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Opsera empowers software and DevOps engineers by offering a cloud-based continuous orchestration platform. This platform enables the use of preferred CI/CD tools, reduces manual scripting, and provides unified insights across the entire DevOps lifecycle. It aims to increase software velocity, improve operational efficiency, and offer unparalleled visibility for business leaders.

Patlytics develops an artificial intelligence engine that automates various tasks in intellectual property workflows. Its platform streamlines processes such as building claim charts, patent-to-product mappings, asset classification, identifying valuable patents, invention disclosure submissions, and portfolio data comparison.

Klasha is a global technology company that provides a platform and APIs to move money to and from emerging markets. The platform enables businesses to collect and send payments and hold exotic currencies through an extensive API stack, supporting cross-border transactions for enterprise clients. It offers secure, fast payment processing, multi-currency settlement, and developer-friendly integration to simplify international commerce in emerging markets. Founded in 2021 by Jess Anuna, Klasha supports more than 120 currencies, with the aim of saving merchants time and money on cross-border payments.

Developer of an application programming interface (API) platform designed for building and launching customer-facing integrations. The company provides access to rapidly expanding categories from customer relationship management to ticketing, enabling developers to add integrations more securely at scale.

Comet Rocks develops an embedded e-commerce platform that enables brands to engage customers directly within online applications. Its platform offers shoppable media, embeddable stores, express checkout options, and ensures brand consistency across the internet.

Global Predictions is a technology company founded by a former Bridgewater team that combines artificial intelligence and financial expertise to deliver a full‑stack platform for investment insights and personalized financial advice. Its proprietary Economic Insights Engine powers a suite of fintech solutions accessed through an API and tailored insights. The flagship product, PortfolioPilot.com, serves individual investors as a personal AI financial advisor and manages more than $30 billion in assets. The platform also offers guided procedures, APIs, and customized analytics that help policymakers, corporations, and investors understand economic shifts and build and manage investment portfolios.

Tilled, Inc. is a payments platform based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in providing a PayFac-as-a-Service solution for B2B independent software vendors (ISVs). Founded in 2019, Tilled enables software companies to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applications through modern APIs and SDKs. This turnkey system allows clients to start monetizing payments without incurring upfront costs or the need for additional personnel. By handling the complexities of regulatory compliance and associated liabilities, Tilled simplifies the payment facilitation process, allowing software vendors, marketplaces, and SaaS providers to focus on their core operations while generating revenue from credit card processing.

Vectara offers a generative AI platform for embedding AI features into applications. Its serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation API enables businesses to integrate conversational AI and question-answering securely, with minimal hallucination, explainable results, and real-time updatability.

Prado offers a customizable digital platform for local meal prep delivery businesses. It enables entrepreneurs to market, sell, fulfill, and ship perishable products efficiently, keeping chefs focused on cooking and customers free to enjoy their time.

Patlytics develops an artificial intelligence engine that automates various tasks in intellectual property workflows. Its platform streamlines processes such as building claim charts, patent-to-product mappings, asset classification, identifying valuable patents, invention disclosure submissions, and portfolio data comparison.

Activeloop is a technology company that specializes in providing a distributed cloud computing platform designed for building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications. Its flagship product, Deep Lake, is a database optimized for artificial intelligence, particularly for deep learning and large language model (LLM) applications. Deep Lake offers a unique storage format that accommodates various data types, including embeddings, audio, text, videos, images, and annotations. The platform features capabilities for querying, vector search, data streaming during model training, and comprehensive data versioning and lineage management. Deep Lake is designed to handle data of any size in a serverless environment, facilitating seamless integration with popular tools such as LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is utilized by notable organizations, including Bayer Radiology and Matterport. Founded by a team with backgrounds from prestigious institutions such as Princeton and Stanford, Activeloop has garnered support from Y Combinator, positioning itself as a key player in the machine learning and AI data management landscape.

