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Gramener makes data earn its keep
A spreadsheet can describe a problem beautifully and still leave it untouched. Gramener builds the slides, maps and AI applications that carry an insight into someone’s working day.
The Company That Turns Opinions Into Headlines
We are Talker found a useful gap between the survey firm and the newsroom: ask better questions, turn the answers into human stories, then make those stories easy to publish. Now it is applying the same machinery to the strange new reader in the room - AI.
The Small Firm Translating Big Government
Kaptivate built a business around an unglamorous but valuable trick: making sprawling public programs legible enough to act on. Its best work begins where the memo, the dataset and the community meeting stop agreeing.
Toucan Bootstrapped to $5 Million ARR - Then Bet the Company on Analytics You Can Talk To
The French founders let customers fund the product before investors got a look. A decade later, Toucan is making a sharper wager: the winning dashboard may be the one users never have to learn.
thorntale
thorntale (YC W24) is a San Francisco software company that built presentation tools for data storytelling. Instead of screenshotting charts from Looker or Snowflake into Google Slides, teams could connect live data sources directly into decks, so charts stayed interactive and up to date - even re-segmentable during a live Q&A. Founded in 2024 by data scientist Dori Wilson with engineers Ellen Hui and John Stimac, the company later pivoted toward an AI-powered presentation editor and shipped a free AI Presentation Review tool before winding the core Presentations product down at the end of 2025.