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Gruve is an early-stage growth firm, specializes in providing innovative AI-driven solutions.

Opanga Networks is a Seattle‑based company founded in 2005 that develops software solutions for mobile network operators and the entertainment sector. Its flagship products include a network‑coordinated scheduler that operators integrate into existing infrastructure, a lightweight mobile video platform for Android and iOS, and a radio access network technology that detects and reclaims surplus capacity in real time to extend network life and reduce capital expenditures. The company applies machine learning to optimize network performance, lower operating costs, and reduce carbon footprints, providing deeper insights and improved consumer experience. Opanga Networks partners with Kapsch CarrierCom to enhance its offerings.

GetReal specializes in advanced digital content verification and real-time communication security. It offers solutions to detect and authenticate content, safeguarding against manipulation and deception by malicious synthetic content and deepfakes.

SpecterOps is a cybersecurity firm offering products, services, and training to help enterprises safeguard against sophisticated attacks. They assist businesses in closing attack vectors, evaluating and enhancing security operations programs, providing advanced adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) training, and supporting industry initiatives.

Anthropic is an AI research company specializing in the safety of artificial intelligence systems. Its work spans natural language processing, human feedback integration, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. The company's flagship product is Claude, an AI assistant designed for various tasks. Anthropic develops AI systems that emphasize safety, transparency, and alignment with human values.

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 2021 by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson, SGNL.AI specializes in dynamic access management for modern workforces. Its platform ensures secure access to sensitive data by intelligently managing permissions based on user attributes.

Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

VISO Trust is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in vendor security due diligence. The company has developed a platform that provides comprehensive and actionable information regarding vendor security risks. This platform enables decision-makers to conduct informed risk assessments and make sound security choices by streamlining the vendor review process. By delivering reliable data, VISO Trust assists enterprises in managing third-party security risks effectively and transparently, ultimately enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

Aviz Networks specializes in facilitating SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks. It offers platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. The company aims to drive open-source networking through disaggregated cloud-native applications, providing data-driven intelligence for multi-vendor network fabrics.

Enfabrica develops hardware, software, and system technologies to tackle interconnect bottlenecks in AI and accelerated computing workloads. It designs networking chips and converged memory fabric silicon and software to improve performance, scalability, and efficiency across hyper-scale cloud, edge, enterprise, and automotive infrastructure. The company focuses on technologies such as Compute Express Link to enable multi-GPU configurations and higher interconnect bandwidth, addressing bottlenecks in modern AI and data-intensive systems.

Descycle is a British startup specializing in the recycling of electronic waste and the recovery of valuable metals. The company has developed an innovative metal recycling technology that replaces traditional toxic chemicals used in the recycling process. By focusing on the extraction of valuable metals from e-waste, Descycle offers significant environmental and economic benefits compared to conventional methods. Their approach enables industries to avoid the use of smelters, facilitating the recycling of metals while minimizing the carbon footprint associated with metal production. Descycle is committed to promoting a cleaner and greener environment through its sustainable practices.

Founded in 2009, CorPower Ocean develops high-efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs). Its patented technology features a heaving buoy connected to the seabed via a taut mooring line, enabling a lightweight system with high natural frequency of oscillation. This results in five times higher annual energy output compared to traditional solutions, making it cost-competitive with offshore wind. The company is based in Sweden with additional offices in Portugal, Norway, and the UK.

Xscape Photonics specializes in developing photonic chips that enhance high-speed connections within data centers and high-performance computing systems. By harnessing photonics technology, the company offers scalable, energy-efficient solutions designed to facilitate advancements in AI, machine learning, and simulation hardware.

Query provides a federated search platform that helps security teams gain complete visibility into security-relevant data. It enables searching across cloud, third-party SaaS, and on-premises sources in one place without requiring centralization, delivering visual context and detailed answers to security questions. The solution runs directly in the analyst’s browser, offering real-time access and centralized insights while avoiding data duplication from native locations. By simplifying security investigations across disparate platforms, it supports faster, more efficient workflows and can help reduce investigation costs.

Halcyon is a cybersecurity company specializing in ransomware protection for enterprise clients. Its platform combines pre-execution detection, behavioral modeling, and deception techniques to provide layered security, resiliency, recovery, and isolation capabilities.

Cohere is a platform offering developers and businesses access to advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities powered by cutting-edge large language models. It enables the creation of machines that understand and interpret human language safely, benefiting various industries by enhancing comprehension capabilities and facilitating more personalized user experiences.

