[vonnik]

Horizontal means platforms, frameworks and tooling that are agnostic to the industry they're applied to.

Skymind is a machine-learning operations company (one of several): we help businesses train, deploy, monitor and update AI models. The same software is used by telecoms, finance, e-commerce and automotive companies -- horizontal.

There are countless vertical specific companies: e.g. Merlon applies ML to anti-money laundering.