Horizon Ventures
- PerfectDay - Instead of plants→cow→milk, go straight from plants→milk
- Evolv - Do multivariate (ABCDEFG) instead of binary (AB) testing
- Slice - Platform for insurers to offer app-first, on-demand, instant insurance
- Divergent - Instead of giant car factories, decentralise car making by printing
- SoulMachines - After chat bots. next up are digital humans
- Windward - Maritime risk analytics (eg. is that ship carrying junk plastic?)
- TIPA - Compostable: feels like plastic, looks like plastic but is not plastic
- Corephotonics - Multi-aperture phone camera optics and processing
- Cortica - Use AI to output insights from cameras instead of gigs of footage
- Boabab - Producer of animated, immersive movies sample
Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2019 via sample
- Verkada - Easy-to-use, enterprise security cameras
- NEXT - Uber for goods transport (shippers, fleets, owner-operated trucks)
- FourKites - Supply chain (ship, rail, truck, rail, lastmile) information system
- Faire - Wholesaler for mom-and-pop stores, accepts returns of unsold goods
- CyberReason - Infosec cyber security company of the year 2019
- ChainAnalysis - KYT (know your transaction) for cryptocurrencies
- Proxy - Phone-based, bluetooth acccess system (no passwords, no scans)
Footnotes
- Horizon Ventures' portfolio leans towards early stage, cutting edge
- Forbes' picks are later stage, with traction towards $1B valuation
- Proxy uses tokens for authentication thus no user id is recorded at the edge
- It could be using physical characteristics (walking speed etc) in lieu of scans
- Thus if user and phone are together, access is auto and seamlessly granted