Asanka Jayasuriya

Epsio is a high-performance streaming SQL engine that incrementally maintains results for complex queries you define within your existing database. By incrementally processing changes to the underlying data and updating previous results accordingly, Epsio significantly reduces query latency, minimizes computational overhead, and ensures consistent, up-to-date results for your heaviest SQL queries.

The yard is the most underestimated control point in supply chain. Terminal Industries is changing that. We’ve built an AI-native Yard Operating System that turns disconnected yard workflows into a real execution layer: visibility, decisions, and action, stitched together in one system. If you’re done with “digital transformation theater” and want the practical future of yard automation, YMS, and AI logistics… hit Follow. We post what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next.

Cents is a leading business management platform that helps laundry business operators grow, manage, and understand their business. With easy-to-use tools for point-of-sale, on-machine payments, revenue tracking, point-of-sale, and delivery services, Cents provides an all-in-one solution for managing the complexities of a laundry business. Designed with the unique needs of laundromats, dry cleaners, and multi-family/residential businesses in mind, Cents is the premier solution for entrepreneurs in the garment care industry. At the heart of Cents is a commitment to the industrys success, continually driving laundry businesses forward through ever-improving product solutions and strong community support.

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Allstacks is an agentic platform for product and software development. With purpose-built solutions with agents operating in the same context across the lifecycle you define the right work, keep the delivery on track, and report on the outcomes. Product Studio is your daily home to ideate, define, refine, and share requirements and specs with technical clarity so you and your dev teams build the right things, faster and cheaper. Allstacks makes sense of your agentic software delivery, grounded in actual activity, with agents to surface risk, measure AI impact, and recommend optimizations.

Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 250 million devices across 80 countries each month. Organizations like HubSpot and Verizon, depend on Ably’s platform to offload the growing complexity of business-critical realtime data synchronization at global scale. Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data – consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. As a result, synchronized data in realtime is business critical for many organizations. But building homegrown realtime synchronization capabilities is complex and costly. Ably simplifies this. In the same way that content delivery networks simplify and underpin large parts of the internet, Ably is the invisible platform and infrastructure layer powering the realtime revolution on a global scale. As the de facto platform for developers at organizations of all sizes, Ably is on track to reach one billion devices per month by 2023.

Epsio is a high-performance streaming SQL engine that incrementally maintains results for complex queries you define within your existing database. By incrementally processing changes to the underlying data and updating previous results accordingly, Epsio significantly reduces query latency, minimizes computational overhead, and ensures consistent, up-to-date results for your heaviest SQL queries.

The yard is the most underestimated control point in supply chain. Terminal Industries is changing that. We’ve built an AI-native Yard Operating System that turns disconnected yard workflows into a real execution layer: visibility, decisions, and action, stitched together in one system. If you’re done with “digital transformation theater” and want the practical future of yard automation, YMS, and AI logistics… hit Follow. We post what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next.

8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com

New Mountain Capital (“New Mountain”) is an alternative investment manager with private equity, credit and net lease strategies. New Mountain’s aggregate assets under management total ~$50 billion across all investment strategies.* Since inception, New Mountain has raised over $27 billion of committed capital across six private equity funds. New Mountain was founded in 1999 by Steven B. Klinsky and today has ~245 employees, ~145 of which are investment professionals. New Mountain’s efforts emphasize intensive fundamental research and a focus on growth and investor “value added,” rather than reliance on excessive risk, as the best path to high and consistent long-term returns. New Mountain has proactively developed particular research and operational expertise in carefully selected “defensive growth” niches of healthcare, health tech, life science supplies/biomanufacturing, “must have” information and data, digital marketing & transformation, infrastructure services/field services, specialized software, defensive growth consumer/products, financial services / technologies and technology-enabled business services. New Mountain Capital works systematically to establish expertise in additional sectors over time. * Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) as of December 31, 2023 and undrawn capital as of December 31, 2023. Pro forma for capital committed as of April 1, 2024)