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Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback.

Bluesky is a social media network that enables users to engage with communities and express creativity. The platform allows users to customize their feeds and provides moderation tools for content management. It focuses on user control over the social media experience.

Billables AI is the AI platform for modern professional services including lawyers, consultants, accountants, and marketers. The flagship product, the Automated Billable Time Report, helps professional service providers streamline their billing process and recover more billable time. The software integrates with workflows (like Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Zoom), and captures billable time in the background, generating a completed time report with client matching and auto-generated descriptions that are personalized to each user.

Somite.ai is a venture-backed company aiming to become the OpenAI of stem cell biology, developing AI foundation models to produce human tissue for cell therapies at scale for diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and muscular dystrophies. Somite's AI platform, AlphaStem, fuels a virtuous cycle: It enables new cell therapies, generating massive data that further improve the platform, empowering even faster therapy creation with broader applications. The company's pipeline includes the promising SMT-M01 program for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the SMT-B01 program for metabolic disorders. Incorporated in Oct. 2023, Somite.ai has raised over $10m to date.

Tessl is a technology company that specializes in AI-native software development. It offers an AI-powered platform that generates, maintains, and tests code, ensuring high-quality, secure, and self-maintaining software tailored to users' requirements. This platform is designed to be modular, scalable, and future-proof, allowing developers to create software that is compatible with emerging AI technologies.

Lunar.dev offers a platform designed to efficiently manage and optimize the use of third-party APIs at scale. It helps businesses effectively monitor API consumption, reducing costs and maintaining optimal performance without requiring additional coding or middleware.

Founded in 2022, Digma is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It specializes in a continuous feedback platform that automatically identifies and resolves real-time performance issues in high-transaction volume companies. The platform provides insights to improve code efficiency, meet service level objectives (SLOs), and prepare services for scale.

Flyby Robotics develops American-made autonomous drones designed for on-device machine learning at the edge, with no critical Chinese electronic components. The company provides a platform that simplifies running ML-heavy applications on drones and delivers a practical field experience for operators to execute complex autonomous missions. Its drones support applications across drone delivery, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, and public safety. Flyby Robotics also offers programmable drones engineered for GPU-based edge computing, featuring advanced processing power, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable connectivity to enable operators in various industries to perform sophisticated missions with confidence and efficiency.

Blip is a developer of a bill payment platform intended for fintech companies. Their platform offers bill payment API and white label front end experience, providing community financial institutions with proactive ways for customers to lower their bills, manage cash flow, and find new services.

Keyplay is a Seattle-based software company established in 2022, specializing in account research solutions for B2B teams. The company has developed a subscription-based platform that aggregates and identifies sales leads, significantly enhancing sales efficiency. By utilizing data sourced from company websites, web crawlers, public application programming interfaces, and customer inputs, Keyplay's platform enables sales and marketing teams to streamline their processes and reduce manual efforts. This innovative approach empowers businesses to optimize their sales strategies and improve overall performance.

Merge simplifies secure data access by offering Unified APIs across key software categories like HRIS, accounting, CRM, and file storage. It handles the entire integration lifecycle, from initial build to maintenance, enabling thousands of companies to unblock sales, reduce churn, accelerate product launch, and save engineering resources.

Uiflow is a technology company that specializes in providing a no-code platform for building production applications using enterprise data. Founded in 2020 by Sol Eun and Eric Rowell, Uiflow enables its clients to create secure, scalable, and custom applications or integrate Uiflow components into existing applications. This capability allows businesses to meet the growing demand for modern user experiences without requiring extensive coding knowledge.

Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company that focuses on simplifying how small and medium-sized businesses harness their customer messages to transform connections into revenue. Its business solution drives sales for message-first SMBs by running all stages of the customer support and marketing funnel, enabling campaign activation and retargeting, and removing the friction from message-driven sales by treating customers like people, not tickets.

Kasheesh is a fintech company offering a digital payment platform. This platform enables users to split transactions across multiple credit and debit cards, creating virtual cards for payments at Mastercard-accepting locations. It aims to enhance budget management and avoid traditional credit pitfalls and hidden fees.

Diversion develops a cutting-edge code management platform that enhances collaboration among software development teams. Its platform offers synchronized environments, custom metadata for repository objects, and a cloud workspace, ensuring secure and efficient collaboration on large-scale code bases while improving developer experience.

Pyte is a secure data collaboration solutions provider that specializes in enabling enterprises to utilize and share data while preserving confidentiality throughout the entire data lifecycle. The company's innovative platform employs advanced cryptographic technology, allowing for computations on encrypted data without decryption, thus facilitating secure collaboration across cloud environments and between multiple organizations. This technology is particularly valuable in various applications, including co-marketing, drug discovery, and fraud detection, enabling businesses to leverage their data in a privacy-compliant manner without the risk of data breaches. Founded by experts with a strong academic background, including six PhDs and several world-renowned specialists in secure computation, Pyte is committed to advancing the field of secure data utilization.

