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Vivante Health, Inc. is a digital health company focused on addressing digestive health and chronic conditions. Founded in 2016, it has developed GIThrive, a technology platform designed to provide actionable insights for managing digestive issues. GIThrive offers a comprehensive digital gut health program that includes expert guidance, 24/7 support, and personalized care plans. The company also provides GIMate, an innovative portable breathalyzer that identifies trigger foods, and GutCheck, which analyzes gut bacteria to recommend tailored diets. Vivante Health emphasizes individualized care, utilizing a scalable platform that integrates real-time data from biometric devices and partners. This approach not only aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve employee health for large employers and health plans but also enhances user empowerment through advanced science and technology. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with an additional office in Athens, Greece, Vivante Health continues to prioritize innovative solutions in the realm of digestive health.

TileDB, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the management of multi-dimensional array data, primarily for scientific applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional location in Athens, Greece, TileDB offers a cloud-based storage platform and embedded storage engine. Its innovative software is designed to handle diverse data types, including unstructured and multimodal data, making it suitable for complex scientific inquiries such as genomic research and biomedical imaging. TileDB enables users to access, analyze, and share intricate datasets effectively, supporting scientific teams in pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors to advance drug discovery and other research initiatives. Through its robust platform, TileDB facilitates parallel data analytics and integrates various dimensions and attributes within data arrays, positioning itself as a critical tool for scientific breakthroughs.

Athroa Innovations is a Greece-based venture builder and investor headquartered in Athens. Founded in 2019, it focuses on biomedical, clean tech, and food tech inventions and seeks to invest in health technology, clean technology, and food technology sectors. The company commercializes deep-science inventions through licensing of intellectual property, offering innovators the option of IP licensing as an alternative to launching a start-up. It enables researchers to advance their core work while benefiting from prototyping in Greece, combining venture-building with IP-enabled commercialization to support innovation ecosystems.

Founded in 2012, Accusonus specializes in developing innovative software tools for professional audio processing. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with operations in Patras, Greece, the company offers products like drumatom (for reducing drum bleed), ERA-D (for sound processing), and Regroover (an AI-powered beat machine). They also develop embedded speech enhancement solutions for consumer electronics. Accusonus' patented Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence technology drives its sound processing workflows.

TileDB, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the management of multi-dimensional array data, primarily for scientific applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional location in Athens, Greece, TileDB offers a cloud-based storage platform and embedded storage engine. Its innovative software is designed to handle diverse data types, including unstructured and multimodal data, making it suitable for complex scientific inquiries such as genomic research and biomedical imaging. TileDB enables users to access, analyze, and share intricate datasets effectively, supporting scientific teams in pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors to advance drug discovery and other research initiatives. Through its robust platform, TileDB facilitates parallel data analytics and integrates various dimensions and attributes within data arrays, positioning itself as a critical tool for scientific breakthroughs.

Fieldscale is a company based in Thessaloniki, Greece, specializing in the development of simulation software solutions for the touch sensor industry. Founded in 2015, Fieldscale offers SENSE, a cloud-based platform that provides advanced capacitive touch sensor simulation for electric design and analysis. The software incorporates sophisticated algorithms within an intuitive user interface, allowing engineers to perform electric field analyses and optimize sensor designs efficiently. It enables the detection of dielectric breakdowns, partial discharges, and assessments of lightning strike phenomena. By facilitating thousands of analyses and various scenarios within a single day, Fieldscale empowers engineers to enhance their designs while reducing power consumption, ultimately leading to faster and more effective product development.

Balena is a technology company that provides a complete set of tools and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. Its platform enables fleet owners to develop applications, deploy firmware using Linux containers and open technologies, provision devices, collect logs, and perform cross-compilation, while supporting any Linux-supported language, library, and API on embedded products. Devices and their services can be managed, monitored, and updated through a web dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK. The platform is used across industries such as connected homes, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and retail. Balena was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in Greece and the United Kingdom.