In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, Fortune 1000 companies across agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and energy sectors face unprecedented challenges in innovation and adaptation. Applied Invention exists to bridge this gap - a multidisciplinary innovation company that partners with leading corporations to design and build transformative technologies that solve real-world problems at scale. Since being spun-off from Applied Minds in 2014, the team has developed over 1,000 issued patents, creating solutions from computer vision and robotics to biotechnology and medical devices.
Founded by renowned computer scientist Danny Hillis, Applied Invention brings together an interdisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and artists with deep expertise in mathematics, physics, biology, electronics, mechanics, systems engineering, software development, and industrial design. The company's leadership has worked together for over 30 years, successfully building technology companies including Thinking Machines, Applied Proteomics, Metaweb Technologies (acquired by Google), and The Dark Sky Company. By working at startup speed with enterprise-grade quality, Applied Invention tackles complex problems that matter - from systems that help farmers grow crops more efficiently and sustainably, to cutting-edge security protocols that protect cloud infrastructure from network breaches.