Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It offers a program where startups receive guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. The organization helps founders in their business models and develop their products. Y Combinator serves industries such as technology, healthcare, and finance.

Y Combinator

Spark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional products and the creative individuals behind them. Known for embracing risk and a unique approach, Spark Capital has backed companies like Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr. Recognizing that there are no set playbooks or formulas for success, the firm supports founders in achieving success on their own terms. Spark Capital invests across all sectors and stages, operating out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.

Spark Capital

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-tech companies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

Innovation Nest

We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in leading tech startups with defensible technology and the potential to become market leaders.  We invest all around Europe, concentrating specifically on the Baltic Sea Region. As Black Pearls VC we are sector agnostic and B2B focused with a successful track record of investments in areas such as: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech, among others. We are usually one of the first investors in the company, helping founders scale and achieve global reach. We are the first Polish VC fund in Kauffman Fellows – a global network of 500+ leading VCs.

Black Pearls VC

Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and plays a real, tangible role in helping them grow.  The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed - and occasionally series A, and invests between $100k and $5 million. Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree.

Day One Ventures

Friends & Family Capital is a venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs that transform big markets.  The firm’s founding partners helped scale Palantir to $20 Billion (CFO from 2011 to 2017) and jointly backed over 20 Unicorn startups.  Friends & Family Capital invests in business models that produce long-term and defensible compounding growth and cash flow.  Core investments include Airtable, Anduril, Facebook, Figure, Flexport, Gusto, Mosaic, Palantir, Robinhood, SpaceX, and Verkada. For more information, please see www.friendsandfamilycapital.com.

Friends & Family Capital

Early stage technology and technology enabled businesses

J4.Ventures

Figma Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Figma Ventures

20SALES is a venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage, business-to-business SaaS startups.

20SALES

Theory Forge Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Theory Forge Ventures

Wordware

Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment.

Wordware offers a platform for users to build and deploy custom AI agents. The company streamlines the process of creating AI applications by providing a user-friendly, Notion-like interface that allows technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively. One of Wordware's key features is its ability to integrate custom code execution, enabling users to connect to external APIs and services.&nbsp;

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Wordware is an AI development platform that enables users to build and deploy custom AI agents quickly and efficiently. Founded by Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler, Wordware streamlines the process of creating AI applications by providing a user-friendly, Notion-like interface that allows both technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively. The platform supports various large language models (LLMs) and offers features such as loops, branching, structured generation, version control, and type safety. Wordware's approach emphasizes rapid iteration and feedback loops, allowing domain experts to work alongside engineers to refine prompts and improve AI agent performance.
One of Wordware's key features is its ability to integrate custom code execution, enabling users to connect to external APIs and services. The platform also supports multimodal AI workflows, incorporating text, images, audio, and video into AI agents. Wordware offers one-click API deployment, simplifying the process of pushing updates to production. In July 2024, Wordware gained viral attention for its AI-powered Twitter roasting tool, which analyzes users' tweets to generate humorous and personalized roasts of their online personas.

Wordware offers a platform for users to build and deploy custom AI agents. The company streamlines the process of creating AI applications by providing a user-friendly, Notion-like interface that allows technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively. One of Wordware's key features is its ability to integrate custom code execution, enabling users to connect to external APIs and services.&nbsp;The platform also supports multimodal AI workflows, incorporating text, images, audio, and video into AI agents. Wordware offers one-click API deployment, enabling users to launch AI applications quickly without complex technical procedures.Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2024, the company had over 286,000 users on its platform.