Parlay is a technology company that specializes in helping community banks and credit unions streamline their small business lending processes. Its core product is a loan packaging platform, which provides analytical tools, a user-friendly borrower portal, loan readiness scoring, pipeline analytics, and a lender dashboard. This platform aims to increase small business lending conversions and efficiency, enabling community banks and credit unions to approve more small businesses for loans and enhance their customer conversion rates.

Barnyard Games is a gaming studio specializing in strategic games and simulations. It offers an innovative platform that enables user-generated content using Unreal Engine, fostering fun, social, and collaborative gameplay experiences.

Graft offers a modern AI platform that empowers data teams to create production-ready AI solutions with minimal effort. It leverages foundation models and requires no machine learning expertise, additional hiring, or infrastructure maintenance.

Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

Upland is a blockchain-based online game developer operating an immersive layer-1 gaming platform that uses digital representations of real-world properties as virtual assets. The platform creates a digital economy where players buy, sell, trade, and develop NFT-based virtual real estate, earn in-game currency, and socialize within a growing community. It enables third-party developers to connect Web2 and Web3 applications to its infrastructure, expanding opportunities for brands, creators, and developers. Built on the EOS blockchain, Upland supports true ownership of virtual properties and cross-chain functionality for its native SPARKLET utility token. The company has partnered with brands such as FIFA and the NFL Players Association to create branded virtual experiences and monetize gameplay winnings, with users able to convert earnings to fiat currency.

AAZZUR Ltd, established in 2017 and headquartered in London, specializes in developing a fintech orchestration platform. This platform enables businesses to embed tailored financial services into their offerings, such as banking, wealth management, and insurance, without the need for significant tech investment or multiple contracts. AAZZUR's solution aggregates and curates best-of-class suppliers, simplifying customer experiences, driving business growth, and reducing time to market. The company formerly operated under the name BEEONE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED until December 2017 when it rebranded as AAZZUR Ltd.

Opsera empowers software and DevOps engineers by offering a cloud-based continuous orchestration platform. This platform enables the use of preferred CI/CD tools, reduces manual scripting, and provides unified insights across the entire DevOps lifecycle. It aims to increase software velocity, improve operational efficiency, and offer unparalleled visibility for business leaders.

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that provides an alternative to SaaS products like DataDog. It enables companies to keep critical data within their boundaries, addressing security and privacy concerns.

Klasha is a global technology company that provides a platform and APIs to move money to and from emerging markets. The platform enables businesses to collect and send payments and hold exotic currencies through an extensive API stack, supporting cross-border transactions for enterprise clients. It offers secure, fast payment processing, multi-currency settlement, and developer-friendly integration to simplify international commerce in emerging markets. Founded in 2021 by Jess Anuna, Klasha supports more than 120 currencies, with the aim of saving merchants time and money on cross-border payments.

Zenpli is a developer of an orchestration platform that specializes in identity decisions. The company offers a no-code platform designed to facilitate accurate identity processes, including onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, and fraud management. Zenpli's solutions enable businesses to effectively manage identity-related tasks with ease, ensuring compliance and reducing the risk of identity fraud. Its advanced models support clients in making precise end-to-end identity decisions, allowing for seamless business growth while maintaining security and regulatory standards.

Elastio specializes in cloud-native data protection, safeguarding applications against risks such as ransomware, failures, and deployment errors. Its platform, powered by ScaleZ™ storage and inline active ransomware intelligence, offers application-specific backups, automated scanning for threats, fast recoveries, and flexible data movement. Purpose-built for the cloud, Elastio delivers easy deployments, robust protection, and immediate value.

Pontoro is a fintech company that develops a digital securitization and liquidity platform for private market assets. Its technology integrates technical, legal, and regulatory protocols to convert traditionally illiquid private fund interests into liquid investments, increasing investor access and participation while improving efficiency for fund administration. With a focus on infrastructure debt finance, the platform seeks to address the large financing shortfall by enabling liquidity, transparency, and customization for investors and limited partners and by broadening capital flows into private markets.

