Nota AI Named to the 2025 CB Insights' List of the 100 Most Innovative AI Startups

Nota AI demonstrates global technological leadership in 'AI Infrastructure: Accelerated Computing & Hardware – Edge'

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Nota AI to its ninth annual AI 100 list, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.

"The AI 100 winners are future movers and shakers, taking big swings that will shape the future of AI," said Manlio Carrelli, CEO at CB Insights. "This year's cohort is pushing AI applications from emerging to emerged, working on everything from AI agents for complex processes to security and robotics. They've also zeroed in on new and promising technologies that might not be on the radar of many enterprises — multi-agent systems, novel computing and data curation approaches, and physical AI."

"We're honored to be named to CB Insights' AI 100. This recognition affirms our mission to make AI efficient and accessible on edge devices globally," said Myungsu Chae, CEO at Nota AI. "As the demand for on-device intelligence grows, NOTA AI is proud to lead the charge by delivering scalable AI optimization and deployment solutions that are not only high-performance, but also energy-efficient and hardware-aware."

The list recognizes early—and mid-stage startups that are leading the way in applying AI across industries and architectures. Our research team picked winning companies based on CB Insights datasets, including deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, employee headcount, and proprietary Commercial Maturity and Mosaic scores. We also dug into Analyst Briefings submitted directly to us by startups.

NOTA AI is a leading-edge AI software company specializing in model optimization and deployment across a wide range of hardware platforms. Through its proprietary platform, NetsPresso®, NOTA AI has helped global partners achieve up to 95% model size reduction and 10x faster inference speeds—all while maintaining high accuracy. With a world-class engineering team and more than 190 patents, NOTA AI is scaling rapidly, backed by top-tier investors and strategic partners, to become the foundational infrastructure for AI at the edge, worldwide.

Quick facts on the 2025 AI 100:

• The 100 winners include 21 startups in AI agent platforms and infrastructure, 12 in AI observability and governance, and 12 in physical AI technology and building blocks.
• The 2025 cohort is deploying AI across horizontal applications (customer service, process automation), infrastructure (AI observability, AI agent building), and verticals (healthcare and life sciences, industrials, financial services). 
• Collectively, these companies have raised $11.4B in equity funding over time, including more than $2.3B in 2025 (as of 4/16/2025).
• Nearly 75% are early-stage companies (Series A or earlier).
• 27 companies are based outside the United States, spanning 13 countries. This includes companies in developing and competitive AI markets like France and South Korea.
• The cohort has formed 315+ business relationships since 2023, including with industry leaders like NVIDIA, Google, and Uber. 

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About Nota AI

Headquartered in Seoul, with a growing presence in Europe and the U.S., NOTA AI enables enterprises to run high-performance AI models on resource-constrained devices through custom AI solutions tailored for mobility, security, and industrial applications. For more information, visit www.nota.ai.

CONTACT: marketing@nota.ai, Nota AI Marketing Team

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Nota AI Named to the 2025 CB Insights' List of the 100 Most Innovative AI Startups

Vooglam partners with streetwear luminary Tombogo for its first limited-edition collaboration, reimagining equipment as eyewear.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 16, 2025 TOMBOGO and Vooglam launch Vision Tools: Hypothesis, with five new limited frame styles synthesizing the "clothing as equipment" philosophy with primordial geologic textures into functional eyewear. This collaboration is TOMBOGO's first full eyewear collection, and for Vooglam marks a new move into partnering with emerging fashion talent. The resulting range of performance-based frames provides wearers with the aesthetics and utility to move between urban contexts and work environments.

 
TOMBOGO x VOOGLAM Eyewear Capsule

Vision Tools is guided by "A New Visual Framework", which imagines eyewear as one element of a wearer's modular equipment system. The initial collection, Hypothesis, offers five unique instrument-derived frames with the tagline "Experiment Through Sight", where one is invited to re-conceptualize how they may derive utility from their eyewear.

TOMBOGO was established in Oakland, California, by avant-garde streetwear artist and designer, Tommy Bogo. Bogo's industrial design training fused with his immersion in West Coast culture into a fashion ideology where expressive clothing serves as a functional tool. Vooglam's global knowledge base and production technologies and capabilities assist in translating sub-cultural reference points into engineered frames that are equal parts artwork and instrument.

TOMBOGO's Vooglam partnership combines industry-leading craftsmanship, functionality and artistic personal expression, which is apparent in every detail on each pair of frames.

Each frame in the Hypothesis collection represents a unique equipment-based concept. The Programmer embeds a 64GB USB drive into the frame's temples, providing digital storage backup functionality. The Geologist is comprised of sculpted, rock-like material in a techno-organic aesthetic union with daily eyewear. The Decoder features DNA helix-like arm design in both rimless and full-rim variants. The Utilitarian employs both a built-in magnetic compass and functional level, delivering new use-cases to optical frames. The Architect integrates carabiners and climbing gear forms into its spatial frame design.

Vision Tools: Hypothesis will be available December 16, 2025, on Vooglam and the Vision Tools website. Customers will be able to view the TOMBOGO x Vooglam collaboration story, launch frame specifications and stay informed on future releases. This drop introduces an ecosystem of equipment-designed vision tools for creatives and professionals.

About Vooglam

Established in 2017, Vooglam is an elevated eyewear brand filling a significant gap in the optical market by delivering premium-quality, design-forward frames directly to consumers without traditional retail markups. With a rapidly expanding catalog of nearly 2,000 unique frame designs available in over 170 countries and serving more than one million customers, Vooglam bridges affordability and luxury design. Through integrated manufacturing and a state-of-the-art in-house lens laboratory, we maintain complete quality control from design to delivery.

Vooglam collaborates with world-class artists, musicians, and designers to push the boundaries of eyewear design, serving discerning consumers who view their frames as personal art pieces that express their unique taste and identity. We look beyond.

 

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TOMBOGO x Vooglam Launch Limited Edition Eyewear Collection