Announcing our 2025 VB Transform Innovation Showcase finalists

This year VB Innovation Showcase Finalists will be VB transformation24-25 June, in San Francisco. They will enter the stage if we delve into what actually works in Enterprise AI, From copiloten to agents.

Seven companies have been selected to present their generative AI products or functions that are most likely to disrupt the company.

Those who have been selected for presenting will do this for a alone invitation audience of 600 industrial decision makers and receive direct feedback from a panel from VC judges.

The finalists of the 2025 Innovation Showcase are:

CTGT

Founded in 2024 by a team of Stanford and University of California, San Diego Researchers, San Francisco established CTGT is an AI risk management platform that is designed to change how companies implement generative AI. In contrast to conventional AI pipelines that require periodic offline updates, the Platform of CTGT continuous real-time monitoring and automated refining of models in production makes possible, so that AI systems can learn and adjust within live environments without ever going offline. This means that models improve on the spot, close the gap between development and implementation and guarantee maximum uptime and reliability for mission-critical AI applications.

The company has been picked up a seed of $ 7.2 million round In February.

Cats

Palo Alto-based Cats is an AI-driven platform that is designed to help companies optimize their technical Stack architecture. The platform is a Copilot for technical leaders and teams and offers data -driven insights and recommendations to evaluate, plan and develop their technological infrastructure. Catio tackles these challenges through continuous architecture design, strategic technical stack planning, accurate analyzes and evaluation of architectures and personalized recommendations for the unique needs of each company, all powered by advanced AI models and own data.

In March, Catio announced $ 3 million In extra financing. This is on top of the $ 4 million collected between 2023-2024.

Kumo

Basic on mountain display Kumo Ai is aimed at democratizing AI, in particular in the field of predictive analyzes, by using advanced Neural Networks (GNNS) and Relational Deep Learning (RDL). They want to make it easier for companies to build and implement very accurate models for machine learning directly from their relational data.

Kumo has collected $ 37 million in financing in two rounds. Their last round was a series B of $ 18 million in September 2022.

Solo.io

Cambridge, mass. Solo.io is a Cloud-Native Application Network Company that offers solutions for connecting, securing and observing modern applications, in particular those built on Kubernetes and Microservices. Solo.io was founded in 2017 and strives to simplify the complexity of application networks in dynamic, multi-cloud environments.

A series C finance round of $ 135 million in 2021 brought the total financing of the company to $ 175 million. The company is appreciated at $ 1 billion.

Superuper.io

Tel Aviv established Superuper.io is an AI company aimed at simplifying the integration of AI models and workflows directly in existing databases, eliminating the need for complex data plants and a separate AI infrastructure. Their nore supply is a Python-based open-source framework with which companies can build and implement adapted AI applications and agents directly on their data, wherever it is.

Superuper.io has collected $ 1.75 million Two seed financing rounds. Remarkable investors include Hetz Ventures, Session.vc and Mongodb. It was also part of the Intel Ignite Accelerator program.

Sutro

Located in Oakland Sutro is an AI-driven no-code platform with which users can make full, production-ready mobile and web applications by simply describing their idea in normal text. It is intended to democratize software development, making it accessible to individuals and companies without expertise.

Sutro was founded in 2021 and was raised $ 6 million About two early financing rounds in 2023-2024.

QDRANT

Berlin in Berlin QDRANT is a powerful vector database with a massive scale and vector search engine that is designed for the next generation of AI applications. It is built in Roest, a language known for its safety and performance, making it a reliable choice for the demand of AI -Workloads.

QDRANT, founded in 2020, raised $ 37.8 million over three financing rounds, the last of which was a Serie A of $ 28 million in January 2024.

Meet our jury panel

Emily Zhao, director of Salesforce Ventures

Zhao is a director at Salesforce Ventures Focused on AI/ml. She also spends time on developer tooling, cyber security, vertical Saas and Health Tech. She joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped launch his $ 500 million generative AI fund. She has led various investments in the fund, including cuddly face, Runwayml, anthropic, Colhere and others.

Before he came to Salesforce Ventures, Zhao investor at Avenir Growth Capital, a Venture Groeifonds was located in New York, where she spent most of her time on vertical Saas, Health Tech and Application software. Before Avenir, Emily was an employee in the private equity group at Blackstone and invested in buyout transactions of companies.

Matt Kraning, partner at Menlo Ventures

Kraning is one of them MenloThe newest partners. He is focused on investing in AI, Enterprise Saas, National Defense and Cyber ​​Security.

He is a deeply technical former founder and a proven business builder with a Ph.D. In electrical engineering, specialized in AI and large -scale computing. Before Menlo, Kraning was the co-founder and CTO of Expanse, where he helped define the AI-driven attack surface management category. He has also advised and invested in more than 50 startups, including unicorns such as Peregrine and Astranis, and has recently led a round of $ 12 million for Wispr -Stroom.

Rebecca LiInvestment director at Amex Ventures

Li is an investment director Amex Ventures. She joined in 2024 to concentrate on enterprise software investments, leading investments at an early stage in infrastructure software, developer tools, data and AI.

Before he came to American Express, Li Fintech and Software Venture Investments led at Global Asset Capital. Her earlier experience includes business development and partnerships at Credit Karma and Technology Private Equity Investing at GIC.

Come see at VB Transform

All pitches will take place on June 25 from 4:45 pm to 5:30 pm pt. On the main stage For our personal attendees.

Presenters have three minutes before their pitch, followed by two minutes of feedback from the jury panel. Awards are awarded in three categories: 1) The most likely to succeed, 2) coolest technology and 3) Best presentation style.

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