Samsung NEXT discovers and backs startups who are defining the future of hardware and software integration in areas such as AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Edge Computing, and IoT. AE Studio designed and developed their entire VC portal from scratch, which allows Samsung NEXT to better service their portfolio of startups, investors, and advisors. The result was a modern web app which serves as a hub for all things internal at Samsung NEXT - conveniently accessible via desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.

These are not the droids you're looking for.

Samsung NEXT

We worked closely with Draper Venture Network to build their new public site and an exclusive member portal. The portal allowed over 1000 entrepreneurs and investors to connect in a meaningful way like never before, delivering value to their 24 funds managing over $2 billion in assets across the globe.

CONNECTING 1000 ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS

One Portal to Rule Them All. One Portal to Find Them.

AE was great at taking this 30,000ft. idea we had in our heads and turning it into a tangible product that looks beautiful and works as our users expect. They translated our business goals into actionable user stories and helped us shape the product in smart, startup-y ways as we went. We’re thrilled with the results.

Draper Venture Network

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory working on projects including IPFS, Filecoin, and libp2p. We've worked with Protocol Labs building open source tools and helping with testing and optimizations of various projects. Some things we've worked on with PL include building a network inspector style debugging tool for the Kademlia DHT implementation of go-libp2p, creating a network visualization and debugging tool using WebGL for Filecoin capable of visualizing large portions of the chain and ensuring consensus was happening as expected, and working on testing and optimizations for libp2p's gossip sub protocol in preparation for its integration into ETH 2.0.

It's like Pied Piper without the Rats

Protocol Labs

The Publisher Desk (TPD) manages online ad space inventory for hundreds of online publishers. We worked closely with TPD to improve their existing portal for customers and employees. The result was an automated system to ingest, organize and display data from over twenty external sources, saving TPD employees time and providing their customers with new insights about their ad inventory performance.

The Plot Thickens

AE transformed loosely disparate concepts into a visually appealing product that added significant business value. They helped us see what was possible from a product standpoint based on the data we had. The perfect team for any project at the intersection of web development and data analytics.

The Publisher Desk

Marmon Holdings, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a global industrial organization comprising 13 diverse business sectors and more than 100 autonomous manufacturing and service businesses. In one of these sectors, the retail solutions sector, AE helped Marmon by developing a clustering algorithm and dashboard for tracking inventory changes in grocery stores. The company employs 19,000 people worldwide with revenues exceeding $7.7 billion in 2017.

Making Sure Avocados Never Go Out of Stock

Berkshire Hathaway

We’ve entirely redesigned the Chicagoist identity and product with Chance The Rapper. We can’t talk about it yet but it’s going to be great! As part of our work with Chance, we also created a site for the Chicago alderman election.

DESIGNING FOR A MAJOR LAUNCH

Chance the Rapper bought The Chicagoist and it's gunna be 🔥

AE Studio is putting us in the best possible position... Here at The Chicagoist we are undergoing a complete relaunch and AE has been an integral part of this process. .. AE Studio is currently focusing on creating a solution that can accommodate large traffic volumes. Regardless of the complexity of a task, the team moves quickly to get things done on time.

The Chicagoist

As a purveyor of plant-based skin care, bioClarity aspires to make healthy beauty more accessible and be a part of consumers’ overall well-care. Founded as a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand, we helped bioClarity build a subscription management system to improve their customer experience. The system offers a self-service quiz to triage cancels and helps customers solve subscription problems while capturing insights to improve bioClarity’s product line. They recently landed $13M in funding.

It Puts the Lotion in The Basket

BioClarity

Ritual, a subscription women’s multivitamin brand, wanted to create a new stand-alone site for their new year’s resolution. The result is a first of its kind blend of retail and meaningful, mindful habit change for consumers. It's an amazing example of delivering value first, helping potential customers be better versions of themselves. Since Ritual was founded in 2015, they've sold 1 million bottles of vitamins and raised over $40M in venture funding.

INCREASING AGENCY FOR THE NEW YEAR

Making Adults Take their Vitamins

Resolutions to Rituals

Gallant is revolutionizing veterinary care by offering stem cell banking for pets. We started working with Gallant pre-launch and acted as their tech & product team until today. We redesigned the whole marketing website, added content and extra features to improve SEO and user experience, while the product launched nation-wide and the team killed it on Shark Tank!

We also developed Gallant’s custom checkout and complete back-end systems for lab technicians to manage sample data. Throughout this time, traffic more than tripled and website conversions increased 30x.

