Bill Malloy

Merlin, the next generation of business. Operating in stealth.

Model Medicines is an AI-driven, human health company using AI to model all of chemistry and human biology, to accelerate the creation of life-changing drugs. The company was founded in 2019 to deliver on the promise of AI-Drug discovery. With more than 182 compounds for 26 targets, they are delivering on the promise of AI-drug discovery. The company has developed a robust pipeline of patent-pending therapeutics for oncology, infectious diseases, gastric disorders, neurological disorders, and weight disorders. The company is based in La Jolla, CA.

Deals are won through relationships—but most CRMs werent built to track them. Affinity automates data entry, surfaces relationship insights, and gives teams the context they need to act on every opportunity. Over 3,000 organizations worldwide use Affinity, including leading private equity, venture capital, and investment banking firms. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC, and MassMutual Ventures.

Fetch Robotics, now part of Zebra Technologies, is the pioneer of On-Demand Automation — the only solution that deploys safe, reliable, and versatile Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) for the warehousing and intralogistics markets in just hours. Together, Fetch Robotics and Zebra provide the broadest range of AMR solutions in the industry resulting in demonstrable improvements in throughput, efficiency and productivity within both commercial and industrial environments — all while working alongside people.

Trusted by global brands, The EVRYTHNG Product Cloud® is the platform consumer product brands need to Run their Business Differently® by Knowing what their Products Know® - with real-time data-driven solutions for supply chain traceability, provenance, brand integrity, product authentication, direct to consumer (D2C) engagement and resale/recycling. EVRYTHNG provides an Active Digital Identity™ on the web for billions of digitized product items in apparel, beauty, personal care, food & beverage, home goods, tobacco and other industries. EVRYTHNG is World Economic Forum Global Innovator, and EVRYTHNG’s founders originated the W3C Web of Things & GS1 Digital Link global standards. The company won the 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award. EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc in January 2022, uniting the world's most powerful product identification engine with the industry's most advanced product intelligence cloud platform.

Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company. Our mission is to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. We use innovative technology, detailed design, and proven science and data to personalize and improve each night for everybody—changing the way people sleep forever and for the better. With our flagship product, the Pod, we are addressing critical sleep issues such as temperature regulation, bed elevation, snoring reduction, and the wake-up experience. Hundreds of thousands of customers around the world sleep better every night thanks to the Pod. We are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors like YC Combinator, Founders Fund, Valor, and Khosla Ventures, and we have been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2018, 2022, and 2023.The Pod was also recognized two years in a row by TIMEs “Best Inventions of the Year.” We currently sell the Pod in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, UAE, Mexico, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia.

Tally is a consumer tech company pioneering full-service financial automation. Founded in 2015, we built the first automated debt manager to help people overcome credit card debt and put billions of dollars back in people’s pockets. Tally’s vision is to automate people’s entire financial lives, so they can stress less about money and do more of what they love.

Nex Cubed is a pre-seed venture accelerator on a mission to invest in and uplift underrepresented founders and underserved communities. Our unwavering commitment lies in fostering diversity and inclusion within the startup ecosystem. We envision a world where all founders, regardless of background, enjoy equal opportunities, access to crucial support, abundant resources, and capital. Together, we forge an inclusive and diverse startup landscape, igniting a transformative path towards a future of boundless possibilities.

Noon Home, Inc. creates products that impact our day-to-day experiences in the home. Noon smart light switches transform rooms with one-touch control at the switch, in the Noon app or via voice. Working with existing bulbs and fixtures, Noon automatically creates customized lighting scenes that are unique to each mood and activity experienced in the home. To learn more about Noon Home and our products, please visit NoonHome.com.

Penrose is focused on augmented and virtual reality storytelling. Through the process of creation with world class storytellers and technologists, Penrose is inventing and defining the language of real-time cinema for AR and VR.

Sourcegraph is the leading code intelligence platform revolutionizing how developers understand, fix, and automate their code. At Sourcegraph, we use the power of AI with Cody, our AI coding assistant, to help developers better understand their code. Our technology makes it easy to navigate through large codebases, find relevant code snippets, and get historical context. Plus, our Code Search and analysis tools help you quickly fix bugs, refactor code, and improve performance - all in one easy-to-use interface. Over one million engineers use Sourcegraph to improve code security, efficiently onboard developers, promote code reuse, resolve incidents, and boost code health. Code intelligence is a critical capability that increases enterprise engineering velocity, software quality and stability, and team health. Leading companies like Databricks, Plaid, Uber, Lyft, Reddit, GE, and Dropbox, rely on Sourcegraph to build the products we all rely on. Sourcegraph is an all-remote company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Goldcrest Capital.

