The final piece of the puzzle — Part 3. Here’s a look at industry specific companies that utilise various forms of artificial intelligence to solve some really interesting and particular problems for different markets.
Other parts to this series
Part 1 — AI tools for Personal use
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use — Enterprise Intelligence
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use (cont’d) — Enterprise Functions
Part 3 — AI tools for Industry specific businesses
Artificial Intelligence — industry specific:
🛌 Accomodation & Hotel
Exa — helps engage and delight guests with voice automated solutions
💱 Advertisement
Datacratic — helps you focus your digital ad on people you want to target
TNAB — a way to show personalised and engaging advertisement
🐮 Agriculture
Abundant Robotics — robotic solutions for difficult jobs in agriculture
AgriData — mapping software specifically for agriculture
Blue River Technology — acquired by John Deere
Descartes Labs — collects satellite imagery and makes ready for use+analysis
Grojo — grow room controller and monitoring system
Mavrx — aerial imaging that provides deep understanding of crop
Peat — automatic image recognition for plant damage
Pivot Bio — crop soil and microbial health management
Prospera Technologies — monitor and analyse plant health
TerrAvion — aerial imagery to learn about crop health and more
Trace Genomics — help measure soil health and nutritional status
Tule — remote crop water monitoring and irrigation control
UDIO — helps manage water usage
🔬 Biological
Atomwise — for novel small molecule discovery
Citrine — better material information
Color — helps you understand genetic risk for common hereditary cancers
Deep Genomics — predict what will happen within a cell when DNA is altered
Embryonic by BioTime — identify embryonic score of a sample online
Ginkgo Bioworks — we design custom microbes for a range markets
Grail — detect cancer early, when it can be cured
iCarbonX — a personal health data collection and organising platform
Mims — helps scientists with bioinformatics
Nanotronics — highly advanced microscope
Numerate — revolutionise small molecule drug design
Recursion Pharmaceuticals — drug discovery
SciAi — write biomedical papers in semantic format
Verily — developing tools to collect and organise health data
Whole Biome — a platform to develop microbiome interventions
Zymergen — engineer better microbes
💻 Cyber Security
Cybel Angel — prevention and real-time detection cyber incidents
Cylance — cybersecurity that predicts, prevents and protects from threats
Darktrace — spots patterns and prevent cyber crimes before they occur
Deep Instinct — zero day attacked protection for endpoints and mobile
Delphi — security against malware and malicious internet activity
Demisto — combines security orchestration and incident management
Drawbridge Networks — security-as-a-service
Emergent — helps predict where hackers will attack
Graphistry — helps teams investigate cyber threats quickly and easily
LeapYear — extracts threat insights from sensitive data
Pelican — a more intelligent and secure payment, compliance and banking
SentinelOne — predicts, prevents, detects and responds to threats
Shift Technology — helps reduce insurance fraud
SignalSense — evaluates traffic for threats occurring inside your network
Sift Science — helps prevent fraud and abuse for your web-scale business
SparkCognition — helps businesses predict a data breach
Versive — automates threat hunting supporting cybersecurity teams
Zimperium — real-time threat protection mobile and apps
🛒 Ecommerce
Basket — e-commerce shopping cart chatbot
Choice.ai — create and deploy stunning UI elements and widgets in seconds
Cody.ai — intelligent agent geared for ecommerce
Contented — dynamic page/website/email layouts optimised to your content
Firedrop — websites designed automatically, just add content and publish Millions.ai — throw content at it and it builds you a website
Prix — helps to optimise pricing
Oly — selects and helps you publish content to your social media
Sentient — automatically makes website design changes to improve ROI
Signature — build elegant landing pages using your social media content
TheGrid — building websites automatically just by adding content
🎓 Education
AltSchool — a platform made to improve learning capabailities
Content Technologies (CTI) — research and development company
Coursera — online courses from top universities
