Rohini Chakravarthy

2023 Gartner "Cool Vendor in Supply Chain" ... Pull Logic (https://pulllogic.ai) is an AI-enabled technology and SaaS company focused on profitably reducing lost sales with retailers, brands, and manufacturers due failure points in the supply chain and selling processes – industry estimates go as high as $2 trillion. Pull Logic is paradigm shift in linking customer preferences with inventory in the supply chain, and we introduce our “Product Availability Readiness” or PAR metric – this new way of thinking reduces complexity and improves product availability across a connected network and reduces lost sales. Pull Logics approach stands apart from traditional inventory optimization models in one pivotal aspect: we focus on Product Availability Ratio (PAR). This revolutionary metric doesnt just optimize for efficiency, it redefines success by honing in on customer satisfaction and lost sales prevention. Unlike conventional models that primarily prioritize inventory levels and turnover, Pull Logics PAR metric dives deeper. It connects customers to their desired products even when an item is temporarily out of stock. By using advanced algorithms, it recommends acceptable substitutes that align with customer preferences, delighting them and ensuring sales are captured.​ We believe we provide a competitive advantage and to drive profitability for our customers. Pull Logic’s solution is based on the research of Dr. Benoit Montreuil who leads the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology - it works with existing corporate systems, is not complex, and can be implemented in as little as a few weeks. Our narrowly focused AI platform to improve product availability as well as our substitution engine learns over time and has been proven to increase sales, inventory turns, and even salespeople productivity of up to 30% or more due to higher sales conversion rates.

Context earns autonomy. Were building the infrastructure that gives AI the judgment to act — not just the data to recommend. Autonomous AI Teams. Full decision context. Zero hesitation. When you have context, you have earned the freehand.

Pando offers AI agents for logistics, enabling manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to automate their logistics operations to build agility, control freight spend, and reduce carbon footprint. Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises with global customers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, Pando is pioneering the future of autonomous logistics with cutting-edge AI capabilities. In todays complex supply chain landscape, logistics leaders are caught between rising costs, service demands, and operational complexities. Logistics teams are weighed down by hundreds of manual & cumbersome tactical decisions with very little time to focus on strategic priorities. They are always under pressure to do more with less with the inability to drive operational agility given the unpredictability and disruptions across the global supply chain landscape. Pandos AI agents enable manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to replace manual, error-prone logistics tasks with intelligent automation to unlock unprecedented efficiency and cost savings by replacing the need for hiring additional staff or deploying more software. Pando redefines both logistics and talent strategies, accelerating the shift toward a world where Human Ingenuity and Artificial Intelligence work together to drive complex business processes. Pando’s AI agents act as extended team members, enabling logistics teams to delegate important yet repetitive decisions to these agents, who execute them with unmatched accuracy. Pando supercharges global logistics teams with its cutting-edge AI capabilities, enabling them to focus on strategic priorities and create a competitive edge. Pando is recognized by Gartner for its transportation management capabilities, by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Technology Pioneer, by G2 as a Market Leader in Freight Management, and named one of the fastest-growing technology companies by Deloitte. For more information, visit www.pando.ai.

At Lyric, we empower supply chain organizations to innovate on their own terms. The Lyric Studio harmonizes large data, advanced supply chain science, configurable workflows, and professional-grade apps all in one place. Whether using a Motif, no-code configurations, or custom algorithms, we enable every team member to contribute to smarter, more sustainable supply chain solutions.

Cacheflow is a deal-closing platform that automates quote to close, enables complex usage-based pricing, and has an interactive, self-serve checkout experience that automates payments and customer financing.

Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.

#ThePeoplesNetwork represents a paradigm shift for decentralized wireless infrastructure, powered by the Solana Blockchain.

Coda started in 2014 with a simple observation: In a world full of pre-built tools and applications, why do documents and spreadsheets seem to run the world? The founding Coda team crossed paths at Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, where they saw their teams stretch the limits of what spreadsheets and documents can do. Then in 2014, they banded together to build the doc they always wanted. One that erased the boundaries between words and data. And where everyone could work together, in their own way, off the same data. Coda. Its a new day for docs. Learn more at https://coda.io.

Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while providing enterprise IT teams with key capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure, including: * Production ready virtualization: Comprehensive virtualization management, from advanced resource scheduling to powerful cluster-wide Software Defined Networking. *Built for the enterprise: Ability to run hundreds of clusters with high availability, seamless in-place upgrades, and backed by Platform9’s Always-On Assurance™. *Integrated and extensible: Integrated platform includes Kubernetes and Kubernetes based platform extensions making it easier for enterprises to harness the ever-growing ecosystem of open-source infrastructure and cloud-native services. Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.

Zūm has reimagined student transportation— managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform. We’re growing fast and looking for super-smart folks motivated to fix the nations largest mass transportation system and make a real difference for students, schools, drivers, parents and caregivers. If fixing an antiquated system hidden in plain sight excites you, drop us a note at apply@ridezum.com today.

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Springpath is the pioneer in hyperconvergence software, turning standard servers of choice into a single pool of compute and storage resources. The Springpath Data Platform eliminates the need for network storage and intuitively integrates into existing management tools to maximize operational efficiency. Using adaptive scaling capabilities, customers can grow compute, caching or capacity resources independently, depending on their changing business needs. Springpath proactively monitors your infrastructure to ensure resilient, always-on availability. Using data management and optimization capabilities, Springpath customers experience transformative levels of resource utilization, accelerating the adoption of DevOps in their organization with truly agile IT infrastructure.

