPCaaS Platform that Achieves Ideal Price/Performance Tradeoffs Through Optimal Hardware Configurations, Software Tuning and Workload Profiling. We Help Engineers to Harness Full Potential of the Cloud, Decreasing Time to Market by Speeding Up HPC Simulations in the Cloud. Team: Eugene Protasenko (MS in CS, MIPT, 8+ years in international M&A, participated in deals with total volume of $9bn+); Vilgelm Bitner (PhD in CS, MIPT, IBM Science and Technology Center), Andrey Nikolaev (PhD in CS, former head of Parallel Computations lab at MIPT)

Chatbot HR-Hub for Collecting and Screening Candidates from 50+ Sources. Team: Ruslan Abdulganiyev (Cornell University; 20tonn.kz, 10+ yrs in Entrepreneurship and Sales); Almat Arykbayev (Kazakhstan IT University; 20tonn.kz, 10+ yrs in Programming)

A Medical Device Company Focused on Modernizing Bedside Neurosurgery. Team: Casey Grage (Neuroscientist, Engineer); Dr. Amit Ayer (MD/MBA, Serial Founder, Chief Neurosurgery Resident); Tyler Panian (>10 Years Medical Device Dev Exp, >20 Patents)

High Sensitivity NMR Detection for Elemental Analysis in Water. Our Unique IP Allows for Detection of Trace Contaminants in Real Time, Using Micro NMR Technology. Team: George Farquar, Ph.D. (former LLNL), Julie Bowen, Ph.D. (former LLNL), Mark Stephenson (20+ years water industry experience)

Next Generation Hydrogen Fuel Cell System with Game-Changing Energy Performance for Air Mobility. Team: Alex Ivanenko (Sales Director CIS, 3M); Sergey Panov (CTO in BPC Engineering); Sergey Nefedkin (40 Yrs R&D in Academia)

Computer Vision for Manual Manufacturing Team: Khizer Hayat (MSc, Robotics, UPenn, Former Toyota, Schlumberger); Albert Kao (UPenn, Omniata, MixRank, App Annie)

Gives Distribution Centers Access to Affordable and Flexible Financing of Robotic Order Fulfillment Operations. Team: Andrea Inglés (Independent Robotics Expert and Trainer, Award-Winning Project Manager); Rémy Saintobert (13 Years of Software Development, Software Architect, Previously CTO)

Effortless 3D Body Scanning with a Smartphone. Team: Dmitry Ulyanov (PhD, Comp Vision, ex. Samsung AI, Google, Yandex Research, >1800 Citations); Vadim Lebedev (PhD, Comp Vision, Yandex Research, >1000 Citations); Ekaterina Ulianova (MSc Financial Econ, HSE (LSE Certified))

Automates the Collection of Patient Medical Information to Improve the Efficiency of Medical Encounters. Team: Ranjith Babu, MD (Duke Resident Neurosurgeon); David Parker (MBA)

Bringing eCommerce into every content site/app. Team: Tadas Deksnys (KTU, Computer Science), Justin Taruska (KTU, Engineering of Control systems).

In-app Integrations to Any Other App. Team: Nash (4th Startup, 2 Previous Exits), Yasir (BS Engg IIUI, CS Faculty at IIUI)

PCIe Accelerator Card for Scale Out Workloads Offers 12x Performance. For Work Not Serviced by GPU and Similar (10B+ Market). Team: Dr. Sean Halle (MS EE @Berkeley PhD @UCSC), Sam Sirisena Serial Entrepreneur @Amplidata ($300M exit)), Tom Riordan,( Co-founder QED ($2.4B exit)), Serge Sirisena (Bus Dev)

Improves the Efficiency & Gives 15% Extra Revenues to Solar Plants. Team: Camilo Contreras (10+ Yrs Entrepreneur, IT Engineer); Camilo Flores (8+ Mecanical Engineer, Hardware Development); Mauricio Chiong (11+ Yrs as Entrepreneur, IT Engineer, Msc Innovation)

We Make Enterprise Intelligence Self-Serve and 40x Faster for a Tenth of the Cost by Adding Business Context to Data Over Knowledge Graph. Team: Aman Walia (Sold Start-up to Microsoft); Sanju Pancholi (UT Austin - Chemical Engineering, Highest Honors (1994), Wharton School - MBA in Finance and Strategy, High Honors)

Improving Operational Efficiency of Construction Job Sites by Leveraging Location & Movement Data of Workers and Equipment. Team: Piyush Vishwakarma (CTO iX Energy, IIT Roorkee); Kamran Alam (Tata Communications, IIT Roorkee); Prerak Ujgare (IIT Roorkee)

Using Big Data to Reduce Legal Uncertainty. Team: Ben Setel (Litigator, Davis Polk; Columbia Law J.D.); Sadrach Pierre (Data Scientist, WorldQuant, Cornell Ph.D.)

Artificial Intelligence Enabled, SaaS Platform that Democratizes Making Engaging User Generated Videos. Team: Hernan Giraldo (Cisco Head of SDN Sales, Nokia GM SW Apps. EE Univertity of Texas, SLEI Stanford GSB), Gabriel Davidov (VP Product, Ericsson, Nokia. EE University of Texas, MBA SMU Cox), Wil Quan (SW Architect. CS University of Texas)

Smarter Financials, Faster Insights. Intuitive, Integrated, Real-Time Analytics for SMB Finance. Team: Martin Zych (B2B SaaS Finance Career, U.Washington Lecturer - Financial Modeling); Steve Turner (LiveVox, Alcatel-Lucent & Genesys, 6 Patents, MIT Technical Staff); Sameer Halai (Microsoft, IBM, Amdocs, U.Michigan Social Computing).

Encryption Management Platform for unstructured data; Data Collaboration Platform Across Mobile, Endpoints, Public and Private Clouds. Team: Sudesh Kumar (Honors engineering degree from IIT, worked at AT&T, CIBC and Gartner); Saeed Khosravi (Masters Engineering degree, (CCIE) and (JNCIP) Certification, worked at RIM (Blackberry), Bell, Bloomberg);

An IoT software company that uses the power of big data and machine learning to make buildings smart and efficient without rebuilding them. Team: Hedi Razavi (Stanford PhD, UC Berkeley, Genentech), Jennifer Tsau (Stanford MS, UC Irvine, NASA-JPL, Northrop Grumman)

Created DAM which is the First of its kind Governance, Compliance & Performance (GCP) Solution for Data Science. It Automatically Connects, Collects and Learns from All Data Science Relevant Activities.DAM is the One-Stop Shop for Anyone, Including Data Protection Officers and Managers Concerned with Data Science Compliance, Governance and Performance. It is Also the Cornerstone for Creating a Worry-Free Data Governance Infrastructure for Regulations Like GDPR. Team: Andy Petrella (Spark Notebook creator, Mathematics - Computer science); Xavier Tordoir (Ph.D in Physics, Bioinformatics)

Machine-learning/computer vision to identify & engage brand advocates & superfans on social media. Team: Diego Rodriguez (CTO - PhD CompSci student at UCSC, computer vision expert, Apple); Israel Niezen (CEO - Harvard MBA); Ori Nakar (CPO - social media engagement experience, IDF intelligence)

Highly versatile robotics platform providing solutions in manufacturing and materials handling. Team: Gary Kurek (Thiel Fellow, Youngest Canadian to Receive an O-1 "Genius" Visa @ Age 20)

AI-Driven Software for Quality Control Automation for Manual Assembly Lines. Primarily Focusing on Fast-Food Franchises. First Customer is Papa John's. Team: Emmanuel Massenez (MSc Economics & Public Policy; Arara, UBS, JPMorgan); Juan Pablo Morales (MS Mathematical Engineering; Arara); Cristobal Aguirre (ESERP Barcelona, MBA Marketing Mgt. & General Mgt.; Arara, Vodafone, PRISA)

On-Demand Car Delivery Platform Building on Top of the $40b Rental Car Market with Billions of Dollars in Underutilized Assets. We Emulate the Future of Autonomy Today - Cars are Parked Outside Residential Areas and Travel to you with the Click of a Button. Team: Nikolaus Volk (Stanford Msc, Uber Machine Learning); Francesco Wiedemann (TUM, MIT, BMW Car Sharing Product); Ludwig Schönack (Berkeley MBA, Mckinsey)

Developed Tech (sf + hw) to Decrease Lighting Energy Consumption for Indoor Farmers. Minimum 50% Decrease for Modern LEDs, Up to 90% for Older Lighting Tech. Team: Oleg Zaretski and Sergei Radzionou (Chemical, Electrical & Software Engineering, Both with 20+ Years of Experience); Tatsiana Zaretskaya and Jussi Pikkarainen (Law, Business Background with Experience in Startups that’ve Raised Over $50m)

Social Learning Employee Matching Software. Team: Yumi Alyssa Kimura (Founder of Meitu Japan @Meitu Technology's $5B IPO, 1 Law Degree from Japan, HR Management@Wharton); Ayman Chit (Software Architecture, Data Scientist, 10+ years Founded startups: Plottr - AI Biometrics); Jay Willam (Built Beta to GA Product @Twilio through IPO)

Provides sales prospecting & automation to help sales & marketing teams capture leads from social networks. Team: Angelo Huang (MS Comp Science - USC, Yahoo, Cofounder Peer.im, Kelfia Interactive); Mei Siauw (Wharton MBA, Oracle Product Mgmt)

Saas For Pharmaceutical/Biotech Scientists To Accelerate Drug Development-To-Submission. Team: Sun Kim (Stanford; Bayer, Abbott, Siemens), Bobby Mcdonald (CTA)

Linking borrower financial and income accounts into secure Financial Passports™ to automate the mortgage document hassle and build the first true mortgage marketplace. Team: Orion Parrott, CEO/CTO. Mike Romano, VP BD.

