Stanford Emergence Entrepreneurs
2025 Accelerator Cohort
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In the face of record-high staffing shortages and unprecedented overcrowding in ERs nationwide, patient care and clinical efficiency are compromised right from entry. These challenges lead to critical information gaps, stemming from rushed, inadequate triage processes, prolonged wait times during which patients remain unmonitored and unattended, and discharge delays. Vita Innovations provides an integrated care automation platform for ERs, delivering operational intelligence to streamline patient data intake at triage, reduce discharge delays, and enhance clinical efficiency through seamless care coordination.
Achievements:
*Signed beta pilot agreements with NYP's Emergency Department for a 385-patient trial as well as another clinic.
*Created a unique agent-based architecture and benchmarking metrics specific to emergency care/clinical reasoning, to ensure the model performs best-in-class on every emergency-care related task
*Attracted interest from hospitals in different countries, including Canada, Europe, Australia, and Singapore.
*Built a strong network and pipeline of emergency department leaders/hospitals.
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SignUp Media is making sign language ubiquitous—starting with premium, human-driven interpretation for film and television, and building toward AI-powered translation that brings accessible communication to entertainment, education, healthcare, and beyond for the 465M Deaf people worldwide.
Achievements:
*Reached 25,000 weekly active users across the U.S., U.K., and India.
*Secured a $300K contract to deliver 200 hours of sign language content for Netflix.
*Built a global network of 100+ Deaf interpreters and delivered 350+ hours of interpreted film and television content.
*India launch generated 7M+ social media interactions and 60,000 downloads in 48 hours.
*Forbes 30U30.
*Received the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) ‘Accessible Media Award for Outstanding Efforts in Media Accessibility.
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Penguin Health automates compliance and admin workflows for Medicaid behavioral health and safety-net providers to allow teams to spend more time on care.
Achievements:
*Won the $110K Stanford Impact Founder Fellowship, which provided funding to build Penguin Health full-time over the past year.
*Secured two provider pilot partners and co-designed the product alongside Medicaid behavioral health teams.
*Formed a partnership with a New York IPA to serve as the official AI partner for its behavioral health provider network.
*Built a pipeline of five providers slated for onboarding as product development continues.
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NutriLink is an AI-powered platform transforming how healthcare addresses food insecurity, a critical social determinant of health. Seamlessly integrating with electronic medical records (EMRs), NutriLink identifies at-risk patients and connects them with localized food resources and assistance programs in real time through a closed-loop referral process. By bridging the gap between clinical care and vital community resources, NutriLink improves patient outcomes, reduces healthcare costs, and advances health equity at scale, it improves patient outcomes, reduces healthcare costs, and advances health equity at scale.
Achievements:
*Revised business plan/ pitch deck with updated numbers, target audience, and problem modification from only the patient to both the patient and providers.
*Secured a tech coder to start MVP for summer 2025.
*Developed new contacts for industry knowledge, including potential health system partners!
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Equipoise is a smartphone app that improves how you walk through real-time monitoring, feedback and personalized exercise prescription c) Gait stability declines after age 50, contributing to falls in 30% of adults over 65, resulting in $80 billion in healthcare costs. Traditional physical therapy can be inconvenient and inaccessible, but Equipoise, a smartphone app, measures gait asymmetries and offers real-time audio and visual feedback as well as personalized exercise prescription. Users can improve walking stability and confidence through training sessions, progress tracking, and goal-setting from home, promoting healthier aging.
Achievements:
*Completed feasibility pilot study.
*Built a cross-functional team.
*Secured pilot sites and research collaborators.
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DART-Met is building a new category of diagnostics that can detect biological stress and disease earlier than conventional testing. Current blood tests often miss subtle changes until significant damage has already occurred, leaving millions of patients undiagnosed or identified too late for effective intervention.
Our platform combines advanced opto-electronic sensing and AI to measure how biological systems respond to controlled stimuli, revealing disease signals that remain invisible to traditional diagnostic approaches. By turning biological responses into measurable data, DART-Met aims to enable earlier detection, better patient stratification, and more effective monitoring across liver disease, drug toxicity, and other chronic conditions.
Long term, we believe this approach can become a foundational platform for understanding human health through dynamic biological response patterns, creating new opportunities across diagnostics, clinical care, and drug development.
Achievements:
* Filed a PCT patent application through Stanford OTL covering the core dynamic electrochemical-Raman sensing platform and adaptive AI optimization framework.
