NGA Accelerator Announces Participant Startups for Second Cohort
Eight startups from across the nation were selected to participate in the second cohort of the NGA Accelerator in St. Louis.
The NGA Accelerator Powered by Capital Innovators recently selected eight companies from more than 208 applicants to participate in the second cohort of its geospatial accelerator program. The St. Louis-based accelerator will launch on September 28, 2021, and is enabled through a Partnership Intermediary Agreement between the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). NGA’s Moonshot Labs will host the accelerator cohort for in person collaboration and events.
The 13-week accelerator is managed by Capital Innovators and sources technology from startups to help solve geospatial challenges that focus on government and industry opportunities in four core areas: data management; advanced analytics and modeling; data integrity and security; and artificial intelligence.
“The accelerator is one of the ways NGA is pursuing open and unclassified innovation in the greater St. Louis region,” said Josh White, NGA’s lead problem owner for the second cohort. “It provides NGA analysts with an opportunity to work with small businesses and startups to discover solutions that can directly impact our challenges.”
“Following the success of the inaugural cohort, we’re excited to launch a second cohort to introduce eight additional companies to St. Louis’s rapidly growing geospatial sector,” said Jack Scatizzi, Executive Director of MTC. “The success of St. Louis’s geospatial sector will continue to positively impact the economic development outcomes for the entire state.”
The eight startups selected for the second cohort are:
AirWorks | Boston, MA | airworks.io
AirWorks builds artificial intelligence-powered software for architecture, engineering and construction professionals to autonomously analyze aerial and remote sensing data. With AirWorks’ patented algorithms and web application customers can automatically generate engineering project plans, start projects 2 months earlier and dramatically reduce project risk at 80% lower cost.
Cambrio | Sudbury, MA | cambr.io
Cambrio builds powerful dataflow automation for domains where expert analysis is required but the complexity of the data exceeds human ability to integrate and analyze at scale, as in: geospatial, healthcare, and life sciences. Using Cambrio's technology, domain experts compose code and data assets into dataflows at 100X the speed and scale of a typical data pipeline.
CITYDATA.ai | San Francisco, CA | citydata.ai
CITYDATA.ai is a govtech company that provides mobility intelligence for smarter cities and real-world businesses. They crowdsource mobility data for 1580 cities worldwide and apply machine learning to simulate the density and movement patterns of people. Their CITYDASH.ai and CITYCHAT.ai products are actively used by local government agencies, enterprise businesses and research organizations.
Cognitive Space | Houston, TX | cognitivespace.com
Cognitive Space helps organizations fly their satellites – by revolutionizing satellite operations with the power of artificial intelligence for mission operations, collections planning, and communications link coordination - dramatically improving the way Earth is monitored for economic, environmental, and national security understanding.
Omniscient Labs | Stanford, CA | omniscientlabs.io
Omniscient Labs is building automated satellite and aerial imagery analytics capabilities using computer vision to enable persistent monitoring of areas of interest for defense and commercial markets. Its geospatial analytics platform fuses this data with user-provided and third-party datasets for easy integration with users' existing software, helping them monitor status, visualize trends, and achieve enhanced situational awareness.
PixElement | Columbus, OH | pixelement.com
PixElement builds accurate and precise 3D models of the world from imagery. Whether from drones, aircraft, or satellites, PixElement captures 3D reality to enable data driven solutions for industry and defense.
Simerse | St. Louis, MO | simerse.com
Simerse helps companies and organizations in agriculture, logistics, sensing, retail, and automotive enhance their artificial intelligence models by generating synthetic data.
Vidrovr | New York, NY | vidrovr.com
Vidrovr enables actionable insights and awareness through multimedia understanding. Using state of the art artificial intelligence video, images and audio data can be monitored, analyzed, and acted on.