The connected world runs on a mess of SIMs, carriers, invoices and national rules. AIRLINQ wants to turn that mess into one control panel - and make every connected car, meter and machine easier to operate as a business.
The platform for actionable customer feedback in the AI era.

The AI feedback platform, built by two ex-Alexa product managers, folds support tickets, app reviews and social posts into patterns teams can act on. Microsoft, Lyft and Perplexity are paying to skip the guesswork.
The Santa Barbara startup, built by two Amazon Alexa veterans, uses AI to read the reviews, tweets, and support tickets your product team never gets to - and tells them what to build next.
The companies winning the AI era ship software people genuinely love to use. Pendo surfaces where users and agents struggle and then helps you act on it, turning experience gaps into business results.
The Paris company that watches a billion clicks a day so brands can finally see what their customers were trying to do - and where the website got in the way.
Aprisium is a Singapore deeptech startup that builds on-site, real-time contaminant detection systems for water and other fluids. Using patented electrochemical sensors paired with AI analytics, it lets water utilities, industrial manufacturers, data-center operators and shipping firms detect pollutants - including heavy metals and PFAS - at the source in minutes rather than shipping samples to a lab and waiting days. The company raised an oversubscribed US$7M Series A in 2024 and deploys across Singapore, the Philippines and Australia.
Traditional contact center QA reviews roughly 2% of calls and reports the result as if it describes the whole operation. This page frames the choice between sampling and reading 100% of conversations as an architectural decision rather than a feature difference, comparing how CallMiner, NICE Nexidia, Qualtrics XM Discover, and Spiral by UJET handle coverage, discovery of unknown issues, setup time, and whether output reaches a product team or stops at a QA scorecard. The core argument: a 2% sample tells you about your scorecard, not about your customers.
Cashboard is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed (S22) startup building a semantic layer that sits between a company's financial data and AI. It stores the metrics, data models, mappings and permissions that let AI agents - and finance teams - produce accurate, governed FP&A work: reports, dashboards and analysis pulled from 900+ connected systems. Founder Julian Rowlands frames the goal as turning AI into a 'trusted FP&A machine' and, eventually, the 'solo CFO.' The company raised a $5M seed led by FINTOP Capital in July 2026.
Pylon is a Cairo-based smart infrastructure platform that sells electricity and water utilities a subscription-based Smart Metering as a Service (SMaaS). Its software layers on top of any meter - old or new - to cut losses, improve revenue collection and give operators real-time visibility, all at zero upfront cost. Founded in 2017 and backed by Y Combinator (S21), Pylon runs across more than a million metering endpoints in Egypt and the Philippines.
Top Road is a Sydney-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that gives creators no-code payment and analytics tools to turn custom GPTs into revenue-generating apps inside the OpenAI GPT Store. Its GPT Tools action lets builders add subscription paywalls, collect emails, whitelist users, and track usage - without writing code. The company says it has enabled more than USD 300K in subscription revenue for GPT builders.
EngageRocket is a Singapore-based HR technology company that turns continuous employee feedback into actionable people-analytics. Founded in 2016 by two former Gallup leaders, its cloud platform runs engagement, lifecycle and pulse surveys (BELONG), 360-degree and multi-rater feedback (GROW), and performance workflows (PERFORM), pairing survey software with people-science advisory. It serves enterprises across 30+ countries - including Toyota, Sephora, Nikon, Epson and CGS-CIMB - to improve engagement, reduce turnover and support data-informed HR decisions.
Populix is an Indonesian technology-driven consumer research company that connects businesses, academics and government bodies with a verified panel of more than 700,000 respondents across Indonesia. Founded in 2018 by Cambridge graduates Timothy Astandu and Eileen Kamtawijoyo, it blends a mobile respondent app, a self-serve survey platform (PopSurvey) and AI tooling (the NeXa research assistant and synthetic respondents) to deliver market, policy and society insights faster and more affordably than traditional survey agencies. The Jakarta-based firm has raised about $14.2M to date, most recently a $4.3M Series B in 2025.
