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The Startup That Put a Number on Your Steak
For a century, beef and lamb have been graded by a person squinting at a carcass. MEQ Solutions built the hardware and AI to give the industry a number it can trust - and got the USDA to sign off.
Rocketlane Thinks the First 90 Days Decide Everything
The Wilmington-based startup has raised $105 million building software for the unglamorous stretch between a signed contract and a working product. Its bet: onboarding, not the demo, is where deals are actually won or lost.
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apiphani
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Cyrus Karai
Cyrus Karai is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoverForce, a New York-based insurtech building unified API infrastructure that connects insurance carriers, agencies, and wholesalers so commercial insurance can be quoted, paid, bound, and issued in real time. Originally from Australia and a Wharton MBA, he moved from finance roles at BlackRock, Credit Suisse, and PwC into founding CoverForce out of the University of Pennsylvania's Innovation Labs in 2020. Under his leadership the company reached over 9,600 producers nationwide, integrated with major carriers including Travelers, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and AmTrust, and raised a $13M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Blooming Health
Blooming Health is a New York-based social care technology company using AI to automate access to social services for older adults and vulnerable populations. Its AI-assisted, multilingual platform engages people across text, voice, and email to detect needs, screen for benefits, and connect them to services like meals, transportation, housing assistance, and Medicaid or SNAP recertification. Sold to Area Agencies on Aging, government agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers, the platform has connected over 1.5 million people across roughly two dozen states and raised $32.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025.
CoverForce
CoverForce is a New York-based insurtech building the digital infrastructure that connects commercial insurance carriers, agencies, and wholesalers. Its API marketplace and white-label platforms let brokers instantly quote, compare, pay, bind, and issue commercial policies - collapsing month-long, paper-based workflows into minutes across lines like workers' compensation, general liability, cyber, and business owner's policies. Backed by Insight Partners and Nyca Partners, the company supports thousands of agencies and integrates with national carriers including AmTrust, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and Travelers.
David Lazerson
David Lazerson is the co-founder and CEO of Briya, a healthcare technology company that connects hospitals, research institutions, and life sciences organizations so they can share de-identified, real-world patient data securely and in compliance with U.S. and European privacy rules. A physicist and cognitive scientist by training and a former Israeli military cyber operations officer, Lazerson built Briya on cryptography, federated learning, and zero-knowledge proofs, and in 2025 launched Briya AIRE, a clinical-grade AI research assistant that lets researchers ask questions in plain language instead of writing code.
Joonko
Joonko was an Israeli-founded, AI-powered diversity recruiting platform that promised talent-acquisition teams automated access to pre-vetted candidates from underrepresented groups - women, people of color, and veterans. Founded in 2016 by Ilit Raz and named after Everest pioneer Junko Tabei, the company graduated from Techstars Atlanta and the Salesforce Incubator, and raised roughly $30 million from investors including Insight Partners, Target Global, Kapor Capital, and Vertex Ventures Israel. In 2023 the story collapsed: an investor confronted Raz over inconsistencies, she admitted to fabricating customer contracts, bank statements, revenue, and candidate counts, and she resigned. The SEC charged her in 2024 with a $21 million 'AI washing' securities fraud, and Joonko filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after shutting down and laying off all staff.
Slice | Global Equity
Slice is an AI-native platform for managing employee equity across borders. It unifies cap tables, grants, exercises and reporting while automatically applying each country's tax rules and compliance requirements, helping finance, legal, HR and payroll teams issue equity to distributed teams without triggering local penalties. Founded in 2022 and backed by Insight Partners, Slice raised a $25M Series A in early 2026 and counts fast-growing tech companies such as Wiz, Aidoc, Silverfort and Wayve among its customers.
Sweep
Sweep is a New York-based enterprise software company building an agentic workspace for business systems like Salesforce, HubSpot and Snowflake. Its AI agents continuously read an organization's metadata to document changes, map dependencies, flag governance risks and surface high-impact improvements, giving business and technical teams a shared visual layer to plan and safely change complex CRM and data environments. Founded in 2021 by repeat entrepreneurs Ido Gaver and Eran Kirshenboim, Sweep has raised over $45M and counts LG Electronics, Brex, NBC Sports, Wix and Mass General Brigham among its customers.
Ido Gaver
Ido Gaver is the CEO and co-founder of Sweep, a New York-based software company building an agentic workspace that lets AI agents observe, document, and govern the metadata inside enterprise CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded flok, a small-business loyalty and CRM startup acquired by Wix in 2017, after which he ran B2B and partnerships for Wix. Since founding Sweep in 2021, he has raised over $45M, including a $22.5M Series B led by Insight Partners with Bessemer, and signed customers such as LG Electronics, Brex, NBC Sports, and Wix.
