CloudX is an AI-native ad monetization platform for mobile publishers, built by the founders of MoPub and MAX. It rebuilds the programmatic supply-side stack so autonomous AI agents - not manual ops teams - can run auctions, manage price floors, and optimize revenue, with auction integrity verified inside Trusted Execution Environments. The company launched out of stealth in November 2025 with a $30M Series A led by Addition.
MegazoneCloud is South Korea's largest managed cloud service provider (MSP) and the country's first cloud MSP unicorn. Spun out of Megazone in 2018, it became AWS's first official partner in Korea back in 2012 and is now the No.1 AWS premier consulting partner across Asia Pacific. With roughly 2,800 cloud specialists, it helps more than 5,000 customers - from large enterprises and game studios to startups and public institutions - migrate to, build on, and operate AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The company is pivoting hard toward AI, packaging its work into the proprietary AIR platform (AIR Studio, AIR AIOps, AIR Build) to help organizations become 'AI-native.'
Vega is an AI-native cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that lets security teams detect, search, and investigate threats directly where their data already lives - cloud platforms, data lakes, SIEMs, and cold storage - without forcing expensive centralized ingestion. Founded in 2024 by Unit 8200 and Intel Granulate veterans Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega raised $185M across three rounds in under two years and reached an ~$800M valuation, while signing multimillion-dollar contracts with global banks, healthcare giants, and Fortune 200 firms.
Texture is a New York-based climate-tech company building the operating system for the energy grid. Its AI-native software platform connects to any meter, device, or data source - solar arrays, batteries, EVs, AMI and SCADA feeds - and gives electric utilities, cooperatives, virtual power plant operators, and grid-services companies a single place to enroll devices, monitor the distribution system in real time, run demand-response and flexibility programs, and measure performance. Founded in 2023 by Sanjiv Sanghavi (co-founder of ClassPass), Texture aims to break the manufacturer 'walled gardens' that keep distributed energy resources from working together.
Warp is an AI-native payroll, compliance, and benefits platform built for high-growth startups. It automates the back-office grind - multi-state tax registrations, filings, benefits enrollment, global contractor payments, and compliance-notice resolution - so founders can hire, onboard, and pay teams anywhere in the US and 150+ countries without the manual admin. Backed by Y Combinator and Sound Ventures, Warp has raised about $24-25M to build what it calls an autonomous back office.
Ayush Sharma is the founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-native employee management, payroll, and compliance platform built for high-growth startups. An MIT computer science and physics graduate and former Yelp ML engineer, he started Warp out of Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch to fix the government red tape he hated as a distributed-team founder. Warp now runs payroll across all 50 US states and 150+ countries for hundreds of startups, and in June 2025 raised an $18M Series A led by Sound Ventures.
Angle Health is a San Francisco-based, AI-native health insurance platform for small and mid-sized employers. Founded in 2019 by ex-Palantir engineers, it combines carrier, third-party administrator, and underwriting functions into one stack, letting brokers quote level-funded plans in minutes and giving members a mobile-first care experience.
DOSS is a San Francisco software company building an AI-native Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) that replaces legacy ERP for physical-product businesses, unifying inventory, procurement, orders, fulfillment, and finance on a single real-time data model.
Flex is an AI-native private banking platform for high-net-worth, middle-market business owners. It bundles credit, business and personal banking, payments, AP automation, expense management, and ERP-style tooling into a single super app aimed at owner-operators of $3M-$100M revenue companies.
Unframe is a managed AI delivery platform for enterprises that turns critical business operations into production-ready AI workflows in days, not quarters. Built by the former Noname Security team, the company packages agent orchestration, a knowledge fabric, data connectivity and modular building blocks into a single OS for production AI - and bills only for outcomes that ship.
WEKA builds a software-defined data platform engineered for AI and HPC workloads, feeding GPUs and CPUs with low-latency, high-throughput storage across on-prem, cloud, edge and hybrid environments. Its NeuralMesh architecture underpins hundreds of the world's largest AI deployments, including model builders, hyperscale neoclouds, and Fortune 50 enterprises.
Evan Stites-Clayton is a General Partner and CTO at HF0, a San Francisco-based residency and venture fund that backs repeat technical founders building AI-native startups. He previously co-founded Teespring with Walker Williams at Brown University in 2011, scaling it from a $3,000 weekend experiment to over $1 billion in cumulative sales and $65 million raised from Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures before going through Y Combinator's W13 batch. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30, he joined HF0 in 2022 to help the next generation of builders compress the gap between idea and scale.
Aliisa Rosenthal is a General Partner at Acrew Capital and the firm's first GP hire since founding in 2019. She was the first commercial leader at OpenAI, where she scaled enterprise revenue from roughly $10M to roughly $10B and built ChatGPT Enterprise's go-to-market motion. She invests in AI-native companies reshaping enterprise software.
Digits is an AI-native accounting platform building the world's first Agentic General Ledger - software that autonomously categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, sends invoices, pays bills, and produces real-time financials for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2018 by Crashlytics alumni Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, it claims to automate up to 95% of bookkeeping work.
Thomas Mawhinney is a General Partner at Icon Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early-stage venture capital firm where he has invested since 2003. With over 30 years in the technology industry spanning entrepreneurship and venture capital, he combines hands-on operating experience — having co-founded and run a venture-backed software company — with deep investing expertise that has produced exits to Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Twilio, Experian, and more. His current focus spans AI-native companies, digital health, enterprise software, and cybersecurity, with board seats at companies including Teladoc Health, BILL (Bill.com), Maven Clinic, Synack, and Nomad Health.