Founded in Israel, NeuReality specializes in providing hardware infrastructure to streamline computation processes to accelerate the development of AI applications. Its technology assists AI inferencing deployment by offering a comprehensive system solution that seamlessly supports a vast array of deep learning models.NeuRealitys’ infrastructure includes an architecture called the Network Addressable Processing Unit (NAPU) to maximize the capabilities of Deep Learning Accelerators (DLAs). This design facilitates inference through purpose-built NAPUs that are specifically crafted for AI inference tasks, enhancing performance and efficiency.The NR1 AI Inference Solution by NeuReality is a comprehensive system comprising architecture, hardware, and software platforms. Launched in November 2023, it intends to simplify the installation, utilization, and management of AI, making it accessible and manageable for users.The hardware offerings of the solution include,1. NR1 Network Addressable Processing Unit : A network addressable inference Server-on-a-Chip with an embedded Neural Network Engine, which is a workflow-optimized hardware device with specialized processing units, native network capabilities, and virtualization capabilities2. NR1-M™ AI Inference Module : A full-height, double-wide PCIe card containing one NR1 Network Addressable Processing Unit (NAPU) system-on-chip and a network addressable Inference Server that can connect to an external Deep Learning Accelerator (DLA)3. NR1-S AI Inference Appliance : An optimized design for an inference server that contains NR1-M modules with the NR1 NAPU, which enables disaggregated AI service in a scalable and efficient architectureThe software component of the solution is designed to be compatible with any trained model from any development environment. It includes tools that handle the entire AI pipeline and enable seamless connection of AI workflows to any environment.NeuReality differs from traditional AI chip connectivity in replacing CPU-centric support with an AI-centric platform. This allows components to communicate directly with AI accelerators, eliminating the need for commands to pass through a central processing unit. Additionally, the technology enables AI accelerators to connect with each other, enhancing efficiency and performance in AI applications. It also claims its AI-centric approach reduces complexity, cost, and power usage. The firm claims it can reduce inference costs by 90%.Key customers and partnershipsIn November 2021, NeuReality teamed up with IBM to develop advanced AI inference technology by enhancing its NR1 chip and system for use in IBM's Hybrid Cloud.In September 2021, the company partnered with Xilinx to develop AI-centric platforms that improve real-world AI applications. This collaboration was intended to focus on NeuReality's AI-centric inference platform NR1-P and address existing issues with AI deployment including cost and complexity.

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 Accubits is an AI and BLOCKCHAIN focused development and solutions company based in Washington DC with its development offices in India and Dubai. Pioneering as a custom Blockchain solutions provider delivering solutions ever since 2012, Accubits is one of the oldest and experienced Blockchain dev house in the market and is featured as one among the top 13 Blockchain companies in India by INC42. We are a big family of engineers, innovators, inventors and many others continually working to help our customers in leveraging their business and adding value to their lives. Over the past 6 years, We have delivered more than 600 projects, for over 200 clients worldwide. Several of Fortune 500 companies in sectors from Retail to Health are being powered by our solutions to streamline and leverage their growth.Our portfolio for AI solutions includes intelligent conversational tools, RPAs, CRMs, SIPs, real-time video and image analytics systems, state of the art ALPR systems and many more being used enterprises, startups across North America, Canada, Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, India &amp; Sweden. Our portfolio of Blockchain development includes custom DApps and smart contracts, crypto token and exchange development, integrated blockchain services and ICO platforms.
 
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 LeewayHertz is a leading software development company delivering tailor-made digital solutions to businesses worldwide. Our team of 250+ full-stack developers, designers and innovators has designed and developed 100+ digital solutions across industry verticals. As a close-knit team of AI and web3 experts, designers and full-stack developers, we undertake collaborative research and development to create next-gen applications and solutions perfectly suited to the evolving tech space. As a technology pioneer with deep knowledge and expertise in AI, blockchain and other advanced technologies like IoT, LeewayHertz believes in helping companies overcome their most complex tech challenges and drive business growth. Our motto, &lsquo;You Dream It: We Build It,&rsquo; reflects our business philosophy. From putting flesh on your idea to delivering the expected end product, we do whatever it takes to make your project successful. Having worked with 30+ top fortune 500 companies and created various on-demand solutions, we boast an impressive work portfolio demonstrating our expertise.
 
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Databricks, a data and AI company established by the original developers behind prominent Big Data solutions such as Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and MLflow, and provides organizations with AI and data analytics tools for efficient management of their data.&nbsp;Databricks' primary product is the Databricks Lakehouse platform, a unified data intelligence platform that merges a data warehouse and data lake to provide developers with efficient access to data and enables enterprise customers to create their AI models—similar to a ChatGPT-style AI system—using only their internal data.&nbsp;Databricks Unity Catalog, part of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, provides unified governance for structured and unstructured data, machine-learning models, notebooks, dashboards, and files across various environments, offering automated monitoring, proactive alerts, and seamless data sharing through Delta Sharing integration. Furthermore, Databricks offers an open architecture that streamlines the AI development process, allowing the integration of various LLMs such as Llama 2, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic, enabling customization with enterprise data for tailored model creation. In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28436">April 2024</a>, Databricks introduced its Data Intelligence platform for energy to use AI technology to process large data for energy companies. Following this, the company added synthetic data capabilities for AI agent evaluation in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/37008">December 2024</a>.Notably, Lakehouse leverages NVIDIA technology for accelerated data processing and AI model generation. Databricks also offers industry-specific solutions like Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, and Manufacturing.Databricks has expanded its offerings through multiple acquisitions, including MosaicML (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19683">July 2023</a>), Arcion (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23041">October 2023</a>), Okera (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18197">May 2023</a>), and Datajoy (October 2022).&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2024, Databricks served a global customer base of more than 10,000 organisations, including Comcast, Conde, DuPont, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce, Shell, and Tata Steel.Databricks collaborates with over 1,200 global cloud, ISV, and consulting partners to deliver data, analytics, and AI solutions, supporting customers in scaling their projects.Notable partnerships include collaboration with AWS in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34884">October 2024</a> to leverage AWS Trainium chips as the preferred AI chip to power Databricks' Mosaic AI model training and serving capabilities.&nbsp;Databricks also partnered with Karini AI in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33687">September 2024</a> to accelerate GenAI deployment for enterprises.&nbsp;

