Alchemist Connect

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

Social Fashion Shopping Platform where we Help Lower the Merchandise Return Rate by Matching Shoppers to Bloggers/Influencers According to their Body Shape and Preferences. Team: Terence Fong (Design Engineer @KLA-Tencor, MS Engineering @Stanford), Jonathan Brown (R&D Engineer @Boeing, MS Engineering @UC Berkeley)

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

Beeper is the first ever App that operates mobile networks. In January-2016, 3TEN8 introduced Beeper and has already converted trial customers to paying, validating a $120B market. Gobeeper.com! Team: Miro Salem.

47Line is building products to simplify enterprise cloud adoption. The flagship product Batchly helps enterprises 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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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).

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)

A Chat App for Desktop and Mobile (PWA) that Helps E-Commerce Businesses Work with Manufacturers and Freelancers. Team: Maria Shen (Harvard A.B, Cornell MCS), Andrew Oh (President, Mint Ultimate)

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 Work Spaces for Businesses. Team: Nick Jiang (Duke MBA, Princeton Engineering), Ray Choi (Kellogg MBA;Intuit; Accenture)

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)

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).

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)

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)

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)

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.

Video Intelligence Solution Providing Real-Time Monitoring of People and Assets. 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).

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).

Eliminating security problems every company has with unikernel based infrastructure. Team: Ian Eyberg (Appthority Sr. Engineer, wrote code obfuscation sold to federal gov't & poker parsing grammars)

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)

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)

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).

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)

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).

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

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.

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)

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: Jorge Soto (Twitter, Mopub, Kickapps, 3 Exits), Tomas De Matteis (Seasoned Audio Visual Producer), Lucy Richards (Stanford, Machine Learning, NLP), Alex Lim (Lendingclub.Com, CBS Radio)

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)

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)

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).

Distinguishes Humans from Computers Online. Team: Kevin Gosschalk, (BGames&InteractiveEnt, QUT), Matthew Ford, (MA, Stanford; Lead; Microsoft; Game Designer, Atari), Glen Arrowsmith, (BEng(Comp), Griffith; (Fruit Ninja).

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.

Delivers 5X-7X Increase in Storage Bandwidth for Converged Platforms by Using Disaggregated Memory and Disaggregated Storage. Team: Arvindh Lalam (Florida State University, MS Electrical Engineering), Dr. Steve Swanson (University of Washington, PhD, Computer Science and Engineering)

Reducing Adverse Drug Reactions & Increasing Treatment Effectiveness for Psychiatric Patients Using Precision Medicine Software & Pharmacogenetic Test. Team: Matt Milford (BioE, Berkeley), Doug Hapeman (EECS, Berkeley).

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)

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).

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)

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)

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), Ed Jenks (C-Suite Veteran with 25-Years as Manufacturing CEO, Trains Navy Seals for Fun), David Peraza (13-Years In Customer Service Positions), Brandon Bartley (Aviation Mechanics And Quality Compliance, Marine Veteran)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

We Improve Productivity of Construction Sites. Team: Piyush Vishwakarma (Co-Founder, CTO iX Energy, IIT Roorkee), Kamran Alam (Co-Founder, Tata Communications, IIT Roorkee), Yash Dubey (DS Group, IIM Raipur)

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).

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)

Modern product managment platform to manage and optimize software. Team: Edith Harbaugh (TripIt Product Director, Harvey Mudd College Eng) John Kodumal (Atlassian Dev Manager, UC-Berkeley PhD CS/Statistics).

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)

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)

A Medical Data Software Company, Providing Hospitals & Physicians a Platform to Efficiently Monitor (NLP) Clinical Data Points. Team: Belgium Data Scientists

UAV networks for the transportation of goods. Team: Andreas Raptopoulos (MechEng & Aero, RCA MA, Singularity U, FutureAcoustic); Paola Santana (Georgetown, GWU LL.M, Singularity U, World Bank, Chief Cabinet Const Court); Jason Calaiaro (CMU MechEng, CIO and Propulsion at Astrobotic).

Builds Embedded Visual Intelligence Systems For Object Identification And Anamoly Detection In Dynamic Environments Currently Deployed In The Industrial Automation And Retail Spaces. 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)

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)

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)

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)

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).

SaaS Platform Making Cities Safer with Data-Driven Community Engagement. Team with government, data, and community engagement expertise: Kona Shen (GOALS Haiti; BA Brown; MA Stanford), Mustafa Abdul-Hamid (Boost; BA UCLA; MA Stanford), Ben Holston (Urban Institute; BA Stanford), Shasha Du (BA UCLA; MA Harvard). Expert Advisors include Chiefs of Police in four major cities.

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)

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

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.

"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)

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)

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)

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.

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).

Connecting Industrial-IoT Devices to the Internet: Securely, Reliably, and Cost Effectively. 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; Considered Solar 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)

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)

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-Assisted Teletherapy and Patient-Management System for Developmentally Delayed Children. Team: Amy Kwok, MD, MPH (Physician, MPH@Harvard), Matt Kwok, MBA (MBA@Mitsloan, BA@Berkeley HAAS, PM@Microsoft & Vmware)

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)

Productive™ Integrates Mobile Calls into the Modern Workflow. Team: Enlai Chu (UBC EE, Berkeley MBA, Founder /CTO Of 3jam Acquired By Skype), Justin Duan (UC Berkeley, Product, UI/UX)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Helping Pharmacies to Offer Rapid Diagnostic Test Services for Acute and Chronic Disease, Creating a Network of Health Monitoring Points. Team: Patrick Beattie (University of Oxford – MBA (with distinction); Princeton University – BSe Chemical Engineering (Magna cum Laude)), Andrew Paanii Quao (Dartmouth Medical School –MPH 2010; KNUST-Ghana, Bachelor of Pharmacy, 1st Class Honors)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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

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)

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).

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 .

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: Joey Primiani (Award-Winning Silicon Valley Product Designer, Creative Entrepreneur, Inventor and Digital Media Artist, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology, Business Insider’s “25 Under 25” Hot Young Stars in Silicon Valley Tech, and Founder of Several Companies that have been Acquired), 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)

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)

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@sourcery.us .

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

IoT for the Growing Demand for Urban Greenery. Team: Martin Dal (B.Sc. In Medialogy - Thesis in IoT), Chris Thorup (M.Sc. In Sustainable Design), Jens-Ole Graulund (M.Sc in Computer Science - 30yr 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)

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)

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.

Makes it Easy to have a Conversation with your Data. Team: Tom Covington (Stanford; Ford, Honda, 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).

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)

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)

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)

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)

We Provide Cloud Based Solutions for Media Outlets in Production of Live Events, Post Production, VR and AR. Team: Jan Umansky (Over 10 Year of Major Broadcast Events Production), Danny Umansky (NLP, AI , Full Stack Expert)

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)

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.)

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)

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)

Combatting Fraud by Authenticating Transactions. 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).

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)

Artificial Intelligence for Labor Management. Team: Nigel Beck (Univ. of Toronto; ~$100m Exit to IBM), Matt Flaherty (MIT; IBM; TaskRabbit; CoverHound)

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).

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).

"Twilio for IoT Security". Wivity Secures your IoT Device with One Line of Code. From the Team that Built www.mirrorlink.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)

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).

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).

A Fundamental New Technology that can Track the Real Time Location of Anything with a Radio Device Including Cellphones, IoT Sensors, Drones, RFID Tags, and even Vehicles. 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)

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).

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).