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ZenML is an MLOps platform company that provides an open-source framework designed to make production machine learning accessible to every organization. The platform enables users to create reproducible, production-ready ML pipelines, streamlining the path from development to deployment. With a growing community of users, ZenML has established itself as a key player in democratizing MLOps infrastructure for teams of all sizes.

Orbital Engineering, Inc. applies engineering excellence, innovation, and collaboration to design, improve, and sustain critical industry and infrastructure systems. We deliver integrated engineering solutions that enhance reliability, efficiency, and resilience for clients across diverse sectors.

Pond is a platform where early-stage startups launch, validate their product, reach users and get to market. Startups run tasks — competitions, feedback rounds and bounties — that put their product in front of a global community, and in return earn real users, feedback and community support. Pond also runs an agent marketplace where AI agents compete to complete tasks, with tens of agents on the platform and 100,000 users. Pond is backed by Tier 1 VCs and 30+ angel investors, including Illia Polosukhin (NEAR, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need"), Alex Cheema (Exo Labs), Dean Eigenmann (Project Blanc), Spencer Noon (OurNetwork) and Michael Heinrich (0G). The team is 12+ people with backgrounds at TikTok, Meta, Amazon, Uber, Yuga Labs, Alibaba, Stanford and MIT.

Porter is a Platform as a Service that runs in customers' own cloud, enabling companies to deploy applications into their AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts. Under the hood, Porter provisions a Kubernetes cluster in the customer's cloud account and automates day-2 operations for the deployed cluster. The platform aims to provide enterprise-grade reliability and scalability with minimal DevOps overhead, while abstracting away Kubernetes complexity from the end user.

Arga Labs provides isolated sandbox environments equipped with API twins of third-party services, enabling developers and organizations to safely test and train AI agents without risking their production systems. By offering a controlled testing ground that mirrors real-world APIs, the company allows teams to experiment with AI implementations, validate workflows, and refine agent behavior in a risk-free setting. This approach addresses a critical need in AI development, where testing in live environments can introduce costly errors or security vulnerabilities.

Desk (desk.us) is rebuilding the operating system for US real estate — a platform built for real estate agents that owns the transaction contracts end to end. Founded by a second-time entrepreneur who previously built one of the largest brokerages in the US, Desk reached first revenue in spring 2026 and roughly $170k ARR by June. The company has raised $1M, backed by two unicorn founders in the real estate vertical.

Parahelp is an AI support agent built for fast-moving software companies, designed to automate complex support tickets end-to-end. It can be set up in just one day without any engineers. The company currently has a team of five people, including three recent hires, with most of the team having been founders or founding engineers. Parahelp is experiencing tremendous growth and is seeking more Founding Engineers to join.

Paradigm Robotics, based in Austin, Texas, is an early-stage robotics startup that builds rugged, scalable robots designed to provide situational awareness in hazardous environments. The company serves firefighting, emergency response, public safety, oil and gas, defense, and industrial markets, helping operations run more safely in real-world hazardous settings. Its mission is to create a new paradigm of scalable, reliable, and useful robots for hazardous operations. In 2024, Paradigm Robotics won the SXSW Pitch and Innovation Award.

Lemma is a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025 and part of Y Combinator's F25 batch, backed by leading investors including Matrix and Liquid 2 as well as operators from OpenAI, xAI, and Doordash. The company builds production monitoring and reliability tooling specifically designed for AI agents, enabling companies to automatically improve their AI systems based on real-world production data. With a focused team of two, Lemma is addressing a critical gap in the AI infrastructure market by providing visibility and optimization capabilities for deployed AI agents.

Ambi is building the interface for the AI era - software and hardware that move at the speed of thought. We're creating a living memory system that turns conversations, meetings, and daily signals into one connected knowledge base, across phone, watch, and desktop. Backed and early-stage, headquartered in San Francisco with hybrid flexibility - this is a ground-floor seat on category-defining hardware.

Synth is building a second brain for knowledge workers by capturing and summarizing information consumed across text, audio, and video formats. The company's vision is to augment human intelligence for seamless understanding and recall of information, addressing a critical need for professionals drowning in data. Currently in private beta, Synth has already gained significant traction, ranking among the Top 5 Products of the Day on Product Hunt and securing backing from Y Combinator. By transforming how knowledge workers process and retain information, Synth aims to enhance productivity and cognitive capacity in an increasingly information-dense world.

