Brett Liu, CFA

Starcloud is building data centers in space to address the AI energy challenge. Starcloud recently launched the first Nvidia H100 to space. Starcloud was founded in January 2024 and raised a $170M Series A in early 2026, becoming the fastest unicorn in YC history. Their backers include Y Combinator (S24), Benchmark, EQT, NFX, In-Q-Tel, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and the World Economic Forums Technology Pioneers. Starcloud White Paper: Starcloud.com/wp Starcloud Concept Video: Starcloud.com

AI-native security for agentic applications, built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack. Not just the prompt layer.

Tensormesh is an AI inference optimization company that never charges you twice for cached tokens, making AI applications faster and dramatically cheaper to run anywhere. Created on leading open-source frameworks, AI teams building agents and LLM applications deploy in minutes with full observability and granular workload control.

We enable serverless inference via our GPU orchestration and model load-balancing system. We unlock fine-tuning by enabling organizations to size their server fleet to throughput needs, not number of models in the catalogue. See it in action on our public cloud, which offers inference for 10k+ open weight models.

We are an AI-powered identity security platform for human and non-human identities. We automate identity permissions and lifecycle using context, risk, and behavioral analysis and help your business protect against identity breaches. Our founding team consists of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives who have led successful startups and have a proven track record of creating disruptive technologies in Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Networking. We are funded by a top-tier Silicon Valley VC firm.

Frontier Agent Running Inside Your Infra and Compute.

Skyvern helps companies automate browser based workflows using LLMs and Computer Vision, fully automating manual workflows and replacing brittle or unreliable scripts. Examples include: Automating materials procurement from commerce websites Completing complex multi-step workflows (ie getting an insurance quote from Geico.com)

Open-source inference server and production cluster for embeddings, reranking, and extraction. Cut API costs by 50x, boost quality with 85+ SOTA models, and keep your data in your own cloud.

Eclypsium establishes trust in every endpoint, server and network appliance in enterprise infrastructure (IT, cloud, data centers, network) by identifying, verifying and fortifying 3rd-party software, firmware and hardware in every device. Eclypsium’s platform continuously monitors firmware, hardware and software within each critical asset for threats, backdoors, implants and vulnerabilities, and mitigates supply chain risks throughout the asset lifecycle. Powered by world-class research team, Eclypsium was named as Gartner Cool Vendor, and a winner of Fast Company’s most innovative security companies, CNBC Upstart 100, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Most Innovative Supply Chain Security, and CRN’s Stellar Startups awards.

Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. We maintain the world’s most advanced global models for cybersecurity, and we build local models that respond to your enterprise’s specific context and threat landscape.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit grafana.com.

Your important data is always in motion, spreading to new people, applications, and devices that are outside traditional security controls. We protect data anywhere it goes in the extended enterprise. You cant protect what you cant see. We classify data by analyzing billions of events, not just patterns in the content, assembling a data lineage to identify and protect what other tools can’t.

The Rafay Platform automates the operations and consumption of compute infrastructure so businesses can focus on innovation and impact. Rafay customers turn siloed, fragmented, and complex compute environments into well-oiled, self-service engines that empower enterprises, cloud service providers and sovereign AI clouds to build and deploy cloud-native applications – including AI workloads –without limitations, to scale without barriers, and accelerate productivity without roadblocks.

At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. Docker helps developers bring their ideas to reality by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate workflows with an integrated development pipeline and application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.

Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerized cloud native applications from development to production. Aquas full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.

Starcloud is building data centers in space to address the AI energy challenge. Starcloud recently launched the first Nvidia H100 to space. Starcloud was founded in January 2024 and raised a $170M Series A in early 2026, becoming the fastest unicorn in YC history. Their backers include Y Combinator (S24), Benchmark, EQT, NFX, In-Q-Tel, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and the World Economic Forums Technology Pioneers. Starcloud White Paper: Starcloud.com/wp Starcloud Concept Video: Starcloud.com

AI-native security for agentic applications, built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack. Not just the prompt layer.

HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence and national security leaders with mission-critical signals intelligence to enable faster, better decision making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security. HawkEye 360 was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Tensormesh is an AI inference optimization company that never charges you twice for cached tokens, making AI applications faster and dramatically cheaper to run anywhere. Created on leading open-source frameworks, AI teams building agents and LLM applications deploy in minutes with full observability and granular workload control.

We enable serverless inference via our GPU orchestration and model load-balancing system. We unlock fine-tuning by enabling organizations to size their server fleet to throughput needs, not number of models in the catalogue. See it in action on our public cloud, which offers inference for 10k+ open weight models.