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Workday
Workday is a Pleasanton, California cloud software company that runs the core people and money systems for large organizations. Founded in 2005 by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Workday built a single-code-base, subscription-delivered platform for human capital management, financial management, planning, and analytics. It has grown into one of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors, serving thousands of organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is now pushing agentic AI deep into HR and finance workflows.
Flexon Technologies Talent360.ai
Flexon Technologies is a Pleasanton, California-based IT services and staffing firm founded in 2015 that pairs technology consulting, custom software development and cloud/DevOps engineering with a global talent-sourcing practice. Under CEO Amar Bandaru, the roughly 120-person, bootstrapped company has moved into AI - building Talent360.ai, an AI-powered talent-management and recruiting platform, alongside a suite of vertical products (Flex EHR, Flex LMS, Flex TMS, Flex LPS, Flex FIT) aimed largely at healthcare and enterprise operations.
Apostle Inc
Apostle Inc is a Pleasanton, California biotechnology company that develops nucleic acid isolation and preservation technologies for liquid biopsy. Its flagship magnetic-nanoparticle kit, Apostle MiniMax, extracts circulating cell-free DNA and RNA from blood for applications in early cancer detection, non-invasive prenatal testing, infectious disease research, and even astronaut biospecimen collection in commercial spaceflight. Founded in 2018 out of the Stanford StartX accelerator, the company sells reagents, automation instruments, and CLIA/CAP lab services to researchers and diagnostics developers worldwide.
Smart ERP Solutions
Smart ERP Solutions is a Pleasanton, California enterprise-software and consulting firm founded in 2005 by Oracle and PeopleSoft veterans. It builds configurable add-on solutions and delivers implementation, upgrade, managed-services, and cloud-migration work across Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite. Its flagship product, Smart Onboarding, automates pre-boarding, onboarding, and off-boarding with integrated Form I-9 and E-Verify. Serving 300+ clients across higher education, healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing, the company was acquired by Mythics, LLC in April 2025 to expand global Oracle Cloud capability.
VentureSoft
VentureSoft is a Silicon Valley IT services and consulting firm that helps enterprises modernize through AI, secure cloud infrastructure, and data solutions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with offices in Dubai and Bengaluru, the company has delivered 1,000+ projects to more than 300 clients ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 names like Nike, Tesla, Intuit and Gap. Its work spans data analytics and AI, security and GRC, cloud and DevSecOps, ERP/CRM, application development, and 24/7 managed services.
Deep Sentinel
Deep Sentinel is a Pleasanton, California security company that pairs proprietary AI with live human guards to stop crime while it is happening rather than document it after the fact. Its cameras use computer vision to filter out harmless motion and surface genuine threats to remote 'LiveSentinel' guards, who intervene through two-way audio and a 100+ dB siren within seconds and escalate to police with verified, crime-in-progress information. The company sells to both homeowners and businesses and has expanded into a Bring Your Own Camera program that works with major third-party camera brands.
Sciens Building Solutions
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.
Cowbell
Cowbell is a Pleasanton-based insurtech that sells adaptive cyber insurance to small and mid-sized businesses, using an AI-driven continuous underwriting platform that scores cyber risk and can issue a policy in under five minutes.