Automated 3D Scans of Products to Enable Next-Gen Retail Experiences. Team: Maulik Desai (MS Physics Upenn), Brendan Corcoran (MS CS Stanford)

End-to-end IoT cloud PaaS for connecting any device to any enterprise application (ERP, CRM, Databases, Analytics…) Team: Vatsal Shah (Rockwell Automation, MS Entrepreneurship, BTech Industrial Eng.), Isha Sheth  (Linde Germany, Motorolla, MBA, BTech Industrial Eng), Sacha Sawaya (MSc Finance, BComm), John Younes (MS Entrepreneurship, Bcomm)

Digital Freight Matching as a Service for Shippers. Team: Paramvir Sandhu (UCLA, BS Chem Eng, Colorado State, MS Chem Eng 2013 (Cum Laude)), Luxmi Dutt Sharma (SJCE Mysore, BEng Technology)

Helps Enterprises Across Industries to Reduce Fraud and Detect Damages on Physical Assets in the Field. Real-time Mobile Instructions and Asset-Speciific Workflow Configurations and Damage Calculations for Mobile Workers Increase Customer Satisfaction and Efficiency, Establish Chains of Accountability and Bring Down Costs. Potential Customers are Enterprise Equipment Rentals, Large Car Rentals, Mining Companies and Upstream Oil&Gas Enterprises.Team. Philippp Weirauch (serial enterpreneur, several exits, succesful team and company building); Elena Weirauch (PhD in Management of Organizations, Consulting for Top100 Enterprises to enter new markets)

Agricultural Logistics Service. Team: Rikin Gandhi (Microsoft, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, 40M+ farmers); Aditya Sethi (Waterloo, Barclays)

Captures Real-time Consumer Insights for Through One-on-One Automated Conversations via an Intelligent Bot on Messaging Channels. Team: David Suh (Sales > $20M, Marketing, ex-Twitter), Dogan Berktas (Full-Stack Dev, Growth, ex-Twitter)

Outcome Data Platform (SaaS) for Hospitals & Clinics. Operational in 9 Hospitals, our Proprietary NLP/AI Technology Mines Data from Legacy Systems to Quantify and Improve Health Outcomes in Real-Time for 10.000nds of Patients. Team: Georges De Feu (Pharm.D., successful 3x HealthTech founder); Elke De Witte (Ph.D. Neuroscience, UCSF Medical); Dries Hens (M.D., MBA); Emanouil Kazaltzis (IT Architect at Norkom - acquired by BAE Systems, SAS analytics)

Offline Purchase Intent-Based Mobile Engagement Platform for Payment & Loyalty Apps. Team: Batu Sat (Ph.D. ECE @Illinois, Tech Lead @Cisco, Lead Architect @Fuze); Ferit Ozan Akgul (Ph.D. EE WPI, R&D @Qualcomm, R&D @Skyhook) Head of Product from VISA, Head of Marketing from Vodafone

Product Discovery for Omnichannel Retailers. Team: Bharat Vijay (Built Yahoo!s Data Analytics Team and VP - Amazon's A9); Anand Ramani (Built Yahoo!'s Image Search); Karpagam Gobalakrishna (Entrepreneur with 10+ years of Retail Experience)

Matternet is the developer of the world’s leading technology platform for on-demand aerial delivery in urban environments. The company provides its technology platform as a service to healthcare and logistics organizations. In 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for full operations of drone logistics networks over densely populated areas in Switzerland. In 2018, it was selected to carry out drone logistics operations for US hospitals under the FAA's drone integration program and formed a strategic partnership with Boeing to shape the next generation of transportation solutions. For more information about Matternet, please visit: https://mttr.net.

Real-Time AI for Industrial Production. Team ex Yandex: Alexander Khaytin (B2B expert); Emeli Dral (Co-author of Coursera Data Science Course with 50K students); Elena Samuylova (50 Women in Product Europe); Jane Zavalishina (Singularity University faculty, 18yrs Yandex)

AI Driven Meeting Collaboration Platform that Delivers Deep Actionable Insights from Meetings Across the Enterprise. Team: Alex Bergo, PhD (Expert Collab., NLP, ML), Viil Lid, PhD (Collab. tech., HCI, Analytics).

Fuels Marketing Campaigns by Leveraging CRM and Marketing Automation Data into Laser-Focused Targeted Advertising, Resulting In 300% More MQLs on Average. Team: Gil Allouche (MBA); Yan Manevich (University of Haifa, BS Mathematics and Computer Science)

Direct-to-Consumer Online Store Delivering Premium, Nourishing Food to Busy People Who Care About Wellness. We Offer Fresh Snacks, Desserts, Proteins, Vegetables, and More. We're on a Mission to Revolutionize the Food Industry Using Food as Medicine. Team: Julie Nguyen (Lumosity, JP Morgan); Stephen Liu (Mina Group, Merrill Lynch)

We Create Sexual Assault Kits for Consumer Use that Allow Users to Self-Test After they've Been Sexually Assaulted or Raped. Team: Madison Campbell (Data Scientist, Astroepidemiologist); Liesel Vaidya (Technical Proj Man at Iyanu; CS, University at Buffalo)

Developing a cross patform modeling tool for 3D Printing . Team: Muhannad Taslaq (BS CS) and Bahaa Abu Nojaim (BS CS).

End-to-End Solutions that Enable Energy-Aware Mobile App Development. Team: Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue Faculty, Co-founder, iMimic Networking, Ph.D. Harvard); Abhilash Jindal (Full Stack Engineer, ECE@Purdue)

Allows Businesses to Send Smart SMS Messages by Enabling Them to Easily Create Media-Rich Landing Pages that can be Hyper-Personalised Using Customer Data. Team: Greg Chen (University of Cape Town; AeroExchange, 15+ yrs in Mobile Communication Platform Innovation); Clark Lin (AeroExchange, 15+ yrs in Mobile Communication Platform Innovation)

Optimizing Drug Trials through Multimodal AI. Team: David Suendermann-Oeft (PhD EE, Munich; 160 Papers and Patents; Built Industrial Conversational AI Systems with 1B+ Interactions); David Pautler (PhD CS, Hawaii, Created World's First Open Voice Browser)

Predictable Revenue Acceleration for B2B Enterprises. Driven by Exceptional Sales Funnel Visibility and AI Powered Actionable Suggestions. Team: Amit Tewari (IIT Engineering, USC MBA, Founder Multiple Startups, Largest Exit $400Million), Mike Chowla (Berkley CS, Wharton MBA, Rubicon, AOL, Lauched Multiple Products in Martech / Sales Tech, 20 years experience)

Marketing Automation Platform pioneering user-level personalization, solving the problem of churn in mobile apps. Team: Raviteja Dodda (CEO - IIT CS, Cisco, Google), Yashwanth Kumar (CTO - IIT CS, IBM)

Platform that Makes Sense of the World's API Data to Change How APIs are Created, Debugged, and Used. We are to the API economy what New Relic did for the APM space. Team: Derric Gilling (Intel Xeon Phi CPU Architect, Computer Eng @University of Michigan), Xing Wang (Executive Producer @Zynga, previously Microsoft, Computer Science @MIT)

Wireless Gigabit Internet for Everyone. Broadband Users are Demanding Better Connectivity But Fiber to the Home Deployments Have Failed Due to Cost and Scale Problems. We Connect the Last 100s of Meters Using Our Proprietary Wireless 60 Ghz Mesh Technology And Enabling Gigabit-To-The-Home Service. Team: Michael Gordon (13 years working on mmWave 60 GHz systems, releasing first worldwide CE & Moible phone 60 GHz product. SiBEAM, Silicon Image)

All-in-One Visual Collaboration Tool that Helps Agile Teams Create Better Software Requirements in Real-Time. Team: Emil Tamas (SDL plc, Satori Technologies)

Addressing the Labor Challenge Inside Agriculture's Semi-Automated Post-Harvest Facilities Where Fruits and Vegetables are Cleaned and Packed. Their Machine Learning Algorithms and 3D-Vision System Give 10x Productivity Boost by Automating the Labor-Intensive Task of Packing Fruits. They are Currently Working with the Largest Avocado Packer and Processor. Their Team is Comprised of Graduates from CMU-Robotics Institute, MIT, and Stanford GSB. In Addition to Machine Learning, the Team has Experience in Enterprise Sales & Deployment. The Team was Kick-Started Under the Mentorship of Steve Blank. Team: Puneet Puri (MS Robotics, CMU Robotics Institue, Stanford GSB, Sloan Fellow); Brian White (PhD MIT, UPS Foundation Visiting Professor, Stanford University Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Helps tour operators distribute inventory online. Team: Ashutosh (co-founded Traverik, MNNIT CS), Piyush (International maths olympiad, IIT CS)

Pharmaceutical Data Analytics And Digital Marketing Provider For Emerging Markets Starting In Africa. Team: Gregory Rockson (PPIA Fellow, Princeton University), James Finucane (BS Math, CS), Daniel Shoukimas (BS CS And Visual Design)

Cloud Software Service For Aggregating, Unifying and Interpreting Air Quality Data For Cities and Device OEMs. Team: Nick Masson (BS/MS ME CU Boulder); Matt Stein (Ex-GE Digital, MBA Cornell, BS CEE Stanford).