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.

Corelight, Inc. is a provider of network visibility solutions aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for enterprises, government entities, and educational institutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company develops a suite of products that includes Corelight sensors and a fleet management system. Its flagship offering is based on Bro, an open-source network analysis framework that delivers actionable, real-time data, enabling security professionals to comprehensively understand network traffic and effectively detect and mitigate cyber threats. In addition to its headquarters, Corelight maintains offices in Santa Clara, California, and Columbus, Ohio, further supporting its commitment to improving network security across various sectors.

Upstream Security is a cloud-based platform provider focused on automotive cybersecurity for connected and autonomous vehicles. The company offers a data management platform that collects and centralizes highly distributed vehicle data into structured data lakes, enabling cybersecurity detection and response (V-XDR) and data-driven applications. Its AutoThreat Intelligence delivers threat intelligence integrated into customers’ environments and vehicle security operations centers. Leveraging big data and machine learning, the platform combines layered security gateways and analytics to deliver real-time visibility and actionable insights on security, privacy, and fraud. The company serves automotive OEMs, suppliers, and other clients, protecting millions of vehicles worldwide.

Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles. Its flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious code implantation. The platform performs in-depth firmware introspection using proprietary machine learning and code analysis techniques to detect threats that originate below the operating system. Validated remediation playbooks help reduce the cost and time to respond to security exposures, supporting protection for businesses, critical infrastructure and consumers worldwide.

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 2021 by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson, SGNL.AI specializes in dynamic access management for modern workforces. Its platform ensures secure access to sensitive data by intelligently managing permissions based on user attributes.

Aviz Networks specializes in facilitating SONiC deployments in Data Center & Edge Networks. It offers platform and ASIC agnostic applications for Network Orchestration, Monitoring, and Enterprise Grade Support. The company aims to drive open-source networking through disaggregated cloud-native applications, providing data-driven intelligence for multi-vendor network fabrics.

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 2021 by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson, SGNL.AI specializes in dynamic access management for modern workforces. Its platform ensures secure access to sensitive data by intelligently managing permissions based on user attributes.

Aliro Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform designed for coding within quantum environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company provides a hardware-independent toolkit aimed at developers of quantum algorithms and applications for quantum computers. Known as AliroNet™, this platform facilitates the emulation, piloting, and deployment of entanglement-based quantum networks, which can support a wide range of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. With a foundation rooted in research from Harvard University, Aliro Technologies comprises experts in both quantum and classical networking, positioning itself as a leader in quantum network development. Its user base spans utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers engaged in building the first entanglement-based quantum networks. The company also collaborates with industry and academic partners through various consortiums and is actively involved in quantum networking standards groups.

Mitiga, Ltd is a cybersecurity company based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializing in hybrid managed security services for cloud environments. The firm offers a comprehensive solution for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats in Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud settings. Mitiga's services include incident response, breach readiness, and emergency assistance, enabling businesses to enhance their security posture. The company's technology automates preliminary investigative work during incidents, streamlining the response process and improving overall breach readiness. Additionally, Mitiga leverages artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to help organizations model and quantify potential losses from various catastrophic events, addressing the unique security challenges faced in modern digital environments.

Binalyze develops an automated digital forensics platform designed for incident response investigations and threat hunting. Its platform enables swift evidence collection, triage, and investigation, generating structured reports to help businesses combat cybercrime efficiently.

RangeForce is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in human cyber defense readiness. It provides a learning platform designed to enhance cybersecurity training by simulating cyberattacks and other threats within a cloud-based environment. This platform enables businesses to conduct realistic cybersecurity simulations and exercises, allowing information technology employees to develop and refine their defensive skills against evolving threats. By offering a sandbox environment, RangeForce helps organizations better prepare for actual cyber incidents, ensuring their teams are equipped to respond effectively.

Nobl9 is a Boston-based software reliability platform company founded in 2019 (formerly Meshmark) that delivers software-defined service level objectives to unify development, operations, and reliability. Its platform helps software developers, DevOps, and site reliability engineers deliver reliable features faster by connecting monitoring, logging, and tracing data to user satisfaction and business KPIs, enabling better alignment between engineering and business goals.

Founded in 2012, Voiceitt develops mobile applications that use automatic speech recognition technology to enable individuals with speech impairments or motor disabilities to communicate effectively. Its AI-driven engine translates distorted pronunciation into intelligible speech, enhancing independence and quality of life for users.

Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

Elevate Security, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in human risk management through its web-based platform designed to enhance organizational security. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Quebec, Canada, the company focuses on shifting employee behavior in response to security threats to prevent breaches. Its platform identifies users who are most likely to engage in high-risk activities, such as causing ransomware attacks or data loss, and provides an interactive learning experience to help them understand the implications of their actions. By continuously tracking security behaviors and measuring changes over time, Elevate Security enables organizations to tailor security controls effectively and minimize the risk of incidents, thereby supporting enterprise growth initiatives.

Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform focused on enhancing enterprise security. Recognizing that over 60% of security breaches involve the abuse of valid identity credentials, Oort positions identity as a critical aspect of cybersecurity. The company offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that allows cybersecurity and IT professionals to efficiently manage their identity and access management (IAM) programs. With a quick deployment process and a focus on reducing identity vulnerabilities at scale, Oort provides organizations with enhanced visibility and control over their identity attack surface. It operates as a fully remote startup based in Boston, MA, and its innovative solutions help clients secure their digital supply chains. Oort is supported by prominent investors and aims to equip security teams with the tools needed to combat identity threats effectively.

Grid.ai, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York, that specializes in developing a platform for training artificial intelligence models using cloud-based graphics processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs). The platform provides several tools, including Grid Train, which facilitates research iteration and simplifies AI research, as well as Grid View, a web application for monitoring and managing infrastructure. Additionally, it offers Tensorboard for analyzing experiments. The company's solutions are designed to enhance the capabilities of machine learning engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers, allowing them to build advanced AI models and applications with minimal changes to existing code. Grid.ai emerged from the creators of the widely used PyTorch Lightning framework, further solidifying its expertise in high-performance AI research.

Tidelift is a company that enhances the use of open source software by providing a subscription service that offers proactively managed components and professional assurances. By partnering directly with open source maintainers, Tidelift ensures that these components are secure, well-maintained, and compliant with licensing requirements. This approach allows businesses to leverage high-quality open source projects while minimizing risks associated with security and maintenance. Ultimately, Tidelift aims to foster a thriving ecosystem for open source development, enabling organizations to create software more efficiently and effectively.

Rookout Ltd. is a developer-focused observability platform that specializes in production debugging for modern applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Palo Alto, California, Rookout enables developers to collect real-time data directly from their live code. The platform allows users to obtain critical debugging information, such as logs, traces, and metrics, with a simple click on the code, eliminating the need for additional coding, redeployments, or system restarts. Unlike traditional monitoring tools that primarily serve infrastructure-level metrics, Rookout is tailored to meet the needs of developers by providing insights into the actual code and business logic, facilitating quick troubleshooting and deeper understanding of complex applications.

AppOmni Inc. is a technology company specializing in security and management solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Bruno, California, with an additional office in Carbondale, Colorado, AppOmni offers a platform that enables enterprises to safeguard their cloud data. The platform performs in-depth scans of APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to identify and rectify risky configurations, improper access controls, and potential data exposures. It provides users with a comprehensive dashboard that offers visibility into the state of their cloud applications, highlights deviations from intended business practices, and allows for verification of application functionality and security. AppOmni's innovative approach to data access management and security is supported by a leadership team with extensive experience in the SaaS and cybersecurity sectors. The company has received recognition for its contributions to cybersecurity, being named in various industry lists as a notable player in the field.

Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

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.

HYCU is a leading provider of multi-cloud data protection as a service, specializing in data backup and recovery solutions for on-premises, cloud-native, and SaaS environments. The company's innovative R-Cloud platform delivers effective data protection, migration, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection, simplifying the process for thousands of organizations globally. By eliminating the complexities and costs associated with traditional data protection solutions, HYCU has established itself as a top choice in the SaaS data protection industry. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and has achieved a notable Net Promoter Score reflecting high customer satisfaction. To date, HYCU has raised significant venture capital funding to support its growth and development in the competitive data management market.

JupiterOne, Inc. is a cloud-based cybersecurity asset management and automation software company headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with additional offices in Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Seattle. Founded in 2018, JupiterOne provides organizations with tools designed to enhance visibility and compliance in their cloud infrastructure. Its software assists chief information security officers, security operations teams, and compliance officers by automating asset discovery, managing cloud posture, conducting risk analysis, and facilitating compliance reporting. The platform also enables vulnerability management, threat hunting, and incident response. Additionally, the JupiterOne Insights application allows users to create customized reporting dashboards and visualizations, aiding in the identification of security issues within code repositories and development processes. By offering continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling across all assets, JupiterOne simplifies cloud security, making it more accessible and effective for organizations.

