Sidekick is an AI-powered SMS assistant for frontline and deskless workers in manufacturing, auto dealerships, and retail. Workers text questions in any language and get instant answers pulled from their company's own documents - no app, no login, works on any phone. They can send photos of equipment for identification or voice memos when their hands are dirty. When Sidekick cannot answer, it escalates to a manager over SMS and learns from the reply. Founded in 2026 by Justin So and backed by Y Combinator (S26), it is live with 20+ plants and 600+ workers.
Vuori is a Carlsbad, California-based performance apparel company that blends athletic function with casual style. Founded in 2015 by Joe Kudla, it started as a direct-to-consumer men's activewear brand rooted in the coastal Southern California lifestyle and grew into a broad athleisure label for men and women. Known for soft technical fabrics like its DreamKnit and Ponto lines, Vuori sells online, through its own stores, and via wholesale partners including Nordstrom, REI and Equinox. A 2024 secondary investment led by General Atlantic and Stripes valued the company at $5.5 billion.
SCTE is the non-profit professional society that trains, certifies, and sets the technical standards for the people who build and run cable broadband networks. Founded in 1969 and a subsidiary of CableLabs since 2021, it runs the only ANSI-accredited standards program for the broadband industry, issues role-based professional certifications, delivers online and hands-on technical education, and hosts SCTE TechExpo (formerly Cable-Tec Expo), the largest cable telecommunications event in the Americas. In short: if a technician splices a fiber, proctors a DOCSIS install, or writes a Remote PHY spec, SCTE is usually the reason there's a shared playbook.
Guidde is an AI-powered video documentation platform that turns a screen recording into a polished, narrated how-to video in minutes. Used by 4,500+ companies including Nasdaq, Yahoo, Bayer and SentinelOne, Guidde positions itself as the connective tissue between employees and the enterprise software they have to learn fast.
MatX is a Mountain View semiconductor company building chips designed exclusively for large language models. Founded in 2022 by ex-Google TPU engineers Reiner Pope and Mike Gunter, it aims to deliver an order-of-magnitude more performance-per-dollar for frontier model training and inference than current GPUs.
FlexAI is a Paris-based AI infrastructure company building a 'universal AI compute' layer that lets teams deploy, train, and serve models across diverse GPU architectures and cloud providers without wrestling with the underlying hardware. Founded in 2023 by former Intel, NVIDIA, Apple, and Tesla veterans, it raised a $30M seed round in April 2024 and is positioning itself as Europe's answer to the GPU-as-a-service crunch.
Shrey Sharma is the CEO and co-founder of Cyntexa, one of the fastest-growing Salesforce and ServiceNow consulting firms globally, and founder of S2 Labs, Rajasthan's first Salesforce training institute. Known in the Salesforce ecosystem as 'Salesforce Hulk,' he became the world's youngest Salesforce MVP in 2019 while still in college. Starting from a basement in Jaipur with five friends and minimal capital in 2018, he grew Cyntexa to 400+ employees with 200% year-over-year revenue growth and an estimated annual revenue exceeding $83 million. Through his YouTube channel and S2 Labs, he has trained over 100,000 Salesforce professionals worldwide, and now leads Cyntexa's push into AI agents and Agentforce implementations.

RunPod is an AI cloud infrastructure company that provides on-demand GPU compute for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI/ML models. Founded in 2022 by two former Comcast engineers who pivoted their Ethereum mining rigs into AI servers, RunPod grew to $120M ARR with just $22M raised by early 2026, serving 500,000+ developers across 183 countries. Its marketplace model, per-second billing, and support for 30+ GPU SKUs — from consumer RTX 4090s to enterprise H100s and B200s — make it a capital-efficient disruptor to hyperscaler GPU clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure.