Race Capital

Opaque Systems

San Francisco

OPAQUE is the confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, OPAQUE’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to effortlessly run cloud-scale, general-purpose AI workloads on encrypted data with cryptographic verification of privacy and sovereignty. OPAQUE supports popular languages and frameworks for AI, including Python and Spark, enabling teams to securely combine datasets with cryptographic verification of privacy. OPAQUE customers deploy high-performance AI faster and eliminate the tradeoff between innovation and security.

PlayAI

Mountain View

**Introduction** At [PlayHT](https://play.ht/), our vision is to redefine human interactions with AI agents. Whether it’s for customer support or sales calls, AI tutors, or bringing Gaming NPCs to life, our goal is to revolutionize the way

Persana AI

San Francisco

Persana AI, a YC Winter 2023 startup, aims to revolutionize how companies execute go-to-market strategies, led by CEO Sriya Maram and co-founder Rush Shahani, with backgrounds at LinkedIn and NLP-focused roles at ElementAI and Shopify.

Vectara

Palo Alto

Vectara develops an AI platform for enterprise AI assistants and agents, enabling developers to optimize behavior via plug-and-play APIs without altering underlying systems, while emphasizing accuracy, explainability, secure access, and res