Polybase develops a web3 database platform that leverages blockchain technology and zero-knowledge cryptography to provide decentralized, secure storage and management of data. The platform handles various data types, including user profiles and transaction histories, with a focus on privacy, data integrity, and decentralized storage for developers and organizations.

Comet Rocks develops an embedded e-commerce platform that enables brands to engage customers directly within online applications. Its platform offers shoppable media, embeddable stores, express checkout options, and ensures brand consistency across the internet.

DataBrain is an AI-powered embedded analytics platform that enables modern software businesses to build, model, customize, and embed action-based dashboards to derive insights from data in existing applications. The platform supports creating and sharing reports with customers, vendors, and employees, and allows users to tailor dashboards with new metrics and filters under guardrails. Founded in 2022 by Rahul Pattamata and Vysakh Sreenivasan, DataBrain serves companies of varying sizes.

Ava Protocol is a blockchain platform that automates complex transactions using smart contracts and event triggers. It offers features such as scheduled payments, stop-loss orders, and automated workflows, enabling developers to enhance privacy, composability, and cost savings in crypto transactions across various blockchains like Ethereum.

Prado offers a customizable digital platform for local meal prep delivery businesses. It enables entrepreneurs to market, sell, fulfill, and ship perishable products efficiently, keeping chefs focused on cooking and customers free to enjoy their time.

Xanadu, founded in 2016, is a company dedicated to advancing quantum computing technology, focusing on its societal implications and practical applications. The organization aims to provide quantum computing on demand, achieving significant computational enhancements beyond classical methods for complex real-world challenges. Xanadu operates a quantum photonic platform that integrates quantum silicon photonic chips with existing hardware, creating a comprehensive quantum computing solution. By combining the expertise of leading scientists with industry professionals, Xanadu seeks to develop scalable quantum technologies that are accessible to a wide range of users, enabling them to address various business problems efficiently.

Kanmon provides an API-driven platform that enables vertical SaaS providers and marketplaces to embed lending products for their business customers. The platform supports term loans, lines of credit, invoice financing, and purchase order financing, covering a range of use cases and allowing software companies and financial institutions to monetize their existing customer base by adding a new revenue stream through embedded finance.

Tienda Pago is a merchant support platform designed to assist small merchants in emerging markets by facilitating mobile cashless payments and financing for inventory purchases. The company focuses on creating an ecosystem where both distributors and traders can thrive by offering a closed-loop payment mechanism that leverages mobile technology. This system allows merchants to buy high-demand products on credit, thereby increasing their sales and profit margins. Tienda Pago's platform addresses inefficiencies in traditional payment methods, enabling seamless cashless transactions and supporting the growth of small businesses within its network. Through its services, Tienda Pago aims to promote collaboration among participants, encouraging more traders and distributors to engage with its innovative solutions.

Oak9 is a company specializing in cloud native security solutions. It focuses on integrating security directly into the application design process, allowing developers to maintain fast development cycles while ensuring robust security measures are in place. Oak9's Security as Code platform dynamically secures Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploys cloud workloads automatically. This approach enables businesses to simplify their application security by providing pre-built building blocks that support various architectures across different cloud providers, ensuring both security and compliance from the outset.

Polybase develops a web3 database platform that leverages blockchain technology and zero-knowledge cryptography to provide decentralized, secure storage and management of data. The platform handles various data types, including user profiles and transaction histories, with a focus on privacy, data integrity, and decentralized storage for developers and organizations.

Aklivity develops an event-native API infrastructure that connects applications and services to streaming data. The company offers a multi-protocol edge proxy and an open source API gateway that expose event streams through unified external interfaces, enabling seamless interaction across web apps, IoT clients, and microservices. By supporting multiple network and messaging protocols, including Kafka, the platform lets non-Kafka applications publish and subscribe to Kafka topics without intermediary brokers or Kafka Connect, simplifying real-time data access. This approach aims to streamline real-time data integration, reduce complexity for developers, and improve operational efficiency across technology-driven sectors.

8base is a software platform company offering a low-code/no-code development platform and serverless backend-as-a-service for building and operating enterprise-grade web and mobile applications. The platform includes an app builder, data management tools, a serverless backend, a CLI, and professional services, enabling developers to design, deploy, and scale software without managing infrastructure. It emphasizes an API-first, configurable backend that uses a query language to ensure portability of applications and intellectual property across environments. The company targets mainstream developers and digital teams, aiming to accelerate time to market for enterprise apps, and combines no-code/low-code tooling with AI-assisted design capabilities and ecosystem tooling; some descriptions note blockchain-based underpinnings to support its platform architecture.

Ockam Inc. provides a serverless platform for secure Internet-of-things (IoT) development. Its tool enables hardware-to-software interconnection, facilitates information exchange within connected systems, manages identities and cryptographic keys, optimizes connectivity, and connects application developers, engineers, and product managers.

Founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Architect.io offers a platform for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in automating end-to-end deployments of complex systems by networking related microservices securely.

Pontoro is a fintech company that develops a digital securitization and liquidity platform for private market assets. Its technology integrates technical, legal, and regulatory protocols to convert traditionally illiquid private fund interests into liquid investments, increasing investor access and participation while improving efficiency for fund administration. With a focus on infrastructure debt finance, the platform seeks to address the large financing shortfall by enabling liquidity, transparency, and customization for investors and limited partners and by broadening capital flows into private markets.

Upland is a blockchain-based online game developer operating an immersive layer-1 gaming platform that uses digital representations of real-world properties as virtual assets. The platform creates a digital economy where players buy, sell, trade, and develop NFT-based virtual real estate, earn in-game currency, and socialize within a growing community. It enables third-party developers to connect Web2 and Web3 applications to its infrastructure, expanding opportunities for brands, creators, and developers. Built on the EOS blockchain, Upland supports true ownership of virtual properties and cross-chain functionality for its native SPARKLET utility token. The company has partnered with brands such as FIFA and the NFL Players Association to create branded virtual experiences and monetize gameplay winnings, with users able to convert earnings to fiat currency.

Founded in 2015, Printify is a leading global print-on-demand platform empowering individuals to launch their own online businesses risk-free. With over 700 employees across three offices and diverse teams worldwide, the company offers a wide range of customizable products, from apparel to home goods, enabling entrepreneurs to expand with minimal investment.

Banana develops a machine learning platform that enables developers to train, deploy, and run custom models via a user-friendly API. This streamlines workflows by providing tools for model hosting, performance monitoring, and debugging.

Shakudo develops an end-to-end machine learning platform that moves AI work from ideation to production, enabling data science and ML teams to deliver products rather than experiments. The platform accelerates development by scaling up and customizing clusters with a single line of code and by ensuring compatibility across data tools, producing a reliable, performant, and cost-effective data stack. By reducing reliance on engineers, it helps teams operationalize research faster and bring AI solutions to market.

ThreatWarrior provides a cloud-native platform for network and digital supply chain protection. Its agentless, deep learning solution analyzes network traffic in real time to eliminate blind spots, identify security vulnerabilities, and stop active threats across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform combines unsupervised neural networks, continuous deep packet inspection, behavior monitoring, network intelligence, and automated response in a single system, enabling organizations to see everything occurring in their network and supply chain, learn the behavior of every communicating entity, and act efficiently to stop threats that may otherwise go undetected.

Opsera empowers software and DevOps engineers by offering a cloud-based continuous orchestration platform. This platform enables the use of preferred CI/CD tools, reduces manual scripting, and provides unified insights across the entire DevOps lifecycle. It aims to increase software velocity, improve operational efficiency, and offer unparalleled visibility for business leaders.

Tilled, Inc. is a payments platform based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in providing a PayFac-as-a-Service solution for B2B independent software vendors (ISVs). Founded in 2019, Tilled enables software companies to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applications through modern APIs and SDKs. This turnkey system allows clients to start monetizing payments without incurring upfront costs or the need for additional personnel. By handling the complexities of regulatory compliance and associated liabilities, Tilled simplifies the payment facilitation process, allowing software vendors, marketplaces, and SaaS providers to focus on their core operations while generating revenue from credit card processing.

Paloma is a direct message commerce platform that enables brands to sell through social media DMs and other messaging channels. As a full-suite commerce SaaS, it helps brands manage inventory, design consumer shopping experiences, and route customers directly to checkout while linking catalogs to checkout experiences. The platform supports messaging-driven shopping with data analytics, collecting millions of customer data points to generate actionable insights for growth. By enabling shopping in messaging channels, Paloma aims to increase conversion rates and create a scalable, reliable growth funnel for its clients.

Quiltt streamlines fintech innovation by offering a single integration point for accessing top-tier account aggregation and transaction enrichment services. This enables financial innovators to focus on product differentiation while Quiltt handles the complexities of data sourcing.

HYPR is a security technology company focused on providing passwordless authentication solutions. Backed by major investors such as Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard, HYPR offers a cloud platform that combines the robust security of smart cards with the convenience of smartphones. This platform addresses the challenges of multi-factor authentication by enabling businesses to eliminate customer passwords and streamline login processes, enhancing user experience. Additionally, HYPR's biometric security technology decentralizes authentication, ensuring that personal credentials—such as biometrics, PINs, and passwords—are stored securely on user devices rather than in a centralized system. This approach reduces the risk of enterprise breaches while allowing clients to access information without traditional password barriers.

Kontain specializes in containerization services for application deployment. They modernize DevOps processes, optimize code production for security, and streamline software deployment.

Funnel IQ is a revenue operations platform tailored for RevOps teams within B2B SaaS companies, established in 2020 by Matt Volm and Ganesh Sridharan in Seattle, Washington. The platform facilitates integration among marketing, sales, and customer success teams, providing a unified source of truth for go-to-market data. It offers comprehensive insights and analytics that allow these teams to collaborate effectively and understand the channels and activities that drive recurring revenue. Funnel IQ's no-code software enables users to build and manage integrations across their entire technology stack, making it a versatile operating system for revenue management suitable for both large and small subscription-based businesses.

Ondat is a developer of a cloud-native storage platform that facilitates persistent storage volumes directly on any Kubernetes node, offering flexibility in data management for containerized applications. The platform enables users to deploy applications and data storage across various environments, ensuring high levels of application performance, resilience, and dependability. Ondat supports containerized databases and CI/CD workloads, providing advanced features such as erasure coding, replication, and data reduction through deduplication and compression. Additionally, it enhances data mobility with replication and migration services, ensuring secure data storage and management through encryption and policy management. This empowers clients to maintain control over their data while optimizing their cloud infrastructure.

Integry.ai facilitates seamless integration between SaaS platforms and over 250 applications. It enables users to import data, sync apps in real-time, and customize workflows using a no-code visual builder.

Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Tilled, Inc. is a payments platform based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in providing a PayFac-as-a-Service solution for B2B independent software vendors (ISVs). Founded in 2019, Tilled enables software companies to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applications through modern APIs and SDKs. This turnkey system allows clients to start monetizing payments without incurring upfront costs or the need for additional personnel. By handling the complexities of regulatory compliance and associated liabilities, Tilled simplifies the payment facilitation process, allowing software vendors, marketplaces, and SaaS providers to focus on their core operations while generating revenue from credit card processing.

Usermind, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating a unified orchestration platform aimed at enhancing business operations and customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Usermind addresses the challenges posed by siloed enterprise systems and fragmented customer data. Its platform integrates various SaaS applications and on-premise systems, facilitating entity mapping and the automation of complex customer journeys. By providing a customer data platform alongside a customer journey orchestration engine and analytics capabilities, Usermind enables organizations to deliver data-driven, omnichannel engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. This comprehensive approach empowers businesses to increase revenue, enhance customer engagement, and optimize costs.