Using Data to Make Policing Better. $21 billion market, 9 paying customers and $2M in ARR in late stage of sales pipeline. Team: Kona Shen (2x founder, Brown, Stanford); Mustafa Abdul-Hamid (2x founder, UCLA, Stanford); Maurice Wright (3x technical founder). Advisors include 5 Chiefs of Police and founding CTO of OpenGov

Low Latency Audio Platform that Turns Mobile Devices into Wireless Microphones. Team: Andrew Livingston (Product Developer, Apple, Harvard BA), Uwe Kummerow (Teamspeak, Siemens, German Air Force)

Subscription Management for SMBs, Using Virtual Credit Cards. Provides Direct Control, Security and Visualization of Company-Wide Subscriptions. Team: Sanjay Goel (Stanford, NYU, UCLA, IIT; 2 Prior Startups, 1 Exit; Citigroup, HSBC, DeutscheBank); Alan Szternberg (Amazon, BNP Paribas, Microsoft)

Next generation payments platform for online and retail. Secure, fast and lower cost. Team: Laurence Cooke (BS CS, MBA).

The Only Production Ready Unikernel Platform Used by F50 Enterprises Today. Unikernels are Widely Considered to be the Next Generation of Cloud Infrastructure for their Security, Performance and Manageability. Team: Ian Eyberg (Appthority Sr. Engineer, wrote code obfuscation sold to federal gov't & poker parsing grammars)

We build your final products with a revolutionary new 3D printing technology that combines your product's shape with the internal circuitry it needs to function. The electrical functionality of your product comes pre-packaged in modules: simply snap them in, and your product will behave exactly as you designed it. We've gotten rid of the need for upfront capital costs, minimum orders and assembly lines.

Solving the Infrastructure Problem for AI and ML of Future by Turning Existing Architecture on its Head to Revolutionize the Internal Connectivity within Servers and Delivering 30X More Performance with 4X More Power Efficiency. Team: Arvindh Lalam (Co-Founder of Qualcomm Corp Venture Snaphome; Dr. Steve Swanson (Director of Non-Volaile Systems Lab)

Clean-Tech Startup Creating an Innovative Green Battery Made by CDPME1 Process Using Nanotechnology that Lasts a Single User’s Lifetime and can be Applied in Most Battery-Operated Industries. Team: Dr. Nima Golsharifi, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Eng. (ORB Group, London Centre for Nanotechnology); Suguru F. Amakubo, Ph.D., M.Sc. (ORB Group, Panaomics); Sheikh Mohammed Irfan, M.Sc., MA (Irfan Consultancy, Bloccelerate VC)

"NeoReach allows enterprise companies to scale influencer marketing programs. Advertisers can buy traffic directly from influencers using a cost-per-click model. Team: Jesse Leimgruber (Stanford CS) P.J. Leimgruber (RankExecutives founder), Brian Sorel. "

Enterprise Microservice Platform that Lowers Development Costs, Infrastructure Costs, and Speeds Time to Market. Team: Robert Roeser (Netflix, Nike), Greg Whitaker (Nike, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank), Ryland Degnan (Netflix, Cisco, Harvard, Oxford)

Complete looks curated at scale using AI. Team: Vineet Abhishek (Data Science Experiments Lead @Walmartlabs, Ph.D. UIUC, M.S. Stanford), Parikshit Sondhi (Search Relevance And Ranking Lead @Walmartlabs, Ph.D. UIUC)

World's Fastest Network Virtualization Software that Replaces Proprietary Network Hardware. Team: Alex (PhD, 12 Yrs Experience in Telecom and IT), Slava (ex Samsung Research Center), Paul (MS CS, open source networking projects, ex Intel), Igor (MS CS, ex Intel)

Decision Software for Streaming Data. (Ayasdi for streaming data) Dan ONeill (Assoc. Prof. Stanford, Sr. Dir. Oracle, GM TI, PhD Stanford, MBA UCB), Sachin Adlakha (Data Scientist, Ayasdi, PhD), Peter Pham (Ayasdi)

Transforms passive, stale cameras into smart, connected objects. Team: Fahd Gilani (CTO, firmware co-author of Atmel's Initial USB OTG Product, PayPal Shining Star Award winner) and Sayed Fayyaz Hussain (CEO, Founded CAE Technology (Acq by Mentor Graphics))

The iMirror is the World's Most Advanced Interactive Mirror - Helping Retail Connect with Consumers in the Fitting Room - Where Buying Decisions are Made. Team: Pieter Boekhoff (2016 Startup Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, CIS MRU), Thomas Battle (MBA), Alain Kassangana (Masters Eng)

Mobile App/Marketplace for Brands to Collaborate with Micro-Influencers Through Product Gifting. Team: Armin Faraji (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; Growth Group); PK Rawal (University of Waterloo; Amazon, Hootsuite, ecobee)

Smart System to Automatically Integrate, Collect, Visualize, and Analyze Medical Data, Creating a Battle Plan for a Patient’s Personalized Situation. Team: Tal Rusak (MS, Stanford University; BS, Cornell University, Summa Cum Laude; Cisco); Dr. Guy Rosenthal (Director of Neurocritical Care, Hadassah - Hebrew University Hospital; Neurosurgeon, UCSF; MD, University of Michigan, Forbes Best Doctor); Advisor: Dr. Gregory Hawryluk (University of Utah Hospital)

Semantic Intelligence for High-Performant Marketing Content Creation. Team: Elena Ikonomovska (PhD in Machine Learning, Turn/Google/Reddit), Shyamal Patel (MSc USC, Haas BS, Product Lead BMC/VMWare)

Oberon Global helps manage compliance for equity fundraising. We’ve designed and built 84 unique on boarding workflows for investors from around the world. We manage compliance so our customers can focus on building their business. Peter Kinnaird (Georgia Tech BS/MS in CS/HCI; 3 years @ CMU Ph.D.), Brian O’Neill, J.D. (Formely JP Morgan Asset), 3x San Francisco-based Full Stack Engineers

Making Industrial Knowledge Accessible with Data-Rich 3D Models of Sites and Deep-Learning Driven Insights for Top-Line Growth and OPEX Improvement. Team: John P. Joseph (20 yrs startup exp, Founder, PacketZoom), Mothusi Pahl (15 yrs Heavy Industry exp)

Agile Military Planning. Team: Grant Demaree (West Point, Army Officer); Rafa Pereira (Director Software Eng @data.world; VP Eng @IAC)

Real-time messaging and engagement platform for mobile SaaS. Team: Sati Hillyer (CEO), Nimesh Gupta (COO & Product)

Mobile first Enterprise IT Asset Management solution focused on the emerging connected world that helps companies better track IT assets and the information on them. Team: Arthur Lozinski, Trent Seed, Ramin Ettehad.

Perioperative Microcollaboration and Workflow App. Team: Jacob Brandon, MD (Indiana University School of Medicine); Corbin Frye, MD (General Surgery Resident, Washington University School of Medicine)

Your Own App Marketplace In Minutes. The Only Turnkey Solution That Allows Companies To Create Their Own App Marketplace For Partners And Developers, Providing A 10x Reduction In Total Cost Of Ownership And 90% Decrease In Time To Market. Team: Brian Amaro (Citibank, Alpha Exchange (Acq. $180M)); Michael Kovacs (Raymond James, Universal Music)

Hybrid cloud automation toolkit. Team: Ilya Livenson (Nortal, CERN, KTH CS), Andres Toomsalu (Tallinn Uni Faculty).

