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Coana provides static analysis tools that identify reachable security vulnerabilities in software dependencies, filtering out false positives to help developers prioritize genuine threats.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Anders Møller(Professor)Benjamin BarslevMartin TorpAnders Søndergaard
Co-investorsSequoia CapitalEssence Venture Capital
effx built a platform to help engineering teams collaborate and work more productively, with a focus on microservices architectures.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesKleiner PerkinsTokyo BlackModern TechnicalEssence Venture Capital
Encore is a backend development platform that lets developers declare cloud infrastructure directly in application code, run a local environment mirroring the cloud, and automatically provision production infrastructure in their own AWS or GCP accounts.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSStockholm, SE
Marcus Kohlberg(Founder)inAndré Eriksson(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlliance VCKleiner PerkinsAlliance VentureCrane Venture PartnersDig Ventures Management LimitedEssence Venture Capital
Letta is an AI research lab building self-improving AI agents that manage memory through programmatic context management and continuous learning.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
BoardIon Stoica(Advisor)Joey Gonzalez(Advisor)
Co-investorsFelicis VenturesAngel Collective Opportunity Fund
Mixpeek provides a multimodal AI data platform for advertising technology companies to analyze images, videos, audio, and text content for contextual targeting, creative performance attribution, brand safety, and audience insights.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsWork-BenchEssence Venture Capital
Unkey is an API management platform for developers, designed to handle API workflows including integration and scaling.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
James Perkins(Co-founder)inAndreas Thomas(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsUncork CapitalDeep AcreHomebrewPreston-Werner VenturesEssence Venture CapitalTokyo Black
Cline is an open source AI coding agent runtime that developers use inside their IDE, terminal, or embedded via an SDK to plan and execute coordinated multi-file code changes, run terminal commands, and automate workflows in CI pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Saoud Rizwan(Founder)in
Co-investors1984 Ventures Management, LlcEmergence CapitalEssence Venture CapitalPace CapitalZero Prime Ventures
Comfy is an open-source tool for building repeatable visual AI workflows by chaining multiple AI models together.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Yoland Y.(Founder)inYaozhong Yan(Executive Officer, Director)Junhan Huang(Director)
BoardChristopher Paik(Director)Yannik Marek(Director)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCraft VenturesFoundersTranspose Platform ManagementChemistryCursor Capital+2 more
Datafold builds AI-powered agents and tools that automate complex data engineering tasks including migrations, optimization, CI/CD, and data quality validation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Gleb Mezhanskiy(Founder)inAlex Morozov(Founder)in
BoardAaron Jacobson(Director)inPeter Sonsini(Director)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAngel Collective Opportunity FundAvant LabsGood News VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Y Combinator+2 more
Eventual is a San Francisco startup founded in 2022 that builds Daft, a high-performance data engine for processing multimodal AI data (images, video, audio, text) at scale, and sells Eventual Cloud, a commercial platform based on it.
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesAlleyCorpArray Ventures Management LlcCaffeinated CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Felicis Ventures+3 more
Eventual's Direct Bill is a financial reconciliation platform for insurance agencies that automates the matching of carrier statements to policy records and accounting systems, eliminating manual spreadsheet work and reconciliation delays.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mohit Chawla(CEO)in
Co-investorsBlank VenturesPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)AlleyCorpArray Ventures Management LlcCaffeinated CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)+5 more
Fearn is a patent prosecution firm that handles patent drafting and filing for technology teams, founded by former Big Law patent professionals and PhDs.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTech
Han Kim(Co-founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsDesigner FundKindred VenturesA16Z SpeedrunEssence Venture Capital
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Genmo is a research lab building frontier AI models for video generation, positioning its models as world simulators for embodied AI and synthetic environments.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeep TechMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Ajay Jain(Founder)inParas Jain(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundEastlink Capital PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Essence Venture CapitalGold House VenturesHouse+1 more
Stream processing cloud that lets developers turn data into real-time action at scale.
