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Xcitium puts the unknown in a box
An unfamiliar file does not need a verdict to become dangerous. Xcitium’s wager: let it run, but keep it away from the things that matter.
WSO2 makes the connections you never see
A donor registry, a bank, an AI agent: each needs a safe way into someone else’s system. WSO2 has spent two decades building those doors.
EDB and the art of leaving Oracle.
The hard part of replacing a database is everything built around it. EDB sells a way to carry that history into Postgres - and now wants to keep AI close to the same data.
Sysdig watches what happens next.
A cloud can look perfectly safe on paper. Sysdig built its business around the trouble that starts when the software runs.
Adobe Commerce makes room for the complicated sale
One jacket. Dozens of storefronts. A different set of rules in every market. The business born as Magento has built its case around the messy details of selling at scale.
SourceFuse and the art of skipping the rebuild
Every software company needs the plumbing. SourceFuse packages the repeatable parts, then helps customers rebuild the systems that are holding them back.
Defense Unicorns makes software work off the grid
A fighter jet can carry modern software and still be hard to update. Defense Unicorns is building the delivery system for the places the internet cannot follow.
Nx and the art of doing less
Software teams keep paying to build the same code twice. Nx has built a business around a better question: what can we skip?
Dub makes every link accountable.
A short link is easy. Knowing what it earned is harder. Dub connects the click, the customer and the commission - and turns a small piece of the web into a working business tool.
Virtru wants your secrets to survive the Send button
Two brothers took a security idea from the intelligence world and put it inside everyday email. Their wager: a file should carry its own rules, wherever it travels.
Fedi puts Bitcoin in the hands of people you know
A wallet, a chat app, and a rather unfashionable idea: trust people you can actually reach. Fedi is betting that community custody can make Bitcoin useful beyond the technically fearless.
Clause gave contracts a job after the signature
A signed PDF can record a promise. Clause built contracts that could check data and act on it - then took its technology and team into DocuSign.
Hiro’s big Bitcoin bet: make the plumbing boring
A missed blockchain event can ruin an otherwise clever app. Hiro builds the tools behind Stacks applications - and its latest changes show why dependable infrastructure sometimes means a shorter product menu.
Brightwave found the expensive part of AI: believing it
It began by helping investors read the mountain of paperwork. Now Brightwave is building the controls that let AI agents work beyond it - with an open-source desktop app along for the ride.
Anaconda made Python easy. Now it sells peace of mind.
The company that helped millions get started with Python found its paying customer in a different room: the enterprise worried about what all that free software might bring through the door.
SpruceID wants your ID to keep a secret
The company behind California’s digital DMV wallet is tackling a peculiar problem: proving who you are without telling everyone more than they need to know.
AuthZed and the art of saying no
A car-sharing rollout escaped its borders. An AI assistant needed boundaries of its own. AuthZed sells the permission checks that let ambitious software behave itself.
Deno tried to leave Node behind. Its users brought npm.
The creator of Node.js built Deno to make JavaScript simpler. The revealing part is what his second act learned to keep - and why its next customer might be an AI agent.
Upbound wants your cloud to stop waiting for permission
The company behind Crossplane turns cloud infrastructure into a service developers can request themselves. Its next test is giving AI agents the same freedom, with rules that survive contact with reality.
Provectus puts AI where the work gets stuck
A pastry order, a hundred-page risk report, a support ticket: Provectus builds AI around the awkward business chores that hold everything else up. Its proposition is a working system, with the keys handed to the customer.
Opentrons Labworks puts the boring work on autopilot
Discovery gets the applause. Pipetting gets the afternoon. Opentrons builds lab robots that take on the repetition, and its next wager is that AI will need a reliable pair of hands.
Percona gives away the database. You pay for the judgment.
A database can be free and still cost a fortune to run. Percona has built a business in the gap between downloading the software and knowing what to do when it misbehaves.
Wazuh makes security free. The work still costs.
An open-source security platform lets teams see more without buying another software licence. Its customers reveal where the savings begin, and where the real work moves.
DreamHost and the art of owning your corner of the internet
Four college friends started with a dorm-room server. Nearly three decades later, DreamHost is betting that people still want a website of their own - provided somebody makes the hard parts easier.
Intrinsic wants robots to stop needing a specialist for every new job
Google’s robotics software group is betting that the expensive part of automation is teaching the machine. Its answer combines reusable skills, a virtual workcell and an unexpectedly useful respect for loose cables.
Chia Network is betting on boring money
Bram Cohen’s blockchain swaps the mining race for disk space. Its harder wager is that carbon registries, recoverable wallets, and financial paperwork can give crypto something useful to do.
Mem0 wants AI to remember you. The trick is knowing what to forget.
A chatbot that forgot its users sent two founders toward a different business: selling memory to the people building AI. Mem0’s wager is that useful context should survive a conversation - and a change of model.
InOrbit.AI wants your robots to stop working alone
A warehouse can buy clever robots and still end up with a very stupid traffic jam. InOrbit.AI sells the software that helps different machines share the floor - and has just made a fleet-management foundation open source.
IBM Kubecost gives the cloud bill a name
Kubernetes made infrastructure shareable. Kubecost made the spending attributable - and built a business around the awkward question of who should pay.
Ollama made AI easier to run. Now it sells the room to grow.
The founders who helped tame Docker turned their attention to open AI models. Ollama’s wager: make the first experiment easy, then keep the same tools when the laptop runs out of room.