Edge Delta Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based software for data analysis and security services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company offers an observability automation platform that enables DevOps, Developer, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to efficiently monitor and manage data without the need to replicate or transmit sensitive datasets. By employing federated learning, Edge Delta's software processes data at the source, enhancing security while providing valuable analytics. The platform captures and shapes data in-flight, automatically detecting anomalies and summarizing log data to identify operational and security incidents. This innovative approach helps clients mitigate blind spots, control costs, and adapt to data growth, moving beyond the limitations of traditional centralized systems.

Theta Lake develops an AI-based compliance application for video, audio, and unified digital communications. Its platform integrates with popular collaboration tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and others to detect compliance risks in real-time.

Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Hunters is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for detecting and responding to cyber threats. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers its solution, Hunters.AI, which autonomously identifies cyberattacks that may evade traditional security measures across various IT environments, including cloud and network systems. Hunters.AI integrates diverse security telemetry and intelligence, enriching threat signals with detailed tactics, techniques, and procedures to enhance detection capabilities. By utilizing machine learning and cloud-based analytics, the platform correlates threat patterns and generates high-fidelity attack narratives, enabling cybersecurity teams to respond swiftly and effectively to potential breaches.

WEKA is an AI-native data platform company that provides a cloud and hardware-agnostic software solution for performance-intensive applications. Its WEKA® Data Platform enables unprecedented performance at scale by transforming stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines, facilitating faster and more efficient execution of enterprise AI, machine learning, and GPU workloads. The platform ensures seamless data access across on-premises, cloud, edge, and hybrid multicloud environments. Targeting a diverse range of industries, including life sciences, media and entertainment, financial services, and government, WEKA helps organizations manage their data effectively, enabling them to overcome complex data challenges and achieve insights more rapidly. The company serves hundreds of leading enterprises and research organizations, including a significant portion of the Fortune 50.

Corellium is a developer of security research software specializing in ARM-based mobile device virtualization through a custom-built hypervisor that ensures real-world accuracy and high performance. The platform is utilized by enterprises and researchers to automate and scale mobile app security testing, as well as to conduct advanced security research in the cloud. Corellium's software provides native performance and cloud convenience, along with advanced development tools for mobile applications and IoT device modeling. This enables developers to enhance scalability, efficiency, and innovation within the ecosystem of ARM-based devices. Additionally, Corellium offers on-premise options to meet diverse organizational needs.

Mio, based in Austin, Texas, specializes in messaging interoperability solutions that facilitate collaboration across different communication platforms. Its flagship product, Mio Universal Channels, connects users on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webex Teams, allowing seamless interactions between employees from various organizations. Users can engage in chat, share files, and manage conversations through their preferred tools, enhancing productivity and teamwork. Founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle, Mio has secured $12 million in funding from notable investors, including Goldcrest Capital and Y Combinator. The company aims to streamline cross-platform communication, enabling efficient collaboration regardless of the chat application used.

Founded in 2015, Luma Health develops a patient engagement platform that connects healthcare providers with patients via smart scheduling, appointment reminders, mobile intake, and care pathways. Its platform integrates with EHR systems for insights and analytics.

Expel, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in managed security software and services. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service, which includes managed detection and response (MDR), threat hunting, remediation, and phishing support. The company’s platform, known as the Expel Workbench™, facilitates a collaborative experience, allowing customers to engage actively in their security operations. Users can monitor live investigations or receive detailed alerts throughout the investigative process. Expel’s approach emphasizes transparency and efficiency, enabling security teams to focus on strategic priorities while swiftly addressing threats such as ransomware, phishing, and supply chain attacks. With dedicated analysts available around the clock, Expel aims to enhance organizations' security posture by swiftly identifying and mitigating risks while reducing the noise of false positives.

Wabbi is a company that provides a continuous security platform designed to integrate security seamlessly into the software development lifecycle. By offering a development operations infrastructure, Wabbi empowers organizations to implement application-specific security standards while facilitating collaboration among development, security, and operations teams. The platform includes services such as policy management, project analysis, and automated governance, which help businesses address security concerns within their development workflows. This approach not only mitigates risks but also enhances developer productivity by preventing bottlenecks and ensuring that security measures do not hinder the progress of development projects. Overall, Wabbi enables enterprises to maintain robust security practices without compromising efficiency.

