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C3 AI Spent $3 Billion Building the Enterprise AI Future. Now It Has to Sell It.
C3 AI built for the unglamorous places where a bad prediction can ground an aircraft or stop a refinery. After a bruising fiscal year, founder Tom Siebel is back in the CEO chair to prove that deep technology can become a durable business.
Arianna Huffington Has Changed the Subject Again
She built a publication around the internet's appetite for more. Her second company is built around a harder proposition: that progress can begin with less, done deliberately.
The Startup Teaching Governments to Read the $20 Trillion They Can't See
Most financial crime hides in plain sight, scattered across the open web. IVIX built an AI platform that reads all of it at once - and hands governments a map.
Kore.ai
Long before "conversational AI" was a phrase anyone Googled, Raj Koneru bet a company on the idea that people would rather talk to software than click through it. A decade and 450 Global 2000 customers later, Kore.ai is trying to prove enterprise AI agents can be trusted to actually do the work.
One Lake to Rule Them All: Microsoft Fabric Ends the Great Data Copy
Microsoft Fabric is a unified, AI-powered data analytics platform that folds data engineering, data science, data warehousing, real-time intelligence, and Power BI business intelligence into one software-as-a-service experience. At its center sits OneLake, a single multi-cloud data lake that removes the need to copy and move data between tools. Copilot is threaded through every workload, letting people build pipelines, notebooks, and reports with natural language. Generally available since November 2023, Fabric is used by tens of thousands of organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 500.
Contextual AI
Contextual AI is a Mountain View enterprise AI company that builds a context engineering platform for production-grade, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents. Founded in 2023 by RAG co-inventor Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh, it packages retrieval, reranking and grounded language models into an end-to-end system that lets regulated enterprises deploy accurate, source-grounded AI on their own documents. The company has raised $100M from backers including Greycroft, Nvidia, Snowflake, HSBC and Bezos Expeditions, and counts Qualcomm and HSBC among its users.
Cyferd
Cyferd is an AI-led, data-driven digital transformation company that builds a cloud-native, no-code enterprise platform. Its proprietary AI engine, Neural Genesis, lets professional and citizen developers describe what they need in plain language and generate integrated business applications, AI agents and automated workflows on a single unified data model. Founded by Ranjit Bahia in 2021, Cyferd works across healthcare, legal, higher education, procurement, housing and sports, with dual headquarters in New York and London.
EasySend
EasySend is an Israeli enterprise software company whose no-code, AI-assisted platform turns paper-based forms and PDFs into digital customer journeys. Insurers, banks and other regulated enterprises use it to build onboarding, claims, lending and renewal workflows - complete with data intake, document generation and legally binding eSignatures - without writing code. Founded in 2016 in Tel Aviv, the company serves more than 40 enterprise customers, has raised roughly $77M in total funding, and is used across most of Israel's financial and insurance market as well as clients in the US, Europe and Japan.
webAI
webAI is an Austin-based sovereign AI company that lets enterprises build, train, and run custom AI models on their own local hardware instead of the cloud. Founded in 2019 by David Stout, Ethan Baird, and Tyler Mauer, its end-to-end platform - spanning the Navigator development environment, the Companion assistant, and webFrame clustering software for Apple silicon - keeps sensitive data on-device while delivering cloud-grade intelligence. The company reached a reported $2.5 billion valuation in early 2026 and serves customers across healthcare, retail, logistics, and aviation.
When Breaches Cost Ten Million, ServiceNow and Accenture Bet on the Machines
On June 29, 2026, ServiceNow and Accenture announced a joint suite of AI-powered services designed to help enterprises migrate off legacy risk platforms and adopt agentic AI for cybersecurity and risk management. The offering pairs Accenture's managed security services with the ServiceNow AI Platform to deliver unified integrated risk management, third-party and operational technology risk management, proactive compliance, and an AI-powered migration path. The announcement responds to a threat landscape where U.S. data breach costs hit a record $10.22 million per incident in 2025 and AI is compressing the vulnerability-to-exploitation window from months to hours.
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.
Articul8 AI
Articul8 AI is a Santa Clara-based enterprise generative AI company, spun out of Intel in January 2024, that builds domain-specific GenAI systems for regulated and mission-critical industries such as energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, aerospace, and financial services. Its flagship ModelMesh platform acts as an autonomous 'agent of agents' that orchestrates specialized models on a customer's own data with full auditability and security. The company reached a valuation above $500 million within two years of launch and serves customers including Hitachi Energy, Franklin Templeton, AWS, and Intel.
Connect The Dots
Connect The Dots (CTD.ai) is a San Francisco relationship-intelligence company that turns the email and LinkedIn history sitting inside a company into a searchable graph of who actually knows whom - and how well. Founded in 2019 by ex-Salesforce sellers and designers, it scores relationships from two-way email activity, surfaces the shortest warm path to any buyer, candidate or investor, and lets go-to-market teams request introductions at scale instead of sending cold outreach. The individual product is free; teams and enterprises pay to pool their collective network.
Paul Szemerenyi
Paul Szemerenyi is the CEO of Jones, an AI-powered insurance verification platform for the construction and real estate industries, appointed in January 2026 after co-founder Omri Stern moved to the board. He has more than 20 years running go-to-market at high-growth SaaS companies including Allbound (CEO), Bizzabo (CRO), Fuze, Appboy/Braze, AppSense and 1E, and before that served as an officer on nuclear submarines in the Royal Navy.
dMetrics
dMetrics is an AI company that builds Minsky, a natural-language-processing platform letting non-technical subject-matter experts create their own AI models to read, track, and analyze huge volumes of messy text - without writing code. Founded by two MIT machine-learning PhDs, the company started by decoding healthcare conversations across social media and now serves financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector customers, including a five-year, $99.5M U.S. Department of Defense production contract for open-source threat analysis.
Pathways
Pathways is a New York climate-tech startup building an AI platform that automates life cycle assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for building-material manufacturers, starting with ready-mix concrete producers. By ingesting data from a manufacturer's existing systems - raw material inputs, transportation, and plant processes - Pathways turns a process that traditionally takes 6-12 months of consultant work into one that delivers third-party-verified EPDs in weeks, then keeps the models live so producers can spot emissions hotspots and cut the carbon footprint of their products.
Clarasight
Clarasight is a New York-based AI platform for enterprise travel and expense. It unifies fragmented data from travel management companies, expense tools, corporate cards and HR systems into a single, AI-ready model, then helps teams automate workflows, forecast budgets, negotiate with suppliers, enforce policy and report on emissions - without ripping out the tools companies already use. Founded in 2021 as Climate Club with a sustainability mission, it rebranded to Clarasight in 2024 as it broadened from carbon planning into the broader operating system for travel and expense leaders. The company raised an $11.5M Series A led by AlleyCorp in April 2026.
Sydney Williams
Sydney Williams is Vice President of Global Brand Marketing at ServiceNow, where she oversees the company's global marketing and communications across creative, content, media, and events. An award-winning marketing leader with over two decades of experience, she has shaped the brand voices of iconic organizations including General Electric, The Walt Disney Company, and JPMorgan Chase, and now steers ServiceNow's push to put AI to work for people.
H2O.ai
H2O.ai is a Mountain View-based AI cloud company founded in 2012, on a mission to democratize artificial intelligence for everyone. The company offers a converged platform spanning predictive and generative AI - from its open-source H2O-3 machine learning framework to enterprise products like Driverless AI, h2oGPTe, and the H2O AI Cloud. Trusted by over 20,000 organizations including more than half the Fortune 500, H2O.ai is known for employing the world's largest team of Kaggle Grandmasters and for pioneering automated machine learning. With $246 million in total funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, the company serves industries from financial services and healthcare to government and telecommunications, delivering AI that organizations can deploy on their own terms - on-premises, in the cloud, or in air-gapped environments.
Quinton Pham
Quinton Pham is a founder at Jasper, the enterprise AI content platform that has raised over $130 million and serves marketing teams at major brands worldwide. Based in Coffeyville, Kansas, Pham is part of the founding team of a company generating roughly $88M in annual revenue with 300 employees. Jasper's platform gives marketing teams AI-powered tools for content creation, brand voice management, multi-channel campaigns, and workflow automation - serving clients including Boeing, L'Oreal, Wayfair, Adidas, and Cox Automotive.
