The Future is Now - Startups that are shaping our future today

THE FUTURE IS NOW
STARTUPS THAT ARE SHAPING
OUR FUTURE TODAY
TOMCAT T FUTUR I S T

_Exponential startups _Full list
AltspaceVR is a software company building the social platform for virtual
reality. With AltspaceVR, users connect in virtual spaces to create shared
experiences around anything on the web. The AltspaceVR API lets
developers write simple web code to create new VR experiences.
AltspaceVR allows people to watch streaming video, play games, and get
work done, together and entirely inside of virtual reality.
www.altvr.com
Augmate is the first wearable platform that accelerates the development of
cloud-based smart eyewear applications. Augmate builds frictionless
technology for deskless workers that gets information out of their hands and
out of their way allowing them to do the work that really matters. These
capabilities enhance the user experience for the deskless workers that utilize
our applications.
www.augmate.com
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Jaunt VR's world-class team is developing the most comprehensive
toolset for creating cinematic VR. Their unique technology will enable
creatives to film, edit and process live-action content for virtual reality
viewers. With Jaunt™ cinematic VR, you will feel transported directly into the
middle of the action. Look anywhere. JauntVR is creating the next-generation
technology for the most immersive entertainment experience ever.
www.jauntvr.com

NextVR is a pioneer in capturing and delivering immersive, high-definition,
live and recorded virtual reality experiences. It's not just being there, it's
better than being there. With its patented technology, NextVR provides the
most immersive, high-definition virtual reality experience that is so life-like
that you feel you are part of the action.
www.nextvr.com
Airware is building the aerial information platform for the rapid development
and safe operation of commercial drones, providing hardware, software and
cloud services. Airware enables customers to tailor drones to any
commercial application by seamlessly connecting aircraft, sensors,
payloads, and application-specific software.
www.airware.com
3D Robotics develops innovative, flexible and reliable personal drones and
UAV technology for everyday exploration and business applications. 3DR’s
UAV platforms capture breathtaking aerial imagery for consumer enjoyment
and data analysis, enabling mapping, surveying, 3D modeling and more.
www.3drobotics.com
Robotics / Drones Augmented…

Traditional advertising mediums such as billboards, TV, and radio, have
become overcrowded, and consumers are tuning them out! DroneCast is
proud to offer the first and only drone based aerial advertising platform. Their
patented platform allows them to fly banners up to 2' wide, and 6' long. It
essentially becomes a flying billboard, sure to attract a lot of attention to it's
ad.
www.dronecast.us
PrecisionHawk’s mission is to provide clients with user-friendly tools that allow
them to efficiently and consistently collect and process high quality data. The
PrecisionHawk platform comes with a fully integrated Sensor Suite. Mapping
their customers flights is simple with their flight planning software that uses
Intelligent Sensor-Specific Flight Planning Sensors.
www.precisionhawk.com!
Based in San Francisco, Anki is dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence
and robotics into our everyday lives. Its first product, Anki DRIVE, was named
one of "The 25 Best Inventions of 2013" by TIME Magazine. Anki DRIVE is
battle racing for the real world. With advanced artificial intelligence, each car
thinks for itself and has one goal in mind: victory.
www.anki.com
Robotics / Drones

Jibo is designed to be a social robot that you interact with like it's another
person in your home. It has two integrated high resolution cameras to
recognize and track faces, capture photos and video. It’s software is based
on sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms with natural language
processing capabilities and more.
www.myjibo.com
Viv is a global platform that enables developers to plug into and create an
intelligent, conversational interface to anything. It is the simplest way for the
world to interact with devices, services and things everywhere. Viv is taught
by the world, knows more than it is taught, and learns every day.
www.viv.ai!
Vicarious is building a unified algorithmic architecture to achieve human-level
intelligence in vision, language, and motor control. Currently, we are focused
on visual perception problems, like recognition, segmentation, and scene
parsing. We are interested in general solutions that work well across multiple
sensory domains and tasks.
www.vicarious.com
Artificial Intelligence Robotics…

Expect Labs has been widely recognized as a leader in the fast-emerging
field of anticipatory computing. It is the creator of the MindMeld app and API.
The MindMeld app is the first intelligent assistant that can understand your
conversations and find information you need before you have to search for it.
The MindMeld API is an advanced developer platform and cloud-based
service to power a new generation of anticipatory computing applications.
www.expectlabs.com
Immusoft is a Seattle-based biotechnology company that is commercializing
technology to program the human immune system by modifying the DNA in
immune cells. The core components of Immusoft’s Immune System
Programming (ISP™) technology were developed in the Baltimore Lab at the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and exclusively licensed by
Immusoft.
www.immusoft.com
Modern Meadow applies the latest advances in tissue engineering to
develop novel biomaterials to address some of our most pressing global
challenges. They develop cultured leather and meat products which require
no animal slaughter and much lower inputs of land, water, energy and
chemicals.
www.modernmeadow.com
Biotechnology Artificial Int…

Emerald was founded in 2010 by two scientists and life-long friends from
Philadelphia with a singular vision of how a biotechnology company should
run. Frustrated by the continual deceleration of innovation and the
exponentially increasing R&D costs in the pharmaceutical sector, Emerald
models itself after the legendary start-up companies of the mid-20th century
that built the core technologies underlying the meteoric rise of the
semiconductor industry. www.emeraldtherapeutics.com
Hampton Creek is a technology company headquartered in Northern
California that focuses on identifying plants that can be used to make food
healthier, more sustainable, and more affordable. Its approach is to apply
machine learning to plant biological data to create predictive models for
product development. Hampton Creek has a mission to make it easier for
everyone everywhere to make better food choices.
www.hamptoncreek.com
Natera is driven by a passion for elevating the science and utility of prenatal
testing. The advent of the Information Age has created a paradigm shift in
the fields of computing and informatics. Surprisingly, medical diagnostics
have been slow to integrate these advances into genetic testing.
www.natera.com
Biotechnology

