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Orca AI

Orca AI Secures $72.5 Million Investment to Scale Autonomous Shipping Solutions

Orca AI, a leader in maritime technology, today announced it has closed an investment of $72.5 million in Series B funding. Brighton Park Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Ankona Capital and Hyperlink Ventures. The investment will enable Orca AI to further its autonomous platform, add new capabilities and enter new categories, including defense and security. The funding will also strengthen the company’s position as the market leader in autonomous shipping. The completion of this round brings Orca AI’s total funding raised to $111 million.

Elisity

Elisity Achieves Record Momentum in 2024 as Adoption of Identity-Based Microsegmentation Accelerates

Elisity, a pioneer in identity-based microsegmentation, today announced it closed a record year in 2024, solidifying its position as a leader in Zero Trust network security. With this continued momentum, Elisity is advancing technology development in the microsegmentation landscape. Elisity also announced it has secured investments from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading growth equity firm renowned for its investments in global, category-defining, technology companies, and Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), Chevron’s venture investing unit. Elisity previously raised a $37 million Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners in April 2024.

Selector

Selector Accelerates Momentum in 2024: Triples ARR, Launches Groundbreaking Network Language Model, and Attracts Major New Fortune 500 Customers

Selector, an industry leading platform for managing multi-domain network and application infrastructure, is reporting a doubling of its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) for the third consecutive year—a 398% growth rate—and client Net Revenue Retention of 170%. Selector is an industry leading platform designed to generate real-time, actionable insights for managing multi-domain network and application infrastructure. The company’s customized AI solutions leverage machine learning to monitor, detect and safeguard organizational networks against downtime, operational issues and revenue disruption.

Mercor

Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion — eight times its previous valuation. Existing investors Benchmark and General Catalyst, as well as DST Global and Menlo Ventures participated.

HyperPod EP 8: Sinewave Ventures, Founder & Managing Partner, Yanev Suissa

Yanev is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sinewave Ventures investing in iconic enterprise tech companies like Databricks and SentinelOne. Prior to SineWave, Yanev was an investor at NEA, where he sourced, managed, and helped advise dozens of early-stage investments. We discuss his path to building a top 1 percentile venture capital fund, how startups can work with the federal government, and what many investors don’t understand about the current landscape of venture capital.

Rad AI

Rad AI Closes $60M Series C to Further Solidify Leadership in Healthcare Generative AI

Rad AI, one of the fastest growing healthcare AI companies and the first to successfully commercialize a generative AI product in healthcare, today announced a $60M Series C financing round, valuing the company at $525M. The oversubscribed round was led by Transformation Capital, with participation from existing investors Khosla Ventures and others. This raise comes seven months after their $50M Series B financing.

Selector

Selector AI Raises $33M Series B to Eliminate Downtime for the World’s Largest Networks

Selector AI raises a $33M Series B to eliminate downtime for the world’s largest networks. Ansa Capital led the round to fuel expanded adoption of the AI solution that automates mission critical operations for network-driven companies. New investors include AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, and Hyperlink Ventures.

HyperPod EP 7: Humana, VP Digital Platforms & Experiences, Fred Crable

Our seventh podcast episode with Fred Crable. Fred has over two decades of experience in software development and cloud architecture leading tech teams at large enterprises across EMC, Capital One, CBRE, Citi, and now Humana. He currently leads a team focused on Digital Platforms and Experiences as a Vice President at Humana. The conversation spans how artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and cloud environments and changing the way enterprises think about the IT stack.

HyperPod EP 6: Google, ML & Systems Infrastructure, Nital Patwa

Our sixth podcast episode with Nital Patwa. Nital has three decades of experience in chip designs from pioneers such as Google, Broadcom, Cisco, and Digital Equipment. He currently works in ML and systems infrastructure division of Google cloud. The conversation covers topics like machine learning, systems infrastructure, and chip design in the age of AI.

HyperPod EP 5: John Deere, Ex-Chief Product Officer, Tony Thelen

Our fifth podcast episode with Tony Thelen, Ex-Chief Product Officer at John Deere & Founder and Principal Executive Coach at The River Coaching and Consulting, LLC with a focus on management, career advice, and AI. The conversation consists of life lessons, working for the same employer for decades and building meaningful relationships that stand the test of time.

HyperPod EP 4: R2Net, Co-Founder & Chief Diamond Officer, Roie Edelman

Our fourth podcast episode with Roie Edelman, Co-Founder & Chief Diamond Officer at R2Net with a focus on the startup founder lifecycle from founding through post-acquisition. The conversation covers topics like moving from founding and building to investing and how to think about the risk-reward paradigm in startups.

