Intel Capital announces $38 Million new investment including virtual reality
Intel Capital announced investments totaling more than $38 million in 12 technology startups, including advanced audio for 360-degree virtual reality systems, and cloud-based virtual reality solutions for retail.
“Innovation is exploding as the world transforms into an increasingly smart and connected place, where billions of devices will be made even smarter by intelligence in the cloud,” said Wendell Brooks, Intel senior vice president and president of Intel Capital. “We’re excited to team with these visionary entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies to transform lives and industries.”
Here are the 12 startups that Intel Capital invested:
Virtual Reality
Dysonics (San Francisco, California, U.S.) delivers patented technologies that yield lifelike 360-degree sound experiences over headphones.
InContext Solutions (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) develops scalable, cloud-based virtual reality solutions for retail that help brands visualize new concepts and better understand shopper behavior.
Autonomous Machines
Chronocam (Paris, France) develops innovative computer vision sensors and systems for a variety of applications in autonomous navigation and connected objects.
Embodied (Pasadena, California, U.S.) is developing state-of-the-art products that aim to revolutionize robotics.
Perrone Robotics (Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.) provides software and solutions that make it easier to build robust mobile autonomous robotics applications.
Data and Connectivity
Eazytec (Jiangsu, China) is a smart city developer and service provider with proprietary core firmware (BIOS) technology.
Grand Chip Microelectronics (aka Kangxi Communication Technologies) (Shanghai, China) deliveres high-performance, high-linearity and highly integrated Wi-Fi front-end devices for WLAN infrastructure, wireless connectivity on cellular platforms and the Internet of Things.
Paxata (Redwood City, California, U.S.) develops enterprise-grade, self-service business information platform that helps business analysts, data engineers and data scientists to instantaneously transform raw data to information ready for business analysis with accuracy and efficiency.
StealthMine (Sunnyvale, California, U.S.) provides full data insulation against server, network, storage, database attacks and insider compromises.
Sports and Health
CubeWorks (Ann Harbor, Michigan, U.S.) delivers next generation in millimeter-scale computing which enables autonomous wireless sensing platform measuring less than a millimeter.
Kinduct (Halifax, Canada) provides cloud-based data and analytics software for sport organizations, military and public safety units, physical medicine clinics, and health and wellness institutions.
K4Connect (Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.) creates solutions that serve older adults and individuals living with disabilities by integrating the latest smart technologies and applications into a single responsive system.
