At the 19th Intel Capital Global Summit, more than 600 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technology industry leaders gathered to talk about the future of technology. The total investment of $117 million announced at this year’s Global Summit hit a new high, demonstrating Intel’s determination to build a data-centric future. Speakers include Intel’s new CEO, CEO of Cadence Design Systems, co-founder of Pinterest and Red Hat, and former heads of NORAD and FCC.

Phoenix, USA, April 2, 2019 \/PR Newswire\/ — Intel Corporation Global Investors — Intel Capital announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit that it has invested a total of $117 million in 14 technology startups.

The 14 companies that are new to Intel’s portfolio are building powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platforms; researching and analyzing the materials and human sciences that make up the world in innovative ways; using more efficient and environmentally friendly manufacturing technologies; and adopting subversive A new approach to sexual chip design.

Intel’s senior vice president and Intel Capital’s president, Wendell Brooks, said: “For the past 50 years, Intel has been driving disruptive innovation, making computing ubiquitous and transforming our way of life. Intel Capital will pass These investments continue to instill their disruptive innovations. These companies are changing our way of thinking about artificial intelligence, communications, manufacturing and healthcare. These areas will become more and more important in the coming years and become data-centric. The key to a more intelligent and connected world.”

These investments reflect Intel’s new strategy of investing: a more strategic share of investment shares in the invested companies. Intel Capital continues to invest between $300 million and $500 million annually in a variety of emerging technology innovation companies, and is committed to driving the transformation of impossible into possible disruptive innovation.

14 newly-invested company executives took photos with Intel’s senior vice president and Intel Capital’s president Bi Wende. The 19th Intel Capital Global Summit was held in Biltmore, Arizona, USA from April 1st to 3rd, 2019. The annual Intel Capital Global Summit is the premier technology exchange event for the venture capital industry. (Source: Intel Corporation)

Bi Wende said: “Our long-term goal is to use Intel’s global resources and expertise, as well as its customer and partner ecosystem to help these startups accelerate growth and innovation.”

Intel Capital and Intel’s Global Diversity and Inclusions Division also announced the sponsorship of HBCUvc*, further deepening Intel’s commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion. HBCUvc is a non-profit organization that specializes in venture capital and technology entrepreneurship for students of traditional black colleges and universities (HBCU) and Hispanic Service (HSI). HBCUvc provides students with skills training and mentoring, giving them the opportunity to build professional relationships with experienced investors and entrepreneurs. Its venture capital clinic (Venture Capital Clinic) allows students to apply what they have learned to practice and greatly stimulates the entrepreneurial enthusiasm of the campus. Intel Capital and Intel will work with HBCUvc to provide guidance, training and hands-on experience.

The three-day Intel Capital Global Summit attracted more than 600 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and global leaders from Global 2000 to share their insights, explore company development and inspire innovation. This year’s lineup includes: Intel CEO Robert Swan; CEO of Coalition for Green Capital* and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt; Pinterest* co-founder and executive chairman of Joby Aviation* Paul Sciarra; Red Hat* Co-founder Bob Young; Zooc* CEO Aicha Evans; and North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) former commander General Lori Robinson (retired).

The following is a brief introduction of 14 new disruptive innovation companies announced by Intel Capital:

Subversive artificial intelligence

Yunna Technology* (Shanghai, China) is a smart retail technology provider. With proprietary computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion and edge computing technology, Yuna Technology has realized a highly digital, intelligent and non-inductive payment store, and offers the freedom of shopping and shopping. The company has deep cooperation with e-commerce companies, traditional retailers and payment partners around the world to enhance the shopping experience of physical stores.

SambaNova Systems* (Palo Alto, California, USA) is a fast-growing, fast-growing company. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company is building the industry’s most advanced system platform to support AI applications running from the data center to the edge. Founded by Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Stanford’s industry pioneers and experts specializing in system hardware and software design, the company’s mission is to bring AI innovations from in-depth research to businesses and organizations across all industries, creating a service to the public. , the AI ​​technology that benefits the world.