* Developed GAIRA, a generative biochemical reasoning framework for Raman spectroscopic data that moves beyond traditional peak-matching approaches toward biochemical state interpretation.
* Achieved early clinical feasibility data on retrospective patient serum samples demonstrating the platform’s ability to distinguish liver disease-associated biochemical signatures.
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DropSense closes the nitrogen management gap to secure cleaner water. DropSense's innovative platform simultaneously detects key nitrogen pollutants (ammonium, nitrate, and nitrous oxide), and transforms the data into proactive, actionable insights for ensuring water pollution and emission compliance, while delivering unmatched accuracy with minimal labor input. Hydrosun Technologies is combining the power of voluntary carbon markets (VCM) with purpose-built renewable technologies to serve clean water to millions in need.
Achievements:
*Secured a research grant that will cover the project until early 2027
* Unlocked the project's potential as a platform for proactive environment and resource management.
*Uncovered critical information (market segmentation, procurement cycle, market sizing, regulatory landscape) for wastewater treatment as one of our beachhead market options.
*Secured collaborations with strategic partners in the wastewater treatment sector
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LacTrax is a subcutaneous sensor that monitors lactate levels in the interstitial fluid of postoperative pediatric patients, a key biomarker for low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS). LCOS, a common complication following heart surgery, can lead to severe health issues such as organ failure if undiagnosed. By providing real-time data, LacTrax supports early diagnosis and management, aiming to improve outcomes and reduce complications in vulnerable pediatric populations.
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Fill Health brings board-certified wellness coaching to K–12 students to tackle the youth mental health crisis at scale. c) Founded by former educators and happiness researchers turned Stanford MBAs, Fill Health delivers research-backed, stigma-free coaching that empowers students to meet their wellbeing goals. Our AI-powered telehealth platform ensures every student—regardless of location or income—can access tailored support rooted in the science of happiness, health, and habits.
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Journify Learning is the AI assistant for special education that maximizes the efficiency and effectiveness of every special educator. It saves teachers time, drives student outcomes through evidence-based practices, and strengthens district compliance with centralized data tracking and reporting.
Started by a team from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Journify is now used by districts across California, Colorado, Washington, and Wisconsin—supporting over 7,000 IEP goals for 1,600+ students. Teachers report saving 50% of their time and rate the quality of instructional supports at 9.5/10.
Certified by Digital Promise as a Responsibly Designed AI solution, Journify supports the full special education lifecycle across three key dimensions: compliance, student outcomes through evidence-based practices, and staff efficiency & satisfaction.
Achievements:
*Built and scaled Journify Learning into an evidence-based AI assistant for special education now supporting 10,000+ students across 15+ U.S. states, helping special education teams save significant administrative time while improving instructional support and progress monitoring.
*Raised over $3.7M from leading education and impact-focused investors including Reach Capital, Ulu Ventures, and NewSchools Venture Fund to accelerate responsible AI innovation in K-12 special education.
*Earned national recognition through multiple major education and AI awards, including winning the K-12 track at the ASU+GSV Cup 50 and the Cambiar Education Buy, Try, Revise Competition, while also receiving Digital Promise certifications for Research-Based Design (ESSA Tier 4) and Responsibly Designed AI.
2024 Accelerator Cohort
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Allswell is the AI-driven, scalable, insurance-covered mental health platform built for LGBTQ+ patients. We combine community, trauma-informed care, and AI to deliver better outcomes.
Achievements:
*Raised a $1.3M pre-seed round.
*Completed a clinical pilot in California, where 90% of participants showed reduced depression symptoms.
*Expanded our footprint across Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, where we are in-network with Medicaid and major commercial insurers (e.g., CareFirst, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and Cigna Evernorth).
*Reached $1M ARR one year after launching as an in-network provider.
*Delivered excellent clinical outcomes, including an 82+ NPS, 90% month-over-month retention, and 79% improvement in PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores.
*Built a PC/MSO structure that enables us to deliver and scale care across all 50 states.
*Graduated from Techstars Healthcare in Washington, D.C., powered by Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States.
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Avanza Education is a tech-enabled social impact venture that transforms college access for undocumented students. Undocumented individuals face unique financial, legal, and sociocultural barriers to higher education, resulting in only five percent of undocumented students graduating from college. Avanza tackles this problem by delivering a virtual, cohort-based college-access advising curriculum that is family-focused, research-backed, and specifically tailored to the needs of undocumented students. Our holistic approach equips students to pursue affordable higher education and break intergenerational cycles of poverty and precarity.
