Steve Nordlund

SparkCognition, Inc. provides artificial intelligence software. Its products include SparkPredict, ParkSecure, and MindFabric. The company was founded by Amir Husain in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

SkyGrid LLC, a Boeing and SparkCognition company, is based in Austin, TX. SkyGrid is defining a future where highly automated aircraft operate without the need for onboard pilots. The company provides safety-of-life approved flight operations management services for such aircraft to ensure operations of all participants in the air transportation system are safe and secure. SkyGrid is enabling a wide variety of commercial drone operations from remote inspections to making autonomous flight a reality. The company is solving for the industry's biggest challenge of integrating unmanned aircraft into the airspace and scaling safe autonomous operations. With SkyGrid's AerialOS™, they also help manage small UAS by providing airspace awareness, flight planning, and fleet management services. Built on AI and blockchain, SkyGrid provides an end-to-end solution to monitor the airspace, execute optimal flight paths, and manage a drone fleet. The company was founded in 2018, and Jia Xu has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Insitu, Inc. designs, develops, and produces unmanned aircraft systems. It offers miniature aircraft for offshore weather reconnaissance and unmanned aerial vehicles and tools for commercial and defense reconnaissance purposes. The firm's technologies can be applied to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts in the defense sector, as well as the civil and commercial industries, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, search-and-rescue, disaster relief, and mining operations. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bingen, WA.