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Peregrine Technologies develops software that integrates and secures data to support public safety operations. Its platform enables agencies to search, analyze, and collaborate in real time, fusing disconnected data across secure networks to support intelligence-led policing, real-time crime data intelligence, and regional intelligence fusion. The software supports community-oriented policing, electronic case filing, and investigation management, helping agencies operate with greater transparency and data-driven decision making. It emphasizes privacy and security controls and facilitates public-private partnerships while strengthening trust with the communities served.

Gridware is focused on enhancing and safeguarding the electrical grid, a critical infrastructure that, when compromised, can lead to severe consequences such as wildfires, property damage, and loss of life. The company has developed an advanced monitoring system that employs high-precision sensor arrays, including microphones and other sensing technologies, to continuously analyze the electrical and mechanical behavior of grid assets. This system incorporates an artificial intelligence processing unit that detects anomalies in the environment around power poles, enabling utilities to proactively address potential faults. By facilitating timely repairs and rapid responses to climatic anomalies, Gridware's technology improves safety, reliability, and reduces outage durations for utility companies. Headquartered in the Bay Area of Northern California, Gridware is privately held and supported by notable climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors, positioning itself to meet the growing demand for power while contributing to the future resilience of the electrical grid.

Tola streamlines financial operations by integrating accounts payable, receivable, and cash flow management. Its platform enables real-time tracking of financial health, facilitating smooth cash flow and fee-free transactions.

Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows individuals to trade on the outcomes of future events. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Kalshi provides a platform where users can engage in trading event contracts covering a diverse array of topics, including economics, climate conditions, media, and public health. This unique marketplace enables users to make informed trades based on their predictions about specific future events rather than traditional financial instruments like stocks or bonds. By enabling direct exposure to various events, Kalshi allows investors to capitalize on their insights and knowledge, thereby facilitating a new method of trading that blends market speculation with everyday decision-making.

Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Alkira, Inc. is a provider of a comprehensive networking platform designed for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Established in 2018 and based in San Jose, California, Alkira offers its services through a pay-as-you-go model that enables customers to seamlessly connect local systems and cloud workloads to its Cloud Exchange Points (CXP). The Alkira Network Cloud facilitates the rapid deployment of multi-cloud network connectivity, integrated network and security services, and offers operational visibility and governance. Users can design their network across various users, sites, and clouds using an intuitive digital canvas, provisioning the network with just one click. Alkira’s solutions are utilized by major enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers, enabling them to activate services on-demand and scale resources based on utilization.

Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

StrongDM, Inc. is a technology company based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2015. The company offers a platform designed to manage and audit access to various databases and servers for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. Its services enable organizations to efficiently create and remove users, manage permissions, and ensure proper data handling. StrongDM's platform simplifies the process of controlling access across multiple systems, enhancing security and compliance. In 2016, the company gained recognition as the Audience Favorite at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, highlighting its impact in the data management sector.

Xaira Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize drug discovery and development. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Xaira brings together machine learning experts, expansive data generation, and robust therapeutic product development to advance treatments for various diseases.

Meter specializes in providing internet infrastructure solutions for businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded with the mission to build enterprise-grade networks that are faster, more accessible, and secure. Meter's full-stack approach combines purpose-built hardware, intuitive software, and streamlined operations, enabling companies to seamlessly run on reliable and modern networks.

Zum Services, Inc., established in 2014, specializes in safe and reliable transportation services for children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. The company offers scheduled or on-demand rides, as well as care services like nannies, for school drops and pickups, sports activities, and other needs. Zum's services include single family or carpool rides, one-off rides, babysitting, and stay and watch services, all facilitated through a network of vetted drivers and advanced scheduling technology.

Unity Technologies specializes in providing multiplatform tools and services for developers of interactive content. Founded in 2004, they offer a comprehensive suite of products including game engines, asset stores, cloud-based development tools, empowering users to create, operate, and monetize real-time 3D experiences across various industries.

Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications. The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platform offers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information. Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Rockset, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a serverless search and analytics engine designed to facilitate the creation of applications without the need for data pipelines or extensive preparation. The platform allows users to work directly with raw data, seamlessly integrating and continuously syncing new data from various sources. Utilizing familiar SQL, Rockset enables clients to perform hybrid search and real-time analytics on diverse data types, including vector, text, geospatial, and JSON data, without requiring a fixed schema. This approach simplifies the data management process and enhances the efficiency of data-driven applications.

Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Graphiant is a Silicon Valley-based networking company focused on software-defined wide area networking. Founded in 2020, it develops SD-WAN technology and offers Graphiant Network Edge, a software-as-a-service platform that connects the enterprise WAN, hybrid cloud, network edge, customers, and partners, enabling rapid, enterprise-grade connectivity. Based in California, Graphiant aims to simplify and accelerate connectivity for large organizations by delivering agility and scalable network performance across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.

Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Mad Street Den is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company that develops a cloud-based platform to build models of generalizable intelligence and deploy them in retail and other industries. Its Vue.ai retail AI stack provides end-to-end solutions across the retail value chain, enabling onsite experiences, marketing, social channels, and operations automation. The MADstack platform offers modules such as object recognition, gaze tracking, emotion-expression detection, head and facial gestures, and 3D facial reconstruction for customizable AI applications. The company serves clients in online fashion, mobile gaming, IoT and connected cars, robotics, photos and social analytics, among other engagements. Founded in 2013 by Anand Chandrasekaran, the company operates from offices in Fremont, California, and maintains additional offices in Chennai and Bengaluru, India, and Tokyo, Japan.

Founded in 2002, SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. Its notable projects include Falcon Heavy, Dragon, Starship, and human spaceflight initiatives.

Founded in 2021, Zoo is headquartered in Inglewood, California. It specializes in creating infrastructure for hardware design, focusing on generative AI to develop full-stack tools that automate and streamline the process of building hardware.

Commons is a company that empowers individuals to transform their purchasing habits into meaningful climate action. Founded in 2018 and based in Oakland, California, Commons offers a consumer-facing application that enables users to track, reduce, and offset the carbon emissions associated with their purchases. The app provides practical tools that help users understand their carbon footprint in real-time, discover methods to minimize emissions, and access a curated selection of high-quality carbon offsets. By leveraging their purchasing power, consumers can collectively contribute to a more sustainable economy, making each transaction an opportunity for positive environmental impact.

Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities for organizations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stairwell offers an innovative platform that automates threat analysis by treating all files as suspicious and preserving them as evidence. This approach allows security teams to conduct comprehensive compromise assessments rapidly, delivering timely reports on potential threats and their impact on the organization. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide actionable insights, enabling security professionals to effectively track threats and their variants across their environments. Recognized as one of the most innovative companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Stairwell aims to empower security teams with advanced tools that enhance their ability to respond to cybersecurity incidents efficiently.

Kumo.AI is a software-as-a-service platform specializing in artificial intelligence tailored for contemporary data management. The platform is designed to analyze relationships and patterns within data, leveraging machine learning to facilitate predictive modeling. By integrating seamlessly with modern cloud data warehouses, Kumo.AI supports a variety of graph formats, including nodes, edges, and properties. This functionality empowers scientists and analysts to generate faster, simpler, and more accurate predictions, enhancing decision-making processes across various industries.

Verkada develops and provides a unified cloud-based physical security platform. It offers video security cameras, access control systems, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace software, and intercoms integrated with real-time insights to address security risks and inefficiencies across various sectors.

Zeet is a developer-focused application platform founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in streamlining code deployment, allowing developers to deploy applications seamlessly across various cloud providers, including AWS and GCP. Zeet's platform offers an all-in-one DevOps solution that simplifies the deployment process, enabling users to manage self-hosted open-source projects while maintaining a cloud-native DevOps setup. This approach allows clients to concentrate on product development and release, enhancing their overall efficiency in managing complex deployment tasks.

Medallion is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 by Derek Lo, specializing in a network management platform tailored for the healthcare industry. The company offers an all-in-one solution for licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment, aimed at simplifying the often cumbersome processes associated with healthcare paperwork. Its platform provides features such as primary source verification, continuing medical education tracking, and document management, enabling healthcare providers and telemedicine companies to minimize time spent on administrative tasks and focus more on patient care.

Middesk, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, is an identity platform that specializes in automating business verification and enhancing decision-making processes for organizations. The company's platform offers comprehensive data on various businesses, allowing service providers to monitor changes in their customer base and gain a clearer understanding of client needs. By centralizing the credentialing process, Middesk enables companies to effectively manage risk and compliance with minimal friction, thus streamlining onboarding and increasing operational efficiency. Through its services, Middesk supports businesses in establishing, operating, and maintaining compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

Meter specializes in providing internet infrastructure solutions for businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded with the mission to build enterprise-grade networks that are faster, more accessible, and secure. Meter's full-stack approach combines purpose-built hardware, intuitive software, and streamlined operations, enabling companies to seamlessly run on reliable and modern networks.

