Brian Dudley

We build the models. You build the future. AGI for the enterprise, starting with software agents.

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.

Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.

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Dremio is the intelligent lakehouse platform trusted by thousands of global enterprises, including Shell, TD Bank, Michelin, and Farmer’s Insurance. AI and analytics initiatives face significant delays due to the time-intensive process of dataset creation. Data engineering teams are overburdened, disconnected data sources require complex ETL processes, and prolonged iteration cycles with business stakeholders slow progress. Dremio eliminates these bottlenecks by unifying data sources without ETL, simplifying the creation of high-quality, governed datasets, and delivering autonomous performance optimization to accelerate AI. From the original co-creators of Apache Polaris and Apache Arrow, Dremio is the only lakehouse built natively on Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Arrow - providing flexibility, preventing lock-in, and enabling community-driven innovation.

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. Remotes mission is to create opportunity everywhere, empowering employers to find and hire the best talent, and enabling individuals to build financial and personal freedom. Remote is the all-in-one HR and payroll platform to find, hire, manage, and pay your entire team everywhere. Whether onboarding your first cross-border hire or scaling across continents, Remote delivers enterprise-grade compliance, intuitive design, and dedicated local expertise. With one platform for every contract, payslip, and regulation, Remote helps you grow without borders through our comprehensive set of core solutions including, HRIS, payroll, international employment, contractor management, and more. Whether you’re just starting your global journey, or looking to optimize your existing operations, sign up or book a demo - and see how Remote makes global HR simple.

ClassDojos mission is to give every child on Earth an education they love. We started by building a network that connects teachers, children, and families. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-8 teachers, children, and families, globally. They use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos, videos, messages, and activities. It is actively used at an unprecedented scale: in over 95% of US schools, reaching ~51 million children in ~180 countries, all built by a team of 65 people [1]). We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world, far beyond those a standard school can provide. We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative teammates from around the world, with deep backgrounds in education and large scale consumer internet, including Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber, Y Combinator, and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.

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Homeward is a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients overcome the limitations of traditional mortgages. Our Homeward Offer is more than an offer. It’s the power to buy a new home on your terms. It’s the convenience that keeps you from moving twice. And it’s the savings that come from having everything you need in one place. Homeward has an office in Austin, TX, but operates with a fully remote workforce.

We build the models. You build the future. AGI for the enterprise, starting with software agents.

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.

Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.

Work AI for all. The Work AI platform connected to all your data. Find, create, and automate anything.

Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.