Gradescope — streamlines the tedious parts of grading
Hugh — helps library users find any book quickly
Ivy.ai — customer service chatbot for higher education
Knewton — personalised learning for high and primary schools
Volley — makes training and development more engaging and effective
💵 Fintech
AlphaSense — highly intelligent search functionality
Alta5 — scriptable trading automation for your online brokerage account
Analytic.ai — hedging and arbitrageur protection
AppZen — audit your T&E expenses in real-time and cut your expenses
Cerebellum Capital — investment management firm driven by statistical ML
Darwinian Capital — uses AI to build investment products
iSentium — quantify unstructured social content into sentiment indicators
Kasisto — manage your banking via chat
Numerai — a new kind of hedge fund
Kensho — scalable ML for government and commercial (backed by CIA)
Origin — trades stocks and predicts prices
Pit.ai — mining trading strategies and management
Pitchbot.vc — learn if you’re investor ready or not through conversation
PrecisionLender — offers actionable financial insights to bankers
Quandl — delivers alternative datasets atop core financial and economic data
Sentient — helps with financial strategy and investment choices
👾 Gaming
Kythera — in-game AI to help game studios with development
🏥 ️ Healthcare
Atomwise — for novel small molecule discovery
Babylon — online doctor consultations using AI
BuddiHealth — helps improve process, payment systems and costs with RCM
Behold.ai — medical billing, coding and claims software
BenevolnentAI — helps with the discovery of new medicines
Calico Labs — trying to solve the problem of aging and diseases
CareSkore — patient profile software for predicting outcomes and trends
CloudMedx — a platform to help with clinical treatment and financial savings
CUDL — share clinical data securely and simplify ultrasound understanding
Deep6 Analytics — helps find better patients for clinical trials much faster
Diagnostics.ai — make medical diagnosis tests accurate and safer
DreamUp Vision — helps ophthamologists with screening of retinal diseases
Emr.ai — transform medical reports into international standard code
Embryonic by BioTime — identify embryonic score of a sample online
Enlitic — makes doctors faster and more accurate
Freenome — non-invasive medical screening to treat cancer and other disease
Healthcare.ai — open source tools to help increase ML in healthcare
IBM Watson Health — advanced capabilities for healthcare institutions
Lunit Inc. — medical data analysis and interpretation
Lytics — medical insights tools
MD.ai — collaborative medical research
Numerate Medical — revolutionise small molecule drug design
Oncora — precision radiation oncology for personalised treatment
Pharma AI — support pharmaceutical research and development
pulseData — predicts bad, expensive health outcomes before they happen
Qure — diagnosis for MRI, CT Scans and X-Rays
Sentrian — detects patient deterioration earlier with chronic diseases
twoXAR — accelerates drug discovery
Umps Health — helps detect elderly people emergency requirements
Viz — helps doctors treat patients faster with medical imaging
Zebra Medical Vision — medical imaging to help physicians and practitioners
Zephyr Health — helps life sciences companies connect the right people
📹 Image
3Scan — improving the accuracy and efficiency of anatomic pathology
Arterys — platform to help manage medical imaging
Bay Labs — developing cardiovascular imaging tools
Butterfly Network — medical imaging accessible to everyone in the world
Cortexica — a range of different advanced imagining products
Google DeepMind — does this really need a description?
Imagia — helps detect changes in cancer early
Kuznech — computer vision products range
Lunit Inc. — a range of medical imaging software
Zebra Medical Vision — medical imaging to help physicians and practitioners
🏗️ Infrastructure
Doxel — visual artificial intelligence for job sites
Flywheel — building performance platform
OJO Home — helps real estate agents turn prospects into clients for life
🏢 Insurance
Cape Analytics — identify property attributes at scale for underwriting
Underwrite.ai — dynamic modelling of credit risk
ZestFinance — improved underwriting for insurance companies
🏛 Legal
Beagle — helps law firms find deep hidden insights in legal text
Blue J Legal — enables tax professionals to strengthen their tax position
Equivant — helps decision making on convictions (not a fan of this!)
