Ashish Kakran

Smallest.ai is an AI research lab pioneering the future of compact, powerful models. We power low latency, high accuracy STT, TTS, S2S and SLM models to power Voice and Multi-Modal AI applications across 100+ industries. Our platform runs with enterprise-grade security, supports on-prem and private cloud deployments, and is fully SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI compliant, making it suitable for regulated and high-trust environments.

Relyance AI provides industry-best visibility and coverage, delivering the most comprehensive understanding of data processing across your entire digital ecosystem. We offer an AI-native platform that simplifies data privacy, data security, and AI governance. Powered by our advanced intelligence engine, Trust iQ, our platform seamlessly integrates Global Privacy Automation, Data Security Posture Management, and AI Governance capabilities into a single intuitive interface.

StackGen generates Infrastructure from Code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. StackGen removes software development lifecycle bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities and eliminates cognitive overload.

At Exaforce, we are on a mission to 10x the productivity and efficacy of security and operations (SOC) teams using our transformative multi-model AI engine. Our Agentic SOC Platform combines AI agents (“Exabots”) with advanced data exploration to deliver real-time insights, proactive detection and response, in-depth investigations, and automated workflows. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, Thomvest Ventures, Touring Capital, and others, Exaforce helps SOC teams respond to threats and breaches faster, with higher precision, greater consistency, and at lower total costs—redefining how SOC teams function.

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Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.

Deductive AI is an applied AI research lab building AGI to enable self-healing software systems. Our code-aware observability platform helps numerous companies root-cause and mitigate large-scale software outages by reasoning about distributed systems, code, and statistical anomalies in real time across unprecedented volumes of structured and unstructured data. We’re a team of engineers and researchers with decades of experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems at Databricks, Facebook, ThoughtSpot, Google, Splunk, and Amazon.

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3

OPAQUE is the confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, OPAQUE’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to effortlessly run cloud-scale, general-purpose AI workloads on encrypted data with cryptographic verification of privacy and sovereignty. OPAQUE supports popular languages and frameworks for AI, including Python and Spark, enabling teams to securely combine datasets with cryptographic verification of privacy. OPAQUE customers deploy high-performance AI faster and eliminate the tradeoff between innovation and security.

Isovalent is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technology Cilium is the choice of leading global organizations including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more. As of April 12, 2024, Isovalent is part of Cisco.

See Exactly What Attackers See. Take full control over your attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks – the ones you didnt know existed. Our botnet and discovery engine use graph data modeling to map and classify the assets across your attack surface.

Harness is a rapidly growing startup that is disrupting the software delivery market. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes product modules for every aspect of software delivery, including: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Continuous Error Tracking, Code Repository, Internal Developer Portal, Software Supply Chain Assurance, Infrastructure as Code Management and AI/ML infused throughout with AI Development Assistant (AIDA). The platform is designed to help companies accelerate their cloud initiatives as well as their adoption of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS and make software delivery easier, giving devs their nights and weekends back.

Bolster is an AI-powered cybersecurity company helping the world’s leading brands protect their customers from phishing, fraud, and digital impersonation. With offices in Santa Clara, California, and Noida, India, we combine deep learning and automation to detect, analyze, and take down threats in real time—across web, social media, dark web, and app stores. Our platform is trusted by startups and many Fortune 500 companies alike to reduce risk, protect revenue, and defend brand reputation at scale.

Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, Unqork is the leading AI-first enterprise development platform, empowering organizations to build and operate AI-generated applications with greater control, predictability, and governance. By governing the use of AI across the development lifecycle, Unqork helps enterprises accelerate digital transformation while reducing risk and total cost of ownership. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To learn more, visit: https://www.unqork.com

It’s all about the application. Shipa simplifies the way you secure, and manage applications across cloud-native infrastructures by taking an application-centric approach.

Seligman Investments is a $30 billion technology and healthcare investment business with nearly three decades of research driven insight. Our heritage of deep fundamental analysis and advanced technical expertise enables us to identify transformative innovation trends early and invest with conviction. We pursue a disciplined, long term philosophy, investing across long only and long/short public markets strategies. Seligman Ventures is the thesis-driven venture capital arm of Seligman Investments. We apply institutional research discipline, operating experience, and long-horizon judgment to venture investing across AI & cloud infrastructure, modern data center & hardware, and cybersecurity. We partner with founders tackling hard technical problems where deep expertise and technical advantage compound over time. Our network accelerates their path to market, and our experience helps them navigate scale, complexity, and market cycles as they build durable, category-defining companies. Seligman Investments and Seligman Ventures are offering brands of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC. http://seligman.com *Data as at December 31, 2025

Smallest.ai is an AI research lab pioneering the future of compact, powerful models. We power low latency, high accuracy STT, TTS, S2S and SLM models to power Voice and Multi-Modal AI applications across 100+ industries. Our platform runs with enterprise-grade security, supports on-prem and private cloud deployments, and is fully SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI compliant, making it suitable for regulated and high-trust environments.

SIERRA Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in the future of Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over four decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Fortune 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information visit the Sierra Ventures website at https://www.sierraventures.com Twitter: @Sierra_Ventures

Relyance AI provides industry-best visibility and coverage, delivering the most comprehensive understanding of data processing across your entire digital ecosystem. We offer an AI-native platform that simplifies data privacy, data security, and AI governance. Powered by our advanced intelligence engine, Trust iQ, our platform seamlessly integrates Global Privacy Automation, Data Security Posture Management, and AI Governance capabilities into a single intuitive interface.

StackGen generates Infrastructure from Code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. StackGen removes software development lifecycle bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities and eliminates cognitive overload.