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Cygnis
Cygnis is a Pleasanton, California-based custom software and AI development studio founded in 2010 (originally Cygnis Media). It builds web, mobile, SaaS and AI-powered products for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and has delivered more than 300 projects across healthcare, finance, education, real estate, transportation, hospitality and government. The company's current focus is turning AI ambitions into working software - embedding machine learning and generative AI into existing products or building AI-native systems from scratch, alongside data engineering, business intelligence and workflow automation.
EffectiveSoft
EffectiveSoft is an AI-enabled software engineering company that builds, modernizes, and scales digital products and enterprise systems. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, with development centers across Poland and other locations, the firm delivers full-cycle custom software development, AI and generative AI integration, cloud engineering, and data services. It is best known for deep, long-running engagements in highly regulated industries - healthcare, financial services, and fintech - and for pairing more than two decades of engineering experience with modern AI practice.
Empat
Empat is a Ukrainian custom software and product development company headquartered in Kyiv. Operating since 2013, it delivers full-cycle software development - system architecture, engineering, UI/UX design and go-to-market - to startups, scaleups and enterprises. Over 10+ years it has shipped 300+ digital products across 17 countries for clients including Porsche, Panasonic, Heinemann, CBRE and Transparency International, with a growing focus on AI, cloud and enterprise systems.
NEKLO LLC
NEKLO LLC is a US-headquartered custom software development firm that pairs an American front office with senior engineering teams in Eastern Europe. Founded in the mid-2000s and led by co-founder and CEO Ken Kopilevich, the roughly 200-person company builds web, mobile, e-commerce and AI products for clients in FinTech, healthcare, construction, retail and other industries. It is known for deep Adobe Commerce (Magento) expertise, a 5.0 rating on Clutch, and an unusually sticky client base - by its own account, most new work comes from returning customers.
Tekxai
Tekxai is a full-stack digital innovation studio that builds UI-first MVPs for startups and small businesses in about six weeks. It blends product strategy, UI/UX design, and agile web and mobile development, with generative AI baked into the work. Clients keep 100% of the intellectual property, code, and design assets. The team works across e-commerce, healthcare, fintech, logistics, and construction.
Rob Whiteley
Rob Whiteley is the CEO of Coder, an Austin-based enterprise platform for cloud development environments (CDEs) that lets engineering teams spin up fully-configured, browser-based dev environments in minutes. Appointed in May 2023, Whiteley drove 2x revenue growth in his first year, secured a $90M Series C led by KKR in April 2026, and has positioned Coder as the infrastructure layer for agentic AI coding workflows. Before Coder, he spent a decade at F5/NGINX as VP/GM of the NGINX product group and CMO, and earlier held executive marketing roles at Hedvig, Riverbed, and Forrester Research.
Chike Agbai
Chike Agbai is the CEO and Founder of Azumo, a San Francisco-based nearshore software development company he launched in 2016 after nearly two decades on Wall Street advising over $100 billion in enterprise software transactions for clients like Oracle, Salesforce, and Dell. A Stanford Economics graduate, he pivoted from investment banking to entrepreneurship on the conviction that exceptional technical talent exists everywhere - not just in traditional tech hubs. Under his leadership, Azumo has grown to 110+ employees across 20+ countries in Latin America, earned a 4.9-star rating on Clutch, served 100+ clients including Facebook, Twitter, and Discovery Channel, and been recognized among the '10 Smartest Companies of the Year 2025.' He credits his grandfather's migration from Louisiana to Los Angeles in the 1930s as the spark behind his own entrepreneurial ambition.