Funnel IQ is a revenue operations platform tailored for RevOps teams within B2B SaaS companies, established in 2020 by Matt Volm and Ganesh Sridharan in Seattle, Washington. The platform facilitates integration among marketing, sales, and customer success teams, providing a unified source of truth for go-to-market data. It offers comprehensive insights and analytics that allow these teams to collaborate effectively and understand the channels and activities that drive recurring revenue. Funnel IQ's no-code software enables users to build and manage integrations across their entire technology stack, making it a versatile operating system for revenue management suitable for both large and small subscription-based businesses.

Appify Systems develops a software platform enabling businesses to design, deploy, and manage custom applications for data entry and workflow automation. Incorporated in 2017, it operates from Campbell, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

Fauna, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in providing a NoSQL database solution designed for modern serverless applications. The company's flagship product, FaunaDB, features a distributed transactional query engine, a web-native GraphQL API, and a serverless query language (FQL), enabling developers to create applications with custom business logic efficiently. FaunaDB supports various data models, including relational, document, and graph data, and offers capabilities such as access control, data isolation, encryption security, and consistent performance metrics. The platform is designed for frictionless integration with various JavaScript frameworks and programming languages, making it adaptable for diverse development environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Fauna is a fully remote organization driven by a leadership team with extensive experience in the tech industry, and it serves a variety of customers, including notable innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA.

Okera Inc. is a data management company that operates an Active Data Access Platform designed to streamline data provisioning, access, governance, and auditing. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Seattle, Okera focuses on enhancing data security, privacy, compliance, and sensitive data management. The platform enables organizations to automatically discover and audit data lakes, create no-code access policies through a visual policy engine, and enforce fine-grained access controls across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including AWS and Azure. By implementing comprehensive data access controls, Okera empowers data teams to confidently harness the potential of their data for innovation and growth while navigating the complexities of evolving data privacy regulations.

Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.

Usermind, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating a unified orchestration platform aimed at enhancing business operations and customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Usermind addresses the challenges posed by siloed enterprise systems and fragmented customer data. Its platform integrates various SaaS applications and on-premise systems, facilitating entity mapping and the automation of complex customer journeys. By providing a customer data platform alongside a customer journey orchestration engine and analytics capabilities, Usermind enables organizations to deliver data-driven, omnichannel engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. This comprehensive approach empowers businesses to increase revenue, enhance customer engagement, and optimize costs.

Particle Industries, Inc. is a provider of a comprehensive platform designed for the prototyping, scaling, and management of Internet of Things (IoT) products. The company offers a range of hardware development kits, including the Photon for Wi-Fi projects and the Electron for cellular-connected devices, along with various accessories like antennas and USB shields. Particle also delivers software tools such as Tinker, a mobile application for remote control, and Particle Build, a web-based development environment that allows users to write and deploy code easily. Its cloud platform facilitates secure interactions with connected devices through modern APIs, supporting developers in creating intelligent web services. With over 150,000 product builders across more than 170 countries, including notable clients like NASA and SpaceX, Particle has established itself as a key player in the IoT landscape. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Shenzhen, China, the company has been recognized for its innovation and impact in the IoT sector.

Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.

Pienso Inc. is a machine learning platform that transforms text data into actionable insights, catering specifically to non-programming analysts, researchers, and domain experts. The platform employs advanced machine learning algorithms known as lensing to enhance both algorithmic processes and user interactions, facilitating real-time validation and adaptation. It incorporates feedback loops that enable continuous improvement through user and machine collaboration. Additionally, Pienso utilizes APIs to integrate data from existing applications, streamlining the creation and management of machine learning processes. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Pienso was previously known as UBQ Labs, Inc.

HYPR is a security technology company focused on providing passwordless authentication solutions. Backed by major investors such as Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard, HYPR offers a cloud platform that combines the robust security of smart cards with the convenience of smartphones. This platform addresses the challenges of multi-factor authentication by enabling businesses to eliminate customer passwords and streamline login processes, enhancing user experience. Additionally, HYPR's biometric security technology decentralizes authentication, ensuring that personal credentials—such as biometrics, PINs, and passwords—are stored securely on user devices rather than in a centralized system. This approach reduces the risk of enterprise breaches while allowing clients to access information without traditional password barriers.

