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Strella
Strella is an AI-powered customer research platform that lets product, UX, and marketing teams run in-depth, AI-moderated interviews at scale and get synthesized insights in hours instead of weeks. Its adaptive AI moderator conducts dynamic, probing conversations, handles recruitment and scheduling, and turns raw interviews into highlight reels and reports - combining the speed of surveys with the depth of qualitative interviews. Founded in 2024 by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, the New York company raised a $14M Series A in October 2025 led by Bessemer Venture Partners and counts Amazon, Duolingo, Chobani, and Apollo GraphQL among its customers.
Lydia Hylton
Lydia Hylton is the co-founder and CEO of Strella, an AI-powered customer research platform that runs adaptive, AI-moderated interviews and synthesizes the results in hours instead of weeks. A Georgia Tech computer engineer and Stanford MBA, she moved from Facebook data science and Bain consulting into venture capital at Redpoint and Bain Capital Crypto before teaming up with her high-school friend Priya Krishnan to build Strella. After a 'Wizard of Oz' MVP and a perfect 12-for-12 design-partner conversion, the company raised a $14M Series A led by Bessemer in October 2025 and now serves Amazon, Duolingo, Chobani, Square and Apollo GraphQL.
Maze
Maze is a user research and product testing platform that lets product teams test prototypes, run usability studies, and gather customer insights at speed. Founded in 2018 by Jonathan Widawski and Thomas Mary, it has grown into an AI-powered research platform used by more than 60,000 product teams - from startups to Atlassian, Braze and Lowe's.