What's a radical company more people should hear about

Semco [1] It is not a new company but they are still miles ahead when dealing with transparency, work-life-balance and many others well being attributes for its employees and future generation.

I would love to see and know more radical companies in terms of methodoligies and personal evolution as examples as well, not only tech.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_compan...

edit: clarification

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements.

Hexafarms (https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring).

The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why it's radical:

* A empty single-floor 2000 sq. ft. space can produce ~200k KGs of produce. Hence also the idealization of distributed and small farms and not those 10-storey robot driven ones. * Possibility of growing 'crafted-produce', say low-sodium lettuce for diabetes, bitter and juicy lettuce for kids (apparently they like it), very high oil content mint plants so you get same amount of mint oil from half the weight. * All of this greatly affects (and positively) the current supply chain. * It's heavily data driven. And this is not just because it's cool. Think of it as openAI GPT, but for X produce.

TypingDNA [1] recognises people by the way they type, and provides typing biometrics (aka keystroke dynamics) as a service via an API. This is currently used for Multi-Factor Authentication in industries like Banking and Education [2].

Don't take my word for granted, see it with your own eyes and even try it with a friend (can somebody else replicate your typing pattern?) [3]

There are free accounts provided to developers, so you can easily call the API yourself [4]

[1] https://www.typingdna.com/ [2] https://www.typingdna.com/authentication-api.html [3] https://www.typingdna.com/demo-sametext.html [4] https://www.typingdna.com/clients/signup

Maybe not radical, but I'm have a really good experience with https://www.future.fit/

They pair you with a personal trainer who comes up with a detailed workout plan just for you. Each workout arrives as a set of videos, showing ever exercise or stretch stitched together. You just follow along the video, but it's based exactly on what you want to achieve. (E.g. 'lessening pain from sitting and getting active'.)They send you an apple watch to track heart rate and ensure you're active.

B/c you text with your coach, and they see you're activity, you have a ton of accountability. So I've been working out more than ever while locked at home :)

Yes, it's a little expensive. But far cheaper than in person personal training. I'm benefiting from it!

Self-promotion, but our company Greywing (https://grey-wing.com) automates Covid-19 assessments and crew changes for maritime.

Over a million seafarers are still stuck on vessels around the world as governments refuse to let them in, and we're trying our best to bridge the gap with software.

Apeel Sciences: https://apeelsciences.com/ I don't work for this company or have any affiliation but they are up to some really cool stuff in the food space. They develop a plant based coating for fresh produce that keeps it fresh for longer minimizing food waste and making produce easier and safer to distribute.

https://andela.com/ is another company that is really awesome and doing some cool stuff with helping make technology jobs more accessible to people all over Africa.

Syapse here! We are a real-world data company working across life science (pharma), hospitals, and with the FDA. We want to use real-world evidence to improve the outcomes of cancer patients. When many think of Health IT, they think primarily of patient tools, which are important. However, lots of decisions are made between pharma, hospitals, regulators and health plans that effect us; and aren't always grounded in what happens in the "real-world". We are hoping to help those decision-makers make better decisions for oncology patients using data, analytics and expertise.

https://nius.tv is a next-gen news aggregator that uses an AI anchor. The mobile app will be released in October.

For now you can check out news videos here, https://twitter.com/nius_tv or subscribe to their website to get newsletters.

There is also a Medium post detailing the tech and motivation, https://medium.com/@calufa/converting-news-into-video-storie....

This article about Everlane [1] and OP mentioning the company makes me wonder if we (outsiders) are capable of truly judging a company of being “radical” and deserving of free marketing by us outsiders / customers.

Of course we can look at financial results, but OP seems to be asking about something more intangible.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/fashion/everlane-employee...

Some companies I'd put on the list:

1) Okta – Single Sign-On as a service

2) Snowflake – Cloud-native data warehouse as a service

3) Crowdstrike – Cloud-native security as a service

A little on the nose, but check out RADiCAL (https://getrad.co/). 3D Motion Capture from your phone. It's already pretty useful in the entertainment world, but once they bring down their rendering times, the possibilities are pretty exciting.

BluWave-AI [1] applying ML to modernize power grids. Not flashy, but revolutionary behind the scenes work.

[1]https://www.bluwave-ai.com/

Radical is a hard bar to get over but I routinely tell people fly.io is the most interesting infrastructure company out there right now.

If only I had time to build all the things on it I want to.

Why is Lemonade radical?