Siyuan (Cheryl) Liang

Diffraqtion is a Somerville, MA, space startup building the world’s first quantum camera powering the largest ultra-high-resolution imaging satellite network. Combining quantum photonics and AI, Diffraqtion enables machines to see further and think faster, advancing space exploration, defense, and intelligent systems worldwide.

Autolane builds the operating system for curbside autonomy—edge hardware and SaaS infrastructure that authenticates, parks, loads, and dispatches autonomous delivery and ride-hail vehicles with zero human intervention. Retailers, restaurants, and property owners use our platform to turn ordinary parking lots into revenue-generating, self-orchestrating hubs for goods and people. By standardizing how vehicles interact with the built environment, we slash last-mile labor costs, cut congestion, and unlock data-driven services that compound in value as adoption grows. We’re on a mission to make every curb a gateway to autonomous commerce and mobility.

Fleak is transforming the future of data infrastructure with adaptive intelligence designed to standardize, enrich, and optimize data in real time. Our platform reduces engineering effort by up to 90% and eliminates maintenance overhead, enabling businesses to accelerate innovation and unlock new opportunities within days. By automating complex data transformations, Fleak empowers organizations to achieve greater agility, scalability, and efficiency—turning data into a competitive advantage without the traditional complexities. Follow us to discover how Fleak is shaping the next generation of intelligent data infrastructure.

Nexxa builds specialized AI for industrial engineering in heavy project industries. Project industries like railroads, energy, construction, mining and others rely on highly educated industrial engineers to function. Today, industrial engineers have to do their work in a fragmented, sometimes outdated technology stack. Nexxa delivers AI agents that understand the technical work and augment the engineer in their most critical, but repetitive work. Our vision is to build an AI system that works with the engineer from scratch and accelerates engineering productivity without any pre-training.

Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.

LightXcelerate is building next-generation optical I/O chiplets to address the scaling limits of AI and HPC systems. As compute continues to scale faster than electrical interconnects, I/O bandwidth, power, and density have become first-order constraints. LightXcelerate enables massively parallel, energy-efficient optical connectivity by combining micro-VCSEL arrays, advanced packaging, and system-level co-design, delivering orders-of-magnitude improvements in bandwidth density and power efficiency. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into modern chiplet-based architectures, unlocking scalable optical links for GPUs, accelerators, and AI infrastructure at rack and system scale. Founded by engineers with deep experience across silicon, photonics, and system architecture, LightXcelerate is focused on building a foundational platform for the next era of AI compute.

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Diffraqtion is a Somerville, MA, space startup building the world’s first quantum camera powering the largest ultra-high-resolution imaging satellite network. Combining quantum photonics and AI, Diffraqtion enables machines to see further and think faster, advancing space exploration, defense, and intelligent systems worldwide.

Autolane builds the operating system for curbside autonomy—edge hardware and SaaS infrastructure that authenticates, parks, loads, and dispatches autonomous delivery and ride-hail vehicles with zero human intervention. Retailers, restaurants, and property owners use our platform to turn ordinary parking lots into revenue-generating, self-orchestrating hubs for goods and people. By standardizing how vehicles interact with the built environment, we slash last-mile labor costs, cut congestion, and unlock data-driven services that compound in value as adoption grows. We’re on a mission to make every curb a gateway to autonomous commerce and mobility.

Fleak is transforming the future of data infrastructure with adaptive intelligence designed to standardize, enrich, and optimize data in real time. Our platform reduces engineering effort by up to 90% and eliminates maintenance overhead, enabling businesses to accelerate innovation and unlock new opportunities within days. By automating complex data transformations, Fleak empowers organizations to achieve greater agility, scalability, and efficiency—turning data into a competitive advantage without the traditional complexities. Follow us to discover how Fleak is shaping the next generation of intelligent data infrastructure.

Nexxa builds specialized AI for industrial engineering in heavy project industries. Project industries like railroads, energy, construction, mining and others rely on highly educated industrial engineers to function. Today, industrial engineers have to do their work in a fragmented, sometimes outdated technology stack. Nexxa delivers AI agents that understand the technical work and augment the engineer in their most critical, but repetitive work. Our vision is to build an AI system that works with the engineer from scratch and accelerates engineering productivity without any pre-training.

Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.