Founded in 2015, Cogniac designs and develops an enterprise platform for AI-grade visual observation. Its platform enables users to automate various visual tasks by connecting diverse media sources, defining use cases, monitoring performance, and integrating real-time alerts.

SeaLights is a developer of a software quality governance platform that transforms the evaluation and management of risks associated with software changes. The platform focuses on mitigating quality risks by continuously collecting telemetry data from all stages of the software delivery pipeline. It analyzes this data and scores risks using algorithms, allowing organizations to prioritize their testing efforts and quality investments effectively. By protecting the integrity of production and enabling software and quality assurance teams to concentrate on critical areas, SeaLights helps ensure the delivery of high-quality software at an accelerated pace.

Qwilt Inc., established in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in online video delivery solutions for cable, telecom, and mobile service providers. The company offers two primary products: Open Edge Cloud, a content and application delivery platform that enables seamless streaming experiences via managed platforms and open APIs; and Open Caching, a platform that federates content delivery infrastructure into a global CDN with open APIs for content publishers. Qwilt's solutions allow carriers to create a universal video fabric, improving network efficiency and enhancing user experience without disrupting existing infrastructures. The company serves fixed operators, mobile operators, universities, and leading content publishers worldwide, including BT, Telecom Argentina, and Verizon.

Whatfix provides a digital adoption platform that enhances user productivity, ensures process compliance, and improves user experience across various applications. It offers simulated application environments for training and no-code application analytics.

Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The core offering, the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, provides context-based admission control to enhance security, streamline compliance, and minimize human errors in cloud-native environments. Styra's platform incorporates features such as policy design, validation, distribution, monitoring, and auditing, allowing users to implement authorization policy-as-code effectively. By utilizing declarative models, the platform helps prevent security drift and errors before deployment. Styra's solutions are compatible with various technologies, including microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive security management for modern application development.

Panaseer is a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that provides continuous controls monitoring for the enterprise. The platform inventories assets, applications, users and datasets across the IT estate in real time, identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards, and substantiates regulatory compliance. It automates reporting to reduce manual effort and tailors insights for stakeholders from executives to security analysts. By cleaning, normalizing and unifying entity data, Panaseer enables monitoring of security metrics and prioritization of risk based on business impact, helping security teams automate reporting and improve cyber hygiene across the organization. The solution ingests data from multiple sources in the cloud and on premises to improve risk posture and cyber hygiene practices.

Blind is an anonymous professional network designed to facilitate open communication among verified professionals across various industries. With over 4.1 million users worldwide, the platform enables individuals to engage in private company channels with colleagues and participate in open forums for broader discussions. Users can share valuable insights, such as job offer details and honest feedback about company culture, without fear of judgment or retribution. Blind aims to promote transparency in the workplace, empowering professionals to make informed decisions and encouraging meaningful change within their organizations.

JupiterOne, Inc. is a cloud-based cybersecurity asset management and automation software company headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with additional offices in Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Seattle. Founded in 2018, JupiterOne provides organizations with tools designed to enhance visibility and compliance in their cloud infrastructure. Its software assists chief information security officers, security operations teams, and compliance officers by automating asset discovery, managing cloud posture, conducting risk analysis, and facilitating compliance reporting. The platform also enables vulnerability management, threat hunting, and incident response. Additionally, the JupiterOne Insights application allows users to create customized reporting dashboards and visualizations, aiding in the identification of security issues within code repositories and development processes. By offering continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling across all assets, JupiterOne simplifies cloud security, making it more accessible and effective for organizations.

Seeq Corporation specializes in analytics software for industrial process data. Its flagship product, Seeq, integrates data from multiple sources like OSIsoft PI and GE Proficy, enabling users to search, cleanse, model data, find patterns, monitor assets, collaborate in real-time, and interact with time series data. Serving industries such as food & beverage, oil & gas, and utilities, Seeq helps drive better business decisions through insights derived from industrial process data.

SafeGuard Cyber offers a SaaS security platform that provides cloud-native defense for critical communication applications like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, and social media. Its award-winning platform gives businesses visibility into risks hidden in the cloud communication ecosystem, helping them detect and respond to internal and external threats.

Securiti Inc. is a technology company specializing in AI-powered cybersecurity and data protection solutions. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Securiti develops a comprehensive platform known as the Data Command Center, which facilitates the secure use of data across hybrid multicloud environments. The company's offerings include PRIVACI.ai, a PrivacyOps platform that automates privacy compliance functions, and various automation solutions for data subject requests, consent management, and internal assessments. Securiti's tools provide businesses with unified data intelligence, enabling efficient governance, compliance, and privacy management. Recognized for its innovation, Securiti has earned accolades such as "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA and "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, establishing itself as a leader in the field of data security and privacy management.

