Hotplate

We’re building the first autonomous insurance group, starting with Morrow, our AI-native commercial insurance brokerage. We help businesses find, compare, and buy insurance across 100+ carriers. Every placement deepens our understanding of businesses, risk, and underwriting. We’re turning that knowledge into an insurance ontology that gives our AI agents the context to reason, apply judgment, and execute insurance workflows autonomously across calls, emails, and carrier portals. Our ambition is to build the most comprehensive intelligence layer in the industry. Over time, we’ll use this foundation to develop and underwrite our own insurance products. Insurance spending represents 12% of U.S. GDP, and we want to go after all of it. We’re backed by C-suite executives at some of the world’s largest insurers, first-check investors in Rippling and Twilio, and a Cloudflare board member.

Aranya builds ClusterdOS, a GitOps-native distributed operating system that makes production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure accessible to solo developers and small teams. ClusterdOS removes operational barriers to Kubernetes adoption, and no platform team is required when using it. Aranya also offers managed Kubernetes services for bare metal deployments.

Based in Munich, Germany, Avoltra is an energy tech startup focused on helping energy-intensive industrial companies optimize their full energy lifecycle. The company describes its mission as building the operating system for how large industrial players manage energy, positioning itself as an early-stage player in the energy technology market. Avoltra serves industrial customers in the energy management space and requires on-site work. It is pre-seed funded and about one year old.