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Relevance AI
Relevance AI is a platform for building and managing an AI workforce - teams of specialized AI agents that carry out real business work without human headcount. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the company lets operations teams, not just engineers, design multi-agent systems on a no-code canvas to run sales, marketing, research, support and back-office processes end to end. It raised a $24M Series B in May 2025 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $37M, and counts Activision, Qualified and SafetyCulture among its customers.
Siva Lakshmanan
Siva Lakshmanan is the CEO of DeepHow, a Detroit-based AI company that turns tribal shop-floor know-how into searchable, multilingual training video. He joined in November 2024 after running Antuit.ai through its acquisition by Zebra Technologies. His pitch is unglamorous by design: preserve the expertise of the retiring half of the manufacturing workforce before it walks out the door.
Laborup
Laborup is a Knoxville, Tennessee startup building an AI-powered recruiting platform for America's skilled industrial workforce - the machinists, welders, and maintenance techs that keep factories running. Founded in 2024 by former Stanford AI researcher Tasimba 'Simba' Jonga, it uses voice-first AI agents to interview and profile blue-collar workers in minutes, then matches employers to a vetted network of thousands of tradespeople. The company pitches itself as the 'LinkedIn of manufacturing,' promising faster time-to-fill, lower cost-per-hire, and better retention, and has raised roughly $7.7M in total funding.
Jobcase, Inc.
Jobcase is a Cambridge-based social platform built for the workers most job sites overlook - hourly, frontline and blue-collar Americans. With more than 110 million registered members and roughly 20 million monthly actives, it pairs a community forum and resume tools with machine-learning job matching, earning rankings among the largest U.S. online career destinations. Founded by Fred Goff and Tony Deigh out of the wreckage of an AI hedge fund, Jobcase makes money from employer advertising and recruiting partnerships while keeping the core product free for job seekers.
Bo Lu
Bo Lu is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Clipboard Health, a billion-dollar healthcare staffing marketplace connecting nurses, CNAs, and other healthcare professionals with facilities that need them. Before Clipboard Health, he co-founded FutureAdvisor, a Y Combinator-backed digital wealth management platform that Sequoia Capital invested in and BlackRock acquired for an estimated $150-200 million in 2015. He served as Managing Director at BlackRock before joining Clipboard Health, where he focuses on marketplace design, operational excellence, and building a culture of curiosity and speed. He was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer at Davos in 2015.
Clipboard Health
Clipboard Health (now branded as Clipboard) is a San Francisco-based two-sided marketplace that matches nurses, CNAs, and allied healthcare professionals with shifts at understaffed hospitals, nursing homes, and post-acute facilities. Founded in 2016 by Wei Deng, the company has grown into a healthcare unicorn with a 1,600-person team and a network of more than a million qualified professionals.
Matt Schulman
Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave, the AI-powered compensation platform he built after watching coworkers at Facebook struggle to understand their own stock options. Starting with a cold email to 200 executives in 2019 (59 replied within 24 hours), he grew Pave into a $1.6 billion company with 3,500+ customers and $471M in total funding - making it the largest compensation data provider for private companies in the world after acquiring Option Impact from Morgan Stanley in 2022.
RemoFirst
RemoFirst is an Employer of Record platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage full-time employees and contractors in 185+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco, it competes with Deel and Rippling by undercutting them on price - starting at $199 per employee per month - and handling payroll, taxes, benefits, equipment, and visas on its customers' behalf.
Zipline
Zipline (formerly Retail Zipline) is a San Francisco-based SaaS platform built to fix the broken chain between retail headquarters and the store floor. It bundles communication, task management, audits, and training into one operations platform used by chains like Sephora, Gap, Rite Aid, AEO, LUSH, and L.L.Bean to run thousands of stores in sync.
Surya Midha
Surya Midha is a 22-year-old co-founder and Chairman of Mercor, the AI-powered talent platform valued at $10 billion. A Thiel Fellow, national debate champion, and Georgetown dropout, Midha co-built Mercor from a São Paulo hackathon into a company paying 30,000+ contractors over $1.5 million daily, matching elite human intelligence with AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. In 2026, he became one of the youngest people ever to appear on the Forbes World's Billionaires List with a net worth of $2.2 billion.
Scott Moran
Scott Moran is the founder and CEO of Go2, a Philadelphia-based AI-powered remote staffing and workforce management platform. A former touring multi-instrumentalist who recorded with bands including Menomena, Man Man and his own group Sarsaparilla, Scott pivoted from the road to building software that helps workers keep leverage as AI reshapes the economy. He also founded Cowork.ai, a data and AI stack spun out of Go2.
Shauntel Garvey
Shauntel Garvey is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Reach Capital, a $300M+ San Francisco-based venture firm laser-focused on education technology. A chemical engineer turned edtech investor, she parlayed an MIT degree and a Stanford MBA/MA in Education into backing some of the most consequential learning platforms of the last decade - ClassDojo, Epic, Outschool, and Handshake among them. She co-founded Reach Capital in 2015 after her stint at NewSchools Venture Fund, building it into a firm with 132+ portfolio companies, five unicorns, and one IPO. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, founding member of All Raise, and Pahara Institute Fellow, Garvey is one of the most influential figures at the intersection of capital and educational equity.