Edge Communications Platform with Advanced Cybersecurity for Distributed Networks. Team: Randall King (NTU, MS Eng Mgt, Univ. of WA, MSE Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Univ. of OR, BS Physics; Winner of Photonics Circle of Excellence Award, Sucessful Start-ups); Dave Bass (Stanford, Boston Univ., Univ. of IL; managed $350M division at Agilent); Keith Rose (MBA AGSM/UNSW, Fordham Business School, Rutgers; R Industry Expert, Sucessful Start-up Acquisition)

Intelligence Driven Contact Center As A Service - Easy to Use, FULL STACK, Browser Based Contact Center -Team: CSN Murthy (Serial Entrepreneur. Sold previous startup to Freescale semiconductors), Chaitanya Chokkareddy (Platform expert, startup enthusiast, Startup weekend Hyderabad lead, Product Nation Maven), Atul Sharma(Call center and Avaya expert, Tellme)

Empowers the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Community with an AI Empowered Wearable Behavioral Change Learning Service. Team: Brent Chase (Northwestern University, MS Biomedical/Medical Engineering; Future Founders, Jabiru Medical); Joseph Clifford (Tesla, Fisher-Price, Rochester Institute of Technology); Liam Herlihy (Rochester Institute of Technology, BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Lockheed Martin); Kerri Zalba (Rochester Institute of Technology, BS Computer Software Engineering; GE Aviation)

Makes sure companies never lose sight of their cargo. Team: Richard Linkesch - CEO (University of Cambridge Engineering, Morgan Stanley), Anthony Wainman- CTO (University of Cambridge Engineering)

Personal Financial Assistant: Understand your Total Compensation (Equity, Salary, 401(k) etc), Open/Manage Financial Accounts and Optimize Salary Movements Between them to Increase Retirement Income. Team: Mitchell Jones (Facebook/Dropbox PM, Yale University); Uma Mahadevan (ex Google Engineer 8 years, PHD Univ. Buffalo CS, Rensselaer Undergrad)

Prioritization and Employee Progression for Modern Teams. Team: Jordan Husney (Head of Product @ Digi, Architect of GE's Advanced Manufacturing Strategy), Taya Mueller (Anthropology @ Columbia, MBA Design Strategy @ CCA, Co-Founder of 5 Companies)

Synthetic biology platform to generate "designer molecules" - Dr. Jamie Bacher (7 years in biofuels, most recently co-led $100MM R&D collab btwn Total New Energies and Amyris); Mike Mendez (25 years biotech, most recently founder and VP Technology at Sapphire Energy); also professors Joe Noel (Salk) and Mike Burkart (UCSD)

AI-driven Commodity Market Insights. Team: Tanya Lyubimova (MSU Physics Dept, Major in Quantum Electronics, 1 Exit.); Ilya Nikolskiy (CPO, MSU Economics Dept, 1 exit); GP Saggesse (PhD CTO (HPC, Quant at a HF, 20 Papers)); Paul Smith CDS, PhD (UC Berkley, Google, Quant at HF, 14 Papers)

SAAS for Nonprofit Fundraising. We Automate Most Fundraising Workflows of $286B Donation Market to Make it Efficient for Nonprofits and Seamless for Donors. Team: Rajeev Prasad (IIT Roorkee, BE, EE; Microsoft Principal SW Architect); Nidhi Doshi (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, MS, CE; Microsoft)

A Mobile App for Restaurants that lets Guests Pay for their Check at the Table and Provides Restaurants with Valuable Insights. Team: Dan Giaime (Intuit, Microsoft, Facebook); Jake Stevens (Apple, Rochester Institute of Technology); Beltran Caliz (Rochester Institute of Technology; Worked at Top Tech Startup in Shanghai, China)

Intelligent, Individualized Rehab Services for All. We Expand the Reach of Therapists by 8x through Empowering Caregivers, First Focusing on the 1-in-7 Communication Delayed Children. Team: Amy Kwok, MD, MPH (Harvard, Peking University, Wellframe, Designed Mobile Health Diagnosis Apps); Matt Kwok, MBA (PM & PMM@Microsoft & VMware Cloud Services, MIT Sloan MBA, UC Berkeley)

Amazon Go in a Box to Measure Consumer Behavior. Team: Everett Berry (ex Qualcomm, HP Vertica, NSF Awardee); Aaron Michaux (PhD in 3D vision, DARPA Awardee)

Price optimization as a service leveraging state of the art machine learning. Team: Alex Shartsis (Dartmouth/LSE/UCLA, Drawbridge, TripIt/Concur), Youngin Shin (UT Austin PhD, Twitter, Drawbridge, MSFT, DIS).

Peak performance for your Big Data apps. Team: Sid Shaik (Yahoo! Director of PM for Hadoop, Qubole, AsterData / Teradata, Oracle, Gehraa), Ismail Dalgic (Stanford PhD EE, Datrium Sr Director Engineering)

Perimeter Brings Real-Time, Collaborative Data Visualization to Public Safety. Team: Bailey Farren (UC Berkeley, B.A.Cog Sci; B.A. Rhetoric); Noah Wu (UC Berkeley, B.A. CS; B.A. Cog Sci)

Upgrading Native Cell Phone Calls with App Integrations and Business Features such as Conversation Transcription. Team: Enlai Chu (20+ years in telecom @ Cisco, Skype, Microsoft; Founder/CTO Of 3jam - acquired by Skype; UBC EE, UC Berkeley MBA), Justin Duan (Product designer with app featured by Apple; UC Berkeley)

Builds Software that Organizes Work. It Uses AI to Help Teams Execute Projects, Saving Employees and Managers 30% of their Time. Team: Darshan Desai (Princeton CS, JPM); Leonardo Zizzamia (Twitter)

Gamification platform for Call Centers. Learning, Coaching and Performance platform designed to manage and motivate people at call centers. Team: Oscar Giraldo (CEO, CS, Leadership, Call Center Experience); Ariel Cordiviola (VP Product, CS, UX); Contact: oscar@playvox.com .

Employee Lifecycle Analytics as a Service. Team: Oliver Staehelin (Stanford GSB, ran recruiting program @Fortune 500 company), Catherine Spence (Stanford GSB, product manager @BlackRock --> Sold to HR teams)

Putting Antimatter To Work. Team: Bala Ramamurthy (Spacex, NASA), Dr. Ryan Weed (Australian National University, Trained Air Force Pilot, Columbia University), Dr. Josh Machacek (Expert Experimental Physicist, Australian National University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, JPL)

Revolutionizing Employee Ergonomic Wellness With Software Team: Daniel James (Yale Grad, Former Adobe); Ion-Alexandru Secara (CS Grad, Software Engineer at Adobe, Intuit, and LoopUp); Jack Cooney (15+ Years of Posture, Movement and Wellness Experience Rehabbing and Training Athletes like Chase Utley and Vernon Davis, MS Kinesiology, MS Athletic Training)

Online Software Development Platform for Cloud Apps. Team: Ang Li (PhD CS from Duke, BS EE from Tsinghua, early Arista Networks, systems hacker, built some of the fastest networks in the world, and had once broken 0.1% of the Internet)

Fastest & Most Convenient Laundry and Dry Cleaning Alternative. Team: Naren Inukoti (Ex-UberEATs Eng Lead, CS UT Austin); Rahul Sheth (CTO CoachCam, B.S. Georgia Tech); Vishva Somaya (Eng Lead at P&W, Aerospace UT Austin)

Data Security Platform for Enterprises to Manage and Mitigate Risks with Sensitive Data in One Place. Team: Balaji Ganesan (Ex XA Secure acquired by Hortonworks), Don Bosco Durai (Ex XA Secure acquired by Hortonworks, Ex Bharosa acquired by Oracle)

The System of Transaction for Modern Car Dealerships. The Prodigy Platform Increases Car Sales, Enhances the Customer Experience and Boosts Sales Efficiency by Nearly 500%. Team: Michia Rohrssen (Former Head of Growth at Venturebeat); Marty Hu (Stanford CS, Founded Predictive Edge (acq by Dropbox).

Personalizes the Customer Experience In-Store, and Help Retailers Make the Creation of Customer Loyalty Easy. Team: Øistein Sonstad (BS, Venture Cup, Innovation Norway); Ingvild Sandmo (BS, Start Norway); Louise Stenholm (UX/UI Designer)

Smart Taps for the Perfect Beer. Pubinno’s Taptronics Smart Beer Tap serves perfect beer with its patent pending robotics and control algorithm. It also reduces waste and makes all sales, inventory and maintenance records available online. With Taptronics, consumers get perfect beer, bar managers increase profits and brands can access real time sales, inventory and quality data, and ensure quality standardization across all sales outlets. Team: Can Algul (8 years in F&B); Necdet Alpmen (2 Startups and 3 Hardware Products).

Provides Network as a Service (NaaS) for wide area wireless connectivity. Enables non-Telco players to directly reach end consumers bypassing legacy Telco providers. 10x lower cost of a megabyte over Puloli means Internet of Things (IoT) and Video delivery are far more business viable now. Team: Kethees Ketheesan (Newfield Wireless (acq by Netscout), Telephia (acq by Nielsen), Motorola; Electrical Engineering MSc, BSc Arizona State University); Kevin Koehler (Marvell Semiconductor, Soma Networks, Motorola; Electrical Engineering MS Stanford, BS Case Western).

