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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.

Corporate card and spend management platform that helps businesses save money on expenses. Combines corporate cards with software for expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, and procurement. Known for its rapid growth, reaching $100M ARR in under 3 years.

Applied Intuition is a vehicle software supplier that builds simulation, validation, and development tools for autonomous driving and ADAS. The company serves 18 of the top 20 global automakers and has expanded from pure simulation into a full autonomy stack, incorporating generative AI capabilities for automotive, trucking, mining, agriculture, and defense industries.

AI research company building generative AI tools for video, image, and multimedia content creation. Develops foundation models for video generation including its Gen series of models, and is expanding into world models that simulate physics-aware environments.

Hadrian is building autonomous factories for precision manufacturing, using AI and robotics to produce complex parts for aerospace, defense, and space companies. The company operates software-defined factories where AI plans machining operations, robots handle material flow, and the system continuously optimizes for quality and throughput. Hadrian aims to rebuild America's precision manufacturing capacity to support national security and space exploration.

Anchorage Digital is America's first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank, providing institutional-grade custody, trading, staking, governance, and settlement services for digital assets. Founded by former Square and Docker security engineers, the company received its national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021.

Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide.

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for images and video. Founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, the company develops the FLUX family of open-source text-to-image models, which have achieved over 400 million downloads and are used by Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft.

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.

Spatial data company that turns physical spaces into accurate, immersive 3D digital twins, combining hardware, software, and AI for real estate, construction, and insurance industries.

Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors, integrates them into quantum computers, and delivers access through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. The company operates the world's first dedicated quantum chip foundry.

Trader-first sports prediction market that eliminates the traditional sportsbook model by enabling peer-to-peer trading on sports outcomes. The platform offers commission-free trading, full transparency, and better pricing. A Y Combinator alumnus, Novig has achieved $4B+ in annualized trading volume and has applied to the CFTC to become a federally regulated exchange available in all 50 states.

Africa's first indigenous defense technology prime, designing and manufacturing autonomous surveillance systems including drones and fixed surveillance towers to protect critical national infrastructure. Technology deployed across multiple African countries securing infrastructure assets valued at roughly $11 billion.

Builds AI-powered smart shopping carts and checkout counters for grocery and retail stores. Using computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning trained on over 20 million product images, Caper's hardware lets shoppers scan items as they add them to the cart and self-checkout without a cashier.