Maor Levran
Maor Levran is the co-founder and CEO of Slice, an AI-powered global equity platform that helps finance and legal teams issue, track, and stay compliant with equity compensation across roughly 60 countries. A corporate lawyer for over a decade who was repeatedly ranked a Top Tech Attorney by The Legal 500, Levran started Slice in 2022 after watching companies struggle - and sometimes face six-figure fines - when granting stock options and RSUs to international employees. Slice has raised $32 million total, including a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners in early 2026, and manages equity for more than 70,000 employees at companies such as Wiz, Wayve, and Aidoc.
Justin Folkers
Justin Folkers is the co-founder and CEO of apiphani, a Boston-based technology-enabled managed services company that runs mission-critical enterprise applications such as SAP using a blend of expert engineers and AI-driven automation. He started the company around 2020 after more than two decades supporting enterprise clients at firms including Virtustream and Capgemini, betting that AI-powered automation would let people focus on meaningful work instead of routine operational tasks. In 2025 apiphani raised a $25 million round led by Insight Partners to expand Luumen, its AI-driven observability and automation platform.
Condor Software
Condor Software is a San Diego-based company that builds a Financial Intelligence Platform purpose-built for biopharma R&D. It unifies clinical, operational, and financial data - from CTMS, EDC, ERP, and vendor systems - into a single source of truth, using AI to automate clinical trial accruals, forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, and vendor reconciliation. Founded in 2020 by Jennifer Kyle, Condor replaces the spreadsheets that still run most clinical-trial finance, and reports customers reaching 90%+ forecast accuracy and 70% faster month-end close. It counts Acadia, Alumis, BridgeBio, and Madrigal among its customers and raised a $24M Series A led by Insight Partners in March 2026.
E2B
E2B is an open-source cloud runtime that gives AI agents secure, isolated environments to execute code and use real-world tools. Built on Firecracker microVMs that boot in under 200 milliseconds, E2B lets developers and enterprises spin up disposable Linux sandboxes where AI-generated code runs without touching production systems. Founded in 2023 by Czech engineers Vasek Mlejnsky and Tomas Valenta, the company raised a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners in July 2025 and reports adoption across roughly 88% of the Fortune 100, including Perplexity, Hugging Face, Groq and Manus.
Jump - Advisor AI
Jump is an AI assistant and intelligence engine built specifically for financial advisors. It turns client meetings, emails, and documents into notes, CRM updates, follow-ups, and audit-ready compliance records, aiming to give advisors back roughly 10 hours a week of administrative time. Founded in 2023 and publicly launched in January 2024, Jump is used by 35,000+ advisors and firms including LPL Financial, Equitable Advisors, and Allianz, and raised an $80M Series B led by Insight Partners in February 2026, bringing total funding to about $105M.
Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi
Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi is co-founder and CEO of Blooming Health, a New York City startup that uses AI to automate outreach, screening, and referrals for social care - the food, transportation, and support services that sit outside the doctor's office but often decide how a person actually fares. He is a former global data science lead with a decade in machine learning for healthcare and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started the company in East Harlem in 2020 after becoming a full-time caregiver for his mother-in-law during the pandemic; it has since raised $32.5M, including a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025, and operates across 25 states.
Oren Harel
Oren Ohayon Harel is the CEO and co-founder of PlainID, the Tel Aviv- and New York-based authorization company that turned policy-based access control (PBAC) from an XACML white paper into a category. He founded PlainID in 2014 with Gal Helemski and Dmitry Tuchinsky after a decade spent inside Israeli banking security, most recently as Deputy CISO at Bank Hapoalim. He raised a $75M Series C led by Insight Partners in December 2021, bringing PlainID's total funding to roughly $100M.
Pauline Roteta
Pauline Roteta is the co-founder and CEO of Pasito, a New York based startup building AI agents for the insurance and employee benefits industry. A former Senior Investor and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock, Fulbright Scholar, CFA and CFP, she launched Pasito in 2021 to attack the roughly $200 billion Americans waste each year on poor benefits decisions. Pasito went through Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch and in February 2026 raised a $21 million Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to about $24.4 million.