Provides Elasticsearch as a Service, the hugely popular Open Source NoSQL Database. Team: Mark Brandon (Oracle, Dell); Ben Hundley (Country Outfitter, Rockfish Interactive); Christian O'Brien (Dell)

Bringing quantum computing power to the enterprise. We are developing application software that runs on QC machines. Team: Matt Johnson (Ex MD @ Apollo - MBA, Wharton); Tayo Oguntebi (Ex Intel, Nvidia - PhD, Stanford), Randy Correll (Ex - USAF, NASA, SAIC - PhD, UT-Austin), Kin-Joe Sham (Serial Entrepreneur - PhD & MBA,UMN; MEng, MIT)

App Platform for Parents to screen for developmental delays (like autism) at Home and for pediatricians to be adherent to medical guildlines while getting paid. Team: Jin Lee (taught child psychology at Oxford; Providence Ventures); Jonathan Tuttle ($1B+ exit including the largest baby platform, Babycenter); Avishaan Sethi (NASA bioengineer)

Teaching Tools that Help Non-Technical Educators Teach Computer Science. Team: Vivien Macnguyen (Chemical Engineer at Chevron, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, UC Berkeley); Ashish Dommety (Software Engineer at UC Berkeley Extension)

Delivers Data-Native Self-Learning Applications That Can “Sense And Learn” Which Empowers Business Users in Medium-To-Large Enterprises To Improve Business Outcomes via Continuous Deep Learning. Team: Surendra Reddy (CTO Big Data, Xerox PARC; Former VP Cloud Computing, Yahoo)

Finds Hidden Meaning in Complex Data Using Physics and Quantum Mechanics. Team: Marvin Weinstein (Physics, Stanford), Bernard Chen (VP/GM Scopely and KIXEYE, UCLA MBA).

From Questions to Insights in seconds. Cognitive data integration platform combined with NLP based analytics on enterprise data. Team: Ganesh Raghupathy (CEO, founded Alphaworkz, ex-CEO of November Learning); Kannan Raghavan (CIO, Gold medallist at IIT-Madras, MIT Sloan school of business)

Merchandising Made Easy. Team: Michael Krilivsky: Co-founder & CEO, generated $10MM+ revenue in previous startups * Faisal Nasim: Co-founder & CTO, Pinterest - Microsoft * Mat Poprocki: Creative Director, Quirky - Mophie - Pepsi - Volkswagen - Target * Brian Furano: Head of Partnerships, Live Nation - Global Merchandising - Beyonce - KISS - Kanye West * Leighton Smith: CFO, Manages $2b+ revenue for Oracle

Helps apps get more organic downloads by ranking higher in the app stores. The proprietary algorithm understands what the users are searching for in the app stores and gives automatic suggestions to optimize the marketing communication. $34K MRR growing 21% MoM. Team: Leandro Scalise (Former CMO of an app); Rodrigo Castro (Bayer; 14y as an engineer)

Automates Data Privacy with Secure Redaction for Document Distribution. Team: Lisa McComb (Oklahoma City University, MBA Business; elumicor, SBC Communications (now AT&T)); Melissa Unsell-Smith (UTSA, BS Biology; elumicor)

Lab-in-a-Box Solution for Convenient Healthcare in Emerging Market Pharmacies. Team: Patrick Beattie (BSe Princeton, MBA Oxford, founding scientist at Diagnostics For All); Andrew Quao (B.Pharm, MPH Dartmouth); Edward Grandstaff (BS Comp Eng)

An Autonomous CRM, Built Right into Salesforce, Gmail, and Slack. Team: Krishan Gupta (VP Product @ Showpad, SaaS/AI focus); Yuvnesh Modi (Harvard MBA, Masters in AI from IIT)

Maps markets to drive sales and marketing. Our lead generation product gives you the very best leads that are most likely to close. Our market maps help you understand the markets you sell into. Team: Russell Jurney (Apache committer, O'Reilly author, LinkedIn InMaps, Hortonworks)

Turn Static Marketing/Sales PDFs/Decks into Interactive Webpages. 1-Click Way to Get 12x Conversion + Engagement Analytics. Customer include: Accenture, Salesforce & PWC. Team: Alex Shevelenko (Pre-IPO @ SuccessFactors, Salesforce. Stanford MBA); Nikita Korotaev (CTO, 2x Interactive Content Founder)

Helps Companies Measure Technical Skills of Candidates Before & During the Interview. It Saves Up to 85% of Time/Spendings. Team: Munir Usman (Microsoft, PiLabs); Asad Memon.

Virtual A.I. Based Interior Designer for Retailers. Team: Alon Gilady (BA from TAU); Alon Chelben (BA from TAU); Yuval Gilady (MA in Physics from TAU, Algorythm Expert); Avner Priel (Ph.D in Physics, A.I Expert)

The Central Source of Information for the Entire IT-Stack, Enabling Efficient IT-Infrastructure through Actionable Optimization Reporting. Team: Patrick Kirchhoff (Conversis; brainwire; wallstreet:online AG; VIA Networks); Costantino Lattarulo (University of Duisburg, Germany; Conversis; Vodafone); Christian Falk (Conversis; eValue Ventures AG)

Preventing Stress and Improving Workplace Productivity with App-Based Resilience Training. Founders: Helga Halkjær (Resilience Trainer for +10 Years, University of Aarhus, Denmark); Thomas Scherning (Founder of 2 Startups, Built 80+ Apps, Technical University of Denmark), Anders Søndergaard (Founder of a Stress Prevention Consultancy, Digital Health Specialist, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

College and University Wellness Application To Create a Culture of Health Throughout the Country. Team: Guy Shahine (Full Stack Engineer, Microsoft, Yammer, Nintendo); Eugene Baah (Princeton AB, Stanford MBA; Business Design, IDEO, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Retired Professional Athlete)

Protecting the Infrastructure that Powers Our Lives, Resolute Labs Provides Aerial Intelligence Using AI and Imagery from Traditional Aircraft Patrols. Team: Jonathan Gary (Cornell MechEng); Karan Chawla (UIUC AerospaceEng); Matt Deyo (MIT AerospaceEng)

General-Purpose, Commercial Quantum Supercomputing Systems. Team: Chad Rigetti (Yale, Phd; IBM)

An AI Exam Proctoring Platform that Makes Exams Incredibly Secure and Truly Scalable. We are Making it Possible to Deliver Online Exams at Home at a Lower Cost but with Higher Security when Compared to a Physical Testing Center. Team: Noorullah Akbari (3x Entrepreneur, 11yrs Exp. in Exam Security); Martin Jakobsson (Ex- Nokia and Microsoft, Several Patents, 10 Yrs Exp. in Computer Vision and AI); Aaron Dodds (Ex-Apple and Pearson with 15 Years of Experience in Product)

Technology Platform that Brings Essential Medical Products Directly from Manufacturers to the Doorstep of Hospitals and Pharmacies Across Africa. Team: Michael Iyanro (Ahmadu Bello University; DFID, WHO, UNDP, 10+ yrs in Health Management); Gideon Olanrewaju (University of Sussex UK; 7+ yrs in Streamlining Operational Processes); Uche Obioha (University of Nigeria Nsukka; 8+ yrs in Healthcare and Telecommunications Solutions)

Driver-Centric Software to Empower Fleets and Shared Mobility Platforms with Automated Tools for Driver’s Management and Benefits their Drivers for Decent Driving. Team: Ido Levy (Former Captain in the Counter-Terrorism Unit of the IDF); Prof. Erez Shmueli (Head of the Big Data Lab at Tel Aviv University and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab); Nissim Levy (Serial Entrepreneur, Founded 160 Employees Company, Former CEO of B2B Power Savings Co, Former GM of UK Companies in Africa); Marcelo Gilman (Serial Entrepreneur, Former Engineering Manager at Solaredge and CTO at Bondit); Professor Ido Erev (Vice Dean and Head of the Behavioral Science, The Technion); Boaz Ein-Gil (Former Microsoft (18 years) and Intel (2 years) Engineer for ML & Big Data)

Making Commercial Drones Safer. Team: Jesse Williams (Navy Veteran, Caltech, Northrop Grumman, Military UAV Expert), Ryan Mangroo (SW Veteran, NYU Tandon, Designed & Coded ServiceNow Cloud Upgrade System)

Workplace Safety Engagement Platform. Team: Ryan Quiring (CET, Expert In Real Time Automation Systems); Craig Fraser (National Construction Safety Officer)

Data Science powers the missing link in Relationship Management for Enterprise Sales. Team: Babar Batla (Microsoft & Google, Director Enterprise Sales, EE, UCLA MBA), Paul Hester (Microsoft Services, Principal).

We Use AI to Help Companies Follow Up with their Leads 10x More Effective. Team: Dmitri Kozhevnikov (Started Several Companies Before, Raised Money, Now It's Being Used By 100k+ People), Denis Rodionov (Developed Biggest Gaming Portal in Russia)

3-Passenger, Remotely Piloted Private Jet for Business Travellers @ Commerical Prices. Team: Jonathan Gibbs (S.M, S.B MIT, Phd candidate @TUHH), Adrian Townsend, (S.B. MIT, M.S. UW), both ex-Boeing aerodynamics.

Scoro is the ultimate control hub for companies to access, manage and automate data across existing productivity, CRM and billing applications. Team: Fred Krieger (Founder & CEO), Kristina Lilleõis (CMO).

