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Genasys wants insurance to move at the speed of an idea
A yacht policy built in ten days. A million-plan migration measured in years. Inside the insurance software company making a business out of knowing the difference.
Tuya Put the Cloud in 1.2 Million Device SKUs - Then Learned the Price of Being Everywhere
Tuya became the invisible plumbing behind a crowded smart-device aisle. When the pandemic boom snapped, it stopped chasing every customer and rebuilt around larger accounts, software-rich hardware and AI that can finally do more than switch on a bulb.
Origami Risk Built a 1,000-Client Business by Fixing Insurance’s Unglamorous Plumbing
The Chicago software company won by treating claims, safety reports and policy records as one connected data problem. Now its bet is that the same platform can carry insurers from first incident to final invoice - with AI tucked into the paperwork.
OutSystems Made Coding Faster. Now AI Is Making ‘Fast’ Look Slow
The Portuguese low-code pioneer survived two brushes with bankruptcy, rewrote its business model, and reached €500 million in revenue. Its next trick is harder: proving that governed software beats a clever prompt when the app runs a bank, hospital, or factory.
The Company Teaching Trucks, Forklifts and Fridges to Talk
Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket sold their last company to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Then they went looking for the least digital corner of the economy - the trucks, warehouses and job sites that run the physical world - and wired it up.
Procore Technologies
A carpenter who got tired of paper blueprints built the software the construction industry now runs on - and priced it so nobody has to pay per seat.
Ayla Networks
The smartest thing in a connected appliance may be the infrastructure its owner never sees. Ayla Networks supplies that hidden stack - from firmware to cloud to app - for brands that want the benefits of IoT without surrendering the customer relationship.
Plover
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company that simplifies business travel through a wholly owned, cloud-based SaaS platform. Founded in 2017, it combines a full-service travel management company (TMC) with proprietary apps for travel booking, expense management, and workspace management. Plover describes itself as builder of Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform, offering GDS, NDC and Direct Connect airline content plus global hotel aggregators to corporates and travel agencies across the Asia Pacific region.
Ease.io
Ease.io is an Irvine, California software company that makes EASE, a cloud-based audit and inspection platform for manufacturers. The platform digitizes and automates plant-floor workflows - layered process audits, safety inspections, 5S evaluations, Gemba walks and custom audits - along with scheduling, task assignment, data collection, corrective actions and reporting. What began as an on-premises work-instructions tool has become a native SaaS platform used by leading manufacturers such as Dana, Tenneco, Eaton, 3M, Bosch and Aston Martin across 50+ countries, helping quality and operations teams turn plant-floor data into real-time insight and closed-loop issue resolution.
Clearstory
Clearstory is a cloud-based change order communication platform for commercial construction. It gives general contractors, specialty contractors and project owners a shared, real-time system to create, price, track and align on change orders and time-and-material (T&M) tags - the extra work that traditionally gets buried in email, PDFs and spreadsheets. Founded in 2018 as Extracker and rebranded to Clearstory in 2023, the company runs a business network where contractors exchange roughly $1B in change orders every month, and counts many of North America's largest general contractors as customers.
SiteWorx
SiteWorx is a cloud-based energy and facility management platform for industrial and commercial buildings. Built on a foundation of intelligent lighting controls, it unifies sensors, metering, and third-party systems to give operators real-time visibility into water, air/HVAC, gas/steam, and energy/lighting (WAGE) so they can cut waste and reduce operating costs. The platform is the continuation of Digital Lumens' connected-lighting technology, now owned and developed by SiteWorx Software after acquiring the assets in 2023.
Xyte
Xyte is a cloud platform that lets hardware manufacturers, system integrators, and enterprises connect, monitor, service, and commercialize their connected devices from a single place. Its Xyte Device Cloud (also branded as a Connected Device Management Platform) turns physical products into software-driven, subscription-ready services - handling everything from remote monitoring and firmware updates to billing and AI-assisted support. Founded in 2019 by AV-industry veteran Omer Brookstein and software builder Boris Dinkevich, Xyte works with manufacturers across pro AV, unified communications, smart buildings, medical, and robotics, including names like Crestron, Legrand, Poly, QSC, Biamp, and Panasonic.
