Canoa is a browser-based design platform that gives interior designers and architects one connected workflow to collect inspiration, build data-rich mood boards, lay out furniture to scale, pull real product data, and generate FF&E schedules. Founded in 2019 by Federico Negro out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Canoa replaces the scattered stack of Revit, AutoCAD, Excel, and PowerPoint with a single AI-assisted canvas, while pushing the furniture industry toward circular, low-carbon practices.
DARVIS is a health-tech company that uses AI-powered computer vision to give hospitals real-time visibility into their supply rooms. Its flagship product, Digital Shelves, uses smart PTZ cameras to continuously monitor inventory fill-levels and scan barcodes automatically, replacing manual counting with live consumption data, predictive demand planning, and automated reordering. Born in the gaming industry in 2015, the company pivoted to healthcare supply chain and now serves systems such as MD Anderson Cancer Center while operating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a hub in Hamburg, Germany, and a presence in Houston, Texas.
FourKites is a Chicago-based enterprise software company that tracks roughly 3.2 million shipments a day across road, rail, ocean, air and last mile. Founded in 2014 by Matt Elenjickal, it pioneered applying SaaS to GPS and ELD telematics to give the world's largest shippers real-time visibility into where their freight actually is. Today the company is reinventing itself around AI: an Intelligent Control Tower and a 'Digital Workforce' of named AI agents that don't just show what is happening in a supply chain but decide and act on it.
Functional Finance is a San Francisco-based insurtech building the financial operations (FinOps) platform for the insurance industry. Its API-driven software automates billing, invoicing, premium collection, premium finance, payables, commissions, treasury and reconciliation for managing general agents (MGAs), wholesalers and carriers - replacing spreadsheets and manual data entry with near real-time, policy-aware money movement. Founded in 2021 by CoverWallet alumni, the company raised a $20M Series A in 2024 on the back of a 2,500% year-over-year jump in premium payment volume.
Gather is a virtual workspace where remote teams can see each other, walk up for spontaneous conversations, and collaborate without scheduling a meeting for everything. Often described as 'Minecraft meets Zoom,' it pairs a customizable 2-D world with spatial audio and video, plus AI meeting notes and async chat. Founded in 2020 and backed by Sequoia and Index, Gather has been used by millions of people for work, conferences, weddings and gatherings.
Karat is a Seattle-based company that runs technical interviews on behalf of employers through its 'Interviewing Cloud' - a global network of trained Interview Engineers who conduct 24/7 live, structured technical interviews backed by enterprise infrastructure and hiring analytics. Used by enterprises like Roblox, American Express, Intuit, Pinterest and Wayfair, Karat lets engineering teams scale hiring capacity, reclaim engineer time, and make fairer, more consistent hiring decisions.
MakerSights is a San Francisco software company that gives consumer brands a Voice-of-Consumer platform for testing product ideas before they are made. Founded in 2015, it lets apparel, footwear and accessories teams put concepts, line plans and assortments in front of thousands of real target shoppers in hours, helping them make fewer wrong bets and cut down on overproduction. Its newer MakerLabs offering uses AI-trained digital twins to deliver synthetic consumer readouts in under an hour. Brands including New Balance, Madewell, Champion, Ralph Lauren and Hoka use it to align what gets made with what people actually buy.
MarginEdge is a restaurant management software company that turns the back office paperwork of running a restaurant - invoices, food costs, inventory, vendor payments - into real-time, actionable data. Founded in 2015 by restaurant veterans and technologists, the platform digitizes invoices, tracks theoretical vs. actual food costs, delivers daily profit-and-loss reports, and lets operators pay vendor bills with no added fees. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it now serves more than 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada.
Mayan is a growth automation platform for Amazon sellers, built by MIT data scientists and paired with human Customer Success Managers who are proven Amazon PPC experts. It blends machine-learning software with expert account management to automate advertising, bidding, pricing, listings and inventory so brands can grow revenue and profit on Amazon without drowning in the data.
Metrika is a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that built the first operational intelligence and risk management platform for blockchains and digital assets. It collects, analyzes, and visualizes the health of decentralized networks in real time - tracking hundreds of risk indicators across protocols, smart contracts, and market conditions - so that protocol teams, financial institutions, and regulators can monitor performance, detect issues early, and meet compliance obligations.