Orca AI

AI Can Help Shipping Industry Cut Down Emissions, Reuters reports

Transforming the shipping industry with AI? Yes, it's happening! In a study published by Reuters, Orca AI found that using AI in sea navigation can cut carbon emissions by 47 million tonnes per year! Not only does AI technology aim to optimize voyages by decreasing the need for maneuvers and route deviations, but it could also mean fewer crew members on the bridge, reducing their workload and increasing focus on complex navigational tasks.

Rad AI

Rad AI and Bayer Announce Collaboration Agreement

As experts from around the globe gathered at the annual Society for Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference, Bayer and Rad AI announced a collaboration to bring Rad AI’s cutting edge AI radiology operational solutions to Calantic ™ Digital Solution customers. Rad AI’s radiology speech recognition reporting solution, AI-driven patient follow-up management, and automated radiology impression generation technologies complement Bayer’s Calantic™ Digital Solutions platform, enabling more hospitals and health systems to benefit from Rad AI’s generative AI capabilities.

ByHeart

ByHeart Works with Congress on the INFANT Tax Credit Act

ByHeart is committed to doing better for babies and the team is proud to have worked with Representatives Zach Nunn and Chrissy Houlahan on the INFANT Tax Credit Act—a significant bill that will bring more diversification and innovation to a vulnerable industry, provide more options for parents and babies, and reduce the chance of another shortage.

ByHeart

ByHeart Announces $95M in New Financing On The Heels of Rapid Growth and the Completion of its End-to-End Manufacturing

ByHeart, the next-generation infant nutrition company, announced it has secured $95M in additional financing to support the continued US commercial launch and development of its innovation pipeline. To date, ByHeart has raised a total of $395M from investors including Hyperlink Ventures, D1 Capital Partners, Bellco Capital, Polaris Partners, Two River, OCV Partners, AF Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Gaingels and more.

Rad AI

Rad AI raises $50M Series B from Khosla Ventures

Khosla led a $50 million Series B into Rad AI, which developed a tool that can generate reports for radiologists. Hyperlink Ventures participated in the round and was accompanied by World Innovation Lab and other existing investors ARTIS Ventures, OCV Partners, and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused fund). The financing brought the company’s total capital raised to over $80 million.

Elisity

Elisity Raises $37M Series B to Fuel AI Innovation in Identity-Based Microsegmentation

Elisity, the pioneer in identity-based microsegmentation, announced it has raised $37 million in Series B funding from global software investor Insight Partners. Elisity will use the new funds to extend its platform’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, fully leveraging organizations’ device identity data to anticipate and pre-empt emerging cyber threats and establish unprecedented control over IT, OT, IoT and hybrid environments.

Orca AI

Orca AI Announces Results of Comprehensive Analysis Collected From 267 Ships

Orca AI announces the results of a comprehensive analysis of data collected from 267 ships across the Orca AI fleet in 2023. The results show a massive 172,716-tonnes reduction in CO2 emissions and substantial fuel savings, due to fewer sharp maneuvers and speed drops. In addition, the results indicate an impressive 33% reduction in close encounters in open waters.

Orca AI

Orca AI and Global Maritime Insurer North Standard Announce an Exclusive Partnership

NorthStandard partners with Orca AI after recognizing the immense value of Orca AI's automated situational awareness solution in mitigating potential loss and downtime for shipping companies. By joining forces with Orca AI, NorthStandard aims to encourage the adoption of our market-leading platform among its members and will offer special discounts on the Orca AI platform to its esteemed members, paving the way for safer and more efficient global. As part of our collaboration, with the goal of increasing adoption and promoting safer and more efficient shipping operations worldwide, NorthStandard is helping all stakeholders enjoy safer seas.

Coalesce

Coalesce Raises $50 Million in Funding to Accelerate Innovation for Data Teams

Coalesce, a next-generation data transformation software company built on Snowflake, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Emergence Capital and Industry Ventures, with participation from Hyperlink Ventures, Snowflake, and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia.

Rad AI

Rad AI Announces Strategic Partnership with Google

Rad AI's partnership with Google Cloud will provide an opportunity to scale its technology by leveraging Google’s platform, MedLM foundation models and its cloud services as Rad AI is now working with nearly 30% of the radiology services market in the US.

HyperPod EP 3: Samsung, VP, Head of Engineering of Wireless Networks, Nivi Thadasina

Our third podcast episode with Nivi Thadasina, Vice President & Head of Engineering of Wireless Networks at Samsung Electronics America, with a focus on AI, Networks, and Telecom. We dive into the details around next generation wireless networks, securing networks at scale, and differing leadership styles trade-offs.

Hyperlink Ventures Launches $32M Debut Fund to Invest in Next Generation B2B Software Startups

Hyperlink Ventures (“Hyperlink”), a new venture capital firm founded earlier this year managed by three up-and-coming partners, Eli Cole, Sarosh Adi, and Piran Adi, today announced the close of its oversubscribed first fund at $32 million. The new fund will invest primarily in Series A and Series B stage companies, with a core focus on technology breakthroughs that help the world’s largest corporations and industries increase productivity through software.

