Mike Dodd

LakeFusion is a Databricks-native platform that unifies master data, product data, and relationships into a single AI-ready foundation. One platform. Three sources of trust: • MDM (Trusted Entities): Customers, suppliers, and accounts mastered and governed across systems • Graph (Trusted Networks): Relationships and hierarchies connected for intelligence and AI reasoning • PIM (Trusted Products): SKUs and catalogs enriched and ready for commerce Built entirely on the Databricks Lakehouse, LakeFusion eliminates data duplication and brings governance directly to where your data lives. Powered by LLMs, we deliver explainable entity resolution, automated stewardship, and trusted golden records at scale.

Axial Shift is a SaaS provider of a first-of-its-kind restaurant operations and sales performance platform that prioritizes the continual development of frontline teams by bridging the gap between real-time staff performance, sales, and employee experience. Using data translated from the POS, the Axial Shift platform helps teams easily see the impact they’re making on the business and how to take better control. Axial Shift is based in Austin, TX, and currently serves hundreds of single and multi-unit restaurant operations, including Chicken Express, Johnny Rockets and El Arroyo.

Drug discovery just got a modern upgrade. Pluto is the collaborative, AI-powered solution empowering scientific teams to do target and biomarker discovery, faster than ever before. Build your biomarker and target lists, track status, priority, and evidence in powerful reports. Visualize and analyze multi-omics data sets with no coding required, and create compelling figures for high-impact presentations. Integrate the wealth of knowledge from published literature and data sets to gain a competitive advantage and derisk projects earlier for better results.

Commotion creates meaningful experiences for consumers, making brand and product discovery effortless. By harnessing the power of AI, we’re helping dynamic, memorable, personalized interactions across channels become a reality, not just an ambition.

HelloHero is a Family Developmental and Behavioral Health Organization. We provide a range of therapy, counseling, and medication management services catering to children, teens, and adults. Our partnerships with schools serve as a vital gateway to accessing our care services.

What is Ribbon? We are an all-in-one software platform designed to make it easier to start and manage a nonprofit program or grow your fiscal sponsorship program. We give organizations the integrated banking, accounting, fundraising, and compliant spending tools they need to confidently and seamlessly operate. Who benefits from it? Professional fiscal sponsors seeking to streamline their workflows or increase their team’s productivity. Social impact entrepreneurs looking for a fiscal sponsor to activate their mission and accept tax advantaged funds without the hassle of managing their own 501(c)3 status. How do I learn more? We would love to walk you through our software to make sure Ribbon is the right fit for your organization. Submit your email address at GetRibbon.org and we will reach out to schedule a demo!

Founded in 2017, Living Security’s mission is to help prevent cybersecurity breaches with a human risk management solution that does more than meet compliance needs, it also truly changes behavior. Living Security believes empowering people is the key to ending cybersecurity breaches - picking up where traditional security awareness training drops off. Gamified learning and immersive experiences engage and educate users, while the science-backed, tech-enabled platform uniquely provides CISOs the ability to measure training efficacy and program ROI. Named one of Austin’s Best Places to Work, the Living Security team is composed of 80+ cybersecurity professionals committed to transforming security awareness training as we know it and turning end users into the enterprise’s greatest asset against cybercrime. Living Security is trusted by security-minded organizations like CVS Health, MasterCard, Verizon, MassMutual, Biogen, AmerisourceBergen, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan, and Target.

Bennies global benefits platform helps employers, employees, and their dependents thrive through a range of modern solutions, including consulting, insurance, coaching, and training. Our proven team of industry innovators & experts have come together from top benefits firms, technology startups, and insurance carriers to help people live healthier lives. Modern companies require well-rounded benefits. Bennie is your one-stop solution that goes beyond traditional benefits and includes employee coaching, training, P&C insurance, and more.

At Ontic, you’ll join a team driven by collaboration, innovation, and a shared sense of purpose. We work together to solve complex challenges, support one another’s growth, and create a workplace where everyone feels welcome and empowered to do their best work. Our team brings diverse backgrounds and fresh perspectives, united by a passion for making the world a safer place and helping our clients succeed. If you’re looking to make an impact, keep learning, and be part of a supportive, mission-driven team—Ontic might be the place for you. Ontic builds software that helps security professionals in both the private and public sectors protect people, places, and assets. Our platform unifies critical data, tools, and workflows so security teams can detect threats early, respond faster, and operate more effectively. We call this Connected Intelligence. Ontic has achieved "in process" status within the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. This marks an important step forward in our commitment to bring modern, connected, and data-driven security operations to U.S. government agencies. Explore our open roles and see where you might fit in: https://bit.ly/4nmelWg

Claravine is The Data Standards Company. We help brands and agencies deliver on the promise of modern marketing by standardizing taxonomies, naming conventions, and metadata across all digital experiences. Our platform gets everyone on the same page to be proactive, drive global collaboration, automate data flows, and quickly adapt to changing business needs. Rather than worrying if data is accurate, teams can trust their data and make confident business decisions. With Claravine, you can finally take the drama out of your marketing data.