Quantela is a smart-city technology company that helps cities and communities digitize urban infrastructure through an AI- and IoT-powered data platform. Founded in 2015, it evolved from a dashboard tool into a full urban infrastructure platform spanning smart lighting, traffic, public safety, digital advertising and citizen services. Quantela is known for pioneering an 'outcomes-based' business model, funding projects up front in exchange for a share of the resulting revenue or savings, and operates across the Americas, EMEA, India and Asia-Pacific.
Dana Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Highlight, a New York-based product intelligence platform that modernizes in-home product testing for consumer brands. A former qualitative market researcher who spent years collecting insights the slow way - standing in stores with paper surveys for brands like Coca-Cola and Nike - she went to Wharton for an MBA, met co-founder Ethan Kellough, and built a technology-driven alternative that pairs a proprietary consumer community with logistics automation and AI analytics. Founded in 2020, Highlight has raised more than $30 million and works with brands including Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Mondelez. Kim has been named to GreenBook's 2022 Future List and Inc.'s 2024 Female Founders 250 list.
Datavations is a New York-based, AI-powered market intelligence platform built exclusively for manufacturers and distributors in the building materials and home improvement industries. It aggregates granular, store-level and SKU-level retail data across thousands of stores to give suppliers the cross-retailer visibility they otherwise lack - helping them optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment, and walk into merchant meetings armed with data their retail partners don't have. Founded in 2020 by Philip Odelfelt, the company raised a $17M Series A in July 2025 led by Forestay Capital.
Equals is a next-generation spreadsheet built for business analytics. Founded by two Intercom veterans, it pairs the familiar spreadsheet grid with live connections to data warehouses and business tools, version control, real-time collaboration and, more recently, AI-assisted analysis. The company positions itself as 'AI for the numbers that can't be wrong,' aiming to give finance and go-to-market teams a single, trustworthy place to model ARR, pipeline, retention and other core metrics without exporting CSVs or standing up heavyweight BI stacks.
Lambent is a Boston-based B2B software company that turns existing Wi-Fi and sensor data into anonymous, predictive occupancy and space-utilization analytics. Its SaaS platform, Lambent Spaces, helps space planners at colleges, universities and corporate campuses understand how buildings are actually used - without installing new hardware or tracking individuals - so they can make data-driven decisions about renovations, capacity, energy use and real estate. Founded in 2017 as Armored Things and rebranded to Lambent in 2022, the company works with customers including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and partners such as Siemens, Planon and HPE Aruba Networks.
MarketLeap is an AI-driven ecommerce accelerator that helps consumer brands launch and scale on global marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, OTTO, BOL and TikTok Shop. Founded in 2022 by former Amazon and Jumia executives Mamoun Benkirane and Mekki Mouaddeb, the platform combines automation, analytics and hands-on operations - including listing optimization, dynamic pricing, marketing, inventory forecasting and VAT/tax compliance - under a 'skin in the game' model that absorbs marketing costs and runs on 30-day rolling contracts. The company raised an $8M Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to about $10.7M.
Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration company that lets banks, insurers, retailers and consumer brands analyze their first-party data together without ever sharing or exposing it. Using privacy enhancing technologies, US-patented Crypto-IDs and AI-powered data clean rooms, the platform matches mutual customers across datasets so lenders can score credit-invisible and thin-file consumers using alternative behavioral data - all while personal information never leaves the owner's environment. Founded in Cape Town and now expanding into the United States, the company protects hundreds of millions of consumer records for more than 100 enterprises.
TraceAir Technologies is a Seattle-based construction-technology company that turns drone and LiDAR data into a site-intelligence platform for land developers and homebuilders. Founded in 2015, its software captures ground surveys, runs cut-and-fill and earthwork analysis, generates stormwater and grading reports, and gives executives portfolio-wide visibility from land acquisition through vertical construction. The platform is used by many of the largest U.S. homebuilders, including D.R. Horton, Lennar, Howard Hughes and Meritage Homes, and raised a $25M Series B in 2024.