Cambrian Genomics makes the first hardware/systems for laser printing
DNA. Researchers in academia & industry order or clone >$1b/year of DNA.
CGI plans to deliver high quality sequence verified DNA to buyers in this
existing/growing worldwide market.
www.cambriangenomics.com
Synthetic Genomics, Inc. develops and commercializes genomic-driven
solutions to address global energy and environmental challenges. The
company engages in synthesizing and programming DNA by developing
and utilizing the technologies in synthetic genomics. It designs and develops
microbes for industrial processes and environmental applications.
www.syntheticgenomics.com
Biotechnology
Ginkgo BioWorks is expanding the role of biology in our world. Nature's
biodiversity holds answers to challenges in health, energy, food, materials,
and more. Organism Engineers at Ginkgo learn from Nature to develop new
organisms that replace technology with biology.
www.gingkobioworks.com

Ginger.io is a behavior analytics company, and spinoff of the MIT Media Lab.
They use big data from mobile phones to model user behavior, and make
inferences about health and wellness. The company is based on cutting-edge
predictive models developed by MIT scientists and engineers. Their
data-driven approach helps unlock patterns in the massive amounts of health
data we all generate today.
www.ginger.io
SolveBio delivers the critical reference data used by hospitals and
companies to run genomic applications. These applications use SolveBio's
data to predict the effects of slight DNA variants on a person's health.
SolveBio makes the data easy to access so that their customers can focus
on building clinical grade molecular diagnostics applications, faster.
www.solvebio.com
Digital Healthcare
One Codex is a search engine for genomic data, enabling new and valuable
applications in clinical diagnostics, food safety, and biosecurity. They have
built a genomics data platform that processes next-generation datasets in
minutes, not days (millions of DNA base pairs per second) and searches the
world's largest index of bacterial, viral, and fungal genomes with sensitivity
and precision comparable to or greater than today's leading methods.
www.onecodex.com

Glow provides a fertility app that uses data science to help couples who are
trying to conceive babies. Glow is an ambitious enterprise where for the first
time ever, our emerging ability to crunch and analyze vast quantities of data
will be specifically used to help get you pregnant.
www.glowing.com
Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) is a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic
and therapeutic company. Using advances in genomic sequencing, the
human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy
technologies, HLI is building the world’s most comprehensive database on
human genotypes and phenotypes to tackle the diseases associated with
aging-related human biological decline.
www.humanlongevity.com
Digital Healthcare

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple
statement: If this then that. Channels are the basic building blocks of IFTTT.
Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Today there are over 133
Channels (for example Evernote, Facebook, PhilipsHue, Nest,…). IFTTT lets
everyone connect the devices of the internet of things without the need to
learn a programming language.
www.ifttt.com
The Matterport 3D System uses a patented camera, controlled through the
user’s Apple iPad, to capture 3D and 2D images of an interior space. The
camera rotates on a tripod that the user places around a room to capture
every aspect of the space. Matterport’s proprietary technology then stitches
together the data to create one complete 3D mesh with images overlaid onto
all surfaces.
www.matterport.com
Other (3D Printing, Space, SaaS,…)
Sols are next generation orthotics. They are developing all-in-one process to
prescribe, generate and sell corrective orthoses at a fraction of the price and
lead time currently available. Their first product, SOLS, brings 3D printing to
footwear through dynamic orthotics engineered to change the way the world
walks.
www.sols.co

Founded in 2011, Tribogenics is developing low-cost, miniature x-ray
solutions for applications in mining, industrial, military, medical imaging, and
many other industries. Tribogenics employs technology developed at UCLA
by leading scientists and is based in Los Angeles, California.
www.tribogenics.com
Organovo (ONVO) Holdings, Inc. is an early-stage medical laboratory and
research company which designs and develops functional, three
dimensional human tissue (also known as 3D bio-printing technology) for
medical research and therapeutic applications. Organovo anticipates that
the bioprinting of human tissues will accelerate the preclinical drug testing
and discovery process, enabling treatments to be created more quickly and
at lower cost. www.organovo.com
Helium is a complete platform for smart machines. It's based on simple
device connectivity, and stresses security, low power, low cost, ease of
development, and much more. The wireless problem is often the most
complex for enterprises and developers rushing to release applications that
capitalize on the coming wave of connected devices and new data streams.
Helium solves this.
www.helium.co

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is a space-transportation
startup company founded by Elon Musk. It is developing the
partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Originally based in
El Segundo, SpaceX now operates out of Hawthorne, California, USA. Elon
Musk has stated that one of his goals is to improve the cost and reliability of
access to space by a factor of ten.
www.spacex.com
Teamwork without email. Asana is a web and mobile application designed to
help teams improve communication, organization and collaboration. It was
founded by Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, and Justin
Rosenstein, an alumni of both Facebook and Google.
www.asana.com
Bionym is a team of thinkers and innovators aimed at shaping the world of
technology through biometrics, authentication technology, and their concept
of identity. While they specialize in biometrics and authentication technology
for consumer electronics, they also develop technology that uniquely utilizes
gesture control, proximity detection, and application development.
www.bionym.com

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10/2014

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