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Snaptrude
Snaptrude is a cloud-based, AI-native design platform for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) teams. It lets architects move from a brief to a BIM-ready model inside one connected, browser-based workspace - handling site analysis, space programming, massing, BIM modeling and presentation while staying interoperable with legacy tools like Revit, Rhino and Archicad. Founded in 2017 by Altaf Ganihar and backed by Foundamental and Accel, Snaptrude positions itself as a modern, collaborative alternative to design software largely built in the late 1990s.
Deepnote
Deepnote is a cloud-based, collaborative data notebook that reimagines the Jupyter notebook for teams. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, it lets data scientists and analysts connect data sources, write Python, SQL and R, and work together in real time - like a Google Docs for data. In recent years it has leaned heavily into AI, adding an agent that can generate, edit and debug entire notebooks, and it went open source in 2025.
Padlet
Padlet is a San Francisco- and Singapore-based software company behind the popular collaborative platform of the same name, where users post text, images, links, files, and audio to shared digital bulletin boards called 'padlets'. Founded in 2008 as Wallwisher by Nitesh Goel and Pranav Piyush, the company grew into one of education technology's most widely used tools, reporting tens of millions of monthly active users - most of them teachers and students. It has since expanded beyond bulletin boards into an infinite-canvas whiteboard called Sandbox and a suite of AI creation tools, while remaining a small, largely bootstrapped team.
Velt
Velt is a San Francisco developer-tools startup that ships a full-stack SDK and APIs letting product teams embed contextual comments, notifications, presence, async recordings, huddles, and CRDT-based multiplayer editing directly inside their apps in days rather than months. Founded in 2020 by ex-Google product manager Rakesh Goyal and part of Y Combinator's W22 batch, Velt has evolved from a general collaboration toolkit into a review-and-approval layer where AI and humans review work together and nothing ships until a human approves. It is developer-first, enterprise-ready (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA), and used by companies including Google, Pendo, HeyGen, and LambdaTest.
Rakesh Goyal
Rakesh Goyal is the co-founder and CEO of Velt, a Y Combinator (W22) startup building the collaboration layer for the internet. Velt ships a full-stack SDK that lets product teams drop contextual comments, notifications, presence, huddles, async recordings and CRDT-based multiplayer editing into their apps in days instead of months. Before Velt he spent roughly nine years as a product manager at Google, where he helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Search and worked across Payments, Access and the Next Billion Users initiative. He frames Velt's ambition simply: what Okta is to auth and Algolia is to search, Velt wants to be to collaboration.
Anything
Anything (formerly Create / create.xyz) is a San Francisco AI platform that turns plain-English prompts into live, production-ready mobile and web apps - complete with backend, database, authentication, payments, and built-in AI integrations. Founded by Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, it aims to take non-technical builders past the prototype stage all the way to a deployed, money-making product. The company raised an $11M Series A in 2025 at a $100M valuation and reported 700,000+ registered users.
Sanity
Sanity is a content platform that treats content as structured data rather than pages, giving developers an API-first backend (the real-time Content Lake), a query language (GROQ), a rich-text spec (Portable Text), and a fully customizable React editor (Sanity Studio). Founded in Norway in 2016, it now positions itself as the 'Content Operating System for the AI era,' powering web, mobile, and agentic applications for teams like Nike, Puma, Figma, Cloudflare and National Geographic.
LucidLink
LucidLink is a San Francisco-based company that makes cloud storage feel like a local hard drive. Its Filespaces platform streams file data on demand from cloud object storage, letting creative teams and enterprises around the world collaborate on huge files - video, design, datasets - without syncing or downloading. Customers include Paramount, Spotify, Adobe, A&E Networks, BuzzFeed and Shopify.