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apiphani
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
CSC Generation
CSC Generation is an AI-native retail holding company that acquires struggling store- and catalog-based brands and rebuilds them as profitable, digital-first businesses using its proprietary technology platform, Genesis. Founded in 2016 by Justin Yoshimura, the company operates a portfolio of more than a dozen consumer brands - including Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, Backcountry and Steep & Cheap - that together generate over $1 billion in combined revenue. Rather than liquidating distressed retailers, CSC folds them into a shared operating system of data, automation and AI operators, aiming to lift profitability quickly after each acquisition.
Equal Parts
Equal Parts is an Austin-based insurance company that acquires established independent insurance agencies and equips them with shared infrastructure and AI-driven automation. Founded in March 2025 by Mike Witte, Graham Yennie and Mike Meller, it positions itself as a growth network - preserving each agency's identity and local relationships while standardizing back-office workflows so agents can focus on clients. The company raised a $23M Series A led by Inspired Capital in February 2026 and aims to become a top-5 insurance distributor by acquiring 25 agencies in 2026 and reaching $1B in premiums.
The Workforce That Never Clocks Out
Agentforce is Salesforce's platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents that work alongside humans across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. Launched at Dreamforce in September 2024 and powered by the Atlas Reasoning Engine, it lets companies stand up agents that resolve customer queries, qualify leads, and complete tasks grounded in their own CRM data. It has become the fastest-growing product in Salesforce history, reaching a $1.2 billion annual recurring revenue run rate by April 2026.
Fabrix.ai
Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix) is a Pleasanton, California enterprise software company building an agentic operational intelligence platform. It lets organizations design, deploy, operate and observe AI agents across IT, network, security and business operations, anchored by a tri-fabric architecture of Data Fabric, AI Fabric and Automation Fabric. The company positions itself for the 'agentic AI era' with production-grade governance, explainability and human-in-the-loop controls.
Raju Datla
Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
Haojie Hu
Haojie Hu is the founder and CEO of LE Robotics (Loyalty Robotics Welding Systems), a Chinese company that fuses AI, 3D vision, and autonomous navigation to build welding robots that read a metal seam and start work in seconds without pre-programming. A second-generation industrialist who trained on his father's factory floor before earning degrees at NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, Hu returned from Wall Street to build what he calls a comprehensive ecosystem service provider for industrial embodied AI in metalworking. He was named to Forbes China's 2023 list of 100 Outstanding Overseas Returnees.
IBM
IBM (International Business Machines) is a 114-year-old American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, that helps large enterprises and governments run and modernize their most demanding operations. Today its business centers on three pillars - hybrid cloud through Red Hat, enterprise AI through the watsonx platform and open Granite models, and consulting - while it continues to build the underlying hardware, from z-series mainframes to research-grade quantum computers. IBM reported $67.5 billion in 2025 revenue and remains one of the largest patent holders and research organizations in the world.
Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics is a Redwood City, California startup building embodied-AI foundation models that let robots perform dexterous, real-world manipulation tasks around the clock. Founded in 2024 by repeat entrepreneurs Lindon Gao and York Yang (who sold Caper AI for $350M) and former DeepMind researcher Jason Ma, the company's DYNA-1 model runs commercial deployments in laundries, factories, restaurants and gyms. Dyna raised a $23.5M seed and a $120M Series A in 2025, reaching a valuation above $600M with backing from NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Next and CRV.
Apostle Inc
Apostle Inc is a Pleasanton, California biotechnology company that develops nucleic acid isolation and preservation technologies for liquid biopsy. Its flagship magnetic-nanoparticle kit, Apostle MiniMax, extracts circulating cell-free DNA and RNA from blood for applications in early cancer detection, non-invasive prenatal testing, infectious disease research, and even astronaut biospecimen collection in commercial spaceflight. Founded in 2018 out of the Stanford StartX accelerator, the company sells reagents, automation instruments, and CLIA/CAP lab services to researchers and diagnostics developers worldwide.
BreachRx
BreachRx is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that pioneered Cybersecurity Incident Response Management (CIRM) - treating a breach as an enterprise-wide business crisis rather than a purely technical problem. Its Rex Platform gives security, legal, communications, and executive teams a single secure workspace to coordinate response, automatically track regulatory reporting obligations, and preserve a defensible audit trail. Founded in 2017 by Andy Lunsford and Matt Hartley, the company raised a $15M Series A in 2025 and serves 100+ customers including Coinbase, American Express, and Commvault.
