Jeff Herbst

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.

Knit is the AI-Native Research Agency. We combine the rigor of a traditional agency with the speed of AI — helping insights teams go from scoping to story in a week or less. Our Researcher-Driven AI approach delivers agency-quality insights, not generic AI outputs, built on sound methodology and your unique business context. Run quant + qual research in a single study across a wide range of research use cases. Trusted by Amazon, ESPN, Mars Wrigley, T-Mobile, and more. With quant and qual integrated into a single study, Knit delivers AI-generated surveys, automated analysis, and rich, editable reporting—all refined by real humans—to give you a full, nuanced picture of your consumer.

Organizations don’t stall because the vision is unclear; they stall because people perceive the same information differently, and that divergence goes unseen until it slows everything down. WethosAI empowers you with a clear vision, putting you in control of your organizations direction. WethosAI instrumented the missing layer of execution: the cognition layer, which enables people to interpret information in real-time. By decoding perception variance, predicting where alignment will fracture, and intervening at the moment communication becomes friction, WethosAI preserves execution velocity. WethosAI transforms “alignment” from a cultural aspiration into a measurable, steerable metric that keeps decisions moving with clarity.

Qortex enables brands, publishers, and creators to optimize their video strategy for improved advertising, monetization, and engagement outcomes. With its proprietary AI technology, Qortex contextualizes video content, frame-by-frame, to assess its sentiment and provide the deepest level of understanding at scale. On the advertising front, Qortex offers On-Stream™, a captivating and non-interruptive in-video experience that captures engagement and incremental revenue. Filled through programmatic and direct demand, On-Stream™ ads are addressable down to the user and configured to the publishers preferred frequency and duration. Favored by audiences 9:1, On-Stream™ respects the viewer experience and is available for web and CTV environments. Above and beyond in-video advertising, Qortexs Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) engine parses through the internets growing inventory of video content. With an aggregate of millions of data points, IVA can be leveraged for predictive and statistical modeling, diagnostic analysis, and descriptive reports for enterprise clients. While IVA is best known for its analysis of content alignment, it can be utilized for a variety of performance outcomes. As pioneers in video content, Qortex has been named AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Player, The Drum’s Best Use of AI in Advertising, and is backed by GFT Ventures, Silicon Road Ventures, and Quake Capital. Qortex is headquartered in New York City, with teammates across the globe.

Most businesses today depend on digital platforms — and the data they generate — for their growth and competitive edge. With timely, accessible, trustworthy data, you always know how you’re doing in digital and are ready to explore new ideas and business opportunities. Yet that data ecosystem is getting harder to manage. Without automating your data workflows, your data team will quickly be overwhelmed and your business teams will be left waiting for answers. Few companies can hire data engineers at the pace at which their digital strategies must evolve. Our mission is to do the complex integration and data engineering work that create trustworthy data so our customers can stay focused on growing their revenue.

Mars Auto is building autonomous trucks to fully automate long-haul truck operations. We are bringing self-driving technology to the commercial trucking industry. Autonomous technology will be applied to the trucking industry before anywhere else. Mars Auto is in a unique position to be one of the first companies to deploy driverless trucks on the road. Our data-driven approach allows us to learn driving policy from actual driving data, and our system can be deployed at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. We are paving the road towards driverless trucks, and have many industry-first records. We have started the first autonomous freight shipping in Korea. With the largest amount of autonomous miles in Korea under our belt, we're rapidly expanding our fleet to cover the entire country.

In 2021, Mperativ was launched by three long-time friends -- two seasoned marketing leaders and one accomplished lead software architect. Over careers with large enterprises and fledgling startups, we'd noticed a frustrating pattern emerge. ‍ Marketing operations took too much effort because there was no blueprint for building a best-in-class demand engine. CRM, marketing automation, and business intelligence solutions were powerful but too flexible, resulting in endless customizations and too many marketing dollars sunk into developers and consultants. Why should obtaining marketing insights be such a painstaking process? ‍ Meanwhile, marketing leaders were increasingly marginalized because they couldn’t directly link their activities to bottom line growth. A focus on lead-centric metrics made it difficult to articulate the value of marketing to other executives. Why should marketing operate separately from the opportunity-centric model used by the rest of the business? After discussing over coffee at Muddy Waters cafe in San Francisco, we got to work on a solution. ‍ Mperativ was created to secure marketing’s position as an invaluable asset to the business and make it possible for marketers to draw connections between their actions and revenue outcomes. With a new revenue-centric marketing model, Mperativ hopes to bring marketing into harmony with the rest of the business on what’s working to generate growth.

