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The Trillion-Dollar Battle To Build a Robotaxi Empire

By Kyle Harrison

Autonomous Driving

The Efficiency Formula

By Kyle Harrison, Eric Glyman

A framework for government efficiency; purpose-built for America to go to war on waste, fraud, and abuse.

Finance Software

The Long Tail of AI

By Jack Raines, Rohan Gupta, Kyle Harrison

Model providers and AI-native companies get a lot of attention, but many non-AI companies will integrate AI in various ways. Here's how non-AI companies are thinking about their AI integration strategies.

The Trillion-Dollar Battle To Build a Robotaxi Empire

By Kyle Harrison

Autonomous Driving

Rippling

By Alan Soclof, Sachin Maini, Etienne Segal

Writer

By Colin Yuan, Ranjani Sundar

Doss

By Will Robbins, Samad Arastu

Finance Software

Mercury

By Michael Tan, Etienne Segal

Orca Security

By Jasmine Wu

Cloud Computing

Solugen

By Cory Anderson, Etienne Segal

Shield AI

By Carter Wang, Colin Yuan, Etienne Segal

Airbyte

By Michael Kim

Data Infrastructure

Figure

By Alexander Zou, Parth Parikh, Etienne Segal

Abridge

By Nitya Ayyagari, Ranjani Sundar

Crusoe

By Deepti Aggarawal

xAI

By Alexander Zou

Built

By Miu Kumakura

Semgrep

By Colin Yuan

Collective Health

By Michael Kim

Cedar

By Braneeth Dayan

CloudKitchens

By Etienne Segal

Nova Credit

By Anisha Kothapa

Discord

By Peggy Wang, Alexander Zou

Consumer Social

Attentive

By Matthew Xu

Sales & Marketing

Rippling

By Alan Soclof, Sachin Maini, Etienne Segal

Writer

By Colin Yuan, Ranjani Sundar

Doss

By Will Robbins, Samad Arastu

Finance Software

Mercury

By Michael Tan, Etienne Segal

AI / ML

6 Deep Dives · 62 Companies

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The Trillion-Dollar Battle To Build a Robotaxi Empire

Autonomous Driving

Deep dive

The Long Tail of AI

Deep dive

Building an AI-Native Company

Data Infrastructure

Deep dive

The Openness of AI

Deep dive

The New Frontier in Finance

Finance Software

Deep dive

From Notetaking to Neuralink

Writer

Applied Intuition

Autonomous Driving

Bowery Farming

Agriculture Tech

Character.AI

Consumer Social

Figure

Abridge

Moveworks

Crusoe

Shield AI

Decagon

Customer Service

Sword Health

Captions

Consumer Social

Checkr

Copy.ai

Epirus

xAI

Glean

Hippocratic AI

Lumafield

Skild AI

Runway

Foundry

Cloud Computing

Optimizely

Sales & Marketing

ElevenLabs

LangChain

Tecton

Together AI

Cloud Computing

Otter

Vannevar Labs

Hebbia

Perplexity

AlphaSense

AMP Robotics

Scale AI

OpenAI

Anthropic

Neuralink

Pinecone

Weaviate

Data Infrastructure

Mistral AI

Socure

Hugging Face

Cohere

Nomic

Mem.ai

Instabase

AssemblyAI

Data Infrastructure

Ada

Customer Service

Abnormal Security

Grammarly

Midjourney

Weights & Biases

DataRobot

DeepL

Hive

DoNotPay

Descript

Fivetran

Data Infrastructure

Snorkel AI

Anduril Industries

Jasper

Sales & Marketing

Dialpad

Fintech

3 Deep Dives · 56 Companies

Deep dive

The Great Bank Unbundling

Deep dive

Living Landscape: Fintech Infrastructure

Deep dive

The Crypto Creed

Mercury

EarnIn

Airwallex

Cedar

Metronome

Built

Nova Credit

Ramp

Finance Software

Blockchain.com

Melio

TruckSmarter

Equitybee

Ripple

CoinTracker

Plastiq

Chime

Pulley

Wealthfront

Wrapbook

Revolut

Moov

Lithic

Sardine

Plaid

Finix

Vertical Market SaaS

Lead Bank

Unit

Column

Modern Treasury

Treasury Prime

Monzo

Brex

Finance Software

Navan

MoonPay

Kraken

Stripe

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Addepar

PhonePe

Groww

Kalshi

eToro

Razorpay

Rapyd

DailyPay

GoCardless

Public

Greenlight

Checkout.com

Neo Financial

Flutterwave

Papaya Global

Klarna

Goldfinch

Deel

Divvy Homes

Cybersecurity

4 Deep Dives · 27 Companies

Deep dive

Identity Crisis: The Biggest Prize in Security

Deep dive

Taking The Fight To The Cloud

Cloud Computing

Deep dive

The Era of Endpoints

Deep dive

Unlocking the Cybersecurity Landscape

Orca Security

Cloud Computing

Automattic

Creator Economy

Secureframe

Cloud Computing

Lacework

Cloud Computing

Cyera

Data Infrastructure

Chainguard

Axonius

Vertical Market SaaS

Cribl

Data Infrastructure

Semgrep

Wiz

Cloud Computing

Lookout

Cloud Computing

1Password

Panther

Data Infrastructure

Persona

Data Infrastructure

Socure

Illumio

Netskope

Resourcely

Cloud Computing

Snyk

Cybereason

Verkada

Stytch

Abnormal Security

Fireblocks

Flock Safety

Arctic Wolf

Vanta

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