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Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

Aembit is the leading provider of workload identity and access management solutions, designed to secure non-human identities like AI agents, applications, and service accounts across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and partner environments. Aembit’s no-code platform enables organizations to enforce access policies in real time, ensuring the security and integrity of critical infrastructure. To learn more or schedule a demo, visit https://aembit.io

Oligo is the industrys leading runtime security platform that solves todays toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of what actually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks.

Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant and achieve least privilege. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.

Built to remove barriers in data insights that keep teams siloed — Bicycle is a Real-Time Insights & Operations platform that sits at the intersection of your Event Streaming Platform and Data Warehouse, to enable real-time insights, alerts, and automation. Imagine payment issues impacting only specific app users, login issues only impacting certain geographies, or a fast-growing customer loyalty segment that can be better revenue optimized. As real-time data stream in, Bicycle can slice data by business dimension (e.g., loyalty segment) and by software dimension (e.g., app version) to quicky find specific opportunities to impact your bottom line. Bicycle automatically identifies and correlates anomalies using a rich set of tools and models. From the user-friendly interface, you can build a live software business graph, drill down into DevOps, set alerts, and drive automated responses to resolve issues quickly. Whether you’re a data scientist or a product owner with limited technology training, all of these insights can be self-served. Join Priceline, ACERTUS, UrbanPiper, bigbasket, and other customers who rely on Bicycle’s real-time insights, anomaly detection, alerting and drill down capabilities. Book a demo with us today at bicycle.io

Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud. The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Only Lacework can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. Customers all over the globe depend on Lacework to drive revenue, bring products to market faster and safer and consolidate point security solutions into a single platform.

Arke is a project-led workforce partner for organizations running mission-critical initiatives. We assemble specialized teams - engineered around your scope, timeline, and outcomes - so the work that matters most gets done by the people best equipped to deliver it. From technical builds to complex transformations, we go beyond traditional staffing: aligning talent, accountability, and delivery under one model built for projects that cant afford to fail. Part of the Harrison Clarke Group.

Inside the Silicon Mind is a media company focused on the founders and investors shaping the future of technology. We explore the ideas they believe in, the companies they build, and the decisions that define their success. We dive deep into the raw, unfiltered reality of what it takes to dominate at the top. Through in-depth interviews, video, podcasts, documentary series and original storytelling, we go beyond the headlines to understand how founders build enduring businesses and how investors decide what to back. From AI breakthroughs to the realities of raising capital and scaling a company, we uncover the conviction, judgement, and ambition behind the next generation of technology companies. We’re building a destination for founders, investors, and those who want to understand how technology businesses are built and funded. Rooted in Silicon Valley, our perspective is global. Our brands include: • Inside the Silicon Mind Podcast • Cerana Labs (Invite Only Member Community) • The PMF Playbook (Newsletter) Stay curious. Stay consistent. Stay Inside the Silicon Mind. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTheSiliconMind

Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

Aembit is the leading provider of workload identity and access management solutions, designed to secure non-human identities like AI agents, applications, and service accounts across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and partner environments. Aembit’s no-code platform enables organizations to enforce access policies in real time, ensuring the security and integrity of critical infrastructure. To learn more or schedule a demo, visit https://aembit.io

Oligo is the industrys leading runtime security platform that solves todays toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of what actually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks.