Strike is a cybersecurity company that runs always-on, continuous penetration testing by combining AI-driven offensive emulations with validation from an elite network of human ethical hackers it calls Strikers. Its platform and proprietary engine, Strike360, continuously test web apps, APIs, mobile apps, cloud infrastructure and internal networks, then guide teams through remediation and compliance. Founded in 2021 by Santiago Rosenblatt - a hacker since age six - Strike protects 120+ enterprises across 20+ countries, including Santander, Mercado Libre and Okta.
SuperDial is a San Francisco voice AI company that builds agents to handle the endless administrative phone calls between healthcare providers, billing companies and insurers - navigating phone trees, waiting on hold, and conducting live conversations with payer reps. Its agents automate benefits verification, prior authorizations, claim status follow-up, credentialing and provider data attestation, logging structured results directly into a customer's EHR or RCM platform. Founded by Stanford classmates Sam Schwager and Harrison Caruthers (originally as the billing startup SuperBill), the company launched in late 2023, scaled to seven-figure revenue and tens of thousands of calls per week, and raised a $15M Series A in June 2025 led by SignalFire.
Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the agentic trust management platform that has become the default infrastructure for security compliance among modern tech companies. After stints at Union Square Ventures and Dropbox Paper, she built Vanta from a spreadsheet prototype into a $4.15 billion company serving 12,000+ organizations across 58 countries, raising $504 million in total funding. She is one of America's self-made female billionaires, known for applying rigorous first-principles thinking to the usually-dull world of corporate security.
Raghuveer Kancherla is the Co-Founder of Sprinto, a fast-growing compliance automation platform that helps SaaS companies earn security certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA faster and with far less manual effort. A mechanical engineer by training from IIT Madras turned software entrepreneur, Raghuveer previously co-founded and served as CTO of RecruiterBox - a bootstrapped applicant tracking system that grew to 2,500+ customers before being acquired. At Sprinto, he and co-founder Girish Redekar have built a platform trusted by 3,000+ companies across 75 countries, raised $31.5M in funding including a $20M Series B led by Accel in 2024, and grown the team from 6 to 300+ employees. An emerging thought leader on AI governance, Raghuveer is known for his conviction that 'a growing market trumps having a better product' and his systems-first approach to both engineering and team management.
Scrut Automation is a security-first GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) platform that helps cloud-native companies automate evidence collection, manage risk, and stay continuously audit-ready across 60+ frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Sirona Medical is a San Francisco cloud-native radiology software company building Unify, a single platform that fuses PACS, viewer, worklist, reporting and AI into one browser-based workflow for radiologists.
Wand AI builds an operating system for the agentic workforce - a platform that lets enterprises create, orchestrate, and govern AI agents that work alongside human teams. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the company calls its category 'Agentic Labor Infrastructure' and is deployed by clients including Franklin Templeton, Presight (G42), and Nityo Infotech.
Zluri is a next-gen SaaS Management and Identity Governance platform that helps IT and security teams discover every app and identity inside an enterprise, automate joiner-mover-leaver workflows, and run access reviews without spreadsheets. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco with engineering in Bengaluru, it serves 250+ enterprise customers including Monday.com, Tipalti, Whoop, Razorpay, and Traveloka.
Cursor is an AI-first code editor built by Anysphere, a San Francisco startup founded in 2022 by four MIT graduates. Originally a fork of Visual Studio Code, Cursor has evolved into a full agent-based development platform where autonomous AI handles everything from autocomplete to end-to-end feature building. With $2B+ in annualised revenue, over half the Fortune 500 as customers, and a valuation that reached $29.3B after its Series D in November 2025, Cursor has become the fastest-growing SaaS company ever from $1M to $500M ARR - turning the IDE from a code-writing tool into an AI orchestration layer.
Spruce Health is an all-in-one, HIPAA-compliant communication platform built for healthcare practices. It rolls calls, voicemails, texts, secure messages, fax, video visits and team chat into a single inbox so clinicians can talk to patients - and to each other - without juggling six different apps.
Tandems is an AI-native wealth operating system for banks, RIAs, and insurance firms - the rebrand of robo-advisor pioneer SigFig. Its TandemsMeet, TandemsGrow, and TandemsInvest products automate the meeting prep, client outreach, onboarding, and portfolio work that consume roughly 90% of a financial advisor's day, with SOC 2 Type II controls and bank-level encryption baked in.
Mat Malone is the Chief Executive Officer of DataCare, a San Jose-based healthcare software company specializing in workers' compensation and medical management platforms. With over two decades at the company - rising from early engineering roles to Director of Engineering, Vice President of Engineering, and ultimately CEO - Malone has guided DataCare through large-scale platform modernization and the integration of advanced automation and AI capabilities into its flagship Ahshay! software suite. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and brings deep technical fluency to a leadership role that sits at the intersection of complex regulatory compliance, clinical workflow optimization, and enterprise software development.
Wispr Flow is a San Francisco-based AI voice dictation platform that converts natural speech into polished, formatted text across any application at roughly 220 words per minute - about 4x faster than typing. Built by two Stanford AI researchers, the company has quietly become the voice layer that 270 Fortune 500 companies rely on, combining a 10% word error rate (vs. 27% for OpenAI Whisper), 100+ language support, and context-aware formatting that automatically adjusts tone and style based on the active app. With $81M raised and a $700M valuation as of late 2025, Wispr Flow is racing to become the default voice-first operating system for a billion users.
Xola is a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that provides enterprise-grade booking, marketing, and operations software for tour operators and activity providers. Founded in 2011, Xola helps over 1,200 businesses in the tours and activities industry manage reservations, process payments, automate marketing, and grow their operations — all from a single cloud-based platform. With integrations across Google, Groupon, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and 75+ other apps, Xola brings enterprise-caliber tools to an industry that has historically been underserved by technology.
Peter Doyle is Co-Founder and CEO of Treeline, a San Francisco-based startup reimagining corporate IT operations through AI and software automation. A decade-long venture capitalist at Accel who backed companies like PagerDuty, Heptio, and ServiceChannel, Doyle made the leap to operator in 2024. Treeline - backed by $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz - is building what Doyle calls a 'modern IT operating system': an AI-first alternative to the legacy managed service provider model that still powers most of the world's corporate IT infrastructure.
Justin Liu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Charta Health, a San Francisco-based AI healthcare operations company that automates medical chart review and billing/coding workflows. Having previously led growth at Rockset (acquired by OpenAI in 2024), Liu pivoted to healthcare, earning a Certified Professional Coder credential alongside his co-founder before raising over $30M to back their mission of making healthcare more affordable through AI. Charta Health's platform enables hospitals and health systems to review 100% of charts pre-billing, delivering an average 11% revenue uplift per chart.
ZeroEntropy is the AI infrastructure company fixing the broken retrieval layer of modern AI applications. Founded in 2024 by Ghita Houir Alami (CEO) and Nicholas Pipitone (CTO), the San Francisco–based startup builds rerankers, embedding models, and end-to-end search infrastructure that outperforms Google, OpenAI, Cohere, and Voyage on public benchmarks. Backed by Y Combinator (W25) and a $4.2M seed round led by Initialized Capital, ZeroEntropy's products — zerank-2, zembed-1, zsearch, and ze-onprem — are used by enterprises including Assembled (serving Stripe, Canva, Robinhood, and Notion). The company's proprietary zELO training methodology, derived from chess Elo ratings and the Thurstone statistical model, produces models with calibrated relevance judgments that binary labels cannot replicate.