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The Company That Turned Corporate Security Into a Single Screen
Corporate security teams drown in tabs, feeds and spreadsheets. Ontic bet that connecting all of it in one place - now with AI - is worth $287 million to investors and the attention of the Fortune 50.
Clarum
Clarum is a San Francisco AI startup (YC W24) building the intelligence layer for private capital. It began as an AI associate that compresses private-equity due diligence from weeks into minutes, letting firms upload data rooms and questionnaires and get transparent, sourced answers to hundreds of questions. It has since broadened toward structuring a firm's proprietary documents - deal memos, diligence notes, returns data - into a unified model that AI agents can query, so investors can finally ask cross-portfolio questions that were previously buried in files.
Greenboard
Greenboard is a New York-based regtech company building an AI-native compliance platform for SEC- and FINRA-regulated financial firms. Founded in 2023 by Dave Feldman and Ed Schembor, the company consolidates communications archiving, employee and firm compliance, marketing review, vendor diligence and books-and-records into a single system, with an 'expert-in-the-loop' AI layer called GreenboardGo. Backed by Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and General Catalyst, Greenboard has raised $20M total and serves more than 500 financial institutions.
Intelligencia AI
Intelligencia AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence company that helps pharmaceutical and biotech organizations predict the probability of technical and regulatory success (PTRS) for drug candidates. Its patented SaaS platform harmonizes more than 1.5 billion clinical and biological data points to score how likely a drug is to advance through clinical phases and win regulatory approval, with reported prospective accuracy above 80%. The company gives R&D, business development, and portfolio teams transparent, explainable AI to de-risk investment decisions in drug development.
Orbital
Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) is a London- and New York-based legal AI company building software that automates the paperwork-heavy work of real estate law. Its flagship product, Orbital Copilot, is a domain-specific AI agent that reads title reports, leases, surveys and contracts the way a real estate lawyer would - extracting key terms, flagging risk and drafting reports in a fraction of the usual time. Founded in 2018 by Will Pearce and Edmond Boulle, Orbital supports around 200,000 property transactions a year for more than 5,000 professionals at firms including Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Mishcon de Reya and BCLP, and raised a $60M Series B in January 2026 to expand in the United States.
POM Safe
POM Safe is a Newark, New Jersey safety-technology company that builds a unified personal-safety platform for home health, hospice, and community-based care. It pairs a wearable, two-way communication device and mobile app with 24/7 dispatch, real-time GPS location, intake risk scoring, 'Check On Me' timers, and a compliance dashboard - giving caregivers who work alone in the field a discreet way to summon help and giving agencies the tools to prevent and document workplace violence. Founded after a campus-violence tragedy, POM Safe raised $3M in Series A funding in 2020 and works with major universities and healthcare providers.
Slice Labs
Slice Labs is a New York-based insurtech that builds cloud-based, digital-first insurance products. Founded in 2015 by Tim Attia, Stuart Baserman and Ernest Hursh, Slice pioneered the first on-demand, pay-as-you-go insurance in the US and later opened its Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform so insurers, carriers and technology companies could launch their own digital products. Its Slice Mind engine applies machine learning and, more recently, large language models to underwriting, risk scoring and claims. Today Slice operates as a tech-driven provider of Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance for small-to-midsize commercial businesses across 40+ US states.
CivilGrid
CivilGrid is a San Francisco construction-intelligence company that centralizes utility, environmental, geotechnical and land-rights data into a single collaborative platform - often called 'Google Maps for pre-construction.' Founded in 2021 by Wharton classmates Josh Mackanic and Brandon Cohen, it partners with utilities and agencies to pull current GIS datasets so engineers and construction teams can scope, plan and de-risk projects before anyone breaks ground, cutting pre-construction research time by up to 90%.
Claira
Claira is a New York-based startup building an agentic AI platform for private markets. It embeds domain-native AI directly into deal workflows for private credit funds and financial institutions, automating document extraction, due diligence, deal capture, and analysis so investment teams can surface insights and put their own proprietary research to work. In June 2025 it raised a $7M seed round co-led by Barclays, Citi, and Reimagine Tech Ventures.
