Outreach Grid is an Irvine, California software company building a unified platform that helps cities, counties, service agencies, outreach workers, and law enforcement collaborate to understand and end homelessness. Founded in 2016 by Tiffany Pang-Cadengo and John Cadengo under parent company Appledore, its coordinated-entry system spans street outreach, case management, shelter and bed matching, housing navigation, and Point-in-Time counts - turning fragmented field notes into shared, actionable data used by more than 23 municipalities across the United States.
Aqfer is a white-label marketing data platform - 'The Marketing Data Engine' - that gives adtech and martech companies the heavy data infrastructure they need without building it themselves. Founded in 2018 by ad tech veterans Dan Jaye and Raymie Stata, Aqfer handles data collection, enterprise identity resolution, audience enablement, and AI data enablement at massive scale, processing trillions of rows of marketing data inside a client's own cloud. The pitch is blunt: cut back-end data costs by 40-50% and ship new data products in weeks instead of years.
Spencer Mateega is the 23-year-old Co-Founder and CEO of AfterQuery, a San Francisco-based applied research lab that captures expert professional knowledge and converts it into high-quality training data for AI foundation models. Founded in January 2025 and backed by Y Combinator's Winter 2025 cohort, AfterQuery raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April 2026, with revenues exceeding $100 million annualized. Mateega's philosophy — 'We teach machines how experts think' — drives a platform connecting roughly 100,000 domain professionals in finance, legal, and software to frontier AI labs hungry for reasoning-rich data.