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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
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EDTECH: LEVERAGING AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Neurophos T100 Optical Processing Unit
Neurophos, Inc. is a silicon photonics company based in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California. It builds photonic chips around metamaterial optical modulators to run…
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Q.ANT Photonic NPU and Open-Source SDK
Q.ANT GmbH is a photonic computing company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with a U.S. office in Austin, Texas. It commercializes photonic accelerators for AI…
Trener Robotics Acteris Robot Skills Platform
Trener Robotics, formerly T-Robotics, makes AI software for industrial robots and was founded in 2024 according to coverage of its funding round. Its product Acteris is described as…
Maneva Video-to-Action AI (VITA and ALIS)
Maneva sells Video-to-Action AI for factories, turning existing production-line cameras into real-time decision tools. The site lists offices in Palo Alto, California and North York, Ontario; a June…
Backbone Food Quality and Compliance AI
Backbone is a Belgian startup founded in 2025 by Louis Opsomer, Siska Lannoo and Julien Steel. It provides an AI platform for food and beverage quality teams that…
Proxy Foods AI Recipe Formulation Platform
Proxy Foods is a Washington, DC based company founded in 2022 that offers an AI platform for recipe formulation and product development in food and beverage R&D teams.…
MEQ Camera and Probe Meat Grading
MEQ Solutions is an Australian company founded in 2016 in Adelaide that measures red meat quality and yield objectively. It targets the meat industry’s reliance on subjective visual…
Peckish AI Stocktake
Peckish is an Amsterdam-based company (Peckish B.V.) founded in 2023 by former Uber employees. It offers an AI stocktaking platform for pubs, bars and restaurants, replacing manual counts…
Polysense Qualify and AutoControl
Polysense is a Belgian company based in Gent that provides AI-native machine vision and process control for food manufacturing. It aims to catch quality drift on production lines…
Sapiom Agent Financial Infrastructure
Sapiom describes itself as financial infrastructure for AI agents, letting agents make payments from online purchases to API calls while owners control spending. TechCrunch calls it a San…