Metrika is a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that built the first operational intelligence and risk management platform for blockchains and digital assets. It collects, analyzes, and visualizes the health of decentralized networks in real time - tracking hundreds of risk indicators across protocols, smart contracts, and market conditions - so that protocol teams, financial institutions, and regulators can monitor performance, detect issues early, and meet compliance obligations.
Anagram Security (legal name Enigma Analytics, Inc.) is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building a human-driven security platform that replaces the dreaded once-a-year compliance video with bite-sized, gamified microlearning and adaptive phishing simulations. Founded by Harley Sugarman and formerly known as Cipher, the company takes design cues from TikTok, Duolingo, and Khan Academy to make employees the strongest link in security rather than the weakest. It raised a $10M Series A led by Madrona in February 2025, serves Fortune 500 customers including Disney, Pfizer, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual, and supports over 500,000 users worldwide.
Belfry is a New York-based vertical SaaS company building the all-in-one operating system for physical security guard companies. Its platform unifies scheduling, timekeeping, GPS-tracked field operations, embedded payroll with tax filing, and automated billing - replacing the spreadsheets and stitched-together tools that security firms historically relied on. Founded in 2022 by Jordan Wallach and Alex Tulenko, Belfry serves hundreds of security businesses and raised a $12M Series A in January 2025 led by Base10 Partners.
Castellum.AI is a New York-based regulatory technology company that automates anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer compliance for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. Its platform pairs in-house risk data drawn from 200,000+ global sources with explainable AI agents that screen for sanctions, politically exposed persons and adverse media, cutting alert volume by 94% and review time by 83% out of the box. Founded by a former U.S. Treasury sanctions officer, the company raised an $8.5M Series A in July 2025 led by Curql.
EON is a New York-based enterprise software company building the Digital ID layer for physical products. Through its EON Product Cloud platform, brands give each item a unique, traceable digital identity - accessed via QR code, NFC chip or RFID tag - that follows the product across its full lifecycle, powering resale, repair, authentication, customer engagement and compliance with the EU's upcoming Digital Product Passport regulation. Founded in 2017 by Natasha Franck, EON authored the open CircularID Protocol and works with brands including Coach, Chloe, H&M, Mulberry and Target.
PathSpot is a New York-based health and safety company for the food service industry. Its flagship HandScanner uses visible-light fluorescence spectroscopy to detect invisible contaminants on employees' hands in about two seconds, flagging the molecules that carry norovirus, E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria and Hepatitis A. Around that scanner the company built SafetySuite, a connected hardware-and-software platform covering temperature logging, digital task lists and food labeling. PathSpot operates in more than 10,000 food service locations worldwide.
Sigma360 is a New York-based risk intelligence company that helps banks, payment firms, fintechs and global corporations detect and manage financial crime. Its cloud-native, AI-powered platform unifies global risk data, proprietary intelligence, core screening technology and automation to surface direct and network-based risk at sub-second speed, cut false positives, and run perpetual KYC, sanctions and adverse media screening. Founded in 2017 as Sigma Ratings, the company protects more than $2 trillion in assets and company value.
TraceLink runs the largest digital network for the pharmaceutical supply chain, connecting roughly 280,000 companies so drugs can be tracked from factory to pharmacy shelf. Born to fight counterfeit medicines, the Massachusetts company became the backbone for global serialization and DSCSA compliance, and is now pushing into no-code and agentic AI tools that let trading partners resolve shortages, recalls, and exceptions across the network.
Venn is a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote and hybrid work on personal, unmanaged, or contractor-owned computers. Its patented Blue Border technology installs a lightweight agent that creates a company-controlled Secure Enclave on any Windows or Mac machine - work apps run locally inside a literal blue border where data is encrypted and isolated from personal use, with no virtual desktop, no remote session, and no shipped laptop required.
Warp is an AI-native payroll, compliance, and benefits platform built for high-growth startups. It automates the back-office grind - multi-state tax registrations, filings, benefits enrollment, global contractor payments, and compliance-notice resolution - so founders can hire, onboard, and pay teams anywhere in the US and 150+ countries without the manual admin. Backed by Y Combinator and Sound Ventures, Warp has raised about $24-25M to build what it calls an autonomous back office.
Alastair Wood is the CEO of Raisin US, the American arm of the Berlin-born deposit-marketplace fintech. A lawyer by training who started as the company's General Counsel in 2023, he stepped into the top job in January 2026. His career runs through Big Law (Paul Hastings, Paul Weiss), a chief-of-staff stint inside Citi's global legal team, and early-employee roles at two scrappy fintech startups - retirement platform Kindur and renter-insurance company Rhino - before he landed at Raisin, where he now leads a platform that connects everyday American savers with banks and credit unions chasing deposits.
Ayush Sharma is the founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-native employee management, payroll, and compliance platform built for high-growth startups. An MIT computer science and physics graduate and former Yelp ML engineer, he started Warp out of Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch to fix the government red tape he hated as a distributed-team founder. Warp now runs payroll across all 50 US states and 150+ countries for hundreds of startups, and in June 2025 raised an $18M Series A led by Sound Ventures.
Peter Piatetsky is the co-founder and CEO of Castellum.AI, a New York compliance-technology company that automates AML/KYC screening for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. A former US Treasury sanctions officer who once fined banks and froze illicit assets, he started Castellum after a month of staring at 38,000 compliance alerts that surfaced exactly one real threat. The company builds its own financial-crime data pipeline, refreshes it every five minutes, and routinely corrects errors in government sanctions lists. In July 2025 Castellum raised an oversubscribed $8.5M Series A led by credit-union and bank-backed funds.
Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a San Francisco-based technology company building an AI-powered platform for the physical economy. It helps companies that run trucks, equipment, and field workers manage safety, operations, compliance, and spend in one system - combining edge-AI dashcams, GPS telematics, and fintech tools used by nearly 100,000 businesses from small fleets to Fortune 500 enterprises like Halliburton, Komatsu, and Maersk.
Tanium is a privately held cybersecurity and systems-management company that built its business on a simple, stubborn idea: you should be able to ask a question of every computer in a large organization and get an accurate answer in seconds. Its Converged Endpoint Management (XEM) platform uses a peer-to-peer 'linear chain' architecture to query and control millions of endpoints in near real time, collapsing the gap between security teams and IT operations. Founded in 2007 by BigFix veterans David and Orion Hindawi, Tanium now secures more than 33 million endpoints for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, major banks, retailers, and government defense agencies, and is pushing into autonomous, AI-driven IT operations with products like Tanium Atlas.
Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.
AppOmni is a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that gives enterprise security teams continuous visibility, threat detection, and policy enforcement across business-critical SaaS apps like Salesforce, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Google Workspace, and Workday - plus the AI agents now plugged into them.
Aravo Solutions is a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company that builds cloud software for third-party risk, governance, and compliance. Its Intelligence First Platform - now wrapped with an AI agent layer called Aravo AI - helps Fortune 500 companies manage vendors, suppliers, and partners across 154 countries and 36 languages.
Checkr is a San Francisco-based HR-tech company that uses AI and a modern API to run background checks at internet speed. Founded in 2014 by Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon out of Y Combinator, it processes screenings for Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, OpenAI and thousands of other employers - and lobbies hard for fair-chance hiring along the way.
Cobalt is the pioneer of Pentest as a Service (PtaaS), pairing a curated community of vetted offensive-security experts (the Cobalt Core) with a SaaS platform that turns penetration testing from a months-long procurement exercise into an on-demand, continuous program. Founded in 2013, the company now serves 1,500+ customers and is leaning hard into AI-augmented offensive security.
Deel is a global HR and payroll platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage workers in 150+ countries, handling contracts, compliance, taxes, benefits, and IT - all in one place.
DuploCloud is a San Jose-based DevOps automation platform that turns plain-English application requirements into production-ready, compliance-aware cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP. Founded by ex-Microsoft Azure engineer Venkat Thiruvengadam, it aims to give Main Street IT the hyperscale automation patterns once locked inside Big Tech.
Human Interest is a San Francisco-based fintech company on a mission to make retirement savings accessible to every American worker, regardless of where they work. The company provides affordable, full-service 401(k) and 403(b) plans designed for small and medium-sized businesses — the 99% of employers who have historically been priced out of quality retirement plan options. With a platform that handles recordkeeping, compliance, payroll integration, and investment management all in one place, Human Interest has become one of the fastest-growing retirement plan providers in the U.S., serving nearly 50,000 employers and 2 million+ eligible employees.
Incode is an AI-powered identity verification platform that lets businesses confirm who is really on the other side of a screen — in under two seconds. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, the company has built a modular biometric platform used by banks, hotels, hospitals, and gaming companies across more than 190 countries. Its flagship product, Incode Omni, handles everything from document verification and facial recognition to AML screening and liveness detection, processing more than 100 million user verifications per year. Backed by General Atlantic, SoftBank, J.P. Morgan, and Capital One Ventures at a $1.25 billion valuation, Incode has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Identity Verification two consecutive years running.
Juniper Square is a San Francisco-based fintech company that provides an end-to-end fund operations platform for private markets managers - combining software, data, and fund administration services for general partners in private equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit. Founded in 2014, the company serves over 2,100 GPs managing more than 40,000 funds and $1 trillion in LP capital. In June 2025, Juniper Square raised a $130M Series D at a $1.1 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status, with major investors including Ribbit Capital, Fifth Wall, and Redpoint Ventures.
Lumber is an AI-powered construction workforce management platform that unifies payroll, time tracking, HR, safety, compliance, and field productivity for contractors. Founded in 2023 by Shreesha Ramdas and Manish Kumar, the company is building autonomous AI agents for an industry where 41% of the workforce is set to retire in seven years.
Metallicus is a San Francisco-based blockchain company building The Digital Banking Network (TDBN), a compliance-first infrastructure that connects traditional banks, credit unions, and fintechs to Web3. Founded in 2016 by Marshall Hayner and Glenn Mariën, the company is the core developer of Metal Blockchain - a Layer 0 protocol with Bank Secrecy Act compliance built in - and powers stablecoin pilots, digital identity, and crypto-banking products used by community financial institutions across the United States.
Middesk is a San Francisco-based business identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, lenders, and marketplaces verify the businesses they transact with. Its KYB APIs turn the slow, paper-heavy process of vetting a company into a real-time decision, powering onboarding at firms like Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Gusto, Affirm, and Shopify.
Oomnitza is a San Francisco-based Enterprise Technology Management platform that gives IT teams a single, accurate picture of every asset in their organization — hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud — with 98%+ data accuracy and 1,500+ pre-built integrations. Founded in 2012, the company helps enterprises reduce costs, enforce compliance, and automate IT workflows across the full asset lifecycle, from procurement to offboarding.
Adi Goel is co-founder and COO of Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has screened over $1.36 trillion in payments for 300+ enterprise customers across 70+ countries. Before Sardine, he scaled Revolut's entire US business from zero to millions of customers and led product strategy at Deutsche Börse managing a $200M fintech fund. A Wharton MBA and IIT Delhi engineer, Goel brings rare cross-disciplinary range across quantitative finance, product, and operations to building fintech infrastructure.