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05/05/26
AriesView | Commercial Real Estate Intelligence
This is a summary of the pitch presented at SPIN on April 15th. Hi everyone, I’m Karan from AriesView. We’re an intelligence platform for commercial real estate investors, sitting between unstructured documents and the investment decisions that depend on them. The Problem The biggest challenge commercial real estate investors face is unstructured data. A typical […]
05/01/26
From Spreadsheets and Silos to Real-Time Decisions: How Milkyway X AI Is Helping Apparel Brands Close the Execution Gap
Born from years working inside e-commerce operations, Milkyway X AI is turning fragmented retail data into clear decisions helping brands free cash, prevent stockouts and plan inventory with confidence. For many apparel brands, inventory planning still lives in spreadsheets. Planning teams pull numbers from Shopify dashboards, ERP systems, warehouse software and purchase orders, stitching everything […]
04/28/26
NEC X Wins at the 2026 Global Business Tech Awards
Innovation only matters when it makes an impact in the real world. At NEC X, that belief has shaped everything we do from how we support founders to how we bring advanced technologies to practical use. Today, we’re honored to share that NEC X’s Elev X! Venture Studio has been recognized as Best Tech Incubator/Accelerator at the 2026 Global Business Tech Awards. This recognition builds on last […]
04/20/26
Powering the Future of Policing: Multitude Insights Secures $10M Series A to Scale BLTN
In today’s rapidly evolving public safety landscape, the demand for timely, accurate and shareable intelligence has never been greater. Law enforcement agencies across the country are tasked with managing vast amounts of information, often spread across outdated systems, siloed databases and disconnected communication channels. Critical intelligence can become buried in email threads, trapped within individual […]
04/13/26
Why AI Agents Are Still Unreliable and the Architecture That Will Fix It
By Ryo Kaneko, Director of Innovations, NEC X AI agents have made rapid progress. They can write code, automate workflows and handle increasingly complex tasks. On the surface, they appear close to real-world readiness. But in practice, reliability remains a challenge. Performance degrades as tasks become longer, outputs vary even with identical inputs, and human oversight […]
03/24/26
NEC X SELECTS SEVEN STARTUPS FOR BATCH 15 OF ELEV X! IGNITE, ADVANCING AI IN HEALTHCARE, GOVERNANCE, SPACE AND ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS
Palo Alto, CA – March 24, 2026 – NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC’s advanced technologies and global businesses, today announced the seven startups selected for Batch 15 of its Elev X! Ignite program, a 12-month accelerator designed to help early-stage founders transform innovative ideas into seed-ready companies. Chosen through a competitive multi-phase selection process from hundreds of applications across […]