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Databento

Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data - and only pay for what they use. Databento provides both historical and real-time data, both raw PCAPs and normalized data, both usage-based pricing and affordable monthly subscriptions, as well as connectivity solutions. Since launching 3 years ago, Databento has gained over 60,000 customers, from early-stage startups to the largest financial institutions in the world. Databento's team has walked in the shoes of its customers, bringing years of experience running high-frequency trading desks from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research.

QIZ Security

QIZ was founded by serial entrepreneurs to address one of the most urgent challenges security leaders face today: managing the emerging cryptography challenges and preparing for the transition to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC). QIZ helps organizations to align cryptographic management and PQC readiness with real world risks and compliance demands. With over 6 years PQC field experience and +100 organizations that we’ve worked with on PQC readiness, we offer the market first next generation Crypto Agility platform. Backed by some of the world's most prominent VC’s, we enable organizations to understand their cryptographic posture, prioritize action, and move confidently toward a post-quantum future.

Grace Investment Machine

We believe the core constraint in investing is changing. For decades, asset management depended on human bandwidth: too much information, too little time, and too few ways to turn research into decisions at scale. At GIM, we develop financial reasoning models, multi-agent research systems, and the infrastructure behind AI-native investment workflows. Our goal is not to add another tool to the traditional stack, but to help build a new operating model for investment research and decision-making. Our work spans model, agents, and infra. Recent milestones include our angel financing and the acceptance of CogAlpha, our research on LLM-driven code-based evolution for alpha mining, at the ACL 2026 main conference. Our team brings experience from leading AI labs, hedge funds, and top universities, including DeepMind, Meta, Anthropic, Tsinghua, Peking University, Oxford, and HKU. We welcome conversations with researchers, engineers, investors, and long-term partners interested in the future of AI-native investing.

Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute is a systems research lab with commercial focus. We productionize GPU virtualization research to provide step-change improvements in utilization to our cloud offering and partner GPU fleets.

Avantis

Avantis Consulting is a wholistic business and systems development firm. We consider ourselves the paramedics for ailing and struggling small- to mid-sized companies and charities. While many firms are helping companies append just a corner of their processes and information systems, we're working with them from the ground up to clean house, assess their net value, liabilities and risks, and short- and long-term needs in business and tech. We help them redefine their brand, set attainable goals and milestones, and provide business and technological solutions that grow with them as they recover. Our job is to pick them up, dust them off, and give them the tools they need as we point them in the right direction once again.