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Emovis takes the tollbooth out of the way
A car can cross a bridge in seconds. Getting the right person to pay is another story. Emovis builds the systems - and runs the operations - that connect the two.
ViaPlus makes the tollbooth disappear. Then comes the hard part.
A car can clear a toll point in seconds. ViaPlus handles the longer journey from license plate to paid bill - and the awkward exceptions along the way.
ADD Systems and the art of arriving before empty
A former oil-truck driver built a software business around knowing when the tank would run dry. More than fifty years later, ADD Systems still makes its living in the gap between a delivery and a disaster.
Ark
Ark is a Boston-based software company that builds a cloud platform for running private capital funds. Founded in 2017, it combines fund accounting, an investor portal, LP reporting, and fundraising tools into one system used by venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds, and real estate managers as well as the fund administrators who service them. By 2026 the platform supported more than 500 GPs and administrators overseeing roughly $185 billion in assets. In July 2026, AngelList acquired Ark to fold its fund-administration software into AngelList's banking, payments, and cap-table infrastructure.
Trayd
Trayd is a New York-based back-office operating system built for specialty trade contractors, unifying payroll, HR, compliance, scheduling and real-time labor tracking in one platform. It automates the hardest parts of construction pay - union rules, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, multi-state taxes and certified payroll - cutting weekly processing from 14 hours to 27 minutes while giving workers earned wages days sooner. Founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and backed by Y Combinator, Suffolk Technologies and White Star Capital, Trayd has grown revenue 600% year over year.