Founded in 2013, ThreatQuotient develops a threat intelligence platform that centralizes management of external sources with internal security solutions. Its platform integrates with various tools for contextual intelligence and automates processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.

Founded in 2013, ThreatQuotient develops a threat intelligence platform that centralizes management of external sources with internal security solutions. Its platform integrates with various tools for contextual intelligence and automates processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.

Uniphore is an AI-powered company that develops multilingual speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis tools to improve customer interactions. Its software as a service platforms cover conversational analytics, virtual assistants, and voice security, including auMina for analytics, akeira for AI-enabled engagement, and amVoice for fraud prevention and identity protection. Additional modules such as auMina QSense and auMina Real-Intent provide real-time insight into customer intent and performance. The company serves sectors including banking, lending and micro-finance, insurance, retail, healthcare, education, agriculture, and government, enabling better service and efficiency. Founded in 2008, Uniphore operates globally with offices in Chennai, Palo Alto, Manila, Dubai, and Singapore.

Valtix Inc. is a software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in cloud network security solutions. Founded in 2018, Valtix offers a multi-cloud network security platform that simplifies the security of public cloud applications. The platform automatically discovers applications and allows administrators to implement deep inspection policies quickly, catering to the needs of DevOps teams. This approach enables security teams to deploy an auto-scaling security service efficiently, avoiding the complexity and high costs associated with managing multiple vendor appliances. Valtix's solutions support various cloud architectures, providing flexibility from secure isolated environments to centralized security models, thereby helping cloud teams meet stringent security requirements effectively.

Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Voodle, Inc. is a technology company that develops a cloud-based software platform for video processing and delivery, focusing on media and entertainment applications. The company's primary offering, also named Voodle, allows users to capture and share business moments in real-time, facilitating knowledge sharing and team collaboration. The application is accessible on major mobile platforms, including the App Store and Google Play. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Voodle was formerly known as Pixvana, Inc. before rebranding in March 2020.

Isovalent develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.

Theta Lake develops an AI-based compliance application for video, audio, and unified digital communications. Its platform integrates with popular collaboration tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and others to detect compliance risks in real-time.

Seeq Corporation specializes in analytics software for industrial process data. Its flagship product, Seeq, integrates data from multiple sources like OSIsoft PI and GE Proficy, enabling users to search, cleanse, model data, find patterns, monitor assets, collaborate in real-time, and interact with time series data. Serving industries such as food & beverage, oil & gas, and utilities, Seeq helps drive better business decisions through insights derived from industrial process data.

Parsable, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in workflow management solutions for industrial sectors, including consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, and energy. The company offers the Parsable Connected Worker Platform, which transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions. This platform allows industrial workers to utilize multimedia formats and collaborate in real-time, improving productivity, quality, and safety. Additionally, Parsable's solutions facilitate the collection of operational data, enabling organizations to gain insights into human work activities and enhance efficiency through data analysis, change tracking, and process training. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Wearable Intelligence, Inc., Parsable has expanded its presence with offices in Austin, Texas; Vancouver, Canada; and Kildare, Ireland.

RangeForce is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in human cyber defense readiness. It provides a learning platform designed to enhance cybersecurity training by simulating cyberattacks and other threats within a cloud-based environment. This platform enables businesses to conduct realistic cybersecurity simulations and exercises, allowing information technology employees to develop and refine their defensive skills against evolving threats. By offering a sandbox environment, RangeForce helps organizations better prepare for actual cyber incidents, ensuring their teams are equipped to respond effectively.

MemVerge specializes in memory storage convergence software designed to optimize cloud infrastructure. Its proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology leverages Intel's Optane DC persistent memory, enabling data-intensive workloads like AI/ML and big data analytics to run at memory speed with consistent data across systems.

Cohesity develops hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data assets of large organizations. Its platform, Cohesity DataPlatform, converges data protection infrastructure including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, it offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution for monitoring and managing secondary data and applications.

Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Mya Systems is a San Francisco-based provider of AI-powered recruitment software, including an AI chatbot that automates candidate outreach and a conversational platform for hiring teams. Founded around 2011–2012 as FirstJob and renamed Mya Systems in 2017, the company serves enterprises and agencies and counts Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 firms among its clients. Its team includes experts in machine learning, natural language processing and data science, and the firm has raised about $32 million in venture funding across multiple rounds. In 2021, Mya Systems was acquired by StepStone, a subsidiary of Axel Springer, to broaden its recruitment technology capabilities.

