
AIR
FOUNDER: Dorian Kieken & Fabrice Condominas
FOUNDED: 2017
INNOVATION: Training humans and AIs to collaborate and learn together
HQ: Montreal
AIR provides a training platform for humans and AI agents to collaborate, learn and grow together. Using entertainment to engage users in rich, two-way interactions allows them to tackle challenges that are too complex for traditional reinforcement learning, such as AI assistants for people with cognitive disorders or AI-assisted crisis management tools to name a few.

Ascend
FOUNDER: Sean Knapp
FOUNDED: 2015
INNOVATION: Putting the power of big data in the hands of business people
HQ: Palo Alto
By now, every industry has woken up to the power of big data: leveraging complex, voluminous data sets to gain valuable market insights and optimize customer offerings. Ascend puts the power of big data analytics directly in the hands of business people, obviating the need to hire and manage data scientists and data engineers as intermediaries. Think Siri for big data.

Bench
FOUNDERS: Ian Crosby, Jordan Menashy, Pavel Rodionov & Adam Saint
FOUNDED: 2012
INNOVATION: Outsourced bookkeeping with intelligence
HQ: Vancouver
Bench is North America’s largest bookkeeping service. By pairing intuitive software with a team of dedicated bookkeepers, Bench gives small businesses affordable access to quality financial insights and tax-ready financials. Since launching out of Techstars NYC in 2012, Bench has raised $53 million in funding to date and for the past two years has been among the top 30 fastest growing tech companies in North America, according to Deloitte.

Compaas
FOUNDER: bethanye Blount & Lisa Dusseault
FOUNDED: 2016
INNOVATION: Compensation intelligence platform
HQ: San Francisco
From decades of experience leading tech teams, the founders of Compaas knew that the hardest problems they faced were people-problems. After talking with hundreds of HR professionals, founders, and legal experts, they learned that they weren’t alone. They built Compaas to provide proactive insights and analytics about employee compensation, without tedious spreadsheets. Compaas Rewards provides a secure and seamless workflow backed by valuable analytics.
Compensation matters. It’s also one of the hardest problems facing companies.

Concentric
FOUNDER: Karthik Krishnan, Shankar Subramaniam & Madhu Shashanka
FOUNDED: 2018
INNOVATION: Using AI to help enterprises secure their high value data
HQ: San Jose
Concentric was founded to help enterprises solve the massive and ever-growing data security challenge they face around being able to discover, monitor and protect the high volumes of sensitive data — e.g. documents with PII, sensitive IP, confidential information, financial statements — that are continuously being generated. The Concentric solution uses innovative AI techniques to easily identify, monitor and protect sensitive content without requiring customers to write complex rules that need prior knowledge of what constitutes high value content or placing the burden on end users to perform that function. In short, a SMART and EASY button to secure what an enterprise most worries about protecting — Its Data.

Create and Learn
FOUNDER: Jessie Jiang, YZ Qiu
FOUNDED: 2017
INNOVATION: Bringing cutting-edge technology learning to K-12 students
HQ: Silicon Valley
Create & Learn delivers next generation of Computer Science Education to students K-12. Students learn a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Data Science, with a strong focus on connecting with the real world and developing creativity and critical thinking skills. The delivering platform also addresses the top challenges in the wide adoption of CS education in K-12, leading to breakthrough opportunities.

Feed.fm
FOUNDERS: Jeff Yasuda, Eric Lambrecht & Lauren Pufpaf
FOUNDED: 2012
INNOVATION: Digital music marketing
HQ: San Francisco
Feed was founded by music lovers who know that music delivers authentic connections and who are committed to leveraging music in a fundamentally new way for business results. Feed.fm works with leading brands to deliver uniquely curated media experiences that drive commerce and boost brand engagement. The Feed plug and play media solutions have helped clients double their app user retention rates and drive 2X visit-to-purchase conversions.

Humble Dot
FOUNDER: Will Goto & Macgill Davis
FOUNDED: 2017
INNOVATION: Making it easy for managers to collect, organize, and share team updates
HQ: San Francisco
EXITED: 2020
Knowledge workers and managers hack several tools (email, shared documents/spreadsheets, messaging tools) in an attempt to make high-level team updates more efficient. Since these tools are not specifically designed around update processes, they become difficult to manage and require a lot of manual work. Humble Dot is a tool specifically designed around the update process that helps managers and team members be more efficient with updates.

Kueski
FOUNDER: Adalberto Flores Ochoa
FOUNDED: 2013
INNOVATION: First online-only lender in Mexico
HQ: Guadalajara
Kueski is the largest online-only payday lender in Mexico. Users apply for a small loan on-line, specifying how much money they need and when they would like to pay it back. Kueski’s machine learning risk engine assesses a loan application within seconds. Upon approval, a wire transfer is made instantaneously. In a market where 85% of citizens don’t have access to credit, Kueski is enabling a individuals, families and small businesses to leverage short-term loans.