EverOps
EverOps is a San Francisco-based IT and cloud managed services provider that embeds small teams of senior engineers - called TechPods - directly inside client organizations to run DevOps, SRE, ITOps, and security work. Founded in 2012 and re-capitalized in 2022, the firm pitches itself as an alternative to advice-only consulting and staffing shops: pods sit in the client's toolchain, attend standups, and take ownership of outcomes across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, and cloud cost reduction.
Hubbl Technologies
Hubbl Technologies builds an intelligence layer for Salesforce. Its platform pairs Org Intelligence (audits and monitoring of Salesforce metadata, security and tech debt) with the first process-mining engine built natively on Salesforce, turning live org data into process maps that show how work actually gets done across Cases, Opportunities and custom objects. Founded in 2022 by Salesforce veterans Mike Bogan and Chris Bruzzi and led by CEO Rob Acker, the company raised a $6M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures in February 2026 and serves thousands of Salesforce teams, ISVs, consulting partners and enterprises preparing for AI and Agentforce.
Relevance AI
Relevance AI is a platform for building and managing an AI workforce - teams of specialized AI agents that carry out real business work without human headcount. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the company lets operations teams, not just engineers, design multi-agent systems on a no-code canvas to run sales, marketing, research, support and back-office processes end to end. It raised a $24M Series B in May 2025 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $37M, and counts Activision, Qualified and SafetyCulture among its customers.
Todd Schiller
Todd Schiller is the co-founder and CEO of PixieBrix, a low-code platform that lets teams customize, extend, and automate the web apps they already use through browser mods. A programming-languages PhD who studied software verification under Michael Ernst at the University of Washington, he spent years building knowledge-management and analytics tools for hedge funds and consumer companies before starting PixieBrix in 2020. The New York-based company has raised roughly $26M, including a Series A backed by JetBlue Ventures, and has increasingly focused on AI-assisted customer-experience and support workflows.
Dexmate
Dexmate is a Santa Clara robotics startup building Vega, a general-purpose mobile robot with high-payload arms, dexterous hands and a foldable torso that reaches over seven feet. Founded in 2024 by a team out of MIT, UCSD and CMU, the company pairs custom hardware with a data-driven 'flywheel' learning approach - combining simulation and real-world data - to tackle dexterous manipulation for logistics, manufacturing, retail and research. Backed by NVIDIA and LG Technology Ventures, Dexmate has opened preorders for Vega at $89,999.
Foundry Robotics
Foundry Robotics is a San Francisco startup building 'The Everything Factory' - an AI-first, assembly-focused contract manufacturer that uses Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models to run flexible robotic assembly cells. Instead of retooling a line for every new product, Foundry aims to let general-purpose robots switch between building drones, robot dogs, battery packs and satellite components on demand. Founded in 2025 by ex-Ghost Robotics and Scale AI robotics lead Adarsh Kulkarni, the company positions itself as a dual-use manufacturer serving both commercial customers and the U.S. Department of Defense, backed by a seed round led by Khosla Ventures and Garuda Ventures.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
Oligo Space
Oligo Space is a Hawthorne, California startup building an AI-first stack for designing and manufacturing payload-centered spacecraft. Its software engine, Zenith, turns raw mission requirements into flight-ready ESPA-class spacecraft using generative design, constraint solving and physics-based optimization - compressing work that once took teams of specialists months into a process that runs in minutes and manufactures in under eight months. Founded in 2024 by MIT AeroAstro graduate and former NASA JPL engineer Jacob Rodriguez, the company plans to fly its first spacecraft, Chimera-1, aboard SpaceX's Transporter-15 mission in 2026.
Standard Practice
Standard Practice builds voice AI for healthcare revenue cycle teams. Its AI agents place outbound phone calls to insurance payors and pharmacies - dialing, navigating IVR menus, waiting on hold, and speaking in a human-sounding voice - to handle claim follow-ups, benefits verification, prior authorizations, and EDI enrollment. The goal is to strip the phone-tag drudgery out of medical billing so practices get paid more, faster, while staff focus on higher-value work. Founded by Steven Greene and Phil Markunas after pivoting from their earlier venture Nibble Health, the New York company targets the roughly $1 trillion in annual U.S. healthcare administrative costs.
100% of Agents Use AI Every Day. Zero Think It's Essential.
