Siena AI

Arbio, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, is building an AI-native property management platform for short-term rentals across Europe. It currently manages over 1,000 apartments and operates real properties in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, and Leipzig, with plans to expand to additional European cities. The company has raised a $36 million Series A funding and maintains an engineering team of five engineers. Arbio’s platform uses AI to observe, decide, and act on real-world property operations with humans in the loop, enabling AI-assisted management of short-term rental properties across Europe.

Deccan AI is a model training and evaluation startup headquartered in the Bay Area. The company was founded by alumni from IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad, and Google and collaborates with leading AI frontier labs, including Google DeepMind and Snowflake. It is backed by Prosus Ventures, with its India delivery office located in Hyderabad. Most roles at the company are on-site in the Bay Area or Hyderabad.

Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. It operates the leading Procurement Intelligence platform used by more than 300 manufacturers every day, with Enterprise identified as its next major revenue stream. Based in Munich, Germany, the company has 100+ employees and has raised over €50 million from investors including Sequoia and Index Ventures. Tacto maintains strong security and compliance, holding ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certification marks and DSGVO/EU GDPR conformity, and it is hosted in the EU. The company was founded by CDTM/TUM/Berkeley alumni.