Nerdio builds software that automates and simplifies the deployment, management, and cost optimization of Microsoft cloud technologies - Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft 365, and Intune. Born as an internal tool at a Chicago managed service provider, Nerdio spun out in 2020 and now serves over 23,000 customers worldwide through two flagship products: Nerdio Manager for Enterprise and Nerdio Manager for MSP. In March 2025 it raised $500 million from General Atlantic at a $1 billion+ valuation.
Nevis is a New York-based startup building the first unified AI platform for wealth management. Founded in 2024 by three former Revolut leaders, it automates the back-office work that eats up to 80% of a financial advisor's day - meeting prep, client follow-ups, account opening and ongoing service - so advisors can spend their time with clients instead of paperwork. The company emerged from stealth in December 2025 with $40M in total funding from Sequoia, ICONIQ and Ribbit Capital, and already supports RIAs managing more than $50 billion in assets.
PatientIQ is a Chicago-based healthcare technology company that builds a cloud platform for systematically collecting, measuring, and analyzing patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Founded in 2016 by Matthew Gitelis, the company connects hospitals, health systems, private practices, and medical device makers on a single EHR-integrated system that turns outcomes data into actionable clinical and operational intelligence. PatientIQ has grown to serve more than 200 healthcare organizations and has collected outcomes data from over 1.4 million patients.
Preferabli is an AI-driven B2B2C product discovery and recommendation software platform for wine, beer, spirits and other sensory consumer products. Formerly Wine Ring, the company pairs proprietary, patented machine-learning models with the world's largest assembled group of Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers to predict what an individual will actually like - then plugs that prediction into retailers, hotels and merchants across roughly 100 countries.
Ramp is a finance operations platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, procurement, travel, treasury and accounting automation into one system. Built to save businesses time and money, it uses AI to cut manual finance work, enforce spend controls, and surface savings. Founded in 2019 by Harvard friends Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh and Gene Lee, Ramp serves 70,000+ organizations and reached a $44B valuation in June 2026.
Shipwell is an Austin-based software company building an AI-integrated transportation management system (TMS) that unifies shipment planning, real-time visibility, automation, and settlement in one cloud platform. Founded in 2016 by Greg Price and Jason Traff, it helps shippers and logistics teams across food & beverage, manufacturing, and distribution move freight with less manual work. After selling its brokerage arm to CloudTrucks in 2024, Shipwell now operates as a pure-play SaaS provider and has been named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for TMS for five consecutive years.
SimplyInsured is an online health insurance marketplace and benefits administration platform built for small businesses. It lets owners shop, compare, and enroll in medical, dental, and vision plans from 200+ carriers in minutes, then automates employee deductions and payroll syncing - all at no cost beyond the regular premiums. The company powers embedded health benefits inside Square, Gusto, Check, and Patriot payroll.
Tizra is a Providence, Rhode Island software company that builds a cloud content delivery platform for associations, publishers, and professional organizations. Its modular system lets clients upload, protect, search, sell, and showcase digital content - ebooks, PDFs, periodicals, audio, and video - through a secure digital library, an eStore for direct sales, and an API-driven 'Connected Hub' that ties content into AMS, CRM, LMS, and AI tools. Founded in 2006 by document-engineering scientist David Durand and former Popular Mechanics editor Abe Dane, Tizra helps content-driven organizations turn their archives into discoverable, revenue-generating, member-serving experiences.
Paul Meinshausen is the CEO and co-founder of Aampe, a San Francisco company that deploys agentic AI infrastructure so consumer apps can learn from each user's behavior and adapt their messaging in real time. An anthropologist turned data scientist who started his career in US Army Intelligence, he co-founded the Indian fintech PaySense (acquired by PayU for $185M) before building Aampe with collaborators he first met in a military analysis unit. He argues that businesses win not by understanding the past but by making better decisions about the future, and that personalization should be about responsiveness rather than prediction.
Paul Powers is the co-founder and CEO of Physna, the Ohio startup teaching computers to understand the physical world by turning 3D geometry into searchable 'Physical DNA.' A homeschooled kid who entered Harvard at 16 and later passed the German bar exam in a foreign language, he turned an intellectual-property obsession into a geometric-search company backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global, and Drive Capital. Physna also runs Thangs, a community platform of tens of millions of 3D models that he describes as the GitHub for hardware. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Powers is one of the most prominent founders building deep-tech outside Silicon Valley.
