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StackAI Wants the Boring Work - and Knows When to Ask a Human
The enterprise agent builder turns documents, models, approvals, and business systems into visible workflows. It is built for the awkward stretch between a clever demo and software an audit committee might actually approve.
Scott Davis Keeps Asking the Question Software Forgets: Does It All Connect?
From a nine-year SAP run to rebuilding Calero's marketing stack and explaining AI governance at Stonebranch, Davis has made a career of translating complex systems into a sequence people can actually follow.
Eccentex Built the Operating System for Work That Refuses to Behave
Most automation software loves a straight line. Eccentex makes its living where the line breaks - in ambulance dispatch, insurance claims, disputes and customer cases that demand both rules and human judgment.
Emergence AI Raised $97 Million to Make Agents Behave - Then Its Own Test Exposed the Hard Part
The IBM veterans behind Emergence AI want software agents to cross the messy borders between enterprise systems. Their own numbers explain both the opportunity and the catch: orchestration improved task success, but even the better system completed fewer than half the jobs in a company-run test.
Jaeman An Is Building the Plumbing for AI's Expensive New Age
Before AI could write the future, someone had to make the machines cooperate. The VESSL AI co-founder turned a decade of infrastructure headaches into a company built for the age of scarce GPUs and restless models.
Hospitals Bought the AI. Ferrum Health Is Selling the Part That Makes It Work.
Clinical algorithms were multiplying while hospital adoption stayed stuck. Ferrum built the missing last mile - one private route to deploy many models, test them on local patients, and keep watching after launch.
DRUID AI
The Bucharest company teaching enterprise software to hold a conversation - and now to run the workflow behind it.
Tim Cherkasov
Tim Cherkasov is the co-founder and CEO of Trace (YC S25), an AI-native workflow orchestration platform that routes tasks between human teams and AI agents. A serial founder since age 17 with a fintech and data science background, he built and shut down the crypto-portfolio startup Clustr before pivoting into Trace, which topped the YC Launchpad leaderboard for the Summer 2025 cohort and raised a $3M seed round in early 2026.
Adonis
Adonis is a New York-based health-tech company that builds an AI orchestration platform for healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM). Founded in 2022 by brothers Akash and Aman Magoon, the platform uses context-aware AI agents to detect revenue risks early and automate resolution across denials, delays, and payer friction - helping physician groups, hospitals, and health systems collect more of the money they are owed while spending less to do it.
Autonomize AI
Autonomize AI is an Austin-based healthcare technology company building an AI-native platform - the 'Autonomize Intelligence Platform' - that embeds governed, agentic AI directly into clinical and operational workflows for health plans, providers, and life sciences organizations. Founded in 2022 by Ganesh Padmanabhan and Kris Nair, the company turns mountains of unstructured healthcare data into structured intelligence, deploying pre-built AI agents and copilots for tasks like utilization review, prior authorization, care management, and clinical chart review. It says its systems save roughly 36,000 clinical hours per month across Fortune 100 healthcare customers, and it raised a $28 million Series A in June 2025 led by Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, and Tau Ventures.
NODA AI
NODA AI is an Austin-based defense technology company building an AI reasoning engine that orchestrates fleets of autonomous systems across vendors and domains. Founded in 2024 by Marine Corps veterans, its platform lets operators command desired effects rather than individual machines, coordinating mixed fleets of manned and unmanned assets from air to subsurface. NODA raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in February 2026, with backing from Booz Allen Ventures, and works with the U.S. Department of War, the UK Ministry of Defense, and defense primes.
UneeQ
UneeQ builds AI-powered digital humans - lifelike, real-time animated avatars that give chatbots and enterprise AI a human face, voice and body language. Founded in New Zealand in 2009 as FaceMe and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company pairs its Synanim synthetic-animation engine and Synapse AI-orchestration brain to deploy digital humans for customer experience, brand engagement and immersive employee training across banking, airlines, telecom, retail, healthcare and government.
DataRobot
DataRobot is an enterprise AI platform company founded in 2012 that helps organizations build, deploy, govern, and monitor predictive and generative AI. A pioneer of automated machine learning (AutoML), the company has since expanded into MLOps, generative AI, and agentic AI, letting technical and business teams move models from experimentation into production with governance and observability built in. More than 1,000 organizations - including enterprises, hospitals, and government agencies - rely on its platform, now centered on an Agent Workforce Platform co-engineered with NVIDIA.
Jeen.ai
Jeen.ai is an Israeli enterprise AI company that builds an 'operating layer' for organizations to adopt generative AI securely, govern it responsibly, and scale it across business units. Spun off from ONE Technologies in July 2024 and led by founder-CEO Oded Tahori, the platform bundles chat, autonomous agents, workflow automation, governance and cost controls (FinOps), and data integrations - deployable in the cloud, on-premise, or fully air-gapped. It serves dozens of large enterprises and public bodies in finance, telecom, defense, healthcare and higher education, and is now expanding across the US, UK, Singapore and Latin America.