[Kira](https://kirasystems.com) — speeds the identification and analysis of contracts
[Legal Robot](https://www.legalrobot.com/) — helps make sense of legal language and find errors
[Premonition](https://premonition.ai/) — helps you find lawyers based on their statistics
[Peter](https://hirepeter.com/) — helps with legal contracts and timestamping
[Ravel Law](http://ravellaw.com/) — enhances lawyers legal capabilities with deep insights
[ROSS Intelligence](http://www.rossintelligence.com/) — enhances lawyers legal capabilities with deep insights
[Seal**](https://www.seal-software.com/) — contract discovery and analytics
💡 Manufacturing
Eigen Innovations — help manufacturers optimise productivity
Raven — interprets shop floor data and provides actions to operators
🗞️ News & Media
Dataminr — discovers high-impact events and news instantly
🐨 Other
Maxima — claim to be working on artificial general intelligence
makeAvatar.ai — create 3d avatars from selfies, instantly
Harmony.ai — an IIoT ecosystem leveraging leading devices and platforms
Hugh — helps library users find any book quickly
PETRL — promotes moral consideration for algorithms
Purple — learn more about your customers through their Wifi usage
Personalised Privacy Assistant Project — learns about privacy preferences of users to give them control of what information about themselves others see
TARA — helps you manage projects
Ulzard — transform a UI screenshot into working code
Vue — fashion trend
👜 Retail Finance
Betterment — personalised retirement planning
Earnest — alternative loan financing using prediction of your income in future
Lendo — a new way of credit scoring aimed at people without credit access
Mirador — improved and quicker decision making for lending as a borrower
Tala (a InVenture) — a new way of credit scoring using smart phone data
Playment — training data, image annotation and more for enterprise
Prix — helps to optimise pricing
🔒 Security & Safety
Alive.ai — drones for agriculture, public emergency and more
Irvine Sensors — detects foreign and intentionally placed objects for security
🏅 Sports
Arena — sport performance prediction and analysis
📦 Transportation and Logistics
Acerta — helps better understand their vehicle data to find root faults causes
Aerea — supply chain management, manufacturing and prediction
Alloy — analytics and supply chain management software
Armada — helps to track and improve supply chain costs and efficiencies
Captain — smart delivery software for restaurants
ClearMetal — helps predict logistics issues and reduce costs
Marble — creating a fleet of intelligent courier robots
PitStop — the fastest way to detect and correct errors in PDF files
Preteckt — be informed in advance before your truck experiences a problem
Routific — improve and plan local logistics routes in real-time
Preteckt — helps diagnose and predict truck faults
Seldin — AI powered supply chains
SupplyAI — helps predict if customers are likely to return a purchase
🚗 Travel
Mezi — helps with booking flights, hotels, restaurant reservations and more
Voya — help booking and managing business travels
📺 VR & AR
Drop — I was just intrigued by their website…
Autonomous Systems & Robotics:
✈️ Aerial
Achron — automated UAV operations
Airware — drones for industrial purposes
Alive.ai — drones for agriculture, public emergency and more
DJI — everyone has this drone
DroneDeploy — the software platform for drone mapping
Fathom — enables rapid prototyping, validation of DNN and CV drones
Lily — drones that follow you
Mavrx — aerial imaging that provides deep understanding of crop
Shield — autonomous unmanned systems for civil and defence
Skycatch — turn drone photos into 3D models
Skydio — building a new generation of AI powered drones
🚘 Autonomous Vehicles
Aeye — safe and reliable vehicle autonomy
AIMotive — autonomous vehicle hardware and software
Area17 — autonomous navigation
Autonomic — building self-driving car capabilities
Auro Robotics — self driving shuttle for campuses and corporate parks
Comm.ai — helps make your car self driving compatible
Dispatch — creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles for pedestrian spaces
Drive.ai — building the brain of self-driving vehicles
Dryvless.ai — peer-to-peer fully autonomous transportation logistics network
Five AI — autonomous vehicles systems that can work anywhere
Mobileye — self-driving vehicles for industry
Nauto — give your fleet self-driving capabilities
nuTonomy — software for driverless fleets
PlusAI — working toward Level 4/5 self-driving car (semi-fully autonomous)
Shield — autonomous unmanned systems for civil and defence
Tesla — auto pilot and self-driving capability by the one and only..