BeyondView
BeyondView is a San Francisco proptech company that builds photorealistic, interactive digital twins of commercial real estate. Using computer vision, machine learning and deep learning on a cloud platform, it turns blueprints and photos into virtual spec-suites - so owners, brokers and operators can whitebox vacant space, reposition properties, run remote walkthroughs and manage portfolios without physical staging or on-site scans. Founded by former Wikimedia executive Kul Wadhwa and staffed with veterans of Pixar, Electronic Arts, Marvel and Stanford's HSTAR Lab, BeyondView counts WeWork Japan, Healthpeak, Ventas and other large landlords among its customers.
Revere
Revere builds cloud software that helps allocators in private markets manage their portfolios without drowning in spreadsheets and PDFs. Its platform, Revere ONE, ingests fund data automatically, standardizes it across venture capital, private equity, real estate, private credit, and hedge funds, and surfaces performance and risk in interactive dashboards. Founded in 2020 by former AngelList institutional-capital lead Eric Woo and Chris Shen, Revere serves family offices, fund-of-funds, corporate venture groups, and other sophisticated allocators.
Shuttle
Shuttle is a Rust-native cloud platform that lets developers ship backends without writing infrastructure files. You annotate what you need in code - a database, secrets, a web server - and Shuttle provisions it and deploys to the cloud. Founded in 2019 and shaped by Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch, the company is now repositioning as an 'AI platform engineer' that handles the deployment step where AI coding tools like Cursor, Copilot and Lovable leave off. It has drawn more than 20,000 developers and over 120,000 deployments, and raised a $6M seed round in October 2025.
Samantha Mah
Samantha Mah is VP of Strategic Partnerships and Growth at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company headquartered in Santa Clara. Based in Toronto, she leads the charge on unlocking organizational potential by eliminating manual, repetitive work through intelligent digital workflows. With a Six Sigma Master Black Belt background and a career that spans Xerox and ServiceNow, she brings process-excellence discipline to the art of enterprise partnerships. She also serves in the Office of the CDIO as Senior Director, Customer Advocate - bridging the gap between technology capability and human impact.
minds.ai
minds.ai builds AI systems for semiconductor manufacturers. Its Maestro platform - powered by the DeepSim engine - uses reinforcement learning, supervised learning, and generative AI to optimize fab scheduling, planning, forecasting, and control inside 24/7 wafer-fabrication plants. Founded in 2014, the company is based in Santa Cruz, California, with offices in Amsterdam and Bangalore.
Nodar Daneliya
Nodar Daneliya is the co-founder and CEO of Shuttle, an open-source cloud platform that lets developers build and deploy backends without writing infrastructure files. A former quant trader and investment banker who taught himself the cloud, he traded London trading desks and Harvard finance classes for a Rust developer-tools company that more than 20,000 engineers now use across 120,000+ deployments. After raising a $6M seed round in October 2025, he is pointing Shuttle squarely at the messiest part of AI coding: what happens after the AI writes the code and someone still has to ship it.
KoreLock
KoreLock is a Denver-based IoT smart lock technology company that gives lock manufacturers and access control providers a turnkey, patented platform - embedded firmware, custom PCBAs, mobile and web apps, and cloud APIs - to turn ordinary offline locks into Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected devices. Rather than competing with lock makers or software companies, KoreLock positions itself as the interoperability bridge between hardware and access control software, with technology already embedded in tens of thousands of devices across 65+ countries.
MarketSpark, Inc.
MarketSpark is a Bannockburn, Illinois company that replaces aging copper phone lines (POTS) for large enterprises with a managed, carrier-agnostic wireless service. As traditional carriers decommission their analog networks, MarketSpark keeps fire alarms, elevator phones, fax lines, alarm panels and voice lines working using cloud-managed 4G LTE/5G hardware, real-time monitoring and remote diagnostics - serving hundreds of America's largest enterprises across tens of thousands of locations.
Medisafe
Medisafe is a digital health company that turns the everyday struggle of taking pills on time into a behavior-driven engagement platform. Born from a near-fatal insulin overdose in the founders' own family, it began as a free virtual pillbox app and grew into an enterprise platform - anchored by Medisafe Maestro and its Just-in-Time Interventions (JITI) engine - that pharmaceutical companies use to keep patients on therapy. With more than 13 million users worldwide and 4+ billion doses tracked, Medisafe sits at the intersection of consumer mobile health and the multibillion-dollar problem of medication non-adherence.