H2O.ai is the leading open source Generative AI and Machine Learning platform provider on a mission to democratize AI. It distills the technical prowess of 30 Kaggle Masters into straightforward AI cloud products for Generative AI and machine learning that solve powerful problems. Customers, community, and partners are strategic investors in H2O.ai building a long term vision for using AI for Good. H2O.ai’s AI Engines of distributed ML H2O-3, autoML Driverless AI, Hydrogen Torch and Document AI have transformed over 20,000 global organizations and over half of the Fortune 500 and household brands, including AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, PayPal, Chipotle, ADP, WorkDay, IFFCO-Tokio and AES. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program regularly supports nonprofit groups, foundations and communities in their efforts to advance education, healthcare, and environmental conservation, including identifying areas vulnerable to natural disasters and protecting endangered species. Join us on the movement at www.h2o.ai.

WeRide is a global leading company that develops Level 4 autonomous driving technologies, bringing smart cities with new products, new business model and new experience. WeRide has received strategic investments from top-tier global automakers, including Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Yutong Group. WeRide is the first startup in the world that holds driverless test permits in both China and the US. Through strategic alliances with car makers, mobility and logistics service platforms, WeRide offers an all-rounded product mix of Robotaxi, Mini Robobus and Robovan to provide multiple services including online ride-hailing, on-demand transport and urban logistics. WeRide launched China’s first Robotaxi service, completely open to public, in November 2019, in Guangzhou, China, covering an area of 144 square kilometers. WeRide has also conducted commercial pilot operations and fully driverless testing for Mini Robobus and Robovan. Established in 2017, WeRide is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, and maintains R&D and operation centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Anqing, as well as San Jose in the US. It employs a highly skilled team of over 800 employees around the globe and has extensive domestic and international experience in R&D, business development and operations.

Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Deep learning is inspired by the brain’s ability to learn. Once a brain learns to identify an object, its identification becomes second nature. Similarly, as Deep Instinct’s artificial brain learns to detect any type of cyber threat, its prediction capabilities become instinctive. As a result, zero-day and APT attacks are detected and prevented in real-time with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity that is proactive and predictive. Deep Instinct provides comprehensive defense that is designed to protect against the most evasive unknown malware in real-time, across an organization’s endpoints, servers, and mobile devices. Deep learning’s capabilities of identifying malware from any data source results in comprehensive protection on any device, any platform, and operating system.

Element powers digitally-enabled operations for the Industrial Enterprise. Tackling one of the most critical gaps in Industrial IoT –– the fact that 95% of data across the Industrial Enterprise is unusable because it’s fragmented and disconnected –– Element Unify breaks through the data silos by bringing IT and OT data and teams together for the first time on a single solution. With Element Unify, IT and OT teams can collaboratively make data-driven operational and business decisions around rich, contextualized metadata, while ensuring scale, reliability and security. Industrial Enterprises can see up to a 300% increase in time to insight, reduced organizational fragmentation, and a 100% increase in data usability with Element. Element's customers represent over $500 billion in revenue, $300 billion in fixed assets, and 350,000 employees. Element is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

By exploiting the massive parallel processing power of the GPU, FASTDATA.io has created the fastest stream processing engine in the world today. Plasma Engine™ is the first GPU-native software to fully leverage NVIDIA GPUs and Apache Arrow for real-time processing of infinite data in motion. By porting Apache Spark to Plasma Engine, we empower you to process your existing Spark workloads faster than ever on GPUs without the hassle of changing your code.

