What Is Aperture's Venture Studio?
GAO, the creator of Aperture Venture Studio, is a prominent company in the RFID, BLE, and IoT industries, with a Ph.D. graduate from University of Toronto being its founder. Aperture provides a platform for developing new businesses by creating them from scratch based on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) rather than just funding good ideas.
Aperture’s name describes its reason for being; when a camera aperture opens to allow light into the device, aperture venture studio does the same with real-world signals so that they can be turned into actionable in**telligence.
Where Does Aperture Address Challenges?**
Manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, infrastructure, and construction all have difficulties with:
- Assets and inventory have no visibility into their location
- Asset tracking and monitoring are manual and disconnected
- Equipment maintenance is reactive rather than predictive
- Weak access control and safety monitoring systems
- Automation is taking longer to implement because of the very high R&D cost.
Aperture plans to help fix these issues by designing AI and IoT solutions for asset tracking, people tracking, predictive maintenance, smart monitoring, and operational intelligence; the goal is to turn unconnected physical operations into connected, data-driven systems.
**Aperture Venture Studio Functions
Aperture combines the roles of the traditional accelerator and the builder of companies through its unique shared-studio model:**
Shared R&D and technical infrastructure allow ventures to leverage reusable components to accelerate product creation and reduce costs in development.
Shared marketing and customer-acquisition activities (SEO, content production, outreach) allow new companies to gain visibility faster.
Access to existing business-to-business (B-to-B) markets through the existing industry relationships that GAO has developed over the years.
Domain expertise built on decades of experience in RFID, BLE, and industrial IoT has been utilized from day one in all ventures.
Thus, all ventures begin with a working product with actual installations, and an existing base of customers, rather than being created from only a company pitch without reference to the world marketplace
The Significance of This Model
With the shift of industries to true "autonomous intelligent" devices from just being "connected devices" there is a need for companies to create partnerships with companies that understand both the technological environment necessary to build products, and the real-world operational aspects of the physical facilities in which they will be used. By building AIoT scalable businesses at this pivotal point in the evolution of technology, Aperture is creating companies that will provide measurable benefits immediately after the launch of their product.
Conclusion
Aperture Venture Studio provides a tangible way to build new enterprises, with an infrastructure-first approach to developing new companies, based upon actual industrial technology, as opposed to experimental theory. For any industry seeking to modernize its operations through AI and/or IoT, the portfolio of companies being created by Aperture will demonstrate how to innovate successfully.
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