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Sonarly
Sonarly is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator W26) building an autonomous AI on-call engineer for production software. It wires into a company's monitoring stack - Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Slack and more - triages every alert to strip out noise and duplicates, investigates logs, traces, metrics and code to find the root cause, and opens a ready-to-merge fix pull request before a human engineer is paged. Founded by Dimittri Choudhury and Alexandre Klobb, who previously scaled an edtech app to 100k+ users, Sonarly aims to cut Mean Time To Repair by handling the 3am pages that engineers dread.
Amper Technologies
Amper Technologies is a Chicago-based industrial IoT company that helps manufacturers see and improve what happens on their shop floors in real time. Its FactoryOS platform pairs non-invasive sensors that clip onto any machine - regardless of age or brand and install in about ten minutes - with AI-driven analytics that track machine utilization, OEE, downtime, labor and job performance. Founded in 2016, Amper turns legacy factory equipment into a source of live production data without expensive retrofits or complex IT integrations, and was acquired by ECI Software Solutions in December 2025.
Tristar AI
Tristar AI puts a pair of eyes on the factory floor that never blink. The Boston-based company builds AI-powered smart cameras and enterprise software that watch production lines in real time, recognize what human workers are doing, and flag defects or skipped steps the instant they happen - before a bad part ships or a machine goes down. Founded in 2022 by a team out of MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin, Tristar serves precision manufacturers in plastics, automotive, and chemicals, promising 95-99% defect-detection accuracy and deployment in about two weeks.
Brian Rue
Brian Rue is the CEO and Co-founder of Rollbar, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that helps engineering teams track, prioritize, and fix software errors in real time. Founded in 2012 with co-founder Cory Virok after both left Lolapps, Rollbar has grown into a leading developer tool used by 100,000+ developers at 4,000+ companies including Salesforce, Twilio, Uber, and Duolingo. With $18.4M in funding and a mission of 'Continuous Code Improvement', Brian brings a decade of founder experience and a Stanford engineering background to building tools that close the gap between shipping code and fixing it.