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CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials, allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.

Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their network performance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.

Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research to better understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Eon is an enterprise backup and recovery solution that uses automatic mapping and classification to ensure that only essential data is stored. The EON platform is designed to enhance operational excellence through cloud-based software that implements improvements, develops capabilities, and measures results effectively

Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices.

Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.

Our mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As a research-driven product organization, we bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability. We're building critical infrastructure that empowers developers to understand, edit, and debug AI models at scale, ensuring the creation of safer and more reliable systems. Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

With a mission to keep athletes active and thriving in their chosen sports for as long as possible, Eternal provides members with a holistic understanding of their health, fitness, and benchmarks for key markers of the aging process along with guidance from high-performance care teams to support every stage of an athlete’s journey.

Virtue AI bridges the gap between AI product development and deployment for enterprises. We offer comprehensive, end-to-end AI safety and security solutions to ensure the safe, secure, and privacy-preserving deployment of AI products. Our advanced platform provides rigorous testing, alignment, and moderation across the AI lifecycle, proactively mitigating risks such as cybersecurity vulnerabilities, safety threats, and hallucination issues. Overall, Virtue AI deploys a rigorous testing framework for any AI model or system, offering actionable steps to mitigate potential risks. Our assessments empower enterprises to confidently leverage the power of AI while optimizing their systems and maintaining compliance. By combining expertise in machine learning, security, safety, law, and sociology, we bridge the gap between AI development and secure deployment, setting new standards for secure and responsible AI practices across industries. Our mission is to empower enterprises with innovative solutions that ensure responsible AI development and deployment. By continuously pushing the boundaries of AI safety research and sharing our findings, we contribute to elevating the AI safety community and creating a safer digital future.

Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.

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InScope build the future of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Audits.

Particle. News helps in developing an AI-based news reader that would provide users with personalized news flows. The service is still in the private beta stage.

Portkey enables businesses to design, deploy, maintain, and improve their generative AI apps and features more quickly, through a quick integration, businesses may add observability, model management, experimentation, and compliance to their products.

TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem.

Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations.

Particle. News helps in developing an AI-based news reader that would provide users with personalized news flows. The service is still in the private beta stage.

Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Omega is a Web3 infrastructure supplier that makes it possible for idle bitcoin to be collateralized for DeFi yield production.

We turn disputes and chargebacks into a better member experience, more efficient backoffice process, and reduce loss rates. email: founders[at]casap[dot]capital

Stop using LangChain. Use Substrate, the platform for compound AI. Powerful SDKs, with batteries included: comes with optimized AI models, vector storage, code interpreter, and control flow for agents. Write less code – performance built-in.

We're building a unified API for open-source ML models – elegant abstractions, powered by fast, reliable, affordable systems. Explore infinite possibilities at the frontier of applied ML with dozens of lines of code, not hundreds or thousands.

Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.

Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

We are an AI/ML research and development company on a mission to build reliable, performant, enterprise-grade AI systems at scale for India. We are committed to build the full-stack for generative AI for the rich & diverse landscape of India, mainly investing in: 1) Models: developing both efficient large scale Indic language models as well as bespoke enterprise models 2) Platform: building an enterprise-grade platform that empowers organisations to develop and ship creative and performant genAI applications at scale 3) Ecosystem: contributing to open-source models and datasets, as well as leading efforts for large scale data curation in public-good space

Skild AI is a startup that develops software to power various robots including ones with two or four legs.

Pika is a startup that is developing an AI-powered platform for editing and generating films from captions and still images. The company is revolutionizing the video creation and editing process through the integration of AI, offering a user-friendly and easily accessible tool for everyone.

Big Sur AI is an AI and e-commerce platform that offers software development services.

Patronus AI is the leading automated AI evaluation and security company. The world-class platform enables enterprise development teams to score LLM performance, generate adversarial test cases, benchmark LLMs, and more. Customers use Patronus AI to detect LLM mistakes at scale and deploy AI products safely and confidently.

Mistral AI is a French company selling artificial intelligence (AI) products. It was founded in April 2023 by previous employees of Meta Platforms and Google DeepMind. The company raised €385 million in October 2023, and in December 2023, it was valued at more than $2 billion.

Assort Health helps to improve patient and staff interactions by automating calls.

