Dr. Yvonne Lutsch

With decades of experience in photonics design, our executive and engineering teams are delivering the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 400 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.

You.com is the AI Search Infrastructure company for enterprises. We build the intellectual backbone that enables organizations to reason like experts, decide with confidence, and act at scale through intelligent agents and workflows. We deliver real-time, accurate, and citation-backed answers—enabled by our proprietary vertical-specific web indices, which integrate public and domain-specific data for the deepest, most relevant search experience available.

“The specific public benefit purpose of the Corporation is to economically scale an energy efficient adhesive, improving environmental sustainability in commercial applications and simplifying attachment and adhesion for consumer applications.” -geCKo Materials, PBC

Theres a gap in every industrial, manufacturing and field services company. Between the document chaos — invoices, engineering drawings, inspection photos, regulatory files — and the structured output the business needs to operate. That gap is filled by people. Good people doing work a machine should do. Not because they havent tried to fix it. Because nothing could handle the complexity. Until now. Corvic automates that workflow. Documents, images, and data in any format. Your exact output. In production in 30 days. FDA dossiers from 3 weeks to 2 days. 20,000 invoices a month, fully automated. P&I diagrams into engineering knowledge graphs. Stop doing manually what a machine should do. → corvic.ai

Everyone wants fast AI. Everyone needs cheap AI. At Tensordyne, we are driven by one defining challenge: How do we build the architecture that delivers both? We design AI chips and rack-level systems purpose-built for ultra-fast and ultra-efficient data center inference. We build rapidly, iterate constantly, and we are about to deploy our technology into the real world to change the trajectory of AI compute. We are in a high-growth phase and looking for brilliant minds who thrive on autonomy and tangible impact. With a global footprint spanning the heartlands of Silicon Valley and Europe, our reach is wide and our momentum is accelerating. Check out our careers page at https://www.tensordyne.ai/careers

Aclima is pioneering an entirely new way to diagnose the health of our air and track climate-changing pollution. Powered by our network of roving and stationary sensors, Aclima measures air pollution, greenhouse gases, and toxics at unprecedented scales -- block-by-block and with source-level resolution. Our professional analytics software translates billions of scientific measurements into environmental intelligence for governments, companies, and communities. Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and delivers clean air for all. Were backed by top-tier investors, including Plum Alley, Radicle Impact, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund and Bosch.

UltraSense Systems is a pioneer in SmartSuface HMI (Human Machine Interface) controllers and system software, enabling a modern touch experience on nearly any surface. UltraSense solutions integrate multi-mode sensing, advanced processing, feedback control of illumination, audio, and haptics, and secure connectivity including industry protocol options such as LIN and CAN. UltraSense brings modern buttonless touch interfaces to life in automotive, partnering with OEMs and tier-suppliers to design and build the driver experience of the future.

We build enterprise software to power the Industrial Generative AI revolution.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant® is a leader in physical AI, delivering highly efficient processor, sensor and software solutions for speech, audio, sensor and vision processing. With more than 100 million purpose-built Neural Decision Processors and machine learning models deployed, along with billions of MEMS microphones and sensors, Syntiant’s full-stack physical AI platform delivers ultra-low-power, always-on intelligence that can sense, decide and act autonomously in real time. From earbuds to satellites, the company enables advanced edge AI capabilities across a broad range of consumer and industrial applications, connecting the physical and digital worlds X: https://x.com/syntiantcorp YouTube: www.youtube.com/@syntiant

With decades of experience in photonics design, our executive and engineering teams are delivering the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 400 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.

You.com is the AI Search Infrastructure company for enterprises. We build the intellectual backbone that enables organizations to reason like experts, decide with confidence, and act at scale through intelligent agents and workflows. We deliver real-time, accurate, and citation-backed answers—enabled by our proprietary vertical-specific web indices, which integrate public and domain-specific data for the deepest, most relevant search experience available.

Venture Forward, NVCA’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm, is on a mission to democratize access to the venture capital (VC) industry, empower individuals from all backgrounds and geographies to thrive as investors, and equip future VC leaders with the tools for long-term success. We support emerging fund managers and investors by providing education, mentorship, and resources to advance their careers. We are committed to driving healthy and sustainable generational change within established VC firms, ensuring strong industry stewardship for the future. Through these efforts, we envision a VC industry that reaches all communities across the country, unlocking greater innovation, economic impact, and financial returns. Learn more at ventureforward.org.

“The specific public benefit purpose of the Corporation is to economically scale an energy efficient adhesive, improving environmental sustainability in commercial applications and simplifying attachment and adhesion for consumer applications.” -geCKo Materials, PBC

Theres a gap in every industrial, manufacturing and field services company. Between the document chaos — invoices, engineering drawings, inspection photos, regulatory files — and the structured output the business needs to operate. That gap is filled by people. Good people doing work a machine should do. Not because they havent tried to fix it. Because nothing could handle the complexity. Until now. Corvic automates that workflow. Documents, images, and data in any format. Your exact output. In production in 30 days. FDA dossiers from 3 weeks to 2 days. 20,000 invoices a month, fully automated. P&I diagrams into engineering knowledge graphs. Stop doing manually what a machine should do. → corvic.ai