Aerospike is the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings. Our customers are ready for what’s next with the lowest latency and the highest throughput data platform. Cloud and AI-forward, we empower leading organizations like Adobe, Airtel, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, PayPal, Snap, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, our offices are also located in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

We are excited to announce that Marvell Semiconductor has acquired Aquantia! Follow Marvell: http://bit.ly/LN-Marvell Aquantia was founded with the vision of revolutionizing Ethernet and accelerating connectivity. As mobility and data consolidation in the cloud continues to gain momentum, we’re addressing the need for Multi-Gig Ethernet solutions that serve a variety of markets and products at both ends of the network, where data is stored and consumed, and where bottlenecks are created. Today, as the leader in Multi-Gig connectivity we provide solutions for Data Center, Enterprise Infrastructure, Access . Every year, more than a billion ports of Ethernet ship into a wide variety of platforms. These platforms have started to convert from outdated Gigabit Ethernet to Multi-Gigabit Ethernet as the insatiable demand for bandwidth and data continues to grow. Looking to the future, we will continue to address the Multi-Gig upgrade cycles across existing and new markets by introducing new technologies. Never hesitating to question the status quo, Aquantia is leading the Multi-Gig revolution.

Luxtera’s silicon photonics technology transforms how the world connects through fiber optics. Luxtera, Inc., is the world leader in Silicon Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to market.

2023 Gartner "Cool Vendor in Supply Chain" ... Pull Logic (https://pulllogic.ai) is an AI-enabled technology and SaaS company focused on profitably reducing lost sales with retailers, brands, and manufacturers due failure points in the supply chain and selling processes – industry estimates go as high as $2 trillion. Pull Logic is paradigm shift in linking customer preferences with inventory in the supply chain, and we introduce our “Product Availability Readiness” or PAR metric – this new way of thinking reduces complexity and improves product availability across a connected network and reduces lost sales. Pull Logics approach stands apart from traditional inventory optimization models in one pivotal aspect: we focus on Product Availability Ratio (PAR). This revolutionary metric doesnt just optimize for efficiency, it redefines success by honing in on customer satisfaction and lost sales prevention. Unlike conventional models that primarily prioritize inventory levels and turnover, Pull Logics PAR metric dives deeper. It connects customers to their desired products even when an item is temporarily out of stock. By using advanced algorithms, it recommends acceptable substitutes that align with customer preferences, delighting them and ensuring sales are captured.​ We believe we provide a competitive advantage and to drive profitability for our customers. Pull Logic’s solution is based on the research of Dr. Benoit Montreuil who leads the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology - it works with existing corporate systems, is not complex, and can be implemented in as little as a few weeks. Our narrowly focused AI platform to improve product availability as well as our substitution engine learns over time and has been proven to increase sales, inventory turns, and even salespeople productivity of up to 30% or more due to higher sales conversion rates.

Context earns autonomy. Were building the infrastructure that gives AI the judgment to act — not just the data to recommend. Autonomous AI Teams. Full decision context. Zero hesitation. When you have context, you have earned the freehand.

Pando offers AI agents for logistics, enabling manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to automate their logistics operations to build agility, control freight spend, and reduce carbon footprint. Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises with global customers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, Pando is pioneering the future of autonomous logistics with cutting-edge AI capabilities. In todays complex supply chain landscape, logistics leaders are caught between rising costs, service demands, and operational complexities. Logistics teams are weighed down by hundreds of manual & cumbersome tactical decisions with very little time to focus on strategic priorities. They are always under pressure to do more with less with the inability to drive operational agility given the unpredictability and disruptions across the global supply chain landscape. Pandos AI agents enable manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to replace manual, error-prone logistics tasks with intelligent automation to unlock unprecedented efficiency and cost savings by replacing the need for hiring additional staff or deploying more software. Pando redefines both logistics and talent strategies, accelerating the shift toward a world where Human Ingenuity and Artificial Intelligence work together to drive complex business processes. Pando’s AI agents act as extended team members, enabling logistics teams to delegate important yet repetitive decisions to these agents, who execute them with unmatched accuracy. Pando supercharges global logistics teams with its cutting-edge AI capabilities, enabling them to focus on strategic priorities and create a competitive edge. Pando is recognized by Gartner for its transportation management capabilities, by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Technology Pioneer, by G2 as a Market Leader in Freight Management, and named one of the fastest-growing technology companies by Deloitte. For more information, visit www.pando.ai.

At Lyric, we empower supply chain organizations to innovate on their own terms. The Lyric Studio harmonizes large data, advanced supply chain science, configurable workflows, and professional-grade apps all in one place. Whether using a Motif, no-code configurations, or custom algorithms, we enable every team member to contribute to smarter, more sustainable supply chain solutions.

Founded in 2022, by experienced venture investors, NewBuild.VC is an early-stage, enterprise and supply chain-focused venture firm. We believe that the best and most exciting work happens in the earlier stages of business: realizing the potential of a new technology/ tech ecosystem, identifying a unique product opportunity, identifying a customer need, hiring the first people who work very differently from the founding team: these are some of the key developmental milestones early startups go through. We bring decades of experience investing where the real world meets the digital world – across the infrastructure and application layers – which guides our current investing themes around edge cloud, vertical SaaS, fintech, and AI/ML enabled companies. Our focus is early stage companies - Seed and Series A rounds - that go to market in the US/ Canada.