
Anuraag Gutgutia is co-founder of TrueFoundry, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform that lets companies build, deploy, and govern generative and agentic AI inside their own cloud infrastructure. A quantitative analyst turned repeat entrepreneur, he spent seven years at WorldQuant rising to VP of Portfolio Management and the CEO's office before co-founding the talent platform EntHire (acquired by InfoEdge/BigShyft) and then TrueFoundry in 2021 alongside two IIT Kharagpur batchmates. TrueFoundry has raised $21.3M in total funding - including a $19M Series A led by Intel Capital in February 2025 - and serves Fortune 1000 companies seeking to run AI workloads without infrastructure complexity or data-sovereignty tradeoffs.
ISATEC is a Malaysia-based enterprise software and IT services company that helps large enterprises and governments across Asia-Pacific with digital transformation, observability, application performance, cybersecurity, cloud modernization and intelligent automation. Founded in 1994 and based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, it is a long-standing Dynatrace and Microsoft partner and an associate company of the regional IT group VSTECS, building products such as the KUBE low-code automation platform, the justSAMit IT asset management service and the SAMLite/IdentityLite identity tools.

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.

Xiaodan Zhuang, who also goes by Dennis, is the co-founder and CEO of Greptime, a company building GreptimeDB, an open-source observability database written in Rust that unifies metrics, logs, and traces. Before starting Greptime in 2022, he spent roughly 18 years in software infrastructure, including leading the intelligent monitoring team at Ant Group where he built ultra-large-scale time-series platforms for AIOps, plus earlier stints at Taobao/Alibaba and LeanCloud. He is a long-time open-source contributor (GitHub handle killme2008) behind projects like Aviator and xmemcached, and a self-described car enthusiast who races on tracks.
Checkly is a developer-first synthetic monitoring and reliability platform that lets engineering teams define uptime, API, and browser checks as version-controlled code. Built on Microsoft's Playwright framework and OpenTelemetry, it runs checks from 20+ global locations and layers in AI-driven root cause analysis. Founded in 2018 and headquartered with roots in Berlin, Checkly serves 1,000+ customers - including Vercel, 1Password, CrowdStrike, and Mistral - and has raised $32.25M, most recently a $20M Series B led by Balderton Capital in 2024.
DataBahn is an AI-powered, security-native data pipeline and fabric platform that helps enterprises collect, enrich, orchestrate and optimize telemetry across security, observability, application and IoT/OT systems. Its agentic products - Cruz, Reef and Phantom agents - automate data engineering work, cut noise and reduce SIEM/telemetry costs by more than 50% while preserving visibility for security and IT teams.
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the widely used open-source dashboarding and observability platform. Founded in 2014 to commercialize Torkel Odegaard's visualization tool, it has grown into a full-stack observability vendor built on a 'big tent' philosophy - letting teams unify metrics, logs, traces and profiles from any source without ripping out existing tools. Its LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise now serve more than 7,000 paying organizations, including roughly 70% of the Fortune 50, with the business surpassing $400M in annual recurring revenue and a $6B valuation.

Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix) is a Pleasanton, California enterprise software company building an agentic operational intelligence platform. It lets organizations design, deploy, operate and observe AI agents across IT, network, security and business operations, anchored by a tri-fabric architecture of Data Fabric, AI Fabric and Automation Fabric. The company positions itself for the 'agentic AI era' with production-grade governance, explainability and human-in-the-loop controls.

Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
Cisco Systems is an American multinational technology company and the world's largest maker of networking hardware. Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists, it builds the routers, switches, silicon, security, and software that route much of the world's internet traffic. Today Cisco is repositioning around AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and observability - anchored by its 2024 acquisition of Splunk - while remaining the default backbone for enterprise, service-provider, and government networks.
Conviva is a Silicon Valley analytics company that measures digital experiences from the consumer's point of view. Founded in 2006 by Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley computer scientists, it began by helping streaming brands cut buffering and improve video quality of experience (QoE), then expanded into a real-time Operational Data Platform (ODP) that processes trillions of client-side events daily. Its technology powers experience monitoring for many of the world's largest streaming services and, more recently, has extended into agentic AI performance and consumer-perspective analytics across apps, websites, and AI agents.
InfluxData is the company behind InfluxDB, the open source time series database purpose-built for high-volume, timestamped data from sensors, applications, infrastructure, and IoT devices. Founded in 2012 and led by CEO Evan Kaplan and founder/CTO Paul Dix, InfluxData rebuilt its engine in Rust on the Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Flight, and Parquet stack for InfluxDB 3. The platform is used by more than 1,900 paying customers - including Tesla, IBM, Cisco, PayPal, and Nordstrom - to collect, store, and analyze real-time data at scale.