Yair Frastai
Yair Frastai is the co-founder and CEO of VerAI Discoveries, a Boston-based company using proprietary AI to find concealed mineral deposits buried under covered terrain. A former Israeli Intelligence special operations officer and Israel Defense Prize recipient turned mining-sector executive, Frastai built VerAI in 2020 with longtime partner Amitai Axelrod to attack what he calls mining's biggest problem: only 1 in 1,000 exploration projects ever becomes a mine. VerAI reads raw geophysical signals from deep underground with machine learning, and has raised roughly $39 million to date, including a $24M Series B led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Damon Henry
Damon Henry is the CEO and co-founder of Asylon Robotics, a Philadelphia-area company building an American-made robotic perimeter security platform that pairs autonomous aerial drones, robot dogs, and human-in-the-loop AI into a Robotics-as-a-Service offering. An MIT-trained aeronautical engineer who worked at GE, Boeing, and Johns Hopkins APL before founding the company in 2015 with two dorm roommates, Henry has grown Asylon into a company that has flown more than 100,000 security missions for Fortune 500 firms and the Department of Defense, and raised a $26M Series B led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Karun Kaushik
Karun Kaushik is the co-founder and CEO of Delve, a San Francisco AI compliance startup he launched in 2023 with fellow MIT student Selin Kocalar after the pair dropped out sophomore year. What began as an AI medical scribe pivoted into automated SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance after the founders ran into the paperwork themselves. Delve raced through Y Combinator to a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation, landed both founders on Forbes 30 Under 30, and served more than 1,500 companies before a 2026 whistleblower controversy put its audit practices under a harsh spotlight.
Mohak Sharma
Mohak Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of HoneyHive, a New York-based AI observability and evaluation platform that helps companies ship reliable AI agents to production. Built OpenTelemetry-native, HoneyHive lets engineering teams trace, test, and monitor multi-step AI pipelines and answer the deceptively hard question of what their agents are doing and why. Sharma started the company in 2022 with his former Columbia roommate Dhruv Singh, and by 2025 had raised $7.4M in total funding, including a $5.5M seed led by Insight Partners, while serving Fortune 100 customers in insurance and banking.
Sam Scherl
Sam Scherl is a Founder's Associate in the CEO Office at Nevis, a New York-based AI platform automating administrative work for wealth advisors that has raised $40M from backers including Sequoia. A Harvard computer science graduate, he was a three-time national champion and undefeated First-Team All-American captain of the Harvard men's squash team, then worked in venture capital at Insight Partners before joining Nevis to work alongside its founders on its most strategic bets.
Heron Data
Heron Data builds AI software that automates document-heavy workflows in financial services - reading, extracting, enriching and routing the messy bank statements, tax forms, applications and claims that pile up in lending, equipment finance and insurance. Founded in 2020 and operating as Open Credit Technologies, Inc., the company turns unstructured paperwork into structured data and syncs it directly into customers' CRMs. It serves 150+ fintechs, financiers and insurers, processes hundreds of thousands of documents weekly, and raised a $16M Series A led by Insight Partners in July 2025.
Jenny von Podewils
Jenny von Podewils is the co-CEO and co-founder of Leapsome, the people enablement platform she launched in Berlin in 2016 with Kajetan von Armansperg. After bootstrapping the company to roughly $10 million in annual recurring revenue, the pair raised a $60 million Series A in March 2022 led by Insight Partners - their first outside money in six years. Trained at St. Gallen, Oxford, and Singularity University, she relocated from Berlin to New York in early 2023 to scale Leapsome's U.S. business, and was named Female Founder of the Year at the 2023 German Startup Awards.
Johannes Jaeckle
Johannes Jaeckle is the co-founder and CEO of Heron Data, a New York fintech that uses large language models to automate document-heavy workflows in financial services. Heron reads emails, classifies submissions, extracts data, and syncs it into CRMs and loan platforms for more than 150 customers - from small lenders to FDIC-insured banks - processing over 350,000 documents a week. Jaeckle started building with LLMs in 2020, two years before ChatGPT went public, after a fintech operating career that included running the remittance company Taptap Send and serving as UK Managing Director of Segovia Technology. In July 2025 Heron raised a $16.6M Series A led by Insight Partners.
Laird Russell
Laird Russell is the co-founder and CEO of ExaCare AI, a New York-based company building an AI operating system for post-acute care. After a brief Wall Street and consulting run at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company, the former Brown University hockey player turned his attention to the messiest corner of healthcare: the paperwork, handoffs, and admissions decisions that govern how seniors move between hospitals, skilled nursing, and home care. ExaCare's AI agents now run inside roughly 1,500 to 2,000 facilities, have processed more than two million patients, and pulled in a $30 million Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
InstaLILY AI
InstaLILY AI is a New York-based enterprise AI company building vertical-specific AI Teammates - branded InstaWorkers - that execute real sales, service, and operations work inside a company's existing ERP, CRM, and service tools. Aimed at distribution-heavy and regulated industries where automation has historically failed, InstaLILY raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in August 2025.