Base is the modern power company for the electric era. We are building a reliable and affordable home energy service - powered by distributed batteries. Our technology supports the grid during times of peak need and protects customers during outages - for a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Our team is made up of engineers and operators from some of the world’s best technology companies. If you are passionate about pushing forward cutting-edge technology and delivering world-class customer experiences - we want you at Base. We are headquartered in Austin, TX and are growing quickly. Visit us at basepowercompany.com/careers to learn more.

Granola is a SAAS company that offers AI driven note-taking services.

Nexus is a venture-backed startup at the cutting edge of scientific advancements in verifiable computation.

Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Console is the non-custodial multi-chain account to secure, navigate, and automate on-chain interactions. Built for pros. Easy for all.

Sentio's goal is to hasten the spread of decentralized applications (DApps) by introducing the crypto community to the best and most effective infrastructure, infrastructure, and developer tools.

Web 2.0 platforms, digital signage concepts, social media marketing, mobile services, online marketing & analytics training and branding 2.0 concepts for tourism, meeting venues, hospitality, leisure, destinations, business travel , care and B2B. Lowering ICT costs while enhancing online marketing and branding effectivity.

Community Labs is a software development company and venture studio focused on the Arweave ecosystem.

CommandK provides companies with the infrastructure to protect their sensitive data.

Typeface is the generative AI application to supercharge personalized content creation for businesses. By uniting content velocity with brand personalization and control, any enterprise can now create exceptional, on-brand content faster and easier than ever before.

Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.

Typeface is a generative AI application for creating enterprise content. Any enterprise can now create exceptional, on-brand content faster and easier than ever before by combining content velocity with brand personalization and control. It offers self-service content development solutions for the entire lifecycle, allowing every employee to create captivating content with ease, speed, and brand authenticity.

Thena started in April 2022 by ex Branch and Goldman Sachs executives with a vision of redefining customer communication and intelligence. We raised pre-seed from Pejman Nozad of Pear VC, Ben Narasin of Tenacity Fund, Mike Molinet of Branch, Michael Katz of mParticle, Coby Berman of Radar, J Zac of Lattice and others. Email is old. Slack is new. Communicate with your customers from their favorite messaging app, where they already communicate with their teams. Thena makes it easy for customers to open requests, attach files and launch chat conversations in sync with internal tools - all from the convenience of Slack. Automate your communications, reduce human errors and reduce resolution times by 30%.

Descope helps every developer build secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application.

Building the infrastructure layer to make NFTs mainstream Our core product is the leading fiat on-ramp for NFTs, trusted by 5,000+ enterprises and creators, including Magic Eden, Sylvester Stallone, and Kevin Hart. We have a broader suite of APIs and developer tools, including minting APIs, custodial wallets as a service, and cross-chain payments

Foundry is a public cloud supported by an orchestration platform designed to simplify the utilization of AI computing resources. Foundry addresses fundamental economic and technical obstacles encountered in AI and deep learning. Current challenges faced by businesses, such as the notable GPU scarcity and inefficient use of computing capabilities, hinder their effective utilization of resources. Foundry employs pioneering approaches to overcome these hurdles, offering scalable GPU instances with unparalleled price-performance ratios.

Diagonal Therapeutics is a biotechnology startup that is pioneering a novel technique to finding and producing agonist antibodies. Diagonal Therapeutics platform combines novel computational and experimental methodologies to solve the traditional obstacles associated with agonist antibody drug development.

Distyl AI works with organisations to increase their AI readiness and develop integrated AI-based solutions that are specific to their unique data, workflows, and workforce requirements.

Methodical Games is a newly formed studio built around a fundamental set of ideals; a lean talented team, direct cross-discipline collaboration, quick iteration, and developer-driven processes.

Castelion is a venture-backed defense tech company applying modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to critical national security challenges, specifically to solve affordability, scale, and supply chain robustness.

Augment aims to deliver AI coding aid advances to developers and development teams. Augment's deep awareness of each codebase and dependencies simplifies developers' workdays, allowing teams to rediscover the joy of coding.

Opus Clip is a software company that provides generative AI video editing tools.

Nominal is the faster, more reliable way to validate mission-critical systems. We build workflows for the modern hardware team.

Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.

Opus Clip is a software company that provides generative AI video editing tools.

Observo AI was created to help Security and DevOps teams solve their biggest telemetry data problems. Observo AI helps you reduce security and observability costs by 50% or more while resolving incidents more than 40% faster.

