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Nixo
Nixo is an operations platform built for forward deployed engineers (FDEs) - the people who embed with customers to make software actually work in production. It pulls context from Slack, GitHub, Linear, and CRMs and reorganizes it around real FDE work, so teams can scope customer problems faster, reuse past code and fixes, and see workload across every account. Founded in 2025 by Stanford classmates Priya Khandelwal and Priti Rangnekar, Nixo went through Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
TensorPool
TensorPool (YC W25) is a San Francisco startup that turns cloud GPUs into a git-style command line. Instead of wrestling with SSH sessions, provider dashboards, and idle-instance billing, machine learning engineers describe a training job in a config file and run 'tp job push' - TensorPool spins up a multi-node cluster across partner clouds, streams logs, saves outputs, and shuts everything down, billing only for runtime. It advertises GPU access at roughly half the cost of major cloud providers, with H100s starting around $1.99/hr. Founded by three Stanford dormmates, the company was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
Actively AI
Actively AI is a New York-based enterprise software company building Intelligence-Led Revenue: custom reasoning models and Per-Account AI agents that work 24/7 to research accounts, identify high-value opportunities, and guide go-to-market teams on the next best move. Founded in 2022 by Stanford AI researchers Mihir Garimella and Anshul Gupta, it pitches a sharper alternative to the 'spray and pray' automation of earlier AI sales tools, and counts Samsara, Ramp, Ironclad, Attentive, and Verkada among its customers.
Nooks
Nooks is an AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) that automates the grind of outbound sales - parallel dialing, prospect research, call coaching, and follow-up - so reps can spend more time having real conversations and less time leaving voicemails. Founded by three Stanford classmates in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has raised $70M, including a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, and counts Seismic, Greenhouse, Brex, Deel, and HubSpot among its customers.