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Bloomreach Wants to Be the Brain Behind Every Shopping Cart
The company that began by fixing bad search results now wants to coordinate every digital conversation between a brand and a shopper. Its wager is that the best commerce AI will know the catalog, the customer, and the merchant's rules at the same time.
Tiugo Technologies
Tiugo is assembling the invisible machinery behind digital content - four familiar developer tools, one shared growth engine, and a bet that editing, managing and delivering files work better together.
Ghost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform that lets writers, journalists and creators run a website, send email newsletters and sell paid memberships from one place. Built on Node.js and released under the MIT license, it is stewarded by the nonprofit Ghost Foundation and funded entirely by its users through Ghost(Pro) managed hosting - taking 0% of creators' subscription revenue.
Directus
Directus is an open-source data platform that wraps any SQL database with an instant REST and GraphQL API plus a no-code admin app, letting developers and non-technical users manage content and data without building a backend from scratch. Founded on a project Ben Haynes started in 2004 and incorporated as a company in 2020, Directus has surpassed 30 million downloads and is used by organizations including Adobe, Bose, Tripadvisor, AT&T and the U.S. Navy.
Milestone Inc
Milestone Inc is a Santa Clara-based, AI-native digital experience platform (DXP) company that helps enterprises get discovered across search and AI engines, personalize customer experiences, and accelerate customer acquisition. Founded in 1998 by Benu Aggarwal as a marketing company for hotels, Milestone has grown into a composable software and services provider whose GEO-first CMS, Schema Manager, Content Studio, AI Agents, Local Listings, Personalization Engine, and analytics power more than 2,000 brands across hospitality, financial services, restaurants, automotive, retail, and healthcare.
Memorang
Memorang is a Los Angeles-based education-technology company building what it calls the AI stack for education - an all-in-one, agentic platform that lets testing providers, publishers and training organizations create standards-aligned content, assessments and branded learning apps at scale. It began as a consumer flashcards-and-quizzes app for medical and professional exams and has since pivoted into a B2B platform that pairs knowledge graphs with AI agents and human-in-the-loop workflows. After winning first place among roughly 1,500 startups in the Vercel AI Accelerator, the bootstrapped company says it has delivered hundreds of millions of assessments and serves tens of millions of annual test-takers.
Raw Engineering
Raw Engineering is a San Francisco software products-and-services firm founded in 2007 that builds custom mobile apps, websites, SaaS products and cloud infrastructure for Fortune 500 enterprises, sports teams and startups. Best known as the lab that incubated and spun out the headless CMS pioneer Contentstack and the enterprise mobile platform Built.io (acquired by Software AG in 2018), the company today runs five centers of excellence and powers personalized Digital Fan Experience platforms for clients including the Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat and the NBA.
Vardot
Vardot is an enterprise Drupal agency that builds and maintains large-scale websites and digital platforms for global brands, governments, universities, and NGOs. Founded in 2011 and run by Drupal community veteran Mohammed Razem, the firm is consistently ranked among the world's top Drupal providers, has shipped 200+ projects across 30+ countries, and maintains Varbase - an AI-powered open-source Drupal distribution that accelerates enterprise web builds.
Sanity
Sanity is a content platform that treats content as structured data rather than pages, giving developers an API-first backend (the real-time Content Lake), a query language (GROQ), a rich-text spec (Portable Text), and a fully customizable React editor (Sanity Studio). Founded in Norway in 2016, it now positions itself as the 'Content Operating System for the AI era,' powering web, mobile, and agentic applications for teams like Nike, Puma, Figma, Cloudflare and National Geographic.
Maribel Garcia
Maribel Garcia is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at Sanity, the San Francisco company behind a content operating system used by developers and enterprises. She keeps the CEO's orbit running at a fast-scaling, Series C software company, drawing on a winding path that ran through public health at UC Berkeley, a food-in-schools mission at Revolution Foods, and the front lines of hospitality at AMC Theatres before landing in the tech world.
Contentful
Contentful is an API-first, cloud-native content platform - the company that popularized the 'headless CMS.' Founded in Berlin in 2013, it separates content from presentation so teams can store structured content once and deliver it anywhere: websites, mobile apps, kiosks, smart watches, or AI agents. It serves more than 4,800 brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, and in June 2026 entered an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce to power the content layer behind Agentforce.
Oren Herzenberg
Oren True Herzenberg is an Area Vice President of Content at Adobe, based in New York, where he leads enterprise sales and strategy for Adobe's content management portfolio - including Adobe Experience Manager and the Content Supply Chain - with a particular focus on regulated industries like financial services and insurance. A Stevens Institute of Technology graduate who came up through digital marketing and inside sales, he has spent the bulk of his career scaling Adobe's AEM business from specialist to general manager to VP, building a reputation for connecting the dots between complex enterprise content challenges and Adobe's platform ecosystem.
Karthik Rau
Karthik Rau is the CEO of Contentful, the Berlin-based composable content platform. A Stanford-trained industrial engineer, he founded the cloud-monitoring company SignalFx (acquired by Splunk for $1.05B in 2019) and earlier helped lead VMware through its 2007 IPO. He took the helm at Contentful in April 2024 to push it from headless CMS into an AI-era content platform.
Hashnode
Hashnode is a blogging platform built for developers, engineers, and tech leaders to write, publish, and grow their technical audience. Founded in 2016 by Sandeep Panda and Syed Fazle Rahman, the platform hosts over 60,000 active blogs and attracts more than 4 million developers monthly. Hashnode offers a free-tier blogging experience with custom domain mapping, AI-assisted writing, and a headless CMS powered by GraphQL APIs - letting teams run enterprise-grade developer blogs and documentation without building infrastructure from scratch. Backed by Salesforce Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch, Hashnode has raised $9.37 million and employs roughly 260 people across four continents.
Lars Birkholm Petersen
Lars Birkholm Petersen is the CEO and co-founder of Uniform, the composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) he built to solve the age-old tension between marketers and developers. Born in Denmark, Lars spent two decades in the digital experience trenches - running a digital agency for 8 years (later acquired by Visma), then nearly a decade at Sitecore where he created the Sitecore Business Optimization Strategies (SBOS) team - before co-founding Uniform in 2019. The company raised a $28M Series A led by Insight Partners in December 2021, was named a Gartner Visionary in 2025, and counts Procter & Gamble, Triumph Motorcycles, and Cirque du Soleil among its clients. Lars is also co-author of the Wiley business book 'Connect: How to Use Data and Experience Marketing to Create Lifetime Customers' (2014).
Sandeep Panda
Sandeep Panda is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hashnode, a developer-first blogging and community platform that lets software engineers own their content and publish on custom domains. Founded in 2016 alongside Syed Fazle Rahman, Hashnode has grown to serve 3M+ monthly readers and 10M+ monthly views, backed by Sequoia Capital India's Surge, Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). A graduate of IIIT Bhubaneswar with a background in web development and technical writing, Sandeep has authored books on AngularJS and HTML5, and is now building Bug0, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform.
David Overmyer
David Overmyer is the CEO of Raw Engineering, a San Francisco-based digital product and cloud engineering firm that built Contentstack - now the world's leading headless CMS - and the DfanX sports fan engagement platform. A California-certified CPA with a career spanning auditing, CBS Interactive, and CFO roles at Bunchball and Thismoment, Overmyer joined Raw Engineering's orbit as CFO of Contentstack in 2017, steering its transition from a bootstrapped services company to a high-growth SaaS venture. Since 2018 he has led Raw Engineering as CEO, overseeing engagements for clients including the Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings, American Airlines, and VMware.