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Sales is about building relationships 🤝 — but you wouldn’t know it from watching most SMB sales teams today. The average sales rep spends 1-2 days per week researching and list-building instead of spending time with customers. Ciro is the most comprehensive index of small businesses in the world, combined with elegant software that gives salespeople superpowers. Our stodgy competitors have been around for 100 years and have not innovated in decades. Modern sales teams deserve better! Ciro is a tight-knit team of engineers, sales execs, and product managers with experience from Stanford, Google, Bain & Co, Brown, Berkeley, and BuildZoom. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world, including Y Combinator, SV Angel, CRV, and the founders of Tegus, Flexport, and BuildZoom. If our mission speaks to you, we’d be delighted to meet you. Join us for the adventure of a lifetime at ciro.io/careers 🚀

Northspyre is a cloud-based intelligence platform that empowers real estate professionals to attain predictable outcomes on development, capital and asset projects across real estate project types. It leverages the power of automation, data analytics and proactive insights to help you make better and faster decisions - whether it's on one complex project or several different portfolios.

Clarent connects data from different systems to create a single source of truth for senior living teams.

Zip is the world’s leading AI-powered procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Arm, Canva, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, HP, Instacart, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Pinterest, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, Snowflake, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Toast to maximize the ROI of every dollar. Zip in October of 2024 secured a $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation marking the largest investment in procurement technology in over two decades. Zip’s impact has been transformative: over $107 billion in customer spend processed to date and collectively saving over $4.4 billion. Snowflake alone achieved $305 million in savings. Zip has earned numerous awards, including Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech, Inc.’s Best in Business, Forbes 2025 Fintech 50 and Forbes 2025 Americas Best Startup Employers, along with coverage in Fortune, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Industry analyst IDC recently created a new “Spend Orchestration” category, with Zip named the leader.

Please join our new LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/in/americanpakistan The American Pakistan Foundation is a non-partisan and non-profit 501(c)(3) committed to empowerment of the Pakistani American community and building bridges between the United States and Pakistan.

Encord is the data layer for physical AI. Were how the worlds most ambitious AI teams turn messy, multimodal data into production systems - from humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles to smart infrastructure. 300+ teams including Toyota, Skydio, and Maxar rely on Encord to curate, manage, and align the data their models actually need. $110M raised. San Francisco, New York, and London.

As part of the Payscale portfolio of software, Agora is building a modern platform for total compensation. We help companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data-driven decisions. We are building a system of record for salary bands and job ladders with dashboards for analytics. We are disrupting old industry software and manual compensation surveys by leveraging technology and integrations to provide real-time analytics and data. Our mission is to bring transparency to compensation -- for companies, employees, and candidates.

Founded in 2019, Storyboard is a SaaS provider specializing in audio-first communications tools for frontline employees. Our solutions improve frontline operations, enable secure corporate communication, and support training opportunities for more than 5,000 organizations with limited access to traditional text, video, or in-person communications. Our initial solution, secure private podcasting, focuses on improving top-down communications. This solution enables executives, communications professionals, and training leaders to record and share updates, insights, and stories that their teams can listen to on demand. Learn more: trystoryboard.com Our latest solution, Chat by Storyboard, enables your frontline to communicate effortlessly with the help of AI and modern audio technology with transcription. Frontline employees can now update their team, take notes, assign tasks, and quickly communicate with the push of a button. Learn more: storyboard.com We have amazing partners who have invested in Storyboard, including top funds like CRV, Operator Partners, and the Slack Fund. Partners choose to work with Storyboard for its simplicity in recording audio and interactive features that allow everyone to be part of the conversation. Thank you to Will Reed and Pitchbook for naming Storyboard one of the “Top 50 Seed Companies to Work For” based on our vision and culture.