Provide High Quality Training Datasets for Medical AI. Team: Cailin Hardell (Stanford Bioengineering, Verily APM); Adam Koszek (Senior SW Engineer Salesforce, 8 Patents); Martin Willemink (MD PhD, Junior Faculty @Stanford, 60+ Papers in Field)

Bringing Behavior-Based, Individualized Pricing to Healthcare. Team: Anurati Mathur (Founding Data Scientist @ Propeller Health, UC Berkeley); Swaraj Banerjee (Full Stack Engineering Director @ Expect Labs, EECS @ UC Berkeley)

Patient-frendly tool that helps clinicians better manage their chronically ill patients. Team: Ivana Schnur (MD/PhD), Adam Odesskly (BS CS, ex-TellMe PM). Contact: adam@sense.ly .

Industry's first vertical-agnostic operations monitoring solution that reduces operations costs and improves reliability and security of the Internet of Things. Team: Dr. Vinai Sundaram (Purdue PhD ECE, Google, Motorola), Dr. Matthew Tan Creti (Purdue PhD ECE, Rockwell, Raytheon), Prof. Patrick Eugster (EPFL PhD CS, Purdue Faculty & MIT Visiting Faculty), Mike Rich (Kelly (IU) MBA, Roche Diagnostics).

Personalized Coffee - hardware and cloud software solution to disrupt the global $100B/yr coffee market and create a new consumer coffee drinking experience where every cup of coffee is personalized to every consumer. The best cup of coffee created by you to your taste. Founder: Deepak Boggavarapu (PhD). Contact: deepak@sevacoffee.com .

Easy & Efficient Intellectual Property Capture Platform for Businesses, Lawyers & Venture Capital. Team: Alex Polyansky (UC Berkeley Haas, MBA; USPTO, Nventi, 16+ yrs IP/Patent Industry); Angela Lau (UC Berkeley Haas, MBA; USC MS CS; Apple, LG Electronics, 15+ yrs in Product Management & Analytics); Cathy Lippert (Oracle, OnShift, 30+ yrs in Enterprise & B2B Software)

Embeddable m-commerce platform that captures lost sales for brick & mortar retailers. Team: Sriram Subramanian (PayPal, UC Berkeley MBA, Carnegie Mellon CS); Pulkit Singhal (JPMC, Trustgenix – acq by HP, NYU CS), Lalatendu Satpathy (Intuit, PayPal, CMU HCI), Kush Khandelwal (PayPal - Sales and PM), Jeff French (Architect, wrote one of the fastest mobile apps in the industry) .

SaaS Platform for the Gig Economy - Helping Companies Find and Manage their External Workforce (Freelancers, Contractors And Vendors). Team: Martin Konrad (exit to Edelman and then grew their global freelance talent network); Joey Frasier (CIO for a top 5 global financial communications firm at 24; sales executive for DP DHL leading their Asia Sales & Solutions - selling to fortune 100 CMOs and CPOs).

The World’s First Commercial Spaceflight Booking Platform. Our Goal is to Open Space Up to Everyone. Team: Avery Haskell (Entrepreneur, Formerly Product Manager at Healthtap, Data Science Fellow at Social Capital, Stanford CS)

Framework for future enterprises to build their own fully-customized communication, management and BI application in days. Looking to change the way enterprise software is developed with 90% lower cost and consumer mobile app user experience, without need for IT pros or consultants. Team: Hai Hu (PhD); Changhai Jiang (PhD, Accenture).

Mitigate Dementia via New and Novel Cognitive Exercises in a Socialized Environment. We Help Aging Individuals Online and in Person. Team: Dr. John DenBoer (Harvard Medical School; Barrow Neruological Institute); Sal Khogati (Cal State Hayward)

Technology-Enhanced Bulk Product Dispensers Increasing Retailer Profits and Shopper Savings while Reducing Packaging. Team: David Conway (Veteran, BSMT Cum Laude); Russell Conway (Industrial Design, Parsons)

A Content-as-a-Service Platform that Provides a Scalable Solution for Custom Visual Content for the Enterprise. We attack a 10B commercial photo licensing market. Team: Chad Newell (Stock Photo Veteran, Getty Images, Media Bakery $22M CUM Rev), Ryan Dewane (Product, Creative), and Alexis Lim (Business Development).

Facilitate E-Commerce Marketing at Scale through Automation. Simplify a Marketer’s World and Make them Much More Effective. Team: Ravi Viswanathan (Google Adwords Engineer)

World's First Government Marketplace for Micro-Purchases without Bids or Paperwork. Team: Paola Santana (LL.M. Georgetown & GWU; Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Drone Delivery Pioneer who Established First Drone Delivery Networks and Regulatory Frameworks in the World as Matternet Inc. Co-founder; Established First Constitutional Court in DR; Government Procurement Expert; Fulbrighter)

We Make a Wireless Device that Form Ad-Hoc Networks to Provide Connectivity when Existing Communication Infrastructure is Unavailable. Team: Boken Lin (Serial Entrepreneur in IoT); Jimmy Guo (Former R&D Director from Haier Group); Randolf Gioro (ex-Associate Interbrand)

Real Time Wireless Transmission of High Fidelity Audio. Team: Ashray (Ex Goldman Sachs, ReDx (MIT Media Lab), Google Summer of Code), Nisheeth (Ex Google, Samsung, ACM-ICPC finalist), Nikhil (winner Akademia Award in Los Angeles, performed in Royal Albert hall London)

Simplifying sourcing and ordering for food businesses. We are replacing legacy enterprise software systems with user-friendly, cloud-based and mobile applications, bringing the food industry into the 21st century. Team: Na'ama Moran (Cornell), Peretz Partensky (UCSF PhD), Ben Woosley (UT EE, PivotalLabs coder). Contact: naama@gocheetah.com

10X Faster Big Data Analytics & Applications. Team: Jayant Shekhar (Cloudera, eBay, Yahoo, IIT Engineering), Sunil Sharma (Medallia & EMC - Product Management, Berkeley MBA)

Protecting the Health and Safety of Cannabis Users by Providing the Only Pharmaceutical Grade Testing Solution for Cannabis Products. Team: Carlos Balagot (Astrazeneca, MedImmune); Mike Espinoza (Stanford Health, Bloom Energy, Toyota); Sarita Evans (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Wind River/Intel, Clorox)

Looks Like a Text Editor but Makes it Easy to Edit, Search and Publish Audio. Team: Anup Gosavi (UC Berkeley; Built & Scaled Be Limitless to 1M+ users); Ashutosh Trivedi (IEEE Published Author, Speaker at Prestigious Pycon Conference and a Mentor to ML & AI Students at IIIT, Bangalore)

Connecting Every Plant to The Internet. Helping the Green Industry Increase Sustainability and Productivity by Providing Actionable Data from Plant Sensors in the Field. Team: Martin Dal (B.Sc. in Computer Science - IoT thesis); Chris Thorup (M.Sc. In Sustainable Design); Jens-Ole Graulund (M.Sc in Computer Science - 35yr+ XP in SW Architecture And Connected Devices)

Collaborative Platform to Help Students Plan their College Journey and Stay on Track; Built by Students, for Students; Solves Growing Student Retention Problem Faced by Higher Ed. Team: Sabih, Rukhsar, Jiyda (Carnegie Mellon Graduates)

Automates Analytics in Sales, P&L and Logistics. It Delivers 50x Faster Analysis and Personalised Insights Worth ~20% of Revenue. Team: Filip Dousek (SAP Solution Architect, Head of Analytics, Published Writer), Peter Fedorocko (UCLA Anderson School of Management, IBM Cognos Consultant, Analytics Lead @ Merck, 2x Winner of the Idea of the Year Award), Vojta Rocek (Head of BI at a $300m VC Fund)

Stanford-based sensor technology company that aims to bring infrared vision to the mass market. Team: Jae-Hyung Lee (Stanford PhD EE), Yeul Na (Stanford PhD EE), Rebecca Hinds (Stanford, MS Mgmt Science).

The Strypes Platform is Transforming E-Commerce with 3D Visuals. Team: Alexa Fleischman (EMC, Box, Boston College), Zack Fleischman (Microsoft Xbox, Zynga, Carnegie Mellon University), Matt Schiller (The Advisory Board, Cornell University)

A Flying Taxi Service that is Changing the Way People Commute in Cities. Team: Andrew Oh (President, Mint Ultimate)

Vertical AI Platform to Help Clothing Retailers to turn returns into a profit opportunity. App performance results in 20x increase in Retained Revenues, Avoiding Returns Costs and Improving Customer Experience. Team: Karthik Sridhar (Delphi, HP, CEB, BIT Mesra); Gurudatt Bhobe (Merck, Baxter, VJTI, MDI Gurgaon)

Enabling Chained Businesses to Drive Faster Actions Across Locations with Intelligent Insights. Team: Tushar Mishra (Founded Tnine, Built Sales Engine); Madhulika Mukherjee (Founded Tnine, Research At MIT, CMU, IISc)

Collaboration Tool that Helps Teams Easily Manage Projects By Integrating the Entire Process in One Place (Gmail, Slack, Dropbox, Office 365 etc). Team: Kasper Tornoe (Technical, 8 years of building products); Yana Vlatchkova (Marketer, Grew app to 750k users); Stefan Vladimirov (Award-winning Product Designer).

