Senlac, SK, Canada
Barnstorm is a transformative robotics venture, on course to shape the future of agriculture -- with an open platform for swarm farming.
Founders: Parker Wells, Mitchell London (ECE ‘87)
99 Tartans Lead: Arun Venkatadri (Staff)
PITTSBURGH, PA
We are leveraging patent pending artificial intelligence, computer vision and mobile computing technologies to disrupt the $7B sleep apnea care industry.
Founders: Will Kaigler (MBA ‘97)
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Steve Blackmore (MBA ‘96)
PITTSBURGH, PA
We’re changing the way the world experiences gluten-free beer.
Founders: Ryan Bove (TPR ‘12), Doug Foster
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Michael Donahue (CS ‘01)
PITTSBURGH, PA
The world's first software-only autonomous inventory management platform for modern warehouses.
Founders: Sankalp Arora (PhD Robotics ‘18), Daniel Maturana (PhD Robotics ‘16), Geetesh Dubey (MS Robotics ‘17)
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Robb Myer (TPR ‘06)
Co-investors: Expa, Bling Capital
Follow on Investor: XRC Labs, Xplorer Capital
PITTSBURGH, PA
LeanFM Technologies provides an intelligent facility management platform with the power of big data analytics and building visualization.
Founders: Xuesong Liu (MSIT ’09, PhD CIT ’12), Burcu Akinci, PhD (Staff), Michael Giorgione
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Bruce Gebhardt (MBA ‘84)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Helping streamers connect with advertisers to monetize their content.
Founders: Andrew Seid, Sim Xing (MET ‘13)
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Andrew Rabin (MechE ‘89)
PITTSBURGH, PA
Forest Devices is developing AlphaStroke, the first stroke screening device designed for use by medical personnel in any environment. A non-invasive, AI-powered device that can identify a stroke before a CT or MRI is available, AlphaStroke will improve patient outcomes by decreasing time to treatment and by increasing the overall frequency that stroke treatments are provided.
Founders: Matthew Kesinger (Heinz ‘16), Dan Willis, Steve Morrow
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Steven Fleck (TPR ‘04)
PITTSBURGH, PA & SAN MATEO, CA
At Duality, we are building Falcon — our Digital Twin Integration platform for solving real-world problems, powered by our best-in-class 3D simulator.
Founders: Apurva Shah, Mike Taylor
99 Tartans Lead: Robb Myer (TPR ‘06)
Co-investor: Lemnos Ventures
Follow on Investor: Drive Capital
DENVER, CO
Boom Supersonic is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. They're making a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone.
Founders: Blake Scholl (CS ‘01), Joshua Krall (CS ‘01), Joe Wilding
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Chris Smoak (CS ‘01)
PALO ALTO, CA
Intellipse is an AI-first conversational sales and marketing platform that helps your visitors and customers at each step of the buyer’s journey
Founders: Mehdi Samadi (CS PhD ‘15)
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Severin Hacker (CS PhD ‘14)
PORTLAND, OR
Building the new financial world. Simple, secure, accessible developer tools for creators.
Founders: Shamir Karkal (TPR ‘06), Isaac Hines (TPR ‘06), Angela Angelovska-Wilson, Alexander Lipton
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Robb Myer (TPR ‘06)
PITTSBURGH, PA
IAM Robotics provides a complete set of technologies required for autonomous mobile manipulation solutions, with a focus on order picking and retrieval. With a platform of products including the Swift autonomous piece-picking robot, IAM is uniquely suited to help supply chain managers succeed and scale in the face of e-commerce challenges and increasing customer demands.
Founders: Tom Galluzzo (Staff), Vladimir Altman (Staff), Ricky Houghton (Staff)
99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Robb Myer (TPR ‘06)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Truefluence is the first self-serve Influencer Content Marketing platform using Big Data and ML to help brands run optimized campaigns.
Founders: Alex Timmons (ME ‘09); Chris Hobbs (CS ‘99)
99 Tartan Alumni Lead: Rick Morrison (CS ‘03)
Pittsbugh, PA
Gridwise helps rideshare drivers optimize their driving and earn 39% more per hour by sharing information with their fellow drivers.
Founders: Ryan Green; Brian Finamore (MS ECE ‘10)
99 Tartan Alumni Lead: Bruce Gebhardt (TPR ‘84), Jim Ruiz (TPR ‘00)
Follow on Investor: 412 Venture Fund, Crosslink Capital