Ampool, Inc. is a technology company based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing an extensible in-memory platform that enhances analytic capabilities by integrating streaming and historical data. The company offers a cloud-native analytics engine known as the Ampool Active Data Store, which facilitates real-time data processing, including stream ingestion, batch analytics, and interactive queries. Designed for performance and reliability, the platform utilizes a memory-centric architecture that enables fast query processing while maintaining data integrity. Ampool serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, telecommunications, retail, media, and the Internet of Things, aiding organizations in achieving actionable insights and improving decision-making through advanced data analytics.

Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.

Agile Stacks, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing a DevOps automation platform designed to optimize cloud infrastructure and enhance machine learning processes. By offering composable, automated stacks, Agile Stacks enables enterprises to accelerate software delivery and streamline data science initiatives. The company's cloud-based services facilitate the implementation of multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code, allowing organizations to deploy comprehensive software infrastructure in a matter of minutes. Agile Stacks aims to simplify and improve the efficiency of managing cloud resources for its clients.

Alpaca is an embedded financial technologies platform that provides real-time market data, crypto and stock investing, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure via modern APIs. It serves hundreds of global applications and businesses, with tens of thousands of active developers.

Founded in 2016, SimpleMachines designs a revolutionary Software-Defined Compute platform. Unlike traditional CPUs, this platform is adaptable to the evolving demands of AI, VR, machine learning, robotics, and big data. It offers the performance of custom silicon while supporting hundreds of use cases, providing a future-proof solution for software developers.

Founded in 2013, Xaptum specializes in IoT security and messaging platforms. Its core offering is a multi-tenant network-as-a-service solution that enables enterprises to securely scale and manage IoT deployments. The platform simplifies IoT device authentication, authorization, auto-configuration, and data exchange over a single TCP connection.

Payzer is a developer of mobile and internet payment applications designed to facilitate payments and enable credit for users with instant approvals. The company offers a cloud-based platform that allows customers to accept payments through credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks, whether in the field or at their home office. This system provides real-time tracking capabilities across organizations, helping contractors to operate more efficiently and effectively manage their businesses through streamlined payment processes.

Founded in 2015, Printify is a leading global print-on-demand platform empowering individuals to launch their own online businesses risk-free. With over 700 employees across three offices and diverse teams worldwide, the company offers a wide range of customizable products, from apparel to home goods, enabling entrepreneurs to expand with minimal investment.

Paloma is a direct message commerce platform that enables brands to sell through social media DMs and other messaging channels. As a full-suite commerce SaaS, it helps brands manage inventory, design consumer shopping experiences, and route customers directly to checkout while linking catalogs to checkout experiences. The platform supports messaging-driven shopping with data analytics, collecting millions of customer data points to generate actionable insights for growth. By enabling shopping in messaging channels, Paloma aims to increase conversion rates and create a scalable, reliable growth funnel for its clients.

Hatch Apps is a no-code platform that enables teams to create mobile applications, APIs, and databases without requiring extensive technical expertise. By providing a user-friendly interface, Hatch Apps allows businesses to efficiently manage and update their applications, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with traditional software development. The company aims to democratize software development, ensuring that individuals and organizations, regardless of their technical background, can build high-quality software solutions. With a cloud-based application platform, Hatch Apps is focused on driving efficiency and growth for its users while being supported by notable investors in the tech industry.

Usermind, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating a unified orchestration platform aimed at enhancing business operations and customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Usermind addresses the challenges posed by siloed enterprise systems and fragmented customer data. Its platform integrates various SaaS applications and on-premise systems, facilitating entity mapping and the automation of complex customer journeys. By providing a customer data platform alongside a customer journey orchestration engine and analytics capabilities, Usermind enables organizations to deliver data-driven, omnichannel engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. This comprehensive approach empowers businesses to increase revenue, enhance customer engagement, and optimize costs.

