Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1917 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: Leader Tech, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of EMI shielding products for electronic enclosures, circuit boards, and interconnecting cables and works as a subsidiary of HEICO Corporation. The company provides EMI shielding products including precision metal stampings, wire mesh gaskets, EMI gaskets, conductive elastomers, fabric over foam gaskets, air vent panels, board level/PC board shields, RF absorber materials, EMI/RFI ferrites, snap-on bisected, solid bead ferrites, frequency-specific material, conductive fabric, oriented wire, and knitted wire shielding gaskets and others. The company is a subsidiary of HEICO Corporation.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~30 Company Working: Membrapor AG is engaged in the development of gas sensing equipment. The company primarily develops products to detect bromine, formaldehyde, carbon disulfide, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, phosgene, organic acids, alcohols, and volatile organic compounds. Its products have applications in environmental monitoring, personal safety, industrial process control, air quality monitoring, and medical applications. Regionally, the company caters to OEMs of gas sensors and several other industry verticals for gas detection applications.

Company Headquarters: UK Founded: 1996 Workforce: ~30 Company Working: Alphasense is a manufacturer of gas sensors for OEMs. The company’s product portfolio includes a range of electrochemical sensors to detect oxygen and toxic gases, infrared sensors for detecting carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons, photoionization detector (PID) for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and certified pellistors for combustible gas detection. Its sensors are used in fixed installation sensing heads, portable safety instruments, urban/indoor air monitoring, and stack gas analyzers.

Company Headquarters: Israel Founded: 2016 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: Metomotion is a leading player engaged in the development of robotics and automation technologies for indoor and greenhouse farming. The company aims to serve the increasing production of vegetables in greenhouse farming. The company’s product line includes a robotic worker that is designed to perform labor-intensive tasks in greenhouses. The company aims to reduce nearly 50% cost of harvest-related labor operations. The company has raised a seed funding of nearly USD 1.5 million to date.

Company Headquarters: The Netherlands Founded: 1947 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Javo is one of the major developers and manufacturers of potting machines, soil handling systems, and robot systems. Its major product line includes potting machines, tray automation, substrate handling, transport systems, and robot systems. The company has two major manufacturing facilities located across the Netherlands and the US and has offices located across 60 countries. The major customers of the company include farmers engaged in horticulture, greenhouse farming, and indoor farming. The company also provides consultancy services to government institutions and advisory bodies.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2017 Workforce: ~20 Company Working: Root AI, Inc (Root AI) is a start-up engaged in the development of intelligent robots used in indoor as well as outdoor farming for picking, gripping, and plucking of fruits. The company’s line of technologies includes real-time detection, gentle touch, and intelligent motion. Its products use 3D sensors and detection systems to pick and pluck ripe fruits and tomatoes. The company aims to produce crops and fruits with nearly 90% less water consumption over a small land area. The company has major operations in the US and plans to expand its operations in other North American countries.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2007 Workforce: ~40 Company Working: Harvest Automation Inc (Harvest Automation) is one of the leading players offering greenhouse farming material handling robots. The company offers solutions to address the challenges of practical robotic operations. Its major customers include nurseries and greenhouse farmers. Harvest Automation has developed first flexible, scalable robots for agriculture and distribution and fulfillment. The company is highly active in the US and has deployed its robots across 30 farms. The company has also received an investment funding of nearly USD 30 million.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~25 Company Working: FodderWorks is a leading manufacturer of automatic robotic fodder system. The company is engaged in the production of sprouts and barley seeds for cattle and horses. Its product portfolio includes a robotic fodder system, and components and accessories for the robotic fodder system. The company generated revenue of nearly USD 3.8 million in 2018 and sells its produce across the US and parts of Canada.

Company Headquarters: Netherlands Founded: 1967 Workforce: ~300 Company Working: Visser Horti Systems B.V. (Visser) is one of the major designers and manufacturers of horticultural machinery and robotic systems. The company’s major customers include small nurseries and horticultural greenhouses. Visser supplies automation systems and robots to meet the growing demand in several markets. The company’s product portfolio includes machinery for plugs, cutting, tissue culture automation, field production, hot house production, pot plants, herbs, nursery stock, soil handling, and soil blocking. The company has sales offices located across 15 countries.