Pedro Sanchez de Lozada is the founder and CEO of Canid, a New York healthtech company that takes the operational, financial, and data drudgery of running a vaccine program off pediatricians' plates. A Chilean who has spent more than 15 years building software for small businesses (Udemy, Rinse, Merlin), he started Canid in 2020 after managing his pediatrician relatives' practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2025 Canid raised a $10M Series A led by Telescope Partners, bringing total funding to $12.9M, while serving 150+ independent pediatricians across 12 states.
Pete Foley is a serial enterprise-software entrepreneur and the co-founder of ModelOp, the Chicago-based company that built one of the first platforms for governing AI models the way banks govern money. Over a 35-year career he has run and exited a string of infrastructure companies - Infoblox, PortAuthority (to Websense), RingCube (to Citrix), Graphite Systems (to EMC) - before betting that the hardest problem in artificial intelligence would not be building models but trusting them. He served as ModelOp's CEO from its founding and now supports the company from its board of directors.
Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, a Y Combinator-backed startup that lets anyone spin up a modern data stack in under an hour without hiring a data engineer. An economics PhD who once crunched numbers for the Philadelphia Eagles and ran a bacon hot sauce company, Fishman spent fifteen years building the same data pipelines over and over at Yammer, Zenefits, Opendoor, and Eaze before deciding to package that work into a product everyone could use.
Randy Wang is the CEO of Wingz, a healthcare transportation marketplace that pivoted from airport rides into non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for vulnerable populations. A UC Berkeley economist who started in investment banking at Jefferies (as its first Shanghai employee) and co-founded the Shanghai mobile-games studio Camigo Media, he now runs a network of credentialed, vetted drivers who get patients to the care they need - and lets those drivers earn with flexibility and purpose.
Rishabh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of FERMÀT, a San Francisco AI-native commerce platform that builds personalized, content-native shopping experiences for direct-to-consumer and enterprise brands. A LiveRamp alum who saw Apple's privacy changes coming before most, he launched FERMÀT in late 2021 to rewire how brands sell when shoppers can no longer be tracked across the web. The company has raised roughly $86M across rounds, capped by a $45M Series B in June 2025, and counts Glossier, GNC, ILIA Beauty, BISSELL and Unilever's Olly among its customers.
Anagram Security (legal name Enigma Analytics, Inc.) is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building a human-driven security platform that replaces the dreaded once-a-year compliance video with bite-sized, gamified microlearning and adaptive phishing simulations. Founded by Harley Sugarman and formerly known as Cipher, the company takes design cues from TikTok, Duolingo, and Khan Academy to make employees the strongest link in security rather than the weakest. It raised a $10M Series A led by Madrona in February 2025, serves Fortune 500 customers including Disney, Pfizer, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual, and supports over 500,000 users worldwide.
Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built for the office of the CFO. Founded in 2020 by former finance operators Julio Martinez and Jorge Lluch, it pulls financial and operational data into one place so finance teams can forecast revenue, model scenarios, plan headcount, automate reports, and trade spreadsheet drudgery for strategic decision-making. Backed by Scale Venture Partners, Atomico, Y Combinator and others, Abacum has raised over $90M and serves hundreds of mid-market companies across 31 countries, including Strava, Aiven, JG Wentworth and Mastercam.
Air is a New York-based creative operations platform - a system of record purpose-built for creative work. It helps marketing and creative teams collect, organize, search, review, approve, and share visual content, layering AI-powered tagging, conversational search, and creative intelligence on top of traditional digital asset management. Founded in 2017 by Shane Hegde and Tyler Strand, Air serves tens of thousands of creatives across thousands of businesses and has raised more than $70M in venture funding.
Aqfer is a white-label marketing data platform - 'The Marketing Data Engine' - that gives adtech and martech companies the heavy data infrastructure they need without building it themselves. Founded in 2018 by ad tech veterans Dan Jaye and Raymie Stata, Aqfer handles data collection, enterprise identity resolution, audience enablement, and AI data enablement at massive scale, processing trillions of rows of marketing data inside a client's own cloud. The pitch is blunt: cut back-end data costs by 40-50% and ship new data products in weeks instead of years.
Argyle is a consumer-permissioned verification platform that pulls real-time income, employment, and asset data straight from the source - payroll systems and bank accounts - through an API and no-code console. Instead of faxed pay stubs and HR phone calls, lenders, background screeners, and tenant screeners get instant, direct-source verifications covering roughly 90% of the U.S. workforce. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company has raised over $100M from Bain Capital Ventures, Rockefeller Asset Management, Mastercard, Checkr, and SignalFire.