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Sound You Can Feel: This Startup Aspires to Define the Future of Audio Innovation

Sound You Can Feel: This Startup Aspires to Define the Future of Audio Innovation

Years of exploring the connection between sound and sensation inspired Ethan Castro to launch Edge Sound Research with Valtteri Salomaki in 2020. Initially, the startup introduced specially designed arena seats equipped with built-in speakers, allowing fans to both hear and feel the action through vibration.

Saving Lives with AI: Nauto’s Vision for Safer Roads and Smarter Fleets

Saving Lives with AI: Nauto’s Vision for Safer Roads and Smarter Fleets

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Nauto, which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to warn drivers about dangerous situations in real-time, acts like an attentive co-pilot, Nauto’s system alerts drivers to hazards and risky behaviors. Driving over the speed limit? A gentle reminder will chime in. Approaching a potential collision? A more urgent alarm will prompt immediate action.

Meet the Founders Disrupting Energy, Sports Betting, and Legal Tech

Meet the Founders Disrupting Energy, Sports Betting, and Legal Tech

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During the second annual Meet the Disruptors showcase held at the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia, startup founders shared their personal journeys to becoming entrepreneurs and strategies for scaling their businesses. Here’s a look at how these trailblazers are making their mark.

AI-Powered Product Development: Smarter Management From Prodmap

AI-Powered Product Development: Smarter Management From Prodmap

Prodmap, is an AI-based product management tool that enhances requirement building, design, roadmapping, and reporting. By integrating with existing data, Prodmap’s AI models identify risks, misalignments, and opportunities in real time, allowing companies to unify teams, set clear objectives, and develop products that truly resonate with customers—all from a single platform.

Revolutionizing Business Intelligence: AnthologyAI

Revolutionizing Business Intelligence: AnthologyAI

AnthologyAI aims to revolutionize business intelligence. Through its consumer app Caden, AnthologyAI acquires over 100 million data points daily by compensating consumers who agree to share details about purchases, media consumption, location, and more.

testRigor: Fast and Automated Software Testing

testRigor: Fast and Automated Software Testing

testRigor, an AI-powered end-to-end software test automation tool lets teams draft user interface tests in plain English where coding is typically required. testRigor automates the steps a QA tester would take, allowing for consistent repeated executions.

InsightFinder’s AI-Powered Approach to IT Operations

InsightFinder’s AI-Powered Approach to IT Operations

InsightFinder helps organizations find, prioritize, and resolve tech anomalies before they escalate into expensive outages. By leveraging advanced AI, InsightFinder provides IT ops teams with predictive insights and early warnings, minimizing potential disruptions and optimizing operational efficiency.

Narratize: The AI Startup Redefining Expert Communication

Narratize: The AI Startup Redefining Expert Communication

Narratize leverages over 30 corporate storytelling algorithms and draws from peer-reviewed databases and authoritative journalism to help ensure content is factual. It assists experts and their marketing teams in crafting pitch decks, white papers, product sheets, success stories, research reports, technical product requirements, and more.

Collaborative AI Accelerator Information Session

Collaborative AI Accelerator Information Session

Learn more about our five-week equity-free Collaborative AI Accelerator. During this session, you’ll hear Katie Teuber, Director of Startup Engagement for Comcast NBCUniversal, and accelerator alumni Helen Gu, and  Matt Whitmarsh from InsightFinder as they answer all your questions about the LIFT Labs Accelerator program.

causaLens Mimics Human Reasoning to Help Businesses Better Understand Cause and Effect

causaLens Mimics Human Reasoning to Help Businesses Better Understand Cause and Effect

casuaLens is a London-based startup infusing AI models with “Causal AI” which adds nuance, context, reasoning, and understanding of cause-and-effect relationships in AI systems — allowing them to better mimic human reasoning.

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