OneRail is an Orlando-based logistics technology company whose AI-native OmniPoint platform orchestrates last-mile delivery for enterprise retailers, wholesalers and distributors. By connecting shippers to a network of 12 million-plus drivers and 1,000-plus carriers, OneRail lets brands offer same-day and scheduled delivery, optimize routes and modes in real time, and resolve delivery exceptions - reaching a 98.6% on-time rate while cutting delivery costs by up to 30%.
Pipedream is a developer-first integration and automation platform that lets engineers connect more than 3,000 APIs and 10,000+ pre-built actions to build workflows, products, and AI agents without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, it grew to more than one million users on the strength of a serverless model that mixes drag-and-drop triggers with full Node.js, Python, Go, and Bash code. In 2025 it became the connective tissue for AI agents through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and in late 2025 it agreed to be acquired by Workday.
PolicyMap is a Philadelphia-based cloud mapping and data analytics platform that lets anyone build custom maps, reports, and dashboards from more than 75,000 curated indicators drawn from 170-plus public and proprietary sources - no GIS expertise required. Spun out of the Reinvestment Fund, it serves banks, universities, hospitals, governments, and nonprofits that need to turn place-based data into decisions about housing, health, lending, and community investment.
Primer turns a company's ideal customer profile or account list into high-match B2B audiences and pushes them across consumer ad channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Reddit, then measures real pipeline impact with website de-anonymization and holdout testing. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Primer resolves identities and runs enrichment waterfalls to deliver 3-5x better match rates than CSV uploads, helping growth and ABM teams prove advertising ROI instead of guessing at it.
Quartermaster is an Arlington, Virginia maritime intelligence company turning ordinary working ships into a distributed sensing network. Its weather-hardened SmartMast hardware - cameras, radios, satellite links and onboard AI - mounts to vessel masts and streams real-time HD video, geolocation and threat alerts back to a central analytics platform. The result is a live, continuously updated picture of global ocean activity that does not depend on the easily spoofed AIS transponders ships can simply switch off. Backed by a $43M Series A co-led by First Round Capital and Quiet Capital, Quartermaster already runs on more than 600 vessels across 25 countries.
QURA, Inc. is a preclinical medical-technology company in Massachusetts building a tiny implanted sensor that continuously measures blood pressure and wirelessly transmits medical-grade waveform data to patients and physicians in real time. Its QSmart platform - a vitamin-sized QSense implant paired with software and analytics - aims to replace the occasional cuff reading with always-on monitoring, targeting hypertension, the leading cardiovascular risk factor worldwide. The technology grew out of an earlier wireless implantable pressure sensor developed for glaucoma (intraocular pressure) monitoring.
Rain is a Santa Monica fintech that lets employees tap the wages they've already earned before payday. It plugs directly into employer payroll and time-and-attendance systems to calculate real-time earnings, then pairs instant access with budgeting tools, free tax filing, financial coaching, an AI financial assistant and a debit card. Since 2019 it has reached over 3.5 million workers and moved more than $2 billion in wages, positioning earned wage access as an employer benefit that cuts turnover and financial stress.
Reflection AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence lab founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou. It is building autonomous coding agents and open frontier language models, with the stated ambition of reaching superintelligence by first solving software engineering. Its flagship product, Asimov, is a code research and comprehension agent for large codebases. After raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation in October 2025, the company has positioned itself as an open, Western alternative to closed labs like OpenAI and Anthropic and to Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek.
Resynergi is a California advanced-recycling company that turns hard-to-recycle plastic into PyOil, a drop-in feedstock for new plastics and fuels. Its proprietary Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP) technology runs inside modular, truck-shippable units that process plastic roughly 20 times faster than conventional pyrolysis, letting recyclers and manufacturers convert waste on-site instead of shipping it to landfills or oceans. Backed by Lummus Technology and Perenco's Taranis fund, Resynergi is moving from pilot to its first commercial-scale site.
Royalty Solutions Corp is a New York-based, fee-based music royalty administration and publishing services firm that acts as an outsourced, white-label royalty department for record labels, independent publishers, distributors, and management companies. Founded by third-generation music executive Mark Spier, it pairs enterprise-grade royalty software with hands-on accounting to process statements, register catalogs, handle mechanical and master-use licensing, and pay rights holders accurately - all on a flat fee rather than a commission, so clients keep their earnings.
