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Databricks offers a unified data analytics platform that simplifies data integration, enables real-time experimentation, and facilitates robust deployment of production applications for developers and data scientists. Serving diverse industries worldwide, Databricks' platform supports collaborative data science, machine learning workflows, and integrates with various cloud services.

Pylon offers a digital mortgage-lending platform that enables businesses to integrate mortgage services into their products. Based in New York, it provides APIs, UI components, and capital markets stack for origination, underwriting, processing, funding, and closing of loans.

DailyPay is a worktech company specializing in earned wage access solutions. It uses an award-winning platform to help employers strengthen employee relationships while supporting workers' financial well-being outside the workplace.

Galileo.ai is a technology company specializing in AI application management. It offers a suite of services including development, testing, monitoring, and security for AI applications. The core product is an AI platform designed to enhance machine learning processes by automatically identifying errors and data gaps, thereby improving efficiencies, reducing costs, and mitigating biases across various industries such as healthcare, finance, and insurance.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops general-purpose artificial intelligence technologies and applies them to real-world problems. It conducts machine learning research and builds systems such as large-scale language models, multimodal input handling, and code generation to support automation, data analysis, content generation, and interactive problem solving across industries including technology, healthcare, and education. The organization offers platforms and APIs that enable enterprises, developers, and researchers to build, test, and deploy intelligent systems, with plug-in extensibility and ongoing model updates to improve performance and safety.

Paywatch is a company that has developed a platform allowing employees to access their earned wages before the official payday. By partnering with major banks, Paywatch facilitates low-cost financing for workers seeking immediate access to their earnings. The platform assesses how much work an employee has completed and allows them to withdraw funds accordingly. This service not only provides quick financial relief but also aids employees in becoming banked, establishing credit, and achieving financial stability. Through its innovative approach, Paywatch aims to empower workers to lead healthier financial lives.

Tuum is a cloud-native banking platform that is spearheading the next generation of digital innovation in the financial services industry. Built around a microservices architecture, the platform consists of flexible and independent modules covering all retail and business banking capabilities. The platform is API-based for quick and easy integration and can run on all major cloud providers, as well as on private clouds. Founded by a team of banking and technology experts in 2019, Tuum combines technological excellence with in-depth banking knowledge and packages it into a sophisticated, cutting-edge platform. Tuum currently employs over 60 people with offices in Tallinn, Berlin and Malaga.

DailyPay is a worktech company specializing in earned wage access solutions. It uses an award-winning platform to help employers strengthen employee relationships while supporting workers' financial well-being outside the workplace.

MerQube provides a cloud-native platform for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. Its software supports index construction across equities, futures, options, and ESG, covering approaches from market-cap weighted to risk premia, volatility, and thematic strategies. The company also offers custom calculation services and access to past performance data, helping financial professionals with index research, product development, and governance and compliance.

Founded in 2019, Lentra empowers banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to create custom loan products and enhance customer experiences through its API-driven modular architecture. Its digital lending platform serves over 50 banks, processing over $20 billion worth of loan applications monthly, with 2 million loans processed each month.

MerQube provides a cloud-native platform for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. Its software supports index construction across equities, futures, options, and ESG, covering approaches from market-cap weighted to risk premia, volatility, and thematic strategies. The company also offers custom calculation services and access to past performance data, helping financial professionals with index research, product development, and governance and compliance.

Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

Docker develops an open container platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. The platform enables developers and operations teams to package applications into portable containers that run consistently across laptops, on-premises data centers, and public cloud environments. It provides container runtime and packaging tools, development language support and tooling for building, scaling, deploying, and load balancing, and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the company aims to simplify application development and accelerate delivery from code to the cloud.

Penelope provides a retirement platform for small and micro businesses and entrepreneurs. The platform automates employee investing, streamlines plan administration and paperwork, and offers learning tools for employees, helping owners simplify retirement decision-making while reducing costs and administrative overhead.

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.

Harness is a software company that provides a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform designed to automate and streamline the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform offers AI‑driven pipeline automation, real‑time delivery analytics, automated verification, intelligent testing, security orchestration, and cloud cost management. It supports modern cloud environments, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to accelerate deployment cycles, reduce manual effort, and improve software reliability. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying the process of moving code from artifact to production.

Nylas Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, develops a communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) that facilitates seamless connectivity between applications and email, calendar, and contact services. The company's flagship product, Nylas, enables businesses worldwide to automate manual tasks, create personalized experiences, and gain insights from communication data. It offers bi-directional sync with major providers like Gmail, Outlook.com, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, and IMAP, supporting embedded calendar features and recurring events. Nylas operates additional locations in New York and Denver.

Datameer is a data analytics platform that enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly within cloud data warehouses using SQL or a no-code interface. The platform supports data preparation, integration, and analytics for large datasets, including features for ML and reporting, and aims to accelerate dataset creation and delivery while enabling collaboration between citizen data users and engineers. It offers tools for data modeling, transformation, and smart execution to optimize workloads, and provides capabilities for data discovery, visualization, and analytics across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and tech. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, Datameer targets organizations seeking scalable, accessible analytics in hybrid and cloud environments.

Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Platfora is a developer of data-management software that focuses on helping businesses process and interpret large volumes of data. Its Big Data Analytics Platform simplifies the complexities associated with Hadoop, allowing customers to gain insights into their business by visualizing events, actions, and behaviors over time. The platform aims to empower organizations to transition into fact-based enterprises by making data more accessible and comprehensible, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning.

Pepperdata is a software company that provides visibility and control over big data and cloud workloads. Its platform monitors real-time resource usage (CPU, memory, network, local disk, and HDFS) by user, job, and process on clusters, enabling operators to run more jobs on existing infrastructure and optimize performance of Hadoop, Kubernetes, and other environments. It offers a performance analytics suite called Query Spotlight and dynamic optimization technology to achieve continuous, autonomous cost and capacity optimization in on-premises and cloud deployments, notably on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS, without requiring application changes. Pepperdata emphasizes observability and troubleshooting to help enterprises manage large-scale data clusters, with customers including Citibank, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Securonix, and RBC. The company also provides guidance for cloud migrations, including cost assessments and automatic instance-type selection. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, Pepperdata serves some of the world’s most complex data environments.

Platfora is a developer of data-management software that focuses on helping businesses process and interpret large volumes of data. Its Big Data Analytics Platform simplifies the complexities associated with Hadoop, allowing customers to gain insights into their business by visualizing events, actions, and behaviors over time. The platform aims to empower organizations to transition into fact-based enterprises by making data more accessible and comprehensible, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning.

Datameer is a data analytics platform that enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly within cloud data warehouses using SQL or a no-code interface. The platform supports data preparation, integration, and analytics for large datasets, including features for ML and reporting, and aims to accelerate dataset creation and delivery while enabling collaboration between citizen data users and engineers. It offers tools for data modeling, transformation, and smart execution to optimize workloads, and provides capabilities for data discovery, visualization, and analytics across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and tech. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, Datameer targets organizations seeking scalable, accessible analytics in hybrid and cloud environments.

CrediLinq.Ai is a technology infrastructure company that enables B2B platforms to offer embedded finance solutions to their customers. It facilitates 'PayLater' for buyers and 'PayNow' for sellers, aiming to enhance conversion rates, increase average order volumes, and reduce operational burdens.