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Kili Technology
Kili Technology is a Paris-based enterprise software company that helps large organizations build high-quality datasets to train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models. Founded in 2018 by Edouard d'Archimbaud and François-Xavier Leduc, its platform spans image, video, text, PDF, and geospatial annotation, and has increasingly focused on LLM evaluation, RLHF, and expert-driven data curation for generative AI. Backed by a $25M Series A led by Balderton Capital, Kili works with enterprises including SAP, Airbus, Louis Vuitton, Michelin, and Crédit Agricole.
Laguna Health
Laguna Health is a healthtech company building conversational AI for care teams. Its platform, anchored by the Laguna Companion co-pilot, the Laguna Insight analytics layer, and the LISA family of AI agents, listens to member calls, automates clinical documentation, and surfaces context so care managers - typically nurses - can spend less time on paperwork and more time supporting patients recovering after hospital stays. Founded in 2020 by Yoni Shtein and Yael Adam, the company serves health plans, payers, and virtual care organizations from offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Vectara
Vectara is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company building a trusted, end-to-end platform for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents. Founded in 2022 by former Google AI researchers, it lets companies embed grounded, citation-backed GenAI - conversational assistants, semantic search, and agents - into their products while actively detecting and correcting hallucinations at runtime. Its stack includes the Boomerang embedding model, the RAG-tuned Mockingbird LLM, the open-source Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model (HHEM), and a Guardian Agent layer, positioning Vectara as a leader in factual, secure, compliance-ready enterprise AI.
Verloop.io
Verloop.io is a Bengaluru-based conversational AI platform that automates customer support, sales, and marketing conversations across chat and voice. Founded in 2015 by Gaurav Singh, it builds AI-powered chatbots and voice agents that handle inbound and outbound interactions in 80+ languages for unicorns and Fortune 500 companies across India, Southeast Asia, MENA, and the US. In July 2026 it was acquired by Mukesh Bansal-led Nurix AI to form a combined voice-and-chat automation platform handling more than 20 million customer interactions a month.
Ohad Rozen
Ohad Rozen is the co-founder and CEO of Tymely, a New York and Israel based startup building an AI agent that resolves complex e-commerce customer service tickets end-to-end. A former NLP research scientist at Amazon and Yahoo with a PhD from Bar-Ilan University, Rozen previously ran the guided-onboarding startup Toonimo. Tymely has raised roughly $15.25M across seed and Series B rounds, backed by Hetz Ventures, DESCOvery (D.E. Shaw's venture studio), and 97212 Ventures.
Shrenik Jain
Shrenik Jain is the founder and CEO of Marigold Health, a Boston-based company that pairs certified peer specialists with 24/7 text-based support groups, supported by natural language processing that surfaces needs inside conversations. A Johns Hopkins graduate and former EMT, he raised an $11M Series A in June 2024 led by Rock Health and Innospark Ventures, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare.
Tim Moss
Tim Moss is the Chairman and CEO of Talkmap, a Dallas conversational-intelligence company that turns raw call-center calls and chats into structured, real-time customer insight using patented AI. A Texas A&M political science graduate with more than 30 years in technology and financial services, he previously ran the turnaround of the $800M+ carrier services company Syniverse as COO, launched a new organization as an Ericsson senior vice president, and founded IMG Venture Group and the consultancy Integrity Management Group. Talkmap raised an $8 million Series A led by Stage1 Ventures in February 2022, part of roughly $17.6 million total.
dMetrics
dMetrics is an AI company that builds Minsky, a natural-language-processing platform letting non-technical subject-matter experts create their own AI models to read, track, and analyze huge volumes of messy text - without writing code. Founded by two MIT machine-learning PhDs, the company started by decoding healthcare conversations across social media and now serves financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector customers, including a five-year, $99.5M U.S. Department of Defense production contract for open-source threat analysis.
Langfinity
Langfinity (formerly Byrdhouse) is a San Francisco AI company building a real-time voice and text translation platform for global teams. Founded by ex-interpreters Snow Huo and Jacob Greenway, it delivers industry-specific live interpretation across 100+ languages, plugging into video calls and Microsoft Teams so multilingual meetings, sales calls, safety briefings, and training sessions can happen without swapping tools or hiring a human interpreter.
Native AI
Native AI is a New York-based market intelligence platform that uses generative AI to build 'Digital Twins' - AI-powered proxies of real consumers assembled from reviews, interviews, surveys and other first- and third-party data. Brands, agencies and market research firms use the platform to chat with clones of their target audience, track products and competitors across the web, and forecast consumer reactions in real time, compressing research timelines that once took weeks into minutes. Founded in 2019 by Frank Pica and Sarah Sanders, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in 2023 and says clients have generated over 275 million Digital Twins to date.
