Renterra is a Chicago-based software company building a modern, AI-powered operating system for the equipment rental industry. Founded in 2022 by Andy Feis and Nick Hibberd, the cloud platform unifies inventory, contracts, online booking, payments, maintenance, and reporting for heavy equipment rental businesses across the US and Canada. It has raised $16M total, including a $9M Series A led by Avenue Growth Partners in January 2026, and serves hundreds of rental companies managing hundreds of millions in annual rental transactions.
nOps is an AI-powered FinOps platform that automatically optimizes AWS cloud costs for enterprises. Managing over $4 billion in annual cloud spend across 600+ customers, nOps uses machine learning to intelligently provision compute resources, manage AWS commitments, and deliver 50%+ cost savings without operational overhead. The company's Compute Copilot product integrates with Karpenter to optimize Kubernetes workloads, while its Clara AI agent answers cost questions and executes optimization tasks.
Observe is an AI-powered observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, and traces into a single streaming data lake built on Snowflake. The company helps enterprises troubleshoot distributed applications 3x faster at one-third the cost of traditional monitoring tools. Founded in 2017 by veterans from Splunk, Wavefront, and Snowflake, Observe was acquired by Snowflake in January 2026 for approximately $1 billion after raising over $665 million in funding.
Alex Greaves is the Co-Founder and CTO of FlutterFlow, a visual low-code/AI-powered app development platform he co-founded in 2020 alongside fellow ex-Googler Abel Mengistu. Built on Google's Flutter framework, FlutterFlow has grown to serve over 2 million users across 200+ countries, backed by $25.5M in Series A funding led by GV and Gradient Ventures at a ~$170M valuation. A Stanford physics and CS grad who honed his craft on Google Maps' machine learning team, Greaves now leads a platform that lets developers and non-developers alike ship native iOS, Android, and web apps in a fraction of traditional development time.
Munier Afshar is a co-founder at Maze, the AI-powered user research and continuous product discovery platform trusted by over 60,000 brands including Atlassian, Lowe's, and Sony. Based in the Baltimore/Washington DC area, Afshar helped build Maze into a category-defining research platform that raised a $40M Series B in 2022, bringing total funding to over $57M. Beyond tech, he serves as Vice President of the Afghan Relief Fund, lending organizational leadership to a nonprofit supporting vulnerable Afghan families. His career spans entrepreneurship, operations, and community impact.
Nellie Wartoft is a Swedish technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Tigerhall, a Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 500 companies drive organizational transformation at scale using AI and social learning. She moved from a small Swedish village to Singapore at 18 with a one-way ticket, spent 4.5 years as a top billing recruiter at Michael Page, then built Tigerhall from scratch into a platform operating across 32 countries, backed by Sequoia Capital and Monk's Hill Ventures with over $10 million in venture capital. Before her tech career she was a Swedish national champion in skeet shooting and air rifle.
Nick Haase is co-founder of MaintainX, the AI-powered CMMS and connected worker platform that reached a $2.5B valuation after its $150M Series D in July 2025. Leading go-to-market strategy, Haase has helped grow MaintainX to 11,000+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, food & beverage, and facilities — while separately angel-investing in 40+ startups including Anduril, Hadrian, and Figure. A former mobile marketing founder turned industrial software builder, he's spent years on factory floors helping maintenance teams ditch paper checklists and embrace digital workflows.
Button is the leading mobile commerce enablement platform that uses AI-powered deep-linking technology to intelligently route mobile users to high-converting app destinations. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $25 billion in cumulative commerce by connecting retailers, publishers, and creators in a performance-driven ecosystem - turning every mobile tap into a measurable, revenue-generating action.
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.
Verdigris is a Mountain View-based AI and IoT company that turns raw electrical data into actionable intelligence for data centers, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. By clamping high-frequency sensors onto electrical circuits and running proprietary AI algorithms on the resulting waveform data, Verdigris gives facility operators real-time visibility into energy consumption, power quality, and equipment health - detecting failures before they happen, recovering stranded capacity, and driving 20-50% reductions in energy spend. Founded in 2011, the company serves Fortune 500 customers including T-Mobile, Verizon, and NVIDIA across 17 countries.
Joe Zarrehparvar is the President and CEO of Fresche Solutions, a Montreal-based IT advisory and modernization company specializing in IBM i (AS/400) systems serving 22,000+ global clients. A 30-year technology veteran who built his career at Microsoft, Juniper Networks, and Wicresoft, Zarrehparvar took the helm at Fresche in May 2023 and has since driven a wave of AI-powered modernization tools, strategic partnerships with IBM, and a transition to subscription-based service models - all while championing a platform-neutral approach that lets clients modernize on their own terms.
Prayag Narula is the Co-Founder and CEO of Marvin (HeyMarvin), an AI-native customer insights platform that centralizes, analyzes, and shares qualitative research data for product and UX teams. A researcher-turned-entrepreneur, he previously co-founded LeadGenius (Y Combinator W2011), which raised over $30 million and grew to hundreds of employees before he stepped down to return to his roots in user-centric design. With a graduate research background spanning UC Berkeley's School of Information and Helsinki's Ubiquitous Interaction Group, Narula built Marvin alongside his brother Chirag Narula in 2020 — this time with AI baked in from the ground up. The platform now serves 4,000+ teams and 13,000+ users, including 10 Fortune 100 companies.