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: OnRobot A/S (OnRobot) is one of the prime manufacturers of industrial robots in Denmark and other European countries. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing of end-of-arm tooling grippers for the collaborative robotic system. The company offers robotic arms that find applications in quality testing & inspection, surface finishing, assembly, packaging & palletizing, and pick & place. The company was established as a result of the merger between Perception Robotics, a US-based company; OptoForce, a Hungary-based company; and OnRobot in 2018. The company has a wide distribution channel spread across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The company generated an estimated revenue of USD 13 million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~30 Company Working: Iron Ox is one of the leading indoor farm stations that uses robotics-first human-led approach to grow crops, vegetables, and crops. The indoor farming robots require minimal energy and use modern methods of farming such as hydroponic technology. This approach has reduced nearly 90% consumption of water and increased the yield by nearly 30 times than by the traditional farming methods. The robots offered use Lidars and 3D cameras to pick, grab, and plant crops on farm modules. It is engaged in the production of romaine lettuce, bok choy, and cilantro, among others. The company serves the local farming communities across the US and has managed to raise seed funding of nearly USD 6 million. The annual revenue of the company in 2018 was around USD 1.5 million.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2014 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: TickTalk engages in providing watch phones for kids between 4–12 years of age. The watches are designed to enable parents to stay connected to their kids through text messages, phone calls, and video calls. These watches also feature to-do alerts to help kids manage their daily schedule. The company sells its product through online medium across the US.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~530 Company Working: SIBYL WORLD SDN BHD (SIBYL) is a manufacturer of electronic products including earphones, mouse, keyboards, and portable chargers, among others. The company has collaborated with Tencent to distribute the QQ watch in Malaysia. Along with this collaboration, SIBYL has become the official distributor of the QQ watch in Malaysia. The QQ watch is a smartwatch enabled with user-friendly features designed especially for kids. It enables parents to track the real-time whereabouts of their children. Geographically, the company operates in Asia and the Middle East regions.

Company Headquarters: Spain Founded: 1996 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: KD Group engages in the provision of technology-based toys, tablets, and products for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. It operates through the following segments—interactive/tablets, toys, content and TV productions, and lighting. Its product portfolio includes a mix of Kurio products, lighting products, preschool electronic learning toys, family games, apps and TV series, and design, development, and manufacturing services. Regionally, the company operates in Europe, North America, and the rest of the world.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~360 Company Working: Franciscan Solutions Private Limited is a web technologies and software development company that specializes in school management software focused towards automation of the operational and academic process, communication, and security. Its Franciscan TeamCare Pvt. Ltd division focuses on security of kids in and outside the school. Moreover, the company has also developed a school-parent oriented mobile application where kids will be automatically connected to the school and parents with a small GPS tracking wristwatch (MySecureKid).

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2013 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Omate Inc. engages in the designing and sale of wearables and IoT solutions for kids and the elderly. It also provides wearable-as-a-service solutions to customers seeking self-protection. Its product portfolio comprises five product lines namely—the Omate X, Racer, Lutetia, Roma, and TrueSmart. These products are primarily designed for kids, seniors, and enterprises. The company markets its products primarily through an online medium.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Shenzhen Continental Wireless Co., Ltd engages in the development of embedded software, hardware, industrial design, cloud services, and mobile application fields. Its product portfolio comprises traditional activity trackers, baby cloud entertainment terminal, children operating system, smart teenager watch, parent-child robot, and baby health-care products, among others. The company sells its products through Abardeen brand across China. It has also partnered with Alibaba, GearBest, and Amazon for online distribution of its products across the globe.

Company Headquarters: California Founded: 2016 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: JOY FamilyTech, Inc. (JOY) is a platform provider for AI-powered routines and adaptive coaching. The company has designed a series of wearable devices to help parents develop self-discipline in their kids and provide them with organizational skills. One of its offerings includes Octopus watch that is a combination of a watch, a scheduler, and an assistant that empowers kids by inculcating good habits in them as well as learn the concept of time.