Enterprise Operations Platform for portfolios of buildings. Connects systems and devices to cloud hosted building management system for real-time monitoring and controls. Team: Deborah Noller (James Cook University B. Commerce with major in Computer Science); John Darlington - CTO.

AI-Powered Content Testing. Team: Cristina De la Peña (8+ Years in Neuro Marketing Exp, MIT Innovators under 35, BA in Architecture); Ben Hsieh (Nest.vc, 42 Labs) Miguel Cabral (Pequeno Cuervo, Bonalto); Juan Esteban Bravo (BTG Pactual)

Deep Learning and Analytics Enabled Platform for Radiodiagnosis that Brings Efficiency to both Clinical & Non-Clinical Aspects. Team: Meenakshi Singh (Goldman Sachs, Manhattan Associates, Misys Software Solutions); Kuldeep Singh Chauhan (Goldman Sachs, IBM, Saavn, Infosys); Gandharv Goyal (AIIMS, New Delhi, MBBS); Cherian (AIIMS, New Delhi, MBBS)

DIY Data Science for Healthtech. Team: Tom Covington (Stanford; Ford, Honda Racing, Pinnacle Engines, Ardica Technologies); Jesse Paquette (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; UCSF, Life Technologies, Ayasdi); Mark Mooney (BSC Kings College London, PhD University of East Anglia; Thermo Fisher Scientific, BGI Americas Corporation, DNAnexus)

Tracks and Improves Any Workflow in Real-time. $600k in pilot revenue. Daily Active Users growing 20% MoM and MRR growing 30% MoM. Team: Amit Kothari (Decade in Process Improvement, Bath CS); Walker Hamilton (Designed Obama-Campaign Site); Pravina Pindoria (Decade in Process Improvement); Dan Livengood (PhD from MIT); Brittany Hagedorn (MBA and Math, WashU); Thomas Palumbo (UX/UI for SoundCloud and NFL).

AI Generated Catalog Images for Fashion eCommerce. Team: Mayank Kumar (IIT Delhi, Former Microsoft Engineer, Sold Previous Company to Flipkart); Madhur Goel (IIT Delhi, UCLA, Focus on Deep Learning)

Drone Detection for the Masses. Team: Kyle Meloney (Stanford MBA; led enterprise sales @ CV/ML startup; led product development unit @ security/electronics manufacturer), Markus Diehl (PhD, Aerospace Engineering – Counter-Drone Technology; Counter-Drone patent; CV and ML @ Stanford)

Software Platform that Empowers Senior Care Providers to Automate Workflows and Deliver Coordinated Care. Team: Kijoon Lee (VP Marketing at SAP, Stanford MBA); Andrew Wu (Shipwire, SugarCRM, UCLA CS)

Analytics Without Restrictions. Our Platform Empowers Companies to Stream All of their Hard to Reach Proprietary Data into One Place in Near Real-Time, and Analyze it in their Own Private Cloud. Team: Lewis King (Cornell Engineering, Analytics Lead at Kixeye, Tech M&A at EY), Gene Peters (William & Mary Econ, Sr. Data Engineer at Kixeye).

The First Commercial Exchange for IoT Data. Team: David Knight (2 IPOs, 2 Buyouts); Brian Enochson (AT&T, Time-Warner/HBO); Ben Grossmann (Academy Award for Visual Effects)

Autonomous Software Testing. Team: Artem Golubev (Microsoft, Salesforce, AppDirect); Brian Gupton (UserTesting, InVision); Enzo Biancato (AppDirect)

Protecting Enterprises from High-Stakes Legal & Compliance Disasters by Using AI to Identify Sensitive Information. Team: Apoorv Agarwal (Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia, original contributor of IBM Watson), Omar Haroun (JD/MBA, Columbia, former Orrick and Wilson Sonsini w/ recent exit).

Enabling Mist computing for IoT - eliminating configuration and deployment overheads, while providing a distributed embedded application platform for IoT. Team: Jurgo Preden (PhD, Faculty, Tallin University of Technology)

Your AI Assistant for Agile Leadership. Team: Ricky Fung (Google Sales, BS Cornell, MBA University of Maryland), Pattabi Seshadri (Google Adwords Engineer, IBM, BS Computer Engineering UT Austin)

Scheduling Infrastructure Built For Developers. An API That Developers Can Use To Build Products With Calendars, Scheduling, And Appointment Flows Deeply Integrated. Team: Jesper Klingenberg (M.Sc. Econ & Business Adm, Copenhagen Business School) And Visti Kløft (M.Sc. Software Engineering, IT University Of Copenhagen)

Real Time Data Analytics for B2B Events. Capture, Sync and Organize Your One-to-One Conversations. Team: Tommaso Trionfi (INSEAD, MBA; Monsoon, Merchantry, Wimba); Stephane Paquet (Telecom ParisTech, MD in CS; Watee, Airbus Multicoms), Bob Stillerman (Columbia Engineering BSEE, UC Berkeley, MS Computer Science, INSEAD MBA, RS International, Harris)

AI Technology to Bring Intelligent Search to ECommerce. Team: Ciro Greco (PhD Neuroscience, Fellow@Ghent Univ.), Jacopo Tagliabue (PhD, Lead Data Scientist@Axon), Mattia Pavoni (ecommerce Solutions eng.@PFSWeb)

Monetize WiFi Hotspots by Converting it Into an On-Premise Sales Channel. Validated with WiFi Waiter for Food Ordering at Hotels, Resorts and Event Venues. Team: Anup Balagopal (4th startup, 1 exit), Vinay Patodia (2nd startup, 1 exit).

Fully managed predictive analytics platform to help companies better understand their customer behaviour across the full connected customer experience. Liam Gooding (CEO, Analytics, Data Science, SaaS & Customer Success thought leader, author) and Matt Spence (CTO, Comp. Sci., big data monster)

Machine learning / artificial intelligence legal claim valuation.Team: Adam Cassady (Chicago JD, Mayer Brown); David DeAngelis (UT-Austin, PhD, Johns Hopkins, NASA).

Smart customer service through a code-free platform to visually route customers to different support channels on mobile. Team: Khaled Nazif (Stanford GSB; Cisco), Antoine Megalla & Mo. ElHagry (15 years of delivering Contact Center solutions together)

A Full Stack for IoT Edge Devices. Used by Qualcomm, Kyrio, and Catena. We Simplify the Development of IoT Devices Resulting in Lower Cost, Faster Time to Market, and Fully Featured Devices. Team: Rusty Stapp, CEO (Global Revenue Producter at TI, Atmel and Kodak), Dr. Dean Armstrong, CTO (Standards Committee Member, Holder of 9 Patents)

Decentralized Identity and Access Management Platform to Provide Digital Keys and Security via Blockchain for the Physical World of Devices, Facilities or Entire Businesses. Team: Stefano Pepe (Bitcoin Space since 2013), Carlo Lentini (Olivetti R&D, Industrial Automation)

Building a Smarter Industrial Communication System Using Wearables. Team: Will Schumaker (PhD in Optics from Stanford/UMich), Michael Leung (PhD student in EE from Stanford/Waterloo)

Blockchain-Powered Borderless Payments Technology for E-Commerce. Enabling Cryptocurrencies as a Payment Method while Settling Directly in the Bank. Team: Sanja Kon (Executive leader, 12y+ xp in eBay, PayPal and e-commerce), Filipe Castro (MIT, MBA, Blockchain tech, 500Startups accelerator)

Increasing Engagement for VR/AR Content Creators with Analytics. Team: Apekshit Solanki (IIT Delhi, Accenture Strategy Consultant), Shubham Agarwal (IIT Delhi, Software Engg. VISA Inc.), Abhishek Bansal (IIT Delhi, Software Engg. VISA Inc.)

