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The banks said no. Duco kept counting.
Duco persuaded financial institutions to put reconciliation in the cloud. Its next wager is that AI agents can handle more of the work - while humans keep the receipts.
Seek AI Taught Databases to Answer Back
It gave curious colleagues a way around the analytics ticket queue, while keeping SQL and human review close at hand. Then IBM came calling.
Leo Bernstein Found a Business in Insurance's Messiest Drawer
A disappointing renewal meeting sent a former Wall Street analyst into the fine print. A decade later, Leo Bernstein is still turning commercial insurance documents into decisions.
Alex Yaseen
Alex Yaseen spent years watching smart operators wrestle with spreadsheets. At Parabola, he is turning their hidden business logic into workflows they can build, inspect, and run themselves.
Cedalio
Cedalio is an AI agent platform for the office of the CFO that automates accounts payable, procurement, and utility-bill processing. Its specialized agents read invoices and bills from email, portals, and drives using vision models, run 3-way matching against purchase orders and receipts, flag duplicates and anomalies, and handle LATAM tax compliance before data reaches the ERP. Founded by ex-Wolox engineers and backed by Y Combinator (S23), the company began as a blockchain-verifiable database and evolved through sustainability data into finance automation, keeping auditability as its throughline.
Flott HQ
Flott HQ is an AI-native operating system for transport and logistics fleets. It pulls a fleet's scattered operational data (planning, GPS, fuel, mileage) and financial data (revenue, orders, invoices) into one control center, then lets AI agents handle the repetitive busywork - dispatch, billing, payment tracking - so operators can see their whole business in one place and run leaner. Founded in 2025 by high school friends Sylvanus Mahe and Kanvaly Fadiga, the company went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch.
Parabola
Parabola is a San Francisco-based no-code data automation platform that lets operations and finance teams turn messy, recurring, spreadsheet-driven processes into transparent, auditable AI-powered workflows. Users describe a process in plain language or drag-and-drop building blocks, and Parabola builds a documented agent that pulls data from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and APIs, cleans and transforms it, and runs on a schedule. Founded by Alex Yaseen and backed by OpenView, Matrix, and Thrive Capital, the company focuses on ecommerce, retail, CPG, freight and logistics teams that need to automate work that traditionally required an engineer.
MarcoPolo
MarcoPolo is a Santa Clara, California company building governed AI infrastructure that connects agentic AI - Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot or any MCP-enabled assistant - to a company's internal data across 50+ systems like Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, S3, Salesforce and Jira. Instead of building fragile one-off integrations, teams route through a single secure Model Context Protocol connection with isolated execution, scoped credentials, encrypted secrets and smart context management, so AI can query, correlate and act on enterprise data without leaking it. The product pairs a governed Sandbox, a Cost Plane for token visibility and routing, and a unified Connections CLI. MarcoPolo is the pivot of Immersa, a RevOps data-intelligence startup that raised about $16M from investors including Mayfield's Navin Chaddha.
Pulsora
Pulsora is an AI-powered sustainability management platform built for enterprises and investors to collect, measure, and report ESG and carbon data on a single governed system. Founded in 2021 by Silicon Valley veterans Murat Sonmez and Inderjeet Singh (originally as PulsESG), the San Mateo company combines carbon accounting, framework reporting (CSRD, CDP, EDCI), and agentic AI workflows to turn scattered sustainability data into audit-ready disclosures. It serves 500+ companies across 63 countries and raised a $20M Series A in 2023 led by Galvanize Climate Solutions.
Switchboard Software
Switchboard Software is a San Francisco-based enterprise data platform built by the team that launched Google BigQuery. It automates the messy work of collecting, transforming, blending and validating high-volume revenue and marketing data, then publishes trustworthy datasets into cloud warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake. Marketing, revenue and data teams at media and publishing companies use it to stand up analytics and AI projects without waiting on scarce engineering resources.
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.
Ascend.io
Ascend.io is a Palo Alto-based data engineering platform that uses AI agents to automate the building, running, and maintenance of data pipelines across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and beyond. Founded in 2015 by ex-Googler and Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp, the company replaces hand-coded ETL plumbing with a metadata-driven automation engine and DataOps Agents that can write code, fix incidents and tune performance on their own.
Standard Metrics
Standard Metrics (formerly Quaestor) is a San Francisco-based financial data and portfolio monitoring platform for venture capital. It automates the messy work of collecting, standardizing, and benchmarking metrics from private portfolio companies, giving investors real-time performance data and giving founders a single source of truth for investor reporting. More than 100 VC firms track thousands of portfolio companies on the platform, which now connects directly to LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT through a Model Context Protocol server.
John Melas-Kyriazi
John Melas-Kyriazi is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Metrics, a San Francisco financial data platform that automates reporting between venture investors and their portfolio companies. A Stanford-trained engineer who once tinkered with guitar pedals in his basement, he spent six years investing at Spark Capital before noticing that the venture industry ran its data on spreadsheets and email. He left to fix it, building a networked system where startups and investors collaborate on the same numbers. He is also an active angel investor in 40-plus companies.
Openprise
Openprise is a San Mateo-based enterprise SaaS company that builds a no-code RevOps Data Automation Cloud. Its platform handles the unglamorous plumbing behind revenue teams - cleansing, deduping, enriching, scoring, routing, and unifying B2B data across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, Eloqua, Pardot and other GTM systems - so marketing, sales and ops teams can stop firefighting spreadsheets and start pulling levers.
Syncari
Syncari is an Agentic Master Data Management (MDM) platform built for the AI era. It unifies, governs, and synchronizes customer data in real-time across enterprise systems, producing AI-ready pipelines that fuel LLMs, copilots, and autonomous agents. Founded by ex-Marketo executives, the company is trusted by Fortune 1000 enterprises and recently crossed 2 trillion data operations.
Sean Knapp
Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io, an AI-native data engineering platform that unifies ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability into a single product. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, he previously built iGoogle at Google and co-founded Ooyala — a video platform that raised $120M and sold for $400M+. At Ascend, he is building what he calls 'Agentic Data Engineering,' where AI agents handle the operational burden that buries data teams, freeing engineers for strategic work.
Ed King
Ed King is the Founder and CEO of Openprise, a RevOps data automation platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from UC Berkeley, Ed spent over a decade in enterprise middleware and product management roles at IBM, Oracle, Qualys, and Axway before founding Openprise in 2013. He built the company to solve the data chaos he witnessed firsthand in go-to-market operations — enabling non-technical RevOps teams to automate complex data workflows without writing a single line of code. Under his leadership, Openprise has raised $57.93M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in March 2024, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace three consecutive years.
Nick Bonfiglio
Nick Bonfiglio is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syncari, a platform pioneering Agentic Master Data Management for enterprise AI initiatives. With 28+ years in enterprise software, he shaped product strategy at Marketo (acquired by Adobe) as EVP of Global Product, co-founded Aptrinsic (acquired by Gainsight as Gainsight PX), and now leads Syncari through a $45M total funding journey to help Fortune 1000 companies build trusted, AI-ready data foundations. A co-author of 'Mastering Product Experience in SaaS,' Nick has been a driving force behind emerging enterprise disciplines like RevOps, Marketing Ops, and Customer Success Ops.