Seurat Technologies is a Massachusetts-based contract metal manufacturer built around Area Printing, a laser powder bed fusion process invented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Instead of melting metal powder one point at a time, Seurat uses millions of tiny laser points to print entire areas at once, decoupling resolution from speed. The company doesn't sell printers; it runs its own clean-energy print factories and sells finished parts at costs meant to rival casting, forging, and machining, with the goal of reshoring high-volume metal manufacturing and cutting its carbon footprint.
Shift5 is an operational intelligence and onboard observability company that taps the raw data already flowing across the internal networks of planes, trains, tanks, and ships. Founded by former U.S. Army cyber officers, it plugs into serial-bus and RF traffic on military and commercial fleets to deliver real-time cyber threat detection, predictive maintenance, and compliance insight at the edge. Backed by $185M+ in venture funding, Shift5 serves the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, SOCOM, and several of the largest U.S. passenger rail systems.
Sikka.ai is a San Jose-based AI and API platform for the retail healthcare market - dentistry, veterinary, optometry, audiology, chiropractic and more. Its ONE API connects to over 400 practice management systems and roughly 96% of the market, giving developers and practices a single integration point to pull patient data, post payments, and tap 300+ KPIs. Built on de-identified data from tens of thousands of practices over two decades, Sikka also ships practice-facing analytics (Optimizer) and DentalLLM, a dental-specific large language model. Founded in 2004 by Vijay Sikka, the company processes large transaction volumes daily across more than 35,000 practice installations.
Skild AI is a Pittsburgh-based robotics company building the Skild Brain, a single general-purpose foundation model designed to control any robot - quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators - across many tasks without bespoke retraining. Founded in 2023 by former Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, the company trains on a mix of large-scale simulation, internet video, teleoperation and real-world deployment data. After a $1.4B Series C in January 2026, Skild AI is valued at over $14 billion.
Solu Therapeutics is a Boston-based clinical-stage biotech building a new class of medicines that selectively kill disease-driving cells. Its proprietary CyTAC (Cytotoxicity Targeting Chimera) and TicTAC (Therapeutic Index Control Targeting Chimera) platforms fuse the precise binding of small molecules with the cell-killing power of antibodies, reaching cell-surface targets - like GPCRs and ion channels - that traditional antibodies cannot. Its lead program, STX-0712, is a CCR2-targeting candidate in a Phase 1 trial for chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and other advanced blood cancers.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.
Wordly is a San Francisco Bay Area company that delivers cloud-based, AI-powered live translation, captioning, transcription and summaries for meetings and events. Without apps, headsets or human interpreters, attendees scan a QR code and follow along in their own language across 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs. Founded in 2017 by Lakshman Rathnam, Wordly serves 4,000+ customers and has supported over 5 million users worldwide, and was ranked among the fastest-growing software companies on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list.
xCures is an AI-powered health-data platform that automatically retrieves medical records from any care site in the United States, then structures, normalizes, and validates that messy, unstructured data into searchable, source-traceable clinical insights. Born in oncology, it generates regulatory-grade real-world evidence, AI-built clinical checklists, and natural-language patient summaries that help researchers, biopharma, advocacy groups, and clinicians understand each patient's full medical journey - and run continuously learning 'virtual trials' across all patients, all treatments, all the time.
Zeromatter builds the simulation infrastructure that autonomous-systems companies use to develop, test and validate their products before they ever touch the real world. Founded by former Tesla Autopilot simulation lead Ian Glow, its platform combines high-fidelity sensor simulation, automatic environment generation, multi-agent co-simulation frameworks, execution infrastructure and developer tooling into one system - aimed at making simulation a default tool for autonomy, aerospace, automotive, agriculture, drones and green energy.
Zinier is a San Mateo-based enterprise software company that builds an AI-driven, no-code field service management (FSM) platform. It helps large organizations in telecom, utilities, energy and manufacturing schedule, dispatch and equip the technicians who install and maintain physical assets in the field. Its Studio Z no-code builders, Z Productivity Suite and generative-AI assistant Z Sidekick let companies tailor workflows and deploy specialized AI agents that automate routine coordination so human technicians can focus on the work only they can do.
Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Summer Robotics is a Campbell, California machine-vision company giving robots what it calls superhuman perception. Its patented Kortx platform fuses event-based sensors with continuous laser scanning - a category the company calls laser-event sensing - to deliver blur-free 3D tracking with sub-5ms latency, 100-micron precision and 100Hz tracking. The technology lets robots see and react in dynamic, unstructured, variably lit environments, including on metal, glossy and transparent surfaces that defeat conventional cameras, unlocking automation in manufacturing, logistics and humanoid applications.
Surefire Cyber is a purpose-built cyber incident response firm that helps insurers, brokers, law firms, and the organizations they cover move from response to resilience. Founded in 2022 by incident response veteran Billy Gouveia and incubated at Forgepoint Capital, the company pairs expert-led responders with an AI-enabled platform that unifies the insurance-driven response lifecycle - from forensic investigation and threat-actor negotiation through restoration, claims coordination, and cyber intelligence - to deliver faster outcomes with consistent quality and transparent, claims-ready reporting.
THE/STUDIO is a custom product manufacturing and on-demand merchandising platform that connects brands, creators, and organizations to a global network of vetted factories. Founded in 2013 as a custom patch shop, it now produces 300+ categories of custom goods - pins, patches, apparel, coins, drinkware and more - with no minimum orders, fast turnaround, and software that compresses the traditional sourcing process from months to days. The company positions itself as a modern, ethical answer to slow legacy manufacturing, serving over 100,000 customers including Nike, Adidas, Netflix, Uber and the Met Store.
True Anomaly is a Colorado-based space defense company building the hardware and software to operate, defend, and win in contested orbit. Its flagship Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle - a highly maneuverable, refrigerator-sized spacecraft - is paired with Mosaic, a full-stack mission autonomy and command-and-control platform. Founded in 2022 by Air Force and Space Force veterans, the company sells primarily to the U.S. Space Force and Department of the Air Force, has raised more than $1 billion across four rounds, and is valued at $2.2 billion after its April 2026 Series D.
Vetcove is the veterinary industry's unified purchasing platform. It aggregates the catalogs of every major distributor, manufacturer, compounding pharmacy, and diagnostic lab into one searchable storefront, so veterinary practices can compare real-time pricing and stock across all their vendors and order from everyone in one cart. The platform is free for clinics and nonprofits; Vetcove earns revenue from vendors and hospital groups. It serves more than 23,000 veterinary practices across the United States.
Voltaiq is a Berkeley-based enterprise software company that pioneered the category of 'battery intelligence.' Its Enterprise Battery Intelligence (EBI) platform automatically collects, cleans, and harmonizes data from battery test and production equipment, then surfaces the performance, quality, health, and safety insights engineers need to build better batteries faster. Founded in 2012 by UC Berkeley PhDs Tal Sholklapper and Eli Leland, Voltaiq is used by automakers, consumer-electronics giants, and energy-storage companies including Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Amazon, Meta, and Sila to accelerate product development and catch defects weeks earlier than traditional QC.
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC) is a full-service, independent global valuation and advisory firm that has provided objective, supportable conclusions of value since 1975. With a U.S. team of 300+ professionals across a dozen offices and an international network of nearly 1,500 valuation experts through Valuation Research Group, VRC serves private equity funds, financial sponsors, and acquisitive public and private companies with fairness opinions, solvency opinions, financial-reporting valuations, tax valuations, and the pricing of complex, illiquid securities.
Zero Industrial is a Charleston, South Carolina developer that decarbonizes industrial heat using thermal energy storage (TES). Instead of burning gas, oil or coal to make heat and steam, its systems charge on cheap off-peak or curtailed clean electricity and discharge it as high-temperature heat. The company finances, builds and operates each project itself, then sells clean heat or steam to factories under long-term Heat-as-a-Service contracts with no upfront capital required from the customer.
Aha! is a bootstrapped, fully remote software company that makes the world's most widely used product development tools. Founded in 2013 by Brian de Haaff and Chris Waters, its suite - Roadmaps, Ideas, Whiteboards, Knowledge, Discovery, Teamwork, Develop, and the newer AI-driven Builder - helps product teams set strategy, gather customer feedback, prioritize features, and ship work people love. It reached profitability without venture capital and is used by more than one million product builders worldwide.