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Matchbox
Backed by Startmate
Building the future of hiring intelligence | Backed by Startmate W25 Matchbox is the operating system for startup hiring. We combine a curated marketplace of top recruiters with software that gives founders visibility, control, and momentum in their hiring process. No guesswork or spreadsheets, just a smarter way to build your team. Early-stage companies use Matchbox to find the right recruiters, manage pipelines, track performance, and hire talent faster. Our mission is simple: to build teams that build the future. Whether you''re making your first hire or scaling your organisation, Matchbox gives you the talent infrastructure to do it right.
Mission
Our mission is to build teams that build the future by giving founders the talent infrastructure they’ve always needed but never had. Startups shouldn’t lose months navigating recruiters, spreadsheets, guesswork, and expensive agencies. They deserve clarity, expertise, and momentum from day one. Matchbox transforms hiring from a barrier into a superpower, empowering early-stage teams to move faster, make better decisions, and unlock their full potential.
Greenlite
Backed by Canvas Prime, Timothy J. Mayopoulos, Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Y Combinator, General Catalyst
The core problem: compliance (KYC, AML, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, due diligence, alert triage) is often manual, labor-intensive, and error-prone , burdening compliance teams as firms scale. Greenlite aims to transform how financial services firms (banks, fintechs, broker-dealers) handle compliance and financial-crime prevention. Greenlite’s clients include regulated banks (OCC/FDIC), broker-dealers (SEC-regulated), fintech firms, and even lIn May 2025, Greenlite announced a US$15 million Series A round, bringing total capital raised to approximately US$20–20.3 million. According to their public profile, Greenlite is still private and early-stage (post-Series Aarge enterprises / Fortune-500 firms undergoing compliance workflows
Mission
Greenlite’s vision is to build a “trusted AI workforce” — a platform of AI agents that can automate high-volume, routine compliance workloads with auditability, regulatory alignment, and scalability.
InstaLILY AI
Backed by Marvin Ventures, Insight Partners, Perceptive Ventures
InstaLILY develops a vertical AI platform that deploys domain-trained agents, known as InstaWorkers, to automate sales, service, and operations across distribution-intensive industries such as construction supply, OEM equipment, insurance, and healthcare. Their AI teammates autonomously execute comprehensive, multi-step workflows within legacy systems like ERPs and CRMs, with optional human oversight.
Twingate
Backed by Bond Capital (lead), WndrCo, 8VC, SignalFire, and others
Twingate offers a solution to secure remote access to private applications without the need for traditional VPNs. Their platform simplifies network security for organizations, enhancing productivity and user experience.
Mission
Twingate helps organisations secure and manage access to their resources in a world where people work from anywhere.
Amigo AI
Backed by General Catalyst (lead investor), GSV Ventures (lead investor)
Amigo is a platform that helps healthcare organisations build custom, patient-facing agents like virtual clinicians and care coordinators. It provides infrastructure and tooling for safety, transparency, and control, allowing agents to perform actions like ordering labs or writing to the EMR when permissions allow.
Mission
To solve the AI trust problem in healthcare by providing the infrastructure for safe, scalable AI agents that deliver care. The goal is to make these agents trustworthy enough to operate in high-risk environments where the cost of error is very high.
Harmonic
Backed by Soma Capital, Alumni Ventures, Floodgate, The 6ixth Event, Craft Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, Sam Parr, Builders VC +
Harmonic is a data-intelligence platform that maps the global startup ecosystem in real time. Instead of relying on fragmented databases, referrals, or outdated lists, Harmonic provides a unified view of every startup, from newly formed ventures through to hyper-growth scale-ups. Their platform continuously tracks company formation signals, hiring velocity, team composition, funding activity, and digital footprint, giving investors and operators an edge in discovering emerging opportunities before they’re widely known. Through advanced search, monitoring tools, network insights, and API access, Harmonic turns startup discovery into a proactive, data-driven workflow. Venture firms, go-to-market teams, and talent leaders use Harmonic to surface high-signal companies, identify warm introductions, and time their engagement with precision. The platform allows users to filter by sector, geography, funding stage, or traction indicators, ensuring they never miss the next breakout company.