Hi, Hello — We’re Billie, a body brand built to champion womankind. We’re doing away with body-hair-shame and sneaky markups in the women’s aisle (AKA the pink tax), delivering top-quality body and shave essentials at affordable prices, and reminding women everywhere that shaving is a choice, not an expectation.

Accelerating the impact of Lives. Restream is the #1 solution to distribute and monetize the live video content. Reach your audience everywhere – go live on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and 30+ platforms simultaneously with Restream.

Apprentice’s Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is the first AI-powered cloud platform for batch-based manufacturing. Tempo connects your teams, systems, sites, and external partners across one cloud-based platform to provide seamless processing through every layer of your manufacturing ecosystem. By combining historically distributed systems — Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Distributed Control System (DCS), Laboratory Execution System (LES), eLogs, Work Instructions, Tempo optimizes end-to-end manufacturing processes. AI is embedded in every step of the process, driving innovation from design to creation, through to simulation and execution, delivering the power of the next generation of manufacturing technology, today. To learn more about Apprentice, visit www.apprentice.io

Big Squid was founded 9 years ago to provide much-needed automation and scale in the Data & Analytics space through a combination of services and software. Our evolution and software development efforts are rooted in addressing real-world business outcomes associated with Data & Analytics deployments across many industries. We focus specifically on the executive and business users’ need to effectively forecast business outcomes and build a business action plan grounded in greater mathematical certainty and ROI. With so much data readily accessible, we’ve built Kraken, a software platform that provides automated access to the power of machine learning for existing Data & Analytics teams and technology investments. With more accurate forecasts and more mathematically sound business insights in hand, executives and business leaders can prescribe action to drive more profitable and effective outcomes. Simply put, we help businesses look ahead, and to be proactive instead of reactive. Big Squid gives you the information you need to Make Smarter Decisions. Faster.

WorkTango is an award-winning Employee Experience platform that helps leaders and organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and boost performance while reducing costs with Employee Surveys and Recognition & Rewards software.

LakeFusion is a Databricks-native platform that unifies master data, product data, and relationships into a single AI-ready foundation. One platform. Three sources of trust: • MDM (Trusted Entities): Customers, suppliers, and accounts mastered and governed across systems • Graph (Trusted Networks): Relationships and hierarchies connected for intelligence and AI reasoning • PIM (Trusted Products): SKUs and catalogs enriched and ready for commerce Built entirely on the Databricks Lakehouse, LakeFusion eliminates data duplication and brings governance directly to where your data lives. Powered by LLMs, we deliver explainable entity resolution, automated stewardship, and trusted golden records at scale.

Axial Shift is a SaaS provider of a first-of-its-kind restaurant operations and sales performance platform that prioritizes the continual development of frontline teams by bridging the gap between real-time staff performance, sales, and employee experience. Using data translated from the POS, the Axial Shift platform helps teams easily see the impact they’re making on the business and how to take better control. Axial Shift is based in Austin, TX, and currently serves hundreds of single and multi-unit restaurant operations, including Chicken Express, Johnny Rockets and El Arroyo.

Drug discovery just got a modern upgrade. Pluto is the collaborative, AI-powered solution empowering scientific teams to do target and biomarker discovery, faster than ever before. Build your biomarker and target lists, track status, priority, and evidence in powerful reports. Visualize and analyze multi-omics data sets with no coding required, and create compelling figures for high-impact presentations. Integrate the wealth of knowledge from published literature and data sets to gain a competitive advantage and derisk projects earlier for better results.

Commotion creates meaningful experiences for consumers, making brand and product discovery effortless. By harnessing the power of AI, we’re helping dynamic, memorable, personalized interactions across channels become a reality, not just an ambition.

HelloHero is a Family Developmental and Behavioral Health Organization. We provide a range of therapy, counseling, and medication management services catering to children, teens, and adults. Our partnerships with schools serve as a vital gateway to accessing our care services.