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.