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.
artificial intelligence to solve some really interesting and particular problems
for different markets.
The 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
AgriData — mapping software specifically for agriculture
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
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
Embryonic by BioTime — identify embryonic score of a sample online
Grail — detect cancer early, when it can be cured
iCarbonX — a personal health data collection and organising platform
Nanotronics — highly advanced microscope
Numerate — revolutionise small molecule drug design
Verily — developing tools to collect and organise health data
💻 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
Emergent — helps predict where hackers will attack
Pelican — a more intelligent and secure payment, compliance and banking
Sift Science — helps prevent fraud and abuse for your web-scale business
Versive — automates threat hunting supporting cybersecurity teams
🛒 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
Millions.ai — throw content at it and it builds you a website
Prix — helps to optimise pricing
Sentient — automatically makes website design changes to improve ROI
Signature — build elegant landing pages using your social media 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
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
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
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
Oncora — precision radiation oncology for personalised treatment
Pharma AI — support pharmaceutical research and development
pulseData — predicts bad, expensive health outcomes before they happen
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
📹 Image
3Scan — improving the accuracy and efficiency of anatomic pathology
Arterys — platform to help manage medical imaging
Butterfly Network — medical imaging accessible to everyone in the world
Google DeepMind — does this really need a description?
Imagia — helps detect changes in cancer early
Lunit Inc. — a range of medical imaging software
🏗️ 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
Kira — speeds the identification and analysis of contracts
Legal Robot — helps make sense of legal language and find errors
Premonition — helps you find lawyers based on their statistics
Peter — helps with legal contracts and timestamping
Seal — contract discovery and analytics
💡 Manufacturing
Eigen Innovations — help manufacturers optimise productivity
Raven — interprets shop floor data and provides actions to operators
🗞️ News & Media
🐨 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
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
Prix — helps to optimise pricing
🔒 Security & Safety
Alive.ai — drones for agriculture, public emergency and more
🏅 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
Comm.ai — helps make your car self driving compatible
Dispatch — creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles for pedestrian spaces
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
🤖 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
Graphcore — IPU that is 10x to 100x times more efficient and cost effective
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
Yandex Data Factory — provides AI-based solutions that directly
increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency
increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency
Academic & Research:
🏫 Research
Cogitai — developing continual shared learning artificial intelligence
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
and shows them where science is headed
NNAISENSE — building large-scale neural network solutions
Numenta — reverse engineering the neocortex
Swarm Insight — better, real-time feedback from groups
⌨️ Developers, Studios and Consultants (only a few listed)
📚 Open Source Libraries
🛠 Hardware
🎓 Institutions & Universities
PETRL — promotes moral consideration for algorithms
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.
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”
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.
of users to give them control of what information about themselves others see.
Reference:
Asgard.vc — The German Artificial Intelligence Landscape
CIO Applications (helped form part of my structure)
Plus random discoveries that I came across the last couple months
And of course, the countless suggestions from the community
— thank you all very much (if I’ve missed any still just let me know)!
— thank you all very much (if I’ve missed any still just let me know)!
Also, check out the other parts of 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
Let me know if I missed any companies you think should be included,
any edits I should make or if there any that just shouldn’t be in this list?
Liam Hänel here, CEO and co-founder of Lyra,
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any edits I should make or if there any that just shouldn’t be in this list?
Liam Hänel here, CEO and co-founder of Lyra,
if you enjoyed this post give it a quick clap or three to help others see it.