Semper is a financial services provider that specializes in venture liquidity finance, facilitating recurring and end-to-end secondary transactions for fast-growing startups. The company aims to enhance financial liquidity for stakeholders within the startup ecosystem, enabling them to de-risk their investments and capitalize on their hard work. By focusing on governance and regulation, Semper strives to create value for all parties involved, including entrepreneurs and investors, by providing structured opportunities for equity liquidation.

Livus is a company that specializes in providing an online course creation platform aimed at educators and content creators. The platform enables users to develop and sell their own courses by offering customizable class course pages, which can be tailored with integrated communication channels and payment options. In addition to course creation, Livus offers mentorship services, workshops, and various digital products, facilitating a comprehensive learning experience for users. Through these services, the company supports individuals in monetizing their knowledge and skills effectively.

Byteboard is a company that has transformed the technical interview process to enhance its effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness. It offers a project-based interview system that is identity-blind, focusing on evaluating the engineering skills that are relevant to real job tasks. This innovative approach not only streamlines the interview process but also significantly improves the onsite-to-offer rates for its clients, which include notable firms such as Dropbox, Lyft, and Robinhood. By prioritizing relevant skills and reducing interview times, Byteboard provides a more equitable experience for all candidates, allowing companies to make better hiring decisions.

ScanPay is used to accept payments from customers using a smartphone. They allow their users to collect digital payments, get payouts instantly, and create professional invoices. They offer multiple payment options to customers to accept payments without a card reader.

Zuddl is a conference management company that specializes in providing an online platform for hosting and managing a variety of events, including conferences, workshops, expos, and hybrid gatherings. Founded in 2020 and based in both Hyderabad, India, and San Francisco, California, Zuddl's platform is designed to facilitate high-impact interactions through features such as attendee networking, discussion tables, and polls. This cloud-based software allows organizations to create customized digital spaces that enhance engagement and interaction among attendees, enabling events to go live in minutes. Through its innovative approach, Zuddl aims to transform the way events are conducted in the digital age.

Party Round is building better tools for founders, starting with an automated fundraising tool. Generate and send docs, collect signatures, and receive funds, automating your raise from open to close.

Founded in 2020, Cheaf is a Mexican tech company that operates a mobile marketplace. This platform connects food stores with surplus items to users who can purchase these at significant discounts, thereby reducing food waste.

REWORTH facilitates interactions between banks and merchants by leveraging cashback incentives. It uses anonymous transactional data to personalize offers, boost engagement, and provide real-time business intelligence. REWORTH's API infrastructure enables third-party services like credit scoring and fraud prevention.

Akudo is a neobank specializing in financial services for teenagers. It offers personalized debit cards that enable independent use while promoting responsible money management through gamification and rewards for good financial habits. Akudo's platform also facilitates parental controls, allowing parents to monitor their teens' spending.

Mountaintop Studios is a game development studio focused on creating challenging multiplayer games. The studio specializes in shooter games that draw inspiration from classic titles, catering to players who seek cooperative gaming experiences with friends. By emphasizing teamwork and competitive gameplay, Mountaintop Studios aims to provide engaging and dynamic gaming opportunities for its audience.

Osana is a healthtech company offering an omnichannel platform focused on patient-centric care. This platform aims to optimize resource usage by providing services such as clinical analysis, emergency ambulance services, video consultations, and data-driven insights.

Typedream is a website builder with a familiar text-editing interface and beautiful built-in defaults that makes building websites really fast and easy

Drata is a Trust Management Platform based in San Diego, California, founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz. The company specializes in security compliance automation, assisting organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with various standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, and NIST CSF. Drata's platform offers continuous, automated monitoring and evidence collection, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with annual audits. By providing actionable insights, reports, alerts, and seamless SaaS integrations, Drata enables enterprises to build trust with their users and partners while facilitating secure business growth.

Juniper develops a behavioral health practice management software designed to streamline the logistical operations of clinics. The platform integrates various functions, including patient onboarding and billing, into a single cohesive system. It focuses on reducing manual tasks that clinicians typically encounter, thereby enhancing efficiency. Additionally, Juniper's software emphasizes compatibility with third-party applications, allowing for better automation and accountability across clinic operations. This holistic approach enables clinics to improve their reporting capabilities and manage their databases more effectively, ultimately supporting their growth and operational scalability.

Alectio is a developer of an innovative, full-stack machine learning platform designed to streamline the data preparation process for machine learning teams. The platform enables users to prepare, curate, annotate, manage, version, and visualize training data with minimal effort and in near-real-time. Alectio’s technology is founded on the principle that machine learning models can achieve comparable or superior performance using significantly less data, which in turn reduces costs associated with labeling, storage, and computation. The platform features a managed active learning service that allows for continuous model training and evaluation while minimizing reliance on engineering resources. By facilitating a simultaneous approach to model and dataset development, Alectio aims to accelerate time to market and enhance the efficiency and profitability of artificial intelligence initiatives. Overall, Alectio unlocks the potential of existing data, helping organizations optimize model performance while saving both time and financial resources.