Geolava
Geolava is a San Francisco startup building a world model for the built world - a spatial intelligence layer that fuses satellite, LiDAR, aerial, street-level and government data into a foundation model you can query in plain language. It lets real estate owners, investors, lenders, insurers and operators analyze, underwrite, monitor and forecast physical assets, turning slow, manual property surveying into predictive property intelligence.
Opsin
Opsin is a San Jose-based enterprise AI security company that helps organizations adopt generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, and Google Gemini without leaking sensitive data. Its platform continuously maps AI agents across the enterprise, assesses what data those agents can surface, detects oversharing and policy violations in real time, and remediates misconfigurations - giving security, GRC, and legal teams visibility and control within about 24 hours of a one-click API integration.
ResiQuant
ResiQuant is a San Francisco insurtech that fuses structural-engineering expertise with AI to help property insurance carriers and MGAs underwrite catastrophe-exposed buildings with engineering-grade confidence and no backlog. Founded in 2023 by two Stanford-trained structural engineers, its platform deploys modular AI agents that read inspection photos, aerial imagery and public visuals to spot building-level vulnerabilities that traditional data misses - across earthquake, wildfire, windstorm and flood risk covering 99% of the US.
Alex Schmelkin
Alex Schmelkin is the founder and CEO of Sixfold, a New York company building generative AI for insurance underwriting. After two decades founding and running digital design and software firms - Alexander Interactive, Cake & Arrow, and a founding role at no-code pioneer Unqork - he launched Sixfold in 2023 to give underwriters a virtual team of AI researchers that reads submissions, scores risk, and shows its sources. Sixfold has processed more than a million submissions across 40-plus lines of business, raised a $30M Series B in 2026, and counts Zurich North America, Guardian, and Generali among its clients.
ScoreData Corporation
ScoreData Corporation is a Palo Alto-based AI/ML company that helps consumer-facing businesses turn legacy and external data into real-time predictive decisions. Its ScoreFast platform builds and continuously updates machine learning models with minimal manual work, powering omni-channel customer engagement, caller-to-agent mapping, fraud detection, churn management and cross-sell for financial services, insurance and healthcare contact centers.
Sixfold
Sixfold is a New York-based enterprise AI company building purpose-built artificial intelligence for insurance underwriters. Its platform learns a carrier's risk appetite, reads and summarizes complex submissions, surfaces cited risk signals, and deploys AI agents that research, write referrals, and advance cases - so underwriters spend their time on judgment instead of paperwork. The company serves global carriers, MGAs, and reinsurers across property & casualty and life & health, and has processed more than a million submissions for insurers representing hundreds of billions in gross written premium.
Incognia
Incognia is a location identity and fraud prevention company that uses device intelligence, location behavioral analytics, and AI to help platform businesses — from food delivery to financial services — detect fraud without compromising the user experience. By processing signals from GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth without capturing PII, Incognia identifies legitimate users from fraudsters across multiple devices with 99.999999% accuracy, a 0.0001% false-positive rate, and no friction for genuine users. Deployed on over 200 million smartphones and protecting nearly 1 billion devices, Incognia has become the go-to fraud layer for platforms like Grubhub, Delivery Hero, and Upwork.
Akash Agarwal
Akash Agarwal is the Founder and CEO of Pibit.AI, a Y Combinator-backed insurtech company revolutionizing commercial insurance underwriting through AI. Building on a childhood watching his father toil as an insurance agent buried in paperwork, Akash set out to automate the most labor-intensive parts of underwriting. Pibit.AI's CURE platform - Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment - processes loss runs, submission documents, and risk data at machine speed, helping insurers cut underwriting cycle times by up to 85% and improve loss ratios by up to 700 basis points. After raising a $7M Series A led by Stellaris Venture Partners in November 2025, with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures, the company is scaling its AI models and data partnerships to reshape how the $1T+ P&C insurance industry makes risk decisions.
Rick Song
Rick Song is the Co-Founder and CEO of Persona, the identity verification platform trusted by OpenAI, Instacart, LinkedIn, and 3,000+ others. A self-described reluctant founder, he left Square in 2018 after five years working on fraud and identity products, convinced there was a better way to build identity infrastructure. By 2025, Persona had completed 300+ million verifications, crossed $100M ARR, raised a $200M Series D at a $2B valuation, and was named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Identity Verification for the second consecutive year.