Optoro is using innovative technology to solve a large, and growing, global problem. Every year, over 15% of inventory is returned or deemed excess, costing retailers $500 billion nationwide. Optoro?s software platform helps retailers optimize the management of returned and excess inventory in a more efficient and cost-effective way, maximizing recovery value, enabling consumers to get great deals, and reducing environmental waste. Working with some of the largest retailers in the US, Optoro?s software platform has enabled its clients to maximize recovery costs by 50 - 200%. Founded in 2010, Optoro has been named one of the fastest growing companies in the US. Optoro has also received many awards and accolades, including CNBC?s Disruptor 50, EY?s Entrepreneur of the Year and the World Economic Forum?s Circular Economy Award, Most recently, Optoro was named a "Top Workplace"? in DC by The Washington Post.

Figure Eight Federal’s Human-in-the-Loop platform is the most widely used AI/ML technology in the US Federal Government. We transform text, image, audio, video, and sensor data into high-quality training data for a wide range of machine learning use cases, including autonomous vehicles, object identification, NLP, search relevance, and more.