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Endeavor
Endeavor is a San Francisco AI company building agentic software for the back office of American manufacturers and distributors. Its AI agents read the messy inputs these businesses actually run on - emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, phone calls - and turn them into automated order entry, quoting, accounts payable, and supply chain work inside existing ERP systems. Founded in 2023 by Wharton graduate Sahitya (Sami) Senapathy and backed by a $7M seed led by Craft Ventures, Endeavor counts industrial names like ClarkDietrich, Menasha, Viking, and Bridgestone Americas among its customers.
BeyondAI
BeyondAI (formerly Beyond Limits) is an industrial and enterprise AI company born from technology developed at Caltech's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Founded in 2014, it builds hybrid, neuro-symbolic AI that pairs machine learning and generative AI with rule-based reasoning to deliver explainable, human-like decisions in high-stakes sectors such as energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, utilities and healthcare. Backed by investors including Group 42 and bp ventures, the company raised a $133M Series C in 2020 and rebranded to BeyondAI at LNG2026.
Tulip Interfaces
Tulip Interfaces is a Boston-area software company that gives factory-floor workers a no-code platform to build the apps, dashboards, and connected-machine workflows that run modern operations. Spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2014, Tulip treats human operators as the most valuable resource on the shop floor rather than something to automate away. Its composable platform stitches together people, machines, sensors, and AI into 'frontline operations' apps used by more than 200 manufacturers across pharma, medical devices, aerospace, and consumer goods. In January 2026 the company raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi Electric at a $1.3B valuation, crossing into unicorn territory.