UJET's Agent Survey Report, 'The Agent and AI Disconnect,' surveyed 250 U.S. frontline contact center agents at mid-market and enterprise companies to compare AI hype with the daily reality on the call center floor. The findings reveal a striking paradox: while 100% of agents use AI every single day, 78% say those tools are not transformative, 93% are confident they could do their jobs without them, and not a single agent considers AI critical to their success. The report argues that immature, bolt-on AI — especially chatbots layered onto legacy systems — is deflecting customers rather than helping them, leaving agents to clean up failed bot interactions. It closes with a seven-pillar blueprint for turning AI from a liability into a genuine agent co-pilot.
UJET — The Experience Center
A brand manifesto from UJET arguing that the contact center should be reimagined as an 'experience center.' Rather than a cost center built to minimize customer contact, UJET frames CX as a source of loyalty and revenue. The video walks through a five-step platform: seamless channel blending across chat, call and text; a mobile SDK with biometric (Face ID) authentication; AI-powered automation and routing; agent assist with real-time transcription and next-best-action guidance; and real-time CRM sync that keeps no PII inside UJET. The core pitch: legacy systems solve tickets, UJET builds experiences.
Atinary Technologies
Atinary Technologies is a Swiss-American deeptech startup whose no-code SDLabs platform pairs machine learning with lab robotics to run Self-Driving Labs - closed-loop experiments that learn and adapt on the fly, accelerating R&D in chemistry, materials, pharma and climate tech by orders of magnitude.
Reacher
Reacher is an AI-powered platform that automates creator marketing for TikTok Shop, Instagram, and YouTube - turning the chaos of influencer outreach, sample logistics, and affiliate tracking into a single workflow. Founded in 2024 by Jerry Qian and Bora Mutluoglu, the YC S25 startup serves brands like Under Armour, Hanes, and Logitech, claiming 1,000+ brands and 3.4M+ indexed creators.
Town
Town is a San Francisco AI startup building a personal AI assistant - your 'Townie' - that plugs into the tools you already use (email, calendar, Slack, docs, WhatsApp, desktop and web), learns how you work, and proactively does the work for you. Founded in late 2024 by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze and ex-Google applied-AI director Tony Vincent, Town launched in 2025 as an AI-driven tax-and-compliance service for small businesses, then widened into a general-purpose assistant. It exited beta in June 2026 alongside a $55M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Allan Brik
Allan Brik is the CEO and managing founder of Everysk, a New York fintech building intelligent automation and risk workflows for capital markets. A structural engineer turned quant turned operator, he spent three decades managing risk at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and the $14 billion hedge fund allocator Arden Asset Management before founding Everysk in 2013. He holds a PhD in Computer Aided Engineering from MIT and argues that cloud computing, open APIs, and agentic AI are quietly dismantling the spreadsheets and data silos that have governed investment management for decades.
Max Cao
Max Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Jacobi Robotics, an Emeryville, California startup building AI-first software that programs industrial robot arms up to 20x faster. A mechanical engineer trained at Imperial College London and UC Berkeley's BAIR Lab under Ken Goldberg, and a former McKinsey consultant, Cao left academia to attack a problem most people never see: the way robots are programmed has barely changed since the 1980s. Jacobi's motion-planning technology cuts deployment from a month to under a day, claims 1000x less compute, and handles the singularities that freeze robot arms mid-task. The company launched publicly in July 2024 with a $5M seed round led by Moxxie Ventures.
Adam Gluck
Adam Gluck is the CEO and co-founder of Copia Automation, a New York startup bringing Git-based source control and DevOps practices to the world of industrial controls and PLC programming. A former staff software engineer at Uber, where he was a founding member of the Engineering Strategy team and helped design DOMA, Uber's microservice architecture, Gluck set out to give the engineers who program factory floors the same modern tooling that software teams take for granted. He co-founded Copia with Matthew Lee, raised over $16 million from investors including Lux Capital and Construct Capital, and was named to the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Manufacturing and Industry.
ATAD Corp.
ATAD Corp. is a Seoul-based technology company building an AI-driven multi-cloud operating platform that helps teams run AWS, Azure, and GCP environments from one place. Its flagship product, ODiiN, uses AI to forecast and self-heal infrastructure problems, claiming up to 80% cost savings and large productivity gains. Founded in 2023 by cloud and cybersecurity specialists, ATAD pairs cloud automation with a security stack built on AI, multi-factor authentication, and zero-knowledge proofs, and also runs Heiimdahl (a multi-LLM monitoring gateway) and Kraton (a blockchain-based decentralized VPN). The company has raised about $3.36M and holds a growing portfolio of patents in multi-cloud integration and secure data distribution.