<strong>NEPI Edge-AI Software Approach Recognized as Big Opportunity and Excellent Long-Term Play</strong>

Numurus is pleased to announce it was a Top 3 Finisher in Startup Network’s Unicorn Battle, Artificial Intelligence (AI) that took place on November 17th, 2022 in a world-wide virtual presentation. Numurus CEO Jason Seawall presented NEPI, an open-source Linux software distribution for robotic, smart sensing and Edge-AI applications, to a panel of over 40 international investors.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lG_emxGrk">Unicorn Battle AI </a>is one of many Startup Network’s pitch contests where international venture capitalists and business angel investors meet extraordinary startups like Numurus. Numurus competed with ten other pre-selected companies for the opportunity to advance to the final round. As the first company to present, CEO Jason Seawall spoke about the middleware challenges robot, sensor and AI developers face, namely that middleware requires a lot of very specialized, complex and disparate software components which takes a lot of development time and cost to create. Seawall said that the Numurus’ NEPI is the solution to these challenges. He also highlighted NEPI as a key enabler for bringing Edge-AI and robotic solutions to market faster.  After the event, Mr. Seawall said, “The opportunity to pitch Numurus was most welcome. I was thrilled to place in the Top 3 and received a lot of great reaffirming feedback from the judges.”

The judges who are venture capitalists from all over the world awarded Numurus 3rd place. The company’s business and technology were validated by Judge Kelly Luo, Founder and Investor at Mans International, who said, “Numurus’ market size is very large and they are patent protected and have a very clear go to market strategy and healthy traction.” Judge Gaurav Shah, Managing Partner at Arete Ventures said, “Numurus is an excellent long-term play. What they are trying to do and accomplish in this niche Edge-AI space is really hitting a spot. I think they have a potential to do very well from hereon.”

<strong>Watch live recorded Unicorn-Battle AI</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lG_emxGrk">here.</a>

<strong>Learn more about NEPI </strong><a href="http://www.numurus.com/products-nepi-software/">here</a>.

<strong>Read NEPI customer success story</strong> <a href="https://numurus.com/case-studies/wesmar-smart-sonar/">here.</a>

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<em>Media Contact</em>

<strong>Christine Tichenor</strong>, Media Relations

ctichenor@numurus.com, 503-318-8070