Mission
Harmonic’s mission is to democratize access to the world’s innovation economy. They believe breakthrough companies shouldn’t succeed or be discovered simply because they are well-networked — but because they are exceptional. By building the most complete, continuously updated map of startups on the planet, Harmonic aims to level the playing field between incumbents and emerging founders, making venture discovery more transparent, equitable, and data-driven. Their vision is a world where investors, founders, and operators can instantly understand where innovation is happening, who is building it, and how markets are shifting — ultimately accelerating the pace at which transformative companies are found, funded, and scaled.
Patrol
Patrol is an innovative AI-driven platform designed to enhance security and monitoring for businesses and individuals. By leveraging advanced analytics and real-time data, Patrol provides actionable insights to ensure safety and efficiency.
Mission
Make the internet more accessible and protect the entrepreneurial dream for ecommerce merchants
Phia
Backed by Stanford University, Soma Capital, Kris Jenner, Desiree Gruber
Phia is a consumer AI startup that provides an AI-powered shopping assistant, available as a browser extension and mobile app. It works across hundreds of thousands of brands to automate the shopping experience, offering price comparisons and personalized recommendations to streamline transactions and improve financial management for users.
Mission
To optimise the shopping experience beyond simple economics, recognising it as an emotional and sociological activity that can be fundamentally improved with AI to better serve the user. The goal is to make a better shopping experience for Gen Z and others.
Loop AI
Backed by Base10 Partners (lead investor), Afore Capital, Alumni Ventures.
Loop is an AI-powered SaaS platform providing automated delivery solutions for the food and restaurant industry. It addresses critical pain points like financial reconciliation, bookkeeping, tax liability, and marketing optimization for third-party delivery services, helping restaurants turn delivery into a profitable revenue stream.
Mission
To fully automate restaurant management using data, automation, and ML so that restaurateurs can focus on their passion for making great quality food. The vision is to reduce operational workload while making businesses more money through data-driven decisions.
Robyn
Backed by Bill Tai, Christian Szegedy, Kenneth Goldman, Lars Rasmussen, M13
Robyn is an emotionally intelligent AI companion designed to help people feel seen, understood, and supported — not just with casual chat, but with empathy, memory, and emotional insight. Rather than being a generic chatbot or a clinical therapy tool, Robyn learns from your conversations: it remembers what you care about, how you express yourself, your emotional patterns and preferences. Over time it adapts, offering support, perspective, and a mirror to help you process thoughts, feelings, and life experiences in a deeply human-like way. Through its onboarding process (which asks about your goals, emotional tone preferences, and how you react under stress), Robyn tailors its responses to your voice, giving you a private “safe space” to vent, reflect, or simply be heard. It’s positioned neither as a replacement for a human therapist nor as a mere social chatbot, but as a personal companion for growth, emotional clarity and self-discovery.
Mission
Robyn’s mission is to restore emotional connection in a digital world, to build an AI that doesn’t reduce people to data points or transactions, but that truly understands and evolves with them. It aims to offer “a safe space to think, feel, and be understood,” helping individuals navigate thoughts and feelings with empathy, compassion, and privacy. Founded by a physician-turned-entrepreneur with a background in neuroscience, Robyn strives to combine empathetic design with rigorous science, blending emotional intelligence, memory, and personalisation to help people feel less lonely, more self-aware, and better connected to themselves and others.
Nickel
Nickel is a modern payments and financial operations platform built for businesses that move money constantly, from suppliers and contractors to distributors, builders, and service operators. They streamline the entire flow of getting paid and paying others by combining invoicing, bill pay, customer terms, vendor payouts, credit options, and real-time cash-flow tracking into one unified system. With Nickel, businesses can accept any payment method, offer flexible financing, manage large transactions, automate reconciliation, and gain full visibility over their working capital. It’s built to replace the patchwork of banks, spreadsheets, and manual processes with a single, predictable, easy-to-use financial engine that helps companies operate more smoothly and scale with confidence.
