Announcing our 2025 VB Transform Innovation Showcase finalists

VB this year The final candidates will be the innovation exhibition at VB Transform, 24-25 June, in San Francisco. They will take to the theater while we go deep into what is already working in the AI ​​Foundation, From coilots to agents.

Seven companies have been chosen to display the generator products or features that are likely to disrupt the institution.

They will be chosen to present this in front of an audience invited only from 600 decision makers in this field, and they will receive direct notes from a committee of VC judges.

2025 Final Innovation Gallery is:

Ctgt

Founded in 2024 by a team from Stanford and the University of California, San Diego researchers, based in San Francisco, is an Amnesty International Risk Management platform designed to change how to publish AI’s institutions. Unlike traditional artificial intelligence pipelines that require periodic updates not connected to the Internet, the CTGT platform allows continuous monitoring in actual time and automatic refining of models in production, allowing artificial intelligence systems to learn and adapt to living environments without involvement without internet connection. This means that models improve during flying, closing the gap between development and publishing and ensuring the maximum operating time and reliability of important AI applications.

The company raised a seed of $ 7.2 million in February.

Cato

Catio based in Palu Alto is an Amnesty International platform designed to help companies improve the architecture of technology accumulation. The platform is a group of leaders and technical teams, as it provides data -based visions and recommendations to assess, develop and develop technological infrastructure. Catio addresses these challenges by providing continuous architecture design, strategic planning for stacking, precise analyzes, structure evaluation, and personal recommendations to meet the unique needs of each institution, all supported by advanced AI models and royal data.

In March, Catio announced $ 3 million in additional financing. This is in addition to 4 million dollars that were raised between 2023-2024.

Como

The Mountain View -based Kumo AI focuses on the democratic character, especially in the world of predictive analyzes, by taking advantage of the advanced graphic nervous networks (GNNS) and the deep -based learning (RDL). It aims to facilitate companies to build and publish automatic learning models very accurate directly from their relationships.

Como collected $ 37 million in financing in two rounds. The last round was a series of $ 18 million in September 2022.

Solo.io

Cambridge, Mass. Solo.io is a cloud applications network company that provides solutions to connect, secure and monitor modern applications, especially those based on kubernetes and Microservices. Solo.io was founded in 2017, to simplify the complexity of application networks in multi -fluid dynamic environments.

A $ 135 million series of financing C in 2021 raised the company’s total financing to 175 million dollars. The value of the company is one billion dollars.

Superduper.io

Tel Aviv -based Superduper.IO is Amnesty International, which focuses on simplifying the integration of artificial intelligence models and the functioning of work directly within the current databases, eliminating the need for complex data pipes and separating the Amnesty International Infrastructure. Their basic presentation is an open -based workframe based on Bethon that allows companies to build and publish applications and staff of artificial intelligence designated directly on their data, wherever they are.

Superduper.io raised $ 1.75 million through two seed financing rounds. Among the prominent investors Hetz Ventures, Session.vc and Mongodb. It was also part of the Intel Ignite Accessor.

Soto

Auckland -based Sutro is a platform that does not cord with Amnesty International that allows users to create mobile applications and complete and ready -made web sites by describing their idea in an ordinary text. It aims to add a democratic character to the development of software, which makes it accessible to individuals and companies without coding experience.

Sutro was founded in 2021 and raised about $ 6 million through two early financing rounds in 2023-2024.

Qdant

Berlin -based Qdant is a high -performance database, and a vector engine designed for the next generation of artificial intelligence applications. It is integrated into rust, and it is a language known for its safety and performance, which makes it a reliable choice to demand the burdens of work of artificial intelligence.

Qdrant was founded in 2020, Qdant raised $ 37.8 million on three rounds of financing, the last of which was the A series A 28 million dollars in January 2024.

We have the jury

Emily Zhao, director of Slesforce projects

Zhao is a manager in the Salesforce projects that focus on artificial intelligence/ml. It also spends time in the tools of developers, cyber security, vertical SAAS and health technology. She joined Salsforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped launch the 500 million dollar artificial intelligence fund. It has led many investments in the fund, including Huging Face, Runwayml, Anthropic, Cohere and others.

Before joining the Salesforce Ventures, Zhao was an investor in Avenir Growth Capital, a growth box, based in New York, where most of its time eliminated the vertical SAAS, health technology and application programs. Before Avenir, Emily was a BlackStone Special Stock Group, and she invested in corporate purchase transactions.

Matt Kranning, a partner in Menlo Vinths

Kraning is one of the latest Menlo partners. It focuses on investment in artificial intelligence, saas institutions, national defense and cyber security.

He is a former technical founder and builder a doctorate -installed company. In electrical engineering, specialized in artificial intelligence and wide computing. Before Menlo, Krang was the co-founder and CTO of Expanse, where it helped determine the AI-drove the AI-driven category. He also advised and investigated in more than 50 startups, including unit such as Peregrine and Astranis, and recently led a round of $ 12 million to flow Wispr.

Rebecca to meAmex Ventures Investment Director

Lee is the investment manager in Amex Ventures. It joined the year 2024 to focus on investing institutions programs, and leading investments in the early stage in infrastructure programs, developers, data and AI tools.

Before joining the American Express, LI LED Fintech and Global Asset Capital. Its previous experience includes developing business and partnerships in Credit Karma and technology investment in private stocks in GIC.

Come and look at the VB conversion

All stadiums will happen on June 25 from 4:45 to 5:30 pm. On the main theater of our personal attendance.

Showers will have three minutes for the stadium, followed by two minutes of comments from the jury. Prizes will be presented in three categories: 1) It is likely to succeed, 2) The coolest technology and 3) Best Display.

Read about VB Transform 2024 winners: Sambanova, Instabase and Tabnine.