Agile Stacks, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing a DevOps automation platform designed to optimize cloud infrastructure and enhance machine learning processes. By offering composable, automated stacks, Agile Stacks enables enterprises to accelerate software delivery and streamline data science initiatives. The company's cloud-based services facilitate the implementation of multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code, allowing organizations to deploy comprehensive software infrastructure in a matter of minutes. Agile Stacks aims to simplify and improve the efficiency of managing cloud resources for its clients.

Sentenai Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform aimed at automating data engineering for machine learning and predictive applications, particularly in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT) and logistics. The company's flagship product enables intelligent systems to access the necessary data for real-time decision-making by combining distributed systems with applied machine learning. Sentenai's platform efficiently organizes sensor data streams, making them searchable and actionable, while automating data integration for continuous analysis. This approach allows organizations to gain a comprehensive view of their operations, facilitating agile decision-making by uncovering risks, anomalies, and potential threats within their data.

Particle Industries, Inc. is a provider of a comprehensive platform designed for the prototyping, scaling, and management of Internet of Things (IoT) products. The company offers a range of hardware development kits, including the Photon for Wi-Fi projects and the Electron for cellular-connected devices, along with various accessories like antennas and USB shields. Particle also delivers software tools such as Tinker, a mobile application for remote control, and Particle Build, a web-based development environment that allows users to write and deploy code easily. Its cloud platform facilitates secure interactions with connected devices through modern APIs, supporting developers in creating intelligent web services. With over 150,000 product builders across more than 170 countries, including notable clients like NASA and SpaceX, Particle has established itself as a key player in the IoT landscape. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Shenzhen, China, the company has been recognized for its innovation and impact in the IoT sector.

Sapho, Inc., a subsidiary of Citrix Systems, Inc., is headquartered in San Bruno, California, and specializes in enhancing employee productivity through its enterprise workforce portal. Founded in 2014, the company leverages micro-apps to deliver personalized and relevant tasks and data to employees across various platforms, including devices, intranets, and messaging systems. These micro-apps, which are developed by IT using pre-built templates and a user-friendly drag-and-drop builder, facilitate proactive notifications about critical system data, necessary actions, and important changes that require attention. By streamlining access to actionable information, Sapho enables employees to work more efficiently and make informed decisions.

Sentenai Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform aimed at automating data engineering for machine learning and predictive applications, particularly in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT) and logistics. The company's flagship product enables intelligent systems to access the necessary data for real-time decision-making by combining distributed systems with applied machine learning. Sentenai's platform efficiently organizes sensor data streams, making them searchable and actionable, while automating data integration for continuous analysis. This approach allows organizations to gain a comprehensive view of their operations, facilitating agile decision-making by uncovering risks, anomalies, and potential threats within their data.

Blade Data Limited operates a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) payments platform that facilitates digital currency spending through debit cards on existing global payment networks. Founded in 2014 and based in Dublin, Ireland, Blade provides a comprehensive solution for digital currency companies, enabling cross-currency payments both online and offline. The platform assists wallet and exchange customers in spending cryptocurrencies by managing essential functions such as onboarding, risk management, authorization, settlement, and exception processing. By integrating legacy payment systems with blockchain technology, Blade enhances consumer engagement and the utility of digital currencies, allowing users to make purchases with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin at various merchant locations.

Bedrock Data is a provider of a data management and integration platform that specializes in connecting, cleaning, and continuously synchronizing multiple cloud systems in real-time. The company's platform enables multi-directional syncing and facilitates cross-system workflows for applications such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning. By streamlining the integration of various business applications, Bedrock Data enhances team alignment and provides a unified view of the customer. Its solution eliminates the complexities and high costs often associated with traditional system integrations, allowing users to save time and improve operational efficiency. With a focus on simplicity and effectiveness, Bedrock Data serves hundreds of customers worldwide.