Michael Gilson
Michael Gilson is the CEO of Conversica, the San Francisco-based conversational AI company behind over 1.5 billion automated customer conversations. Appointed in April 2025, he has repositioned Conversica as 'The Conversation Company,' expanding its AI agent platform from sales automation into automotive data intelligence, sports and entertainment ticketing, and enterprise customer lifecycle management. A Princeton graduate with a background spanning enterprise SaaS, media technology at Telestream, and data analytics at Wiser Solutions, Gilson brings operator instincts to a company that pioneered AI-to-human conversation at scale.
Melissa Gordon
Melissa Gordon is the CEO of Rasa, the enterprise conversational AI platform powering two of the world's three largest banks and downloaded over 50 million times by developers. A two-time NCAA Division I All-American pole vaulter at Stanford and a near-decade Oracle veteran, she joined Rasa in February 2022 and has since led the company through a strategic pivot to generative AI, launching CALM (Conversational AI with Language Models) and raising a $30M Series C in February 2024 co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures.
Nichole Garcia
Nichole Garcia is Co-Founder and President of OrthoFX, the doctor-delivered clear aligner startup she built with two former Invisalign executives. With a BS in Biochemistry from UCLA, an MBA from Pepperdine, and a diploma from Oxford, she spent two decades running global divisions at Philips Oral Care and Align Technology before co-founding OrthoFX in 2017. The company raised $17M total - including a $13M Series A led by SignalFire in 2020 - to commercialize a proprietary FXTetra polymer that delivers 50% faster treatment, paired with an AI-powered remote monitoring platform called FXOnTrack.
Ren Menon
Ren Menon is the cofounder and CEO of OrthoFX, a Fremont-based dental technology company reinventing clear aligner therapy. A former Invisalign executive with over two decades in the clear aligner space, Menon launched OrthoFX in 2019 with co-founders from Align Technology and Philips Oral Care to offer doctor-delivered, AI-monitored clear aligners at roughly half the cost of Invisalign. The company has raised $17 million across three rounds - most recently a $13M Series A led by SignalFire - and has developed proprietary polymer technology including its HyperElastic FXTetra material and the FDA-cleared AirFlex aligner system. OrthoFX operates a hybrid D2C/B2B model, combining direct consumer access with professional orthodontist delivery, underpinned by the FXOnTrack AI platform for remote patient monitoring.
Ryan Hanley
Ryan Hanley is the Founder and CEO of Equilibrium Energy, the company building PowerOS - an agentic AI platform purpose-built for the power industry. A civil engineer turned energy executive, Hanley spent nearly two decades inside the machine of grid transformation at PG&E, SolarCity, Tesla, and Shell before founding Equilibrium in 2021. With $100M+ raised and NRG Energy as a production customer, he is making a direct bet that AI can unify the fragmented data and systems that hold the power grid back.
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.
Writer
Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform built for the Fortune 500. Founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh, the company trains its own family of Palmyra LLMs and pairs them with an agent studio, knowledge graph, and guardrails - so banks, retailers, and healthcare giants can deploy AI without renting another vendor's model.
Shay Levi
Shay Levi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unframe, an enterprise AI platform that delivers working AI solutions to large organizations in days rather than months. A Unit 8200 alumnus, he previously co-founded Noname Security, scaling it to $40M ARR and a $500M acquisition by Akamai in 2024. Undeterred, he immediately founded Unframe in January 2024, which has since reached $100M in total contract value, raised $100M in total funding, and earned the #2 spot on Calcalist's 50 Most Promising Startups of 2026.
Abacus.AI
Abacus.AI is a San Francisco-based AI research company building an end-to-end platform that lets professionals and enterprises automate work with generative AI, agents, and applied machine learning. Its consumer-facing super assistant ChatLLM bundles access to leading frontier models, while its enterprise platform powers forecasting, personalization, and custom AI workflows.
Bonsai Robotics
Bonsai Robotics is a San Jose-based agricultural autonomy company that builds vision-first AI systems for off-road farm equipment. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Blue River Technology and John Deere, the company's Intelligence Platform combines embedded autonomy software with retrofittable hardware kits to let existing and new farm machinery operate with minimal human input - even in GPS-denied fields, at night, and in heavy dust. With $28.5M raised and its July 2025 acquisition of farm-ng, Bonsai is expanding from specialty-crop orchards into bedded-crop row farming and modular electric robot platforms.