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Smooth Sailing for Kraken Robotics
Kraken Robotics has been winning large defence contracts with several NATO Navies, including the Danish and Polish Navies. The Company has also done business with the U.S. Navy, Government of Canada, and several global defense contractors.
Deep Dive on Underwater Drone Manufacturers
Recap In Sophic Capital’s Bottoms up for Navies we discussed how key countries are investing in subsea defence to safeguard the worlds waterways. In this fourth report in our series, we highlight companies in the defence and commercial marine technology markets and...
Bottoms Up for Navies
Military Adoption of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles AcceleratingRecap In Sophic Capital’s Russia and China Droning for Sea Dominance report, we discussed how Russia and China were bolstering their marine presence with unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). In this third...
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We have a new investment idea for you from a team of oil & gas pipeline software veterans who built a prior company with $30,000 and sold it 18 months later for $7.6 million. Kicking Some Digital Ass in Las Vegas 99% of manufacturing machine data is trapped inside the machines. Real-time machine data is essentially non-existent because manufacturers fear security breaches in a networked machine environment. Unlocking this data via secure networks and allowing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) analysis would weed out invisible and expensive inefficiencies. This issue […] Nearly 5 million Americans purchase counterfeit tickets each year. And with the world’s top 5 sports leagues attracting 158 million attendees from 2014 through 2015, counterfeiters have capitalized on the opportunity to dupe consumers into purchasing counterfeit tickets. Testing more VR platforms: Day three saw us return to the PlayStation VR booth to see if we could have a better gaming experience than Thursday’s London Heist experience. We also had a chance to demo the HTC Vive. To finish the day off we wandered over to the career fair to see the skills […] Playing around with Virtual Reality: We spent our second day at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) queued for hours waiting to try high-end VR gaming platforms. More accurately, we wanted to see the content available for Oculus, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive since we know their head-mounted devices (HMD) are now consumer-ready and ready to […] Sophic Capital is at the 2016 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. This is our third consecutive GDC, and what a difference two years makes for the advancement of VR. Two years ago Oculus demoed the DK2, and people were blown away. That quickly resulted in Facebook buying the company. Last year new HMDs […] How the Industrial Internet of Things is Revolutionizing Manufacturing We live in a data-driven society where we’re constantly connected to each other. Now the Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting “things” together. But one industry lags when it comes to connecting “things”. Most industrial plant managers, CEOs and CFOs don’t know what’s happening on their […] Militaries around the world see the utility of sending unmanned underwater vehicles on missions that typically require expensive resources and heavy manpower. 
Sophic Capital Investment Ideas: Applying Machine Learning to Save Lives, the Environment, & Money
Rise of the Machines
Cisco and MEMEX Partner to Win the Secure IIoT Market
That’s The Ticket!
GDC Day 3: Wrapping up our VR Experiences
GDC Day 2: VR Platforms to Go Long On
GDC Day 1: Virtual Reality Dominates
No Machine Left Behind
Dive Into This – Underwater Drones: A Market Easy to Fathom