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Mike Betzer, CEOEnter Hypergiant. The company specializes in getting AI projects “unstuck” and across the finish line through a combination of its industry-leading consulting services and the HyperDrive data science platform. “When Hypergiant was founded, we had a mission in mind: to revolutionize and improve the way the world’s most critical systems operate. Space is our next frontier, but it already has a huge impact on daily life due to the colossal amount of data that comes from satellites,” says Ben Lamm, Founder of Hypergiant.
He mentions that turning raw data into valuable intelligence is challenging. That is where Hypergiant has applied advanced ML/AI capabilities to clean, interpret and understand the data and then to use AI for predictive purposes. “When we think of our role in the space industry, we see ourselves as partners with companies and organizations that use satellite data to drive improvements on earth and beyond,” mentions Betzer. Hypergiant’s HyperDrive enterprise AI platform facilitates developing ML models and deploying them into production. “Right now, data science teams build on average two models per year. At that pace, we will never be able to scale AI solutions quickly enough to meet industry challenges and demand,” states Betzer. With the platform, Hypergiant intends to speed up the model development-to-production pipeline and drive broad-scale improvements in ML model efficiency and efficacy. Hypergiant has a unique pipeline approach to solving the needs of customers that happens in a phased approach.
Mohammed Farooq, CTO and Chairman and Ben Lamm, Founder-
The goal with this is resiliency: we want the AI/ML solutions to provide continuous value as organizations scale and digitally transform
What differentiates Hypergiant is its team and the culture that they have built. “We hire the best talent and work with the best companies. It’s like baking a cake: the final product is only a result of good ingredients. Everyone can make a box cake but a box cake ultimately doesn’t taste good. To make a great cake, you need all the best ingredients: talent, opportunity, partners, challenging goals, time and committed financial plans,” says Betzera. Hypergiant’s culture is bold, curious, fun and intent on setting and delivering the best, most interesting products they can. “We love culture. In fact, one of our early hires was a VP of Culture because we wanted to set the precedent for what it means to be part of a company like Hypergiant.”.
Hypergiant’s next big focus is on launching HyperDrive as a pivotal aspect of its business. “HyperDrive is an AI platform with managed data science workspaces and integrated workflows supporting the complete ML model lifecycle. This matters in Space Tech because we need to utilize the best in AL/ML to achieve our objectives: life on Mars, a space base on the moon, stronger satellite defense capacity, etc.,” shares Mohammed Farooq, CTO and Chairman of Hypergiant. The company believes that as they help scale data science opportunities to make AI models faster and continue to work with partners to offer best in class solutions for space related challenges, they will continue to grow in this segment and bring solutions to the market that are exciting and important.
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Hypergiant
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Hypergiant
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Mike Betzer, CEO and Mohammed Farooq, CTO and Chairman and Ben Lamm, Founder
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Hypergiant develops artificial intelligence services and solutions to create the best in class operational intelligence for businesses looking to respond to the challenges of tomorrow, today
Hypergiant News
Hypergiant Industries Partners With Trive Capital
“Hypergiant is building new AI-powered solutions to solve some very complex industry challenges”
Over the past five years, Hypergiant has emerged as a leader in AI-enabled, cloud-based command-and-control technologies and deployed solutions. The company created a world-class core geospatial data visualization and actions platform, CommandCenter. In addition to ingesting large amounts of information, the platform applies real-time threat analysis, makes AI-generated recommendations, and delivers intelligent insights and actions across all domains. Hypergiant has won numerous innovation awards for its AI-enabled defense solutions and is now focused on scaling this joint all-domain spatial intelligence and actionable CommandCenter software package.
David Stinnett, Partner at Trive Capital, commented, “Hypergiant’s unique geospatial data visualization capability has positioned the company at the leading edge of C5ISR technologies that address mission-critical defense priorities. In an increasingly complex battlespace, Hypergiant is capable of rapidly delivering actionable insights to the warfighter. We are thrilled to partner with Mike and the Hypergiant team to support the company in its next chapter of growth and to formalize a longer-term partnership with our current portfolio company, Forward Slope.”
Hypergiant has also garnered strong market recognition for its futuristic inventions, including AI-enabled projects such as the Hypergiant Eos Bioreactor, Hypergiant Project Orion, the Hypergiant Disaster Mapping System, the Hypergiant Chameleon prototype constellation, and Project ARGUS. These various innovations expand the company's capabilities and add to its common operating platform – including projects like autonomous vehicles, mobile command centers, and various heads-up display implementations.
Included among the company’s select customers are the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, the Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Army, the National Reconnaissance Office, Boeing, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
“Space, defense, and American critical infrastructure all face similar challenges and need AI-enabled common operating pictures for quick and informed decision making. Our approach is to take government-funded projects, where we are building highly performant and secure, battle-ready solutions, and bring that technology to the private sector with mission-specific customization,” said Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer. “We are excited to partner with Trive as a long-term partner who truly understands the sector and can help accelerate adoption of our platform and offerings to an even broader set of private and public sector clients.”
“Mike Betzer has shown great integrity in his leadership and has continued to deliver on the company’s long-term vision of bringing next-gen AI-assisted insights to the core groups that preserve and enable our way of life,” shared Hypergiant founder, serial technology entrepreneur and now-CEO of Colossal Biosciences, Ben Lamm. “I am excited to see the company continue to scale its technologies that enable superiority on the battlefield through the Trive acquisition and Mike’s leadership.”
Hypergiant was founded by Lamm in 2018, with a goal to bring an AI-enabled approach to an advanced visual multimodal to help organizations across space, defense and critical infrastructure. Hypergiant now has over 150 employees and contractors, and its investors include lead investor Align Capital, along with GPG, Perot Jain, Beringer Capital, and Capital Factory. This acquisition comes on the heels of Hypergiant’s most recent expanded $60M+ contract award from the U.S. Air Force, around its command-and-control platform offering.
“Hypergiant is helping to shift the dynamics of war fighting capabilities, from data-starved and uninformed to data-rich and AI-enabled,” said Dr. Rob Slaughter, U.S. Air Force Major (Ret.) and co-founder and former Director of the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One. “We are in a values competition with our adversaries, and we need a digital advantage. Hypergiant and the growing partnerships that the company is forming help accelerate mission values at this urgent time in our history.”
Hypergiant is building the Common Battle Management Interface for Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2). The platform will leverage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and edge computing hardware to deliver insights and enhance situational awareness for warfighters and decision-makers.
“Hypergiant is building new AI-powered solutions to solve some very complex industry challenges,” said Clint Crosier, director of Aerospace and Satellite Solutions at AWS. “Flexible, scalable, and secure cloud-based tools are a must for satisfying government customer requirements well into the future, and we are committed to supporting Hypergiant’s efforts.”