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Remesh Put 1,000 People in One Focus Group - Then Taught the Crowd to Sort Itself
The Cleveland-born research company found a sharp way out of the survey-versus-focus-group tradeoff: let hundreds of people speak freely, then let participants help reveal which ideas matter. Its newer AI assistant, Remy, is trying to carry that logic from the first question to the final decision.
AnswerThis
AnswerThis is an AI research assistant that turns literature reviews from months of work into minutes. It searches a database of more than 250 million academic papers and answers complex scientific questions with line-by-line, verifiable citations. Founded by University of Richmond seniors Ayush Garg and Ryan McCarroll and backed by Y Combinator (Fall 2025), the platform is used by over 250,000 researchers and crossed $1M in annual recurring revenue within eight months.
Rally UXR
Rally UXR is a New York-based user research CRM that helps enterprise product and research teams talk to their users at scale. It replaces spreadsheets and disconnected tools by unifying participant management, recruitment, scheduling, incentives and governance in a single platform, letting teams run more research safely and in compliance. Founded in 2021 by Oren Friedman and Alec Robins, Rally is a Y Combinator (W22) company that raised an $11M Series A in June 2025 and has supported research with more than 10 million users across customers like Sonos, Adobe, GitLab, MongoDB and Webflow.
Alexandra Frankel
Alexandra Frankel is the CEO of Getwizer, a New York-based hybrid consumer insights platform that fuses AI automation with human research expertise to run fast, custom, modular studies for brands like Mars, Coca-Cola, Paramount and Puma. A McGill-trained psychologist with a master's in quantitative methods from Columbia, she rose through roles at Nielsen, Ipsos, NBCUniversal, Simulmedia and Hotspex before spending five years at Getwizer as head of insights and strategy, then taking the top job in February 2025. She has two prior research-startup exits (to Nielsen and Ipsos), two industry innovation awards, a notable streak of NFT consumer studies, and a nonprofit children's book venture, Rainbow Zebra Co., built around teaching kids kindness.
Strella
Strella is an AI-powered customer research platform that lets product, UX, and marketing teams run in-depth, AI-moderated interviews at scale and get synthesized insights in hours instead of weeks. Its adaptive AI moderator conducts dynamic, probing conversations, handles recruitment and scheduling, and turns raw interviews into highlight reels and reports - combining the speed of surveys with the depth of qualitative interviews. Founded in 2024 by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, the New York company raised a $14M Series A in October 2025 led by Bessemer Venture Partners and counts Amazon, Duolingo, Chobani, and Apollo GraphQL among its customers.
Suzy
Suzy is a New York-based AI consumer intelligence platform that lets enterprises run quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and conversational research against high-quality consumer audiences in a single connected system. Founded by serial entrepreneur Matt Britton in 2018, Suzy reframes traditional market research as a real-time 'Decision Engine' that turns fragmented marketing intelligence into action for brands like Microsoft, Google, PepsiCo, Netflix, and Coca-Cola.