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Scribe
The San Francisco startup turned the tedium of writing instructions into a single click - and quietly became the record of how work actually gets done inside 94% of the Fortune 500.
Eve
Eve is a San Francisco-based legal AI company that builds software for plaintiff-side law firms, automating work across the entire case lifecycle - from intake and case evaluation to medical record summaries, demand letters, discovery, and settlement. In June 2026 it rebranded its platform as EveOS, an AI-native operating system for plaintiff firms. Eve reached a $1 billion+ valuation with a $103 million Series B in September 2025, and serves 450+ firms that have collectively recovered more than $3.5 billion.
Avneesh Agrawal
Avneesh Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Netradyne, the San Diego AI company that turns dashcams into a real-time safety coach for commercial drivers. After more than a decade at Qualcomm, where he led 4G LTE research, ran corporate R&D, and served as president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, he left in 2015 to chase a convergence he saw coming: cheap camera sensors, edge computing, and deep learning arriving at the same moment. Netradyne's Driver-i platform now analyzes billions of miles of driving and reduces accidents by 30 to 50 percent. In January 2025, a $90 million Series D led by Point72 pushed the company past a $1 billion valuation. A Stanford PhD with more than 150 US patents, Agrawal builds at the intersection of research and the real world.
Jarrett Streebin
Jarrett Streebin is the founder and CEO of EasyPost, the shipping API company he started in 2012 after getting tired of wrestling with the SOAP and XML systems that FedEx, UPS, and USPS forced on developers. Pitched as 'a Stripe for shipping,' EasyPost gave online retailers a clean RESTful API for labels, tracking, address verification, and insurance across more than 100 carriers. The company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch on its second try, grew to hundreds of employees in Lehi, Utah, and reached a reported $1.5 billion valuation. Streebin, a UC Berkeley grad originally from Oklahoma, is a relentless reader who credits books, early mornings, and a 'it takes a village' approach for the company's climb.
ezCater
ezCater is the leading U.S. workplace food platform, connecting companies that need to feed teams, meetings and events with a network of more than 100,000 local restaurants and caterers. Founded in Boston in 2007, it turned the messy, phone-and-fax world of office catering into software - online ordering, delivery logistics, billing and analytics - serving everything from a 5-person lunch to a 2,000-person conference. Now a $1.6B company, it has expanded from a transactional marketplace into an enterprise food management platform.
Jamie Beaton
Jamie Beaton is the New Zealand-born co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, the global university-admissions consultancy he started at 18 from a Harvard dorm room. After getting into all 25 elite universities he applied to, he built Crimson into a roughly billion-dollar company spanning 25+ countries, while personally collecting degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Yale Law, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar) and more. He is the author of the bestselling admissions guide ACCEPTED!
Zūm
Zūm is a Redwood City, California company that has reinvented the most analog corner of education: the yellow school bus. It pairs an AI-driven routing and fleet-management platform with apps for parents, drivers and districts, then layers on a fast-growing fleet of electric buses with vehicle-to-grid charging that can sell power back to the grid. Serving roughly 4,500 schools and districts nationwide, Zūm turned a clipboard-and-radio industry into a connected, electrified mobility network.