Cribl develops software to manage and control data ingestion, enabling transformation and routing of logs and metrics in motion to the most cost-effective destinations while reusing existing agents. Its platform supports an observability pipeline capable of handling large-scale data with centralized management for many worker nodes. Cribl provides a single platform for accessing, processing, exploring, and collecting data from diverse sources, reducing waste by identifying low-value ingestion and applying business context to data. The software helps secure data in line with privacy and compliance mandates and gives enterprises observability, intelligence, and control over real-time data.

Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Doppler Technologies, Inc., established in 2018, specializes in developing and operating a secret management software solution. The company's flagship product, Doppler, securely stores and manages software secrets such as API keys, credentials, environment variables, and database URLs. It caters to developers, enhancing productivity by working across diverse languages, stacks, and infrastructures, while fortifying overall security. Doppler's platform creates references to frequently used secrets, intelligently fetching them based on the project directory, and provides security alerts to keep secrets and application configurations secure across devices, environments, and team members.

Seaplane IO Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a serverless cloud software system tailored for modern enterprises. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Seaplane IO enables developers to create and scale applications globally without the complexities of managing cloud infrastructure. The company's platform supports on-premises and cloud server deployments, allowing for secure code execution from any location. By harnessing the capabilities of multi-cloud and edge computing, Seaplane IO provides the necessary APIs, services, and support to help software developers deliver optimal application performance to users worldwide.

Lilt, Inc. is a provider of artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland. The company’s platform integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with a translation management system and professional translators to help organizations efficiently scale their translation efforts and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, consumer brands, and technology firms, enabling them to deliver multilingual digital customer experiences. Its innovative solutions focus on accuracy and adaptability, offering features such as multiple translation suggestions and incremental domain adaptation, making it easier for businesses to translate documents without relying solely on human translators.

Kumo.AI is a software-as-a-service platform specializing in artificial intelligence tailored for contemporary data management. The platform is designed to analyze relationships and patterns within data, leveraging machine learning to facilitate predictive modeling. By integrating seamlessly with modern cloud data warehouses, Kumo.AI supports a variety of graph formats, including nodes, edges, and properties. This functionality empowers scientists and analysts to generate faster, simpler, and more accurate predictions, enhancing decision-making processes across various industries.

Salt Security, Inc. is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in protecting application programming interfaces from attacks. Founded in 2015 and originally named SECful, Inc., the company rebranded to Salt Security in June 2018. Its platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs, allowing it to detect abnormal activities and prevent zero-day breaches. The technology learns the specific behavior of a company's APIs without requiring configuration or customization, thereby enabling rapid deployment and effective attack mitigation. Led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and co-founder and COO Michael Nicosia, Salt Security aims to safeguard the core of modern applications against evolving cyber threats.

Founded in 2014, ProductBoard operates a Software-as-a-Service platform designed to streamline product management workflows. Its platform enables product teams to understand customer needs, prioritize tasks, share roadmaps, monitor progress, and engage stakeholders.

Clipboard Health is a healthcare staffing marketplace established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company connects nursing professionals with medical facilities, allowing nurses to search and apply for jobs based on their qualifications and preferences with a single click. Its platform features a comprehensive database of nursing and allied health job opportunities across the nation, streamlining the recruitment process for both healthcare providers and staff. By facilitating tailored job placements, Clipboard Health aims to ensure that patients receive appropriate care from qualified nursing personnel when needed.

Founded in 2002, Athelas develops and manufactures medical devices for remote patient monitoring. Its flagship product is an FDA-cleared blood diagnostic device that enables the detection of infections, inflammations, and malignancies. The company also offers sensors to monitor blood pressure, weight, glucose levels, and medication adherence.

CaptivateIQ, Inc. is a software company that specializes in managing and optimizing financial incentives, particularly through its sales commission platform. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, CaptivateIQ's solution automates commission tracking by consolidating data from various sources to accurately calculate payouts. The platform enables businesses to create customized incentive plans and generate insightful reports, streamlining commission administration and reducing reliance on error-prone spreadsheets and outdated tools. By providing a flexible and automated approach to managing commissions, CaptivateIQ aims to enhance team morale and overall company performance by ensuring that incentives are processed correctly and efficiently.