Orama
Orama is an open-source search company building an 'answer engine' for developers - a lightweight, high-performance stack that bundles full-text, vector, and hybrid search with automatic embedding generation and built-in LLMs. Started as the open-source project Lyra and incorporated as OramaSearch Inc. in 2023 by Issac Roth and Michele Riva, its core library ships in under 2KB and runs in the browser, on servers, or at the edge. Orama powers site search and AI answers for developer platforms including nodejs.org, tanstack.com, and solidjs.org, and its OramaCore runtime packages a search engine, vector database, and LLM interface into one deployable unit.
Pangram Labs
Pangram Labs builds AI-content detection software that identifies text written by models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. Founded in 2024 by Stanford classmates Max Spero and Bradley Emi, the New York-based startup claims third-party-verified accuracy above 99.9% and a roughly 1-in-10,000 false-positive rate, positioning itself as the reliable alternative to perplexity-based detectors. Its detector, browser extensions, API and LMS integrations are used across education, publishing, enterprise trust & safety and platform moderation.
Productive.ai
Productive.ai (legally Phoneic, Inc.) is a San Mateo, California startup that turns ordinary cell phone calls into finished work. Its AI Call Assistant records and transcribes business calls, then automatically generates summaries, notes, tasks and calendar events and logs everything into the user's CRM - so that when the call ends, the paperwork is already done. Founded by messaging-and-voice veteran Enlai Chu, the company targets real estate agents, salespeople, recruiters, mortgage and medical professionals, and won the National Association of REALTORS 2023 Pitch Battle.
Eirini Schlosser
Eirini Schlosser is the founder and CEO of Dyania Health, a clinical research AI company building Synapsis AI, a natural language understanding platform that reads unstructured electronic medical records to pre-screen patients for clinical trials and automate chart abstraction. The only non-physician in a family of doctors, she spent childhood summers digitizing her father's patient records, then worked on more than $60 billion of deals at Morgan Stanley before leaving finance to build technology. She founded the NLP startup Chuz, then launched Dyania Health in 2019, raising $17.55M and earning a spot on Inc.'s 2025 Female Founders 500.
Diffbot
Diffbot is an AI company building one of the world's largest knowledge graphs by autonomously crawling, reading, and structuring the public web. Its APIs and LLM turn unstructured pages into machine-readable facts about people, organizations, products, and articles - powering search, sales intelligence, market research, and grounded generative AI.
FounderNest
FounderNest is an AI-native market intelligence platform that helps innovation teams at large corporations, CVCs, R&D, M&A and strategy groups discover, evaluate and track emerging startups, technologies and trends. Its AI Market Intelligence Analyst (AMIA) scans 50M+ companies, 160M+ patents and billions of data points to surface opportunities faster than traditional research.
Friendly
Friendly is a San Francisco-based AI company building an infrastructure layer for insurance decisioning. Its platform digitizes complex medical, financial and legal documents, summarizes records, automates underwriting and claims adjudication, and analyzes reinsurance treaties - turning unstructured paperwork into auditable, decision-ready insights for carriers, reinsurers and TPAs.
Eric Chang
Eric Chang is the co-founder and CEO of Claira, a New York fintech building domain-native, agentic AI for private credit and capital markets deal teams. A CFA charterholder with a Cornell engineering degree, he spent nearly two decades inside Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, AQR, and Morgan Stanley before deciding the real problem in finance was not faster analysts but firms that forget what they already know. Claira turns dense legal and credit documents into structured, queryable data and aims to become a firm's permanent decision-making memory. In June 2025 the company raised a $7M seed co-led by Barclays and Citi.
Paul Nemirovsky
Paul Nemirovsky is the cofounder and CEO of dMetrics, the Brooklyn-born AI company behind Minsky, a natural language processing platform that lets non-technical experts steer AI across the world's largest financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations. An MIT Media Lab PhD who once built musical navigation shoes and showed interactive art at the Centre Pompidou, he has grown dMetrics from two founders to a 40-person team without venture capital, and in 2024 the company landed a Department of Defense AI/ML production contract worth up to $99.5 million.
Yunhao Jiao
Yunhao Jiao is the co-founder and CEO of TestSprite, a Seattle startup building an autonomous AI testing agent that aims to be the verification layer for AI-generated code. A competitive programmer turned AWS engineer, he left a five-year run at Amazon after a single production regression on an on-call shift convinced him that verification, not generation, had become software's weakest link. Since founding TestSprite in 2023 with Shawnie Shan and Rui Li, he has grown it to roughly 100,000 developers and raised about $8.1 million across pre-seed and seed rounds, led most recently by Trilogy Equity Partners.