Benchling
Benchling is a cloud platform built for biotech R&D - a single, biology-first system of record where scientists design experiments, track samples, manage molecular data, and collaborate. Founded in 2012 out of MIT, it has grown into the operating system for modern life science, used by hundreds of thousands of scientists at companies ranging from startups to the largest biopharma firms, and is now embedding AI agents and predictive models directly into the lab workflow.
Nutanix
Nutanix is a San Jose-based enterprise cloud software company that pioneered hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), collapsing servers, storage, virtualization and networking into a single software layer that runs the same way in a private data center, at the edge, or in the public cloud. Its platform lets IT teams run virtual machines, containers, databases and AI workloads across clouds without the operational sprawl of traditional three-tier architecture. Now a public company (NASDAQ: NTNX) with more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue and roughly 7,000+ employees, Nutanix competes head-on with VMware as enterprises rethink their virtualization stack.
Jacobi
Jacobi is a San Francisco-based fintech company that builds cloud-based portfolio design, analytics, and client engagement software for institutional investors — asset managers, wealth managers, pension funds, and investment consultants. Founded in 2014, its platform unifies investment data and automates analytics workflows across multi-asset portfolios, serving clients managing over $7 trillion in assets under management including T. Rowe Price, LGIM, MFS, and Principal.
JIFFY.ai
JIFFY.ai is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for financial services — combining no-code app development, intelligent document processing, RPA, and generative AI into a unified HyperApp architecture. Founded in 2018 by Babu Sivadasan (formerly of Envestnet and Stamps.com) and a team of co-founders, the company targets wealth managers, banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs looking to automate client onboarding, account servicing, advisor workflows, and compliance operations without writing a line of code. With $105M+ in total funding and marquee customers reducing onboarding costs by 30% and advisor service time by 50%, JIFFY.ai sits at the intersection of AI hype and real financial-services plumbing.
Jing Liu
Jing Liu is the Founder and CEO of SIMO (formerly Skyroam), the AI-driven cloud connectivity platform that lets devices roam across 300+ mobile carriers in 145+ countries without a physical SIM card. She founded the company in 2008 in Silicon Valley, pioneered patented virtual SIM (vSIM) technology, raised $63.5M in funding including a $20M Series C2 in 2019, and has built SIMO into a platform serving over 15 million users and 6+ million connected IoT devices. Under her leadership, SIMO extended its reach from travel hotspots to enterprise IoT, automotive, and mission-critical connectivity.
Abhishek Jha
Abhishek Jha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata, a San Francisco-based AI company making biomedical data AI-ready for drug discovery and pharmaceutical R&D. A trained physical chemist with a PhD from the University of Chicago and postdoctoral work at MIT, he spent years at Agios Pharmaceuticals contributing to four FDA-approved first-in-class therapies before co-founding Elucidata in 2015. Under his leadership, the company has raised over $22.7M in funding, grown to 170 employees, and achieved $22.2M ARR, while evolving from a data-curation platform into an AI company solving out-of-distribution (OOD) problems in biomedical research - work that earned Elucidata recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024.
Render
Render is a San Francisco-based cloud application platform that lets developers and software teams deploy web services, databases, cron jobs, and AI workloads without managing servers. Founded in 2018 by former Stripe engineer Anurag Goel, the company has grown into one of the most popular alternatives to Heroku and a default choice for AI-native startups, now valued at $1.5 billion after a $100M Series C extension in February 2026.
Tony Mackenzie
Tony Mackenzie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jacobi, a San Francisco-based investment technology platform he built after watching the world's largest institutional investors still manage portfolio processes in spreadsheets. Drawing on a PhD in Applied Mathematics and a career managing over $45 billion in assets at QIC, he co-founded Jacobi in 2014 to modernize multi-asset portfolio design, analytics, and client engagement. Today the platform serves clients including T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton, and LGIM, representing over $7 trillion in assets under management, and has raised $27.6 million in total funding.
Medrio
Medrio is a San Francisco-based eClinical software company that helps pharma, biotech, medtech and diagnostics teams run clinical trials with a no-code, cloud-based EDC, eCOA/ePRO, eConsent and RTSM suite. Founded in 2005 and bootstrapped for more than a decade before taking outside capital, Medrio now powers thousands of studies across four continents.