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Thenuka Karunaratne
Thenuka Karunaratne is the CEO and co-founder of daydream, a San Francisco startup building an AI-native agency for organic search that pairs SEO agents with human growth experts. He started making money from affiliate websites in high school, bootstrapped a streaming-search business called Flixed through college using programmatic SEO, and in September 2023 launched daydream with co-founder Shravan Rajinikanth. The company raised a $15M Series A in April 2026 led by WndrCo, bringing total funding to roughly $21M.
Tony Holdstock-Brown
Tony Holdstock-Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Inngest, a San Francisco developer platform that gives engineers a durable, observable execution layer for background jobs, workflows, and AI agents. A self-described tinkerer since age 10 and former Docker engineer, he started Inngest in 2021 with CTO Dan Farrelly after the two met in a New York co-working space. The company has raised roughly $31.6M, including a $21M Series A led by Altimeter in 2025, on the thesis that in an AI era the real moat is how fast a team can iterate.
Default
Default is a New York-based go-to-market software company building the data and infrastructure layer that revenue teams - and their AI agents - use to run sales, marketing, and operations. It began as an all-in-one inbound platform for lead routing, scheduling, forms, and enrichment, then rebuilt itself around a real-time revenue data layer and an AI agent named Dot that plans and executes GTM work across a company's connected CRM, marketing, and enrichment systems. Backed by 8VC, Craft Ventures, and Jack Altman with $20M in total funding, Default serves fast-growing companies including Perplexity, Cortex, Owner, and Airbyte.
Dreamforce 2025 Keynote: The Agentic Enterprise
At Dreamforce 2025 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO and Chair Mark Benioff unveiled the Agentforce 360 platform and declared the arrival of 'the agentic enterprise' — a new era where humans and AI agents drive customer success together. The keynote positioned Agentforce as the fastest-growing product in Salesforce history, having handled more than 1.5 million customer service conversations in nine months. Benioff framed the moment around a central choice: whether AI replaces people or elevates them, arguing that AI built on trust and deep data context amplifies human potential. The keynote featured new products including Agentforce Vibes (vibe-coding), Data 360, Agentforce Voice, and Agent Script, alongside five customer stories from Williams-Sonoma, Pandora, PepsiCo, FedEx, and Dell.
Agentforce Demo Day: Building the Digital Workforce
In this Agentforce Demo Day broadcast from Salesforce HQ in San Francisco, host Leah McGowen-Hare sits down with builders from Indeed, LIV Golf, and SharkNinja, plus Salesforce product leader Nathan Price, to show how they build, test, deploy, and observe AI agents with Agentforce. The episode centers on Agent Script — a newly open-sourced scripting language that blends deterministic logic with the reasoning of large language models — and Headless 360, an open, extensible platform for the full agent development lifecycle. Through live demos, the guests reveal real metrics, best practices like playbooks and human-in-the-loop logging, and the shift toward self-healing agents built with coding tools.
RapidCanvas
RapidCanvas is an Austin-based enterprise AI company that helps businesses move from concept to production-ready AI solutions in weeks rather than months. Founded in 2021 by veterans of Simility (acquired by PayPal), it pairs a proprietary agentic AI platform with human experts through what it calls the Hybrid Approach - AI agents automate data preparation, modeling and workflow execution while human specialists handle strategy and governance. The company targets non-technical business users across manufacturing, financial services, retail, energy and logistics, and has raised over $23.5M including a $16M Series A led by Peak XV Partners.
Fabrix.ai
Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix) is a Pleasanton, California enterprise software company building an agentic operational intelligence platform. It lets organizations design, deploy, operate and observe AI agents across IT, network, security and business operations, anchored by a tri-fabric architecture of Data Fabric, AI Fabric and Automation Fabric. The company positions itself for the 'agentic AI era' with production-grade governance, explainability and human-in-the-loop controls.
Atlassian
Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that builds tools helping teams plan, track, and ship work together. Founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, it is best known for Jira and Confluence and now serves as the collaboration backbone for software, IT, and business teams worldwide. The company grew famously without a traditional sales force, relying on a low-friction, self-serve model, and has expanded into cloud, IT service management, and AI through its Rovo agents and Teamwork Collection.
HubSpot
HubSpot is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that builds an integrated customer platform combining CRM, marketing, sales, customer service, content, data and commerce tools on a single database. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot popularized the concept of inbound marketing and has grown into a publicly traded company (NYSE: HUBS) serving roughly 300,000 customers worldwide, now anchored by its Breeze AI layer of agents and assistants.
