Charles Friedland

Were making Africa the first cashless continent. In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. Thats for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash. Were solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads dont always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote DIvoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast. Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent.

fabric is the headless commerce platform purpose-built for growth. Customers like GNC and The Honest Company trust fabric for its open and modular design, allowing them to be live in weeks without having to replatform. fabric is a force multiplier on retailers’ existing technology investments proven to grow digital revenue by up to 3x.

At H1, our mission is nothing short of creating a healthier future worldwide by unlocking and democratizing global access to critical expertise, HCP information, claims data, ground-breaking research and discoveries, and connected insights for all – doctors, researchers, industry and, ultimately, patients – bringing everyone closer together to advance medicine and clinical outcomes. Insights derived from H1’s solutions help life sciences and other healthcare organizations accelerate the development, launch, and dissemination of life-saving treatments, drive meaningful engagements with key opinion leaders, and help ensure equitable access to healthcare services.

Traditional warehouses and lakehouses force you to choose between performance, cost, and simplicity. Firebolt delivers all three on a single platform—with the best price-performance in the market so you can ship faster without compromises. Were built for companies that need their data platforms to do more — run AI workloads, power sub-second customer-facing analytics at scale, or execute ELT jobs efficiently at a fraction of the cost.

Dutchie is the leading technology partner for cannabis retailers of all sizes. With a range of solutions covering point of sale, payments, ecommerce, insurance, and more, Dutchie empowers dispensaries to run efficiently, scale their operation easily, stay compliant, and offer outstanding experiences to the customers who rely on them.

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada unifies video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and workplace tools through one connected platform—Verkada Command—empowering teams to act proactively and create safer, smarter environments.

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks Company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. We empower customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing data complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Our Observability Platform reduces data volumes and associated costs by 60% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Our Fluent Bit-based Telemetry Pipeline product optimizes and simplifies observability and security log data. The product transforms logs at the source and routes them to any destination without lock-in. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including Snap, Robinhood, DoorDash, and Zillow. Learn more at Chronosphere.io.

Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers. Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than 17,000 customers to build blazing fast and relevant search experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale. Algolia was recently named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery Algolias journey to leadership is underpinned by its unwavering commitment to three foundational pillars Speed, Ease of Use, and Scale. Algolia is known for its blazing fast speed with results returned in a staggering 1 to 20 milliseconds, Algolias AI search eclipses industry standards by up to 200-fold, setting a new benchmark for user satisfaction and ROI optimization. The platforms ease of use empowers rapid implementation and effortless integration, Algolias APIs catalyze swift go-to-market strategies. Augmented by SDKs and a robust code library, the platform streamlines development while offering unparalleled analytics capabilities, ensuring every interaction is finely tuned to perfection. And, as the preeminent hosted search engine globally, Algolia processes a staggering 1.7 trillion searches annually. With an index housing over 30 billion records and operating at an awe-inspiring 99.999% availability, Algolia empowers enterprises to scale unprecedented heights of user-centricity. Founded in 2012 in Paris, the company grew and subsequently moved its headquarters to San Francisco to expand its operations and penetrate the North American market.

Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO) is the B2C CRM. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI, Klaviyo combines marketing automation, analytics, and customer service into one unified solution, making it easy for businesses to know their customers and grow faster. Klaviyo (CLAY-vee-oh) helps over 176,000 brands like Mattel, Glossier, Daily Harvest, and Liquid Death deliver 1:1 experiences at scale, improve efficiency, and drive revenue.

Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy. Our approach blends technology and industry expertise, and the human touch to deliver an incredible life insurance experience. Ethos has raised over $400 million of capital from Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and more. We are one of the largest U.S. life insurance issuers. We continue to scale quickly and are looking for passionate Ethosaurs to protect the next million families.

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the worlds largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, unlocking breakthrough applications for critical business needs with deep learning and generative AI. Collectively, Hives technology is transforming approaches to platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection), brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more. Hive has raised over $120M from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Tomales Bay Capital, and Glynn Capital. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 200+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 5 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations. For more information, visit thehive.ai or follow on LinkedIn.

Toast empowers restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight guests. We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive, all-in-one platform, across point of sale, guest marketing, digital ordering & delivery, and payroll & HR We are Toasters! Think you could be one too? https://careers.toasttab.com/

DataRobot is the Value-Driven AI company, empowering organizations to accelerate AI from idea to impact. With over a decade at the forefront of AI innovation, we know what it takes to make a real difference – to your bottom line, to your business vision, and to the world around us. Our open, end-to-end AI lifecycle platform allows your organization to quickly build, securely operate, and confidently govern your entire AI landscape from a single, unified experience. Organizations across industries and geographies trust DataRobot to help solve their biggest challenges with AI, leveraging generative and predictive capabilities today while providing the flexibility to adapt to the innovations of tomorrow.

BigID Next connects the dots in Data & AI. Its the modern platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: built cloud-native, AI-ready, and made for what’s next. With BigID, organizations can see and secure their entire data landscape across multicloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem. Customers use BigID to reduce risk, automate security and privacy controls, stay ahead of compliance, and turn data into an advantage and AI risk into innovation - all in one platform.

Were making Africa the first cashless continent. In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. Thats for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash. Were solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads dont always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote DIvoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast. Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent.

fabric is the headless commerce platform purpose-built for growth. Customers like GNC and The Honest Company trust fabric for its open and modular design, allowing them to be live in weeks without having to replatform. fabric is a force multiplier on retailers’ existing technology investments proven to grow digital revenue by up to 3x.

At H1, our mission is nothing short of creating a healthier future worldwide by unlocking and democratizing global access to critical expertise, HCP information, claims data, ground-breaking research and discoveries, and connected insights for all – doctors, researchers, industry and, ultimately, patients – bringing everyone closer together to advance medicine and clinical outcomes. Insights derived from H1’s solutions help life sciences and other healthcare organizations accelerate the development, launch, and dissemination of life-saving treatments, drive meaningful engagements with key opinion leaders, and help ensure equitable access to healthcare services.

Traditional warehouses and lakehouses force you to choose between performance, cost, and simplicity. Firebolt delivers all three on a single platform—with the best price-performance in the market so you can ship faster without compromises. Were built for companies that need their data platforms to do more — run AI workloads, power sub-second customer-facing analytics at scale, or execute ELT jobs efficiently at a fraction of the cost.

Dutchie is the leading technology partner for cannabis retailers of all sizes. With a range of solutions covering point of sale, payments, ecommerce, insurance, and more, Dutchie empowers dispensaries to run efficiently, scale their operation easily, stay compliant, and offer outstanding experiences to the customers who rely on them.