Portfolio - Gallant

Investing in your furriest family member's health

Gallant

Canara (now CPG Data Center Innovators) is a major company in the smart battery sector, successfully applying predictive technology to batteries and deploying this across their services. They monitor hundreds of power supply battery units in data centers, and forecasts the failure time so that their customers can swap their batteries out well before failure. The better the forecast, the more money their customers can save by swapping their batteries later. Canara was using a crude polynomial fit to perform the forecast before we added a Kalman filter forecast, which alone improved the prediction relative to the polynomial fit and on top of that, built a machine learning model that improved the forecast further. A large portion of the project involved handling the multitude of battery makes and models and cleaning up/smoothing/aggregating the raw, noisy time series data (which was of different collection frequencies and calibrations)

Halp. Low Battery

CPG Data Center Innovators

Streamoid is building a superintelligent AI platform for fashion and retail and came to AE for R&D and to productionalize computer vision and natural language processing algorithms (both classical and deep-learning-based) to enhance their search and production recommendation offerings. We also worked with them to make their large-scale fashion data acquistion more efficient via sophisticated web scraping algorithms. They have since been included in Gartner’s list of “Cool Vendors in Artificial Intelligence for Customer Analytics”, were selected to join Target's Accelerator Program, and have brands from the Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. group and Spains’ largest retailer among their customers.

garment classifier across 100+ categories

Performance

Partnership with Target
Raised multiple rounds of venture capital

Outcome

AI that Makes You Like, Really Pretty

Streamoid

Our.news had a Chrome extension that allowed users to rate and fact check the news through a crowdsourced method and wanted to build a mobile app. We created a native iOS app that allowed users to open articles with Flipboard, Facebook, etc and rate them, fact check them, and get information about the news source itself without leaving the app.

Real Startup. Not FAKE NEWS.

This is the smartest development team I've worked with in 20 years of developing software. Everyone on the team is not only intellectually brilliant but did a very good job of translating our business needs to practical development with positive outcomes. Extremely productive working relationship with the entire team. I would never hesitate to recommend this group to anybody for any software development. I'm highly impressed.

our.news

Bloom is revolutionizing health tech with daily urinalysis to track your 15+ important medical bio-marketers: Ketones, Vitamin-C, Hydration, etc. The Bloom computer vision algorithm wasn’t performing where the team needed to reach their next inflection point, raise follow-on funding, and launch to the masses. Our team worked with them to dramatically improve their technology, add additional functionality, and get to the next level.

Improvement: +190% existing algorithm improvement.
Outcome: 5k+ pre-orders for the product, raised financing for launch in April.

Revolutionizing Health Tech

Bloom Health

WhereTo is a customizable, enterprise-travel platform we helped successfully build and manage to $8M in Series A funding. Now used by hundreds of thousands of employees, we worked with their with first Fortune 10 client and implemented core data science needed to intelligently pair the right hotels with the right flights booked at the perfect time.

Helping AI Learn to Travel 😮

WhereTo

10+ cryptocurrency users over a 2-week project

üNiFi is an innovative cryptocurrency platform that allows users to borrow, lend and earn interest on their crypto. We've been designing the üNiFi website, as well as running a full user research project. Collecting feedback from users in the cryptocurrency space allowed us to think strategically in order to build the next iteration of the product.

We were super impressed by the team's at AE Studio. Their ability to listen to our ideas, build our website quickly and iterate on it by collecting honest, unbiased feedback from potential users in just a matter of days definitely helped us build the right thing!

üNiFi

DEVELOPING A CROSS-PLATFORM, B2B AND B2C APPAREL EMPIRE

Best Apps is a technology company whose products focus on custom apparel. Their platform allows fans to collaborate with brands, celebrities, athletes and more to create unique wearables. We worked alongside their team to build technology from the ground up, resulting in numerous rounds of funding.

With more than 320,000 downloads, their main iOS app also allows users to design a shirt from their phone/tablets in the easiest way possible. We also launched major A-list celebrities e-commerce stores featuring customizable merch, racking over 4 millions visits within 3 days and the sale of countless one-of-one products.

They were very accommodating from the beginning, offering support wherever needed. The project was always well-staffed because of their team’s skill level. In their past few years of growth, they bring in quality talent and maintain professionalism. We’ve had audits and advisors review the code, and everything is top-notch.

Best Apps

200+ conversations with retail owners & employees

nJoy is a retail-tech app that connects local retailers with customers and travellers. Throughout a 3 month long, we have had over 200 conversations with business owners and employees in the retail, luxury and hospitality world. This in depth research and insights lead to closing our first contract with a major luxury hotel, as well as bring nJoy through another successful round of funding.

The team at AE Studio allowed us to quickly get in front of users and secure our first strategic partnership. They were able to get up to speed on our complex product in record time, while iterating on our first version by constantly collecting user feedback.

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