HyperPod EP 2: Anil Solleti, Head of Global Data & Analytics, Citi

Our second podcast episode with Anil Solleti, Head of Global Data & Analytics at Citi, with a focus on AI, Data, and Security. We dive into the details around LLMs, data moats, how AI startups manage enterprise sales cycles, and the financial services data stack transformation as large financial institutions prepare for the age of AI.

Hyperlink Launches Podcast to Discuss All Things Tech and Startups

Hyperlink Ventures launches a new podcast series, the HyperPod, to discuss all things tech and startups. The guests will range widely from startup founders, to C-level Fortune 500 executives, to even some athletes-turned-investors. Episodes will be available on Spotify and the Apple Podcasts app. Join us as we explore new technology topics with industry leaders.

Rad AI

AuntMinnie Recognizes Rad AI Omni Reporting as 2023's "Best New Radiology Software"

AuntMinnie.com, one of the leading voices in radiology and the medical imaging industry, has recognized Rad AI Omni Reporting as the winner of "Best New Radiology Software" in its 2023 edition of the Minnies awards. Rad AI previously won the award for "Best New Radiology Vendor" in 2021 due to its pioneering work in generative AI with Omni Impressions, which, to date, has saved radiologists nearly one billion words of manual dictation.

Orca AI

Shipping is Finding a Future in the Cloud

Orca AI, headquartered in Israel and founded in 2018, has a simple yet complex premise: develop and deliver an intelligent safety platform for the maritime industry to prevent collisions. To date it has attracted attention and business globally, working with SeaSpan, NYK, MSC, Shell Shipping and Marubeni amongst others. Maritime Reporter TV recently caught up Orca AI CEO and co-founder Yarden Gross for insights on the reality today, and the promising potential for AI in the maritime sector.

Rad AI

Rad AI Selected as one of the Top 50 Digital Health Companies in 2023

The Digital Health 50 is CB Insights’ annual ranking of the 50 most promising digital health startups in the world. This year's winners are working on making healthcare AI safer, developing new drugs and therapies, bringing clinical trials to underserved populations, and more.

Rad AI

Reducing Radiologist Burnout with Jeff Chang from Rad AI

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Jeff Chang speaks about measuring the impact of our products, exciting future applications, Rad AI's vision for the future of global diagnostic care, and much more on Pixel Scientia Labs' Podcast!

Rad AI

Rad AI, the Leader in Generative AI for Radiology, Finalizes Strategic Reseller Agreement with Siemens Healthineers

Rad AI today announced a strategic relationship with Siemens Healthineers in which Siemens Healthineers will resell Rad AI Continuity, a next-generation automated patient follow-up and management solution, and Rad AI Omni Impressions, the de facto proven automated report impression solution. This relationship will enable more hospitals and health systems to benefit from Rad AI’s leading generative AI capabilities.

Elisity

Elisity Releases Version 15.4 of their Identity-Based Microsegmentation Solution

One of the defining features of the Elisity Cloud Control Center 15.4 is the integration with Palo Alto IoT Security. This feature sets forth a new benchmark in how Elisity perceives and manages device classification - the cornerstone of a robust network security policy.

Elisity

TSA Mandates Network Segmentation for Aviation Industry

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued emergency cybersecurity mandates for the aviation sector in response to persistent cybersecurity threats against U.S. infrastructure. The TSA cybersecurity amendments require regulated entities in the aviation sector to develop plans to harden resilience to their digital networks and infrastructure. One of the mandated actions is to segment network activity to ensure IT and operational technology (OT) systems can continue operating if one or the other is compromised.

Elisity

Securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) networks with Elisity

Securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) networks has never been more crucial, especially as cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure continue to grow. One key aspect of securing ICS networks is implementing micro-segmentation, a concept that has proven to be effective, yet challenging to apply.

Elisity

Elisity Releases Version 15.0

Version 15.0 of the Elisity Cloud Control Center is here, and it's all about improving your experience. One of the standout features is a completely redesigned workflow for creating policy groups. We've streamlined the process, making it more intuitive and efficient, allowing you to focus on the task at hand.

Elisity

Gartner Insights: How Elisity is Shaping the Future of Microsegmentation and Universal ZTNA

Network security is a battlefield, and in this complex fight, Elisity emerges as a name you can rely on. Making waves in the industry, Elisity’s inclusion in Gartner’s research reports on Microsegmentation and Universal ZTNA is no small feat. These recognitions and five-star reviews in Gartner’s Microsegmentation Peer Insights category underline Elisity’s commitment to innovation and client satisfaction. In this blog, we’ll delve into what makes Elisity a standout choice in cybersecurity and why it might be the solution you’ve been seeking.

