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Adelphi provides a federated data connectivity platform that gives intelligence analysts secure, permission-aware access to data scattered across disparate systems, agencies, and partners without moving or duplicating it.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDefense Tech

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFlex Capital Partners

Alkymi provides an AI-powered platform that extracts and automates data from unstructured documents, turning it into workflow-ready data via APIs.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsWork-BenchIntel CapitalCanaan Partners

Apollo provides an AI-powered platform designed for go-to-market teams to improve sales and marketing productivity.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSales TechSan Francisco, US

Tim Zheng(Founder/CEO)inRay Li(Founder)inMatt Curl(Chief Executive Officer)Marcio Arnecke(Chief Marketing Officer)Adam Carr(Chief Revenue Officer)Phil Moon(Chief Financial Officer)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsA*Angel Collective Opportunity FundBain Capital VenturesNewView CapitalPathlight VenturesStruck Capital+8 more

Arcol is a building design authoring platform that integrates construction and preconstruction intelligence into the design process, supporting collaboration between teams and AI agents.

Construction TechPropTechSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsCraft VenturesCowboy Ventures

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)

BoardEliot Durbin(Director)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsY Combinatorboldstart venturesFirst Round CapitalGeneral CatalystLowercase Capital

Atmanity is a platform for creating and discovering AI-generated avatars, offering a library of thousands of avatars that users can browse and make their own.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator Economy

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAddin VentureGFR Fund

Axolotl is an open-source tool for fine-tuning and customizing large language models across different AI architectures, supporting techniques like LoRA, qLoRA, and PEFT with faster training.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAfore CapitalFikaLeadout CapitalChapter One

Chroma Sync is a serverless data ingestion service for Chroma Cloud that connects S3 buckets, GitHub repositories, and websites, then parses, chunks, and embeds the content for search.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAlt CapitalAir Street CapitalAIX VenturesAngel Collective Opportunity FundBloomberg BetaQuiet Capital

Clarify builds a modern CRM platform that consolidates customer data from multiple sources, automates workflows, and provides insights to drive business growth.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechDover, US

Patrick Thompson(Co-Founder / CEO)inOndrej Hrebicek(Co-Founder / CTO)inAustin Hay(Executive Officer, Director)Pranav Priyush(CEO)

BoardMatt Garratt(Director)Zachary Bratun-Glennon(Director)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFikaGradient VenturesInvariantes FundMadrona Venture GroupUS Venture PartnersInsight Partners

Cleanlab develops machine learning tools for data quality and model improvement, serving enterprises and ML practitioners across industries.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Curtis Northcutt(Founder)inJonas Mueller(Co-founder)inAnish AthalyeinAnishathalye(Co-founder)Ulyana Tkachenko(Co-founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsMenlo VenturesPreston-Werner VenturesSamsung NextTq Ventures LlcAME Cloud VenturesBain Capital Ventures+1 more

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

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors1984 Ventures Management, Llc

Coana provides software composition analysis (SCA) with reachability analysis that identifies which open-source vulnerabilities in direct and indirect dependencies are actually reachable, filtering out unexploitable ones so developers focus remediation on relevant issues.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Coiled is a lightweight compute platform that enables data engineers and scientists to scale Python code to thousands of cloud machines without Kubernetes or Docker.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Matthew Rocklin(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCostanoa VenturesIA 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)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCraft VenturesFoundersTranspose Platform ManagementChemistryCursor Capital+2 more

Comm is an encrypted messaging platform for communities that combines Signal's end-to-end encryption model with personal servers to support community features like channels, roles, and threads.

Crypto & Web3SocialNew York City, US

AshoatAshoat Tevosyan(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsVibe CapitalElectric CapitalEniac Ventures

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Crash Override monitors code written by humans and AI agents, inspects each build layer, applies cryptographic tagging to artifacts, and tracks their provenance in production environments.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

Mark Curphey(Director)John Viega(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardJay Allan Leek II(Director)Erik Nordlander(Director)inMichael Droesch(Director)inGerhard Eschelbeck(Director)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersFirestreak VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcGV (Google Ventures)SYN Ventures

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

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAngel Collective Opportunity FundAvant LabsGood News VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Y Combinator+1 more

DeepSource is an AI-powered code review platform that combines static analysis with AI agents to flag security vulnerabilities, bugs, and quality issues on pull requests and across full codebases.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

An AI security and trust platform securing live voice and video calls with real-time context analysis, deepfake detection, and social engineering response automation.

