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Planet is a satellite imagery and analytics company founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists—Will Marshall, Chris Boshuizen, and Robbie Schingler—who started the company at NASA Ames Research Center before […]

HawkEye 360, founded in September 2015 by Chris DeMay, Charles Clancy, and Bob McGwier, operates a constellation of small RF-collection satellites that geolocate and analyze radio-frequency emissions worldwide. The company […]

Foursquare, founded in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, pivoted from a consumer check-in app into a location intelligence platform serving enterprises at scale. The New York-based company maintains […]

SmartNews is a Japan-based news aggregation app founded in 2012 by Ken Suzuki and Kaisei Hamamoto. The platform operates as a centralized hub for 3,000+ media outlets, delivering content to […]

MX, founded in 2010 by Ryan Caldwell and Brandon Dewitt, operates as one of the three leading financial data aggregation platforms in the U.S., alongside Plaid and Finicity. Headquartered in […]

Arcadia is a Washington, DC-based energy intelligence platform founded in 2014 by Kiran Bhatraju and Kate Henningsen. The company built an operating system for enterprise energy management, consolidating utility bill […]

Plaid, founded in 2012 by Zach Perret and William Hockey, operates a financial infrastructure network that connects applications to over 12,000 financial institutions across 20 markets. The San Francisco-based company […]