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Artillery is a performance testing toolkit that provides load testing, Playwright-based end-to-end testing, and production monitoring capabilities for web applications and APIs.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLimerick, IE

Hassy Veldstra(Founder)inHasan Minatullaevich Veldstra(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatEliot Durbin· per SEC Form D · $2.1M raise · filed Aug 2021

Co-investorsY CombinatorEssence Venture CapitalFirst Round CapitalGeneral CatalystLowercase Capital

BigID is a data security platform that discovers, classifies, and governs enterprise data across cloud, SaaS, and unstructured environments to enable privacy, security, and compliance.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnergyEnterprise SoftwareMamaroneck, US

Nimrod Vax(Secretary, Director)inDimitri Sirota(President, Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardGil Beyda(Director)in

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCisco InvestmentsClearSkyComcast VenturesGaia VenturesGlynn Capital Management+8 more

Blockdaemon provides blockchain infrastructure services including staking, node deployment, APIs, and wallet management across 60+ protocols for financial institutions and developers.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnergyEnterprise SoftwareFintechLos Angeles, US

Konstantin Richter(CEO and Founder)in

BoardGil Beyda(Director)in

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investors10SQ Capital (TenSquared)Aurum Venture PartnersBaroda VenturesBorderless VentureComcast VenturesEQUIAM+18 more

Dallas, US

Justin Wohlstadter(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatEliot Durbin· per SEC Form D · $10.4M raise · filed Jun 2026

Mountain View, US

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBoldstart CrowGV (Google Ventures)

FortressIQ built a computer-vision-based process discovery and task mining platform; acquired by Automation Anywhere in 2021-2022.

San Francisco, US

PANKAJ CHOWDHRY(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsComcast VenturesFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcAudaciousLightspeed Venture PartnersTiger Global Management

Generalist develops embodied foundation models for robots, focusing on dexterity and enabling machines to intelligently interact with the physical world.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsBay Area, Boston, US

Andy Zeng(Founder)inPete Florence(Founder)Andrew Barry(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Florence(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Robert Toews(Director)

BoardFraser Kelton(Director)

Board seatEllen Chisa· per SEC Form D

Co-investors8VCInspired CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersRadical VenturesScale Venture PartnersSpark Capital+4 more

San Francisco, US

Keith Russell Stewart(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardAsad Khaliq(Director)in

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D · $13.3M raise · filed May 2025

Co-investorsAcrew Capital

Austin, US

Ian Jennings(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatEliot Durbin· per SEC Form D · $1.8M raise · filed Nov 2021

Hypernative provides machine learning-powered security monitoring and threat detection for blockchain and digital assets, protecting organizations operating across multiple blockchain networks.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Cybersecurity

Gal Sagie(Chief Executive Officer)inDan Caspi(Chief Technology Officer)in

BoardDor Lee-Lo(Director)in

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesBloccelerate VCBorderless VentureIBI Tech FundTen ElevenTitan Capital Partners

Netpreme develops a Memory Processing Unit (MPU) and Networked Memory Tiering technology designed to extend XPU memory capacity for AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsCambridge, US

Zhizhen Zhong(Executive Officer, Director)inNikita Lazarev(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardYuqin Duan(Director)

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D · $13.4M raise · filed Jul 2025

Co-investorsRhapsody Venture PartnersThe E14 FundPropeller Inc.

Data & InfrastructureOakland, US

Brian Douglas(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatEllen Chisa· per SEC Form D · $3.5M raise · filed May 2023

Co-investorsTechstars

Protect AI develops security solutions for artificial intelligence systems.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US

Ian Swanson(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Badar Ahmed(Director)inDaryan Dehghanpisheh(Director)

BoardRichard Seewald(Director)inMark Kraynak(Director)in

Board seatEd Sim· per SEC Form D

Co-investors01 AdvisorsAcrew CapitalAviso VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersSamsung NextEvolution Technology+3 more

San Francisco, US

Amir Khosrowshahi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ryan Zarcone(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Board seatEllen Chisa· per SEC Form D

Agentuity is a full-stack developer platform for building, deploying, and running AI agents, providing built-in infrastructure such as APIs, frontends, databases, sandboxes, observability, evals, and integrations.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsBloomberg Beta

