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Benchmark IT Solutions and the trouble with a green light
A test can pass while the application is down. Benchmark IT Solutions builds software, AI and the checks that help businesses tell the difference between a reassuring dashboard and a working system.
Exavalu fixes the work between the systems
An insurer can buy modern software and still spend its day moving information by hand. Exavalu has built a business around that awkward gap.
NewVision Software knows what to test
One client needed more tests. Another had 300,000 and needed less work. NewVision Software has built a business around knowing the difference.
Lorikeet wants your missing card to be its problem
The Australian AI company is selling support that can finish the job. Its revealing test is what happens when a customer needs more than a beautifully worded answer.
Lightico keeps the customer on the line
A signature is easy. Finishing the loan, claim or handset purchase around it is harder. Lightico sells regulated businesses a way to close the gaps between those steps.
CafeX wants your old systems to learn new tricks
From in-app customer support to private AI, CafeX keeps returning to one awkward enterprise problem: the systems you depend on rarely work together as well as the people who use them.
Notch learned to automate by learning where to stop
An insurer became an AI company after discovering that fluent answers were not enough. Now Notch sells something more demanding: completed work, with rules attached.
Jama Software and the expensive art of agreeing what to build
A brilliant product can still drown in contradictory requirements. Jama Software sells engineering teams a way to keep the promise, the change and the proof connected.
Prime Technology Group built a business in the software nobody could switch off
Underwriting, patient data, pharmacy benefits: Prime made its living inside the machinery of regulated businesses. Its journey through Excellarate, Encora and Coforge shows how much that unglamorous expertise can matter.
Unqork wants your software to stop ageing badly
A former insurance CIO built Unqork to escape the upkeep of custom software. Now its AI platform is betting that enterprises need fewer maintenance chores as much as they need faster applications.
Progress ShareFile and the $875 Million Paper Chase
The file was never the whole problem. Progress ShareFile built a business around everything that happens before a document arrives, and after somebody clicks send.
Polarion and the Case of the Missing Requirement
A product can pass its tests and still fail to keep its promises. Polarion built a business around the awkward space between what engineers were asked to make and what they can prove they delivered.
The Farmers Did Not Need Another Ad
HLK built a nearly 50-year agency by noticing the first thing a category gets wrong. Its best work begins when the obvious brief stops making sense.
The Small Agency That Put the Ruler Next to the Idea
Backe made a useful bet before it became agency boilerplate: the beautiful idea and the measurable result belong in the same room. Its old case files show what happened when a small Radnor shop treated positioning as a practical instrument.
The Agency That Taught America How to Say Cannabis
Rosie Mattio built a communications firm around the stories other agencies were wary of touching. The result is a useful lesson in how an industry earns a vocabulary, an audience and, eventually, a place in the mainstream.
SGA Put 13 Months Between a Whisper and 3,000 Headlines
SGA's best-known campaign began long before the news broke. The Chicago boutique shows why, in regulated markets, patient preparation can beat a much louder rival.
The PR Firm That Learned to Sell Cannabis Without Buying the Ad
Cannabis companies cannot reliably buy the same attention as ordinary consumer brands. Kip Morrison & Associates built a second act by turning that handicap into a newsroom problem - then pitching its way around it.
Ideagen built a billion-pound business on “prove it”
A missing signature. An outdated procedure. Sixty people reviewing the same document. Ideagen sells order to organizations that cannot afford to lose the paper trail.
RWS Has Spent 68 Years Teaching Machines That Words Are the Easy Part
The patent translator from Maidenhead now wants to become the cultural control layer for enterprise AI. A £690 million business, one trillion machine-translated words and a painful 2025 reset show both the promise and the price of that ambition.
Avatara Wants to Put Your Entire IT Department on One Monthly Bill
Most cloud vendors rent you parts. Avatara wants to run the whole machine - desktops, security, support and compliance - for one per-user fee. A defense contractor's perfect CMMC score shows why that unusual bet is getting timely.
Liminal Sold the Conference. Now It Wants to Be the Memory of the Identity Market.
A consultancy born around digital identity sold its signature event, turned years of buyer evidence into software, and raised $8.5 million to make market intelligence behave less like a report and more like infrastructure.
The Marketing Agency That Knows Your Mailbox Is Still a Media Channel
Amsive connects consumer data, search, media, creative, and industrial-scale mail into one performance system. The proposition is practical: find the next best customer, reach them in more than one place, and prove what happened afterward.
Userlane
The intelligence to see the impact of your software and AI. The assistance to help your people get work done.
Messagepoint
The future of AI-powered CCM. Transform how customer communications work gets done with the Messagepoint Communications cloud.
Elixir Technologies
With industry-defining innovation, a cloud-native product suite, privacy-first tools built for every user, and world-class services and support, Elixir is your trusted partner for responsive customer communications management.
Doxim
For 25 years the Ontario-born, Michigan-based software company has done the unglamorous work behind your bank statement - turning paper-bound financial communications into omnichannel conversations for thousands of regulated institutions.
boost.ai
It's not about what AI can do. It's about what you can rely on AI to do.
Corelayer
Corelayer is an AI-native production support platform - an 'AI on-call engineer' - built for regulated, data-heavy industries like finance, healthcare, and insurance. It continuously watches alerts, logs, infrastructure, and the underlying data itself, then uses multi-agent AI to trace anomalies to root cause and suggest fixes. Founded in 2025 by former Goldman Sachs data-infrastructure engineers Mitch Radhuber and Shipra Jha, the company is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Mimos
Mimos is a Y Combinator (S25) startup building an Answer Engine Optimization platform that helps regulated companies in health, finance, and legal get cited by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Founded by ex-Microsoft and ex-Amazon engineers Rohit Sirosh and Michael Korovkin, Mimos turns a firm's compliance expertise into an advantage, streamlining the path from insight to compliant, citation-ready content. The company started as a growth and intake system for plaintiff-side law firms before focusing on AI visibility for regulated industries.
Rulebase
Rulebase is a Y Combinator (F24) fintech building AI 'coworkers' that automate back-office operations for banks and fintechs. Its software reviews 100% of customer interactions across phone, email, and chat in real time to catch compliance breaches, policy violations, and fraud - including account takeovers and voice-clone scams - then routes disputes, QA reports, and follow-ups into tools teams already use like Zendesk, Jira, and Slack. Founded in 2024 by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, the company raised a $2.1M pre-seed led by Bowery Capital.