Announcing our 2025 VB Transform Innovation Showcase finalists

VB this year The finalists of the innovation showcase will be VB transformJune 24 to 25, in San Francisco. They will go on stage while we immerse ourselves in what really works in the AI ​​company, Copilotes to agents.

Seven companies have been selected to present their AI generating products or features which are most likely to disrupt the company.

The persons selected to present it will be in front of an audience only of 600 decision-makers of the industry and will receive direct comments from a panel of venture capital judges.

The finalists of the 2025 innovation showcase are:

CTGT

Founded in 2024 by a team from Stanford and the University of California, researchers from San Diego, based in San Francisco CTGT is a AI risk management platform designed to modify the way companies deploy a generative AI. Unlike conventional AI pipelines which require periodic offdates, the CTGT platform allows continuous surveillance in real time and automated refining of production models, allowing AI systems to learn and adapt in live environments without ever being offline. This means that the models improve on the fly, fill the gap between development and deployment and ensure maximum availability and reliability for critical AI applications.

The company has raised a seed of $ 7.2 million in February.

Catio

Palo Alto Catio is a platform powered by AI designed to help companies optimize their technological battery architecture. The platform is a co-pilot for technical leaders and teams, providing data-based information and recommendations to assess, plan and develop their technological infrastructure. Catio meets these challenges by providing a continuous architectural design, strategic planning of the technological battery, a precise analysis and an assessment of architectures, and personalized recommendations for the unique needs of each company, all fueled by advanced AI models and proprietary data.

In March, Catio announced $ 3 million in additional funding. This is added to the $ 4 million collected between 2023-2024.

Fist

Mountain View based on the mountain Soft is focused on the democratization of the AI, in particular in the field of predictive analysis, by taking advantage of the networks of neurons of cutting -edge graphics (GNNS) and of in -depth learning (RDL). They aim to facilitate the creation and deployment of very precise automatic learning models from their relational data.

Kumo raised $ 37 million in two -round funding. Their last round was a series B of $ 18 million September 2022.

Solo.io

Cambridge, Mass. Solo.io is a network of native cloud applications that provides solutions to connect, secure and observe modern applications, in particular those built on Kubernetes and microservices. Founded in 2017, Solo.io aims to simplify the complexities of application networking in dynamic and multi-cloud environments.

A series of funding from the C series of $ 135 million in 2021 brought total funding for the company to $ 175 million. The company is estimated at $ 1 billion.

Superduper.io

Tel Aviv Superduper.io is an AI company focused on the simplification of the integration of AI models and workflows directly into existing databases, eliminating the need for complex data pipelines and separate the IA infrastructure. Their main offer is an open-source framework based on Python which allows companies to create and deploy personalized applications and agents directly on their data, wherever it resides.

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

Sutra

Based on oakland Sutra is a platform without code fed in AI which allows users to create complete mobile and web applications, ready for production simply by describing their idea in raw text. It aims to democratize the development of software, which makes it accessible to individuals and companies without coding of expertise.

Sutro was founded in 2021 and raised $ 6 million Through two first financing laps in 2023-2024.

Qdrant

In Berlinois Qdrant is a vector database and a large -scale vector search engine designed for the next generation of AI applications. It is built in Rust, a language known for its safety and its performance, which makes it a reliable choice to demand the workloads of the AI.

Founded in 2020, Qdrant raised $ 37.8 million on three financing cycles, the last of which was a series A of $ 28 million in January 2024.

Meet our jury

Emily Zhao, director of Salesforce Ventures

Zhao is director at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI / ml. It also spends time to developing developers, cybersecurity, vertical SaaS and health technologies. She joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped to launch her AI generatic fund of $ 500 million. She has led several investments in the fund, including Hugging Face, Runwayml, Anthropic, Cohere and others.

Before joining Salesforce Ventures, Zhao was an investor at Avenir Growth Capital, a New York -based company growth fund, where it spent most of its time on the Vertical SaaS, health technology and application software. Before future, Emily was a partner of the Investment Capital Group in Blackstone and invested in corporate buyout transactions.

Matt Crane, partner of Menlo Ventures

Kraning is one of Menlothe most recent partners. He focuses on investment in AI, SaaS company, national defense and cybersecurity.

He is a deeply technical former founder and a manufacturer of companies proven with a doctorate. In electrical engineering, specialized in large -scale AI and IT. Before Menlo, Kraning was the co-founder and the CTO of Epanse, where he helped define the management category of the attack surface led by AI. He also advised and invested in more than 50 startups, including unicorns like Peregrine and Astranis, and recently led a $ 12 million turn to Wispr Flow.

Rebecca thereDirector of investments at Amex Ventures

Li is investment director at Amex Ventures. It joined in 2024 to focus on business software investment, leading investments at the start of the stage in infrastructure software, developer, data and AI.

Before joining American Express, Li led Fintech and investments in software companies at Global Asset Capital. Its previous experience includes commercial development and partnerships at Credit Karma and Technology Private Equity Investing at GIC.

Come see VB Transform

All locations will take place on June 25 from 4:45 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. PT. on the main scene For our participants in person.

The presenters will have three minutes for their land, followed by two minutes of rearuction of the jury. The prices will be presented in three categories: 1) The most likely to succeed, 2) a coolest technology and 3) the best style of presentation.

Read the VB Transform winners 2024: Sambanova,, Instabase And Tabnin.