Databricks

Labelbox offers a data-centric AI platform for enterprises, enabling them to develop, optimize, and use AI to solve complex problems and power new products and services.&nbsp;&nbsp;Labelbox’s platform offers capabilities for building, optimizing, training, fine-tuning LLMs, and AI-enabled data labeling automation.&nbsp;Its products include&nbsp;1) Catalog: A platform for building AI applications with features such as advanced search capabilities and optimizing data for labeling budgets2) Annotate: A data labeling solution designed to streamline and accelerate labeling operations using automation tools and pre-labeling techniques(3) Model: Offers tools for data enrichment, model-assisted labeling, and custom Foundry Apps to automate data management tasks and improve AI model performance&nbsp;&nbsp;(4) Boost: Offers fully managed tailored solutions such as on-demand data labeling services to enhance AI development speed and efficiency.&nbsp;As such, Labelbox enables companies to streamline the fine-tuning and alignment of LLMs and enables the validation of outputs through techniques such as reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RELIEF), and evaluation. This incorporation of human expertise ensures more accurate, contextually relevant, trustworthy, and secure results from LLM systems.The platform is offered through a SaaS subscription model with packages ranging from free subscriptions with limited usage and custom pricing for enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsThe firm's solutions have use cases across diverse industries, including retail, consumer internet, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. Labelbox has a large portfolio of customers, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Blue River Technology, a smart AgriTech company that used Labelbox's model-assisted labeling suite to enhance its See &amp; Spray technology in smart agriculture, resulting in herbicide cost savings of 70%–80. Labelbox's customers also include several Fortune 500 companies, such as Walmart, P&amp;G, Audi Adobe, Airbnb, Bayer, and Bosch.Key partnerships include a long-term collaboration with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21770">Google Cloud </a>to facilitate digital transformations in retail, consumer internet, financial services, and manufacturing and logistics.&nbsp;

Labelbox

Integrated solutions that handle various processes such as model training, fine-tuning, model deployment, monitoring, and maintenance in working with and deploying LLMs

Platforms that provide hardware such as high-performance CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs, including cloud-based solutions that are commonly used to train and run GenAI models efficiently

Platforms that assist with fine-tuning pre-trained GenAI models or custom models tailored to specific use cases. Includes services that train models from scratch or use existing models

Platforms that store and retrieve training data in vector databases for access during the model training phase

Services to deploy GenAI models (on-premises or cloud-based) into production environments and integration tools to support existing systems and workflows

Ongoing monitoring of GenAI models to ensure performance. Includes regular model retraining, performance optimization, and troubleshooting

Platforms that assist in designing and refining prompts or instructions to GenAI models to get the desired responses or outcomes

Platforms that enable safe, responsible, and ethical GenAI deployment, ensuring compliance with regulations and/or protection against GenAI-based cybersecurity threats.

All services offered by these companies provide support to AI/ML

NLP is a key component of generative AI which is the core focus of this hub.

All companies within this space are offering infrastructure for generative AI

Generative AI infrastructure hub covers companies that deploy and run these foundation models.

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 Wordware, the developer of AI platform GenAI, has secured $30 million in seed funding. The investment was led by Spark Capital and included contributors such as Felicis, Y-Combinator, Day One Ventures, and individual investors Paul Graham and Vlad Magdalin from Webflow.

 The company plans to use the funding to expand its services to individual users, allowing them to automate personal workflows via its platform. Wordware, which is focusing on team-building, is currently in a hiring phase.

 Wordware's creation is a full-stack AI-operating system called GenAI, which enables users to create AI agents by using natural language, instead of coding. Key features of this system include self-checking reflection loops, evaluation frameworks, and a GitHub-like repository for solution sharing. This is particularly beneficial for businesses seeking to accelerate their AI projects without the need for large specialized teams.

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