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MetaCompliance

With 18+ years of experience in the Cyber Security and Compliance market, MetaCompliance provides an innovative solution for staff information security awareness and incident management automation. The MetaCompliance platform was created to meet customer needs for a single, comprehensive solution to manage the people risks surrounding Cyber Security, Data Protection and Compliance. The solution provides an easier approach to managing ISO27001, NIST and Cyber Security Resilience. Our focus on staff awareness and security risk management enables customers to benefit from functionality that includes eLearning, simulated phishing, policy management, incident management regulatory reporting. Our SaaS platform offers the highest quality cyber security and compliance training content available on the market. It is easy to use, engaging and regularly updated; allowing cyber and compliance professionals to track progress of their staff members and demonstrate human risk reduction. MetaCompliance has a unique focus on encouraging participation by employees with Personalised Security Awareness. This leverages behavioural science best practices to make security awareness meaningful for each employee. This means providing training content that is in the correct language and relevant to each person’s role and department. In addition, the content is customised to leverage brand loyalty, reflect the unique organisational practices and reflect their specific approach to threat mitigation. By leveraging the power of MetaCompliance, customers can optimise their cyber security and compliance response to meet the demands of today’s digital world.

Outseer

At Outseer, we are empowering our customers to liberate the world from digital fraud by providing solutions that stop fraud, not customers. Our market-leading enterprise fraud and authentication platform is used by thousands of financial institutions around the world to protect millions of customer accounts and billions of transactions annually. Leveraging proven data science, including our proprietary consortium data, our customers use our risk-based, machine learning platform to deliver the highest fraud detection rates, lowest false positive rates, and lowest customer intervention in the industry.

Cogstate

The brain is central to every aspect of our lives, yet it isn’t monitored with the same consistency and proactivity as other vital signs. As a neuroscience technology company, we believe that better brain health insights lead to better brain health outcomes. That's why we're on a mission to democratize cognitive health by radically simplifying the way it is measured. For more than 20 years, we’ve proudly supported the research needs of biopharmaceutical companies and academic institutions, and the clinical care needs of physicians and individuals around the world. We create easy to use digital tests that provide rapid, reliable, and science-backed results and offer solutions that support the highest fidelity measurements possible. We believe our team members should have flexibility as to how, when, and where they work. We work flexibly to support our global team, who mostly work from home––and offer opportunities for face-to-face collaboration at our offices in New Haven, Melbourne, and London. Our team members also have access to co-working spaces around the world.

Transfinder Corporation

Transfinder is a national leader in student transportation management systems and services.

Dryad Networks

Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth monitoring solutions for public and private forests.

Starfish Space

Starfish Space is an American satellite company focused on space rendezvous and satellite servicing. The company builds small space tugs to provide an on-demand in-space transportation service and is developing Otter, an autonomous satellite servicing vehicle.