Human companies

Butler Institute

Appearances: NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead In the early 21st century, this company was secretly researching techniques for transfering human consciousness into computers as a means of avoiding the hazards of climate change and social collapse around the world.

IMC

Main Article: IMC

Imogen

Appearances: NA: Transit
A German subsidiary of a Croatian conglomerate run by a group of expatriate Japanese shinjinrui from a technology park on the outskirts of Zagreb. Around the turn of the 22nd Century, it was involved in a black-book super solider project receiving illicit funding and support from factions of the global government. Before the project was destroyed by an illegal armed raid on Imogen's R&D facility in Leipzig, it had resulted in the birth of Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart.