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Craftwork is a Charlotte-based home-painting startup that aims to modernize the painting process through proprietary software, offering homeowners instant online quotes for scheduling projects. Launched in 2023, it employs full-time painters, which is atypical in the industry, to ensure high-quality service and stability for its staff. The company recently secured a $7 million Series A funding to expand its operations and team. Craftwork aspires to become the largest painting company in Charlotte within the next 18 months.

Dedicated to making fleets more efficient, we build state-of-the-art electric commercial vehicles at a much lower operating cost. Developing cutting edge technologies for medium and heavy duty electric vehicles—like step vans, box trucks and vocational vehicles—our mobility solutions exceed anything on the present market. Capable of transporting products with greater reliability and simplicity, Xos electric trucks are designed in the most environmentally conscious manner possible.

Benchmark Capital is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early-stage investments in technology companies such as eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter. After over 20 years of maintaining smaller fund sizes, Benchmark has recently raised $2 billion across two new funds, including a significant $1.25 billion growth fund. The firm has adapted its investment strategy to include more flexibility in funding capital-intensive startups, particularly in the AI sector. It aims to build deep relationships with entrepreneurs at various stages of their companies' lifecycles.

Helion is a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone. Currently, we are scaling up our latest fusion prototype to make our vision a reality. We’re hiring brilliant scientists, engineers, and builders passionate about developing world-changing technologies. If that sounds like you, check out our open positions.

Kalogon revolutionizes the way the world sits through technological innovation, cutting-edge research, and customer collaboration. By prioritizing empathy-driven design and embracing inclusivity, we aim to set a new benchmark in seating solutions for those who spend an extended time sitting, inspiring positive change in the industry. Our ultimate goal is to empower individuals to lead active, seated lives with enhanced comfort and well-being.

Nuro is an American Physical AI company building the world's most scalable AI driver. Founded in 2016, Nuro has refined its autonomous driving technology through extensive driver-out deployments. The company offers two flagship products to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and mobility companies: Nuro Driver™ (Level 4) and Nuro Driver™ Assist (Level 2++), each combining automotive-grade hardware with AI-first self-driving software. Nuro's technology can be integrated into robotaxis, goods-delivery vehicles, and consumer vehicles—always with the same goal: to improve everyday life by making the benefits of autonomy available to everyone.

Shifters AI Inc. is a global deep-tech company pioneering a family of rugged robotic platforms for dangerous ground missions. The company focuses on developing supervised autonomous ground robotic systems that enhance situational awareness and preserve human life in hazardous environments. Their mission, called 'Robots Go First', aims to allow robots to enter dangerous areas before human operators. Shifters is building the next generation of AI-native autonomous robotic teams.

Suno Inc. is a new crop artificial intelligence startup focused on building tools to automate the music-making process.

Terra AI is an artificial intelligence platform provider based in Palo Alto, CA, that focuses on reducing subsurface uncertainty for mineral and energy development. The company offers a patented platform that integrates various types of exploration data to generate probabilistic geological models. These models help project teams make informed decisions regarding drilling and resource development by assessing potential subsurface scenarios. Terra AI aims to assist explorers in evaluating asset acquisitions and accelerating resource development efforts.

Poppy is the market leader in advanced air technologies for healthy, sustainable buildings. Poppy revolutionizes how buildings measure equivalent clean airflow, manage rising energy costs and secure health in buildings with their patented air tracing technology. Poppy serves over 1,000 locations in 25 cities, across Canada, US, Europe and the Middle East, helping building operators to reduce costs, decarbonize and protect occupant health. Poppy was founded in 2019, and is based in San Francisco and Toronto.

Applied Aerospace & Defense (Applied) is a premier provider of advanced design, engineering, and vertically integrated manufacturing solutions for leading and next-generation space and defense technology companies. Applied builds complex hardware for extreme operating environments and is focused on three core markets: Space and Launch Systems, Defense Aviation and Airborne Systems, and C5ISR and Precision Strike Systems.

Dexterity offers robots as a service solution for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company provides a 'robots as a service' model, which allows businesses to efficiently integrate robotics into their supply chain operations.

Findigs makes renting safe and easy for renters and property managers. Rent units faster with zero fraud. Our digital underwriting platform verifies every applicant’s identity and income in minutes, no matter how they earn money. Fast, secure rental applications. Seamless screening and decision-making. This is renting, redesigned.

Gridwater secures over $1M in equipment financing to support its 2026 fleet rollout. This financing validates its business model with initial trucks already funded and in production.

Layup manufactures composite parts and the tooling to make those parts. We are developing tools that will put parts in our customers hands faster than has previously been possible. Our goal is to ship parts faster than our competition can return a quote.

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

Vesper Energy is a developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale renewable energy assets, with a mission to develop, construct, and operate clean energy projects across the United States.

MaintainX is the leading maintenance and frontline execution platform designed specifically for industrial and frontline teams. It helps companies streamline maintenance operations, improve asset management, and manage regulatory compliance and audits—all while delivering insights that can improve the bottom line. As a mobile-first platform, MaintainX delivers a modern, IoT-enabled solution for maintenance, reliability, and operations teams. MaintainX is trusted by over 6,500 companies worldwide, including companies like Duracell, Brenntag, Cintas, Shell, Titan America, and many more. The company was founded in 2018 by Chris Turlica, Hugo Dozois-Caouette, Mathieu Marengère-Gosselin and Nick Haase. For more information, visit www.maintainx.com.

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Mecka AI is a startup focused on training robots using human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones. The company aims to collect and utilize embodied AI data to improve robot training methodologies. Founded by a team with diverse backgrounds, including fintech and startup experience, Mecka AI emphasizes practical applications and integration of robotics technology into various sectors. With a projected annual run rate of $100 million, Mecka AI positions itself as an innovative player in the robotics field.

Together AI, the leading AI Acceleration Cloud, empowers developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune and run inference for generative AI models — delivering unparalleled performance, control, and cost-efficiency. The Together AI Platform supports a comprehensive range of top open source and custom models across multiple modalities, while offering flexible deployment options with the highest levels of privacy and security. Committed to advancing the frontier of AI through open collaboration, innovation and transparency, Together AI ensures that powerful AI systems remain accessible and flexible while creating optimal outcomes for society.

Vertically-integrated space technology company building laser communications ground stations, optical sensing systems, and in-space imaging payloads. Headquartered in Los Angeles with a 57-acre manufacturing campus in Adrian, Michigan, the company supplies NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial satellite operators.

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Corgi is an AI-native, full-stack insurance carrier built for startups, using modern infrastructure and artificial intelligence to handle underwriting, policy management, and claims so it can deliver fast, flexible commercial insurance tailored to growing companies.[2][5]

Solstice is an AI-native marketing agency for pharma brands, combining proprietary AI models with in-house medical and regulatory experts to generate, review and activate compliant commercialization content. Headquartered in New York, it serves a dozen-plus pharmaceutical companies, including several top-20 brands across oncology, immunology and metabolic diseases.

Reactor is a San Francisco developer platform for real-time generative AI video. Founded by ex-Apple Vision Pro engineers Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, the company offers an SDK and API that let developers build interactive applications powered by world models, generating video dynamically rather than via batch processing.

Daloopa is a Series B, venture-backed company providing AI-powered fundamental data for institutional investors. Its platform sources, structures, and distributes the most complete and accurate historical financial dataset, covering nearly 4,700 public companies globally. The company is focused on accelerating decision-making for investment professionals by automating financial modeling and data extraction workflows.

Triomics builds oncology-specific AI for cancer centers, automating chart prep, clinical trial matching, and tumor registry reporting against complex multi-year patient records. The platform is used by academic centers including Memorial Sloan Kettering and Yale Cancer Center, and is positioned against generic AI scribes by training models on oncology data rather than general clinical text.

Modiqo is a San Francisco-based agentic AI infrastructure startup building a local execution layer called Rote that captures successful AI agent runs and transforms them into reusable, deterministic workflows. The platform connects agents to any API without server infrastructure or SDKs, reducing token usage and preventing repeated debugging when models or APIs update. Founded and led by CEO Chetan Conikee, Modiqo targets systems operators tasked with moving AI agents from one-off demos to production-grade systems.

Trajectory builds a platform for continual learning, letting companies post-train open-source AI models on real user interactions so products improve weekly instead of staying static between major model releases. Founded in 2025 by former Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta Superintelligence Labs researchers, it works with AI-native customers including Decagon, Clay and Harvey to ship narrowly-tuned models that outperform frontier labs on customer-specific tasks.