Fieldin is a US-Israeli agtech company building a smart farming operations platform for large, high-value crop growers - the people who run California's almond orchards, lettuce fields and vineyards. It stitches together IoT sensors, mobile apps, a cloud control center and, since acquiring Midnight Robotics, retrofit autonomy kits that turn ordinary tractors into self-driving machines. The pitch: connect every spray, harvest and tractor pass to real-time data so growers can cut costs, prove compliance and eventually take the driver out of the cab.
serviceMob is an Irvine, California enterprise software company that calls itself the Answer Engine for Customer Service and Support. Born as an academic project at MIT, it unifies the scattered 'dark data' of the service journey - CRM, contact center, workforce management, and ticketing systems - into a single behavioral data ontology it calls Ontolytics. Instead of reporting traditional KPIs like average handle time and CSAT, the platform models each customer experience as structured data to find and prevent the root causes of repeat contacts. Delivered by embedded Forward Deployed Engineers, serviceMob says it has driven more than $75M in client savings and eliminated hundreds of thousands of repeat contacts.
Brad Peters is a serial analytics founder who has spent more than two decades trying to put real data science in the hands of people who do not write SQL. He founded Birst, one of the first cloud business intelligence platforms, grew it into a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, and exited to Infor for $580 million in 2017. He is now founder and CEO of Scoop Analytics, a San Francisco startup building an AI 'data analyst' that connects to operational tools, investigates data on its own, and tells the story back to non-technical business users. He earlier helped build the analytics product line at Siebel Systems that became Oracle's OBIEE family, and started his career in Morgan Stanley's M&A practice.
Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.
Ruvixx is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that helps licensing, brand protection and compliance teams turn scattered data into recoverable revenue. Its platform centralizes intellectual-property workflows - from lead detection to royalty reporting - pairing AI-driven analytics and OSINT with human expert teams. Trusted by enterprises like Dolby, Adobe, Trimble and Chaos Group, Ruvixx targets the trillion-dollar gap between what brands are owed and what they actually collect.
Ariadne is a Munich-based, privacy-first physical-world analytics company that measures how people move through real spaces - shops, malls, train stations and airports - without cameras or facial recognition. Its patented Hybrid Fusion technology pairs anonymous phone-signal sensing with Time-of-Flight depth sensing to deliver up to 99% accurate people counting and sub-meter flow analytics, all GDPR-native and EU AI Act ready. Founded by two Greek engineers who met at the Technical University of Munich, Ariadne has installed more than 1,000 sensors across 800+ locations in 32+ countries, serving customers like San Diego International Airport, IKEA, MediaMarkt and Deutsche Bahn.
Sibel Health is a Chicago-based digital health company spun out of Northwestern University that builds clinical-grade, fully wireless wearable sensors paired with AI analytics and a cloud platform. Its flagship ANNE One system continuously tracks vital signs - heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, SpO2, pulse and more - for patients from neonates to adults, in hospitals, at home, and in low-resource settings around the world. The mission is to deliver 'Better Health Data for All.'
WisdomAI is a San Mateo-based enterprise software company building a new category it calls agentic analytics. Founded in 2023 by a team of former Rubrik engineers, its platform lets business users ask questions of their structured, unstructured, and even messy data in plain language. Rather than letting a language model write answers (where it might hallucinate), WisdomAI uses LLMs only to generate the queries that pull real data from warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery. An Adaptive Context Engine governs metrics, definitions, permissions, and business logic so insights stay accurate and consistent. The company has raised $73M total and grown from two enterprise customers to roughly 40, including Cisco, ConocoPhillips, Patreon, and Descope.
Z2Data is a Santa Clara, California supply chain risk management (SCRM) company that turns a normalized database of over a billion electronic components, a million-plus suppliers, and hundreds of thousands of global manufacturing sites into a single platform for mapping, monitoring, and de-risking the technology supply chain. Founded in 2016 by a team with two decades of supply chain experience, it blends human-curated data with AI and machine learning so engineers, procurement teams, compliance officers, and ESG strategists can see part-to-site risk, regulatory exposure, obsolescence, and geopolitical disruption before it reaches the production line.