San Francisco, US

Aman Ibrahim(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsResponsibly VenturesRipple VenturesYAR Ventures

DevZero profiles, schedules, and rightsizes Kubernetes workloads without restarts to cut cloud compute costs, and offers a beta tool to measure and reroute LLM provider traffic for cost, latency, and reliability optimization.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Adam Hiatt(Executive Officer, Director)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsPoint72 Ventures

Dragonfly is a Redis-compatible, multi-threaded (thread-per-core) in-memory data store that delivers higher throughput and better memory efficiency on a smaller hardware footprint.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Oded Poncz(Founder)Roman Gershman(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

effx built a platform to help engineering teams collaborate and work more productively, with a focus on microservices architectures.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsCowboy VenturesESSENCE VCKleiner PerkinsTokyo BlackModern Technical

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)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAlliance VCESSENCE VCKleiner PerkinsAlliance VentureCrane Venture PartnersDig Ventures Management Limited

Eventual builds data infrastructure for teams training Physical AI models on video and high-frequency sensor data such as lidar and fleet logs.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsLaude Ventures

Everest is an AI platform that automates regulatory, clinical, and commercial document workflows for pharmaceutical, medtech, and contract research organizations (CROs), generating submission-ready documents and associated statistical analyses from source data.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareMedical Devices

Mark G. Grondin(CEO)Ashley Ferreira(CEO)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsTq Ventures LlcQuiet Capital

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)

Co-investorsDesigner FundKindred VenturesA16Z SpeedrunESSENCE VC

Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and control platform offering experiments, monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US

Krishna Gade(Founder & CEO)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundaVentureBenhamou Global VenturesCisco InvestmentsDentsu VenturesE12 Venture Capital, Llc+20 more

Flarion provides performance-optimization technology for distributed data-processing engines such as Spark, Hadoop, and Ray, using tools like Polars and Apache Arrow to improve speed and memory efficiency.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Udi Tizan(Founder)inRan Reichman(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsHetz VenturesSierra Ventures

Flatfile provides an AI-powered platform for data migration, letting teams collect, map, clean, transform, and validate file-based data through a spreadsheet-like interface with automated extraction, validation rules, and AI transformations.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Flowglad is a platform that unifies cross-system automations, context, and knowledge for professional service teams.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Agree Ahmed(Co-Founder)inHarrison Telyan(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFinancial Venture StudioRestive VenturesSouth QuadY Combinator

Flox provides reproducible development environments built on Nix, letting developers bundle the tools and frameworks they need across the software lifecycle.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Ron Efroni(CEO)inMichael Brantley(CTO)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsHetz VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Angel Collective Opportunity FundFirestreak Ventures

Flux develops a browser-based tool for hardware design collaboration that enables teams to work together efficiently.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHardwareSan Francisco, US

Matthias Wagner(Founder)inLance Cassidy(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors8VCBehind Genius VenturesOutsidersPreston-Werner Ventures

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsEngineering Capital

Gable uses static analysis of source code to trace field-level data lineage, mapping how sensitive data flows from consumer-facing apps through backend systems to storage without runtime agents or sampling.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Daniel Dicker(Founder)Chad Sanderson(Founder)inJames Frost(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCrane Venture PartnersRoosh Venturesx15ventures (Commonwealth Bank)+1 more

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)Paras Jain(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundEastlink Capital PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Iris is a natural-language-to-SQL analytics tool that lets executives and business teams ask questions in plain language and get data answers in under a minute.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Kite provides an agent interface and a purpose-built, EVM-compatible blockchain that lets AI agents run workflows and transact autonomously, with native stablecoin settlement and deterministic finality.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer ToolsSan Francisco, US

Scott Shi(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesRR2 CapitalSamsung Next

Good Start Labs builds game-based learning environments, benchmarks, and data-generation pipelines that produce verifiable rewards and real human feedback to train and evaluate AI models.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechGaming

Alex Duffy(Founder)inTyler(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsInovia CapitalTIRTA Ventures

Groundlight builds machine learning and computer vision technology to enable robotics applications.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsRoboticsSeattle, US

AviLeo Dirac(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsMadrona Venture GroupFounders' Co-opGreycroft Partners

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBetaworks

Herald provides an AI-powered platform and API for insurance brokerages, including an intelligence engine, an email-based AI agent that extracts client data and sends submissions, and connectivity to carriers, MGUs, MGAs, wholesale brokerages, and program managers.

AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAfore CapitalBrewer Lane VenturesUnderscore VC

A full-stack monitoring platform that helps developers identify performance issues and bugs in web applications through session replay and error tracking.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US

Jay Khatri(Cofounder, CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly))inVadim Korolik(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAfore CapitalCraft VenturesFuel CapitalNeoRamtin NaimiWorklife Ventures+5 more

HumanSignal offers labeling and evaluation automation within Label Studio Enterprise, using prompts and LLMs to generate pre-labels, run active-learning retraining loops, and score model outputs against rubrics.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Michael Malyuk(Founder)inNikolai Liubimov(Founder)inMax Tkachenko

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBow CapitalSwift VenturesUnusual VenturesRedpoint Ventures500 Global

Stream processing cloud that lets developers turn data into real-time action at scale.

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsCusp Capital

IOP Systems operates inference infrastructure for machine learning models in customer cloud environments, leveraging experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

YaoYueMihir Nanavati

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFoothill VenturesScribble Ventures

Modal provides a serverless cloud platform designed for data, AI, and machine learning applications, enabling developers to scale from zero to thousands of CPUs or GPUs with simple code.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US

Erik BernhardssonAkshat Bubna(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumGeneral CatalystAbstraction Capital+8 more

Jasper provides an AI-powered platform for marketers and creators to generate and refine content.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSAustin, US

Chris Hull(Founder/Vice President of Customer Success)inJP Morgan(Founder/CTO)inDave Rogenmoser(Founder)inJohn Philip Morgan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Shane Orlick(Executive Officer)Timothy Youngin

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Angel Collective Opportunity FundBessemer Venture PartnersCoatue ManagementHubSpot VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)+6 more

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Keycard provides identity and access control for AI agents, enforcing policies on agent tool and API access while issuing short-lived, task-scoped credentials.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsModern TechnicalTapestry VCVermilion Cliffs VenturesAcrew CapitalAndreessen Horowitzboldstart ventures

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)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Swift VenturesThe E14 FundTheory VenturesWayfinder Ventures+5 more

LaunchNotes is a platform that connects product feedback, roadmap, and release communication so stakeholders know what is shipping and why it matters.

Developer ToolsMarketing TechSaaSCalifornia, US

Tyler Davis(Co-founder & CEO)inJake Brereton(Co-founder & COO)inEvan Michner(Director of Product)inAdam Wardlow(Director of Product Marketing)inJack Sneeringer(Director of Sales)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAtlassian VenturesBull City Venture PartnersCowboy VenturesInsight Partners

Legion Intelligence builds AI agents that perform work—search, chat-based answers, content drafting, and multi-step workflow automation—across an organization's existing systems and documents, with source attribution, human-in-the-loop approval, and access governance.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Jason Schnitzer(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsNava VenturesXYZ Venture Capital

Letta is an AI research lab building self-improving digital agents that use memory-native reinforcement learning and programmatic context management to learn continuously from experience over time.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Sarah Wooders(Cofounder)Charles Packer(Founder)inSarah Wooders, PhD(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFelicis Ventures

Levo is a runtime application security platform that discovers, tests, and monitors APIs, AI agents, LLMs, MCP servers, and vector stores using eBPF-powered runtime visibility.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Disarray builds AI research agents designed for long-horizon autonomy over heterogeneous data, using a context graph that captures lineage across data, code, execution history, and documentation to form hypotheses, run experiments, and interpret results.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors.406 VenturesLaude Ventures

Liveblocks provides realtime infrastructure for building multiplayer and collaborative applications, handling concurrent edits on shared data so that both people and AI agents can work in sync.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Maestro is an open-source mobile UI testing tool that runs human-readable YAML end-to-end tests on iOS simulators and Android emulators, with a CLI, visual test IDE (Studio), cloud runner, and an MCP server for AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Jacob Krupski(Founder)Leland Takamine(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsModern TechnicalAcronym Venture CapitalDraper AssociatesDraper DragonNetEaseNew Stack Ventures+3 more

Mage is a data workflow platform where users describe an outcome and the system builds and runs AI-generated workflows that connect sources, apply checks, and deliver validated data to dashboards, products, APIs, and agents.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSanta Clara, US

Georges Mangin(Founder)Tommy Dang(Founder)Xiaoyou Wang(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsDesigner FundGradient VenturesLigature VCSINEWAVE VENTURESAnorak 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

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsStandard CapitalY CombinatorESSENCE VCTwenty Two Ventures

Mesh provides a real-time B2B verification API that helps companies verify and onboard legitimate U.S. businesses, including SMBs and licensed professionals, by checking business registration, professional licenses, and business risk signals.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAfore CapitalAscend Venture CapitalCoinbase VenturesLiberty City VenturesModerne VenturesParadigm+1 more

Mixpeek is a multimodal search and retrieval platform that indexes video, image, audio, and document files on a company's existing object storage, extracting features like scenes, faces, OCR, transcripts, and embeddings to return timestamped search results.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Moment is a document and internal-tooling tool with a built-in reactive programming environment using React and Tailwind CSS, storing documents as plain Markdown files on disk in git/Jujutsu repositories.

