Watershed Bio (legally Watershed Informatics) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building a unified, cloud-based platform for biological data analysis. Its product, Omics Bench, lets biologists and bioinformaticians securely store, harmonize, and analyze multi-omic data - genomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbial sequencing and protein folding - using customizable and AI-assisted workflows backed by elastic supercomputing. The pitch: go from sample to therapeutic insight in a single day instead of weeks, closing the gap between high-code and no-code bioinformatics for drug-discovery teams.
Gabriel Paunescu is the founder and CEO of Naologic, a no-code platform that lets companies build and customize enterprise software (ERP, CRM, workflow apps) without a development team, and now layers multi-agent AI on top of legacy business systems. A Romanian-born serial entrepreneur with seven startups and two exits behind him, he started exporting essential oils at 17 and now keynotes at Google Next, mentors at UC Berkeley, and writes about building AI agents that catch their own hallucinations. His core belief: buying software you cannot modify is like buying a horse instead of a car.
Airtable is a San Francisco software company that turned the humble spreadsheet into a flexible app platform, letting non-engineers build relational databases, interfaces, and automated workflows without code. Founded in 2012 and launched publicly in 2015, it now serves more than 500,000 organizations - including the majority of the Fortune 100 - and has refounded itself as an AI-native app platform anchored by its conversational builder, Omni.
Zapier is the automation platform that connects more than 8,000 apps so people can build workflows - called Zaps - without writing code. Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, the fully remote company has grown from a Y Combinator side project into a roughly $5 billion business serving millions of users, and it is now reorienting around AI agents that don't just move data between apps but make decisions inside the workflow.
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Apptivo is a cloud-based, all-in-one business management platform founded in 2009 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company offers 65+ integrated business applications — from CRM and project management to invoicing and field service — under a single affordable subscription starting at $15/user/month. Bootstrapped and self-funded, Apptivo has grown to serve 200,000+ customers across 193 countries, reaching approximately $75M in annual revenue by 2025. Its core value proposition: enterprise-grade software at small-business prices, with 24/7 human customer support at every tier.
Creatio is a Boston-based enterprise software company that builds an AI-native, no-code CRM and workflow automation platform. Founded in 2002 (originally as bpm'online) and rebranded in 2019, Creatio achieved unicorn status in 2024 with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $200 million in Series B funding. The platform serves 7,000+ customers across 100 countries in 23 languages, enabling organizations to automate business workflows and manage customer relationships without writing code. With 45% year-over-year growth in 2024, Creatio competes against Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics by offering faster implementation, composable pricing, and deeply integrated agentic AI capabilities across its Sales, Marketing, and Service modules.
Ranga Mohan is a technology executive with roughly two decades of experience building digital platforms at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market strategy. Currently VP of Digital Technology (GTM-Marketing) at ServiceNow, he joined the Santa Clara-based enterprise cloud leader in 2025 after five years as VP of Digital Technology & International at 7-Eleven, where he led the construction of a global convenience tech platform. Earlier stints at Capital One - where he helped create the industry's first online-only mortgage pre-approval experience - and Bank of America shaped his deep fluency in scaling digital customer experiences inside large, complex organizations.
Samantha Mah is VP of Strategic Partnerships and Growth at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company headquartered in Santa Clara. Based in Toronto, she leads the charge on unlocking organizational potential by eliminating manual, repetitive work through intelligent digital workflows. With a Six Sigma Master Black Belt background and a career that spans Xerox and ServiceNow, she brings process-excellence discipline to the art of enterprise partnerships. She also serves in the Office of the CDIO as Senior Director, Customer Advocate - bridging the gap between technology capability and human impact.
Automation Anywhere is a San Jose-based enterprise software company building agentic process automation - software bots and AI agents that handle the repetitive office work humans do not want to do. Its Automation 360 platform combines RPA, document AI, and generative-AI co-pilots to run end-to-end workflows for global enterprises across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and the public sector.
Ema builds a 'Universal AI Employee' for the enterprise - autonomous AI agents that plug into existing systems and run business processes across customer support, sales, HR, finance, and compliance. Founded in 2023 by ex-Coinbase CPO Surojit Chatterjee and ex-Okta engineering VP Souvik Sen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised $61M to date.
