The people behind the ideas.
The ideas behind the companies.

Runway
Runway’s
Cristóbal Valenzuela
on AI-driven art and lifelong learning
Deepgram
Deepgram’s
Scott Stephenson
on revolutionizing voice AI and building a developer tool
Impinj
Impinj’s
Chris Diorio
on pioneering an industry and perseverance
Pulumi
Pulumi’s
Joe Duffy
on bringing more power to developers
Terray
Terray’s
Jacob Berlin
on why data is the difference for AI-driven drug development
Yoodli
Yoodli’s
Varun Puri and Esha Joshi
on helping people find their voice

Company List

  • Axiom
    Axiom addresses the reasoning bottleneck holding back breakthrough progress in science, finance, and engineering. The world's hardest problems—drug discovery, quantitative trading strategies, software verification—aren't constrained by data or compute, but by reasoning capability itself. By training AI on verified mathematical proofs rather than human preference, Axiom is building models capable of the rigorous and verifiable thinking these intelligence-constrained domains demand.
    Initial Investment
    2025
    Axiom addresses the reasoning bottleneck holding back breakthrough progress in science, finance, and engineering. The world's hardest problems—drug discovery, quantitative trading strategies, software verification—aren't constrained by data or compute, but by reasoning capability itself. By training AI on verified mathematical proofs rather than human preference, Axiom is building models capable of the rigorous and verifiable thinking these intelligence-constrained domains demand.
    Founder
    Carina Hong
    Initial Investment
    2025
  • TerraClear
    TerraClear frees farmers from the worst jobs on the farm. Founded in 2017, TerraClear integrates computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics to automate what many consider the most frustrating problem in agriculture—rock removal. Impacting hundreds of millions of acres around the world, TerraClear is transforming this manual and slow task into state of the art solutions that work for every farmer. TerraClear’s diverse team of farmers, engineers, and business leaders is passionate about solving the labor crisis in agriculture one painful job at atime.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    TerraClear frees farmers from the worst jobs on the farm. Founded in 2017, TerraClear integrates computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics to automate what many consider the most frustrating problem in agriculture—rock removal. Impacting hundreds of millions of acres around the world, TerraClear is transforming this manual and slow task into state of the art solutions that work for every farmer. TerraClear’s diverse team of farmers, engineers, and business leaders is passionate about solving the labor crisis in agriculture one painful job at atime.
    CEO
    Devin Lammers
    Initial Investment
    2018