Yuri Pikover

Larada Sciences is a science-based medical technology company dedicated to the elimination of human head lice infestations. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, we develop and commercialize proprietary head lice treatment technologies, including new medical devices and related services, which kill head lice without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. The company is a franchisor of Lice Clinics of America, with lice clinics throughout the U.S. and worldwide.

Caldera Medical focuses exclusively on differentiated, high-quality products for minimally invasive women‘s health applications.

TrascribeMe is a transcription, translation, and data annotation technology utilizing worldwide curated crowd. We deliver fast, secure, and highly accurate language services for enterprises and customized AI training datasets for AI companies.

Molecular Vista designs, develops, and provides tools that allow its customers to probe and understand matter at the molecular level through quantitative visualization. Its first product, Near-field Stimulated Raman Microscope, combines two of the most exciting and powerful techniques, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SRS), to create an ultimate instrument to study biological systems with single molecule chemical sensitivity and sub-nanometer topographical information. Molecular Vista was founded by two industry veterans, Prof. Kumar Wickramasinghe (UC Irvine and formerly with IBM Research) and Dr. Sung Park (co-founder of Park Scientific Instruments), with extensive academic and industry networks.

MobileCause is the leading web software for mobile fundraising, CRM, and donor communication for Nonprofits. MobileCause’s delivers mobile CRM tools to nationally recognized non-profit organizations. MobileCause’s simple-to-use web service bring text-message fundraising, communication, data mining and analysis, micro-billing, macro billing, and text polling over SMS, and Twitter into your nonprofit at the touch of a button. MobileCause’s team is comprised of leading nonprofit and technology professionals with the right blend of fundraising experience, data management and IT expertise. The MobileCause leadership have been successful in helping non-profits raise more than half a billion dollars over the course of their careers and have a track record for technology innovation.

Neural Analytics, Inc. develops RapidICP, a noninvasive solution for measuring intracranial pressure. Its technology enables to treat traumatic brain injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage patients, as well as other disease conditions, including hydrocephalus, cerebral, malaria pseudotumor cerebri, and brain tumors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Big Data, Unleashed When it comes to hunting the forest of big data to flush out opportunity, it pays to have a big dog working for you There’s big money in turning big data into business insights. Problem is, even if you know what you’re looking for, finding it in a world that’s generating a terabyte a second is nearly impossible. That’s why there’s Bitvore. Bitvore is a real time, big data consuming and processing monster. Point it at virtually any and all data sources you want — social media feeds, websites, RSS feeds, data firehoses, you name it — and Bitvore will plow through all of them like a hungry grizzly in a beehive. What you get back is clean data mashup, fully processed, broken into pieces tagged by concept, and ready to pump intelligence into your real-time apps or to power your business insight magic.

37Ventures focused on helping aspiring entrepreneurs reach their goals by helping them understand how to translate their goals into tactical and strategic business plans, develop validation of key business ideas, building the right management team, raising strategic financing. We work with people that want help in building great companies while avoiding mistakes made by others. We act both as a strategic advisor and investor.

Savara Pharmaceuticals is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative pulmonary drugs for the treatment of serious and life-threatening conditions.

Know who matters in your system: patented network influence analytics for targeting, retention, and spending. While Ninja Metrics is new, the team behind it is not. Since 2007, our team has run the world's leading research project in the multi-disciplinary area of computational social science, the VWE Observatory. Having received rigorously competitive funding from federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Air Force, the Army, and others, Ninja Metrics brings to market the most sophisticated and powerful technology for social analytics that exists today. One of the unique aspects of the Ninja Metrics team is its group of world class social scientists, game experts, and computational scientists with expertise in AI and machine learning. This has enabled the development of social analytics technology that combines deep social science theories with cutting edge machine learning to develop high accuracy predictive models for human behavior. Ninja Metrics has filed a number of patents on these technologies. In addition to cutting edge knowledge in games and technology, the Ninja Metrics team brings significant experience and expertise in the building and deployment of scalable software systems. This enabled us from the very start to work with full-scale commercial game vendors, who generate terabytes of data per day. The result is the Katana Social Analytics Engine, an ultra-scalable, cloud computing-based social analytics platform behind some the biggest games on the market.