8090
8090 is an AI-native software factory that helps regulated enterprises build and modernize production software using teams of people working alongside AI agents. Founded by Chamath Palihapitiya in January 2024 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, its flagship Software Factory platform runs the full software development lifecycle - from business intent to production code - through five modules (Refinery, Foundry, Planner, Assembler, Validator) while preserving the documentation, oversight and audit trails that regulated industries require. The company raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures in June 2026, with Chamath stepping in as full-time CEO.
Convey
Convey is a San Francisco AI workforce platform that lets non-technical operators build, train, and manage "digital teammates" - AI workers that take over repetitive operational tasks like invoice processing, financial reconciliation, and campaign reporting without any engineering. Founded in 2025 by former DoorDash early engineer Rohan Chopra with Stanford friends Will Harvey and Diego Canales, Convey raised a $38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026 and says it has completed more than one million hours of real work for enterprises including NBCUniversal, Unity, Samsara, and Faire.
Mattermost
Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable collaboration platform built for organizations that cannot put their conversations in someone else's cloud. Started as a game studio's internal chat tool and open-sourced in 2015, it grew into the leading self-hosted alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, combining channel messaging, voice and screen sharing, incident-response Playbooks, and integrated AI agents. Its customers skew toward defense, government, financial services, and technology organizations - from the U.S. Air Force to Uber - that need data sovereignty, air-gapped deployment, and government-grade security.
Vectara
Vectara is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company building a trusted, end-to-end platform for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents. Founded in 2022 by former Google AI researchers, it lets companies embed grounded, citation-backed GenAI - conversational assistants, semantic search, and agents - into their products while actively detecting and correcting hallucinations at runtime. Its stack includes the Boomerang embedding model, the RAG-tuned Mockingbird LLM, the open-source Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model (HHEM), and a Guardian Agent layer, positioning Vectara as a leader in factual, secure, compliance-ready enterprise AI.
Robert Brennan
Robert Brennan is co-founder and CEO of All Hands AI, the company behind OpenHands, an MIT-licensed open source platform for AI coding agents that started life in 2024 as an OpenDevin fork built in 24 hours after Cognition's Devin demo. A former Google search engineer who patented an answer-extraction algorithm shipped inside Google Search in 2013, Brennan later founded DataFire and led open source at Fairwinds before helping launch OpenHands with Xingyao Wang and Graham Neubig. The company has raised roughly $23.8M total across a $5M Menlo-led seed and an $18.8M Series A led by Madrona in November 2025.
ActionAI
ActionAI is a New York- and Israel-based enterprise software company building reliability infrastructure for AI. Its platform lets companies build, run, evaluate and improve mission-critical AI workflows with a human in the loop, mapping data across the AI stack for granular testing and using an 'Explainable Exceptions' system to catch model errors before they cause damage. Founded by Stanford-trained engineer Miriam Haart, the company raised a $10M seed round in April 2026 to serve regulated sectors like finance, insurance, legal and logistics where accuracy is non-negotiable.
DBOS, Inc.
DBOS, Inc. is a San Francisco- and Cambridge-based developer infrastructure company commercializing durable execution technology born from a joint MIT-Stanford research project led by Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker and Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia. Its flagship open-source library, DBOS Transact, adds crash-proof workflow orchestration and built-in observability to ordinary Python and TypeScript programs by persisting application state in Postgres, so software resumes exactly where it left off after a failure - without a separate workflow server. The company pairs the library with DBOS Conductor and DBOS Cloud for managing and hosting reliable backends, AI agents, and long-running workflows.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
The Agent Scored a Hat Trick. The Business Still Lost 3-Nil.
A Salesforce editorial arguing that the AI agent conversation has moved past task completion and into 'loop engineering' — handing an agent an objective plus a way to measure progress so it plans, checks its own work, learns, and adjusts. Using a World Cup analogy, the piece contends that a brilliant individual agent (a coding agent shipping pull requests, a service agent resolving cases) means little unless it moves the business forward. Salesforce positions its 27 years of encoded CRM business rules — pipeline stages, service levels, qualified-lead definitions — as the ideal scoreboard for agents to optimize against, supported by four systems (controls, context, traceability, analytics) that form the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC). Customers Zing Health, Telepass, and Indeed illustrate agents running the loop at scale.
Redbird
Redbird is a New York-based, AI-powered workflow automation and analytics platform that lets non-technical business teams connect their data, run analysis, and generate reports through a conversational, ChatGPT-like interface - no code required. Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Erin and Deren Tavgac (originally as Cube Analytics), the company builds AI agents that automate roughly 90% of the repetitive analytics, operations, and reporting work that normally clogs enterprise teams. Backed by Y Combinator and a $7.6M seed round led by B Capital, Redbird counts eight Fortune 50 companies among its customers.
