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Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI-powered writing and content across departments such as operations, products, sales, human resources, and marketing. The platform combines an integrated suite of large language models, graph-based retrieval-augmented generation, AI guardrails, and development tools to create customizable applications for content generation, digital assistants, and data analysis, while ensuring secure and compliant operations and rapid deployment to improve productivity and drive innovation and return on investment.

Foundational is a data management platform that helps developers understand the lineage and downstream impact of code changes. Addressing data issues can be both expensive and needlessly intricate. Foundational's Code Intelligence Engine scrutinizes code alterations to identify issues, unveil concealed dependencies, and assess downstream ramifications well in advance of any interaction with live data. Foundational's code-based data lineage extends beyond the conventional coverage offered by standard warehouse and BI tools, encompassing a comprehensive analysis across various platforms such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, and more. This solution provides column-level lineage throughout the entire data stack. Notably, the process is fully automated, requiring zero code or configuration changes. The lineage information remains consistently up-to-date, seamlessly reflecting the latest code merged into the system.

Adrenaline is an AI-driven platform designed to assist software developers in navigating and modifying large codebases. It uses machine learning to automatically detect and diagnose errors, providing context-aware tools to enhance coding efficiency and improve overall code quality.

FlutterFlow, founded in 2020, is an innovative low-code, visual development platform that facilitates the creation of native mobile and web applications. With a user base exceeding 400,000 and thousands of applications successfully deployed to app stores, the platform allows product teams to design appealing user interfaces and produce clean code efficiently. It features a one-click deployment option that significantly reduces launch times while maintaining the ability to incorporate custom code. FlutterFlow's capabilities include seamless integration with Firebase and the ability to download generated Flutter code, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications quickly. This advanced platform streamlines the application development process, allowing businesses to scale rapidly and effectively.

Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It also renders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library. Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019.

Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI-powered writing and content across departments such as operations, products, sales, human resources, and marketing. The platform combines an integrated suite of large language models, graph-based retrieval-augmented generation, AI guardrails, and development tools to create customizable applications for content generation, digital assistants, and data analysis, while ensuring secure and compliant operations and rapid deployment to improve productivity and drive innovation and return on investment.

Rootly is an incident management platform that automates manual tasks and provides insights to prevent incidents. It helps companies resolve issues faster, saving millions in lost revenue and developer productivity.

Weflow is a developer of a workflow management platform specifically designed for revenue teams. The platform enhances productivity and improves pipeline visibility by streamlining various sales processes. It enables users to efficiently update Salesforce, conduct sales meetings, take notes, and manage pipelines, all while facilitating actionable feedback during and after customer interactions. By automating these tasks, Weflow helps account executives minimize administrative burdens and reduce the chaos associated with note-taking and research, ultimately allowing them to focus more on their core responsibilities.

Infisical is an open-source platform that securely manages secrets for developers. It automatically distributes secrets across infrastructure and prevents leaks by using end-to-end encryption.

Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Payload CMS is a self-hosted, headless TypeScript content management system launched in 2018. It uses Node.js, React, and MongoDB, offering robust field types, dynamic fields like Arrays and Blocks, and purpose-built fields such as Relationship and GeoJSON for flexible data modeling. The platform secures data with access control functions at the document or field level.

Dropbase is a developer platform to build internal tools and apps for customer success, support, and operation teams. With Dropbase, you can build admin panels, billing support dashboards, and other internal tools in minutes, with just SQL and Python.

Knapsack offers a unified platform for managing design and coding decisions across products and brands. This enables faster delivery of improved user experiences. As a remote, venture-backed startup, Knapsack assists design and development teams to halve production time.

Boxo, officially known as Appboxo Pte. Ltd., is a Singapore-based platform founded in 2018 that specializes in super app infrastructure. It provides a suite of developer tools enabling businesses to launch full-screen mini-apps within their existing applications. By utilizing a single SDK, companies can transform their apps into super apps, offering a variety of services quickly and efficiently. This platform also allows service providers to create embeddable mini-apps, facilitating new partnerships and enhancing user engagement through affiliate traffic. Boxo aims to streamline the app integration process while expanding monetization opportunities for both developers and service providers.