Clari Inc. is a revenue operations platform based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2012. The company utilizes automation and artificial intelligence to consolidate and analyze activity data from various business systems, such as CRM, email, calendar, and marketing automation. This integration provides sales professionals with improved visibility into their deals and relationships, enabling them to close deals more efficiently and reduce manual reporting efforts. Clari's platform offers features like Activity Analytics, which delivers predictive insights and real-time data analysis, allowing sales teams and managers to optimize their strategies, enhance coaching, and effectively allocate resources. By streamlining revenue operations, Clari assists B2B companies, including notable clients like Qualtrics and Adobe, in forecasting business performance, managing pipelines, and minimizing customer churn.

Ironclad, Inc. is a software company that specializes in contract management solutions for legal firms and businesses in the United States. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Ironclad's platform automates various aspects of the contract lifecycle, including workflows, approvals, and the identification of key terms and entities. Its software allows users to create, store, and manage contracts efficiently, transforming them into searchable and manageable digital assets. The platform also offers features such as automated templates for various contract types, e-signature capabilities, and integration with other systems. Ironclad serves a diverse clientele, ranging from early-stage startups to established technology companies, aiming to streamline and enhance their contract processes.

Observable develops a collaborative platform enabling users to code, analyze, and share insights through interactive dashboards. Its platform supports ad-hoc exploratory analysis, custom interaction, and animation, fostering collaboration via forking, suggesting, and merging features.

Arcade allows its users to create interactive bits of their product that they can share on their website, blog, or social media. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Bluerizon is a software and online data-science platform that powering the intelligence layer of global markets to deliver actionable insights to businesses, consumers and retail traders. It allows its user to grow and scale their approach to the global markets by helping them making smarter, faster and better decisions. Also, It provides a large library of online courses, AI driven price predictions, analysis, normalised data, automation and many more. Bluerizon was launched in 2022 with a mission to create a financial freedom ecosystem for the world and dual-headquartered in Menlo Park, California and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Robust Intelligence, Inc., founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, develops software designed to enhance the security and reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The company offers an automated platform that identifies and mitigates vulnerabilities in AI models throughout the development life cycle. Its solution includes proprietary red teaming and threat intelligence features, ensuring secure deployment of AI in production settings. Robust Intelligence's platform comprises two main components: automated tests for pre-production models and quality assurance checks for models in production. This dual approach enables clients to detect and eliminate contaminated data, ultimately improving model performance in complex environments. The company's services are trusted by innovators seeking to safeguard their enterprises against AI-related risks.

Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Embark Trucks Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in the development of self-driving truck technology for the commercial trucking industry. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating artificial intelligence software that enhances long-haul transportation efficiency. Embark has achieved significant milestones in automation, including successful cross-country drives and the ability to operate in various weather conditions such as rain and fog. The company employs a skilled team of engineers with backgrounds from leading organizations like Tesla, Google, Audi, and NASA, and its operations team has an impressive track record, averaging over a million miles per driver. By collaborating with trucking carriers, manufacturers, and suppliers, Embark aims to deliver operational savings and improve logistics for freight and transportation services.

Aurora Innovation develops advanced software and hardware products for self-driving vehicles, aiming to transform the movement of people and goods. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company operates additional offices in the Bay Area, Bozeman, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. Its primary offering, the Aurora Driver, is a scalable self-driving system capable of operating various vehicle types, including freight-hauling trucks and ride-hailing passenger vehicles. This technology supports Aurora's driver-as-a-service products, Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, catering to trucking and ride-hailing sectors. By integrating rigorous engineering with applied machine learning, Aurora Innovation seeks to create a comprehensive transportation ecosystem that connects automakers, logistics services, and mobility providers.

Medallion is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 by Derek Lo, specializing in a network management platform tailored for the healthcare industry. The company offers an all-in-one solution for licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment, aimed at simplifying the often cumbersome processes associated with healthcare paperwork. Its platform provides features such as primary source verification, continuing medical education tracking, and document management, enabling healthcare providers and telemedicine companies to minimize time spent on administrative tasks and focus more on patient care.

Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Zum Services, Inc., established in 2014, specializes in safe and reliable transportation services for children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. The company offers scheduled or on-demand rides, as well as care services like nannies, for school drops and pickups, sports activities, and other needs. Zum's services include single family or carpool rides, one-off rides, babysitting, and stay and watch services, all facilitated through a network of vetted drivers and advanced scheduling technology.

Domino Data Lab provides an on-premise and cloud-based enterprise data science platform that helps organizations manage, scale, and productionize data science work. Its offerings include Domino Cloud, a managed cloud infrastructure to run, share, and deploy models, and Domino On-Premise, to track, share, and audit analyses. The company serves multiple industries including financial services, insurance, media and technology, health and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, ecommerce, and consumer products. The platform serves as a data science system of record, enabling disciplined collaboration, reproducibility, and governance, accelerating model development and deployment for code-first data science teams at scale.