Company Headquarters: Hong Kong Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Doki Technologies is an IoT-based company that develops smart devices to ensure the safety and security of kids. Its product portfolio includes the dokiPal—an interactive smartwatch and the dokiBop—wired headphones for kids. The dokiPal is a smartwatch for children of 6–12 years of age. The dokiPal watch provides 3G connectivity for video calling, voice calling, and messaging along with features such as GPS tracking and fitness tracking. The dokiBop is a children-friendly earphone that is designed especially for kids and features volume-limiting capabilities to ensure safety and comfort of their ears.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2003 Workforce: ~30 Company Working: Innovative Glass Corporation offers smart solutions of all kinds, for windows, doors, skylights, partition systems, curtain walls, and atria, among others. Through its own proprietary eGlass solutions, powered exclusively with eGlass brand technology, the company fuses glass with electronics and other dynamic glazing technologies to give its user total control over light, privacy, sun glare, and heat gain—automatically, or at the press of a button, or with a voice command. All the eGlass products by the company eliminates the need for mechanical shades, blinds, and other window coverings, and opens up a number of design possibilities. The glass solutions offered by the company are ideal for windows, walls, and skylights of all sizes and shapes.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: E-Chromic Technologies Inc. develops energy-saving technologies and provides reflective films for enabling users to control light and solar heat transmission through windows. Its technology has the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption in commercial and residential structures. The company’s smart window technology can be used to retrofit existing windows in commercial and residential structures and convert them into highly energy-efficient smart windows. The company’s reflective technology is well suited for automotive glass. It reduces solar heating on hot days and allows solar heating on cold days, thus increasing range between charges for electric vehicles.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Pleotint, LLC offers self-tinting glass, and window and door solutions that increase energy efficiency and optimize comfort and views. The company comprises a research & development unit—a glass fabrication division, and interlayer extrusion; in this unit, the company fabricates high-quality laminated glass, insulated glass units as well as Suntuitive dynamic glass. The company, through its manufacturing plant, supplies insulated glass units, and traditional as well as insulated dynamic glass units, to customers throughout the US. Furthermore, through a large international network of certified glass fabricators, the company offers Suntuitive dynamic glass technology as a locally finished glass products worldwide.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: COBAN Technologies is a leading provider of body-worn cameras, in-car video systems, interview room systems, and digital evidence management solutions for law enforcement agencies and public safety communities. The extensive product offerings by COBAN provides end users with one vendor and a single point of contact for a complete, high-quality video evidence solution. The company works in collaboration with law enforcement agencies to deliver configurable, efficient, and end-to-end scalable solutions.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2010 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: Kinestral Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of smart window control systems and dynamic glass solutions. The company manufactures adaptive, dynamic glass and primarily caters to the commercial, residential, and automotive sectors. The company provides windows and corresponding control systems which change their tint based on weather conditions and several other factors. Kinestral Technologies, Inc. majorly operates in the US and Taiwan.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2003 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: LTI Smart Glass, Inc. is one of the providers of innovative laminated glass and polymer products. The company caters to a wide scope of end-use applications, such as architectural, industrial, automotive, airline, marine, entertainment, and security across the globe. The company has also been a provider of security products for detention facilities, the US Government and the Armed Forces.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: RavenWindow is one of the manufacturers of thermo-chromatic filters and is focused on creating state-of-the-art smart windows incorporating solar-intuitive transitioning technology. The company’s smart window responds to external temperature by blocking ultraviolet rays and thus reducing damage caused by sun rays. The company was recognized by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade as a Colorado Company to Watch in 2013.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1905 Workforce: ~1,200 Company Working: Gira Giersiepen GmbH & Co. KG (Gira) is a leading supplier for intelligent system solutions for electronic and networked digital building control systems. Gira provides products and services in building technology, design line, and door communication. It provides products such as socket outlets, manual lighting control, automatic lighting control, dimming, DALI lighting control, LED lighting and orientation, security, air conditioning/heating control, data and communication connection technology, audio systems, blind control, keyless in, surface-mounted installation, outdoor installation, international product range. The company has a wide presence globally.