Guidde is an AI-powered video documentation platform that turns a screen recording into a polished, narrated how-to video in minutes. Used by 4,500+ companies including Nasdaq, Yahoo, Bayer and SentinelOne, Guidde positions itself as the connective tissue between employees and the enterprise software they have to learn fast.
Homebase is a San Francisco-based workforce management platform built for small businesses running hourly teams. Founded in 2014, it combines employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, HR compliance, and team communication in one mobile-first app. As of 2024, the platform serves over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million hourly workers, having logged 8 billion hours and processed $3 billion in gross payroll. Backed by $198 million in total funding, Homebase competes by bundling tools that small business owners previously paid for separately - and more recently by embedding AI assistants across hiring, scheduling, and payroll.
Humand is a mobile-first, all-in-one HR platform built for the 2.7 billion deskless and frontline workers who have never had a proper digital work home. Founded in 2020 by Nicolas Benenzon and Geronimo Maspero, the platform combines 30+ HR modules - from internal communications and payroll to performance reviews and AI-powered automation - into a single app. With 1.6 million workers across 1,500+ organizations in 51 countries, and a $66M Series A raised in February 2026 co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, Humand is positioning itself as the operating system for the world's largest workforce segment.
Incode is an AI-powered identity verification platform that lets businesses confirm who is really on the other side of a screen — in under two seconds. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, the company has built a modular biometric platform used by banks, hotels, hospitals, and gaming companies across more than 190 countries. Its flagship product, Incode Omni, handles everything from document verification and facial recognition to AML screening and liveness detection, processing more than 100 million user verifications per year. Backed by General Atlantic, SoftBank, J.P. Morgan, and Capital One Ventures at a $1.25 billion valuation, Incode has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Identity Verification two consecutive years running.
Middesk is a San Francisco-based business identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, lenders, and marketplaces verify the businesses they transact with. Its KYB APIs turn the slow, paper-heavy process of vetting a company into a real-time decision, powering onboarding at firms like Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Gusto, Affirm, and Shopify.
Kyle Mack is the CEO and Co-founder of Middesk, the business identity platform that's modernizing how financial institutions and fintechs verify and trust the companies they work with. Founded in 2018 after Mack witnessed firsthand the painful manual process of customer credentialing at Checkr, Middesk has grown into a category-defining KYB infrastructure company backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi Ventures with $77M+ in total funding. The company serves hundreds of enterprise clients - including two of the top three U.S. banks and fintechs like Plaid, Affirm, Brex, and Shopify - by connecting to roughly 400 U.S. government agencies to surface real-time business identity intelligence. Mack is also a Sequoia Scout, investing in early-stage founders.
Max Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Workstream, a San Francisco-based HR and payroll platform built specifically for America's hourly workforce. He co-founded China's AngelList equivalent (VC.CN) in 2011, built it to a 50-person team, then crossed the Pacific to co-build Workstream with Desmond Lim and Lei Xu after a 100-interview discovery sprint revealed that hiring hourly workers was a massive unsolved problem. Today, Workstream serves 4,000+ businesses across 24,000 locations, has raised $118 million, and is deploying AI tools - including VoiceAI - to compress hiring cycles from weeks to hours for restaurants, franchises, and deskless-workforce employers.
Persona is a San Francisco-based identity infrastructure company that helps businesses verify people - and increasingly, AI agents - online. Its configurable platform powers KYC, KYB, AML, age verification, and ongoing trust-and-safety workflows for fintechs, marketplaces, crypto exchanges, and AI platforms across 200+ countries.
Workstream is an HR, hiring and payroll platform built for the deskless economy - the 80 million Americans who clock in by the hour at restaurants, gyms, car washes and franchises. Founded in 2017 by three immigrants in San Francisco, it uses texting, voice AI and automation to cut time-to-hire by roughly 70% for chains like Burger King, Jimmy John's and Chick-fil-A franchisees.
Heang Chan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prelim, a San Francisco-based fintech that builds the digital onboarding operating system for banks and credit unions. A Stanford MBA and former Goldman Sachs banker who also helped build the mortgage platform at Blend used by 3 of the top 10 U.S. banks, Chan founded Prelim in 2017 after Y Combinator to solve the friction-filled account-opening workflows he watched slow down banks from the inside. Prelim now orchestrates 50+ banking integrations for institutions managing more than $5 trillion in assets, turning weeks-long onboarding into minutes.
Val Geisler is a lifecycle marketing strategist and VP of Partner Programs at Digioh, best known for founding Fix My Churn and creating the 'Dinner Party Strategy' — a behavior-driven email onboarding framework that has powered 209% conversion lifts for SaaS and ecommerce brands. With 12+ years at the intersection of customer empathy and marketing systems, she has built advocacy programs at Klaviyo, grown retention email to 25% of company revenue at ByHeart, and hosted the Ecommerce Marketing School podcast. Her philosophy: emails are relationships, not broadcasts.
Zeroframe is the company behind Andoria, an AI-powered customer onboarding agent that learns how web applications work and generates personalized walkthroughs for users who get stuck. Founded in San Francisco in 2024 by Daryl Budiman and Anirudh Ramprasad - two former MultiOn engineers who helped scale that AI startup to a triple-digit million-dollar valuation in under nine months - Zeroframe's flagship product drops into any web app with a single script tag and autonomously shows users exactly what to do, reducing churn by turning confusion into clarity.