Announcing our 2025 VB Transform Innovation Showcase finalists

This year VB There will be finalists in innovative showcases Turn a vbJune 24-25, in San Francisco. In fact, Enterprise will take the stage as they examine those who work in AI, to agents from copylons.

Seven companies were selected to demonstrate the most likely features to break the created AI products or enterprise.

At present, the selected will do it in front of only one auditorium invited to 600 industrial decisions and will receive direct feedback from a panel of VC judges.

2025 Innovation Showcase finalist:

Ctgt

In 2024, Stanford and California University, San Diego Researchers, San Francisco-based group Ctgt The AI ​​is a Risk Management Platform designed to change how the enterprise places the generative AI. Unlike the usual AI pipelines that require periodic offline updates, the CTGT platform provides continuous real-time monitoring and automated real-time monitoring and automated models that allow you to learn and adapt to the live environment without offline. This means that models improve the gap between developing and deployment and ensure maximum working hours and reliability for mission-critical AI applications.

The company lifted A seed $ 7.2 million in February.

Castio

Palo Alto based Castio It is a AI-powered platform designed to help companies to optimize the technological stack architecture. The platform is a copylot for technical leaders and teams, provides information managing concepts and recommendations to assess, plan and develop technological infrastructure. CATIO These problems are equipped with a sustainable architectural design, strategic technological storage planning, accurate analytical and architecture assessment and individual recommendations for the specific needs of each enterprise, all of the developed AI models and property information.

Catio declared in March $ 3 million in additional funding. This is in addition to $ 4 million raised between 2023-2024.

Punch

Based on a mountain view Moderate Especially aimed at democratizing the predictive analytical realm using Neuron Networks (GNNS) and related deep learning (RDL). Highly accurate machine learning models are facilitated to facilitate and place a high-precision machine for businesses.

Kumo financed $ 37 million in two rounds. Their last round was a series of $ 18 million in B September 2022.

Solo.io

Cambridge is mass-based Solo.io Modern applications are a cloudy application network company, especially in KhabertNetes and Miklokets, especially a cloudy application network that provides solutions for combining, protection and observed. Founded in 2017, Solo.io aims to facilitate the complexity of the application network in dynamic, very cloudy environments.

In 2021, a number of $ 135 million in $ 135 million, the company has delivered the company’s total financing for $ 175 million. The company is estimated at $ 1 billion.

Superduper.io

Tel Aviv based Superduper.io AI simplifies the integration of AI models and workplaces within the existing database, complex information is directed to the flow of information directly in the existing databases. Their main proposal is a pyth-based open source framework, which allows special AI applications and agents to the construction and place of agents in their data.

Increased by $ 1.75 million between Superduper.io Two seed financing round. Outstanding investors include Hetz Ventues, SEAs.VC and MongoDB. It was also part of the Intel Ignite Accelerator.

Sutra

Oakland-based Sutra A platform that works on AI, which allows users to create full, manufactured-ready mobile and web applications by describing the ideas in plain text. The program aims to democratize the development of the program, which makes it accessible to individuals and businesses without encoding experience.

Sutro was established in 2021 and grew around $ 6 million Between the two early financing periods in 2023-2024.

Grant

Berlin based Grant A high-performance, mass-scale vector database and vector search engine designed for the next generation of AI applications. In a language recognized by rust, security and performance, AI is a valid choice to require a workload.

Founded in 2020, the GDRant was $ 37.8 million in finance in the last $ 37.8 million, in January 28 million in 2024.

Get to know our judge panel

Emily Zhao, Director in Salesforce Enterprises

Zhao is a basic Salesforce Ventues AI / ML is directed. It also spends time in developer tools, cyberecurity, vertical saas and health technology. In the spring of 2022, Salesforce has joined the enterprises and helped to start a $ 500 million US dollar fund recently. Including FACE, RunwayML, Antropic, Coast and others, including several investments in the background.

Before joining Salesforce enterprises, Zhao was investor in the Foundation of Venture-Growth Foundation in New York, a organization of its time in Vertical Saas, Health Technology and Application Program. Earlier, Emily was a connection in the private capital group in Blackstone and invested in corporate purchase operations.

Matt Crane, partner in Menlo institutions

Craning is one Menlothe latest partners. The EU is directed to investing in the enterprise, national defense and cyberurity.

He is a deep technical past founding and proven company founder of a doctor of sciences. He specializes in electrical engineering, AI and large-scale computation. Prior to Menlo, Craning was a wide co-founder and expansion that helped to identify the AI-based attack surface management category. He also recommended more than 50 beginners and investments, including uniquines such as Peregrine and Astranis, and recently had a $ 12 million round for Wispr flow.

Rebecca thereInvestment Director in Amex Enterprises

Lee is an investment director Amex ventures. Infrastructure software, developer instruments, information and information and the investment of enterprises in the AI ​​fields in 2024 to focus on leading early investments.

Prior to connection to American Express, LI LED FINTECH and Software investments in global asset capital. Its pre-experience, credit karma and technological special equity include business development and partnership in GIC.

See VB Transform

All the rods will take place from June 25 to evening 4:45:30. In the main stage For our private participants.

Presenters will take three minutes for the yards, followed by two minutes of the judgment panel. The awards will be presented in three categories: 1) Success can be success, 2) best technology and 3) best presentation style.

Read about winners in VB Transform 2024: Sambanova, Instability and Turbine.