GenEdit Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, specializes in developing innovative genome editing tools. The company's core technology is CRISPR/Cas9, which enables precise therapeutic gene editing. GenEdit has further advanced this field by creating the NanoGalaxy™ platform, a proprietary non-viral delivery system that efficiently transports CRISPR/Cas9 to target tissues, overcoming previous delivery challenges. This platform systematically screens a library of nanoparticles to ensure safer and more effective delivery, making therapeutic gene editing easier, faster, and more accurate than traditional methods. GenEdit's ultimate goal is to facilitate the cure of previously incurable genetic diseases by providing physicians with powerful tools for gene therapy.

Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities for organizations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stairwell offers an innovative platform that automates threat analysis by treating all files as suspicious and preserving them as evidence. This approach allows security teams to conduct comprehensive compromise assessments rapidly, delivering timely reports on potential threats and their impact on the organization. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide actionable insights, enabling security professionals to effectively track threats and their variants across their environments. Recognized as one of the most innovative companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Stairwell aims to empower security teams with advanced tools that enhance their ability to respond to cybersecurity incidents efficiently.

StrongDM, Inc. is a technology company based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2015. The company offers a platform designed to manage and audit access to various databases and servers for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. Its services enable organizations to efficiently create and remove users, manage permissions, and ensure proper data handling. StrongDM's platform simplifies the process of controlling access across multiple systems, enhancing security and compliance. In 2016, the company gained recognition as the Audience Favorite at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, highlighting its impact in the data management sector.

StreamNative is a company that develops a cloud-native event streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar, designed to facilitate real-time access to enterprise data. This platform allows organizations to manage high volumes of data as continuous streams, providing a unified view that integrates both historical and real-time information. By leveraging the architectural strengths of Apache Pulsar, StreamNative enables various industries, including gaming, financial services, and IoT, to transition from isolated legacy systems to a cohesive event streaming environment. The company was founded by a team of experienced contributors and committers from the Apache Pulsar community, who have extensive expertise in implementing scalable event streaming solutions. Headquartered in San Francisco, StreamNative also has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, China, extending its reach to a global clientele.

Untapped is a diversity recruiting platform that allows companies to hire diverse teams. The platform integrates with Applicant Tracking Systems to help discover, attract, engage, and hire talents. Untapped was founded in 2017 by Adam Gefkovicz and Ben Herman and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Cribl develops software to manage and control data ingestion, enabling transformation and routing of logs and metrics in motion to the most cost-effective destinations while reusing existing agents. Its platform supports an observability pipeline capable of handling large-scale data with centralized management for many worker nodes. Cribl provides a single platform for accessing, processing, exploring, and collecting data from diverse sources, reducing waste by identifying low-value ingestion and applying business context to data. The software helps secure data in line with privacy and compliance mandates and gives enterprises observability, intelligence, and control over real-time data.

Acelerate is an online food platform designed to assist restaurants in managing their digital presence. The company provides a comprehensive solution that allows restaurateurs to oversee their online storefronts and streamline operations, from food ordering to overall management. By connecting restaurants with new delivery-only brands, Acelerate enables them to diversify their offerings and enhance their online visibility. This integrated approach helps businesses efficiently manage their operations and promotes growth in the competitive food service market.

Versa Networks, Inc. is a technology company specializing in software-defined networking (SDN) and cybersecurity solutions. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Versa focuses on providing integrated cloud, networking, and security services for enterprise and service provider customers. The company’s offerings include advanced secure access service edge (SASE) solutions that combine networking, security, and analytics, delivered through cloud, on-premises, or hybrid models. Versa's platform is designed for scalability, featuring genuine multitenancy and sophisticated management tools that help organizations optimize their wide area networks (WAN) and reduce infrastructure costs. With thousands of customers worldwide, Versa Networks is committed to simplifying and securing modern networks across a diverse range of environments.

Figma develops and provides a collaborative interface design tool accessible via the browser. It caters to product teams, enabling them to create, test, and ship designs efficiently. Founded in 2012, Figma aims to make design accessible to all, serving clients such as Airbnb, Slack, and Microsoft.

