Unit is an embedded finance platform that lets software companies add bank accounts, cards, payments, and capital to their products via API — without becoming a bank. Founded in 2019 by Israeli entrepreneurs Itai Damti and Doron Somech, Unit reached unicorn status in 2022 at a $1.2B valuation, becoming the first BaaS provider to hit that milestone. The company processes $80B+ in annual transactions and serves 2M+ end-customers across 140+ software platforms, from workforce management apps to real estate marketplaces.
Wildcard is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform that helps e-commerce brands get their products discovered and purchased through AI shopping channels like ChatGPT Shopping, Google Gemini, Amazon Rufus, and Perplexity. Founded by Kaushik Mahorker and Yagnya Patel - both veterans of Scale AI, Tesla, and Amazon - Wildcard addresses the core problem that 67% of products lack the structured attributes AI engines need to recommend them. Their platform provides SKU-level analytics, catalog optimization, and content creation tools so brands can win in the emerging AI-first commerce landscape.
Zatanna is a Y Combinator W26 startup that turns software into agent-first APIs. Most AI agents are stuck navigating clunky UIs to interact with systems that never built a proper API - Zatanna fixes that by observing a workflow once, reverse-engineering the underlying HTTP request sequence, and serving it as a clean, reliable endpoint. No browser scripts, no screen-scraping fragility: just fast, production-grade API access to legacy ERPs, insurance portals, marketplaces, and any operational software your agents need to talk to.
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that builds human-like voice technology. Founded in 2022 by two Polish engineers frustrated by badly dubbed movies, it grew from zero to $200M ARR in three years and reached an $11 billion valuation by February 2026. Its platform covers text-to-speech, voice cloning, AI dubbing, conversational agents, and speech-to-text across 70+ languages, used by everyone from independent creators to over 60% of Fortune 500 companies.
Fireworks AI is a generative AI inference platform founded in 2022 by seven engineers — five of whom built PyTorch at Meta — that gives enterprises fast, cost-efficient, and customizable access to hundreds of open-source models. The company's proprietary FireAttention kernels and speculative-execution engine deliver up to 40× faster inference and 8× cost reduction versus alternatives, while its fine-tuning and model-deployment tooling lets companies own their AI stack end-to-end. With $327M+ raised, a $4B valuation, 10,000+ customers including Samsung, Uber, Shopify, and Cursor, and a $315M annualized run-rate as of early 2026, Fireworks AI has become the go-to inference layer for production generative AI applications.
Perplexity AI is a San Francisco-based AI company that built the world's leading 'answer engine' ? replacing traditional link-based search with real-time, AI-generated responses that cite their sources. Founded in August 2022 by four AI researchers from OpenAI, Meta, Databricks, and Quora, Perplexity has grown from a scrappy post-ChatGPT prototype to a $20B+ company with 45 million monthly active users, over $1.7B in total funding, and a product suite spanning a conversational search engine, a developer API platform, and the Comet AI browser.