Stefan F. Heidenreich

Profound is the GenAI marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands win in the age of AI-driven discovery. We help enterprise brands understand and optimize how they show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI platforms where hundreds of millions of consumers now discover products. Our platform provides real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and actionable insights across the entire GenAI ecosystem - enabling marketing teams to turn AI-driven discovery into their competitive advantage.

AI for prod: Engineering teams at Coinbase, DoorDash, MSCI, Toast, and Zscaler use Resolve AI to resolve incidents, optimize costs, and code with production context using AI that works across your code, infra, and telemetry.

Auctor brings alignment and intelligence to software implementation, enabling every project to deliver its intended value with clarity and precision.

Serval is a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce. Deploy AI agents to automate the most challenging help desk requests, build enterprise-grade workflow automations, and surface actionable insights.

Nominal builds the essential software stack that enables hardware teams to test and iterate as rapidly as software teams. Nominal empowers engineers to continuously monitor, validate, and deploy innovations, transforming how mission-critical hardware is built and operated.

deepset makes it easy to create custom AI agents and applications that fit your exact needs. We combine our popular open source Haystack framework with deepsets enterprise-ready tools, platform, and infrastructure to help you launch AI solutions 10X faster, with the accuracy, flexibility and trust your mission-critical use cases demand.

Berlin-based startup SPREAD AI is revolutionizing the development, production and operation of complex mechatronic systems for manufacturing companies with its engineering intelligence software. In an era of increasingly connected products, SPREAD AI offers an AI-based 3D twin solution that helps engineers find, understand and apply product information faster. The platform acts as an intelligent integration layer for fragmented product data across systems and departments, making it easily accessible through intuitive apps and AI agents. The value-based SaaS licensing model enables customized solutions with rapid ROI. Customers benefit from up to 50% faster development times, up to 20% cost savings, and higher product quality: a potential savings of billions of dollars. The teams vision is to make smarter use of trillions of product data points and to make European manufacturing companies the global innovation leaders in applied AI.

Social engineering used to require skill, time, and effort. GenAI has removed all three. The result: hyper-personalized attacks at unprecedented scale and speed, across voice, video, email, SMS, and social media. Traditional training cant keep up. revel8 closes that gap. Our AI platform simulates real-world social engineering attacks, tailored to each employees actual risk profile using open-source intelligence. Built from live threat intelligence. Mirroring the exact tactics attackers use today. Delivered across all channels. Each employee gets a personalized, gamified playlist that adapts to their role, risk profile, and progress - turning awareness into instinct. Every interaction feeds back into the system, building a swarm intelligence that makes your entire organization sharper with each simulation.

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.

Conduct’s mission is to make IT the innovation powerhouse of every company. Our agentic AI delivers an in-depth understanding of legacy enterprise software. For the first time ever, you can chat directly with your systems to resolve major business issues in days instead of months. We’re starting where it matters most: SAP, the OS of global business. Conduct makes the unmanageable, manageable. Setting the stage for the next era of productivity growth with AI-powered Enterprise System Intelligence.

Parloa is a leading global AI company with a vision to make every customer interaction as easy as talking to a friend. We amplify the customer service experience with our AI Agent Management Platform. This enterprise-grade platform automates contact centers by leveraging the full power of generative AI safely & reliably in the context of consumer interactions. It combines highly-skilled personal AI agents that engage in natural and unique conversations with every customer, with AI assistance for human agents when they get on the line. Global brands trust Parloa to connect with their customers, ensuring they feel heard through exceptional experiences that increase satisfaction, encourage sales, and build loyalty. Parloa was founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald with offices in Berlin, Munich, and New York.

ETERNO is building the operating system for outpatient care in Europe - combining modern, physician-led clinics with a cloud-native, AI-powered healthcare platform. We replace fragmented legacy systems with a unified stack that automates care delivery, operations and economics at scale - empowering doctors, teams and patients to focus on what truly matters: better healthcare.

Outreach is the only complete AI Revenue Workflow Platform built for all revenue teams. Outreach infuses predictive, assistive, conversational, and agentic AI to power hundreds of use cases across revenue motions. From new logo prospecting to expansions, deal acceleration, driving retention, and forecasting, Outreach AI automates workflows and frees sellers to focus on more strategic conversations and actions. Revenue leaders benefit from connected account visibility, performance insights, and higher forecasting accuracy across every GTM team. World leading enterprise organizations use Outreach to power their revenue teams, including SAP, Siemens, Snowflake, ZoomInfo, and Verizon to name a few. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io. Outreach is the only company to offer sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations functionalities in a unified platform. More than 5,500 companies, including Zoom, Siemens, Okta, DocuSign, and McKesson depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington, with offices worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io.

Galderma is the leading company solely dedicated to skin and advancing the future of dermatology. We deliver an innovative, science-based portfolio of sophisticated brands and services across Injectable Aesthetics, Dermatological Skincare and Therapeutic Dermatology. Through trusted partnerships with healthcare professionals, we ensure to meet individual consumer and patient needs with superior outcomes.

Profound is the GenAI marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands win in the age of AI-driven discovery. We help enterprise brands understand and optimize how they show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI platforms where hundreds of millions of consumers now discover products. Our platform provides real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and actionable insights across the entire GenAI ecosystem - enabling marketing teams to turn AI-driven discovery into their competitive advantage.

AI for prod: Engineering teams at Coinbase, DoorDash, MSCI, Toast, and Zscaler use Resolve AI to resolve incidents, optimize costs, and code with production context using AI that works across your code, infra, and telemetry.

Auctor brings alignment and intelligence to software implementation, enabling every project to deliver its intended value with clarity and precision.

Serval is a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce. Deploy AI agents to automate the most challenging help desk requests, build enterprise-grade workflow automations, and surface actionable insights.

Nominal builds the essential software stack that enables hardware teams to test and iterate as rapidly as software teams. Nominal empowers engineers to continuously monitor, validate, and deploy innovations, transforming how mission-critical hardware is built and operated.