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Greenlabs is a Seoul-based agritech firm offering a digital platform for farm management. Founded in 2017, the service analyzes environmental data to recommend crop varieties and automates IoT devices for optimal growth conditions. Greenlabs connects Korean farmers to sales channels and integrated services maximizing yields in rice, vegetables, and fruits.

Verkada is a San Mateo-headquartered developer of cloud-managed physical security systems. The platform unifies video cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, and intercoms in a single dashboard. Verkada serves enterprises in retail, education, and healthcare with AI features for object detection and analytics. Founded in 2016, it powers over 20,000 organizations worldwide including universities and Fortune 500 companies.

Distynct is an AgTech company delivering precision livestock farming solutions for remote monitoring of swine production facilities. The platform provides real-time data on animal health and facility conditions. Ames-based in Iowa, Distynct targets U.S. pork producers with sensor-based technologies.

eFishery is a Jakarta-based aquaculture technology provider founded in 2013 that equips fish and shrimp farmers with smart feeding systems, IoT sensors, and cloud-based analytics platforms. Its eFeeder devices automate feeding schedules across Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, serving more than 100,000 ponds. The company achieved unicorn status in 2023 after raising $137 million in Series D funding from investors including SoftBank. eFishery delivers financing, insurance, and supply chain services through its full-stack ecosystem, enhancing yields by up to 30 percent while minimizing feed waste in Southeast Asia's $20 billion aquaculture market.

Infarm is a Berlin-headquartered urban farming company deploying modular vertical farms in supermarkets and cities. Founded in 2013, it grows herbs, leafy greens, and strawberries using IoT-controlled hydroponics and machine learning for optimal yields. Infarm partners with chains like Metro and Carrefour, supplying fresh produce in Germany, France, and the United States.

Semios is a Vancouver-headquartered precision agriculture platform for orchard and vineyard growers. It deploys in-field wireless sensor networks, automated pest monitoring traps, and variable-rate biopesticide sprayers. The system delivers real-time data on crop health, irrigation, and pest pressure via a cloud dashboard. Founded in 2010, Semios serves over 1,000 farms across North America and Chile reducing water use by 20 percent and pesticide applications.

ZaiNar is a U.S.-based location tracking technology firm utilizing passive radio signals from cellphones, IoT devices, and chipless RFID tags. Its platform achieves sub-meter accuracy over 200-meter ranges for real-time asset monitoring in logistics, manufacturing, and security applications, outperforming GPS in scalability and cost.

Tractian develops technology for industrial maintenance and equipment monitoring. Its offering combines sensors, software and artificial intelligence to help manufacturers detect developing equipment problems and organize maintenance work. Customers use condition-monitoring data and maintenance management tools to assess machine performance, prioritize interventions and reduce unplanned production interruptions. The company serves asset-intensive industrial businesses and supports maintenance teams responsible for machinery and plant reliability. Its products bring together information from connected equipment with operational workflows used by technicians and managers. Tractian also publishes technical content and has invested in education businesses serving maintenance professionals. The company was founded in 2019 and operates from Atlanta, with activities in Brazil and Mexico. Its commercial model combines industrial technology with software and services that support continuing use of the monitoring and maintenance platform.

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.

Tive is a Boston-headquartered supply chain visibility provider offering real-time tracking with Bluetooth and cellular sensors. Companies such as Maersk and Pfizer use Tive's platform to monitor shipments across ocean, air, and ground transport, ensuring temperature control for pharmaceuticals and compliance with FDA regulations.

Following Johnson Controls’ divestiture of its residential and light commercial HVAC businesses to Bosch in 2025, nearly all of its revenue comes from commercial HVAC (60%) and fire and security products and services (40%). A 2016 merger joined Johnson Controls’ HVAC and Tyco’s fire and security businesses with the premise that there is synergy in offering a broader variety of automation products and solutions to commercial buildings. We estimate Johnson Controls’ pro forma revenue mix will be one-third products, one-third installation, and one-third services.

Samsara Inc provides an end-to-end solution for operations. The company's Connected Operations Platform consolidates data from its IoT devices and a growing ecosystem of connected assets and third-party systems, and makes it easy for organizations to access, analyze, and act on data insights using its cloud dashboard, custom alerts and reports, mobile apps, and workflows.. The company derives almost all of its revenue from subscription services. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States. The company's customers ranges from small and medium-sized businesses to state and local governments.

Advantech is the world’s largest supplier of industrial personal computers and a leading provider of embedded boards. The company serves a wide spectrum of downstream sectors, including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, transportation, and energy and environment. Headquartered in Taiwan, Advantech operates manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, mainland China, and Japan.

Halter is a New Zealand-based agtech company producing solar-powered GPS collars for cattle and sheep. The virtual fencing system delivers audio cues and mild pulses to contain livestock within pastures while tracking health metrics and water usage via cloud dashboard. Deployed on over one million animals, Halter serves dairy and beef farmers in Australia and North America.

Amphenol is a global supplier of connectors, sensors, and interconnect systems. It holds the second-largest connector market share globally and sells into the automotive, broadband, commercial air, industrial, IT and data communications, military, mobile devices, and mobile networks end markets. Amphenol is diversified geographically, with operations in 40 countries.

Lumentum Holdings Inc is a California-based technology firm. The company provides two types of optical and photonic products: optical components that are used in telecommunications networking equipment, and commercial lasers for manufacturing, inspection, and life-science lab uses. Its segments are Optical Communications and Commercial Lasers. The firm is also expanding into new optical applications, such as 3-D sensing laser diode for consumer electronics. It generates maximum revenue from the OpComms segment. The OpComms segment products include a wide range of components, modules, and subsystems to support customers including carrier networks for access (local), metro (intracity), long-haul, and submarine (undersea) applications.

Honeywell traces its roots to 1885 with Albert Butz’s firm, Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator, which produced a predecessor to the modern thermostat. Other inventions by Honeywell include biodegradable detergent and autopilot. Today, Honeywell is a global multi-industry behemoth with one of the largest installed bases of equipment. It operates through four business segments: aerospace technologies, industrial automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and building automation. Recently, Honeywell has made several portfolio changes to focus on fewer end markets and align with a set of secular growth trends. The firm is working diligently to expand its installed base, deriving around one third of its revenue from recurring aftermarket services.

Founded in 1935, TDK has its origin in magnetic materials, being the first company to commercialize ferrite in the world, and it used to be known as one of the major cassette-tape manufacturers. TDK is now the only external supplier for magnetic recording heads for hard disk drives, and the company intends to expand its magnetic sensor business for handsets and automobiles by leveraging its expertise. It is also one of the global top suppliers of passive components for autos and polymer rechargeable batteries for smartphones. The company acquired InvenSense in 2017, making it third largest MEMS sensor company in the world.