Attention is a New York-based AI platform for B2B revenue teams that goes beyond recording sales calls to actually executing the work that follows them. Founded in 2021 by Anis Bennaceur and Matthias Wickenburg, its AI agents transcribe and score conversations, auto-update the CRM, draft and send follow-ups, and orchestrate next steps across 200+ tools. The company raised a $30M Series B in June 2026 led by RTP Global, and serves 500+ customers including Abridge, Scale, BambooHR, and Preply.
Drivetrain is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform that helps CFOs and finance teams at mid-market and enterprise companies plan, forecast, and report with a spreadsheet-like interface. Founded in 2021 by former Google and Elevation Capital operators, it connects to 800+ business systems (ERP, CRM, HRIS, billing, data warehouses) and uses its Drive AI suite - model generation, an AI analyst, anomaly detection, and natural-language data transforms - to turn raw data into live financial models. In 2025 it shipped the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for finance, letting teams query permission-controlled financial data through assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.
Nixtla is a San Francisco time-series intelligence company best known for TimeGPT, one of the first production-ready foundation models built specifically for forecasting and anomaly detection. It started as the open-source Nixtlaverse - libraries like StatsForecast and NeuralForecast with tens of millions of downloads - and now sells an enterprise platform that lets organizations forecast demand, detect anomalies, and support decisions with a few lines of code, on-premises or in the cloud.
serviceMob is an Irvine, California enterprise software company that calls itself the Answer Engine for Customer Service and Support. Born as an academic project at MIT, it unifies the scattered 'dark data' of the service journey - CRM, contact center, workforce management, and ticketing systems - into a single behavioral data ontology it calls Ontolytics. Instead of reporting traditional KPIs like average handle time and CSAT, the platform models each customer experience as structured data to find and prevent the root causes of repeat contacts. Delivered by embedded Forward Deployed Engineers, serviceMob says it has driven more than $75M in client savings and eliminated hundreds of thousands of repeat contacts.
Akkio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based AI company that builds an AI-native platform for media agencies and data providers. It lets non-technical teams chat with their data, build no-code predictive models, segment audiences, simulate media plans, and generate campaign reports in minutes rather than weeks. Founded in 2019, Akkio started as a no-code machine learning tool for small businesses and has since refocused on automating the full campaign workflow for the advertising and media industry, with customers including Horizon Media, Havas, and LG Ad Solutions.
Alloy.ai is a San Francisco-based software company that gives consumer goods brands a real-time, end-to-end view of demand and inventory across every retail and e-commerce channel. Its platform automatically ingests and harmonizes point-of-sale, inventory, and ERP data from hundreds of trading partners, then layers analytics, forecasting, and AI agents on top so brands can sense demand shifts, catch stockouts and phantom inventory, and respond in seconds rather than days. Customers like Crayola, BIC, Valvoline, Melissa & Doug, and Anker use it to cut out-of-stocks and protect revenue with their retail partners.
Clarasight is a New York-based AI platform for enterprise travel and expense. It unifies fragmented data from travel management companies, expense tools, corporate cards and HR systems into a single, AI-ready model, then helps teams automate workflows, forecast budgets, negotiate with suppliers, enforce policy and report on emissions - without ripping out the tools companies already use. Founded in 2021 as Climate Club with a sustainability mission, it rebranded to Clarasight in 2024 as it broadened from carbon planning into the broader operating system for travel and expense leaders. The company raised an $11.5M Series A led by AlleyCorp in April 2026.
Monograph is a San Francisco-based software company that builds cloud practice-operations software for architecture and engineering firms. Its platform replaces spreadsheets with real-time tools for project budgets, staffing, time tracking, invoicing and profitability forecasting, giving design professionals live financial visibility into their work. Founded in 2019 by three architectural designers, Monograph serves thousands of A/E firms and has helped manage hundreds of millions of dollars in projects.
Northspyre is a cloud-based intelligence platform that helps real estate developers, owners and project teams run capital projects with automation, data analytics and AI. Built to replace the spreadsheets and scattered documents that dominate development workflows, it centralizes budgets, vendor data, draws and forecasts so teams can make proactive, data-driven decisions from acquisition through stabilization. The company pioneered what it calls the Real Estate Development Management category.
Verix is a Santa Clara-based software company that builds Tovana, an AI-powered commercial optimization platform for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. Tovana unifies fragmented commercial data - prescription records, lab results, demographics, and digital marketing signals - and layers predictive modeling, GenAI, and automation on top so brand and field teams can decide the next best action, find the right patients, target the right physicians, and forecast more accurately. Its no-code architecture and pre-built connectors let most deployments go live in 4-8 weeks, and the platform is used by global drugmakers including Bayer, Novartis, GSK, Roche, and Kyowa Kirin.
Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built for the office of the CFO. Founded in 2020 by former finance operators Julio Martinez and Jorge Lluch, it pulls financial and operational data into one place so finance teams can forecast revenue, model scenarios, plan headcount, automate reports, and trade spreadsheet drudgery for strategic decision-making. Backed by Scale Venture Partners, Atomico, Y Combinator and others, Abacum has raised over $90M and serves hundreds of mid-market companies across 31 countries, including Strava, Aiven, JG Wentworth and Mastercam.
Julio Martinez is the co-founder and CEO of Abacum, an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform he launched with Jorge Lluch during the first week of Spain's COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. A former M&A lawyer turned Citigroup banker turned fintech venture builder, he built the product he wished he had had during two decades inside finance. Abacum has raised more than $100 million from investors including Atomico, Creandum, Scale Venture Partners, Cathay Innovation and Y Combinator, and now serves hundreds of mid-market companies across more than 30 countries from offices in New York, London and Barcelona.
Assembled is a San Francisco-based software company building the workforce management and AI agent platform for modern customer support teams. Founded in 2018 by three Stripe veterans, it now helps companies like Stripe, Robinhood, GoFundMe, Etsy, and Intercom forecast demand, schedule agents, and resolve a growing share of tickets with AI across chat, voice, and email.
FLYR is an AI-first travel and transportation technology company building a cloud-native Revenue Operating System for airlines and hospitality brands. Its deep-learning platform powers forecasting, dynamic pricing, offer and order management, and revenue optimization for customers like JetBlue, Air New Zealand, Avianca, Virgin Atlantic, and Wyndham.
Lyric is a Sunnyvale-based AI platform built for the people who actually run supply chains. Its Lyric Studio harmonizes data, algorithms, configurable workflows, and accelerated compute so that planners, engineers, and data scientists can model, test, and deploy decision intelligence apps - from demand forecasting and inventory to network design and transportation. Fortune 500 customers use it to compress months-long modeling cycles into days.
Ryan Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Assembled, the AI-powered customer support platform trusted by Stripe, Robinhood, and Etsy. A former machine learning engineer at Stripe (employee #80), he co-founded Assembled in 2018 with his brother John Wang and Brian Sze after observing how hard it was to run exceptional support at scale. Assembled has raised $70.7M, including a $51M Series B led by NEA, and now manages contact centers with up to 20,000 agents across chat, email, voice, and workforce management.
People.ai is an enterprise AI revenue platform that captures every sales interaction - emails, meetings, calls - and turns the data into deal insights, forecasts, and next-best-actions for B2B sales teams. Founded in San Francisco in 2016 by Oleg Rogynskyy, it became a unicorn in 2021 and rebranded as Backstory in April 2026.

