Ben Pouladian

Terray is a biotechnology company with the technology, data, and mindset to radically change the way we discover and develop small molecule therapeutics. We explore molecules and targets broadly and deeply with a sophisticated integration of ultra-high throughput experimentation, generative AI, biology, medicinal chemistry, automation, and nanotechnology. Everything the company does is grounded in an iterative approach, producing massive amounts of precise, purpose-built data that gets increasingly valuable with each cycle of design and experimentation. The company’s platform uniquely blends experimentation and computation to improve the cost, speed, and success rate of small molecule drug discovery and development.

Needle is the marketing agency alternative for e-commerce brands. Same output (ads, emails, videos, social) without the bloated retainers, missed deadlines, or creative that flatlines after month two. We plug into your Shopify, Meta, and Klaviyo etc., learn what makes your brand convert, then produce and publish weekly content that gets sharper over time. Human strategists + AI speed. You approve. We run it. 200+ DTC brands use Needle to scale content at 10× the velocity and 1/3 the cost of traditional agencies. For brands stuck in the "Messy Middle"... too big to do it yourself, too smart to overpay for it. See what wed build for your brand: www.askneedle.com

The IAM Resilience Platform for Okta. While Okta secures the cloud, organizations remain responsible for securing whats within. Acsenses IAM Resilience Platform bridges this gap, ensuring data security, continuity, and compliance. Weve engineered a failsafe against threats like ransomware, misconfigurations and human errors, eliminating IAM as a single point of failure. With Acsense, youre fortified with continuous data backups, instant granular recoveries, point-in-time recoveries, and an immutable, air-gapped standby tenant. Bolstered by our industry-leading RTO and RPO metrics, Acsense emerges as the definitive partner for IT and security professionals demanding IAM resilience. Choose Acsense to strengthen your existing identity management infrastructure, ensuring your organization stays up and running.

Omeat is a food startup that has pioneered a scalable way to produce cultivated meat that’s delicious, affordable, orders-of-magnitude more sustainable than conventional meat, and doesn’t involve sacrificing an animal. The secret to Omeat is a proprietary process that harnesses the intrinsically regenerative factors within cows plasma to foster cell growth. Omeat’s growth media is a cost-effective alternative to fetal bovine serum and can be used to cultivate any kind of meat. Omeat is based in Los Angeles, founded in 2020 by world-renown tissue biologist Dr. Ali Khademhosseini. The company is currently building a pilot plant and rapidly expanding its team toward commercial readiness.

Didadem Biotherapeutics is pioneering the development of first-in-class engineered exosomes to treat auto-immune conditions and cancers.

Chipper Cash is a financial technology company serving more than five million customers across the African continent. In 2018, Chipper Cash revolutionized moving money in Africa with the introduction of fee-free transfers for personal payments—providing a frictionless way to send and receive money cross-border and enabling financial inclusivity across the continent. Since then, Chipper has increased its product suite by offering personal investment products and business solutions, and expanded its reach into the US. Led by co-founders Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, Chipper Cash is focused on its mission to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond.

Vistapath is modernizing pathology labs using computer vision, automation and artificial intelligence. Despite informing a majority of clinical decisions, anatomical pathology still prepares samples for diagnosis manually, in stark contrast to other clinical lab services. Created by histotechnicians and AI experts, the Sentinel Platform makes grossing fast, efficient and easy.

VasoGnosis’s cloud-based software is an advanced diagnostic and surgical planning software for brain aneurysms that uses deep learning algorithms to continuously improve. This tool gives clinicians a better understanding of patient-specific vascular anatomy without disrupting existing processes by providing advanced visualizations from existing imaging data. Once VasoGnosis’s software is integrated into a hospital’s existing PAC system, all neuroradiologists have to do is review the report and approve it.

Helping builders manage their extremely complicated physical asset pictures with an AI-enhanced asset tracking ecosystem for tools, heavy equipment, rental fleets, and more.

JINGdigital is a leading Marketing CRM company in China. Using its digital marketing automation platform, JING has been successfully serving 60+ global Fortune 1000 companies in China since 2014. JING helps brands/companies leverage its omni-channel capabilities, in particular WeChat platform, to acquire, engage with and convert potential leads in order to significantly enhance marketing efficiency in the digital age and to drive tangible business outcomes. You can learn more at the website of www.jingsocial.com.

