Desteia is an AI-native platform for global trade that turns the messy, unstructured data of logistics - emails, chat messages, PDFs, customs filings - into a single validated source of truth. Using large language models to read documents and graph theory to model shipments as networks of locations and routes, Desteia gives supply chain operators end-to-end visibility across ocean, ground, and air, with particular depth on the roughly $850B U.S.-Mexico cross-border corridor. Founded in 2023 by former Tesla executive Francoise Lavertu Stevens and Stanford engineers Diego Solorzano and Austin Poore, the New York-based company raised an $8M seed round in early 2025.
Userful is a software company that turns the wall of screens in a control room or lobby into something you manage from a browser. Its Infinity Platform delivers AV over standard IP networks, replacing racks of proprietary matrix-switching hardware with software that distributes any source to any display. Used by more than 1,000 organizations, including 50-plus Fortune 500 firms, Userful focuses on mission-critical environments where seeing the right data at the right moment matters - operations centers, transportation hubs, factories, and corporate signage.