Co-investorsCusp Capital468 CapitalCortical VenturesEssence Venture Capital
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Chang She(Founder)inLei Xu(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Swift VenturesThe E14 FundTheory VenturesWayfinder Ventures+6 more
Magic provides managed virtual assistant teams for executives and growing businesses, handling administrative tasks like calendar management, email, travel planning, and operational coordination.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSWashington, US
Mike Chen(Founder/CEO)inAaron Kemmer(Founder)inDavid Merriman(Founder)inNic Novak(Founder)inMichael Rubin(Founder/CFO)in
Co-investorsAltra VentureMVP VenturesSilicon VenturesSprint VcY CombinatorBling Capital+4 more
Magic provides a bank-based payment solution that allows merchants to accept direct bank transfers at checkout, reducing processing fees and payment failures compared to traditional card payments.
E-commerceFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Chetan Kulhari(Founder)inDavid Guo(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorBling CapitalFloodgateLerer HippeauStandard CapitalTwenty Two Ventures
Magic Patterns generates user interface designs that match existing product styling and enables rapid prototyping of new features.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Danilowicz(Founder)inTeddy Ni(Founder)in
Co-investorsStandard CapitalY CombinatorEssence Venture CapitalTwenty Two Ventures
Nuon is a platform that lets software developers run their applications natively inside their customers' cloud accounts, supporting the BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployment model for B2B applications.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBeverly Hills, US
Jon Morehouse(CEO, Founder)inJames Wu(Director)in
BoardAndrew McLoughlin(Director)in
Co-investorsDeep AcreHawk Hill VenturesMantis CapitalRed Swan VenturesUncork CapitalAlumni Ventures+2 more
Orb provides billing and revenue infrastructure for software companies, enabling usage-based and hybrid pricing models.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alvaro Morales(Co-Founder & CEO)inKshitij Grover(Co-Founder & CTO)inJosh Buckler(Head of Sales)inBas de Goei(Head of Marketing)inJustin Chuan(Head of Design)in
BoardSaam Motamedi(Board Member / Investor Representative (Partner, Greylock))in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundData Community FundFOG VenturesGreylock PartnersMayfield FundMenlo Ventures+9 more
Patterns provides an AI-powered platform for financial analysis and reporting that allows users to perform data analysis using natural language instead of traditional spreadsheets.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ken Van Haren(Founder)inChris Stanley(Founder)in
Co-investorsRoot Ventures Manager, LlcWayfinder VenturesY CombinatorStandard CapitalTwenty Two Ventures
Superframe is a customer intelligence platform that consolidates customer signals into a context layer for AI-powered go-to-market teams, providing cited answers to GTM questions.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechPalo Alto, US
Derek Steer(Executive Officer, Director)inNick Bruun(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardDan Scholnick(Director)
Co-investorsDesigner FundEssence Venture Capital
Truffle Security develops TruffleHog, an open-source secrets scanning tool that identifies and remediates exposed credentials such as encryption keys in cloud and SaaS environments before exploitation.
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Dylan Ayrey(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzExpaHarpoon VenturesEssence Venture CapitalIntel Capital+2 more
Yurts (Legion Intelligence) builds enterprise AI agents that perform search, analysis, content creation, and multi-step workflow automation across an organization's existing systems and documents, with source attribution and human-in-the-loop controls.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ben David Van Roo(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Schnitzer(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardManish Patel(Director)Ross Fubini(Director)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundGlynn Capital ManagementMango CapitalBloomberg BetaNava VenturesXYZ Venture Capital
ZettaBlock provides enterprise-grade blockchain data infrastructure and APIs for developers building Web3 applications across multiple blockchains.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureSan Francisco, US
Evan Cheng(Co-founder & CEO)Scott Shi(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity Fund8VCAlumni VenturesAnimoca BrandsAvalanche FoundationDispersion Capital+7 more
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