Centralizes Engineer's Collaboration Apps in One Desktop App and All their Conversations in a Smart Feed with Unified Search and Zero interruptions. Team: Ramzi Maalej (University of Sherbrooke, MD Electrical and Computer Engineering; ThoughtWorks, SafetyNotes, Inc.); Emna Ghariani (University of Arkansas, MS Operations Management; Founder Institute, Poindevster)

Helping Retailers Grow their Businesses with Real Time Consumer Insights. Team: Vivek Singh (Corseco, Trafigura); Saurabh Shandilya (IoTfy, Omni Present Robotics); Veer Mishra (Neuron, mYwindow); Saurabh Yadav (Qualcomm, Omni Present Robotics)

Market Network for Advertising through Local Businesses. Team: Yong Rhee (Prod & Design @ MSFT, CMU); Johnny Lim (Built a Profitable 50+ Location Retail Distribution); John Wu (Eng @ MSFT, Expedia, UW)

Automating People Knowledge Management for Enterprises. Team: Pooneet Goel (Stanford & Kellogg MBA; Booz & Co, FusionOps, Green Span Ventures), Dale Chen (BS CS, Stanford University; CubeTree; LeanData)

In the Shift from Broadcast to Streaming Video, Videoflow Aims to be the Leading SaaS Platform that Enables Broadcasters and Content Providers to Deliver Personalized and Targeted Live Video Content that Viewers can Interact with. Team: Jan Umansky (NBC, CBS Sports, Fox, CCTV); Danny Umansky (Ride-Smart, Celebrite)

Using Remote Patient Monitoring and Financial Incentives to Help People Quit Smoking and Get Healthier. Team: Shalen De Silva (Harvard MPH; Cambridge MFin; ex-LevFin banker); Jake Keteyian (Harvard MPH, Emory BBA, KPMG Health Consulting); Hadi Javeed (Full-stack Dev @ Capital One, AI/Chatbot Specialist)

Smart Crowdsourcing Platform Allowing Companies to Find and Engage Instantly with Diverse Talent. Team: Joss Leufrancois (Co-Founded Aldelia,a $50M recruitment business established in 9 countries), Emmanuel Marboeuf (Former Technical Expert and Intern'tl. speaker in Cyberdefense Innovation)

Fastest & Cheapest On-Demand Delivery Service For Time-Sensitive Items Using High-Speed Long-Range Drones. Team: Hannan (Ex-Tesla, BSc. Mech. Eng. TUM), Wesley (Ex-Atieva, PhD Chem. Eng. Stanford)

The Ultimate IoT Solution that lets Cannabis Farmers Grow Smart. Team: Cathie Condron (DoD CBRN R&D Program Manager, SLAC Postdoc, Chemical Physics PhD UC Davis), Justin Chen (UX/UI, Product design Nickelodeon and Chargifi).

Liri App from Vyaza helps field sales and field support teams access workflows combining multiple business applications on a mobile device. Team: Naga Surendran (CEO - MS Comp Science, Wash. U, MBA, UC Berkeley, Dir. of Prod Mgmt, RingCentral), Praveen Chandran (MBA, UC Berkeley, Sr. Mgr of Prod Strategy and Growth, PayPal)

Know Who You're Paying. Team: Michael Walfish (NYU CS Prof, PhD MIT, BA Harvard); Andrew Blumberg (UT Math Prof, PhD UChicago, BA Harvard, EFF Advisor); Max Howald (B.Eng Cooper Union)

Making it Simple for IoT Companies to Use Energy Harvesting in their Products. Team: Ian Mathews (EE PhD ex-Bell Labs) Alan Mathews (BEng Trinity College Dublin).

Smart Waste Management Solutions using IoT and Data. Team: Ashutosh Srivastava, (Univ of Delhi BS Eng, Ex-Bulpy and RobUno, Forbes 30U30 Asia 2018); Pranav Manocha (BS Eng, Ex-Shopmaxima and PAR INC, Forbes 30U30 Asia 2018)

Deep Learning Platform for Identifying Threats on Social Media. Team: Karthik Manimaran (Architect of Bank of America's Online Platforms); Nathan Chandra (Successfuly built companies in Music and Legal industries)

AI Transforming Hourly Work. Team: Nigel Beck (3x Founder; Nine Digit Exit to IBM; Univ. of Toronto); Justin Louis (Change.Org, Zynga, Flock, Mercurial; University of Victoria)

Turns Customer Feedback Into Revenue By Distilling User-Specific Insights For Better Decision Making. Team: Andres Vergara (CEO; Stanford GSB, MS Engineering), Juan Jose Besa (CTO; MS Engineering), Alejandro Feuereisen (COO; BA Business).

Wisdom's Customer Experience Management Platform is Changing the Way Product Teams Explore, Find, and Fix Broken Customer Experiences Online. Just like Magic, Wisdom Finds Where Users are Struggling. Team: John Gracey (3rd Data Startup, CompSci@UBC, Former Security Researcher); Chris Brooks (Eng, Queen’s U, Sales)

Machine intelligence solutions for big data enterprise. Team: Joshua Bloom (CEO, Prof at UC Berkeley), Damian Eads (Director of Engineering, PhD in ML and computer vision), Joseph Richards (Chief Scientist, PhD in statistics), Henrik Brink (CTO), Dan Starr (Dir. of Data Science).

Enables Enterprises to Assess Risk, Improve, and Monitor Changes in IT/OT IoT Device Cybersecurity. Demo.devicelookup.com. Team: Alfred Tom (Apple, GM, MIT, Stanford); Jörg Brakensiek (Nokia, Microsoft, Car Connectivity Consortium)

The blue collar web. Team: Patrick Cushing (CEO, ex-PM @ SigFig), James Dunbar (Founder, ex-BD at Opower), Paul Zaich (Founder, ex-Finis)

A Digital Platform that Integrates any Car Wash Equipment and Connects it to Mobile and Cloud for a Seamless Experience. Team: Kustas Koiv (Barking, Bikeep); Mikk Moses (Barking, Bikeep, Elisa); Meelis Haidak (Tallinn University of Technology, BA, Mechatronics); Ott Reinhold (Tallinn University of Technology, BA, Robotics)

Licenses software and hardware designs producing scalable, faster, and future-proof data centers for machine learning and analytics. Team: Parin Dalal (PhD Physics, former Stanford Associate Scientist), Stephen Belair (former Cisco Distinguished Engineer and authority on scalability).

Procure-to-Pay Automation Platform that Streamlines Business Purchasing Using AI-Powered SaaS and B2B Payment Tools. Team: Sergio Almaguer (Enterprise Sales at Microsoft, Launched FinTech Startup, MoT EPFL); Bernardo Montalvo (Operations Innovation at Heineken, Coca Cola, Biz Dev at SaaS Startup); Guillermo Treviño (Software Architecture & B2B Payments at BBVA and Scotiabank); Roberto Riveroll (Procurement at GE)

AI Pricing Platform Specially Designed for Grocers. It Increases Profit/Revenue by 5-15% After a Month. Gartner Cool Vendor After a Success in Europe. Team: David Klecka (Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering); Radim Dudek (Graduated with Applied Mathematics and Statistics at FNSPE with the Highest Distinction); Jiri Psota (Czech Technical University in Prague, Computer Networks and Internet, Database Systems)

Application-Aware Cloud Resource Management Platform That Optimizes Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance and Cost Across the Infrastructure.Team: Asim Razzaq (Sr. Dir. of Engineering for Cloud Computing at eBay and PayPal) Abbas Yousafzai (CTO / Chief Cloud Architect at Conrad Labs), Michael Babiak (NeoEdge Networks, Quack.com (AOL), HDL Capital , IBM).

Enables the World’s Best Time Synchronization Across Networks Powering Sub-Meter Location Tracking of RF Devices Like Phones, Cars, Drones, and IoT in 3D without Retrofitting. Team: Danny Jacker (Stanford GSB, CEO the 3D Printing Company); Phil Kratz (Stanford Applied Physics PhD); Alex Hooshmand (Head of Product Double Click, Co-Founder Blue Kai)

Helping Employees to Learn and Have Access to Knowledge at Work. Team: Daniel Suárez (Thyssenkrupp; Serial Entrepreneur, 2 Exits); Aurelio Jiménez (MSc, MBA, HBS Executive Education); Iván Arrizabalaga (AI, Datametrics (Acq by Accenture)); Pablo Bravo (R&D. Anti-Exploit Architect, Malwarebytes); Vanessa Barrero (Yahoo Search JobandTalent); Matthieu Etienne (Former Head of Global Customer Service, Fon); Sarah McDermott (20+ yrs as Successful Leader for SaaS companies); Kike Garcia (15+ yrs as Digital Creative and Mktg Manager for B2B)

24/7 Live Earth Monitoring by Solar Unmanned Aircraft Of Perpertual Flight. Team: Raphael Nardari (Airbus,Cytec,Researcher at Stanford, Experts in Aircraft Strucutre and Advanced Battery), Yitao Zhuang (Intuitive Surgical, Phd In Mech. Eng. at Stanford), Felix Crevier (L3 Tech, MS in Aero/Astro at Stanford)

SaaS solution that drives sales for national retailers by improving the actionable communication between HQ and the stores. Based on 10 years of research and testing around store operations and performance. Team: Melissa Wong (Founder, Gap Inc, Old Navy), Jeremy Baker (Founder, Yahoo! Super Star and Engineer).

We Decode Muscle Patterns with Wearable Sensors to Help Doctors, Therapists and Coaches Deliver Better Diagnoses and Treatments. Team: Larry Tan (Columbia University, MBA)

SDN/SAAS Player Taking A Fundamentally Different Approach To Solving Mobile Network Unreliabilty Caused By Factors Such As Network Congestion, Data Packet Loss, Etc. Team: Subbu Varadarajan (MS CS, SIE; Stanford GSB), Sameer Rao (Trilogy Software, GE, And American Express), Roy (IIT Graduate, Built Large-Scales Systems Managing Petabytes Of Data).