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HydraDB is building the graph-native context and memory infrastructure for AI. AI is stateless — HydraDB fixes that with graphs: instead of similarity search over a vector store, it builds structured context graphs of entities, relationships, temporal states, and causal chains, returning relevance instead of similarity. The product is a GraphDB built on object storage with a tiered architecture (in-memory cache → NVMe → object storage), git-style temporal versioning, and entity resolution — roughly 10x cheaper and purpose-built for modern AI workloads. Born out of research at Stanford, HydraDB has raised $6.5M from investors including Jeff Dean, Sky9 Capital, and researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind. Over 2,000 developers build on it today, with 1B+ documents ingested.

SCAILE is an AI visibility company building infrastructure to make brands visible in AI search, with a mission to make every brand the answer in AI search. It aims for brands to be discovered, cited, and recommended by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and is live with clients including Beurer, Building Radar, and Lyceum Technologies. The company counts Google Cloud for Startups and NCA among its backers and is trusted by 40+ companies across 14+ industries. The founder-led team, based in Munich and Hamburg, includes co-founders Simon Wilhelm (CEO), August Gutsche (CPO), and Anton Billstein, with backgrounds at BCG and La Famiglia VC. SCAILE is supported by programs such as IFB Innovationsstarter, Microsoft Founders Hub, Notion Startups, and TUM Venture Labs / TUM.ai, and has a team size of approximately 8-12 people.

Aleph is AI-native and designed to be the always-on decision layer for modern businesses, offering real-time data collaboration for finance teams and automating reporting, variance analysis, and forecasting. It operates as a global digital advertising powerhouse serving 150+ countries, connecting over 26,000 advertisers to a 3 billion consumer audience and partnering with major platforms such as TikTok, X, Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, Reddit, Spotify and Google. Its mission is to make the digital world accessible to all, while connecting global brands with local audiences in emerging markets and empowering businesses and individuals through its Digital Ad Expert education platform. The company also facilitates cross-border payments and credit underwriting through Local Payments by Aleph, supported by a team of over 1,500 digital experts in 75+ offices and backing from investors including CVC Partners, Mercado Libre, Sony, X (formerly Twitter), and Snap. Aleph serves a spectrum of clients from small startups to multinational corporations, boasting a trial-to-customer conversion rate exceeding 90%.