Rad AI

Rad AI Completes Acquisition of Equium Intelligence, Further Enhancing Radiologist-Led Leadership Team

Rad AI and Equium Intelligence today announced the acquisition of Equium by Rad AI, adding Equium’s exceptional team and deep domain expertise to Rad AI. Equium’s novel AI-driven demand forecasting and resource optimization algorithms will be added to Rad AI’s suite of workflow products for radiologists.

Rad AI

NVRA Partners with Rad AI for Continuity, the Next Generation of AI-driven Patient Follow-up

NVRA, the first in Connecticut to use Rad AI Omni to automate impressions, selects Continuity for its class-leading 90%+ patient follow-up resolution rates and positive impact on patient care. Naugatuck Valley Radiology (NVRA) has expanded their partnership with Rad AI by choosing Continuity for its incidental findings tracking and management solution.

Rad AI

Fullerton Radiology Medical Group in Southern California Provides Rad AI Omni to Entire Practice

Fullerton Radiology Medical Group (FRMG), one of the first licensed medical corporations in California, announced it is partnering with Rad AI to use its advanced technology in generating customized radiology report impressions. This partnership builds on their commitment to continually incorporate the latest technological advances in healthcare to improve patient care.

Rad AI

Raleigh Radiology, One of the Largest Radiology Groups in North Carolina, Partners with Rad AI

Raleigh Radiology, one of the most technologically advanced radiology practices in the Triangle reading over 1M studies a year, is adding Rad AI Omni’s generative AI capabilities to its practice. This latest partnership supports Raleigh Radiology’s commitment to providing patients and referring physicians with the best medical imaging services through extraordinary expertise in an efficient and compassionate environment.

Orca AI

How Shell and Orca AI Work Together to Drive Innovation in Navigation

The partners kicked off with a pilot project trialling Tel Aviv-based start-up Orca AI’s maritime navigation platform on a Shell-managed gas tanker. But it has now morphed into a long-term development collaboration resulting in new features that can significantly enhance safety at sea. Here Saurabh Kumar, Project Engineer at Shell Shipping & Maritime, and Dor Raviv, CTO at Orca AI, reflect on outcomes and benefits of the partnership so far.

Orca AI

Orca AI enters distribution deal with Marubeni

Orca AI has announced that it has entered into a worldwide distribution deal with Marubeni, a Japanese import and export company and a provider of ship services. The Japanese conglomerate will also install the Orca AI platform on its vessels, providing use-case insights that the Israeli company can leverage to further enhance the technology.

Orca AI

American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC) and Liberty Maritime Corp (Liberty) partner with Orca AI to drive safer and more efficient operations

Maritime technology company Orca AI has secured deals with US Ro-Ro operators Liberty Maritime Corporation (Liberty) and American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC) to deploy its automated situational awareness platform across their respective fleets. Liberty was one of the early collaborators with Orca AI, deploying the first Orca AI unit on a US flag Ro-Ro vessel (Liberty Pride) in 2019.

Orca AI

After reducing close encounter incidents by 25%, the TMS group partners with Orca AI to automate navigation and enhance fleet safety

Orca AI has partnered with TMS group to enhance the safety of its fleet. The Orca AI platform has been rolled out across TMS Cardiff Gas’s fleet of 11 LNG Carriers from its 2020-2021 newbuild program, and 9 oil tankers from the TMS Tankers fleet.

Orca AI

NYK upgrades its fleet with Orca AI technology to enhance navigation safety and operational efficiency

Orca AI has partnered with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) Group, a leading Japanese shipping and logistics company, to enhance its fleet’s safety. Today, following more than two years of collaboration, the NYK Group confirmed it will install the Orca AI platform across the NYK fleet, which includes bulk carriers, tankers and containerships. This deal further strengthens the relationship between NYK Group and Orca AI.

ByHeart

ByHeart Has Become the First and Only Infant Formula in the US to Receive Clean Label Project Certification

With this announcement, ByHeart has received CLP's "Purity Award", signifying the highest tier of purity in manufacturing and quality, based on analytical chemistry testing for contaminants and industrial and environmental toxins such as pesticides and heavy metals.

ByHeart

ByHeart Announces New Data Indicating that its First-of-its-Kind, U.S.-Made Infant Formula Improves Sleep Benefits in Infants, According to Clinical Trial Results

ByHeart was selected to present its industry-leading findings from its clinical trial at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) 2023 medical conference. These findings, which show babies on ByHeart wake up less overnight to feed and sleep longer between feeds, build on ByHeart's previously announced clinically proven easy digestion and tolerance benefits published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.

ByHeart

ByHeart Integrates Two New Manufacturing and Packaging Facilities

Since day 1, we have been committed to making the best infant formula in the world. And the only way to do that is to take the harder, longer path to control every step of our product development and manufacturing. This is the most important food for the most important people, and you can only make it better if you make it yourself.