Swyx (Shawn Wang) & Alessio Fanelli
Swyx (Shawn Wang) and Alessio Fanelli are the co-hosts of Latent Space, the #1 AI Engineering podcast and newsletter with 200,000+ subscribers and 10M+ total readers. Swyx — a former Singapore hedge fund trader turned developer advocate who coined the term 'AI Engineer' — and Alessio — a Forbes 30 Under 30 VC partner and Rome-born dropout-turned-engineer — together define the curriculum and culture of a generation of engineers building with AI.
Fulcrum
Fulcrum is a San Francisco AI platform that automates the unglamorous backbone of insurance brokerages - policy checking, proposal generation, certificate issuance and carrier sales prep - so account managers can scale their books of business without scaling headcount. Founded in 2023 by Arjun Mangla and Sambhav Anand, it raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A led by CRV in January 2026 and is in use at nearly half of the top 50 U.S. brokerages.
Mandolin
Mandolin is a San Francisco healthcare AI company building agents that handle the paperwork blocking patients from specialty drugs. Its software automates intake, benefits verification, prior authorization, and claims work for infusion providers, specialty pharmacies, and health systems - the back office that decides how quickly a cancer or Alzheimer's patient actually gets treated.
Medeloop
Medeloop is an AI-powered clinical research platform building an operating system for medical evidence - from grant discovery to real-world evidence generation to point-of-care intelligence. Founded by former surgeon Dr. Rene Caissie, the San Francisco company uses agentic AI to automate biostatistics, study monitoring, and protocol compliance for academic medical centers, health systems, and pharma.
ProjectX
ProjectX is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed startup building Infinity (InfinityOS) - a cloud-native, distributed operating system where every app runs on its own independent compute and GPU inside a single browser tab. Designed for the multi-agent, GPU-native era, it lets humans and AI agents run Blender, Unreal, Isaac Sim, DaVinci, and VS Code side-by-side in one shared workspace.
Warmly,
Warmly, is a San Francisco-based AI revenue orchestration platform built for SMB sales teams. It identifies anonymous website visitors at the person level, aggregates real-time buyer intent signals from multiple sources, and deploys AI agents to orchestrate personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and ads - all within seconds of a prospect showing interest. Founded in 2020 by four ex-Google engineers and backed by Felicis, NFX, and RTP Global with $21.5M raised, Warmly, turns the classic problem of 'who is on my website?' into a fully automated pipeline generation engine.
Prodigal
Prodigal is a Mountain View-based AI company building the only intelligence platform purpose-built for consumer finance. Trained on more than a billion real U.S. lending and collections interactions, its AI agents and applications - proAgent, proCollect, proPay, proScore, proNotes, proAssist and the PIE intelligence engine - help banks, lenders, auto-finance firms, collections agencies and healthcare revenue teams collect more payments, cut costs and stay compliant. More than 100 companies run on Prodigal, which has processed over a billion consumer interactions to date.
Castellum.AI
Castellum.AI is a New York-based regulatory technology company that automates anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer compliance for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. Its platform pairs in-house risk data drawn from 200,000+ global sources with explainable AI agents that screen for sanctions, politically exposed persons and adverse media, cutting alert volume by 94% and review time by 83% out of the box. Founded by a former U.S. Treasury sanctions officer, the company raised an $8.5M Series A in July 2025 led by Curql.
Airtable
Airtable is a San Francisco software company that turned the humble spreadsheet into a flexible app platform, letting non-engineers build relational databases, interfaces, and automated workflows without code. Founded in 2012 and launched publicly in 2015, it now serves more than 500,000 organizations - including the majority of the Fortune 100 - and has refounded itself as an AI-native app platform anchored by its conversational builder, Omni.
Freshworks
Freshworks is a cloud-based business software company that builds easy-to-use customer service, IT service management and CRM tools for companies that found legacy enterprise software too complicated and too expensive. Founded in Chennai in 2010 as Freshdesk, it became the first India-born SaaS company to list on Nasdaq in 2021 and now serves tens of thousands of customers worldwide with an AI assistant, Freddy, woven through its products.
Zapier
Zapier is the automation platform that connects more than 8,000 apps so people can build workflows - called Zaps - without writing code. Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, the fully remote company has grown from a Y Combinator side project into a roughly $5 billion business serving millions of users, and it is now reorienting around AI agents that don't just move data between apps but make decisions inside the workflow.