John Glasgow is the founder, CEO, and CFO of Campfire, the AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies. A 15-year finance veteran who passed through Adobe, Invoice2go, and Bill.com before founding Campfire during parental leave in 2023, Glasgow has raised over $100 million in funding — $35M Series A and $65M Series B in just 12 weeks — and is steering the company toward an IPO. His platform's proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) achieves 95% accuracy on financial workflows, and customers like Replit, Decagon, and PostHog have traded NetSuite for Campfire's AI-first stack.
Michael Jaszczyk is the CEO (US) of NEWWORK Software, a Berlin and Palo Alto-based startup founded in 2023 by former SAP and Workday veterans to rebuild enterprise software for the AI era. With over two decades of technology leadership - including 15 years at GK Software SE where he rose from CTO to Chief Digital Transformation Officer and CEO of GK Americas - he is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and enterprise workflow automation. Jaszczyk helped pioneer retail AI as far back as 2003 through the Metro Group Future Store initiative, and today leads NEWWORK's mission to replace legacy ERP, CRM, and HR systems with AI-native, agentic platforms that understand business requirements and generate working solutions in minutes.
Kai Cheng is the Co-Founder and CEO of Creao AI, an AI-native app builder that lets anyone turn a plain-language conversation into a fully autonomous, self-running application. After a decade deploying production AI systems for more than 250 enterprise clients, he co-founded Creao in late 2024 with a conviction that the AI productivity revolution hasn't started until humans stop being the ones clicking 'run.' The platform hit 200,000 users organically in under a year, raised $25 million across three rounds, and runs its own internal operations - marketing, SEO, content - on the product itself.
Arjun Prakash is the Co-Founder and CEO of Distyl AI, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company valued at $1.8 billion after raising $175M in a September 2025 Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures. Drawing on nearly a decade at Palantir Technologies where he built and led a 30+ person team of Forward Deployed strategists and engineers, Prakash co-founded Distyl to help Fortune 500 companies become genuinely AI-native - not by layering AI onto existing processes, but by rearchitecting how enterprises operate. Distyl claims a 100% production success rate against an industry norm of 95% failure, serves clients across healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services, and reached profitability in Q3 2024.
Siddharth Sridharan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spendflo, an AI-native procurement platform that helps fast-growing and enterprise companies manage SaaS vendor relationships and cut software spend. He co-founded Spendflo in 2021 after spotting a universal blind spot: CFOs had no centralized way to track or negotiate SaaS contracts. Backed by $15.9M in funding including a Series A, Spendflo has grown to 140 employees and operates out of San Francisco, promising guaranteed savings on software procurement through a hybrid AI-plus-expert-negotiation model.
Emily Bennett is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she leads investing for a16z speedrun - the firm's high-velocity startup accelerator that has deployed over $180M to 150+ startups since 2023. A neuroscience graduate of Middlebury College (magna cum laude) turned Harvard MBA, she carved a winding path through product roles at Spotify, The New York Times, and Facebook before pivoting fully into venture at Owl Ventures, where she rose to Partner with a focus on edtech. At a16z, her investment thesis centers on AI-native tools that allow single founders to operate what once required entire teams, and she is a vocal advocate for the first AI-native university - an institution where learning paths, schedules, and research adapt in real time through continuous data feedback loops.
Fareed Mosavat is a Visiting Partner at a16z Speedrun, a 12-week founder accelerator at the intersection of technology and entertainment. He came to venture capital after a career arc that started in physics simulation at Pixar and wound through product and growth leadership at Zynga, RunKeeper, Instacart, and Slack, before he ran product education for thousands of PMs as Chief Development Officer at Reforge. Today he backs AI-native B2B startups, co-hosts the Unsolicited Feedback podcast with Brian Balfour, and writes about what it actually takes to build products people love.
Julien Bek is a Partner at Sequoia Capital's London office, one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. A Geneva native who studied at Warwick Business School and the University of Cambridge, he started his career as an entrepreneur — founding one of Europe's first e-cigarette companies at age 18 — before transitioning into venture capital at Global Founders Capital and then Accel Partners. At Accel he backed breakout companies like Revolut, Melio, Miro, and BeReal. He joined Sequoia in September 2023 as a London-based partner focused on early-stage European and global tech companies. In March 2026, he published the widely-read thesis 'Services: The New Software,' arguing that the next trillion-dollar company will sell outcomes rather than software tools, using AI to automate service delivery at scale.
Sophia Luo is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she backs early-stage founders building AI-native applications and enabling infrastructure. A Bay Area native who triple-majored at MIT in four years, she was a nationally ranked chess player by age eight and carried that competitive instinct into the AI startup world - first as an early engineer at Scale AI, then as a founding product engineer at Character.AI. She joined Greylock in 2024, made angel bets on Cognition and Mercor before they were household names, and landed on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in venture capital within her first year as an investor.
Harper (YC W25) is an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage that turns the $100B+ industry of email and spreadsheets into a fully autonomous engine for Main Street America. Co-founded by Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair — two Goldman Sachs alumni who swore they'd never work in insurance — Harper uses its internal AI platform, Harper Hub, to automate form completion, carrier matching across 160+ carriers, underwriter follow-ups, and client communications. The result: 1–2 day quotes instead of 5–7, 85% success rate on traditionally 'uninsurable' cases, 5,000+ businesses covered across 35 states, and 1,000+ customers handled per month versus 20–30 for a typical human brokerage. Backed by $54M in total funding led by Emergence Capital, Peak XV, and Y Combinator. Named after Dakotah's mother's maiden name.