PopSQL Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a collaborative SQL query editing tool for development teams. Founded in 2017, PopSQL provides a platform that allows data analysts, product managers, and other professionals to write SQL queries, visualize data, and share results effectively. The software enables users to organize SQL queries into folders, which can be kept private or shared within teams, and includes features for tracking changes to facilitate collaboration. By offering support for multiple operating systems, including web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, PopSQL aims to streamline the data analysis process and enhance teamwork among users.

Astro is a company that supports web developers in creating efficient websites through its open-source build tool, established in 2019 by Fred K. Schott in San Francisco, California. The tool, which is licensed under MIT, renders directly to HTML and CSS, allowing for faster website performance. It enhances web accessibility by optimizing JavaScript hosting for the code that powers websites. Additionally, Astro is compatible with several popular frameworks, including React, Preact, Svelte, Solid, and Vue, making it a versatile choice for developers aiming to streamline their web development process.

Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Orchest Software B.V., based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, operates as a cloud data science platform that offers an open-source, cloud-native integrated development environment tailored for data scientists. The platform provides tools that facilitate the development, iteration, and deployment of data pipelines, allowing users to transition from initial ideas to deployment without the need for extensive infrastructure or engineering support. This approach enhances workflow autonomy, enabling data scientists to work more efficiently within a unified environment.

FlutterFlow, founded in 2020, is an innovative low-code, visual development platform that facilitates the creation of native mobile and web applications. With a user base exceeding 400,000 and thousands of applications successfully deployed to app stores, the platform allows product teams to design appealing user interfaces and produce clean code efficiently. It features a one-click deployment option that significantly reduces launch times while maintaining the ability to incorporate custom code. FlutterFlow's capabilities include seamless integration with Firebase and the ability to download generated Flutter code, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications quickly. This advanced platform streamlines the application development process, allowing businesses to scale rapidly and effectively.

Iteratively, Inc. is a Seattle-based SaaS company founded in 2019 that focuses on enhancing data quality for product and data teams. The company's platform enables teams to define, instrument, and validate their analytics tracking, addressing issues of poor data quality before they reach production. By facilitating collaboration among product managers, data analysts, and engineers, Iteratively ensures clean and consistent data capture across all platforms. Its features include a web interface for defining and evolving tracking plans, type-safe open-source SDKs, and tools for automated testing and CI/CD integration. Through these offerings, Iteratively simplifies the process of instrumentation, allowing clients to save time and make informed business decisions based on accurate product analytics.

GitDuck develops video chat and collaboration software tailored for programmers. Its platform enables real-time code sharing, terminal access, and pair programming, fostering efficient teamwork among developers.

Founded in 2016, Dyndrite develops advanced manufacturing software. It offers a computational geometry engine and additive toolkit for enhanced performance and productivity in design, engineering, and manufacturing sectors. The company's core product is the Dyndrite accelerated geometry kernel, which serves as a foundation for developing application and print drivers for 3D printers.

Boon AI is a developer of a machine learning integration platform that focuses on making artificial intelligence and machine learning accessible to teams of various sizes. The company specializes in providing no-code and low-code tools that facilitate the implementation of machine learning analysis across different types of media and data. This enables data scientists, developers, and system integrators to enhance the modeling, training, and debugging processes of customizable applications. Founded by experts with extensive experience in visual assets and enterprise software, Boon AI aims to address the challenges of managing large digital asset databases and improve business intelligence through innovative visual search capabilities.

Founded in 2016, Dyndrite develops advanced manufacturing software. It offers a computational geometry engine and additive toolkit for enhanced performance and productivity in design, engineering, and manufacturing sectors. The company's core product is the Dyndrite accelerated geometry kernel, which serves as a foundation for developing application and print drivers for 3D printers.