Axel Bichara

Kaavio is building AI-enhanced e-commerce experiences.

DirectBooker bridges the gap between guests who want to book direct and the hotels that want to serve them directly. We are the AI-native aggregator built for hotels who want to win in the era of conversational travel search. We connect global hotel chains and independent properties directly to AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini—ensuring your rates, availability, and brand appear when travelers ask AI to "find hotels in Berlin." The paradigm is shifting. Just as hotels struggled to compete with OTAs in traditional Google search for category queries, the same challenge exists in AI—but this time, were building the infrastructure to help you win from day one. What we do: * Integrate real-time pricing, availability, and inventory into AI platforms via Model Context Protocol (MCP) * Surface your direct rates, loyalty pricing, and exclusive benefits that OTAs cant match * Drive completed bookings directly to your website—preserving customer relationships and eliminating commission drain Who we serve: * Large hotel brands and chains ready to dominate AI distribution * IBEs, CRSs, and connectivity providers aggregating independent hotel inventory Why it matters: 70% of travelers prefer to book direct, but need an easy way to compare options. AI is creating a new entry point for travel search—one where hotels can finally compete at the top of the funnel without losing margin to intermediaries. Founded by industry veterans from TripAdvisor and Google Travel, DirectBooker is the supplier-aligned partner helping hotels shape the future of travel distribution.

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We’re a team of software industry veterans, architects, and visionaries committed to transforming the way the built environment is imagined and built. Driven by a passion for design and technology, we’re developing a platform that empowers collaboration, fuels creativity, and unlocks new possibilities for the building community. Our mission is simple yet bold: to build tools that connect, empower and inspire, so you can focus on creating spaces that shape the world.

Software Defined Automation provides end-to-end Industrial DevOps for automation engineers to simplify management and development industrial devices, increase factory uptime, and improve OT security. The comprehensive, integrated solution offers automated backup, code version control, browser-based engineering, secure remote access, AI-generated code documentation, and virtual PLC management. Founded by manufacturing, industrial software, and cloud experts, the company is headquartered in Boston with offices in Munich, Germany.

Our mission is to make vision care accessible to everyone, equally, at the touch of a button. The demand for vision care is growing fast while eye doctor availability is not keeping up. As a result, millions of people are behind on their vision care or unable to access it. We see a future where technology works seamlessly with Eye Care Professionals to expand access to personalized vision care for all those who need it. Eyebot is funded by top VCs and the National Science Foundation.

Five Flute is a continuous design review platform that helps modern engineering teams share, review and improve their engineering designs.

Pikkit is defining a new betting experience for the next generation of sports fanatics. We create a seamless experience to track and share bets. Users can connect their existing sportsbook accounts to the app, and within seconds, we produce never-before-seen historical insights, graphs, metrics and stats on a user’s own betting history, along with live scores and stat tracking for live and upcoming bets. We’ve built a social layer around the single-player mode experience where users can share their biggest wins, browse the feed for insights from top bettors, friends, and strangers alike.

Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen membership for sourdough breads, fresh pastas, and artisanal pastries. Our mission is to do the long, hard work of making high-quality, wholesome food for you, so that you can enjoy the health benefits and deliciousness with none of the inconvenience.

Join, the collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, is software that facilitates decision-making for all stakeholders on a construction project. With real-time insight into cost data and a visual interface, Join empowers contractors, owners, and design teams to collaborate on decisions from preconstruction throughout the project lifecycle. Industry leaders such as Clark Construction, DPR Construction, and McCarthy trust Join to make timely and smart decisions that drive projects forward.

Tive is the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility solutions. More than 500 global shippers, logistics service providers, and retailers use Tive to monitor shipment location and condition in real time, gain actionable insights, and ensure end-customer satisfaction. Tive’s cloud platform, patented sensor technology, and 24/7 Live Monitoring services reduce excursions and delays, minimize rejected loads, and decrease theft, damage, and spoilage. Customers count on Tive to ensure that shipments are delivered on time and in full—because every shipment matters.

VergeSense empowers companies with the most accurate workplace data and AI-enabled recommendations to make decisions that optimize spaces, reduce costs, ensure sustainability, and improve employee experience. To learn more about VergeSense, visit https://www.vergesense.com/ and to join our team, https://jobs.lever.co/vergesense. We value people from all walks of life who exhibit kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion to excel at what they do.

Welcome to Fi. We’re a passionate team of alumni from Square, Google, Peloton, Uber, and more working to transform the dog-human relationship. Our mission? Develop cutting-edge tech to revolutionize what it means to be a dog parent. The dog industry remains firmly stuck in the past, but were not satisfied with the status quo. Fi is leveraging our teams talent and expertise to improve the lives of 100 million+ dogs in the U.S. Real-time location tracking, activity and step counting, sleep and behavior monitoring – and thats just the beginning. The most exciting aspect of our work? Bridging the communication gap between dogs and humans. Imagine a world where your pet can tell you when something feels off. Thats the future were building at Fi. Join us in our pursuit of the “impossible,” which really means “let me find a way,” to redefine the future of dog ownership together.

Vention empowers small to large manufacturers to design, program, order, and deploy automated equipment in a one-stop-shop Manufacturing Automation Platform. Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. Our technology powers over 18,000 machines across 4,000 factories in 25 industries.

Kaavio is building AI-enhanced e-commerce experiences.

DirectBooker bridges the gap between guests who want to book direct and the hotels that want to serve them directly. We are the AI-native aggregator built for hotels who want to win in the era of conversational travel search. We connect global hotel chains and independent properties directly to AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini—ensuring your rates, availability, and brand appear when travelers ask AI to "find hotels in Berlin." The paradigm is shifting. Just as hotels struggled to compete with OTAs in traditional Google search for category queries, the same challenge exists in AI—but this time, were building the infrastructure to help you win from day one. What we do: * Integrate real-time pricing, availability, and inventory into AI platforms via Model Context Protocol (MCP) * Surface your direct rates, loyalty pricing, and exclusive benefits that OTAs cant match * Drive completed bookings directly to your website—preserving customer relationships and eliminating commission drain Who we serve: * Large hotel brands and chains ready to dominate AI distribution * IBEs, CRSs, and connectivity providers aggregating independent hotel inventory Why it matters: 70% of travelers prefer to book direct, but need an easy way to compare options. AI is creating a new entry point for travel search—one where hotels can finally compete at the top of the funnel without losing margin to intermediaries. Founded by industry veterans from TripAdvisor and Google Travel, DirectBooker is the supplier-aligned partner helping hotels shape the future of travel distribution.

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