Haize Labs is a New York-based AI safety and reliability startup that automates the red-teaming, stress-testing, and evaluation of large language models. Founded in 2024 by a trio of Harvard-trained researchers, the company builds algorithms that hunt for the inputs that make AI models misbehave - jailbreaks, failure modes, and edge cases - so they can be fixed before real users find them. Its 'haizing suite' and multi-turn attack engine Cascade are used by frontier model labs including OpenAI and Anthropic, alongside enterprises like Deloitte and MongoDB.
Charlie Newark-French is the CEO of Cascade, an AI-powered strategy execution platform used by roughly 400 enterprises including PepsiCo, Roche, St. Jude and the World Wildlife Fund. A four-time enterprise software CEO who previously ran Hyperscience and Sharpen, he started at McKinsey, holds a BA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard, and argues that strategy should run like a live operating system rather than a PowerPoint deck. He hosts the executive podcast 'This Way Forward.'
Windsurf (formerly Codeium, originally Exafunction) is a Mountain View-based AI coding company that built one of the first agentic AI-native IDEs, powered by its Cascade agent. Founded in 2021 by MIT classmates Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, it grew to over 1 million developers and $82M ARR before a dramatic July 2025 split: Google paid roughly $2.4B to hire its founders and license its technology, while Cognition (maker of Devin) acquired the remaining product, brand, team, and customer base. In June 2026, Cognition relaunched the Windsurf IDE as Devin Desktop, an agent command center for managing local and cloud coding agents.