The people behind the ideas.
The ideas behind the companies.
MotherDuck’s
Joran Tigani
on shaping serverless data with DuckDB 
Runway’s
Cristóbal Valenzuela
on AI-driven art and lifelong learning 
Rec Room’s
Nick Fajt
on democratizing game development 
Common Room’s
Linda Lian
on integrating community into your company 
Pulumi’s
Joe Duffy
on bringing more power to developers 
Statsig’s
Vijaye Raji
on using data to build better products Company List
Developer Platforms & Tools
Initial Investment Stage
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Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.Initial Investment2023Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js. -
Deepgram is an enterprise automated speech recognition and understanding company that enables companies to build foundational and specialized language models for a range of applications.Initial Investment2022Deepgram is an enterprise automated speech recognition and understanding company that enables companies to build foundational and specialized language models for a range of applications. -
DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.Initial Investment2021DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises. -
Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more.Initial Investment2020Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more. -
Fixie is a platform that makes it easy to build applications that integrate LLMs in any software system — databases, APIs, websites, documents, and more — to enable entirely new products and experiences.Initial Investment2023Fixie is a platform that makes it easy to build applications that integrate LLMs in any software system — databases, APIs, websites, documents, and more — to enable entirely new products and experiences. -
Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.Initial Investment2017Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach. -
StackBlitz is the creator of Bolt.new, an AI-powered web development agent that allows users to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack applications directly from the browser.Initial Investment2025StackBlitz is the creator of Bolt.new, an AI-powered web development agent that allows users to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack applications directly from the browser. -
Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.Initial Investment2020Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.