Whatfix provides a digital adoption platform that enhances user productivity, ensures process compliance, and improves user experience across various applications. It offers simulated application environments for training and no-code application analytics.

Secure Code Warrior offers an online secure coding platform aimed at enhancing software security skills among developers. The company focuses on creating a positive learning experience through its flagship Learning Platform, which tailors pathways for individual coders. By employing gamification techniques, Secure Code Warrior engages users and promotes widespread adoption within organizations. The platform supports a diverse array of programming languages and frameworks, equipping software engineers with the necessary skills and tools to write secure code from the outset. Ultimately, Secure Code Warrior strives to empower developers, enabling them to produce high-quality, secure software efficiently.

Gong.io, Inc. develops and markets a sales conversation intelligence platform designed to enhance the performance of remote sales teams. The platform captures, analyzes, and delivers insights from customer interactions, providing valuable deal and people intelligence. Its Revenue Intelligence solution supports various applications, including sales improvement, training, onboarding, strategy, engagement, enablement, and conversation analysis. The cloud-based platform employs artificial intelligence to automatically record and transcribe sales conversations, integrating results from audio sources and web-conferencing tools with customer relationship management systems. This functionality enables organizations to save time, improve win rates, enhance strategic decision-making, and ultimately drive revenue growth. Founded in 2015, Gong.io is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Founded in 2015, Luma Health develops a patient engagement platform that connects healthcare providers with patients via smart scheduling, appointment reminders, mobile intake, and care pathways. Its platform integrates with EHR systems for insights and analytics.

Theatro develops wearable-based communication and digital workflow software for indoor mobile workers, primarily serving retail, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors. Its platform combines real-time command, collaboration, and information delivery through SaaS apps and, at times, hardware, supported by cloud services, in‑door location, and analytics. The company emphasizes gathering behavioral and contextual data to optimize workflows, safety, and customer service, and enables AI-enabled interactions with minimal processing overhead. Theatro is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with additional operations in Dallas and Bengaluru, India, and was founded in 2011 (originally in Menlo Park).

Rookout Ltd. is a developer-focused observability platform that specializes in production debugging for modern applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Palo Alto, California, Rookout enables developers to collect real-time data directly from their live code. The platform allows users to obtain critical debugging information, such as logs, traces, and metrics, with a simple click on the code, eliminating the need for additional coding, redeployments, or system restarts. Unlike traditional monitoring tools that primarily serve infrastructure-level metrics, Rookout is tailored to meet the needs of developers by providing insights into the actual code and business logic, facilitating quick troubleshooting and deeper understanding of complex applications.

Exabeam develops a security management platform that detects and responds to cyber threats. Its platform collects log data, uses behavioral analytics for threat detection, and automates incident responses. Key products include Threat Hunter, Exabeam Threat Intelligence Service, Exabeam Spectrum, and Exabeam Data Lake. The company serves various industries and has strategic partnerships with SentinelOne and Code 42 Software.

PubNub develops a global Data Stream Network for real-time applications. Its platform enables secure, scalable, and manageable communication across various industries such as healthcare, gaming, IoT, and more. Founded in 2009, PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco.

Voicea is a technology company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based voice assistant software designed to enhance workplace productivity. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company offers its flagship product, EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant that serves as an intelligent meeting facilitator. EVA listens to meetings, takes notes, and identifies key decisions and action items, making discussions searchable and actionable. By leveraging advanced AI and speech recognition technologies, Voicea aims to help professionals conduct more efficient and effective meetings. In December 2018, the company rebranded from Voicera and has since operated as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Kespry Inc. is a provider of drone-based aerial intelligence solutions designed for various industrial applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company offers the Kespry Drone System, an automated unmanned aerial vehicle that autonomously collects aerial data and uploads it to the Kespry Cloud, an intelligence platform that simplifies reporting and generates actionable insights. This integrated solution enables industries such as mining, construction, and insurance to efficiently measure stockpiles, survey sites, and inspect assets, enhancing operational accuracy and decision-making processes. Kespry serves a diverse clientele across North America, Europe, and Australia, including notable companies like John Deere and Fluor.

Whatfix provides a digital adoption platform that enhances user productivity, ensures process compliance, and improves user experience across various applications. It offers simulated application environments for training and no-code application analytics.