HyTrust’s mission is to make private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure more trustworthy for enterprises, service providers and government agencies. HyTrust provides solutions that automate security controls for software-defined computing, networking and storage workloads to achieve the highest levels of visibility, granular policy control and data protection. HyTrust customers benefit from being able to accelerate cloud and virtualization cost savings while improving their security posture by automating and enforcing security policies in real time, adapting quickly to compliance requirements, and preventing unplanned outages. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, HyTrust is backed by the leading providers of strategic IT infrastructure including VMware, Cisco, Intel and Fortinet; by the vanguard of innovative solutions for the intelligence community, In-Q-Tel; and by a world class group of financial investors including AIT Ventures, Granite Ventures, Trident Capital and Vanedge Capital. HyTrust was recently named one of CRN’s “20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors”, a recipient of VMworld’s 2015 Gold Award for Security/Compliance and Virtualization, and the Most Innovative Cloud Company at Intel Security Focus 2015.

Entrust fights fraud and cyber threats with identity-centric security that protects people, devices, and data. Our comprehensive solutions help organizations secure every step of the identity lifecycle, from verifying identity at onboarding to securing connections and fighting fraud in everyday transactions. Ongoing monitoring supports compliance and safeguards keys, secrets, and certificates. With a foundation of identity-centric security, our customers can transact and grow with confidence. Entrust has a global partner network and supports customers in over 150 countries. Learn more at entrust.com

LiveAction delivers comprehensive solutions specifically designed to simplify network management for network operation teams. Our suite of solutions offers unmatched network visibility, empowering teams with actionable intelligence that significantly enhances network management and troubleshooting capabilities. LiveAction is trusted by thousands of enterprise customers, and their experiences have yielded remarkable results, including: Up to a 50% improvement in mean time to respond. Troubleshooting speeds increased by 20x, ensuring rapid issue resolution. Network operations productivity boosted by over 100%. A remarkable 153% return on investment. Rapid payback within 12 months. LiveAction is funded by Insight Partners, Sway Ventures, Cisco Systems and Enerdgim Ventures. Experience LiveAction today. To learn more, and request a free trial or demo, visit www.liveaction.com.

At Le Tote, it is our mission to define the future of retail. By bringing together tradition and technology, we make fashion accessible to everyone, every day. Our unique model gives customers access to an endless closet of clothing and accessories for a monthly membership fee. We feature hundreds of top brands including BCBG, Calvin Klein, Free People, French Connection, Gorjana, KUT From the Kloth, Levi’s, Nike, Rachel Roy, Tahari and Vince Camuto We’re not just a retail or fashion company. We’re building the next generation of retail by taking a highly analytical, data-driven and customer first approach. We’re a team of challengers, problem solvers, creative thinkers and boundary pushers. If you want to tackle ambitious goals and make a big impact, we want you! Le Tote has customers in 48 states and the company has seen 100%+ growth year over year for the past 3 years. We have raised over $75mm to date and we are backed by top-tier venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Azure Capital, Google Ventures, Sway Ventures and Y Combinator.

Merlin, the next generation of business. Operating in stealth.

Model Medicines is an AI-driven, human health company using AI to model all of chemistry and human biology, to accelerate the creation of life-changing drugs. The company was founded in 2019 to deliver on the promise of AI-Drug discovery. With more than 182 compounds for 26 targets, they are delivering on the promise of AI-drug discovery. The company has developed a robust pipeline of patent-pending therapeutics for oncology, infectious diseases, gastric disorders, neurological disorders, and weight disorders. The company is based in La Jolla, CA.

Deals are won through relationships—but most CRMs werent built to track them. Affinity automates data entry, surfaces relationship insights, and gives teams the context they need to act on every opportunity. Over 3,000 organizations worldwide use Affinity, including leading private equity, venture capital, and investment banking firms. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC, and MassMutual Ventures.

Fetch Robotics, now part of Zebra Technologies, is the pioneer of On-Demand Automation — the only solution that deploys safe, reliable, and versatile Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) for the warehousing and intralogistics markets in just hours. Together, Fetch Robotics and Zebra provide the broadest range of AMR solutions in the industry resulting in demonstrable improvements in throughput, efficiency and productivity within both commercial and industrial environments — all while working alongside people.

Trusted by global brands, The EVRYTHNG Product Cloud® is the platform consumer product brands need to Run their Business Differently® by Knowing what their Products Know® - with real-time data-driven solutions for supply chain traceability, provenance, brand integrity, product authentication, direct to consumer (D2C) engagement and resale/recycling. EVRYTHNG provides an Active Digital Identity™ on the web for billions of digitized product items in apparel, beauty, personal care, food & beverage, home goods, tobacco and other industries. EVRYTHNG is World Economic Forum Global Innovator, and EVRYTHNG’s founders originated the W3C Web of Things & GS1 Digital Link global standards. The company won the 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award. EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc in January 2022, uniting the world's most powerful product identification engine with the industry's most advanced product intelligence cloud platform.