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AI safety company and maker of Claude AI models

Artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk that builds large language models and the Grok chatbot, with the mission to understand the true nature of the universe.

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building autonomous systems, AI software, and sensor hardware for military and national security applications. Founded by Oculus VR creator Palmer Luckey and former Palantir employees, the company builds products including autonomous drones, surveillance towers, underwater vehicles, and the Lattice AI platform that integrates sensors and effectors into a unified command-and-control system.

French artificial intelligence company that develops open-weight and proprietary large language models, offering frontier AI through its platform La Plateforme and chatbot Le Chat.

Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users.

Zepto is an Indian quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries, household essentials, and electronics to customers in approximately 10 minutes through a network of hyper-local dark stores. Founded by two Stanford dropouts, the company operates over 900 dark stores across major Indian cities.

Cloud security company that provides a unified platform for cloud-native application protection, enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate critical risks across their cloud environments.

Skild AI develops generalist foundation models for robotics and physical-world AI intelligence, enabling robots to perform a wide range of tasks through embodied AI.

Online wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands with independent retailers. Retailers discover and buy from over 100,000 brands with free returns, net-60 payment terms, and data-driven recommendations.

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides buy now, pay later (BNPL) services, offering consumers transparent installment payment options at the point of sale. Founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S.-based BNPL platform.

All-in-one corporate travel, payments, and expense management platform (formerly TripActions). Combines travel booking, corporate-issued payment cards, expense reporting, and analytics for businesses. Serves over 10,000 customers globally and went public on the Nasdaq (NAVN) in October 2025.

Austin-based energy technology startup that manufactures, installs, owns, and operates residential battery storage systems to provide homes with affordable, reliable backup power. The company operates as both a licensed electricity provider and a virtual power plant, pooling thousands of home batteries into a distributed energy network that strengthens the grid.

Carta is an ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. The company provides cap table management, 409A valuations, fund administration, and equity plan management, serving over 35,000 startups and 200+ venture funds.

Open-source columnar database management system designed for real-time analytics and AI workloads. Originally developed at Yandex and open-sourced in 2016, it became an independent company in 2021.

Live-stream shopping marketplace where buyers and sellers connect in real-time video auctions. Originally focused on collectibles like Funko Pops and Pokemon cards, now expanded to dozens of categories including sports cards, sneakers, fashion, electronics, and art.

Enterprise blockchain company providing global financial settlement solutions. Its technology, including the XRP Ledger and RippleNet, enables real-time cross-border payments for financial institutions. One of the most prominent companies in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance.

AI voice technology company specializing in realistic speech synthesis, voice cloning, and multilingual text-to-speech.

Open-source durable execution platform for building reliable distributed applications. Provides "virtual durable memory" that maintains application state across failures. Critical execution layer for AI agents in production, used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, Snap, Airbnb, and Stripe.

Digital savings and investment infrastructure platform that powers workplace retirement plans, state-sponsored savings programs, and other savings vehicles for financial institutions, employers, and governments. Serves over 500,000 businesses and more than 2 million active savers with $50B+ in assets administered.

Alchemy is a blockchain infrastructure and developer platform often described as the 'AWS of blockchain.' The company provides APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tools that power the majority of top Web3 applications, including OpenSea, MetaMask, and Robinhood. Alchemy handles over $100B in annualized on-chain transactions and serves developers across 197 countries.

ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity and project management platform that consolidates tasks, docs, chat, goals, and whiteboards into a single workspace. The company serves over 20 million users globally and was bootstrapped to $20M ARR before taking outside funding.

Neurotechnology company developing a brain-computer interface called Science Eye to restore vision for people with retinal diseases. Uses a thin-film microLED display implanted behind the retina. Founded by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak.

Rain is a global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, providing infrastructure to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly via Visa rails across 150+ countries.

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building AI systems to transform semiconductor design, founded by the co-creators of Google's AlphaChip.

Nominal builds the unified, real-time test stack for physical systems. The platform helps engineering teams developing complex hardware (aircraft, satellites, autonomous vehicles, fusion energy systems, weapons programs) to test, validate, and monitor their systems continuously.

AI search visibility platform helping businesses understand and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results. Provides analytics and tools for brands to track their presence across AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Customer loyalty, marketing automation, and payments platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Fivestars replaced paper punch cards with digital loyalty programs, serving over 12,000 local businesses with 70 million consumer members, processing $3B in annual sales. Founded by two ex-McKinsey consultants who saw that large companies spent millions on loyalty programs while small businesses were completely underserved.

Parsable was a connected worker platform that replaced paper-based procedures with mobile, interactive digital work instructions for industrial and manufacturing environments. The platform enabled frontline workers in sectors like food and beverage, oil and gas, and chemicals to collaborate in real time, improving productivity, quality, and safety across plant floor operations. Originally founded as Wearable Intelligence in 2013, the company was acquired by CAI Software in September 2024.

Clinical-stage precision oncology company that built a proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform (PPMP) to bio-simulate cancer treatments and predict patient response. Originally tested combinations of FDA-approved drugs on patient cancer cell samples for blood cancers. Demonstrated 84% accuracy in predicting treatment responses with Stanford.

AI-powered agentic operating system for direct-to-consumer brands. Automates customer interactions across messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram, and email with autonomous AI agents. Founded by eight ironSource veterans after the company's $4.4B acquisition by Unity.

Single sign-on platform for K-12 education giving students, teachers, and staff secure access to digital learning applications through one personalized portal. Built a standardized API enabling school data systems to sync with edtech applications automatically. Used by 89,000 schools and 65% of U.S. K-12 districts.

Builds an AI-powered platform for enterprise finance teams that automates the month-end close process. Uses agentic AI to handle reconciliations, journal entries, flux analysis, and variance reporting. Integrates with ERP systems like NetSuite and serves over 30 enterprise customers globally.

B2B cross-border payments infrastructure platform for Indian businesses. Provides API-driven infrastructure enabling SaaS companies, global capability centers, IT/ITeS exporters, and goods exporters to collect overseas payments, manage foreign exchange, and settle funds locally. Supports payments from 100+ countries across 25+ currencies, serving nearly 15,000 businesses with $1B in annualized cross-border payments.

Direct-to-consumer women's intimates and shapewear brand. Honeylove's flagship Sculptwear line uses supportive structures in seams and patent-pending BoostBands to accentuate natural curves rather than flatten them. Products span shapewear, bras, clothing, pajamas, and activewear, priced at $60-$100. Available on honeylove.com and in Nordstrom, Dillard's, and Von Maur stores. Founded by EDM artist Betsie Larkin after frustration with shapewear malfunctioning during live performances.