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Vendelux is the intelligence layer for B2B events. A Series B company backed by leading investors at Tribeca Venture Partners, S3, HubSpot Ventures, and more, we help 3,000+ marketing and sales teams turn events into a measurable revenue channel across 250,000+ global events.

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JetZero is building the worlds first commercial blended-wing-body aircraft. The Z4 will cut fuel burn and carbon emissions by up to 50% compared to todays commercial airliners — giving the industry a clear path toward its 2050 net-zero goals, while lowering operating costs and improving the passenger experience. The Jet1 Demonstrator, the first full-scale test of the blended-wing-body design, is scheduled to fly in 2027. Factory One, JetZeros Z4 production facility in Greensboro, NC, broke ground in June 2026, with the first Z4 expected to be completed in the early 2030s.

Radical AI is accelerating materials R&D. Through the integration of artificial intelligence, engineering, materials science, and applied research, we are changing the way materials are designed, developed, and discovered. In doing so we are tackling the worlds most pressing problems.

Finix is a payment processor that makes it easy for software platforms, marketplaces, and individual businesses of all sizes to accept payments and send money while maximizing revenue and reducing costs. Finix is trusted by startups and publicly traded companies alike to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, Finix is a privately held company with funding from American Express Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Inspired Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Visa, and more.

CoreStory delivers enterprise-grade code intelligence for modernization, onboarding, and governance. Unlike generic AI tools that focus on code generation, CoreStory builds structured understanding—capturing business rules, system relationships, and developer intent. Our platform enhances tools like GitHub Copilot by 51% through deep analysis and reasoning. Used by Fortune 500s, CoreStory turns legacy code into an asset, enabling faster, safer modernization and continuous innovation.

AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.

Lyra is a collective of brands in the Personal Care and Family categories, dedicated to caring for you and your loved ones. Our trusted brands are designed with comfort, quality, and transparency first, because we believe everyone should experience care done right. Formerly Forum Brands.

Leap is building the worlds largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale. The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk. Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations. At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country. Were one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch weve powered stores for +100 brands, and were adding more brands and stores each month. Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product. Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams. With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, were a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed.

We are thrilled to announce that Wallaroo.AI is a finalist for the 2023 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award (AI and Machine Learning Development)! We are excited to share weve been selected for the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program! We are excited to work closely with Microsoft to further scale our business and reach more customers worldwide. Learn more at startups.microsoft.com.

Harmonic is the complete startup database. Used by hundreds of leading investors like Accel, Greylock, and Menlo, as well as GTM teams from the likes of Notion, Google, and Retool to find the best startups and founders. Open roles: https://harmonic.ai/careers

Draftea is the leading real money gaming platform in the Spanish-speaking world. Draftea.mx is changing the way fans live sports betting in Mexico. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek, and Bullpen Capital.

Manufacturing makes up half of the world's GDP. 20% of every dollar spent is wasted on scrap, rework, product returns, mistakes, and inefficient operations – because it's too hard to solve problems in manufacturing. Instrumental is a Manufacturing Optimization System, designed for rapid adoption by engineering and operations teams to provide tangible improvements to yield, uptime, throughput, efficiency, time to market, and end user delight. Our technology digitizes and aggregates product data, processing it with smart algorithms. We present engineers and operations teams with actionable information that enables them to optimize their product and process. Our customers are brands and manufacturers of discrete products where quality matters, across the electronics, vehicle, and medical device industries. Visit our website to see case studies of how our customers enjoy faster product maturity, smoother ramps, higher yields, and less waste.

Verbit is a verbal intelligence platform leveraged by 3,000+ businesses and institutions. Our suite of voice AI solutions are used to capture everyday exchanges, better understand the information being shared and apply these insights in daily work and learning environments. By combining automatic speech recognition technology (ASR) with the expert human transcribers, Verbit has transformed a $30B transcription industry. Our proprietary technology, Captivate, unlocks the value of speech for customers. With access to live captions, transcription, translation, audio description, dubbing and note taking services, they’re meeting accessibility guidelines and working more efficiently. Whether in the classroom, the boardroom or for broadcasts of the world’s most-watched events, Verbit makes spoken words accessible and actionable. Verbit was founded in 2017.

Vendelux is the intelligence layer for B2B events. A Series B company backed by leading investors at Tribeca Venture Partners, S3, HubSpot Ventures, and more, we help 3,000+ marketing and sales teams turn events into a measurable revenue channel across 250,000+ global events.

Crafty is a leading national provider of office food and beverage programs, helping top workplaces elevate the employee experience. Powered by an innovative, centralized platform, Crafty delivers tailored, scalable pantry services designed to meet each client’s unique needs. Since 2015, companies like DraftKings, Robinhood, and Zillow have partnered with Crafty to create workplace experiences that foster culture, connection, and productivity. With operations in 45+ markets and a growing national footprint, Crafty supports over 400+ client offices and serves more than 300,000 employees each month. Recognized for our 200% three-year revenue growth, Crafty earned a spot on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York and the Bay Area, Crafty is helping companies craft better workplaces, one pantry at a time. Headquartered in Chicago, with teams in New York and the Bay Area, we proudly serve 300,000+ employees across 260+ offices every month. Recognized for our 200% three-year revenue growth, Crafty earned a spot on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Let’s craft better workplaces together.

Perchwell is the modern data and workflow platform for residential real estate. Built on a state-of-the-art data engine, Perchwell empowers real estate professionals to do their best work, provide differentiated service to their clients, and close more deals. Backed by Lux Capital, Founders Fund and some of the country’s leading MLSs, Perchwell is scaling its best-in-class solution to become the nation’s most powerful real estate platform for agents, brokerages and MLSs.

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JetZero is building the worlds first commercial blended-wing-body aircraft. The Z4 will cut fuel burn and carbon emissions by up to 50% compared to todays commercial airliners — giving the industry a clear path toward its 2050 net-zero goals, while lowering operating costs and improving the passenger experience. The Jet1 Demonstrator, the first full-scale test of the blended-wing-body design, is scheduled to fly in 2027. Factory One, JetZeros Z4 production facility in Greensboro, NC, broke ground in June 2026, with the first Z4 expected to be completed in the early 2030s.