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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.
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 Founded in 2022 by two PhD-holding ex-Lyft autonomous driving engineers, Coram replaces outdated, hardware-locked surveillance systems with a cloud-native platform featuring natural language video search, real-time AI threat detection, access control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.