Thumbtack is an online services marketplace that connects homeowners with local professionals across categories including movers and packers, contractors, plumbers, roofers, cleaners, handymen, attorneys, web designers, application developers, personal trainers, electricians, landscapers, and photographers. It provides personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it, and recommendations on who to hire from a large community of service providers, enabling homeowners to manage and complete home projects by hiring the right professionals. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, Thumbtack helps users plan, manage, and execute home improvement, repair, and everyday service needs.

Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Salt Security, Inc. is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in protecting application programming interfaces from attacks. Founded in 2015 and originally named SECful, Inc., the company rebranded to Salt Security in June 2018. Its platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs, allowing it to detect abnormal activities and prevent zero-day breaches. The technology learns the specific behavior of a company's APIs without requiring configuration or customization, thereby enabling rapid deployment and effective attack mitigation. Led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and co-founder and COO Michael Nicosia, Salt Security aims to safeguard the core of modern applications against evolving cyber threats.

Tessian Limited is a company that specializes in email security software designed to mitigate risks associated with human error and data loss. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, the company offers advanced solutions that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence. Key products include CheckRecipient Guardian, which alerts users in real-time if emails are being sent to unintended recipients, and CheckRecipient RuleBuilder, which allows organizations to easily create and enforce email communication policies. The platform analyzes email networks to prevent sensitive information from being misdirected, thereby protecting clients in various sectors, including legal services, healthcare, investment banking, and technology. Tessian aims to enhance security while ensuring minimal disruption to employees' workflows, empowering them to work efficiently without compromising data integrity.

SnapDocs, Inc. is a real estate technology company that specializes in digital mortgage closings. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SnapDocs provides a platform that connects lenders, title companies, notary signing agents, and homebuyers, facilitating a streamlined closing process. The platform automates interactions among these participants, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and consumer satisfaction. It offers features such as performance metrics for mobile notary signing agents, customizable workflows for lenders and real estate professionals, and early access to closing packages for homebuyers. By leveraging advanced automation and patented technology, SnapDocs enhances the closing experience, enabling clients to save time and reduce costs while maintaining compliance. The company's focus on improving both borrower experience and business outcomes positions it as a leading solution in the mortgage closing industry.

Untapped is a diversity recruiting platform that allows companies to hire diverse teams. The platform integrates with Applicant Tracking Systems to help discover, attract, engage, and hire talents. Untapped was founded in 2017 by Adam Gefkovicz and Ben Herman and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Founded in 2015, Loom, Inc. develops a video messaging application that enables users to record and capture screen, voice, and face, then instantly share the video link via email or message. Its solution is used across various teams such as engineering, sales, and customer support.

Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

DeepScribe develops an AI-powered platform that automates medical note-taking for clinicians. Its solution captures and transcribes clinical conversations in real-time, extracts relevant information, and integrates notes into electronic health records (EHR). DeepScribe enables healthcare providers to focus on patient care while reducing documentation burden.

Ethos Life is an insurance company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing modern and ethical life insurance products, primarily term life insurance. Founded in 2016, Ethos aims to make life insurance affordable, accessible, and instant, addressing a significant market valued at $650 billion. The company employs innovative software to enhance the customer experience and utilizes technology to tailor coverage to individual needs. Ethos policies are issued and guaranteed by Legal & General America, a well-established life insurance provider. The company emphasizes a human approach in its services, striving to protect families through personalized insurance solutions.

Vim Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in a healthcare platform that facilitates online services for patients and healthcare providers. The company's core offerings include online appointment scheduling solutions and referral coordination services, aiming to streamline care delivery between patients and medical professionals. Vim connects health plans, patients, and providers across various sizes and systems, with the mission of enhancing affordable, high-quality healthcare through seamless data connectivity within clinical operations at the point of patient care.

Founded in 2014, ProductBoard operates a Software-as-a-Service platform designed to streamline product management workflows. Its platform enables product teams to understand customer needs, prioritize tasks, share roadmaps, monitor progress, and engage stakeholders.

Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of performant applications in just a few hours, facilitating the development of custom applications that enable interaction with data models. Streamlit's focus is on streamlining the process of building data applications, making it easier for professionals in the field to leverage their data effectively.

Pendulum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company specializing in microbiome-targeted therapies. Founded in 2013 by experts in microbiology, biochemistry, computational science, and clinical research, the company develops evidence-based medical probiotics to manage chronic illnesses, with a focus on type 2 diabetes. Its flagship product, Pendulum Glucose Control, has demonstrated efficacy in lowering blood sugar spikes and reducing A1C levels in clinical trials.

