Hypergiant Industries

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Hypergiant Industries
Company type Private [1]
Industry Artificial intelligence [1]
FoundedFebruary 2018 [1]
Founder
Headquarters
Austin, Texas [1]
,
United States [1]
Area served
Worldwide [1]
Key people
Mike Betzer (CEO); [3] Ben Lamm (Founder); [1] C.K. Sample (Chief Customer Officer); Mike Roberts (CTO); Quentin Donnellan (President, Space & Defense); Tim Paulin (CFO); Marc Katz (General Counsel)
Number of employees
185 [4]
Website hypergiant.com

Hypergiant is an Austin, Texas based technology company, [5] founded in February 2018, [4] and currently headed by CEO Mike Betzer. [3] [6]

The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) products, [7] focused on its CommandCenter Platform. [8] [9] [10]

In August 2019, global consulting firm Booz Allen announced a venture with Hypergiant to deliver AI products for public sector clients. [11] [12] In September 2019, its algae-based air cleaner, was noted by Fast Company as a "world-changing idea", [13] and was reviewed in Popular Mechanics , [9] and other media. [14] [2]

In August 2023, it was announced the Dallas-based private equity company, Trive Capital had acquired Hypergiant for an undisclosed amount. [15]

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