IMGN is a next generation media company focused on Gen Z audiences with 60 million followers and growing. Our media channels including Daquan, So Satisfying and TryHard bring  young viewers the specialized formats they crave such as memes, ASMR and satisfying videos. We are a top Snapchat Discover publisher as well as pioneers in the live TikTok and Twitch music streaming spaces. Vertical Studios was founded by IMGN in 2021 to translate everything we know about reaching Gen Z with impact to Fortune 500 brands on platforms ranging from TikTok to Discord, Twitch, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Brand partners have included Levi’s, Panasonic, Amazon, McDonald’s, Adobe, Riot Games and many more. IMGN was acquired by Warner Music Group in 2020.

UpCounsel is the leading marketplace for legal services. We make hiring world-class attorneys easy, transparent, and quick - all for 1/3rd the price of a traditional law firm. It’s truly Legal you can Love 💙

Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries. Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses around the world across a range of industries from grocery and prepared meals to pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. Onfleet is based in San Francisco, California.

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Our mission is to empower every trader with the tools and knowledge to consistently place smarter trades with automation. For far too long the options industry has been fragmented, lagging, and unnecessarily complex. At Option Alpha we are devoted to empowering traders with simple, powerful tools supported by world-class research and education. By developing industry-first automation technology, enhancing data and information accessibility, and nurturing our thriving community at every level, Option Alpha is changing the way people trade options forever. We’re more than just a software company; we’re leading a movement of traders at every level who are unlocking more freedom through improved and expanded options. We envision a world where people always have options. Where every person is empowered to manage their own finances, the playing field is level for everyone, and money is never the reason why they can’t live a life on their terms. Because life is a precious gift, time is limited, and the way we spend it defines who we are. A life with options is a life with freedom.

BEP Research is an independent research publication covering AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and optical interconnects. Founded by Ben Pouladian — an electrical engineer, company builder, and long-term technology investor — BEP Research applies first-principles, system-level thinking to the AI compute stack. Most analysis in this space is siloed: hardware analysts cover chips, software analysts cover models. BEP Research bridges both — connecting silicon architecture, advanced packaging, memory hierarchy, software co-design, and deployment economics into a unified investment framework. This full-stack approach has been directly validated by engineering leadership at NVIDIA and resonates with readers who need to understand how the entire system fits together, not just individual components. Core research themes include the memory bandwidth wall and its architectural implications, hardware-software co-design as a durable competitive moat, optical interconnect economics, rack-scale inference architecture, and the capital allocation frameworks reshaping AI infrastructure buildout. Readership includes portfolio managers, semiconductor engineers, and technology investors at leading hedge funds and asset managers. Published on Substack at bepresearch.substack.com.

Terray is a biotechnology company with the technology, data, and mindset to radically change the way we discover and develop small molecule therapeutics. We explore molecules and targets broadly and deeply with a sophisticated integration of ultra-high throughput experimentation, generative AI, biology, medicinal chemistry, automation, and nanotechnology. Everything the company does is grounded in an iterative approach, producing massive amounts of precise, purpose-built data that gets increasingly valuable with each cycle of design and experimentation. The company’s platform uniquely blends experimentation and computation to improve the cost, speed, and success rate of small molecule drug discovery and development.

Needle is the marketing agency alternative for e-commerce brands. Same output (ads, emails, videos, social) without the bloated retainers, missed deadlines, or creative that flatlines after month two. We plug into your Shopify, Meta, and Klaviyo etc., learn what makes your brand convert, then produce and publish weekly content that gets sharper over time. Human strategists + AI speed. You approve. We run it. 200+ DTC brands use Needle to scale content at 10× the velocity and 1/3 the cost of traditional agencies. For brands stuck in the "Messy Middle"... too big to do it yourself, too smart to overpay for it. See what wed build for your brand: www.askneedle.com

The IAM Resilience Platform for Okta. While Okta secures the cloud, organizations remain responsible for securing whats within. Acsenses IAM Resilience Platform bridges this gap, ensuring data security, continuity, and compliance. Weve engineered a failsafe against threats like ransomware, misconfigurations and human errors, eliminating IAM as a single point of failure. With Acsense, youre fortified with continuous data backups, instant granular recoveries, point-in-time recoveries, and an immutable, air-gapped standby tenant. Bolstered by our industry-leading RTO and RPO metrics, Acsense emerges as the definitive partner for IT and security professionals demanding IAM resilience. Choose Acsense to strengthen your existing identity management infrastructure, ensuring your organization stays up and running.

We help scientists become CEOs. Brazen Bio is building a biotech ecosystem with a vision of helping to launch HUNDREDS of new companies and technologies to advance human health. Our first program is the Brazen Incubator: a fully-funded 12-week biotech fellowship for rising bioentrepreneurs. Included is 24/7 access to a new BSL-2 laboratory with over $2M in equipment plus housing, services, and ongoing support. For more information, please visit our website.