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OnDeck AI
OnDeck AI is a Vancouver-based Y Combinator (S25) company building Perception-0, a vision model that lets organizations find any object, behavior, or event in video footage using plain language - without collecting training data or building a custom computer-vision pipeline. Started as a fisheries-monitoring project, it now serves defense agencies, robotics teams, and security operators, including a pilot with Singapore's Ministry of Defence.
Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider is the founder and CEO of Nomad Data, a New York based AI platform that helps teams find, buy, and read the data hidden inside documents and external vendors. An MIT-trained engineer turned hedge fund investor (Tiger Management, Jericho Capital) and CFA charterholder, he spent a decade using alternative data to beat markets before deciding the harder problem was simply finding the right data in the first place. Nomad Data lets users describe what they need in plain English and routes them to answers, not raw spreadsheets, with products spanning data discovery, a Doc Chat engine for unstructured text, and vendor relationship management for consultancies, insurers, and asset managers.
Telescope
Telescope is an AI-driven lead generation and outreach platform that lets B2B sales teams describe their ideal customer in plain English and instantly surface matching companies and people from a database of 900M+ verified profiles and 50M+ companies. It then automates personalized outreach across email and LinkedIn, warms up mailboxes for deliverability, and consolidates replies into a single inbox - replacing a stack of separate prospecting tools. Founded in 2021 by Dr. Reza Javan and backed by Sequoia Capital and Entrepreneur First, the London-based company says it is used by 20,000+ companies.
Coram AI
Coram AI is a Sunnyvale-based AI video security platform that transforms existing IP camera infrastructure into an intelligent security operation. Founded in 2022 by two PhD-holding ex-Lyft autonomous driving engineers, Coram replaces outdated, hardware-locked surveillance systems with a cloud-native platform featuring natural language video search, real-time AI threat detection, access control integration, and emergency management — all without requiring customers to rip out their existing cameras. The company serves industries from healthcare and education to manufacturing and warehousing, and in January 2025 raised a $13.8M Series A led by Battery Ventures.
Daydream
Daydream is a conversational, AI-powered fashion shopping platform founded by Julie Bornstein. It lets people search for clothing with natural language and images across roughly two million products from 8,000+ brands, then sends them to the retailer to check out.
Ashesh Jain
Ashesh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Coram AI, a Sunnyvale-based startup turning ordinary IP security cameras into AI-powered intelligence endpoints. A Cornell PhD and IIT Delhi alumnus, Jain spent years at the frontier of autonomous vehicles - building perception systems at Zoox and leading Lyft's self-driving program as Head of Autonomy - before pivoting that expertise into reimagining physical security. His research work includes Brain4Cars (a car that predicts driver errors before they happen) and the award-winning Structural-RNN paper (CVPR 2016 Best Student Paper), which has over 1,600 citations. Coram AI raised a $13.8M Series A in January 2025 led by Battery Ventures, and its platform now monitors thousands of cameras across schools, hospitals, warehouses, and manufacturing sites across the U.S.