EverOps is a San Francisco-based IT and cloud managed services provider that embeds small teams of senior engineers - called TechPods - directly inside client organizations to run DevOps, SRE, ITOps, and security work. Founded in 2012 and re-capitalized in 2022, the firm pitches itself as an alternative to advice-only consulting and staffing shops: pods sit in the client's toolchain, attend standups, and take ownership of outcomes across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, and cloud cost reduction.
Foxglove is a San Francisco company building a data and observability platform for robotics and Physical AI. Its tools let engineers record, sync, search, and visualize the multimodal sensor data their robots produce - 3D point clouds, video, GNSS, and proprioceptive streams - so teams can debug and improve autonomous systems without building expensive in-house infrastructure. Founded in 2021 by two Cruise and Coinbase veterans, Foxglove maintains the open-source MCAP file format (now the default recording format in ROS 2) and counts NVIDIA, Amazon, Anduril, Wayve, and Waabi among its users.
Greptime is an open-source database company building GreptimeDB, a unified observability database that stores metrics, logs, traces, and wide events in a single engine on object storage like Amazon S3. Written in Rust and built on Apache Arrow and DataFusion, it separates compute from storage to cut costs at scale and speaks both SQL and PromQL. Founded in 2022 by ex-Alibaba and Ant Group engineers, Greptime positions GreptimeDB as a drop-in replacement for the Prometheus, Loki, and Elasticsearch stack, serving customers across connected vehicles, IoT, and observability.
Inngest is a durable execution platform that gives developers reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI-agent orchestration without managing queues or infrastructure. Founded in 2021 by Tony Holdstock-Brown and Dan Farrelly, the San Francisco company combines event streams, queues, and durable step functions into SDKs for TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus AgentKit for multi-agent systems. It has raised roughly $30 million, most recently a $21M Series A led by Altimeter in 2025, and processes over 100 million executions a day for teams including SoundCloud, Resend, and Replit.
Kloudfuse is a Cupertino-based observability company that unifies metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single observability data lake that runs inside a customer's own cloud (VPC) rather than a vendor SaaS. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Springpath, Nicira, VMware, and Cisco, it pitches an OpenTelemetry-native, AI/ML-powered platform that gives enterprises data ownership and 60-80% cost savings versus incumbents like Datadog. It launched out of stealth in November 2023 with $23M in funding and is used by companies including GE HealthCare, Zscaler, Tata 1mg, and Automation Anywhere.
Last9 is a unified observability company that helps engineering and DevOps teams monitor high-cardinality metrics, logs, and traces without the ballooning costs of legacy tools. Built around a Prometheus- and OpenTelemetry-compatible telemetry warehouse called Levitate and a pre-ingestion Control Plane that filters, reshapes, and routes data, Last9 has been used to observe some of the largest live-streaming events in the world - including peaks of roughly 59-61 million concurrent viewers. Founded in 2020 and backed by Sequoia/Peak XV's Surge, Better Capital and others, it targets cost-efficient, full-fidelity observability at enterprise scale.
Scanner is a San Francisco cybersecurity company that turns the log data companies already dump into Amazon S3 into a fast, searchable security data lake. Instead of paying traditional SIEM prices to keep only a few weeks of logs, security teams use Scanner to index petabytes of data directly in object storage, run continuous threat detections, and search years of history in seconds - now increasingly driven by AI agents. Founded by ex-Cisco and Dropbox engineers Cliff Crosland and Steven Wu, the company raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia Capital in March 2026.
Nanda Santhana is the co-founder and CEO of DataBahn.ai, a Plano, Texas startup building AI-powered telemetry data pipelines for security, observability and AI workloads. Before DataBahn he spent nearly a dozen years as a founding member and SVP at Securonix, with earlier stints at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Vaau. In June 2025 DataBahn closed a $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital, taking total funding to $19M.
Raj Dutt is the co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open source dashboarding tool used by more than 25 million people. He previously founded and sold the hosting company Voxel to Internap, then co-founded Raintank in 2014 with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods and later rebranded it as Grafana Labs. In 2025 the company crossed $400M ARR with 7,000+ customers.
