GitLab is an AI-powered DevSecOps platform that brings the entire software development lifecycle - planning, source code management, CI/CD, security, and deployment - into a single application. Born as an open-source alternative to GitHub in 2011 and run as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab now serves enterprises and millions of developers, trades on Nasdaq under GTLB, and is pushing into agentic AI development with GitLab Duo.
JFrog is the company behind the universal software supply chain platform anchored by Artifactory, the binary repository that lets engineering teams store, secure, and ship every artifact - packages, containers, and now AI models - from a single source of truth. Founded in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG) serves thousands of enterprises and crossed $531.8 million in revenue in 2025 while pushing its 'Liquid Software' vision of continuous, secure software flow.
Netlify is the platform that taught the modern web to ship fast. Founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach, it pioneered the Jamstack architecture and a Git-driven workflow that turned every push into a production deploy. Today, more than five million developers and companies like Twilio, Unilever, and Peloton run on Netlify's global edge network - and the company is reinventing itself again around AI agents that ship code on behalf of humans.
Hans Dockter is the founder and CEO of Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle build tool - downloaded over 23 million times per month - and Develocity, an enterprise developer toolchain observability platform. A German-born physicist-turned-software-engineer, he co-created Gradle in 2008 out of personal frustration with existing build systems, transforming it into one of the most widely adopted build automation tools in software development. Under his leadership, Gradle Technologies has raised $53.2M in total funding and grown to 170+ employees, serving enterprises including Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, and Airbnb.
Rainforest QA is an AI-powered, no-code software testing platform that helps product teams run regression and functional tests without building or maintaining brittle test frameworks. Founded in 2012 in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator, the company has executed more than 42 million tests for over 10,000 startups and product teams.
Semgrep is a San Francisco application-security company that builds a unified AppSec platform (Code/SAST, Supply Chain/SCA, and Secrets) used by engineering teams at Dropbox, Figma, Snowflake and others. Born out of an open-source tool originally written at Facebook, it lets security teams write code-like rules and ship them through CI - cutting false positives and pushing fixes back to developers.
Kevin Gounden is the Chief Executive Officer of Buildkite, the CI/CD platform trusted by Airbnb, Uber, Shopify, Slack, and Canva to ship software at scale. Appointed in August 2025, he brings over two decades of experience founding and scaling SaaS ventures, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Lightcast and Randstad where he drove product strategy across 70+ countries. His mandate at Buildkite: lead the platform's next chapter at the intersection of AI and software delivery.
Matan Grinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Factory, an AI platform that deploys autonomous agents called Droids to automate the entire software development lifecycle. A theoretical physicist who dropped out of his UC Berkeley PhD program in 2023 after a fateful three-hour walk with Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, Grinberg built Factory from a 72-hour hackathon demo into a $1.5B unicorn backed by Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, and Insight Partners. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 AI in 2025, he is one of the defining voices in the agent-native development movement.
Zelos Cloud is a San Francisco-based B2B data platform for mission-critical systems, founded in 2023 by three former Tesla and Neuralink engineers. The platform unifies data collection, remote command-and-control, real-time visualization, and automated testing for firmware and industrial systems - solving the tooling chaos that plagues teams building hardware that cannot afford to fail. Backed by Y Combinator (S23) and Human Capital, Zelos Cloud is building the operating layer that firmware and embedded systems engineers have always needed but never had.
Autosana AI is the first agentic QA platform for iOS, Android, and Web. Founded by Yuvan Sundrani and Jason Steinberg in June 2025 and backed by Y Combinator (S25 batch), Autosana replaces brittle test scripts with AI agents that navigate apps like real users, described in plain English. The company raised $3.2M in February 2026 from YC, Pioneer Fund, Phosphor Capital, DeVC, 468 Capital, and angels including Paul Graham. Revenue is growing 100%+ month over month, and the platform now protects apps serving over 100 million daily active users. The name comes from the Latin 'autosana' — to heal oneself — reflecting tests that evolve alongside the product rather than breaking on every UI change.