Bluebirds is an AI-based data platform to find customer contacts that switched jobs.

Skip is on a mission to help chains harness MEV (Miner Extractable Value) to achieve financial sustainability and power better, cheaper user experiences. Jobs at: jobs.skip.money Our products: 1. Enable users, stakers, and validators share in MEV profits 2. Protect users from the harmful consequences of poorly designed MEV markets 3. Give traders tools to execute more sophisticated and profitable MEV trading strategies See our job board at jobs.skip.money

The Believer Company is a game development studio dedicated to putting the player at the center of their games. It has game developers from all over the world who have created games ranging from Words With Friends to League of Legends, Destiny to PvZ.

Moment is an operator of a fixed-income infrastructure for modern firms. The company's goal is to deliver modern fixed-income solutions to global fintechs, traditional brokerages, and registered investment advisors to make markets more equitable and accessible.

Zocks is a real-time insight and privacy for enhanced video calls. It was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Suno is a technology company based in New York City operating at the intersection of health-tech and fintech with a mission to enable 37 million+ Americans suffering from hearing issues to access medical treatment with ease and at affordable prices.

K2 Space focuses on the latest generation of launch vehicles that will open the doors to the solar system. The company was founded by Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur in 2022 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

Turn your Annual Operating plan into an Always Operating plan with XFactor.io the world’s only intelligent Go-to-Market Platform with constant sales performance monitoring, real-time “Next-Move” recommendations, and live analytics — all with confidence scores, so you can make the right decisions today and everyday.

Anatomy Financial automate financial operations for healthcare.

Find out if ScaleOps is the right fit for your future career! Explore jobs, salary, equity, and funding information. Read about work-life balance, perks, benefits, and the company culture!

Joopiter is a hub for business and community, a location where anybody may find and explore cultural items. It uses bespoke video content that immerses viewers in the world of auctioned objects and the narrative that connects them to amplify the provenance of the objects through original editorial and archival imagery.

The artist-to-fan connection is fractured, limiting an artist’s ability to build tailored creative experiences and sustainable economic opportunities. Medallion is web3 technology that helps artists launch digital worlds to expand fan participation, actionable insights, and economic potential. We are a team of music and tech industry veterans leveraging this new technology to usher the biggest names in music into a new digital era.

We help security engineers manage entitlements, and drive continuous least privilege in their public clouds.

Suno is an organization.

Modern fleet insurance that rewards safety

Deposits brings the workplace into the future by partnering with brands, banks, and businesses to deliver streamlined experiences with money and benefits.

Decentralized blockchain applications introduce a myriad of technical challenges, security vulnerabilities and attack vectors. With DeFi (decentralized finance) protocols now securing hundreds of billions in value in production, the stakes have never been higher. With new technological primitives and bustling innovation, new security paradigms are required. dApps leverage open source modules and often consume other protocols in order to create new applications. This introduces a dependency heavy software architecture which makes it an ideal candidate for runtime verification. Chaos Labs is a cloud platform which enables teams to create high-fidelity agent and scenario-based simulations on mainnet forks, offering a real-world testing environment. By providing a rich library of customizable agents and scenarios, teams can rapidly speed up development and reduce their go-to-market time, helping them stay competitive without compromising on the security of their protocol. Additionally, Chaos Labs focuses on developer tooling and cloud infrastructure, allowing teams to move fast on stable infrastructure. The platform is currently live for protocols on the Ethereum network and later expanding to additional blockchains such as Terra, NEAR and Polygon.

Founded in 2021, Tessell is a hyper-growth Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company offering a revolutionary data infrastructure and management platform for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a big hub in Bangalore, Tessell provides a fully managed service for both open-source and commercial data technologies such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server on all major clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Tessell has raised Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm, to fuel global expansion and focus on delivering a consumer-grade experience for an enterprise-grade service. Tessell is building a pathbreaking technology that revolutionizes the way data is managed in the cloud. Tessell differentiation includes up to 10x more IOPS for your databases; a zero-data loss Availability Machine that protects your data, makes the data available across regions and provides time-travel capability for your data cloning needs; a consumer-grade data consumption experience for developers and data owners; and enterprise-grade data governance and deployment models.