TuSimple is a global autonomous driving technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United States and Asia. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing commercial-ready, SAE Level 2+ through Level 4 autonomous driving solutions for long-haul heavy-duty trucks. TuSimple aims to transform the $4 trillion global truck freight industry through the companys leading AI technology, which makes it possible for trucks to drive safely autonomously, operate nearly continuously, and reduce fuel consumption by 10%+ relative to manually driven trucks. Global achievements include the worlds first fully autonomous, driver-out semi-truck run on open public roads, and development of the worlds first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN). We’re looking for creative and entrepreneurial individuals to join us. Please view positions at https://www.tusimple.com/careers/

HEAVY.AI provides advanced analytics that empower businesses and the government to visualize high-value opportunities and risks hidden in their big location and time data. Leading organizations in government, telecommunications, energy, utilities, and higher education use HEAVY.AI to support high-impact decision-making in previously unimaginable timelines by harnessing the massive parallelism of modern GPU and CPU hardware. This analytics capability unifies today’s exploding data volumes from multiple sources for a better immersive and real-time, interactive visual experience. It can be deployed in the cloud and on-premise. HEAVY.AI originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). HEAVY.AI is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more about HEAVY.AI at heavy.ai.

RocketSim™ solves functional verification bottlenecks by complementing simulators with a Multicore processor based acceleration solution that offers 5-10X faster simulations for complex designs. RocketSim solves the simulator’s bottleneck challenge by offloading most time-consuming calculations to an ultra-fast multithreaded engine. Unlike hardware based accelerators, RocketSim works from within the familiar simulator environment and runs alongside the existing test bench, eliminating ramp-up time while providing 4-state bit-precise results. RocketSim supports large and complex designs (over 10 billion gates), while offering full visibility of your design. RocketSim enables expending the verification scope to include larger designs and more complex tests.

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.

Knit is the AI-Native Research Agency. We combine the rigor of a traditional agency with the speed of AI — helping insights teams go from scoping to story in a week or less. Our Researcher-Driven AI approach delivers agency-quality insights, not generic AI outputs, built on sound methodology and your unique business context. Run quant + qual research in a single study across a wide range of research use cases. Trusted by Amazon, ESPN, Mars Wrigley, T-Mobile, and more. With quant and qual integrated into a single study, Knit delivers AI-generated surveys, automated analysis, and rich, editable reporting—all refined by real humans—to give you a full, nuanced picture of your consumer.

Organizations don’t stall because the vision is unclear; they stall because people perceive the same information differently, and that divergence goes unseen until it slows everything down. WethosAI empowers you with a clear vision, putting you in control of your organizations direction. WethosAI instrumented the missing layer of execution: the cognition layer, which enables people to interpret information in real-time. By decoding perception variance, predicting where alignment will fracture, and intervening at the moment communication becomes friction, WethosAI preserves execution velocity. WethosAI transforms “alignment” from a cultural aspiration into a measurable, steerable metric that keeps decisions moving with clarity.

Qortex enables brands, publishers, and creators to optimize their video strategy for improved advertising, monetization, and engagement outcomes. With its proprietary AI technology, Qortex contextualizes video content, frame-by-frame, to assess its sentiment and provide the deepest level of understanding at scale. On the advertising front, Qortex offers On-Stream™, a captivating and non-interruptive in-video experience that captures engagement and incremental revenue. Filled through programmatic and direct demand, On-Stream™ ads are addressable down to the user and configured to the publishers preferred frequency and duration. Favored by audiences 9:1, On-Stream™ respects the viewer experience and is available for web and CTV environments. Above and beyond in-video advertising, Qortexs Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) engine parses through the internets growing inventory of video content. With an aggregate of millions of data points, IVA can be leveraged for predictive and statistical modeling, diagnostic analysis, and descriptive reports for enterprise clients. While IVA is best known for its analysis of content alignment, it can be utilized for a variety of performance outcomes. As pioneers in video content, Qortex has been named AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Player, The Drum’s Best Use of AI in Advertising, and is backed by GFT Ventures, Silicon Road Ventures, and Quake Capital. Qortex is headquartered in New York City, with teammates across the globe.

Most businesses today depend on digital platforms — and the data they generate — for their growth and competitive edge. With timely, accessible, trustworthy data, you always know how you’re doing in digital and are ready to explore new ideas and business opportunities. Yet that data ecosystem is getting harder to manage. Without automating your data workflows, your data team will quickly be overwhelmed and your business teams will be left waiting for answers. Few companies can hire data engineers at the pace at which their digital strategies must evolve. Our mission is to do the complex integration and data engineering work that create trustworthy data so our customers can stay focused on growing their revenue.