Announcing our Innovation Finalists Transforms 2025 VB

This year’s vb Innovation innovation finalists will be at Transform vbJune 24-25, in San Francisco. They will run on stage as we delve into what really works at Enterprise, From co -pilot to agents.

Seven companies have been selected to show their AS generating products or characteristics that are more likely to interrupt the company.

Those selected to present will do so before an audience only guest of 600 people in charge of the industry and will receive direct comments from a group of Judges of VC.

2025 Innovation Innovation Finalists are:

Ctgt

Founded in 2024 by a Stanford team and the University of California, San Diego researchers, based in San Francisco Ctgt It is a AI risk management platform designed to change the way companies deploy and generative. Unlike AI conventional pipes that require periodic line updates, the CTGT platform allows continuous monitoring in real time and an automated refinement of production models, allowing AI systems to learn and adapt to live environments without never going out of line. This means that models improve on gait, closing the gap between development and deployment, and guaranteeing the maximum time and reliability for applications and criticism of the mission.

The company raised A seed of $ 7.2 million in the round In February.

Catio

Palo Alto based Catio It is a platform fueled by AI designed to help companies optimize their technology stack architecture. The platform is a co -pilot for technical leaders and equipment, providing information and recommendations based on data to evaluate, plan and evolve their technological infrastructure. Catio deals with these challenges, providing a continuous design of architecture, strategic technology stack planning, precise analysis and evaluation of personalized architectures and recommendations for the unique needs of each company, all fueled by advanced IA models and property data.

In March, CATIO announced 3 million dollars in additional funding. This is more than $ 4 million raised between 2023-2024.

Fist

Mountain View Based Kind It focuses on the democratization of the AI, particularly in the field of predictive analytics, taking advantage of the avant -garde graphic neural networks (GNNS) and deep relational deep learning (RDL). They aim to make it easier for companies to create and deploy highly precise automatic learning models directly from their relational data.

Kumo has raised $ 37 million in two rounds funding. Your last round was a B -18 million series to September 2022.

Solo.io

Cambridge, Mass., Based Solo.io It is a native cloud native app company that provides solutions to connect, ensure and observe modern applications, especially those built in kubernetes and microservicians. Founded in 2017, Solo.io aims to simplify the complexities of the Application Network in Dynamic and Multi-Núvies.

A round of financing of the C series of $ 135 million by 2021 brought the company’s total funding to $ 175 million. The company has a value of a billion dollars.

Superduper.io

Based on Tel Aviv Superduper.io It is a company focused on simplifying the integration of AI models and work flows directly within existing databases, eliminating the need for complex data pipes and separate AI infrastructure. Its basic offer is an open source frame based on Python that allows companies to build and deploy applications and agents of IA directly on their data, whenever they reside.

Superduper.io has raised $ 1.75 million Two rounds of financing seeds. Notable investors include Hetz Ventures, Session.vc and Mongodb. It was also part of the Intel Ignite Accelerator program.

Sutra

Oakland based Sutra It is a platform without code that allows users to create complete mobile and web applications ready for production, simply describing their idea in simple text. It aims to democratize software development, making it accessible to people and companies without encoding experience.

Sutro was founded in 2021 and has lifted around 6 million dollars In the first two rounds of financing in 2023-2024.

Qdrant

Based on Berlin Qdrant It is a massive -scale vector database and a massive scale and a vector search engine designed for the next generation of AI applications. It is integrated into Rust, a language known for its safety and performance, which makes it a reliable choice to demand AI’s workloads.

Founded in 2020, Qdrant has raised $ 37.8 million in three rounds of funding, the last of which was a series of $ 28 million in January 2024.

Know our jury

Emily Zhao, Director of SalesForce Ventures

Zhao is a director at SalesForce Ventures Focused on Ai/ml. It also spends time on tools for developers, cybersecurity, vertical SAA and health technology. He joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped to launch his $ 500 million generative fund. He has directed several investments in the background, such as Hugging Face, Runwayml, Anthropic, Cohere and others.

Prior to joining SalesForce Ventures, Zhao was an investor in Avenir Growth Capital, a New York-based risk growth fund, where he spent most of his time in Saas Vertical, Health Technology and application programs. Prior to Avenir, Emily was associated with Blackstone’s private capital group and invested in corporate purchase transactions.

Matt Crane, partner of Menlo Ventures

Kraning is one of the MingoThe newest members. He is focused on investing in Ia, Enterprise Saas, National Defense and Cybersecurity.

He is an ex -deeply technical founder and a company tested with a doctorate. In Electrical Engineering, specializing in IA and Informatics on a large scale. Prior to Meno, Kraning was the co -founder and CTO of Expanse, where he helped define the surface management category of the AI ​​-driven attack. He has also been warned and invested in more than 50 startups, including unicorns such as Peregrine and Astranis, and recently led a round of $ 12 million for the Wispr flow.

Rebecca thereInvestment director at Amex Ventures

He is an investment director at him Amex Ventures. It was incorporated in 2024 to focus on investment in business software, directing initial stage investments in infrastructure software, developer tools, data and IA.

Before joining American Express, he directed Fintech and Software Venture Investments to Global Asset Capital. His previous experience includes business development and collaborations with Credit Karma and Technology Private Equity Investing in GIC.

Come and see VB Transform

All releases will occur on June 25 from 16:45 to 17:30 pt. On the main stage For our face -to -face attendees.

The presenters will have three minutes for their playing field, followed by two minutes of comments from the jury. The prizes will be presented in three categories: 1) The most likely to be successful, 2) freshest technology and 3) the best presentation style.

Read about the winners of VB Transfts 2024: Sambanova, Instabase and Tabnine.