Untether AI* (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is engaged in the development of ultra-efficient, high-performance AI chips. These chips will be the basis for the next wave of AI innovation. Untether AI invented an unprecedented new chip architecture that broke the data movement bottleneck and was specifically used for neural network reasoning. This unique architecture moves data at a speed of thousands of times the traditional architecture, so performance and efficiency are extremely high. Founded by a team of scientists, engineers and experienced entrepreneurs, the company has successfully brought more than 1 billion chips to market.

Zhuhai Yizhi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.* (Zhuhai, China) is an artificial intelligence system chip (SoC) design company and a total solution provider. The company’s products include artificial intelligence acceleration, image and graphics processing, video encoding and decoding, and mixed-signal ULSI design capabilities. Its artificial intelligence SoC for video, automotive and smart devices will begin mass production by the end of 2019.

Subversive transmission and dissemination

Mighty Networks* (Palo Alto, California, USA) combines community, content, online courses and subscription business services to bring brands and businesses together and reach audiences. It offers “experience-style business” as a unique new digital service designed to help the next generation of digital “creators” who are “targeted” to promote their experiences, connectivity channels and expertise to their fan base. .

Pixeom* (Santa Clara, Calif.) redefines the way enterprise manages hybrid cloud resources, and its edge computing software platform rebuilds and coordinates on-premise cloud platforms. It enables customers to easily deploy and manage large-scale, geographically dispersed infrastructure and workloads.

Polystream* (Gilford, UK) is a deep technology startup that fundamentally changes the way video games and demanding 3D applications are transmitted over the cloud. Polystream’s software-defined imaging technology enables interactive graphical content to be streamed on an unprecedented scale, truly reaching the world.

Tibit Communications* (Petaluma, Calif.) is committed to developing next-generation devices that provide broadband access to home, office or cellular sites for virtual management from the cloud to the user. Tibit replaces dedicated hardware boxes in carriers and enterprise networks with small modules that connect to standard Ethernet switches, resulting in significant cost, power and space savings.

Subversive health care

Medical Informatics Corp.* (Houston, TX, USA) is a software-based monitoring and analysis company. Its revolutionary Sickbay platform archives, aggregates and transforms unrecorded high-resolution waveform data across different devices, enabling remote monitoring of the entire process from anywhere to anytime. In addition, the platform can use machine learning and artificial intelligence to deploy real-time predictive critical care analysis techniques to prevent disease progression, prevent risks, and enable data-driven medicine and patient-centered care.

Reveal Biosciences, Inc.* (San Diego, Calif.) is creating a new generation of data-driven pathology that is dedicated to improving healthcare worldwide. ImageDx is its proprietary deep learning platform that provides pathologists and scientists with a new class of operational quantitative data to accelerate research and enhance patient care.

Subversive manufacturing

Landing AI* (Palo Alto, CA, USA) provides artificial intelligence-driven SaaS solutions and enterprise-class artificial intelligence transformation programs to help companies transform into artificial intelligence companies. The Landing AI team was created by Dr. Wu Enda, a team that enables companies in a variety of industries, including manufacturing and agriculture, to develop and implement coherent artificial intelligence strategies.

OnScale* (Cupertino, Calif.) provides on-demand engineering simulation software that enables engineers to accelerate innovation in multiple industries, including MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedical and autonomous vehicles technology. OnScale combines the speed and flexibility of Cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) with powerful multiphysics solver technology that has been used and validated by Fortune 50 companies for more than 30 years. OnScale breaks the limits of traditional analog tools, allowing engineers to dramatically reduce the cost and risk of cutting-edge technology and reduce time-to-market.

proteanTecs* (Haifa, Israel) develops innovative universal chip telemetry technology for the entire life cycle of electronic systems to improve the performance and reliability of electronic systems. ProteanTecs applies machine learning to new data generated by embedded intelligent terminals, providing important insights beyond meaning and value, bringing quality, reliability and scale to new heights.

Qolibri, Inc.* (Roseville, CA) is an innovative technology company that develops breakthrough proprietary solutions to solve semiconductor sub-cleanroom problems. The Qolibri team has extensive expertise in semiconductor device technology and renewable energy. Qolibri technology will change the status of sub-cleanrooms, significantly reducing chip manufacturing costs and having a positive impact on the environment.

Bi Wende said: “We are optimistic about these companies, and we are happy to help them subvert their respective industries through Intel’s global advantages. These investments by Intel are just the beginning of Intel’s in-depth cooperation with their companies.”