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BrightAI CEO Alex Hawkinson Featured in Unite.AI Interview

BrightAI’s CEO and Founder, Alex Hawkinson, shares his journey from founding SmartThings to leading BrightAI.

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02.13.2025

BrightAI CEO Alex Hawkinson Featured on The Product Market Fit Show

BrightAI’s CEO and Founder, Alex Hawkinson, recently joined The Product Market Fit Show to discuss how Stateful OS is transforming infrastructure management.

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02.13.2025

BrightAI and Pelsis Group Expand AI-Powered Pest Control for Food & Pharma

BrightAI and Pelsis Group are building on the success of an initial pilot and are now expanding their collaboration to roll out the next generation of AI-powered pest management solutions for the food and pharmaceutical industries.

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11.20.2024

Unlocking the Power of Physical AI

Announcing our $15M Seed Funding to Fix America’s Infrastructure

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11.20.2024

BrightAI Unveils Stateful OS, a Platform Leveraging Multimodal AI to Fix America’s Pipes, Sewers and Powerlines

For too long, America’s infrastructure has been stuck in a reactive cycle—waiting until the damage is done before springing into action. At BrightAI, we’re breaking that cycle.

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11.20.2024

Featured in TechCrunch: Physical AI startup BrightAI bootstraps to $80M in revenue

BrightAI, a leader in physical AI solutions, has reached $80 million in lifetime revenue, before raising outside capital. This milestone showcases the company’s innovative approach to delivering AI-driven solutions for critical infrastructure across industries like water, power, HVAC, pest control and manufacturing.

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11.12.2024

Introducing ComfortAI: An Autonomous System for HVAC Monitoring

Revolutionizing HVAC Maintenance with AI-Driven Insights and Predictive Diagnostics

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08.13.2024

BrightAI Pilots Autonomous Robotics Capabilities for Azuria Water Solutions

BrightAI is excited to announce the success of our recent demonstration showcasing our digital water portal to Azuria Water Solutions on June 25, 2024. This event, the culmination of two years of hard work, was a true moment of celebration for both teams. It marks a pivotal milestone in our collaboration, highlighting the transformative potential […]

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07.03.2024

BrightAI’s Autonomous Pipeline Inspection System Approved for NASSCO Certified Software List

BrightAI is thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our digital water project. Our innovative digital water solution has achieved NASSCO PACP certification, a crucial step that underscores our commitment to excellence and sets the stage for nationwide deployment.

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06.27.2024

Executive Spotlight: Brett Worthington

Brett Worthington, BrightAI’s Executive Vice President of Commercialization, leverages innovation to achieve commercial success for both our company and our customers.

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02.04.2024

Executive Spotlight: Kiran Bharwani

BrightAI’s EVP of Engineering & Product, Kiran Bharwani, Drives Innovation: Leveraging 25 years in autonomous driving to pioneer AIoT transformation.

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12.18.2023

BrightAI and Pelsis Launch Next-Gen AI Flylights Revolutionizing Pest Control

BrightAI and Pelsis Launch Next-Gen AI Flylights Revolutionizing Pest Control

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07.12.2023

Minneapolis: Micro-Tech Hub

BrightAI has created an IoT “micro-tech hub” in Minneapolis—with nearly half our staff based out of the area, including one founder.

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04.05.2023

Curiosity & Connection: The BrightAI Team Takes On Tampa

BrightAI team members recently gathered in Tampa, Florida to brainstorm new ideas, explore and reconnect.

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03.01.2023

AIoT for Dummies

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology draws conclusions, maps trends, and forms relationships between data collected from the Internet of Things (IoT). It has enormous transformative potential for maximizing efficiencies across diverse industries.

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01.04.2023

Engineer Spotlight: Ryan Goss

Staff Engineer Ryan Goss discusses what it’s like to work for BrightAI, and the honor of being chosen as one of the company’s ‘most impressive’ teammates.

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12.28.2022

Engineer Spotlight: Albert Carr

Director of Hardware & Manufacturing Albert Carr discusses what it’s like to work for BrightAI, and the honor of being chosen as one of the company’s ‘most impressive’ teammates.

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12.28.2022

Engineer Spotlight: Sam Carlton

Staff Engineer Sam Carlton discusses what it’s like to work for BrightAI, and the honor of being chosen as one of the company’s ‘most impressive’ teammates.

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12.05.2022

BrightAI Attracts Bright Minds

With an array of advanced engineering degrees, a suite of publications and patents, and the skill to speak—and program—in multiple languages, we know BrightAI attracts smart staff who are passionate about our mission and vision.

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08.19.2022

Executive Spotlight: Kyle LeNeau

Kyle LeNeau discusses full stack engineering, being comfortable with being uncomfortable, and the art of what’s possible.

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05.18.2022

Seemingly Unsexy PE Holdings May Be Your Next Unicorns

Rather than desperately searching for the next elusive unicorn, PE fund managers might instead have better luck looking at what’s already sitting in their portfolios.

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05.17.2022

Stacey On IoT

‘Speed Queens & Matter Dreams’

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05.10.2022

What is AIoT?

AIoT is a new wave of technology that merges AI and IoT by being able to see things, hear things, and smell things, and then act on the information gathered.

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04.26.2022

Founder’s Thoughts with Alex Hawkinson

BrightAI is ushering in the next big tech revolution through its better-than-human-sensing technology.

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04.21.2022

Founder’s Thoughts with Doug Burman

BrightAI’s mission is to help businesses that have historically overlooked tech solutions transform into pioneers of their industry.

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04.06.2022

BrightAI Recognized as Finalist

BrightAI has earned finalist recognition in this year’s Business Intelligence Group 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards.

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04.06.2022

Founder’s Thoughts with Nathan Hanks

BrightAI’s “AIoT” technology helps businesses across all industries transform their operations, increase profits, and become major players in their respective markets.