CaptivateIQ, Inc. is a software company that specializes in managing and optimizing financial incentives, particularly through its sales commission platform. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, CaptivateIQ's solution automates commission tracking by consolidating data from various sources to accurately calculate payouts. The platform enables businesses to create customized incentive plans and generate insightful reports, streamlining commission administration and reducing reliance on error-prone spreadsheets and outdated tools. By providing a flexible and automated approach to managing commissions, CaptivateIQ aims to enhance team morale and overall company performance by ensuring that incentives are processed correctly and efficiently.

Middesk, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, is an identity platform that specializes in automating business verification and enhancing decision-making processes for organizations. The company's platform offers comprehensive data on various businesses, allowing service providers to monitor changes in their customer base and gain a clearer understanding of client needs. By centralizing the credentialing process, Middesk enables companies to effectively manage risk and compliance with minimal friction, thus streamlining onboarding and increasing operational efficiency. Through its services, Middesk supports businesses in establishing, operating, and maintaining compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Neeva, Inc. is a software as a service (SaaS) company that operates a private, ad-free search engine designed to help users efficiently find relevant online content and personal files, such as emails and documents. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Neeva focuses on providing a personalized search experience by integrating personal and cloud services. The platform aims to deliver precise search results while eliminating the distractions of advertisements, allowing users to focus on what matters most to them.

Doppler Technologies, Inc., established in 2018, specializes in developing and operating a secret management software solution. The company's flagship product, Doppler, securely stores and manages software secrets such as API keys, credentials, environment variables, and database URLs. It caters to developers, enhancing productivity by working across diverse languages, stacks, and infrastructures, while fortifying overall security. Doppler's platform creates references to frequently used secrets, intelligently fetching them based on the project directory, and provides security alerts to keep secrets and application configurations secure across devices, environments, and team members.

Clari Inc. is a revenue operations platform based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2012. The company utilizes automation and artificial intelligence to consolidate and analyze activity data from various business systems, such as CRM, email, calendar, and marketing automation. This integration provides sales professionals with improved visibility into their deals and relationships, enabling them to close deals more efficiently and reduce manual reporting efforts. Clari's platform offers features like Activity Analytics, which delivers predictive insights and real-time data analysis, allowing sales teams and managers to optimize their strategies, enhance coaching, and effectively allocate resources. By streamlining revenue operations, Clari assists B2B companies, including notable clients like Qualtrics and Adobe, in forecasting business performance, managing pipelines, and minimizing customer churn.

Aquarium Learning is a machine learning data management platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 202, the company focuses on enhancing machine learning models through improved datasets. Its software platform democratizes access to machine learning by providing application programming interfaces and embedding search technology. These tools enable users to analyze data, identify anomalies, and detect failure patterns within datasets. By offering solutions that help machine learning teams enhance the quality of their data, Aquarium Learning plays a crucial role in optimizing model performance and facilitating more effective machine learning practices.

Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows individuals to trade on the outcomes of future events. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Kalshi provides a platform where users can engage in trading event contracts covering a diverse array of topics, including economics, climate conditions, media, and public health. This unique marketplace enables users to make informed trades based on their predictions about specific future events rather than traditional financial instruments like stocks or bonds. By enabling direct exposure to various events, Kalshi allows investors to capitalize on their insights and knowledge, thereby facilitating a new method of trading that blends market speculation with everyday decision-making.

Founded in 2002, SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. Its notable projects include Falcon Heavy, Dragon, Starship, and human spaceflight initiatives.

Robinhood is a fintech company that provides an online and mobile app-based discount stock brokerage for self-directed investors, offering zero-commission trading of stocks, options, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. The platform also supports cash management and aims to democratize access to financial markets through a single app built on proprietary technology. It designs and delivers its own products and services on an integrated platform, expanding into features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, dividend reinvestment and fraud detection, with ongoing development of cryptocurrency trading and derivatives as part of its modern financial services offering.

Robinhood is a fintech company that provides an online and mobile app-based discount stock brokerage for self-directed investors, offering zero-commission trading of stocks, options, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. The platform also supports cash management and aims to democratize access to financial markets through a single app built on proprietary technology. It designs and delivers its own products and services on an integrated platform, expanding into features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, dividend reinvestment and fraud detection, with ongoing development of cryptocurrency trading and derivatives as part of its modern financial services offering.

Zapier offers a Software-as-a-Service tool that enables non-technical users to connect and automate tasks between various Web applications. Founded in 2011, it aims to empower businesses by automating repetitive tasks, allowing humans to focus on what they do best.

