Sharrifah Lorenz, CFA

Vapi lets enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy. Everyone from YC startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on Vapi because it is: Flexible: Plug in your APIs, your customer data, your models Scalable: Handle millions of calls with <500ms latency Secure: LLM guardrails, HIPAA, SOC-2 Helping enterprises over this challenge, Vapi, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 750 startups at their most crucial stages, including Airtable, DoorDash and Vercel. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

Census is the #1 Data Activation platform, powered by Reverse ETL. We transform the data warehouse into a hub for marketing and business operations, empowering everyone to take action with trusted, actionable data. No custom scripts or engineering favors required! Hundreds of modern companies like Sonos, Canva, Orangetheory Fitness, Fivetran, Figma, and Notion use Census to sync their customer data to the tools that business teams rely on, achieving outcomes like reducing Customer Acquisition Costs by 50%, personalizing marketing for 125 million users, and reducing support times by 98%. We’d love to help you achieve better outcomes with trusted data – let’s chat!

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Were bringing video messaging to work and empowering everyone to communicate more effectively, wherever they are. In October 2023, we joined forces with Atlassian to champion remote-first, asynchronous work by empowering customers to make the impossible possible with video messaging. For more information, visit www.loom.com.