Achievements:
*Determined legal structure.
*Expanded network tenfold.
*Developed one of Avanza's products, a curriculum for college financial literacy.
*Developed website.
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Beaker provides a SaaS platform that uses brands’ data to produce transparent and compliant sustainability reporting on the company or product level. Beaker’s platform helps brands create digital product passports, which show individual products’ footprints and are being mandated in the EU by 2030, as well as impact reports or marketing materials for public consumption or certification applications (like B Corp). Beaker began as a popular consumer tool to help shoppers identify brand sustainability but has since found the most value in providing its rating/footprinting services to businesses.
Achievements:
*In launching our original consumer sustainability tool, we have received over 80 thousand searches (with >30% MoM growth) in about 3 months.
*Our consumer tool’s organic popularity brought us an inbound LOI for using our brand/product rating services.
*After pivoting to a B2B business model, we were able to close 4 LOIs within 1 month.
*Participated in Cardinal Ventures Accelerator, StartX Student-in-Residence Fellowship.
2023 Accelerator Cohort
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Frontdoor is an end-to-end application and recertification tool for SNAP (i.e. food stamps). We make it simple and easy for low-income families to access food assistance and unlock billions in unclaimed revenue for grocers and EBT retailers.
Achievements:
*Awarded the Stanford Impact Founder Fellowship (SIF), which provides $110,000 in funding along with advising support to Fellows who are starting a high-impact for-profit or nonprofit venture to address a pressing social or environmental need.
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MedHug is making medications more affordable and accessible by helping healthcare providers easily navigate prescription coverage. MedHug's innovative approach assists healthcare professionals in swiftly identifying and prescribing the most cost-effective medication options. The MedHug platform ensures that patients receive optimal care without the burden of high medication costs.
Achievements:
*Adopted as a daily practice tool in ~50 clinics nationwide, including major medical centers such as Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, and Stanford.
*Successfully deployed across a diverse range of settings, from leading institutions to rural clinics spanning Maine to Hawaii.
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FoundHer is a digital marketplace that connects unemployed women in India to workplaces where they will thrive. FoundHer incorporates the overlooked and sidelined skills and work needs of women into the match process, and using AI & ML, facilitates efficient job search and talent acquisition using exclusive data points.
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BloomBox Design Labs is dedicated to improving access to high quality education and sustainable energy for the next generations of scientists, innovators, and creative problem solvers, no matter who they are or where they come from, by engaging deeply with seemingly impossible challenges, and relentlessly innovating across disciplines to solve them.
Achievements:
*Full patent status of retractable solar roof system in 4 countries.
*Built and launched SuperBloom global knowledge network app.
*Invited to become official Starlink partner.
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Redefining power infrastructure resilience and efficiency with AI and high-speed magnetic sensing.
Magnefy is building the “ECG for power infrastructure” — an AI-driven predictive monitoring platform for critical power assets like transformers and inverters. Using breakthrough high-speed magnetic sensing and edge intelligence technology developed at Stanford, Magnefy helps operators detect electrical failures and power quality anomalies months before outages with high accuracy, minimal false positives, and significantly lower cost than traditional solutions — maximizing operational efficiency and energy resiliency.
Achievements:
*Integrated and validated Magnefy’s commercial IoT and AI-powered predictive monitoring platform prototypes.
*Secured a ~$50k paid pilot pipeline and commitments for 7 monitoring unit deployments planned for Q3.
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Flex Therapeutics: Flex Therapeutics is a Stanford spin-out leveraging advanced computational technologies to develop safer, more accessible medicines for blockbuster indications. Our innovative platform designs highly precise and selective small molecules targeting cryptic pockets and specific protein states, aimed at reducing side effects or providing alternatives to costly antibody therapies. Our lead program targets chronic pain and migraine, building on a cryptic pocket and lead molecule discovered by our team at Stanford and recently published in Nature.
Achievements:
*Recent discoveries by our team highlighted in Nature publication (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08618-7): covered by numerous news articles including upcoming article from National Geographic and by Stanford News (https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/03/a-new-molecule-that-targets-a-cryptic-pocket-on-the-body-s-cannabinoid-receptors-could-lead-to-safer-drugs-for-chronic-pain)
*Raised $200k from angles and competition awards.
*Winner of NFX FAST Startup Competition at Stanford.