HoneyBook is an AI-powered business management platform built for independent service professionals - photographers, event planners, consultants, and creative freelancers. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco with roots in Tel Aviv, the platform combines CRM, contracts, invoicing, payments, scheduling, and workflow automation into a single clientflow hub. With $498M in total funding, a $2.4B valuation, $140M ARR, and more than $12 billion in payments processed, HoneyBook has become the dominant platform for the growing independent economy - helping over 100,000 small business owners run client relationships from first inquiry to final payment without switching between a dozen tools.
InfrasAI (formerly iLife Technologies) is a Sunnyvale-based AI infrastructure company that builds the plumbing behind modern insurance distribution. Their headless API platform lets insurance carriers connect to any distributor channel - agents, brokers, IMOs - without rebuilding integrations from scratch each time. The core bet: use agentic AI to auto-generate workflows from natural language, collapsing integration timelines from 24 weeks to about 2. Customers include Transamerica and Guardian Insurance. Backed by Foundation Capital, Brewer Lane Ventures, SCOR, and others, InfrasAI has raised $28M total.
Jasper is an enterprise AI marketing platform that gives marketing teams a purpose-built workspace with 100+ specialized AI agents, proprietary Brand IQ and Marketing IQ technology layers, and content pipelines designed to produce on-brand content at scale. Founded in 2021 by Dave Rogenmoser, Chris Hull, and JP Morgan, Jasper grew from a simple GPT-3 frontend into a unicorn valued at $1.7 billion, serving over 100,000 customers including nearly 20% of the Fortune 500.
JIFFY.ai is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for financial services — combining no-code app development, intelligent document processing, RPA, and generative AI into a unified HyperApp architecture. Founded in 2018 by Babu Sivadasan (formerly of Envestnet and Stamps.com) and a team of co-founders, the company targets wealth managers, banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs looking to automate client onboarding, account servicing, advisor workflows, and compliance operations without writing a line of code. With $105M+ in total funding and marquee customers reducing onboarding costs by 30% and advisor service time by 50%, JIFFY.ai sits at the intersection of AI hype and real financial-services plumbing.
Oomnitza is a San Francisco-based Enterprise Technology Management platform that gives IT teams a single, accurate picture of every asset in their organization — hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud — with 98%+ data accuracy and 1,500+ pre-built integrations. Founded in 2012, the company helps enterprises reduce costs, enforce compliance, and automate IT workflows across the full asset lifecycle, from procurement to offboarding.
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, a San Francisco-based AI platform that helps enterprises extract intelligence from unstructured data - PDFs, images, emails, and documents of every kind. He dropped out of a PhD at MIT in 2015 to build what has become a $1.24 billion company with $277M in total funding, serving clients like NatWest, AXA, Uber, and four of the five largest U.S. banks. Born in Bihar, India, he studied at Pune, Stanford, and MIT before pioneering the idea that the enterprise's biggest untapped asset is the data it can't yet read.
David Hsu is the founder and CEO of Retool, a San Francisco-based developer tools company that lets engineers build internal software through a drag-and-drop interface. He founded Retool in 2017 at age 25 after pivoting from a failed fintech startup (Cashew/Oatpay) where he kept having to build internal tools from scratch. A Computer Science and Philosophy graduate from Oxford, Hsu grew Retool to $2M ARR before public launch, achieved a $3.2B valuation by 2022 with $140M in total funding from Sequoia Capital and notable angels including the Stripe founders, and now serves over 10,000 companies including Amazon, Netflix, OpenAI, and the US Army.
Joy Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Plenful, a San Francisco-based AI workflow automation platform modernizing healthcare operations. A Northwestern-trained economist who cut her teeth at Goldman Sachs and Barclays before moving into specialty pharmacy operations at Shields Health Solutions, Liu built Plenful from first-hand frustration with manual pharmacy workflows. Since emerging from stealth in 2023, she has grown the company to 60+ healthcare customers, achieved 4x year-over-year growth, and raised $76 million in total funding - including a $50 million Series B in 2025 co-led by Danaher co-founder Mitchell Rales. Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list, Liu is on a mission to return time and focus to healthcare workers drowning in administrative burden.
