blackshark.ai

25/08/2023

CB Insights recently named blackshark.ai as one of the world's 100 most promising private companies.

For their annual "AI 100" list, CB Insights reviewed thousands and selected the most promising startups that expand our reality of AI-based solutions.

From textile recycling to synthetics datasets, emotion analytics to general-purpose humanoids, CB Insights picked the best startups of the year based on R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, business relationships, Yardstiq transcripts, investor profiles, tech novelty, market potential, and other criteria. Following these benchmarks, blackshark.ai is the most promising Digital Twin startup with potential cross-industry applications.

Access the entire AI 100 list and interactive Expert Collection here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/artificial-intelligence-top-startups-2023/

The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world. This year’s winners are working on generative AI infrastructure, emotion analytics, general-purpose humanoids, and more.

17/08/2023

Becoming "one of the hottest startups in Europe in the past two years," as named by Forbes DA, was not a small feat — but equally, not less thrilling!

In an interview with our CEO, Michael Putz, Forbes traced our journey from the idea to the current technology and discussed our vision and potential applications of our 3D Digital Twin, such as energy planning & permitting or disaster relief.

Access the exclusive insights into blackshark.ai in this article [originally in German]: https://www.forbes.at/artikel/die-architekten-der-virtuellen-erde.html

09/08/2023

🌏 is now ready for the Omniverse in OpenUSD.

NVIDIA has announced a release of their Omniverse platform containing major Generative AI and OpenUSD updates, offering new foundation applications and services for developers and industrial enterprises to optimize and enhance their 3D pipelines.

We are thrilled to be part of the ever-growing NVIDIA Omniverse ecosystem. The new release with the OpenUSD initiative is a massive leap towards efficient content handover and production process for the Open Metaverse and opens more opportunities for industrial enterprises.

If you are interested in a georeferenced, synthetic, yet realistic 3D representation of the Earth for your training, simulation, and visualization work, you can request free USD data samples here: https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-synth3d-for-nvidia-omniverse/

31/07/2023

🔝 : Keeping pace with the times with Generative AI

Austrian Research Promotion Agency, who supported us in our journey of becoming one of the leading startups, has recently posted an insightful success story about blackshark.ai. met our team in our headquarters and talked with our Research Manager, Thomas Menzel-Berger, about our developments, current and future plans for our -based geospatial technology, and industry trends.

You can access the article — originally written in German — here: https://www.ffg.at/news/successstory-mit-generative-ai-am-puls-der-zeit

Die Grazer Blackshark.ai erstellt digitale Zwillinge der Erde so schnell und so detailliert wie kein anderer Anbieter: Ihre Anwendung SYNTH3D rendert aus aktuellen Satellitendaten das virtuelle 3D-Modell jedes beliebigen Gebiets auf der Erde. Eine FFG-Förderung erleichterte es dem erfolgreichen Sta...

12/07/2023

We proudly announce that blackshark.ai was selected to participate in the first AWS European Defence Accelerator.

AWS European Defence Accelerator is designated to enhance the European Defence industry. The top startups, interested in doing business with defence and national security organizations across Europe, will receive technical, business, and mentorship support to extend their operational knowledge. The program is delivered in collaboration with Plexal and consists of mentorship, networking opportunities, access to AWS computing credits and special training.

The program will elevate energy resilience, secure information sharing, sensing and decision making, and quantum and cyber resilience for mission-critical needs in Europe.

“We are very excited to provide blackshark.ai’s High-Frequency Mapping and Change Detection capabilities as a fully integrated service through the AWS European Defense Accelerator very soon,” said Michael Putz, CEO of blackshark.ai

Read more about our participation in the AWS European Defence Accelerator in our most recent blog post: https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-selected-to-participate-in-the-first-aws-european-defence-accelerator/

15/06/2023

🔥 We had a Great Fireside Chat with Qasar Younis at blackshark.ai! 🔥

We were happy and honored to welcome Qasar Younis, founder of Applied Intuition, to our Headquarters in Graz. Qasar gave us a glimpse into the rollercoaster ride of building a business in Silicon Valley and discussed the challenges he faced and the strategies he used to overcome them during his own startup journey. Talk about real-life inspiration! It was a stimulating session packed with practical tips and lively discussions.

Thanks, Qasar, for answering all our questions with radical candor. Your passion for startups and willingness to help aspiring entrepreneurs always shines through!

19/05/2023

blackshark.ai was highlighted as one of the few in the "Top Geographic Information Systems Startups" report by Tracxn

Minicorns are startups with a high potential to scale, which have already launched their business into an accelerated growth mode. Tracxn has collected a list of the most promising startups leading the Geographic Information Systems industry from across the globe, including the Soonicorns and Minicorns — the top startups to watch in the upcoming months.

Check the overview and the full report on the companies providing tools and services to capture, integrate, store, analyze, and visualize data here: https://tracxn.com/d/emerging-startups/top-geographic-information-systems-startups-2023

A curated list of top Geographic Information Systems startups to watch out for. In this 2023 edition, we bring you an exciting list of 50+ most promising Geographic Information Systems startups from across the world.

12/05/2023

Tune into the recent Microsoft HoloLens video series "Design Build Operate" episode to learn more about the Industrial Metaverse & HoloLens. Get insights into industry challenges and opportunities, as well as blackshark.ai, one of Microsoft's partners in the field.

Exploring , Alex Karim (Industrial Metaverse GTM manager at Microsoft UK) invited Gastão De Figueiredo, Our SVP Strategic Partnerships, to talk about blackshark.ai, , applications and customers, and everything in-between.

Watch the video below to catch up with recent developments in the industry, from Quam Temidayo Adewale from Microsoft, Gastao D. from blackshark.ai, Greg Demchak from Bentley Systems, Jordan Lawver from Trimble Inc.., and Mark Knowles - Lee from Fracture Reality.

Design Build Operate is a short video series exploring how the Industrial Metaverse & HoloLens 2 is transforming industry today. Featuring customer and partn...

05/05/2023

🔝 blackshark.ai was ranked as one of the top 50 startups to watch in Switzerland and Austria by Sifted.

"Sifted has put together a ranking of the 50 hottest startups to watch — from seed right up to growth stage — based on funding momentum (how quickly a company has raised at each stage), market opportunity, competitive advantage, and investor strength"

🔍 Check the report on the status quo and investment climate here: https://sifted.eu/articles/ranking-swiss-austrian-startups-to-watch-2023

📑 The full list is available here:
https://sifted.eu/rankings/austria-switzerland-startups-to-watch-2023

Sifted has put together a ranking of the 50 hottest startups to watch — from seed right up to growth stage — based on funding momentum, market opportunity, competitive advantage and investor strength.

25/04/2023

We are excited to announce the beginning of a partnership with Bohemia Interactive Simulations, a leading global developer of military simulation and training software.

Customers will be able to acquire highly accurate recreations of real-world locations for mission planning, rehearsal, or training based on high-resolution satellite data and more.

"With this partnership, any real-world location becomes available as a current and photorealistic 3D training environment. blackshark.ai and BISim are the perfect combinations for everyone looking for country-scale real-world mission planning and mission rehearsal environments," says Michael Putz, CEO of blackshark.ai.

Read more on the partnership plans below.

https://blackshark.ai/bisim-and-blackshark-ai-join-forces/

06/04/2023

📧 If you are not yet a subscriber to our newsletter, you can still catch up on our latest edition, "blackshark.ai is making its SYNTH3D available in NVIDIA Omniverse".

The newsletter includes a deep-dive into:
🏘️ Availability of samples of areas in NVIDIA Omniverse in USD format
🛰️ The details about the launch of the Digital Twin by Maxar and blackshark.ai
⚜ Insights into the Demo Package of New Orleans
🛫 Access information for the Private Beta Globe SDK 1.9 for Flight Simulation
🌎 Recap from the past events, including MWC Barcelona
📰 Recent coverage and other news from The Halldale Group, Andreessen Horowitz, and other media.

https://blackshark.ai/april/

Blackshark.ai is making its SYNTH3D available in NVIDIA Omniverse Several SYNTH3D samples of areas will be available on NVIDIA Omniverse in USD format. Currently available as a static USD export, in the future, the samples will be streamed into the Omniverse with the help of the Omniverse Connector,...

21/03/2023

We are making free samples of areas of the globe available on NVIDIA Omniverse. This allows developers to experiment and prototype simulations, leveraging digital terrain from blackshark.ai into the computing platform NVIDIA Omniverse.

Developed jointly by Maxar and blackshark.ai, SYNTH3D allows developers and creators to simulate and visualize 3D environments representative of real-world locations where aesthetics and performance are crucial for commercial and government applications. Users will have access to the SYNTH3D samples of various regions in different sizes with the underlying semantic information about object properties like dimensions, geolocation, and materials to leverage in more precise simulation scenarios.

The samples are provided in Universal Scene Description (USD) format, natively supported by Omniverse, and can be visualized and used in the Omniverse environment. The next step after the static USD exports will be to develop an Omniverse Connector, allowing the streaming of the entire globe into Omniverse, as announced today by NVIDIA at the NVIDIA GTC Keynote.

“We are excited about this next step in our collaboration with NVIDIA, and we believe our capabilities, coupled with the Omniverse platform, will empower developers to build real-world simulations with greater accuracy and ease,” blackshark.ai 's CEO, Michael Putz, said.

Read more in our most recent blog post:
https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-is-making-its-synth3d-available-in-nvidia-omniverse/