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HydroSun Technologies & Bondh E Shams INC together design and deploy the OASIS Box — a solar-powered clean water system that delivers safe drinking water to communities without reliable access, on a mission to bring clean water to one million people. Our deployments are now Gold Standard–certified and generating verified carbon credits.
Achievements:
• Received Gold Standard certification and issued verified carbon credits for OASIS Box deployments.
• Expanded operations into East Africa.
• Secured two new contracts representing $1M+ in combined annual recurring revenue (ARR).
• Deployed OASIS Box solar-powered clean water systems across Pakistan, Kenya, South Sudan.
ooking to raise growth capital to scale OASIS Box manufacturing and deployment for our East Africa expansion.
Investment Opportunity
OASIS Box is seeking growth capital to scale manufacturing and deployment across East Africa.
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PangeAI is the Canva for spatial data—an AI-powered platform that makes spatial land, climate, and nature data accessible to non-technical users through natural language. Today’s geospatial tools are complex, fragmented, and built for experts. PangeAI replaces slow, consultant-led workflows with an intuitive AI interface, enabling sustainability teams, consultants, and climate investors to ask spatial questions and get instant, actionable answers. PangeAI is building the spatial intelligence layer for climate and nature decision-making—starting with land-use, biodiversity, and restoration planning.
Achievements:
*Built first functional prototype that answers plain-language spatial questions using integrated geospatial data and AI workflows.
*Conducted demos with 35+ organizations, including climate consultants, corporate sustainability teams, and project developers.
*Validated 15+ high-frequency use cases across restoration planning, biodiversity risk screening, and deforestation assessments.
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Peachy Day helps people prevent migraine attacks through AI-powered prediction, coaching, and telehealth—turning one minute of daily tracking into personalized care.
Achievements:
*App is launching in June 2025!
*Tracked 45,000+ headache days, with D30 retention that's 10x industry average.
*Built migraine prediction tool with 80%+ accuracy, up to 2 weeks in advance, and first-ever migraine caregiver mode tool.
*Backed by Highmark Health (BlueCrossBlueShield), Techstars Founder Catalyst, StartX.
*Launching IRB-approved, multi-site quality improvement study at Allegheny Health Network and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Investment Opportunity
Raising a $1,000,000 pre-seed round launching in June 2026 to build out a coaching and telehealth platform.
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Transforming the economic model of fashion to a demand-driven one with a deep data-analytic understanding of consumers and their needs. Vrinda aspires to undertake one of the toughest challenges - change consumer behavior to break the vicious cycle of fashion carbon waste stemming from supply-demand production mismatch due to manual fashion prediction analysis
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Oleo is transforming biomass waste into affordable oil feedstocks for renewable fuels, to solve the supply chain risk and cost exposure energy producers are currently facing.
Achievements:
*Successfully completed a pilot fermentation campaign with proprietary microbe achieving a TRL5.
* Built strong relationships across the energy sector and have three commercial contracts in the pipeline with energy majors to either license or offtake our oil product.
*Built a full-time team of four with manufacturing expertise from industry, operations experience from the military, and expertise scaling microbiology and biomass conversion.
*De-risked enough biomass supply to support 8 commercial facilities and the production of 4 million barrels of oil per year.
Investment Opportunity:
Currently raising a $6.5M seed round with a target close by the end of June 2026.
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Atreides is a digital platform for water management that is powered by blockchain technologies. Water Inefficiencies and waste are the result of mismanagement, which perpetuates at global scale because resource data is neither accurate, transparent, nor accessible. Atreides enables water to be monitored and manipulated with granularity, transparency, and automation.
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Understory’s platform turns aerial imagery into biodiversity intelligence by applying AI to drone and satellite imagery to map plant species, composition, and change over time, c)Understory is building biodiversity intelligence for a changing planet. Our vegetation mapping platform transforms raw imagery into actionable insights about biodiversity down to species level, land cover, and ecosystem change - enabling smarter decisions across conservation, development, and climate resilience. We've launched the platform, demonstrated its value in challenges ranging from mitigation monitoring to wildfire and biodiversity assessment, and are piloting with leading conservation and utility partners.
Achievements:
*Launched Version 1 of User-Facing Platform.
*Deployed Model in 5 unique ecosystems.
*Working with leading environmental consulting firms and utilities provider.
*Raised $1.6M in non-dilutive funding.
*Selected and participated in Google For Startups Accelerator: Climate Change, ESRI Start-up Program, National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I & II Grants.
