Chase Roberts

LightBeam.ai, the zero trust data protection pioneer, converges and simplifies data security, privacy, and AI governance,, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed and confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, LightBeam ties together sensitive data cataloging, control, and compliance across structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, and compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations. Continuous monitoring with full data residency ensures ultimate zero-trust data protection. LightBeam is on a mission to create a secure privacy-first world.

Northflank is a self-service developer platform that automates and unifies deployment of any workload, on any cloud, at any scale.

CloseFactor helps businesses fill their pipeline with their ICP. Using machine learning to automatically curate unstructured information about companies and extract meaningful insights that go-to-market teams can act on, CloseFactor identifies your best customers, empowering sales and marketing teams to hit their goals. Learn more at closefactor.com.

Vividly is the trade promotion partner retail brands love. Were trusted by more than 2,500 CPG professionals. In as little as two weeks, you could streamline your trade promotion planning, start reconciling your deductions with AI, and increase your trade ROI with real-time forecasting and in-depth analytics.

In sharp contrast to one-size-fits-all, legacy CWPP and container detection and response solutions, RAD takes a custom, behavioral approach to cloud native detection and response that can counter evolving threats while sharpening inputs into shift-left and posture management.

Scale your distributed applications, modernize your workflows for durability, and protect against software failures and downtimes with Orkes, the leading orchestration platform for developers. Orkes Cloud provides fully managed & security hardened clusters offering full compatibility with Open Source Conductor with enterprise features added. Write workflows as code, build task workers, integrate other applications with open source SDKs Scale to the billions, debug in minutes, observe everything Build durable execution flows driven by events Seamlessly weave in Large Language Models, Prompt Templates and Vector Database Integrations into your business workflows. Integrate and optimize human actions into your workflows Orkes is founded by ex-Netflix Engineers, original creators of Netflix Conductor OSS.

Metaview is an AI company focused on recruiting. We build AI agents that help world-class companies hire with radically more speed and precision. We automate the toil, and augment the human for companies like Brex, Affirm, Deel, ElevenLabs, and Airtable. Founded by Siadhal and Shahriar after their experiences scaling Uber and Palantir, we’ve raised over $50m from top-tier investors including Google Ventures. It’s still day 0: Now is the time to re-engineer how work gets done with AI at the core, and our toughest challenges still lie ahead. Lets build it together, and build great teams.

Pronto is a full lifecycle platform for partnerships teams to automate repetitive work, accelerate GTM, and grow indirect revenue. Our platform takes the complexity out of partner operations by integrating with the tools you’re using today, normalizing data, and providing constant visibility into every partnerships performance. Get up and running in 90 minutes. Boost productivity and focus by working with your partners in Pronto, and generate more revenue together.

Contracts have the power to drive revenue, strengthen relationships, and fuel business growth—but only when organizations can access and act on their insights. This is possible with Workday Contract Intelligence and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), powered by Evisort AI, delivering total visibility, automation, and control. Stop reading contracts. Start driving outcomes. Workday helps teams process contracts 65% faster with 70% less spend—without tedious manual review. Move faster, stay compliant, and scale seamlessly. Workday has the power to analyze 450,000 contracts daily, giving organizations the visibility and automation needed to accelerate decisions and keep business moving forward. Learn more, visit us at https://w.day/4iFHxEZ

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/

LightBeam.ai, the zero trust data protection pioneer, converges and simplifies data security, privacy, and AI governance,, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed and confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, LightBeam ties together sensitive data cataloging, control, and compliance across structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, and compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations. Continuous monitoring with full data residency ensures ultimate zero-trust data protection. LightBeam is on a mission to create a secure privacy-first world.

Northflank is a self-service developer platform that automates and unifies deployment of any workload, on any cloud, at any scale.

CloseFactor helps businesses fill their pipeline with their ICP. Using machine learning to automatically curate unstructured information about companies and extract meaningful insights that go-to-market teams can act on, CloseFactor identifies your best customers, empowering sales and marketing teams to hit their goals. Learn more at closefactor.com.

Vividly is the trade promotion partner retail brands love. Were trusted by more than 2,500 CPG professionals. In as little as two weeks, you could streamline your trade promotion planning, start reconciling your deductions with AI, and increase your trade ROI with real-time forecasting and in-depth analytics.