Arash Ferdowsi

Workstream

San Francisco

Workstream is the modern all-in-one HR and payroll solution built specifically for restaurants, and trusted by 30,000+ locations. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands, including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell, and more, rely on Workstream power their restaurants.

Alinea Invest

New York

Alinea is a personal wealth manager that designs tailored portfolios and uses experts to guide clients’ plans, helping them grow their net worth and reach their goals on their terms.

Distributed Spectrum

New York

Distributed Spectrum is a venture-backed defense tech company (founded 2020) applying ML, embedded systems, and signal processing to critical radio signals. It secured DoD and IC contracts totaling $7M in 60 days and closed a $25M Series A.

Keep

Location unknown

Keep is a Canadian fintech company serving Canadian small and medium-sized businesses. Led by seasoned global startup veterans with successful exits, it is backed by fintech-focused venture capital and aims to be Canada’s next-generation fi

Antimetal

New York

Antimetal operates in infrastructure management, aiming to reclaim engineers’ time so they can focus on building great products, and positions itself as building the future of infrastructure management.

Artie

San Francisco

Artie enables real-time data streaming and database replication between databases and data warehouses, launched about a year ago and now processing over 10 billion rows per month, backed by Pathlight and General Catalyst.

Bezi

San Francisco

The company empowers game developers as a group of technical, first-principles thinkers, emphasizing trust, deep user understanding, and a flat, meritocratic culture where ideas are pursued and debated equally; Bay Area SoMa meets twice wee

Elevate (formerly Bloom)

United Arab Emirates

A fintech startup launched in January 2024, building payment infrastructure and financial products by integrating with banking partners and payment networks; it prioritizes correctness, reliability, performance, monitoring, security and fra

Onyx

San Francisco

Onyx is an open-source AI assistant that aggregates company documents, apps, and people (Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, GitHub) to provide immediate answers from a single interface, with 24/7 availability and customizable assistants; foun

Coframe

Location unknown

Coframe is building living interfaces that adapt, evolve, and autonomously improve themselves by training multimodal models that align with users and business goals. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman, the Bay Area-based team combin

Paradigm

San Francisco

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based AI-powered workspace focused on large-scale agent orchestration, backed by Y Combinator and founders from Dropbox, Intercom, Langchain, Redis, Behance, and Posthog.

Betterhalf

Bengaluru

Betterhalf.ai is a secure Indian matchmaking platform branded as India's first and only marriage super app, claiming ~1,000,000 users nationwide; backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Quiet Capital, Kunal Shah, Nobroker founders, and MIT/H

Advex AI

San Francisco

Advex is seed-stage startup backed by Construct Capital, PearVC, founders of Dropbox, Gradient Ventures, with team from CMU, Berkeley AI Research Lab, Google Brain, Scale AI, and Qualcomm, publishing research and winning competitions at ICL

Sourceress

San Francisco

Sourceress is a San Francisco-based AI recruiter, founded in 2017, with a 35-person team. Its process leaves hiring managers excited about candidates more than 85% of the time.

Bloom

Zürich

Bloom is an app that enables users to build mobile apps, with a mission to unlock a creator economy for software.

Coast

New York

Coast provides an API visualization platform for customer-facing teams, delivering instant, bespoke previews of live API integrations. Trusted by Twilio, Plaid, FIS, and Zurich Insurance, it is YC-backed and grew 11x in 2023.

JustPaid

Mountain View

JustPaid offers B2B billing automation from Mountain View, CA, with about 20 employees. Led by CEO/cofounder Daniel Kivatinos and cofounders Anelya Grant and Vinay Datta Pinnaka; Daniel co-founded DrChrono (acquired 2021) and Vinay ran DrCh

Clinikally

Gurugram

Clinikally is India's leading digital health platform for Dermatology, Nutrition & Wellness, connecting users with specialty providers for online consultations and aiming to make trusted, science-backed healthcare accessible to all across I