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We believe no family should have to walk alone throughout her baby's first 1000 days. That is why we have built Mi Tribu, a digital platform to support parenthood from fertility, through pregnancy and postpartum into early childhood, by matching groups of 12 women in the same stage of motherhood with the support and guidance of a healthcare specialist through group chat and one-to-one video calls. This enables growing families to access medical and emotional support cheaply whenever and wherever they need it.
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Bent is a co-living as a service platform that makes shared living seamless for residents and landlords alike. Economic uncertainty, ever-rising housing costs, and remote work are creating a once in a generation paradigm shift in the way we live. By solving the core frictions that have prevented co-living from scaling in the past, we can lower rents, increase housing supply, and revitalize local community.
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Spect AI is a web platform that helps the construction industry reduce waste and deliver projects on time by automatically reviewing building products against design documents to ensure they meet requirements before procurement. In the US, new construction produces 60 million tons of material waste each year largely due to inaccurate material/product procurement and rework due to construction mistakes. Spect AI’s platform allows engineers and contractors to catch mistakes before materials are ordered, and therefore reduce waste and money lost to rework.
Achievements:
*We have 1 paying enterprise pilot customer, along with two deposits from two additional enterprise customers waiting to start their pilot. We are working with 9 design partners who are top engineering and contracting firms in the US who are helping us craft the product to their needs.
*Raised $95k.
*Participated in Unusual Ventures Academy, Shadow Partners Incubator.
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Vanilla AI is an AI co-pilot that enables sales and installation for clean-tech OEMs and contractors. Selling and installing clean-tech today is expensive and slow as it requires many non-repeatable activities. Vanilla AI makes selling and installing clean-tech repeatable, increasing sales velocity for businesses, and improving energy efficiency for consumers.
Achievements:
*Interviewed 200+ stakeholders, including businesses, to evaluate challenges.
*Secured several design partnerships with businesses including clean-tech OEMs and contractors to develop and test our product.
*Launched several software MVPs to test our concepts and refine the value proposition.
*Won grant funding from Stanford TomKat Sustainable Innovation, several awards and competitions on campus, and advised by leaders in the clean tech, data, and real estate spaces.
*Raised $230k total ($100k in grants / awards, $130k in VC / angel investment)
*Participated in: StartX Student in Residence, Stanford SPIRE, Stanford TomKat, Cardinal Ventures. VC BASES Social Impact - Climate Winner, VC3 Pitch Competition - 1st place.
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We are Mizu, a climate enterprise software startup, offering next-generation water risk analytics for agricultural banks and asset owners. It integrates water and temperature projections to evaluate risk exposures for agriculture financiers, asset owners, food & ag businesses, inputs suppliers, and farmers. The climate risk analysis platform integrates advanced modeling and simulation technologies across climate, water, crop, and finance, immediately deployable for food company CXOs, ag-focused investors, and farmland owners managing agricultural assets along the food supply chain.m description
Achievements:
*Selected for the prestigious Imagine H2O Accelerator 2025 cohort, chosen among 10 companies out of 400 applicants tackling global water challenges.
*Successfully raised pre-seed funding, built a core engineering team, and launched MVP pilots in California’s Central Valley with American Pistachio Growers.
*Initiated on-the-ground service delivery for farmers, laying the foundation for scalable impact in agricultural water solutions.
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About: With Reset’s embedded Earned Wage Access (EWA) solution, financial institutions can launch a next-gen card that combines free daily access to earned wages with auto-budgeting, and address the liquidity needs of the ~70% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. Credit unions and banks are able to foster greater financial health for consumers, while also deepening engagement and driving deposit and revenue growth.
Achievements:
*Completed $6M Seed fundraise in H2 2026 -- round was led by credit union customers and strategic investors in the community financial institution space.
*In 2025, voted Best in Show at VentureTech, an annual conference bringing together approximately 130 credit unions and fintech companies
*Named one of only six fintechs chosen nationwide for the Filene Research Institute's 2026 FiLab program. Through FiLab, Reset is currently piloting with six credit unions
*Reset has signed multiple multi-year enterprise contracts with credit unions
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About: AI Merch, is a computer vision technology revolutionizing the food and retail industry. The company's mission is to reduce waste, promote sustainability, and ensure resource security, particularly in the food sector. AI Merch offers advanced analytics capabilities to consumer goods businesses, providing real-time intelligence to operate more efficiently.
