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Atolio offers an AI-powered enterprise search solution that enables organizations to securely access and manage their knowledge across various applications while maintaining control over their data.

humans& is a human-centric frontier AI lab focused on reimagining AI to center around people and their relationships. The company aims to innovate in areas such as multi-agent reinforcement learning and user understanding, integrating science and product development.

Slack is a collaboration hub that connects your work with the people you work with. It offers a suite of productivity tools including messaging, project management, and integrations with other applications, all designed to streamline communication and enhance team collaboration.

Flexport is a global logistics platform that coordinates supply chain operations, offering solutions for importers and exporters to manage their logistics from factory to customer door.

MasterClass offers online classes taught by renowned experts in various fields, providing individuals and businesses with the opportunity to learn and develop skills through engaging video content.

Replit is an AI-powered platform for building and deploying apps and websites collaboratively. It offers tools for software development, including a built-in database and security features. Replit aims to democratize software creation.

Netlify is the most popular way to build, deploy and scale modern web applications. Home to millions of developers and thousands of enterprises, Netlify is the platform of choice for running modern composable web applications in production, from global corporate sites to complex e-commerce and SaaS applications.

Weights & Biases provides tools for tracking experiments, optimizing hyperparameters, and visualizing data in machine learning workflows.

Streamlit turns data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes. All in pure Python. No front‑end experience required.

InfluxData provides a time series platform that enables organizations to manage and analyze time-stamped data efficiently. Their flagship product, InfluxDB, is designed for high-performance data ingestion, storage, and querying.

Early-stage boutique that publicly rebooted after admitting a lost decade, offering an institutionalized Fellows talent pipeline funneling top students into breakout startups. Kleiner Perkins deliberately transformed from a sprawling, personality-driven platform into a tighter early-stage boutique after 2018, openly acknowledging a 'lost decade' and marketing their turnaround as a core part of their brand story. The firm built one of the industry's most structured talent pipelines through their Kleiner Perkins Fellows program, which provides a systematic route for top students into breakout startups and comes with KP-sponsored seed capital.

Operates a Sage model where CEOs and serial founders embed as hands-on operators, sometimes interim leaders, hatch and prototype startups internally, and bring hundreds of millions in follow-on capital. The firm also hatches new companies internally by having partners identify opportunities, do research and prototyping, then match concepts with founders—functioning partially like a startup studio while running a traditional venture fund.

Felicis explicitly defines founders as their customer rather than LPs and has publicly committed to always vote with founders in board matters. The firm created a 1% Founder Development Pledge providing non-dilutive capital for founders personal development like coaching and therapy. Felicis systematically optimizes for revenue efficiency and backs geo-agnostic teams outside Silicon Valley, focusing on reinvention of large existing markets with 10x better products and frontier solutions in areas like longevity and engineered foods.

Uncork Capital is one of the original "micro-VC" firms that helped prove small, seed-focused funds could work at scale when Jeff Clavier started investing his family's savings in 2004 and raised one of the first institutional seed funds in 2007. The firm has stayed "small by design" over 20 years to preserve discipline at seed stage while being unusually hands-on without formulaic playbooks, building custom one-on-one plans for each company and refusing to pass declined founders to other VCs because they view it as a harmful negative signal.