Liftoff
FOUNDERS : Mark Ellis, Phil Crosby & Harry Robertson
FOUNDED: 2012
INNOVATION: Transitioning commoditized mobile install market to high-value, mobile engagement
HQ: Palo Alto
Exited: 2022
Liftoff is a full-service mobile app marketing and retargeting platform that uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized user acquisition and retention campaigns. With Liftoff, campaigns are optimized to drive actions beyond the install, like booking a hotel, subscribing to a service, or making a purchase. Liftoff placed 2nd in engagement in front of Facebook and Twitter and just behind Google adwords.

Ockam
FOUNDER: Matthew Gregory & Mrinal Wadhwa
FOUNDED: 2017
INNOVATION: Ockam’s open source developer tools make it simple to send trustful end-to-end encrypted messages between connected devices and cloud services
HQ: Remote-first / San Francisco
Ockam is an open source tools company that empowers developers to build trusted IoT systems with easy-to-use tools, processes, and protocols. Using Ockam it’s simple to interconnect hardware at the edge with software services in the cloud.

Omnee
FOUNDER: Annie Hu, Andy Zheng & Alex Fan
FOUNDED: 2018
INNOVATION: Predictive analytics for the outdoor audience
HQ: Mountain View
Our mission is to generate predictive insights about audience behavior in the real world so our clients can give their customers the best-possible experiences. Serving CIOs, CROs and Chief Digital Officers, we install a network of sensors in indoor locations such as shopping centers, to provide a level of audience analytics and measurement that until now has only been possible in the digital world.

Other Machine Company
FOUNDERS : Danielle Applestone, Saul Griffith & Michael Stochosky
FOUNDED: 2013
INNOVATION: Democratizing digital manufacturing
HQ: San Francisco
EXITED: Bantam Tools, 2017
Other Machine Company (OMC) is at the forefront of the digital desktop manufacturing movement: the future is small-batch, ultra-customized, and on-demand. Like at HP and Apple, OMC transforms industrial tools into consumer products and aims to put them in every home and business. OMC is full-stack, with an ecosystem of computer-controlled hardware, software, marketplace, and community that enables everyday people to directly harness the power of modern manufacturing.

Prevoty
FOUNDERS: Julien Bellanger & Kunal Anand
FOUNDED: 2013
INNOVATION: Next generation Web app security
HQ: Los Angeles

Remot3.it
FOUNDERS: Ryo Koyama, Mike Johnson & Doug Olkein
FOUNDED: 2008
INNOVATION: Securing IoT devices
HQ: Palo Alto

Sourcery
FOUNDERS: Na’ama Moran & Peretz Partensky
FOUNDED: 2012
INNOVATION: Bringing internet efficiencies to the professional food supply chain
HQ: San Francisco

True Anthem
FOUNDER: Chris Hart
FOUNDED: 2008
INNOVATION: Machine learning social marketing
HQ: San Francisco

Vidora
FOUNDERS: Abhik Majumdar, Alex Holub & Phil West
FOUNDED: 2012
INNOVATION: Digital content customized by AI
HQ: San Francisco
Exited: 2022

VORSTELLA
FOUNDER: Matt Stump and Avinash Mandava
FOUNDED: 2017
INNOVATION: Automated cloud migration and ML-powered optimization
HQ: San Francisco
EXITED: 2020
Major corporations are finally breaking away from hosting mission critical databases and monolithic applications in their own data centers and migrating to the cloud and service based applications. VORSTELLA automatically sets up cloud applications and operates them for customers, then uses machine learning on system-wide data to continually tune and optimize performance better than human experts can.

Wizeline
FOUNDER: Bismarck Lepe
FOUNDED: 2013
INNOVATION: Revolutionizing product development
HQ: San Francisco
Wizeline transforms how business build technology products. Through advanced analytics that leverage engagement data, the SaaS intelligent platform enables business to focus their product strategy on the opportunities with the highest return and accelerate their time to market. Our goal is for all companies to one day use Wizeline to decide which products to build and market.

Zippin
FOUNDER: Krishna Motukuri & Motilal Agrawal
FOUNDED: 2016
INNOVATION: The next generation of checkout-free technology enables retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores
HQ: San Francisco
Zippin has developed the next generation of checkout-free technology enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores. Its patent-pending approach uses AI, machine learning, and sensor fusion technology, to create the best consumer experience. Zippin’s vision is to banish checkout lines and self-scanners for good, so shoppers can zip in and out with their purchases.