While taking a break at the 51 Mile Marker at the Lake of the Ozarks, Nick Smith was inspired as ever by the coexistence of AI and sales, but was searching for a way to put the controls in the hands of sales executives. “Sales has a lot of ‘enablement’ solutions, but not many tools that sales people actually like using” “Imagine if every sales executive had their own robot that performed virtual prospecting tasks.” Drawing on his sales and management experience at companies like CBS Corporation, iHeart Media and others, he began to imagine sales executives building their own cloud-based robots to reduce repetitive, manual tasks and increase revenue opportunities. Now, he just needed a name that combined sales and AI.

Developer of skills intelligence platform designed to redefine how enterprises understand, develop, and mobilize talent. The company's platform offers an objective pulse of the workforce's skills through a configurable skills ontology and AI-powered measurement of skills at a granular level by providing them with hyper-personalized learning plans built for the precise skills they need to succeed, enabling organizations to stay ahead by unlocking the actionable skills data needed to drive innovation and make informed decisions across precision upskilling, talent acquisition, talent mobility, and coaching, and mentoring.

TuMeke offers an ergonomic assessment platform to eliminate workplace musculoskeletal injuries. Its platform includes a phone and web app that work together to allow teams to collaborate across locations, get automatic recommendations on postures to investigate, and a dashboard to track performance over time. The company was founded in 2019 and