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Voxco
A New Era for Human Understanding.
Typeform
The Barcelona company that decided forms should feel like a conversation - and got millions of people to actually finish them.
Survox
For nearly six decades, one survey engine has quietly powered the phone banks behind election polls and market research - blending live interviewers, automated voice, and web into a single verdict on what people really think.
SurveyMonkey
How a bootstrapped survey tool from 1999 became the default way the internet asks a question - and why, after a name change and a $1.5 billion buyout, it went right back to being SurveyMonkey.
LimeSurvey
The simple, quick and anonymous online survey tool that's bursting with juicy insights.
Jotform
Twenty years, 35 million users, and not a cent of venture money: how Aytekin Tank turned a coder's most boring chore into a form-building empire.
Sensei Robotics
Sensei Robotics (YC S24) is a San Francisco startup building the data layer for robot learning. It pairs a sub-$300 sensorized exoskeleton arm with a distributed network of trained human operators - 'Senseis' - who perform real-world manipulation demonstrations on demand. Robotics and AI teams submit a task like folding cloth or loading a dishwasher, and Sensei returns curated, labeled human-demonstration data. The company positions itself as 'the Scale AI for robotics training data,' claiming roughly a tenth of the cost and twice the speed of conventional teleoperation setups.
Sureform
Sureform is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator X25) that collects real-world, multimodal human data to train robots and world models. It equips workers at hotels, warehouses, restaurants, construction sites, and laundromats with head-mounted cameras, stereo depth rigs, and handheld grippers that capture time-synced video, audio, pose, depth, and tactile data while they do their jobs. Each session is delivered to robotics teams as structured, synchronized, training-ready data.
Outreach Grid
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.
Wyly Wade
Wyly Wade is the CEO of Biometrica Systems (also operating as Safience), a Las Vegas and Virginia-based company that links physical and digital information to help prevent crime, identify threats, and recover victims. A self-taught coder who published his first video game at age ten and fixed a bug in Lotus Notes 4 while barely out of his teens, Wade has spent more than two decades at the intersection of biometrics, cybersecurity, and public policy. He helped build biometric standards for the U.S. passport, advised the ICAO on e-passports, and was part of the founding core team behind India's Aadhaar, the largest biometric identity program on Earth. Today he is pushing Biometrica toward a privacy-first, biometric-free model of threat and victim detection.
Aqfer
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
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.