Uber — autonomous vehicle program by Uber
Waymo — Google’s self-driving vehicle project
🤖 Industrial Autonomy & Robotics
Airware — drones for industrial purposes
Anki — dedicated to bringing consumer robotics into everyday life
Clearpath Robotics — develop autonomous robots for different purposes
Corva — provides drilling analytics and other insights for gas and oil
Dispatch — creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles for pedestrian spaces
Fetch Robotics — optimising warehouse and logistics operations
Graphcore — IPU that is 10x to 100x times more efficient and cost effective
Harvest Automation — robots for a range of industrial environments
Jaybridge Robotics — develops vehicle automation for heavy equipment
Kindred AI — exploring systems to enable robots to participate in our world
Mov.ai — industrial automous robots
Ortelio — the software to help robots do what they do
Osaro — a range of autonomous vehicles and robots
Rethink Robotics — the people behind Baxter + Sawyer collaborative robots
Roboy — a humanoid robot aimed to be as capable as a human
Spoon — a robot (I couldn’t work out its purpose, but it sounded cool!)
SoftBank — robotics and other advanced technology company
Tend — monitor and control your production line from anywhere
Yandex Data Factory — provides AI-based solutions that directly increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency
Academic & Research:
🏫 Research
Cogitai — developing continual shared learning artificial intelligence
IBM Q — building universal quantum computers for business and science
Isris — AI for scientific documentation to help find solutions
Kimera — developing AGI to help cure cancer and solve other problems
Meta — helps researchers understand what is happening globally in science and shows them where science is headed
NNAISENSE — building large-scale neural network solutions
Numenta — reverse engineering the neocortex
OpenAI — discovering and enacting the path to safe AGI
Swarm Insight — better, real-time feedback from groups
⌨️ Developers, Studios and Consultants (only a few listed)
Aitia
Amplify
Applied AI
Blindspot Solutions
Cogent
Crossing Minds
DSP
Expert Systems
Explosion
Minds.ai
Nebula
Nous.ai
Ignition
Iv.ai
Plum
Vital.ai
Symbol.ai
Symphony
📚 Open Source Libraries
Amazon DSSTNE
Apache Spark
Azure ML
Caffe Chainer
DeepLearning4j
DMLCH2O.ai
Keras
Microsoft CNTK
Microsoft DMTK
MLlib
MLDB
MXNet
Nervana Neon
PaddlePaddle
OpenAI Gym
scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Theano
Torch7
Weka
spaCy
🛠 Hardware
1026 Labs
Armada
Cadence
Cirrascale
Comm.ai
Google TPU
Graphcore
Hugh
Intel
Isocline
KNUPATH
MATRIX Lab
Preteckt
sNVIDIA DGX-1/Titan X
Qualcomm Tenstorrent
Tensilica
🎓 Institutions & Universities
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Association for the Advanced of Artificial Intelligence
AI-ON — Artificial Intelligence Open Network
AI Impacts
EXI — Exropy Institute
Future of Life Institute
Humanity+
Institute for Artificial Intelligence — Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Partnership on AI — to benefit people and society
Singularity Institute
Stanford — One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Capital AI
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
PETRL — promotes moral consideration for algorithms
Facebook AI Research
Alternative (interesting projects worth a mention):
❤️ Privacy and Social Impact
AI Now Initiative — research initiative working across disciplines to understand the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence to ensure a more equitable future.
PETRL — People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learns — promotes moral consideration for algorithms, with the idea “you are just an algorithm implemented on biological hardware”
Personalised Privacy Assistant Project — learns about privacy preferences of users to give them control of what information about themselves others see.
Reference:
Anguilla — top level domain list (my primary source)
Asgard.vc — The German Artificial Intelligence Landscape
AI 100 — CB Insights (helped also form part of my structure)
AI X Prize
CIO Applications (helped form part of my structure)
Sam DeBrule — The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning
O’Reilly — The Current State of Machine Learning 3.0
Plus random discoveries that I came across the last couple months
And of course, the countless suggestions from the everyone — thank you all very much!