Name: Startup Showcase
Start: 2019-12-09T09:00:00-0600
End: 2019-12-09T12:15:00-0600

Startup Showcase

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Like our past conferences, this event includes a Startup Showcase session with pitches from analytics, AI, machine learning, and other emerging data technology startups focused in Food, Ag, Sustainability and Supply Chain. Each startup gets six minutes to pitch followed by a Q&A with the audience. Investors, corporate execs, and data professionals will be in attendance.

Session Chair: Graeme Thickins (graeme@minneanalytics.org)

Startups

Big Wheelbarrow

An enterprise software solution helping food companies and food retailers meet the megatrend demand for local food. Solves a fundamental challenge that has prevented the food grown on 475 million small farms in the world from getting into local supply chains.

ConverSight.ai

Provides business insights through natural interaction and voice. Platform creates and aggregates actionable data to help business leaders make informed decisions without having to manually create reports. Solutions for sales, product/inventory, warehousing, supply chain.

General Probiotics

Develops innovative cellbots that eliminate harmful pathogens in livestock. Its precisely engineered cellbots combine artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Farmers now urgently need new antimicrobials to raise healthy livestock and to produce safe food.

ImagoAI

Helps food processing companies improve operational efficiency and reduce product recall risk through automated food analysis utilizing state-of-the-art imagery solutions and proprietary AI technologies. Identifies and locates contamination of food at production-line speeds.

Insight Sensing Corporation

Provides calibrated, timely, map-based, actionable information for agronomists to optimally apply fertilizer and maximize profitability. Focused on data-driven solutions, not on selling sensors, images, or analytics that don’t have a meaningful return for on-farm decision makin... Read More →

Nexyst 360

Mobile solution for crop storage and transportation that provides full traceability back to the field of origin using a NexBox, a "smart box" that crops are loaded into at harvest and stay in until they reach their final destination. Reduces handling and provides an accurate, historical... Read More →

Otrafy

Simplifies regulatory and certification compliance for food companies with quality management software that automates the collection and transfer of that data. Its vision is to be the source of truth for real-time food history and safety information.

Poultry Patrol

A robotics company to service the poultry production industry, providing solutions for deceased bird detection, bed tilling, increased bird movement, welfare quantification, and improved biosecurity. Its mission is to innovate the industry for the next generation of farmers by protecting... Read More →

Retail Data Trust

Helps brands and retailers contact consumers to save lives in the event of a product recall. Current food safety programs cannot manage the 225% growth in recalls over the past 10 years. RDT’s point of sale and blockchain technology is the critical link for all food supply chains... Read More →

Spoonshot

A B2B intelligence company specifically focusing on the food and beverage market, initially in North America. It empowers those responsible for product development to identify food trends early and ideate using our predictive intelligence platform, helping to invent the future of... Read More →

Spruik Technologies

Provides expert, one-stop smart factory consulting and technology implementation, delivered through a fresh, nimble, and vendor-agnostic business model that defies the slow and traditional to move manufacturing at digital speed. Dedicated to the adoption of low-code and open source... Read More →

Monday December 9, 2019 9:00am - 12:15pm CST
Xenon Room (Floor 6) Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55102

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