Developer ToolsFuture of WorkSaaSSeattle, US

Lita Cho(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Monograph is a firm management platform for US-based architecture and engineering firms (roughly 5 to 50 people), combining pipeline and proposal management, project budgeting and time tracking, project accounting, invoicing, and payments in one system.

Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsDesigner FundHomebrewParade Ventures

MotherDuck provides a serverless cloud analytics database built on DuckDB, enabling users to query and understand their data more easily.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSeattle, US

Jordan Tigani(Co-founder and Chief Duck-Herder)inHannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino TereshkoRyan Boyd(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzEastlink Capital PartnersFelicis VenturesFirestreak VenturesKearny Jackson+7 more

Nectry provides a governance and control plane for enterprise AI agents, chatbots, and apps, letting companies build specialized, policy-scoped agents and bring existing AI (in Copilot, Salesforce, or low-code tools) under audit-ready control.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Daniel Winograd-Cort(Founder)inAdam Chlipala(Chief Scientist)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFoothill VenturesSamsung NextThe E14 Fund

Nilo is a browser-based 3D creative suite that lets users generate, customize, rig, animate, and export 3D assets and skins for Roblox from sketches, images, or text prompts, without using tools like Blender.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyGamingSan Francisco, US

Nuno Leiria(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

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)James Wu(Director)

BoardAndrew McLoughlin(Director)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsDeep AcreHawk Hill VenturesMantis CapitalRed Swan VenturesAlumni VenturesESSENCE VC+2 more

Ollama provides a platform for building with and running open-source language models locally and in the cloud.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US

Jeffrey Morgan(Founder)inMichael Chiang(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundPace CapitalTheory VenturesY Combinator8VCBenchmark+1 more

OpenInfer builds inference infrastructure and tools that enable AI models to run efficiently on resource-constrained platforms and edge devices.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Mateo, US

Behnam Bastani(Co-Founder & CEO)Reza Nourai(Co-Founder & CTO)Kam Eshghi(Chief Business Officer)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsCota CapitalMFV PartnersOperator StackTau Ventures

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)Bas de Goei(Head of Marketing)Justin Chuan(Head of Design)

BoardSaam Motamedi(Board Member / Investor Representative (Partner, Greylock))in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundData Community FundESSENCE VCFOG VenturesGreylock PartnersMayfield Fund+8 more

Phonic builds a speech-to-speech voice agent platform using its own audio models for natural conversation and tool calling.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

San Francisco-based Poggio Labs builds AI "revenue agents" that generate continuously updated account plans inside Salesforce.

San Francisco, US

Connor Doyle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matthew Slotnick(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAccelSpark Capital

ProjectDiscovery offers Neo, an autonomous AI-powered security testing platform that continuously scans web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to identify and verify vulnerabilities with high accuracy and minimal false positives.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Rishiraj Sharma(Founder)inSandeep Singh(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Mango CapitalPoint72 VenturesRain CapitalSignalFire

Hoboken, US

Andrew Stein(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Noah Carr(Director)

BoardEric Schmalzbauer(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsPoint72 VenturesREFASHIOND Ventures

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsVela PartnersVermilion Cliffs Ventures

Readyset is a database scaling platform that sits in front of existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to accelerate read performance with sub-millisecond latencies.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBeverly Hills, US

Alana Renda(Founder)inNatalie Lao(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersIndex VenturesThe E14 FundZero Prime Ventures

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors468 Capital

Cloud infrastructure security startup whose guardrails platform made secure, compliant resource provisioning the default for developers.

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFelicis VenturesGeneral Partnership

Restate is a lightweight runtime that turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes with durable execution, consistent state, and reliable communication.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSanta Clara, US

Igal Shilman(Director)Till Rohrmann(Director)Stephan Ewen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ahmed Farghal(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsfirstminute capitalRedpoint Ventures

Rosebud AI provides generative AI tools that enable users to create games and immersive interactive experiences without requiring extensive technical expertise.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsGamingSan Francisco, US

Lisha Li(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors2am VCAngel Collective Opportunity FundFoothill VenturesKhosla VenturesY CombinatorAnimoca Brands

Runebook builds user interfaces for large language models, including Tome, a local LLM client with MCP support.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Peter Cho(Executive Officer, Director)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Herald is an AI SRE (site reliability engineering) agent that builds a context graph across observability data, codebase, CI/CD, docs, and dependencies to detect anomalies, investigate incidents, and deliver root-cause analyses before alerts fire.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsZero Prime Ventures

Sardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Francisco, US

Soups Ranjan(Founder & CEO)inAdi G(Founder)Zahid Shaikh(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors11.2 CapitalActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCannage CapitalCoinbase VenturesCross Creek Advisors+14 more

Saris builds an AI platform for banks and credit unions to automate workflow tasks and enhance employee productivity without replacing human workers.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

James Dang(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investors8VCAudaciousBTECH CONSORTIUMHomebrew

Sentio provides a decentralized, AI-powered modular data and compute network for Web3 developers, offering tools such as a data processor and hosted subgraphs.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US

Fuyao Zhao(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Fused is an end-to-end Python platform with data-aware AI that lets data teams and individuals explore data using natural-language prompts, build charts, and share results, including geospatial analysis.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaSNew York, US

Isaac Brodsky(Founder)Sina Kashuk(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFontinalis PartnersMyriad Venture Partners

Signadot provides a Kubernetes-native developer platform that simplifies the development of cloud-native applications by enabling faster feedback loops and collaborative testing at scale.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Arjun Iyer(Founder)inAnirudh Ramanathan(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsRedpoint VenturesY Combinator

Torq offers an AI-based Security Operations Center (SOC) platform that helps security teams triage, investigate, and respond to threats.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

A platform that enables users to deploy and manage multiple AI agents for operational tasks.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsbacktrace capitalPeak

Blacksburg, US

Ray Jenkins(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Heffner(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJoseph Ruscio(Director)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsHeavybitUncork Capital

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)Nick Bruun(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardDan Scholnick(Director)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsDesigner FundESSENCE VC

Open lakehouse storage platform by the creators of Apache Iceberg (Databricks)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzSV AngelUnusual VenturesValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcAltimeter CapitalZetta Venture Partners

Teleskope offers a data security platform with a "Data Reasoning Layer" that discovers, classifies, and automatically remediates sensitive data exposure across an organization's environment.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

Elizabeth Nammour(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inJulie Trias(Director)

BoardBrian Schechter(Director)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsA'Z AngelsPrimary Venture Partners

Eva is an AI-powered research platform that conducts and maintains systematic reviews and meta-analyses by continuously updating them as new clinical trials emerge.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US

Cyrus Nouroozi(Co-Founder)inAmir Mehr(Co-Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsY Combinator

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

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

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzExpaHarpoon VenturesESSENCE VCIntel Capital+2 more

Turso is a database engine built as a Rust rewrite of SQLite, adding concurrent writes, native vector search, cloud-native replication, and browser/on-device support via WebAssembly.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsLondon, CA

Glauber Costa(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsFirst Star VenturesMango CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersPreston-Werner Ventures

Uniform is a digital experience platform (DXP) that combines content management, orchestration, personalization, and agentic AI for building and managing digital experiences.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Unify provides AI agents that handle routine business tasks across communications, sales, operations, and engineering by executing pre-built workflows or custom automation.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSLondon, GB

Daniel Lenton(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalLunar Ventures+9 more

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)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsUncork CapitalESSENCE VCDeep AcreHomebrewPreston-Werner VenturesTokyo Black

Unstructured transforms complex, unstructured data (64+ file types) into clean, structured data suitable for AI and analysis, handling ETL, security, compliance, and integrations across enterprise systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Brian Raymond(Founder & CEO)Brian S. Raymond(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Madrona Venture GroupMango CapitalMenlo VenturesBain Capital Ventures+4 more

Warp builds an agentic development environment that began as a re-imagined terminal and now lets developers dispatch AI agents to write, deploy, and debug software.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Zach Lloyd(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBoxGroupContraryNext Play VenturesBattery Ventures

Wizia monitors a health plan's existing claims, eligibility, and pharmacy data to detect when a member should take a cost-saving action, then sends plan-branded text messages prompting that action and measures the dollars saved.

Digital HealthHealthtechInsurTech

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Workbrew is a management platform for Homebrew that lets teams centrally deploy software from a library of 15k+ packages, enforce policies, manage vulnerabilities, and keep packages patched.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareConcord, US

Vanessa Gennarelli(Founder)

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsOperator Collective

Vectara is an enterprise agent platform for building AI agents deployable via SaaS, customer-managed VPC, or on-premise, with model-agnostic support and built-in governance.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US

Tallat M. Shafaat(Founder)Amr Awadallah(Founder)in

PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP

Co-investorsBrighter CapitalFusionMDSV CAPITALPage One VenturesSamsung NextSparkLabs Korea+5 more