Continual
Continual is a San Francisco AI company building a platform for running business operations with agents. Founded by repeat ML founders Tristan Zajonc and Tyler Kohn, it launched in 2021 as a declarative machine-learning platform on the modern data stack, then pivoted into the AI copilot and agent era - letting teams connect their tools and data, automate workflows across agents and people, and turn repeatable processes into agent-powered applications. Backed by $18.5M+ from Innovation Endeavors, Amplify Partners and others.
Vellum
Vellum is a New York-based AI development platform that helps companies build, evaluate, deploy, and monitor production-grade LLM applications and AI agents. Founded in early 2023 by three engineers who kept hitting the same wall - prototypes that demo well but break in production - Vellum gives teams a workflow builder, an evaluation suite, version-controlled deployments, and live monitoring so they can move AI from proof-of-concept to reliable production systems. The platform works with more than 150 companies including Drata, Redfin, Swisscom, and Headspace, and raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund in July 2025.
Lyzr AI
Lyzr AI is an enterprise agent-infrastructure company that helps banks, insurers, and other regulated organizations move AI agents from proof-of-concept to production. Its open-core Agent Framework bakes Safe AI and Responsible AI modules into the core architecture, while products like Agent Studio and a roster of named agents (Jazon the AI SDR, Skott the AI marketer) let teams build, govern, and deploy autonomous agents inside their own firewall or VPC. Backed by Accenture and valued at $250M, Lyzr positions itself as the trusted layer between large language models and the compliance-bound enterprise.
Zapier
Zapier is the automation platform that connects more than 8,000 apps so people can build workflows - called Zaps - without writing code. Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, the fully remote company has grown from a Y Combinator side project into a roughly $5 billion business serving millions of users, and it is now reorienting around AI agents that don't just move data between apps but make decisions inside the workflow.
Alexey Aylarov
Alexey Aylarov is the CEO and co-founder of Voximplant, a Voice AI orchestration and cloud communications platform (CPaaS) powering 30,000+ customers and 2+ billion calls annually. A VoIP engineer turned serial entrepreneur, he spent 20+ years in telecommunications before building Voximplant into an enterprise-grade platform combining serverless infrastructure with AI-driven voice and video communications. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he co-founded the company in 2013 alongside Sergey Poroshin and Andrey Kovalenko, guiding it to profitability in under two years and through a $30M Series C raise in 2021.
Tray.ai
Tray.ai is an AI-ready enterprise integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that connects 700+ apps, orchestrates AI agents, and lets companies build production-grade agentic workflows on a single composable foundation. Founded in London in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it underpins agent and automation programs at thousands of companies.
Unframe
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.
Workato
Workato is a Palo Alto-based enterprise automation and integration platform (iPaaS) that lets IT and business teams build cross-app workflows - called Recipes - with low-code/no-code building blocks and a growing layer of AI agents. It connects more than a thousand SaaS apps and on-prem systems, and is used by companies like Atlassian, Box, GitLab, Broadcom, and Toast to automate everything from employee onboarding to order-to-cash.
Distyl AI
Distyl AI is a San Francisco enterprise-AI company that rebuilds Fortune 500 operating models around frontier models. Founded by Palantir alumni Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, it pairs a proprietary platform called Distillery with embedded forward-deployed teams to put production AI in front of more than 120 million end users. In September 2025 it closed a $175M Series B at a $1.8B valuation.
Marty Sprinzen
Marty Sprinzen is the co-founder and CEO of VANTIQ, a Walnut Creek, California-based platform company building real-time AI orchestration and agentic AI systems for mission-critical environments. A serial entrepreneur with a BSEE from Cooper Union (class of 1970), he previously co-founded Forte Software, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems for over $1 billion in 2000. After a 15-year hiatus spent flying planes, skiing, and sailing a Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole, he returned to found VANTIQ in 2015 with a mission to apply software to the world's toughest challenges - from disaster response and healthcare to smart cities and defense.
Rakesh Vaddadi
Rakesh Vaddadi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beacon.li, a Milpitas-based AI orchestration platform that automates enterprise software implementation - from configuration and testing to deployment and hypercare support. A BITS Pilani computer science alumnus and serial entrepreneur, Rakesh previously co-founded WINDO (an Instagram commerce platform used by 200,000+ sellers in 144 countries) and Gear6 (a bike maintenance startup). At Beacon.li, he is tackling one of enterprise software's biggest blind spots: the gap between a signed contract and a successful go-live, using AI agents that learn through the UI without any backend access. The company raised a $7M Series A in March 2025 led by Sorin Investments.
Ed King
Ed King is the Founder and CEO of Openprise, a RevOps data automation platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from UC Berkeley, Ed spent over a decade in enterprise middleware and product management roles at IBM, Oracle, Qualys, and Axway before founding Openprise in 2013. He built the company to solve the data chaos he witnessed firsthand in go-to-market operations — enabling non-technical RevOps teams to automate complex data workflows without writing a single line of code. Under his leadership, Openprise has raised $57.93M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in March 2024, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace three consecutive years.