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Numeric
Numeric is a San Francisco-based, AI-native accounting platform that automates the month-end close for controllers, CFOs and senior accountants. Founded in 2020 by Parker Gilbert, Anthony Alvernaz and Andrew Bihl, it unifies close management, analytics and cash reconciliation into one system, using AI to draft flux (variance) explanations, reconcile accounts and flag anomalies in transaction data. Companies including Brex, Plaid, Wealthfront, OpenAI and Betterment use Numeric to close their books faster and with fewer manual steps. The company has raised roughly $89 million to date, capped by a $51 million Series B in November 2025.
Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Gimlet Labs, Inc.
Gimlet Labs is a San Francisco applied research company building the first multi-silicon inference cloud - software that runs AI workloads simultaneously across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. Founded by ex-Google and ex-NVIDIA engineers behind the Pixie observability project, Gimlet ships Gimlet Cloud (serverless agent inference) and kforge (autonomous kernel generation from PyTorch). The company exited stealth in October 2025 with eight-figure revenue and raised an $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures in March 2026.
Taylor Lint
Taylor Lint is the founder and CEO of Swantide, a San Francisco company building an AI infrastructure layer for Salesforce and the broader go-to-market tech stack. An engineer by training, she led the launch of LinkedIn's Talent Insights product and ran engineering and product at Replica, the analytics company spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, before starting Swantide in 2020. Her company raised a $7M seed round led by Menlo Ventures and now powers Salesforce work for fast-growing software companies and large service partners like Perficient.
Axiom
Axiom (Axiom Math) is a Palo Alto-based AI lab building a self-improving, superintelligent reasoner - starting with an AI mathematician. Its AxiomProver system invents new theorems, proves them formally in Lean, and verifies them before they reach a human, aiming to give AI the one thing language models lack: provable correctness. Founded in 2025 by mathematician Carina Hong, the company has raised $264M and claims machine-generated proofs accepted by peer-reviewed journals.
Manifest OS
Manifest OS is a New York-based legal technology company building the operating system for AI-native law firms. It powers a unified law-firm brand, Manifest Law, with an end-to-end AI platform and centralized back office, replacing the billable hour with flat, outcome-based pricing. Starting in business immigration, the company raised a $60M Series A at a $750M valuation in April 2026, reported as the largest Series A in legal-tech history.
Nectar Social
Nectar Social is an AI-native 'social operating system' that helps consumer brands manage communities, listen across platforms, and turn social conversations into revenue. Founded in 2023 by former Meta sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, its autonomous Nectar Agent handles engagement, moderation, creator workflows, competitive intelligence, and commerce conversations across channels like Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. The company has raised $42.6M total, including a $30M Series A in 2026 led by Menlo Ventures, and counts Liquid Death, Figma, e.l.f. Beauty, and Goop among its customers.
Misbah Uraizee
Misbah Uraizee is the co-founder and CEO of Nectar Social, the Palo Alto agentic operating system that runs brand conversations in DMs, comments and group chats at machine scale. A Yale biotech grad who spent a decade building product at Microsoft, Meta and Twitter - leading News Feed and creator monetization for billions of users - she left Meta in 2023 with her sister Farah to build Nectar. The company exited stealth in 2025 and raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures' Anthropic-backed Anthology Fund in May 2026, powering more than 10 million conversations a week for brands like e.l.f. Beauty, Figma and Liquid Death.
Christopher Gottschalk
Christopher Gottschalk is a General Partner at Mouro Capital, a $400M fintech-focused venture capital firm headquartered in London and spun out of Banco Santander. Based in San Francisco, he anchors the firm's U.S. and Silicon Valley presence, bringing over 16 years of experience spanning investment banking at Cowen and Company, operations at Intel, early-stage investing at Menlo Ventures, and nearly seven years as a Principal at Blumberg Capital. At Mouro, he takes board seats at flagship portfolio companies including Upgrade, Trulioo, and Blueprint, applying a long-duration, multi-stage partnership model to back category-defining fintechs from seed through Series B and beyond.
Kinetic
Kinetic is a Southern California startup turning the messy, hours-long job of recalibrating modern vehicle sensors into a 15-minute, robot-run procedure. Through its network of Kinetic Hubs and its in-house AI and robotic arms, it services EVs, ADAS-equipped cars, and eventually robotaxis on behalf of collision shops, dealerships, fleets, and insurers.
Sandeep Bhadra
Sandeep Bhadra is a General Partner at Vertex Ventures US, a $150M early-stage fund focused on B2B software, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools. A Ph.D. engineer turned venture capitalist, he joined Vertex in 2017 as a founding team member after stints at Menlo Ventures and Cisco's corporate development. He's known for concentrated, high-conviction bets - typically 1-2 new investments per year - in companies like Hasura, Docker, Tulip Interfaces, and Gitpod. His background spans semiconductor engineering at Texas Instruments, $425M in cloud M&A at Cisco, and founding-team work that contributed to the creation of Barefoot Networks (later acquired by Intel). He grew up in India, where watching mobile telephony disrupt landline bureaucracy first showed him how software could leapfrog legacy systems.
Shervin Pishevar
Shervin Pishevar is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and super angel investor known for early-stage investments in Uber, Airbnb, and over 200 startups. A former managing director at Menlo Ventures and co-founder of Sherpa Capital, he has achieved 93 exits in his 27-year tech career and averaged 73x returns on investments. Co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One, Pishevar championed Elon Musk's vision for high-speed transportation. Currently, he runs the Edison Fund and serves as chairman of Telly, continuing to shape the future of technology and innovation. His journey from an immigrant family that arrived with $35 to becoming a Forbes Midas List investor for four consecutive years exemplifies the American Dream.