Integration testing made easier for developers; acquired by Docker

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsIA Seed VenturesInsight Partners

Infrastructure service to speed up delivery of web pages to mobile devices; acquired by Akamai

PagerDuty Workflow Automation lets Dev and IT Operations teams automate manual business processes by combining human-in-the-loop steps such as approvals and decisions with technical automation like Runbook Automation.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSChicago, US

Sean Chou(Executive Officer, Director)Ravi Singh(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPeter Barris(Director)

Co-investorsChicago VenturesIn-Q-TelIntel CapitalLightbankHyde Park AngelsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)

ChangeTip built a payment application designed to work inside social networks.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Nick Sullivan

Co-investors500 GlobalBlockchain CapitalTransmedia Capital

Clay provides a data enrichment and workflow platform that combines first-party, intent, and third-party data from 100+ sources to help sales and growth teams identify and reach target customers.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US

Kareem Amin(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAmbush CapitalCapitalGFirst Round CapitalFrontline VenturesHubSpot Ventures+6 more

New York, US

Nicolae Rusan(Director)Kareem Amin(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardMike Vernal(Director)

Co-investorsBoxCapitalGConvictionFirst Round CapitalMeritech Capital PartnersSequoia Capital

CloudQuery provides multi-cloud visibility and automation for platform and governance teams, letting them query their cloud estate via SQL or natural language across AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsPartech VenturesSierra VenturesMango CapitalWork-Bench

Movable Ink offers AI-driven personalization software, including its Studio and Da Vinci products, that automatically generates and curates content, send times, and frequency to personalize customer messages such as email at the moment of engagement.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSWaltham, US

Gregory Leibon(Executive Officer, Director)Ken MacAskill(Executive Officer)James Glover(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsCeltic House Venture PartnersContour Venture PartnersEscalate Capital Partnersm]x[v CapitalMI VenturesRunway Venture Partners+4 more

Common Paper provides contract templates and standards for technology transactions, enabling programmatic access to contracts through open-source standards.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSSales TechPhiladelphia, US

Benjamin Garvey(Founder)inJake Stein(Founder)in

Co-investorsUncork CapitalY Combinator

CrewAI provides an enterprise platform for discovering, building, deploying, and governing AI agents that automate workflows across business applications, with no-code multi-agent workflow creation and observability.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

João (Joe) Moura(Co-founder)inRob Bailey(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsCraft VenturesEarl Grey CapitalFirsthandVCFlybridge Capital PartnersBlitzscaling VenturesInsight Partners

Mobile enterprise platform separating work and personal apps on a single device; acquired by Google

WebAssembly infrastructure and developer tools for plugin systems

Co-investorsPebblebedFelicis VenturesSierra Ventures

Easop provides a platform for managing equity compensation for international employees, handling global compliance across 70+ countries, legal operations, and employee education on equity.

HR TechLegalTechSaaS

Naël El Berkani(Founder)in

Co-investorsKima VenturesPartech Ventures

Front AI builds an AI-powered customer service platform that automates service channels with multilingual conversational bots and provides channel strategy optimization tools.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSFinland, FI

Co-investorsLifeline Ventures

SaaS for screen sharing/co-browsing with no download required; acquired by Salesforce

Co-investorsBaseline Ventures

Grepr is an infrastructure technology company that provides observability and reliability tools designed to help engineering teams operate more efficiently in environments increasingly driven by AI-generated code.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Jad Naous(CEO)in

Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitz

Harbr provides white-label data infrastructure that lets organizations launch and operate their own branded data marketplaces, exchanges, and distribution platforms.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB

Anthony Cosgrove MBE(Founder)

Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Crane Venture PartnersDawn Capital

IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform that provides visibility and monitoring for serverless applications in production.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US

Erica Windisch(Founder and CTO)inAdam Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)Eric Windisch(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsLas Olas Venture CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Struck CapitalTechstarsMadrona Venture GroupUnderscore VC

Jeli provides incident analysis and collaborative learning tools that help engineering and operations teams review incidents, build timelines, and identify patterns to improve reliability.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsHeavybit

Keycard provides infrastructure for AI agents to operate safely and securely in production environments, enabling developers to connect agents to services across multiple clouds while maintaining identity, policy, and audit controls.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Ian Livingstone(Founder, CEO)inMatthew Creager(Founder, Product & Marketing)inJared Hanson(Founder, Technology)in

Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen HorowitzExceptional CapitalMantis CapitalModern Technical

Keycard provides access control and identity management for AI agents, resolving a composite identity (user, device, agent, task) and issuing short-lived, least-privilege credentials scoped to each task when an agent requests access to tools, APIs, and data.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsModern TechnicalTapestry VCVermilion Cliffs VenturesAcrew CapitalAndreessen HorowitzEssence Venture Capital

Kumospace provides a virtual office and events platform where distributed teams meet over chat and video in immersive online spaces.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSNew York City, US

Yang Mou(Founder)

Co-investorsLightspeed Venture Partners

Kustomer is an AI-native customer experience (CX) platform that ties every interaction to a complete customer record so AI and human agents can respond with full context, automate conversations, and manage support workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechShort Hills, US

Jeremy Suriel(Director, Promoter)inBrad Birnbaum(Founder)inMichael Chapin(Executive Officer, Promoter)

BoardScott Beechuk(Director)inAlex Bard(Director)inNeeraj Agrawal(Director)in

Co-investorsAcurio VenturesBattery VenturesCanaan PartnersCisco InvestmentsCoatue ManagementNorwest Venture Partners+3 more

Liveblocks provides APIs and infrastructure for building real-time collaborative tools, enabling multiplayer functionality for creative and productivity applications.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US

Guillaume Salles(Co-founder & Engineer)Steven Fabre(Co-founder & Product Designer)in

Co-investorsAtlassian VenturesBanana CapitalKima Ventures

Developer services marketplace; acquired by Snyk

Memphis.dev is an open-source, Kubernetes-native data streaming platform and message broker for backend developers.

Co-investorsAngular Ventures

Olympix provides a security tool for smart contract development that deterministically analyzes Solidity code to detect and remediate vulnerabilities before audits and deployment.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Channi(Founder)

Co-investorsDigital Currency GroupPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Sam Altman(Co-founder & CEO)Elon Musk(Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member)Greg Brockman(Co-founder & President)inIlya Sutskever(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inWojciech Zaremba(Co-founder)inJohn Schulman(Co-founder (departed 2024))

Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAdvent InternationalAlpha Wave GlobalAndreessen HorowitzAnti+54 more

Optic generates OpenAPI specifications from test traffic and maintains their accuracy through automated schema testing and patch application.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US

Aidan Cunniffe(Founder/CEO)in

Co-investorsKindred VenturesY CombinatorZag CapitalACE & CompanyKleiner PerkinsPantera Capital

Rapportive displays contact information and social profiles directly within email clients, allowing users to view photos, locations, and professional details about message senders and connect with them on social networks.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US

Rahul Vohra(Founder/CEO)inMartin Kleppmann(Founder)Sam Stokes(Founder)in

Co-investors500 GlobalY Combinator

API and platform for interactive emails with real-time analytics; acquired by Salesforce

Co-investorsCourtside VenturesOutbound VenturesThe Chernin Group (TCG Crypto)

Reco is a security platform that discovers and inventories AI apps, agents, and identities across an enterprise's SaaS environment, mapping their permissions, connections, and risk.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

Co-investorsAngular VenturesInsight PartnersJibe VenturesS VenturesZeev VenturesWorkday Ventures

Replicated provides a container-based platform for software vendors to deploy cloud-native applications in customer environments.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersFounder CollectiveHeavybitMucker CapitalPreston-Werner VenturesTop Corner Capital+4 more

Boston, US

ZACH DUNN(Executive Officer)BRIAN C MUSE(Director, Executive Officer)SAMUEL D DUNN(Executive Officer, Director)Brian C. Muse(Executive Officer)Timothy Komada(Director)Samuel D. Dunn(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsFirstMark Capital

Boxborough, US

Co-investorsFXP

Easiest way to schedule and communicate with hourly employees; acquired by Toast

Snyk is a developer-focused security platform that identifies and fixes vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure using AI-powered analysis.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsBoston, US

Guy Podjarny(Director)Peter McKay(Executive Officer, Director)inStephanie Dominy(Executive Officer)

BoardPhilippe Botteri(Director)inMatthew Weigand(Director)inKen Fox(Director)

