Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is the pioneer in Emotion AI, the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Affectiva's mission is to bring emotional intelligence to the digital world with our emotion recognition technology that senses and analyzes facial expressions and emotion. Our patented software is built on an emotion AI science platform that uses computer vision, deep learning and the world's largest emotion data repository of more than 4.9 million faces analyzed from 75 countries, amounting to more than 50 billion emotion data points. Affectiva's SDKs and APIs enable developers to add emotion-sensing and analytics to their own mobile apps, games, devices, applications and digital experiences. Affectiva is also used by more than 1,400 brands, like Kellogg's, MARS and CBS to gather insight and analytics in consumer emotional engagement.

DUST Identity is the creator of the Diamond Unclonable Security Tag (DUST), a technology utilizing microscopic engineered diamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object. DUST Identity is the only supply-chain solution that ensures that trusted data and verifiable products are used and traced across their full lifecycle. DUST Identity, established in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, was created by a team of quantum physics, nanotechnology, and cyber experts. The company is an MIT spinoff, participated in several DARPA programs and is backed by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Airbus Ventures, New Science Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Castle Island Ventures.