Amit Sridharan

Realm Labs is addressing the problem of data leakage and privilege escalation in AI applications. We are building an access control and authorization platform that can be leveraged by both the makers and consumers of AI products.

Nametag stops AI-powered attackers while saving 30% of your helpdesk costs. Complete your IAM and MFA configuration with plug-and-play solutions that protect critical moments like MFA resets, password changes, and employee onboarding, while unlocking new automations and cost savings through self-service and agent-assisted workflows. Nametag solutions are built on Deepfake Defense™, the next-generation identity verification (IDV) engine that combines Cryptographic Attestation™, Adaptive Document Verification™, Spatial Selfie™ and other features to prevent AI-powered impersonation. It’s the only IDV that delivers the identity assurance needed in the age of generative AI and deepfakes. Global enterprises across social media, software, healthcare, insurance, finance, higher education and other industries trust Nametag to deliver secure, integrated account protection and cost savings at scale. Nametag customers eliminate over 50% of their IT tickets, reduce helpdesk costs by 30%, boost helpdesk agent efficiency by 5x, improve user experiences, and prevent account takeovers that lead to data breaches and ransomware attacks. Visit www.getnametag.com to learn more and watch a demo.

Underutilization of security tools, lack of cross-platform intelligence, and challenges in realizing ROI from security investments are the top concerns facing security leaders today. Discern Security’s AI-powered Security Controls and Posture Assessment and Optimization platform helps CISOs and security leaders by: - Maximizing the efficacy of security investments: Fine-tuning security controls and policies to ensure optimal performance and protection. - Delivering cross-platform intelligence: By creating a cybermesh, Discern offers insights into overall security health, coverage gaps, configuration weaknesses, and user and device risks across multiple platforms. - Tailored dashboards and recommendations: Generate custom dashboards with actionable insights and strategic recommendations to improve security posture and resilience. - Comprehensive asset management: Identify, score, and remediate user and device risks throughout the organization, supported by no-code workflows that streamline asset management. - Building value narratives: Help security leaders demonstrate the value theyve added to the organization by delivering measurable security improvements, backed by key metrics and alignment with frameworks like MITRE. Discern Security automates the assessment and optimization of security controls for leading tools such as Microsoft, Google, Okta, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and SailPoint. Our platform evaluates these tools against specific risks, including functional and organizational risks, ensuring that each tool operates in alignment with the unique security challenges faced by our customers.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).

Backslash Security offers a fresh approach to application security, addressing the new risks of Vibe Coding, the AI revolution in software development. Backslash provides instant visibiliy, governance and protection for AI-coding environments, reduces the risk of unsactioned models and MCP servers, and preempts the creation of insecure code. Forward-looking organizations use Backslash to modernize their security for the AI era, drive AI efficiencies and agility, and accelerate time-to-market of their applications.

The knowledge management tool that grows as you do

Skylyte is a personalized digital compass to guide teams to improve resilience, reduce burnout, and increase talent retention and productivity. Workplace wellbeing is no longer a luxury, but a competitive edge. Burnout is costly: employees experiencing burnout are 2.6x more likely to churn. But managing your team’s health is time consuming and difficult. Skylyte enables organizations to ‘care at scale’ by using the latest technology to support team health. Our Team Health Navigator uses ML, smart coaching and data to help teams understand and build their resilience while preventing burnout. Teams that work with Skylyte have successfully reduced severe cases of burnout by 47% over three months. We’ve worked with teams at industry-leading organizations such as Nike, Genentech, Stanford Health, Google, and more. - Techstars portfolio company - SHRM Better Workplaces Competition 2022 semi-finalists - What If cohort #5

OpsCruise is a cloud applications performance assurance company. We empower engineers to proactively and continuously assure the performance of their modern applications. OpsCruise is recognized by the Gartner Group as a Cool Vendor for Observability and serves major Global 2000 organizations including Avis Budget Group, Chicago Trading Co, Quest Diagnostics. Telefonica and Verizon Wireless. The company is venture backed by top tier firms including The Fabric, First Rays, Impact Ventures, TiE Angels and the Band of Angels and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with operations in Chennai, India.

A Gartner Emerging Vendor for EASM, Reposify’s external attack surface management (EASM) platform pinpoints unknown, exposed internet-facing assets so security teams can best secure their digital perimeter. Our intelligent internet mapping technology takes all environments of an organizations’ digital footprint into account for full-spectrum perimeter security, with no agents or deployment required. Having indexed billions of digital assets since 2016, Reposify’s proprietary internet mapping technology leverages big data to identify historical trends critical to an organizations’ security posture. Whether assets are on premise, in the cloud or housed across supply chains and subsidiaries, nothing is left unknown. All exposed assets — known or unknown — are automatically classified, analyzed and prioritized according to risk score. Customizable alerts trigger notifications for issues that require immediate attention. Leading enterprises worldwide use Reposify to discover and secure their internet-facing assets in real-time.

