Matt Thoms

Dobby consolidates shipment data from emails, TMS, ERP, and carrier portals, eliminates manual entry, and automates work for freight forwarders.

Meet Recess, the category-defining marketplace for parents to find enrichment classes, after-school care, and camps—all in one place. Recess is live in Texas and coming to your city soon!

Estes is an electrification systems development and manufacturing technology company, with an initial focus on durable high voltage battery systems for all mobility sectors. We are taking a novel approach to battery systems architecture through deep vertical integration, while building a US-based supply chain and manufacturing footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco, Estes was founded by experienced industry pioneers from Tesla, Proterra, Sila, and Cummins.

GOB is the market’s first earplug with a conscience. We’re taking on the earplug market with the first plastic-free, compostable option. We partner with nature to evolve your everyday into the regenerative future. We are reinventing wearable wellness products that are engineered with biology, designed with a long-term vision.

Find contract manufacturers who can actually make your food CPG product. Rescale offers self-guided, software & tech-enabled tools paired with live experts to take you through manufacturing search, trials, and negotiation. Proven to yield the best pricing and quality. Frustrated by the outdated and cumbersome process that it took to find the right contract manufacuring partners, industry veterans Julia Megson & Matthew Kaliara founded Rescale in 2022 to streamline that work. From finding the right partners, to putting the right legal paperwork in place, Rescale supports brands as they scale and provides high-quality leads to manufacturers of all sizes.

We love a good deal Everything on our site is off-price, up to 80% off everything, all the time. How it works We buy excess inventory from thoughtful, high quality brands at a discount and then pass those savings on to our customers. Brands we carry We focus on Millennial and Gen Z favorites like Baggu, Lisa Says Gah, and others you wont find at traditional off-price retailers. The offe market difference Millions of pounds of clothing go to waste each year so we work with our brands to ensure more clothing is worn, not wasted.

DirectBooker bridges the gap between guests who want to book direct and the hotels that want to serve them directly. We are the AI-native aggregator built for hotels who want to win in the era of conversational travel search. We connect global hotel chains and independent properties directly to AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini—ensuring your rates, availability, and brand appear when travelers ask AI to "find hotels in Berlin." The paradigm is shifting. Just as hotels struggled to compete with OTAs in traditional Google search for category queries, the same challenge exists in AI—but this time, were building the infrastructure to help you win from day one. What we do: * Integrate real-time pricing, availability, and inventory into AI platforms via Model Context Protocol (MCP) * Surface your direct rates, loyalty pricing, and exclusive benefits that OTAs cant match * Drive completed bookings directly to your website—preserving customer relationships and eliminating commission drain Who we serve: * Large hotel brands and chains ready to dominate AI distribution * IBEs, CRSs, and connectivity providers aggregating independent hotel inventory Why it matters: 70% of travelers prefer to book direct, but need an easy way to compare options. AI is creating a new entry point for travel search—one where hotels can finally compete at the top of the funnel without losing margin to intermediaries. Founded by industry veterans from TripAdvisor and Google Travel, DirectBooker is the supplier-aligned partner helping hotels shape the future of travel distribution.

We’re a team of software industry veterans, architects, and visionaries committed to transforming the way the built environment is imagined and built. Driven by a passion for design and technology, we’re developing a platform that empowers collaboration, fuels creativity, and unlocks new possibilities for the building community. Our mission is simple yet bold: to build tools that connect, empower and inspire, so you can focus on creating spaces that shape the world.

We make fake people that use your real product.

Manufacturing is a complex system to scale, iterate, and continuously improve. We’re building the platform to handle that complexity so teams can deliver their best products, faster, and cheaper.

Dig Energy develops purpose-built drilling technology to make highly-efficient geothermal heating and cooling systems cost competitive with fossil fuels. Heating and cooling account for 35% of all energy consumption, largely powered by oil and gas today. Geothermal heat pumps are the most energy-efficient HVAC solution available, but adoption is limited by drilling expense and cumbersome equipment. Dig’s compact, mobile drill reduces costs by 80% and promises to dramatically increase adoption worldwide. Learn more at https://dig.energy/.

In recent years tens of thousands of online book tastemakers have reinvigorated the book industry, single-handedly igniting bestsellers and TV/movie franchises from overlooked titles. We believe these tastemakers are key to building a world of books that is more creative, independent, and equitable. We’re building a platform for them to deepen their relationship with their audience, cultivate community, earn the income they deserve, and ultimately publish tomorrow’s most beloved books. Bindery is co-founded by Matt Kaye, former Head of Product at Patreon, Amazon Books PM, VP of Growth at seed-stage startup Inkshares, Head of Growth & Engagement at Trulia, and book marketer in publishing; and Meg Harvey, former Chief Strategy Officer at Girl Friday Productions, a firm she steered for nearly 10 years from a full-stack book production house for major publishers to award-studded, industry-leading independent publishing services company. We are united by a shared passion for the power of books and storytelling and a belief that world-changing stories can come from anywhere. We aim to build a culture that is as diverse, purposeful, and compassionate as the communities we serve.

Our mission is to make vision care accessible to everyone, equally, at the touch of a button. The demand for vision care is growing fast while eye doctor availability is not keeping up. As a result, millions of people are behind on their vision care or unable to access it. We see a future where technology works seamlessly with Eye Care Professionals to expand access to personalized vision care for all those who need it. Eyebot is funded by top VCs and the National Science Foundation.

Dobby consolidates shipment data from emails, TMS, ERP, and carrier portals, eliminates manual entry, and automates work for freight forwarders.

Meet Recess, the category-defining marketplace for parents to find enrichment classes, after-school care, and camps—all in one place. Recess is live in Texas and coming to your city soon!

Estes is an electrification systems development and manufacturing technology company, with an initial focus on durable high voltage battery systems for all mobility sectors. We are taking a novel approach to battery systems architecture through deep vertical integration, while building a US-based supply chain and manufacturing footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco, Estes was founded by experienced industry pioneers from Tesla, Proterra, Sila, and Cummins.

GOB is the market’s first earplug with a conscience. We’re taking on the earplug market with the first plastic-free, compostable option. We partner with nature to evolve your everyday into the regenerative future. We are reinventing wearable wellness products that are engineered with biology, designed with a long-term vision.

Find contract manufacturers who can actually make your food CPG product. Rescale offers self-guided, software & tech-enabled tools paired with live experts to take you through manufacturing search, trials, and negotiation. Proven to yield the best pricing and quality. Frustrated by the outdated and cumbersome process that it took to find the right contract manufacuring partners, industry veterans Julia Megson & Matthew Kaliara founded Rescale in 2022 to streamline that work. From finding the right partners, to putting the right legal paperwork in place, Rescale supports brands as they scale and provides high-quality leads to manufacturers of all sizes.