Yirl (See You IRL) is a Gen Z AI-powered social platform that creates real-life hangouts. The app uses AI matching and social graph analysis to connect people for in-person experiences, moving beyond traditional social media to foster genuine real-world connections.

Cluster is building the infrastructure layer that connects AI agents with markets, enabling them to find and reach ideal customers at scale. Since its recent launch, the company has already partnered with over 50 high-growth startups seeking to optimize their customer acquisition. Founded by Enrique and Luis, Cluster is backed by a16z speedrun and operates from its headquarters in Union Square, New York City.

VRK IT Vision delivers comprehensive IT solutions across software development, cloud services, and geospatial technologies, helping organizations tackle complex technology challenges with reliable, scalable systems. By empowering IT excellence in every project, the company enables clients to accelerate digital transformation, optimize operations, and derive actionable insights from spatial data.

Ventura builds AI workforce solutions designed specifically for distributors and manufacturers, helping them automate critical operational processes. Founded in 2025 and based in San Francisco, the two-person team—led by CEO Swen, a former BCG consultant with experience exiting a B2B SaaS company in industrial automation, and CTO Jack, a founding engineer who scaled Develop Health to $7M ARR—is already working with customers operating at massive scale, moving thousands of truckloads daily and generating billions in revenue. The company launched with a quoting and order entry product for industrial distributors and has achieved profitability while expanding its platform; customers are now requesting automation across five additional processes, signaling strong product-market fit. As a Y Combinator W26 batch company, Ventura is positioned to capture significant opportunity in the underserved industrial automation market.

Soria is an AI-native financial research firm founded in 2025 and headquartered in New York City that leverages advanced agent systems to automate the entire research process end to end. The company, which is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, currently specializes in healthcare sector coverage with plans to expand sector by sector across the global economy. Led by CEO and cofounder Adam Ron, who spent seven years leading healthcare equity research at Bank of America, alongside CTO and cofounder Cameron, a founding engineer at Petal and Pinwheel, Soria has quickly established itself as a trusted partner to 5 of the top 10 investment banks and 8 of the 20 largest hedge funds. The three-person team has demonstrated exceptional growth momentum, with revenue tripling over the last three months and on track to triple again, positioning the company as a significant disruptor in the financial research space.

Unusual helps brands understand how LLMs talk about them and provides tools to change those representations. It defines and aims to lead Brand Engineering, a field that measures LLMs' opinions of a brand and quantifies brand performance relative to peers. Its mission includes helping people control their own narrative rather than large AI companies. The company is led by cofounders Will Jack, CEO, and Keller Maloney, with Sarah Xu as Head of GTM, and the team includes alumni from MIT, Princeton, and SpaceX. Will Jack has been involved in NLP research since 2014 with experience at SpaceX and MIT and was the first to commercialize AI code generation in 2019 on HBO’s Silicon Valley, while Keller Maloney has built AI applications since 2019, graduating cum laude in Econometrics from Princeton and serving as a D1 All-American water polo captain. Sarah Xu has driven 10x growth at Circle Medical (YC W17) and built Ambience Healthcare’s GTM from pre-revenue, contributing to about $350M raised by Oak HC/FT, Kleiner Perkins, OAI, and a16z, and has designed growth engines at Google that scaled revenue 5–10x.

HeyNoah is building an AI executive assistant designed to handle real work across a comprehensive suite of business tools, including email, calendars, meetings, messaging, browsers, and business software. The company's technology operates in complex, ambiguous, and stateful real-world environments where success requires sophisticated decision-making—selecting appropriate tools, understanding context, executing multi-step workflows, recovering from errors, and delivering outcomes users can trust. By automating these intricate tasks, HeyNoah enables executives to reclaim time and focus on higher-level priorities.

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.

The company is building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web, serving customers ranging from hedge funds to seed-stage startups who pull over 50 million rows of structured web data weekly. Operating with a lean team of fewer than 10 people, the company has achieved seven-figure annual recurring revenue with double-digit month-over-month growth while processing thousands of requests per second and extracting tens of millions of rows of data daily. Having found initial product-market fit, the company recently raised a seed round from leading venture capitalists and angels including Auren Hoffman and Charlie Songhurst, and is now building out its delivery team to accelerate growth. The leadership team brings deep expertise, with CEO Rohit leading go-to-market efforts following his background at Bain and as a serial entrepreneur, while CTO Logan leads engineering with experience as a founding engineer at YC-backed Nourish and as a software engineer at C3 AI. The broader team includes four engineers with specialized careers in scraping and AI, alongside three go-to-market staff members.

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