DBOS, Inc. is a San Francisco- and Cambridge-based developer infrastructure company commercializing durable execution technology born from a joint MIT-Stanford research project led by Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker and Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia. Its flagship open-source library, DBOS Transact, adds crash-proof workflow orchestration and built-in observability to ordinary Python and TypeScript programs by persisting application state in Postgres, so software resumes exactly where it left off after a failure - without a separate workflow server. The company pairs the library with DBOS Conductor and DBOS Cloud for managing and hosting reliable backends, AI agents, and long-running workflows.
Expanso is a Seattle-based distributed data processing company built on its open-source Bacalhau project. Instead of shipping raw data to a central cloud, Expanso runs lightweight agents that filter, transform, and govern data at its source - across edge devices, on-prem systems, and multiple clouds. The 'Compute Over Data' approach cuts egress and storage costs, keeps sensitive data in place for compliance, and speeds up pipelines feeding analytics and AI. Founded in 2022 by former Google, AWS, and Microsoft engineers, it raised a $7.5M seed round in 2023.
A Salesforce editorial arguing that the AI agent conversation has moved past task completion and into 'loop engineering' — handing an agent an objective plus a way to measure progress so it plans, checks its own work, learns, and adjusts. Using a World Cup analogy, the piece contends that a brilliant individual agent (a coding agent shipping pull requests, a service agent resolving cases) means little unless it moves the business forward. Salesforce positions its 27 years of encoded CRM business rules — pipeline stages, service levels, qualified-lead definitions — as the ideal scoreboard for agents to optimize against, supported by four systems (controls, context, traceability, analytics) that form the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC). Customers Zing Health, Telepass, and Indeed illustrate agents running the loop at scale.
Vibranium Labs is a New York-based AI company building Vibe AI, an agentic 'AI Site Reliability Engineer' that acts as the first responder to IT incidents. Its Vibe OnCall platform pages AI agents to detect, triage, and resolve outages before human engineers are woken up, integrating with tools like Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, Jira, and ServiceNow. The company says its agents cut mean time to resolution by up to 85%, and positions itself as an AI-native alternative to PagerDuty and Opsgenie. Founded by Sang Lee (ex-Google, ex-AWS) with FiscalNote co-founder Tim Hwang, it raised $4.6M in seed funding in September 2025.
Distributional is an enterprise AI testing platform that uses adaptive, statistical analysis of production traces to catch behavioral drift and regressions in AI agents and LLM applications. Founded in 2023 by former Intel AI software GM Scott Clark, the company helps Fortune 500 teams ship generative AI with confidence by treating reliability as a continuous test problem rather than a one-shot benchmark.
Rollbar is a San Francisco-based developer tools company that builds real-time error monitoring and AI-assisted debugging software. Founded in 2012 by former Lolapps engineers Brian Rue and Cory Virok, Rollbar helps engineering teams catch, group, and resolve software errors across web, mobile, and backend applications.
Dev Nag is the founder and CEO of QueryPal, a San Francisco AI company rebuilding the economics of customer support with agentic automation. A serial founder with deep machine-learning roots, he earlier created Wavefront, the real-time cloud monitoring platform acquired by VMware in 2017, where he went on to launch VMware's flagship AIOps product. He also founded the observability startup CtrlStack, backed by Sequoia Capital and Engineering Capital. Before founding companies he was an engineer at Google, PayPal, and eBay and the founding engineer at securities-trading platform GLMX. Stanford-trained in both mathematics and psychology, he holds more than a dozen AI and security patents and authored one of the most widely read beginner tutorials in deep learning, 'GANs in 50 lines of code.'
OnStak is a Milpitas, California enterprise AI consulting and hybrid-cloud services firm that helps large organizations move from AI experimentation to AI in production. With a delivery team that is roughly three-quarters AI architects and engineers, OnStak modernizes data platforms, applications and infrastructure across Cisco, NVIDIA, AWS, Oracle and on-premises environments, and ships AI products like AI Correlation Fabric, AI Assurance and AI Video Analytics. Its pitch is plain: 'Fluent in strategy, native in engineering' - straight talk about what is broken and what to fix first.
Riverbed Technology is a San Francisco-based IT software company that helps large enterprises see, optimize, and troubleshoot the digital experiences their people and customers depend on. Originally famous for the SteelHead WAN-optimization appliance, Riverbed has reinvented itself around AI-powered unified observability - stitching together network, application, and end-user telemetry, then layering predictive, generative, and agentic AI on top to spot problems and increasingly fix them automatically. Founded in 2002, taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2015 and again by Vector Capital in 2023, it serves thousands of global organizations across finance, government, healthcare, retail, and beyond.