Co-investors2050 CapitalAccelAlkeon InnovationAmity VenturesAmplify PartnersAtlassian Ventures+31 more

Spectro Cloud provides a platform called Palette that simplifies Kubernetes deployment and management for enterprise operations and development teams across cloud and edge environments.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US

Tenry Fu(Founder)inSaad Malik(Founder)

Co-investorsCerity Partners VenturesLeonis CapitalLG Technology VenturesQualcomm VenturesSierra VenturesStripes+1 more

Steadybit is a chaos engineering and reliability testing platform that helps product and engineering teams identify, validate, and fix reliability issues in their networks and applications before they reach production.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Benjamin Wilms

Co-investorsAngular VenturesPaladin Capital Group

Stellate provides an edge caching and performance layer for GraphQL APIs, offering response caching, rate limiting, monitoring, and analytics to reduce backend load and improve API stability.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Max Stoiber(Founder)inTim Suchanek(Founder)in

Co-investorsSystem.OneTiger Global Management

Superhuman provides an AI-native platform for marketing teams that integrates AI agents, email management, and collaborative documentation within existing workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaS

Conrad Irwin(Founder)inRahul VohraVivek Sodera

Co-investors1809 Capital500 Global7BC Venture CapitalAndreessen HorowitzArcher Capital GroupArcher Venture Capital+24 more

Agentic operating model for security teams

Tessl builds an AI Native software development platform with tools for developers building with AI agents, centered on preserving intent and context rather than code.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon

Guy Podjarny(Founder & CEO)Kenneth MacAskill(Director)

BoardTom Hulme(Director)inEdward Sim(Director)Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas(Director)in

Co-investorsAccelGV (Google Ventures)Index Venturesfirstminute capital

Productivity for teams building Kubernetes apps; acquired by Docker

TRES provides on-chain risk and treasury management software for self-custodied, EVM-based crypto treasuries, serving funds, trading firms, market makers, DAOs, foundations, exchanges, and custodians.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityFintech

Co-investors3cubed VenturesAmbush CapitalFactionMantis CapitalNew Form Capital

Wallaroo.AI offers a unified platform for deploying, serving, monitoring, and optimizing machine learning and AI models in production across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBrooklyn, US

Vidyut Jain(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardOwen Davis(Director)inPriyanka Mitra(Director)Shomik Ghosh(Director)inSamir Kumar(Director)

Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersFour Acres CapitalM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)MyAsiaVCResolute VenturesSierra Ventures+1 more

WP Engine provides managed hosting and platform services for WordPress websites, serving companies and agencies of all sizes with infrastructure, tools, and support.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAustin, US

Jason Cohen(Founder)inDavid Brolsma(Executive Officer)Heather Brunner(Executive Officer)Chad Costello(Executive Officer)Rick Crandall(Director)Mariano Dima(Director)

Co-investorsGolub GrowthHazelview VenturesMantella Venture PartnersPacelineSilver Lake PartnersSilverton Partners+2 more

Yhat provided a platform for managing the complete lifecycle of data science projects, from model development through deployment.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US

Austin Ogilvie(Founder/CEO)inGreg Lamp(Founder)in

Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersLongley CapitalY Combinator

YipitData is a data and analytics company that combines proprietary and licensed datasets—such as card transactions, receipts, web data, and app usage—paired with dedicated analysts to deliver market intelligence.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US

James Dana Moran(Executive Officer, Director)Vinicius Vacanti(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardWilliam D. Porteous(Director)inJason Finger(Director)Dan Nova(Director)

Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersOmega Venture PartnersVCFA GroupCarlyle GroupRRE Ventures

Yoast develops SEO software, including plugins for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify, that provides real-time content analysis, AI-powered optimization suggestions, and readiness for AI-driven search discovery.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Joost de Valk(Founder & CEO)

Co-investorsAugust CapitalB Capital GroupBessemer Venture PartnersBlumberg CapitalCathay InnovationConductive Ventures+26 more

Zuplo builds an API management and gateway platform designed to fit into developers' existing tools and workflows.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSRedmond, US

Nathan Totten(Executive Officer, Director)inJonjo Twist(Executive Officer, Director)Josh Twist(Founder)in

BoardYuval Neeman(Director)

Co-investorsMotive ForceTrilogy Equity Partners