AkroStar Funding, Investors & Competitors

Unity Software Inc provides a software platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The platform can be used to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The business is spread across the United States, Greater China, EMEA, APAC, and other Americas, and key revenue is derived from the EMEA region. Its products are used in the gaming industry, retail, automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction.

Machxin Technology is a semiconductor company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2026. The company designs integrated circuit chips and the software platforms that run on them. Its products are built around custom dynamic dataflow architectures aimed at AI workloads and edge-computing applications. The company targets automotive-grade inference hardware, matching chip layout to algorithms to improve scaling efficiency for transportation and other commercial uses. Revenue is expected to come from chip sales and related technical services.

SmartMore is a Shenzhen-based industrial artificial-intelligence company that applies computer vision and large models to manufacturing and inspection workflows. Its portfolio includes SMore ViMo, machine-vision systems and IndustryGPT, which combines industrial knowledge, multimodal interaction and automated model training. The business sells to manufacturers in electronics, automotive, precision engineering and other quality-sensitive industries that need repeatable visual inspection and production intelligence. Revenue is generated from enterprise software, deployed systems, hardware integration and related implementation services rather than a consumer advertising model. HKIC’s announcement said SmartMore had served almost 300 global customers and identified Apple, Carl Zeiss, Tesla and BYD among its customer base. The HKIC partnership supports an AI research institute, computing capacity and commercial deployment in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.

proteanTecs is an Israel-headquartered semiconductor firm offering chip telemetry platforms for health monitoring. Its Agent technology embeds sensors in SoCs to track aging, performance degradation, and defects from design through field deployment. The company's software applies machine learning to telemetry data for anomaly detection and yield improvement, serving hyperscalers and automotive chipmakers. proteanTecs partners with TSMC and Intel foundries to integrate its solutions into 5nm and advanced nodes, enabling traceability across the electronics supply chain.

Auradine is a Silicon Valley-based hardware company founded in 2022 that develops energy-efficient chips, software, and cloud systems for blockchain and AI infrastructure. Its core products include the Teraflux family of Bitcoin ASIC miners, used in data centers run by more than 40 Bitcoin mining companies, and networking equipment built around open standards such as Ultra Accelerator Link and Ultra Ethernet Link. Through its AuraLinks AI unit, the company also builds high-bandwidth networking hardware for AI data centers.

Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with compelling content multiple operating systems, devices, and media. The company operates with three segments: digital media content creation, digital experience for marketing solutions, and publishing for legacy products (less than 5% of revenue).

Synopsys is a technology company supplying engineering software and semiconductor intellectual property to companies designing chips and electronic systems. Its electronic design automation tools support the design, verification and implementation of integrated circuits. The company also provides reusable semiconductor IP, including interface, analog, embedded memory and other functional building blocks that customers incorporate into their own chips. Its customers are commercial engineering and product-development organisations across semiconductor and other technology markets. Revenue comes from licensing software and intellectual property and providing associated support, training and engineering services. Its portfolio also includes simulation and analysis technologies used to assess engineering designs and system behaviour. The business combines internally developed technologies with acquired capabilities, including the embedded memory and logic library portfolio obtained through its acquisition of Virage Logic in 2010.

Founded in 1982, Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for pioneering computer-aided design, or CAD, with its AutoCAD product. Nowadays, Autodesk provides design software for a variety of verticals, including architecture & construction, manufacturing, and media & entertainment. Autodesk products have been used in some of the world's most iconic landmarks, like Burj Khalifa, and well-known movie titles like Avatar.

Canva is a Sydney-headquartered graphic design platform offering drag-and-drop tools for creating presentations, social media posts, posters, and invitations. Users access millions of templates, stock photos, icons, and fonts from its library. Launched in 2013, Canva serves teams at organizations like Coca-Cola and HubSpot through free and Pro subscriptions, with enterprise features for brand kits and collaboration.

PTC is a US-based global company that offers high-end computer-assisted design, product lifecycle management, and augmented reality solutions that industrial manufacturers commonly use on factory floors. Founded in 1985, PTC is a major player in parametric design and serves some of the world’s most well-known equipment manufacturers, such as Caterpillar, Garmin, and Thermo Fisher.

Webflow is a San Francisco-headquartered visual development platform, CMS, and hosting service for creating responsive websites without coding. Designers use its drag-and-drop interface to build production-ready sites that generate semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Webflow supports e-commerce via integrations with Shopify and enables animations, interactions, and custom code exports. The platform powers sites for freelancers, agencies, and brands including Dell and Zendesk through its cloud hosting infrastructure.

Lucid Software is a visual collaboration suite headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, founded in 2010. Lucidchart enables intelligent diagramming for flowcharts, org charts, and process maps used by teams at Google, GE, and 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies across 180 countries. Lucidspark facilitates virtual whiteboarding for ideation and brainstorming. Partnerships with Google Workspace, Atlassian, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Amazon Web Services integrate the tools into enterprise workflows. The platform supports over 30 million users worldwide.

Framer is a no-code website builder empowering designers to create responsive sites via visual canvas editing. Features encompass animations, CMS collections, SEO tools, and e-commerce through Frameshop integration. San Francisco-headquartered since evolving from prototyping software in 2013, it hosts a marketplace of 5,000 templates and plugins syncing with Notion and Airtable for agencies building portfolios and landing pages.

SemiDrive is a Nanjing-based developer of automotive processors for ADAS, autonomous driving, and smart cockpits. Its X9H series supports L2+ autonomy with 8-core ARM Cortex-A and NPU delivering 4 TOPS, manufactured on SMIC 16nm. The company supplies chips to Chinese OEMs like Great Wall Motor and BYD for domain controllers.

Lightricks is a privately held creative-technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It develops artificial-intelligence models and software for generating and editing images and video. Its products include the Facetune, Photoleap and Videoleap consumer applications, the LTX Studio visual-storytelling platform and the LTX family of generative-video models. The company also serves brands and agencies through creator-marketing capabilities acquired with Popular Pays. Consumers pay recurring subscriptions for mobile creative tools, while business customers use software, application programming interfaces and campaign services to produce and distribute visual content. Lightricks combines internal machine-learning research with product development for creators, studios and enterprise marketing teams. It has expanded internationally while retaining major research and operating functions in Jerusalem. Investors include Qumra Capital, Insight Partners, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Hanaco Venture Capital and Viola Ventures.

Picsart is the largest all-in-one digital creation platform for photo and video editing. Miami-headquartered with offices worldwide, Picsart provides AI tools for design, drawing, and content sharing via mobile apps and web interfaces. The platform maintains an extensive open-source library of stickers, templates, backgrounds, and effects. Businesses access image processing through APIs and SDKs for marketing and content production. Picsart serves consumers, creators, and enterprises across personal and professional workflows.