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Dokkaebier
Dokkaebier is an Oakland-based craft brewery brewing Asian-inspired beers that fold ingredients like kimchi culture, yuzu, lemongrass, Szechuan peppercorns, galangal and bamboo leaves into familiar styles. Founded in 2020 by beverage-industry veteran Youngwon Lee and named after the mischievous, drink-loving spirits of Korean folklore, the company set out to build a more representative craft beer scene while making flavors that stand out. Its lineup - led by the experimental Kimchi Sour and the approachable Yuza Blonde - is sold direct-to-consumer online and has been distributed across California and beyond.
Napkin AI
Napkin AI turns plain text into editable visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, mind maps - in about five seconds. Built by two ex-Google engineers who previously co-founded the children's learning platform Osmo, Napkin uses an orchestrator LLM and a 'design agency' of specialized sub-agents to do the work most knowledge workers used to outsource to a designer or a PowerPoint smart-art menu.
Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific is a San Francisco AI company building autonomous 'AI scientists' that can run hundreds of research tasks in parallel. Spun out of the nonprofit FutureHouse in 2025, its flagship product Kosmos compresses what researchers call six months of work into a single day, reading 1,500 papers and writing 42,000 lines of analysis code per run. The company raised $70M in seed funding at a $250M valuation in December 2025.