Outsiders Bring A Fresh Perspective
Technological innovation continues to accelerate, yet the distribution of this innovation is glaringly non-uniform.
The day’s hottest, most visible sectors attract talent, media attention, and venture dollars. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that visibility constitutes importance. Patient perspective, however, leads the observer to understand that hidden sectors and technologies exert outsized impact on our day-to-day lives.
With that, we find the most interesting spaces are those that are overlooked.
Overlooked spaces present mismatches between sector-specific technological adoption and the broader state of technological innovation, thereby creating opportunities to unlock massive value from stale infrastructure. Understanding the hidden complexities and the gaps presented from long-standing incumbents in these sectors excite us.
We believe the best disruptors to build in these sectors are those with outside perspectives.
They rely on grit, curiosity, and unwavering conviction - and aren’t afraid to disrupt the status quo. They bring fresh perspectives, unburdened by the way things have always been done. They bring a cross-pollination of ideas from variegated experiences. At the core, they are the ones willing to put everything on the line to make their vision a reality.
Abstract
OpsAerovect
Andrena
Bidsight
Casana Care
Cognition Controls
Dyania Health
Flux
Juice Labs
Perygee
Planned
Ray
SecurRootAI
Salus
Saturday Robotics
Saturn Cloud
Shelf
Summus Global
Tango
TechZorus
Stealth
Portfolio
Abstract
Ops
The AbstractOps platform helps automate and manage various core corporate functions so team can focus on business strategic initiatives.
Founded
2019
Location
San Francisco, CA
Industry
SaaS
Status
Seed
Aerovect
AeroVect makes ground handling dramatically safer, more productive, and more sustainable with the AeroVect Driver. The industry's most advanced OEM agnostic self-driving software for GSE (ground support equipment).
Founded
2020
Location
San Francisco
Industry
Mobility
Status
Seed
Andrena
Andrena provides high speed internet, at a fraction of the cost. Andrena uses new technology to beam high speed internet, reducing the maintenance costs associated with wired fiber or cable internet and passing these savings on to the end consumer.
Founded
2018
Location
New York, NY
Industry
Infrastructure
Status
Seed
Bidsight
BidSight unlocks the power of collaboration in complex commercial pre-construction processes. BidSight’s platform eliminates manual tracking of pre-construction workflows and acts as a single source of truth for commercial real estate developers, eliminating errors and saving them millions.
Founded
2022
Location
New York, NY
Industry
Construction
Status
Pre-Seed
Casana Care
Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enables effortless, integrated and consistent in-home health monitoring. Casana's 'The Heart Seat' aids patient compliance and assists medical team in care management.
Founded
2019
Location
Rochester, NY
Industry
Remote Monitoring
Status
Series B
Cognition Controls
Cognition creates intuitive HVAC control systems for commercial spaces without building automation systems. Cognition is built on a deep understanding of the math and science of heat exchange in smaller, multi-zone commercial spaces and uses real-time data to continuously forecast and provide optimal commands to the HVAC equipment.
Founded
2020
Location
Norwalk, CT
Industry
HVAC
Status
Seed
Dyania Health
Dyania identifies in real-time patients who match a complex set of criteria to enable participation in condition-specific clinical trials. Dyania’s proprietary NLP understands and extracts unstructured, de-identified data from clinical notes to qualify patient data sets for trial participation, thereby expanding access to innovative therapeutics for patients with life-impairing conditions, as well as saving researchers time and money.
Founded
2019
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Industry
Clinical Research
Status
Seed
Flux
Flux is a web-based EDA solution built collaboration-first. Their platform allows reuse and sharing of components and features a programmable simulator that allows you to quickly build interactive mockups of real-world parts and scenarios.
Founded
2019
Location
San Francisco, CA
Industry
Consumer SaaS
Status
Seed
Juice Labs
Juice democratizes GPU access by creating software that allows easy and efficient access to high-performance and underutilized GPUs. Juice breaks GPUs out of physical lock-in and allows users to access the compute power of any GPU on any server that has Juice installed.
Founded
2020
Location
San Francisco, CA
Industry
Infrastructure
Status
Pre-seed
Perygee
Perygee enables customers to detect anomalies before they spread to an entire network.The platform brings in the appropriate context of every asset on the network alongside a toolkit for IT team to build custom views and automations so that enterprises can adopt and scale security best practices.
Founded
2019
Location
Washington, D.C
Industry
IoT Security
Status
Seed
Planned
Planned streamlines the corporate event planning process from supplier sourcing, budgeting, booking, and overall event management
Founded
2018
Location
Montreal, QC
Industry
Enterprise Tech
Status
Series A
Ray
Secur
RaySecur provides a real-time view into the contents of mail and packages by combining multiple proprietary and state-of-the-art technologies to detect liquids, powders & traditional threats.
Founded
2017
Location
Cambridge, MA
Industry
Security
Status
Series A
RootAI
Root AI builds intelligent robots that solve for persistent agricultural labor shortages, which have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and volatile global immigration policy. Its marquee product, Virgo, is a harvesting robot that identifies and harvests multiple crops by finding the least obstructive and fastest route for its robotic arm and gripper to pick the crop.
Founded
2018
Location
Woburn, MA
Industry
AgTech
Status
Acquired
Salus
SALUS is a simple-to-use safety management platform created for the construction industry. The platform allows for the easy creation and management of digital forms, certificates, and assets. Through the centralized platform customers can get real-time notifications on incidents, assets, and workers; assign corrective actions; track follow-ups; and reduce repeated incidents.
Founded
2018
Location
Vancouver, BC
Industry
Construction
Status
Series A
Saturday Robotics
Saturday Robotics is a robotics company that is currently in stealth
Founded
2018
Location
Allston, CT
Industry
Automation
Status
Series A
Saturn Cloud
Saturn Cloud enables data scientists to overcome computing limitations by providing cloud hosted CPUs/GPUs with DASK. This allows experiments to be run in minutes and not hours by providing speed and scalability using python based DASK clusters.
Founded
2019
Location
New York, NY
Industry
Enterprise
Status
Seed
Shelf
Shelf modernizes and centralizes the knowledge tech stack, integrating all your sources, then pushing content and answers everywhere your employees work. Shelf’s MerlinAI acts as a knowledge assistant, providing answers, responses, and recommendations so employees can always find the answers they need.
Founded
2017
Location
Stamford, CT
Industry
Enterprise
Status
Series B
Summus Global
Summus creates a new category in corporate health benefits, straddling the navigation and second-opinion categories with a physician-led model. Summus’ platform empowers families through direct access to virtual specialist networks across 48 hospitals, from anywhere in the world.
Founded
2015
Location
New York, NY
Industry
Tele-health
Status
Series B
Tango
Tech
Tango serves high-performing team that want a next generation tool to do workflow capture for asynchronous training and knowledge transfer. Tango's platform can be used for on-boarding, knowledge base creation or evaluation.
Founded
2020
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Industry
Enterprise
Status
Seed
Zorus
Zorus protects and monitors a company’s endpoints anywhere their employees work. They deliver enterprise-class web security, exclusively for MSPs. Their technology provides proxy-based web-filtering that combines with custom reporting to give everyone a better user experience.
Founded
2018
Location
Norwalk, CT
Industry
Cybersecurity
Status
Series A
Stealth
Founded
2018
Location
Stealth
Industry
Stealth
Status
Stealth
Founded
Location
Industry
Status