The massive shift to Hybrid Work is the single most profound trend in today's enterprise! Hybrid Access as a Service from Cloudbrink instantly transforms any home Internet or cellular connection to deliver business-grade in-office performance with a convergence of personal SD-WAN, high-performance ZTNA, and moving target defense security. Designed for the hybrid workforce, Cloudbrink's HAaaS builds on an AI-driven protocol and a FAST edge of 1000's of POPs that instantly transforms any user's internet or cellular connection into a secure business-grade in-office performance with robust reliability. Customers report an up to 30x improvement in performance compared to other access solutions such as ZTNA, SDP or SD-WAN. Find out more at https://cloudbrink.com/

Docyt AI Accounting Automation Platform is reshaping financial management for SMBs, franchises, and accounting firms. Docyt AI streamlines bookkeeping and financial workflows, offering real-time insights into unit economics to boost profitability. Standing out in the financial sector, Docyt AI addresses the industrys key challenge: providing real-time accounting data, including live P&L statements. The platform drastically reduces revenue accounting errors by about 95% and simplifies month-end closures to a brief review, ensuring accuracy. By merging AI efficiency with human expertise, Docyt AI enhances financial teams performance, accelerates profitability, saves time, and provides a real-time view of organizations financial health. Docyt is venture-funded and based in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.docyt.com. With Docyt’s AI based document-driven platform, small business owners can save thousands of dollars in penalties, late fees and accounting hassles as well as recover hundreds of hours in lost productivity each year.

WootCloud is the only smart device security platform that can uncover all types of unmanaged devices by scanning both the radio and network spectrum, and also provide critical context about each device by analyzing over 300 device parameters to generate a unique device identifier & risk rating which generates a device risk score rating. This device score helps organizations discover gaps in their device risk posture and the opportunity to close these gaps. A privately held company, WootCloud is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in India and Argentina.

Fortune 500 companies around the world rely on Arcion’s cloud-native, distributed Change Data Capture (CDC) technology to drive fast and accurate data insights. Arcion helps enterprises eliminate slow, brittle data pipelines and the maintenance overheads. Break down data silos through high volume, scalable data pipelines with guaranteed transactional integrity.

About Enya Founded by a team of Stanford faculty and alum, Enya is a pioneer of software frameworks that simplify the construction of decentralized apps, prioritizing privacy from first principles. By embedding cryptographic privacy into decentralized apps, Enya returns control of sensitive data to its rightful owner — the individual. Enya is part of a growing community that believes now is the time to bake privacy-preserving technology into the broader infrastructure of the internet. The concepts of decentralizing control and restoring the power to the individual are the core reasons for developing Enya's computational framework.

Avaamo is an advanced multimodal generative AI platform empowering global enterprises to automate and deliver outstanding self-service experiences. Avaamo supports self-service interactions across HR, IT service desks, and customer service for leading global companies. Facilitating over 2 billion interactions annually in 114 languages, Avaamo seamlessly integrates with hundreds of common enterprise applications. Avaamo is founded by enterprise veterans from TIBCO, SAP, Siebel and Apple. Visit avaamo.ai to witness how Avaamo is shaping the future of generative AI-enabled conversational enterprises. Join us at the forefront of innovation

Realm Labs is addressing the problem of data leakage and privilege escalation in AI applications. We are building an access control and authorization platform that can be leveraged by both the makers and consumers of AI products.

Nametag stops AI-powered attackers while saving 30% of your helpdesk costs. Complete your IAM and MFA configuration with plug-and-play solutions that protect critical moments like MFA resets, password changes, and employee onboarding, while unlocking new automations and cost savings through self-service and agent-assisted workflows. Nametag solutions are built on Deepfake Defense™, the next-generation identity verification (IDV) engine that combines Cryptographic Attestation™, Adaptive Document Verification™, Spatial Selfie™ and other features to prevent AI-powered impersonation. It’s the only IDV that delivers the identity assurance needed in the age of generative AI and deepfakes. Global enterprises across social media, software, healthcare, insurance, finance, higher education and other industries trust Nametag to deliver secure, integrated account protection and cost savings at scale. Nametag customers eliminate over 50% of their IT tickets, reduce helpdesk costs by 30%, boost helpdesk agent efficiency by 5x, improve user experiences, and prevent account takeovers that lead to data breaches and ransomware attacks. Visit www.getnametag.com to learn more and watch a demo.

Underutilization of security tools, lack of cross-platform intelligence, and challenges in realizing ROI from security investments are the top concerns facing security leaders today. Discern Security’s AI-powered Security Controls and Posture Assessment and Optimization platform helps CISOs and security leaders by: - Maximizing the efficacy of security investments: Fine-tuning security controls and policies to ensure optimal performance and protection. - Delivering cross-platform intelligence: By creating a cybermesh, Discern offers insights into overall security health, coverage gaps, configuration weaknesses, and user and device risks across multiple platforms. - Tailored dashboards and recommendations: Generate custom dashboards with actionable insights and strategic recommendations to improve security posture and resilience. - Comprehensive asset management: Identify, score, and remediate user and device risks throughout the organization, supported by no-code workflows that streamline asset management. - Building value narratives: Help security leaders demonstrate the value theyve added to the organization by delivering measurable security improvements, backed by key metrics and alignment with frameworks like MITRE. Discern Security automates the assessment and optimization of security controls for leading tools such as Microsoft, Google, Okta, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and SailPoint. Our platform evaluates these tools against specific risks, including functional and organizational risks, ensuring that each tool operates in alignment with the unique security challenges faced by our customers.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).

Backslash Security offers a fresh approach to application security, addressing the new risks of Vibe Coding, the AI revolution in software development. Backslash provides instant visibiliy, governance and protection for AI-coding environments, reduces the risk of unsactioned models and MCP servers, and preempts the creation of insecure code. Forward-looking organizations use Backslash to modernize their security for the AI era, drive AI efficiencies and agility, and accelerate time-to-market of their applications.