Graphcore is a hardware systems company that develops intelligent processing units to accelerate machine learning. It designs IPUs and offers IPU-Accelerator cards that plug into servers to accelerate training and inference, and IPU-Appliance products that deliver higher performance for inference and training workloads. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, the company maintains additional locations in Palo Alto, London, Oslo, and Beijing. Its IPU architecture enables running current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster across various servers and processors, supporting a range of AI workloads.

Founded in 2006, 23andMe is a biotechnology company specializing in direct-to-consumer genetic testing. It offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kits, providing insights into ancestry, traits, and health risks.

Ironclad, Inc. is a software company that specializes in contract management solutions for legal firms and businesses in the United States. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Ironclad's platform automates various aspects of the contract lifecycle, including workflows, approvals, and the identification of key terms and entities. Its software allows users to create, store, and manage contracts efficiently, transforming them into searchable and manageable digital assets. The platform also offers features such as automated templates for various contract types, e-signature capabilities, and integration with other systems. Ironclad serves a diverse clientele, ranging from early-stage startups to established technology companies, aiming to streamline and enhance their contract processes.

Commons is a company that empowers individuals to transform their purchasing habits into meaningful climate action. Founded in 2018 and based in Oakland, California, Commons offers a consumer-facing application that enables users to track, reduce, and offset the carbon emissions associated with their purchases. The app provides practical tools that help users understand their carbon footprint in real-time, discover methods to minimize emissions, and access a curated selection of high-quality carbon offsets. By leveraging their purchasing power, consumers can collectively contribute to a more sustainable economy, making each transaction an opportunity for positive environmental impact.

Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Knocknock.TV is a live streaming shopping platform designed to support independent retailers by enabling them to broadcast live from their stores in San Francisco. This innovative marketplace allows retailers to showcase their products and offers to a wider audience without any associated costs. Customers can engage with their favorite indie stores in real-time, exploring deals and making purchases while participating in live chat. Additionally, shoppers can earn points during their interactions, enhancing their overall shopping experience. By focusing on local businesses, Knocknock.TV aims to create a vibrant online shopping environment that connects consumers directly with unique products and services.

Graphiant is a Silicon Valley-based networking company focused on software-defined wide area networking. Founded in 2020, it develops SD-WAN technology and offers Graphiant Network Edge, a software-as-a-service platform that connects the enterprise WAN, hybrid cloud, network edge, customers, and partners, enabling rapid, enterprise-grade connectivity. Based in California, Graphiant aims to simplify and accelerate connectivity for large organizations by delivering agility and scalable network performance across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.

Salt Security, Inc. is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in protecting application programming interfaces from attacks. Founded in 2015 and originally named SECful, Inc., the company rebranded to Salt Security in June 2018. Its platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs, allowing it to detect abnormal activities and prevent zero-day breaches. The technology learns the specific behavior of a company's APIs without requiring configuration or customization, thereby enabling rapid deployment and effective attack mitigation. Led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and co-founder and COO Michael Nicosia, Salt Security aims to safeguard the core of modern applications against evolving cyber threats.

Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a universal code search tool designed to enhance developer productivity and facilitate code change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph provides a platform that allows developers to explore and understand code across various repositories and programming languages with contextual intelligence. This capability enables efficient code navigation, exploration, and management of large-scale changes, helping developers to quickly find and fix issues without the frustration of sifting through extensive codebases. Serving a diverse clientele that includes startups, enterprises, and engineering teams, Sourcegraph aims to streamline the coding process, improve code reviews, and simplify onboarding for new hires, ultimately allowing developers to focus on problem-solving rather than code discovery.

Okay Software Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in developing dashboards and workflow solutions tailored for engineering leaders. The company's software provides comprehensive and user-friendly dashboards that integrate seamlessly with existing tools, allowing teams to manage projects and personnel more effectively. By detecting patterns in code reviews, calendars, and project trackers, Okay's platform offers actionable insights that help prevent potential issues before they escalate. This focus on enhancing team productivity enables clients to optimize their operations and achieve project goals on time.

All Raise is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, dedicated to promoting the success of female founders and women in the venture capital industry. Established in 2017 by Stacey Bishop and Sarah Tavel, All Raise aims to create a more equitable future by providing women with essential resources, guidance, and support for their professional development. Through its various programs, the organization seeks to empower women, facilitating greater access to opportunities within the startup and investment sectors.

Observable develops a collaborative platform enabling users to code, analyze, and share insights through interactive dashboards. Its platform supports ad-hoc exploratory analysis, custom interaction, and animation, fostering collaboration via forking, suggesting, and merging features.