Matthew Darrow is the CEO and co-founder of Vivun, the pioneer of AI-powered presales software that has raised $131 million to transform how B2B companies manage their sales engineering function. A former VP at Zuora who witnessed its growth from $7M to $200M ARR and through IPO, Darrow conceived Vivun during a campervan trip through New Zealand, coding the first version from campsite Airbnbs alongside his wife Dominique. Today, Vivun's platform serves customers like Snowflake, Seismic, ADP, and Autodesk, with clients reporting 37% gains in technical win rates and 31% shorter sales cycles.

Zoa Research is a New York-based AI research lab building cross-domain quantitative forecasting models that generalize across finance, science, and beyond. Founded by Greg Volynsky and Sam Damashek - a Harvard Law/CMU duo and a Jane Street algorithmic trading veteran - Zoa trains LLM-powered multi-agent systems to automate the model-build-test-improve cycle. The result: forecasting engines that outperform narrow models in event prediction, deployed both as proprietary trading capital and as a Forecast-as-a-Service API for researchers, traders, and scientific labs. Backed by Y Combinator (S24), Zoa is building the infrastructure layer for probabilistic reasoning at scale.

Zvi Mowshowitz is a writer, AI safety analyst, and former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his Substack newsletter 'Don't Worry About the Vase,' which publishes detailed weekly AI updates and rationalist commentary to over 33,000 subscribers. Inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in 2007, Zvi is also the founder of nonprofit policy think tank Balsa Research and co-founded MetaMed, a personalized medical research firm backed by Peter Thiel. He is a prominent voice in the rationalist and AI safety communities, known for his p(doom) estimates of 60-70% and his systematic, data-driven approach to understanding AI risk.