South African Startup, DataProphet, Honored for Achievements in Autonomous Manufacturing
Cape Town, South Africa – March 3, 2020 – CB Insights today named DataProphet, a leader in AI that enables manufacturers to step towards autonomous manufacturing, to the fourth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.
“It’s been remarkable to see the success of the companies named to the Artificial Intelligence 100 over the last four years. The 2019 AI 100 saw 48 companies go on to raise $4.9B of additional financing and nine got acquired,” said CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal. “It has been gratifying to see that CB Insights’ data-driven approach to identifying the top AI companies using patents, customer traction, investor quality, market sizing, and more has become so effective at picking the AI winners of tomorrow. We look forward to seeing what the 2020 AI 100 companies will accomplish over the course of this year and beyond.”
In addition to disrupting core sectors including healthcare, retail, and finance, the 2020 AI 100 companies are revamping the broader enterprise tech stack. These companies span the globe, from the US, UK, China, Chile, and South Africa, and are supported by more than 600 investors.
“We’re delighted to be recognized by CBI Insights as one of the most promising AI companies in the world, with only four AI companies in the manufacturing sector selected,” said Frans Cronje, CEO at DataProphet. “We’re committed to helping manufacturers achieve their Industry 4.0 goals and build a solid foundation for autonomous manufacturing.”
Through an evidence-based approach, the CB Insights research team selected the AI 100 from nearly 5,000 companies based on several factors including patent activity, investor quality, news sentiment analysis, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, partnerships, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The Mosaic Score, based on CB Insights’ algorithm, measures the overall health and growth potential of private companies to help predict a company’s momentum.
DataProphet PRESCRIBE is an Expert Execution System (EES), enabled by AI. DataProphet continuously monitors and prescribes optimal changes to the control parameters of a manufacturing plant to pre-emptively avoid any quality failures in the course of production. This task is beyond the capability of human experts given the size of the data produced by manufacturing plants and the speed at which they work. Historically the analysis of this data has only been done after a defect has occurred – DataProphet does it before, enabling manufacturers around the world to avoid the cost incurred in defects. DataProphet has proven to reduce defects by 40% on average.
QUICK FACTS ON THE 2020 AI 100:
- As of the end of February 2020, these 100 emerging private companies have raised over $7.4B in funding across 300+ deals from 600+ unique investors.
- There are 10 unicorns (companies valued over $1B) in this year’s AI 100 cohort.
- The list spans across various industries, including healthcare, retail & warehouse, and finance & insurance.
- 13 countries, such as China, Sweden, and Japan, are represented on the ranking. The majority of startups (65%) are based in the United States.
THE AI 100 COMPANIES (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER):
4Paradigm
Abnormal Security
Affectiva
AiFi
AInnovation
Algorithmia
ALICE Technologies
AMP Robotics
ArthurAI
Atomwise
Aurora
Benson Hill Biosystems
Beyond Limits
Blue Hexagon
Bowery Farming
BUILT Robotics
Butterfly Network
C3.ai
Caspar.AI
Citrine Informatics
ClimaCell
ComplyAdvantage
Concerto HealthAI
Covariant AI
Cresta
Cyclica
DarwinAI
DataProphet
DataRobot
Deeplite
DeepSig
Dorabot
dotData
Eko
Faire
Falkonry
FanAI
Featurespace
Ghost Locomotion
Grabango
Graphcore
H2O.ai
HACARUS
Healthy.io
Heuritech
HoloMatic
Hugging Face
HyperScience
InstaDeep
Integrate.ai
Invenia
iSee
Kneron
KONUX
Korbit
Kyndi
Lemonade
Lexion
Lightmatter
Loadsmart
Mapillary
Metawave
NavVis
Nnaisense
Noodle.ai
NotCo
Obsidian Security
Onfido
Osaro
OWKIN
PAIGE.AI
PerceptiLabs
Primer
ProteinQure
Razor Labs
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Replica
Second Spectrum
SentinelOne
Sherpa
Shield AI
Snyk
SparkCognition
Squirrel AI Learning
Standard Cognition
Subtle Medical
Synapse Technology
Synthesia Technologies
Syntiant
Tachyus
The Yes
Tractable
TuSimple
Viz.ai
Voyage Auto
WellSaid Labs
Xanadu
Zebra Medical Vision
Zesty.ai
Zhuiyi Technology
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ABOUT DATAPROPHET
DataProphet is a leader in AI that enables manufacturers to step towards autonomous manufacturing. Our AI-as-a-service proactively prescribes changes to plant control plans to continuously optimize production without the expert human analysis that is typically required. As recognized by the World Economic Forum, DataProphet PRESCRIBE has helped customers around the world experience a significant and practical impact on the factory floor, reducing the cost of non-quality by an average of 40 percent. We understand manufacturing and that real impact is achieved with pre-emptive actions because real-time is often too late. www.dataprophet.com