Abata Therapeutics, a company focused on translating the biology of regulatory T cells (Tregs) into transformational medicines for patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and other severe autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

The smart digital marketplace for commercial risk, empowering insurance professionals to BROKER BETTER. Capitola's platform optimizes distribution efficiency through placement process automation and AI-driven risk appetite matching so that broker teams can focus on what they do best: strengthen relationships, expand their client base, and close more deals.

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3.

Seashell is reimagining the flow of money. As a compliance-focused financial product, Seashell provides the simplest way to earn high and stable interest. Seashell's technology harnesses blockchain innovations to offer market-leading and compliant yields at the push of a button, putting more money into everyone's pocket.

Soda Health is a healthcare technology company focused on building solutions that eliminate health inequities and create a healthier America.

Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators.

At Staax, we’re building a better and profitable payment system, which makes investing in stocks as easy as receiving payment from your friends. We believe that friends paying friends in fractional share stocks can be the path for unlocking the gamification behavior that we’re seeing in the stock market, but instead, with the healthy financial decisions that we believe can benefit generations. Our users are able to get paid back by turning their $10 for coffee into AAPL stock, instantly. We’re changing the way consumers access the stock market to allow the everyday person to build long term wealth, in a way they couldn't before. Our founding team has business finance, crypto, and engineering experience at companies like McKinsey & Co., KKR, The White House, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Coinbase, and we believe we are the team to solve this problem. Miro-transactions are the future of investing! Join us on this journey as we reimagine the way payments are done for millions of people.

Schmooze Dating is an app that has introduced a new feature called schmooze flirts which selects memes from the app's algorithm that a match is likely to laugh at and encourages users to send the meme to their match in order to start a conversation. The user has 48 hours to message the other person before the chat disappears. The app alsoincludes icebreakers to help to get started before a match is removed.

Normalyze is a pioneering provider of cloud data security solutions, helping customers secure their data, applications, identities, and infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. With Normalyze, organizations can discover and visualize their data attack surface within minutes and get real-time visibility and control into their security posture, including access, configurations, and sensitive data to secure it at scale and prevent expensive data breaches.

Ketryx is an information technology company that features software development tools built for developers, by developers.

Chainguard is making the software supply chain secure by default.

Scrut Automation is an Information security compliance platform.

Kalam Labs is a live game streaming platform at the intersection of K-12 learning and multiplayer gaming. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

Aidaly is a digital fiscal intermediary service providing compensation, coaching, and financial services to family caregivers.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Republic Realm is a digital real estate vehicle that invests in virtual worlds through NFTs. They invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.

Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.

Endor Labs' mission is to deliver the impossible - create secure software supply chains that actually make developers more productive, rather than drowning in useless alerts.

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.

Redpanda Data is a modern streaming data platform for mission-critical workloads. Kafka API compatible. Safe by default. 10X faster. They leverages the Raft consensus algorithm for managing the replicated log, giving you sound primitives for configuration and data-replication. No matter the scale, they keep your data safe.

Ancora Biotech LLC is a privately held company supporting the clinical development of three multi-specific antibodies. These three antibodies are held in separate spin-offs, namely: 1) TeneoTwo holds our clinical stage TNB-486 (anti-CD19xCD3) T cell engager for the safe and effective treatment of B cell cancers, 2) TeneoFour holds our preclinical TNB-738 (anti-CD38) enzyme inhibitor for the treatment of inflammatory and metabolic disorders in the elderly, and 3) TeneoTen holds our preclinical T cell engager (anti-HBVxCD3) for the curative treatment of chronic hepatitis B infections (CHB). TNB-738 is poised to enter Phase I clinical studies by early 2022 and we anticipate to select a clinical lead for CHB by mid-2022. Certain former executives and former shareholders of Teneobio, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures, have formed Ancora Biotech to oversee all manufacturing and clinical development of these assets.

Lost Lake Games is an independent studio committed to making games that blaze new trails and spark the next adventure. It was founded by veteran game developers with a shared love of their craft.

Magic Eden is the #1 NFT marketplace on Solana. Home to the next generation of digital creators. Our mission is to be the only destination for discovering, trading, and creating NFTs. Magic Eden aims to bring the strongest user-friendly experience with cutting-edge tools and support that will allow creators to seamlessly mint and generate digital content and lead the fate and growth of their digital communities online. Magic Eden is backed by the industry’s leading investors including: Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Ventures, Solana Capital and Co-founders of Phantom.