Bettermode is an all-in-one customer community platform that helps businesses streamline the customer experience, build stronger customer relationships, and improve retention. The platform offers a unified set of engagement tools, including holistic analytics, robust customization options, a rich app ecosystem, and embed tools. With Bettermode, businesses can speed up community building using templates for spaces such as discussions, Q&A, events, groups, and help center. Bettermode is trusted by thousands of businesses, including IBM, ASUS, ConvertKit, and Leboncoin. Join the growing number of companies building communities with Bettermode to take their customer engagement to the next level!

Workstream is the leading HR, Payroll, and Hiring platform for the hourly workforce. Its smart technology streamlines HR tasks so franchise and business owners can move fast, reduce labor costs, and simplify operations—all in one place. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands—including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell—rely on Workstream to hire, retain, and pay their teams. Learn more at workstream.us.

Zylo is the leader in enterprise SaaS Management, bringing order to SaaS sprawl and redefining how organizations manage software. Its platform empowers organizations to manage SaaS at scale by providing the visibility, prescriptive insights, and expertise necessary to optimize their software investments. Powered by the industry’s largest dataset of 40 million SaaS licenses and $40 billion in SaaS spend, Zylo unlocks significant cost savings, mitigates business risk, and maximizes software value. Named as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms, Zylo is trusted by innovative companies such as AbbVie, Adobe, Atlassian, Intuit, Salesforce, and Yahoo to confidently manage their SaaS portfolios. Zylo has raised more than $72.5M to date and is backed by leading SaaS investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Baird Capital’s Venture Team, Spring Lake Equity Partners, High Alpha, GGV, Slack Fund, Salesforce Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and Coupa Ventures. For more information, visit Zylo.com.

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Rainforest QA’s mission is to make it painless for every software team to measure and improve product quality. We’ve built our no-code test automation platform for developers and product managers who want to catch more bugs without slowing down the release process. Unlike most test automation, the platform requires zero code to write, run, and maintain end-to-end tests. To date, over ten thousand startups have run more than 42 million tests with Rainforest. Rainforest QA is a Y Combinator company and has raised more than $50 million from top investors. We’re fully remote, with our team distributed around the globe.

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Sales is about building relationships 🤝 — but you wouldn’t know it from watching most SMB sales teams today. The average sales rep spends 1-2 days per week researching and list-building instead of spending time with customers. Ciro is the most comprehensive index of small businesses in the world, combined with elegant software that gives salespeople superpowers. Our stodgy competitors have been around for 100 years and have not innovated in decades. Modern sales teams deserve better! Ciro is a tight-knit team of engineers, sales execs, and product managers with experience from Stanford, Google, Bain & Co, Brown, Berkeley, and BuildZoom. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world, including Y Combinator, SV Angel, CRV, and the founders of Tegus, Flexport, and BuildZoom. If our mission speaks to you, we’d be delighted to meet you. Join us for the adventure of a lifetime at ciro.io/careers 🚀

Northspyre is a cloud-based intelligence platform that empowers real estate professionals to attain predictable outcomes on development, capital and asset projects across real estate project types. It leverages the power of automation, data analytics and proactive insights to help you make better and faster decisions - whether it's on one complex project or several different portfolios.

Clarent connects data from different systems to create a single source of truth for senior living teams.

Zip is the world’s leading AI-powered procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Arm, Canva, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, HP, Instacart, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Pinterest, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, Snowflake, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Toast to maximize the ROI of every dollar. Zip in October of 2024 secured a $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation marking the largest investment in procurement technology in over two decades. Zip’s impact has been transformative: over $107 billion in customer spend processed to date and collectively saving over $4.4 billion. Snowflake alone achieved $305 million in savings. Zip has earned numerous awards, including Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech, Inc.’s Best in Business, Forbes 2025 Fintech 50 and Forbes 2025 Americas Best Startup Employers, along with coverage in Fortune, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Industry analyst IDC recently created a new “Spend Orchestration” category, with Zip named the leader.

Please join our new LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/in/americanpakistan The American Pakistan Foundation is a non-partisan and non-profit 501(c)(3) committed to empowerment of the Pakistani American community and building bridges between the United States and Pakistan.