Gong.io, Inc. develops and markets a sales conversation intelligence platform designed to enhance the performance of remote sales teams. The platform captures, analyzes, and delivers insights from customer interactions, providing valuable deal and people intelligence. Its Revenue Intelligence solution supports various applications, including sales improvement, training, onboarding, strategy, engagement, enablement, and conversation analysis. The cloud-based platform employs artificial intelligence to automatically record and transcribe sales conversations, integrating results from audio sources and web-conferencing tools with customer relationship management systems. This functionality enables organizations to save time, improve win rates, enhance strategic decision-making, and ultimately drive revenue growth. Founded in 2015, Gong.io is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Founded in 2015, Kustomer develops a SaaS CRM platform for enterprise-level customer service. Its platform unifies data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service through a single timeline view. It serves leading brands such as Ring and Glossier.

Deskera is a technology company specializing in cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions tailored for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Their integrated platform offers modules such as finance tracking, customer relationship management, manufacturing resource planning, project management, and human capital management, enabling businesses to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and efficiently manage resources.

CloudCherry is the next generation Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways. Today, leading global organizations deploy and scale their experience management program with CloudCherry quicker than any other solution. The product offers out-of-the-box integrations with existing business applications, delivers predictive, prescriptive insights that enable business leaders to better understand customer needs, and derive tangible business outcomes that can help drive true ROI. CloudCherry is based out of Salt Lake City, with offices in Singapore, India & Dubai. The company is backed by Vertex Ventures, CISCO Investments & IDG Ventures India, The Chennai Angels & Capillary Technologies.

Exabeam develops a security management platform that detects and responds to cyber threats. Its platform collects log data, uses behavioral analytics for threat detection, and automates incident responses. Key products include Threat Hunter, Exabeam Threat Intelligence Service, Exabeam Spectrum, and Exabeam Data Lake. The company serves various industries and has strategic partnerships with SentinelOne and Code 42 Software.

Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Puppet is an information technology company that specializes in automation solutions aimed at addressing common business challenges. The company offers a comprehensive platform for infrastructure automation, covering areas such as configuration management, compliance, application delivery, and patch management. Puppet's tools facilitate the development, management, version control, and code analysis necessary for effective IT operations. By enabling clients to deliver, update, monitor, and secure software across both physical and virtual machines, Puppet enhances operational efficiency and reliability in IT environments.

Panaseer is a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that provides continuous controls monitoring for the enterprise. The platform inventories assets, applications, users and datasets across the IT estate in real time, identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards, and substantiates regulatory compliance. It automates reporting to reduce manual effort and tailors insights for stakeholders from executives to security analysts. By cleaning, normalizing and unifying entity data, Panaseer enables monitoring of security metrics and prioritization of risk based on business impact, helping security teams automate reporting and improve cyber hygiene across the organization. The solution ingests data from multiple sources in the cloud and on premises to improve risk posture and cyber hygiene practices.

Founded in 2015, Kustomer develops a SaaS CRM platform for enterprise-level customer service. Its platform unifies data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service through a single timeline view. It serves leading brands such as Ring and Glossier.

Cohesity develops hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data assets of large organizations. Its platform, Cohesity DataPlatform, converges data protection infrastructure including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, it offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution for monitoring and managing secondary data and applications.

Tagnos, Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time smart location software designed for hospitals and clinics. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, with an additional office in Singapore, Tagnos provides a comprehensive range of solutions aimed at enhancing clinical logistics. Its offerings include tools for patient flow management, patient communication, asset tracking, operating room readiness, and bed management, all of which facilitate the efficient tracking of patients, staff, and equipment. The company's software integrates data from various clinical systems and tracking devices, utilizing AI algorithms to optimize resource utilization, minimize bottlenecks, reduce wait times, and improve overall patient and staff satisfaction. Tagnos also provides specialized solutions for emergency departments, surgery, specialty labs, and performance improvement, making it a key player in the healthcare technology sector.

CNEX Labs develops storage semiconductor and software solutions, specializing in NVMe PCIe SSD controller ASICs that support LightNVM and Open-Channel operation with native NVMoE I/O connectivity. The controllers deliver high performance with low and predictable latency, scalability, and flexibility for software-defined storage, accelerating big data computing and analytics in cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data centers. The company serves cloud and data center customers and partners with solid-state storage manufacturers to create differentiated storage solutions across form factors such as M.2, U.2, U.3, HHHL, and EDSFF. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, CNEX maintains additional offices in Copenhagen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Tokyo.