Meridian AI
Meridian AI leverages advanced artificial intelligence to provide personalized insights and solutions for businesses. By streamlining data analysis, it empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions effectively.
Diffractive Labs
We''re building the AI Material Scientist that autonomously learns from real-world experimentation to push the boundaries of scientific discovery.
Clad (YC W23)
Backed by Y Combinator
The world is rebuilding its internet and power infrastructure. AI is constrained on power and broadband capacity. Renewables demand a new grid. Our hunger for bandwidth is insatiable. The utilities, internet companies, and contractors tasked with this work face immense pressure to deliver. But their tools haven’t caught up. Contractors struggle to grow, constrained by cashflow. Operators fly blind, lacking real time visibility into issues. People type more than they build. We’re building Clad to help. Clad unifies project operations and finance to automate project tracking, payments, and permitting. With Clad, contractors grow faster and improve their margins. Operators execute smoothly. And everyone can focus on what’s most important - building.
Fizz Social
Backed by Octane Capital Management, Snow Leopard Technology Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rakesh Mathur, New Enterprise Associates, Green Sands Equity, Owl Ventures, K5 Global +
Fizz is a social media platform exclusively for college students that aims to be a safer, private and more engaging space to share authentic content. COO Teddy Solomon and CTO Ashton Cofer, Stanford dropouts who launched the company as students in 2021, say the private nature of the Fizz community (limited only to your school, accessible only with proof that you go there) helps relieve the social anxiety that can stem from filtered, curated or inauthentic content presenting a "false reality" on other platforms. Students can use Fizz to stay up to speed on news, events, parties and other happenings across campus; exchange intel and recs on what classes to take; connect with peers and more -- with the goal of fostering relationships off the app, IRL.
Kasa
Backed by SLW, Zigg Capital, BoxGroup, Founder Collective, RET Ventures, FirstMark, Allegion Ventures, Touchdown Ventures +
Kasa is a tech-driven platform that simplifies property management for landlords and tenants. By offering seamless communication and automated processes, Kasa enhances the rental experience for both parties.
Mission
To build the global accommodations brand of choice that is beloved by guests, indispensable to property partners, and desired by neighbour''s.
Supergood
Backed by Shine Capital
Supergood is an AI-driven platform designed to enhance personal well-being and productivity through personalized recommendations and insights. By leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, it provides users with tailored advice on health, work-life balance, and lifestyle choices.
Aaru
Backed by Accenture Ventures
Rethinking the science of prediction.
Mission
To build the world’s most accurate prediction engine — one that replaces guesswork with actionable foresight and allows organisations to make decisions based not on sentiment, but on simulated reality.
Brainbase Labs
Backed by Pioneer Fund, e2vc, Y Combinator
We aim to build the global AI workforce by building generalist agents that live in high-fidelity virtual environments where they have access to the tools they need, followed by a global marketplace for hiring these AI workers salaried by the minute. Reaching a true AI employee that is virtually indisinguishable from a remote human worker requires us to conquer three primary frontiers: planning, memory and always-on-behavior (AOB). We have already made significant advancements in planning which has allowed Kafka to achieve state-of-the-art performance on GAIA at a fraction of the cost without using reasoning models. We are currently hard at work on solving memory. If you''d like to help, please let us know.
Skild AI
Backed by LG Technology Ventures, SignalRank, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, Bossa Invest, Samsung Electronics, SV Angel, Menlo Ventures +
Skild AI is developing a universal, “omni-bodied” brain for robots — a scalable foundation model capable of powering a wide variety of robot types (humanoids, quadrupeds, arms, mobile manipulators) and enabling them to perform real-world tasks from manipulation and navigation to inspection and packing. Unlike traditional robotics (which focuses on single-purpose machines), Skild aims to build a general-purpose AI that adapts across embodiments, environments, and tasks — effectively bringing physical-world intelligence to robots.
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