Mark Gilbert is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zocks, a privacy-first AI platform that automates administrative work for financial advisors - capturing meeting notes, filling forms, and drafting client emails so advisors can reclaim 10+ hours weekly. Before founding Zocks, he held VP of Product Management at Twilio and CTO at Hearsay Systems. In January 2026, Zocks closed a $45M Series B co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, bringing total funding to $65M. The platform now serves 5,000+ financial firms.
Mukunda Srinivasagowda is a seasoned technologist and Co-Founder of SuperAGI, a Palo Alto-based AI company building a full-stack agentic intelligence platform. With over 13 years spanning Amazon, Zomato, and fintech unicorn Navi, he co-built SuperAGI from the ground up in 2023 alongside CEO Ishaan Bhola. The company's open-source autonomous agent framework earned 17,500+ GitHub stars, attracted a $10 million Series A led by Jan Koum's secretive Newlands VC, and spawned a suite of AI-native products including SuperSales, SuperMarketing, and SuperCoder - all targeting the shift from LLMs that generate content to agents that actually take action.
Nehal Shaikh is the Chief Executive Officer (India) at Front, the customer operations platform headquartered in San Francisco. Front helps more than 8,000 companies manage customer communication across email, SMS, live chat, and other channels through shared inboxes, AI-powered automation, and real-time analytics. Backed by $338M in total funding and valued at $1.7B since its 2022 Series D, Front crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue in 2025. Based in Maharashtra, India, Shaikh leads Front's India operations as the company scales its AI-driven customer service platform globally.
Nelson Lee is the Founder and CEO of InfrasAI (formerly iLife Technologies), an AI-powered workflow infrastructure company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Drawing on early stints at Tencent and J.P. Morgan and participation in Stanford's Idea-to-Market program, Lee spent years mapping the fragmentation inside insurance distribution before building infrastructure to fix it. InfrasAI's headless connectivity platform decouples business logic from user interfaces, enabling insurance carriers to deploy workflows across any distributor channel without rebuilding backend systems - reducing maintenance costs by up to 60% and accelerating deployment speed by up to 70%. Backed by $21M in funding led by Foundation Capital and top insurtech investors, the company serves enterprise clients including Transamerica and Guardian across life, annuities, group benefits, disability, and wealth management.
Pranay Kapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Notable, an AI-powered automation platform for healthcare that eliminates administrative burden for clinicians and health systems. Founded in 2017 after dinner-table conversations with six physician family members - including his psychiatrist wife who called herself 'the highest paid data collector in the world' - Notable has grown to serve 32 million patients across 12,000 sites of care, raised $119.2M in funding including a $100M Series B in 2021, and now automates over one million repetitive healthcare workflows daily. Before Notable, Kapadia helped build Mint.com at Intuit and was on the founding team at Blend, the mortgage fintech unicorn.
Rahul Raj is Co-Founder and VP of Product Architecture at JIFFY.ai, an AI-powered no-code enterprise automation platform headquartered in Palo Alto, California. With a background spanning SAP Labs, IBM, and Option3.io, Rahul brings deep engineering and systems-architecture expertise to JIFFY.ai's mission of enabling financial services firms to build autonomous, AI-driven operations without writing a line of code. The company — launched at Stanford University — has raised over $105 million in total funding, including a $53 million Series B in March 2022, and serves Fortune Global 500 companies and Big 4 consulting firms worldwide.
Sarthak Jain is the CEO and co-founder of Nanonets, a San Francisco-based AI company that automates document-heavy business workflows for enterprises. A two-time founder and IIT Gandhinagar gold medalist, he previously built and sold Cubeit to Myntra before launching Nanonets through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch. Under his leadership, Nanonets grew from an OCR tool to a $100M ARR autonomous AI agents platform serving over a third of the Global Fortune 500 - with just 130 employees.
Rad AI builds generative-AI software that drafts the most tedious parts of a radiology report - the impressions, the follow-ups, the boilerplate - so radiologists can spend more time on the images and less on the keyboard. Founded in 2018 by a radiologist (Jeff Chang) and a serial founder (Doktor Gurson), the company now works with roughly nine of the ten largest radiology groups in the U.S. and touches close to half of the country's medical imaging.
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.
Tray.ai is an AI-ready enterprise integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that connects 700+ apps, orchestrates AI agents, and lets companies build production-grade agentic workflows on a single composable foundation. Founded in London in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it underpins agent and automation programs at thousands of companies.