OptraHEALTH
OptraHEALTH is a San Jose-based AI healthcare intelligence company that turns dense genomic and clinical data into plain conversation. Its patented HealthFAX platform and GeneFAX product line use conversational AI, natural language processing, and knowledge graphs to help labs, hospitals, payors, and patients navigate genetic testing, revenue cycle management, prior authorization, and clinical decisions - letting people ask their health data questions through chat, mobile, and voice interfaces.
Notable Systems
Notable Systems is a Denver-based AI automation company that helps durable and home medical equipment (DME/HME) providers turn messy paperwork - faxed orders, handwritten referrals, degraded scans - into clean, billable claims. Its intelligent document processing and claims-validation tools combine OCR, NLP, machine learning and human-in-the-loop review to cut manual data entry, speed up order intake, and reduce claim denials, all under SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-compliant controls.
Slang
Slang is a B2B edtech company that teaches professional, industry-specific English to the global workforce. Born as an MIT research project on using AI and NLP to accelerate language learning, Slang now runs the largest catalog of specialized professional English courses in the world - 200+ paths spanning fields from engineering and finance to healthcare and logistics - delivered through a mobile-first platform used by companies and universities to build hyper-personalized learning journeys by role and industry.
Diego Villegas
Diego Villegas is the co-founder and CEO of Slang, an MIT-born edtech startup that uses machine learning and NLP to teach industry-specific professional English to the global workforce. A serial entrepreneur, he first built MASA, a Colombian oil-and-gas technical-services firm that grew to roughly $200M in revenue and 5,000+ employees before its acquisition by Stork. The pain of watching capable employees stall - and get laid off - for lack of business English became the seed of Slang, which now offers 150+ career-focused courses to companies including Nestle, Banco Santander, and Hyatt across more than a dozen countries.
Pienso
Pienso is a no-code AI platform that lets domain experts - not just engineers - train, fine-tune, and deploy their own machine learning and large language models without writing a single line of code. Founded by MIT Media Lab alumni Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar, Pienso keeps humans in the loop and data in the customer's control, with cloud or on-premise deployment for governments, media companies, and regulated enterprises.
Enterpret
Enterpret is an AI customer intelligence platform that unifies scattered customer feedback - from support tickets and app reviews to sales calls and social posts - into a single, queryable source of truth. Using adaptive NLP models and a proprietary Customer Knowledge Graph, it categorizes feedback with a custom taxonomy, ties it to revenue and accounts, and surfaces the themes product teams need to decide what to build next. Founded by brothers Varun and Arnav Sharma in 2020, it counts Canva, Notion, Monday.com, Perplexity, Linear and Strava among its customers.
Sage Wohns
Sage Wohns is the CEO and Co-Founder of Jericho Security, a New York-based AI cybersecurity company that trains humans and AI systems to defend against AI-powered attacks including hyper-realistic phishing, deepfakes, and voice cloning. A Seattle native and 10-year AI industry veteran, Wohns previously built and led Agolo, a Google- and Microsoft-backed NLP summarization company, before co-founding Jericho Security in 2023. The company made history by winning the Pentagon's first-ever generative AI defense contract through AFWERX in December 2023, and has since raised $18M in total funding, including a $15M Series A in April 2025. With 39 employees and 30+ enterprise clients, Jericho Security is at the frontier of AI-versus-AI cyber defense.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Notable Systems, a Denver-based company using AI, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop review to turn messy healthcare paperwork into clean, usable data. Three decades before that, he co-founded Johnson-Grace, whose patented compression algorithm delivered the first online pictures on America Online in 1993 - a building block of modern streaming media. AOL acquired the company in 1996 and made him a VP running software and technology development; he later founded the personalization pioneer ChoiceStream. In 2025 Notable Systems raised a $12M Series B to push beyond order intake into full revenue cycle automation.
Gideon Mendels
Gideon Mendels is the co-founder and CEO of Comet, the New York machine-learning platform that tracks, compares, and explains the experiments behind AI models. A computer scientist and NLP researcher by training, he built hate-speech detection at Google and ran speech-recognition research at Columbia before turning the messy, undocumented reality of model-building into a company. In 2024 Comet shipped Opik, an open-source LLM evaluation tool, putting Mendels at the center of the scramble to make AI agents reliable in production.
Varun Sharma
Varun Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Enterpret, an AI platform that turns messy, scattered customer feedback into a structured, queryable dataset for product teams. The 15th employee at Amplitude and a former enterprise customer success leader at Scale AI, he spotted a recurring blind spot: teams could track retention to the decimal but couldn't answer 'what are our top three customer pain points?' In 2020 he recruited his brother Arnav, then an Uber engineer, and the two built Enterpret in stealth for roughly 20 months before landing Notion as their first customer. The company raised a $20.8M Series A led by Canaan Partners in December 2024 and counts Canva, Notion, Loom, Strava, Linear, Perplexity and Descript among its users.