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Deepa PapannaVice President - Talent & Community, IndiaMMMaha MalikVice PresidentWendell LaidleyBVP CFO Forum Member

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9 alumniwhere they went →

Investments

• EliseAI

  Agentic AI automating patient and resident communications for healthcare and housing organizations

• Valence

  New York company offering an AI leadership coach used by enterprise managers.

• Zenskar

  An AI-native order-to-cash platform that automates billing, revenue recognition, and collections for B2B companies

• Malachyte

  A behavior intelligence platform that delivers real-time personalization for e-commerce brands

• Hyperscience

  Agentic AI platform for intelligent document processing at enterprise scale

• Sixfold

  Generative AI purpose-built for insurance underwriting

• Avantos

  New York-based AI company building an artificial intelligence operating system for financial institutions and advisors.

• Genius AI

  A technology platform that helps in-person service businesses automate scheduling, payments, marketing, and client management workflows

• Optimal Dynamics

  NYC SaaS company founded in 2017 by Warren Powell and Daniel Powell, applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to trucking and logistics decision-making.

• TensorZero

  New York-based AI company building an open-source stack (gateway, observability, evaluations and optimization) for industrial-grade LLM applications.

• Amperos Health

  New York City-based healthcare AI company whose AI biller Amanda automates insurance claim denial management and revenue cycle work for providers.

• Strella

  New York City-based AI company whose platform automates qualitative customer research, moderating interviews and analyzing responses in real time.

• Axion

  New York-based AI company building an artificial intelligence platform for manufacturers.

• SASixfold AI

  NYC insurtech founded in 2023 by Alex Schmelkin, Brian Moseley and Jane Tran, using AI to automate underwriting processes and support risk evaluation for insurers.

In the news

• Reposted Joel Richardson@TaliaGoldX · Sep 30, 2026
  RepostedJoel Richardson@Joel7RichardsonIsraelis are amazing. A bunch of them on a plane. They hear a ruckus in the cockpit, smash the door open, save the captain who has been stabbed by the co-pilot, subdue and neutralize him, then they commandeer the plane and land it. Everyone survives. Name any other nation in the world that produces the kind of people capable of pulling this off.
• Reposted Perceptron AI@TaliaGoldX · Sep 26, 2026
  RepostedPerceptron AI@perceptronincToday we're releasing Mk1.5: a new intelligence layer for embodied agents. It flies drones, controls quadrupeds, powers smart glasses, tracks objects, searches the web, reasons visually, and dispatches its own sub-agents. One model, no platform-specific retraining. 🧵 https://t.co/OFIYNKOcm2
• Reposted Cognition@TaliaGoldX · Sep 25, 2026
  RepostedCognition@cognitionCognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin. https://t.co/GeSUhwD53v
• Reposted Mikhail Parakhin@TaliaGoldX · Sep 24, 2026
  RepostedMikhail Parakhin@MParakhinWe are omnivorous at Shopify and constantly measure all the Search APIs, Perplexity has became the main one on merit. I much prefer C++, of course, but will take Rust, too :-) (compiled, no GC). Interestingly Rust seems to be more in-distribution for LLMs…
• We raised $5.75B to invest in the future! A lot has changed in my decade+ @BessemerVP but our values have held constant. Beyond grateful to work with this team and to bet it all on progress. https://t.co/zr8iw43sLL@TaliaGoldX · Sep 23, 2026
  
• Really cool to see alternatives to traditional education paths emerge, like Alpha School and now HAA. There is urgent need to scale programs like this.@TaliaGoldX · Sep 22, 2026
  QuotedErik Torenberg@eriktorenbergIntroducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. https://t.co/5dOqrVRmuf
• Token share and revenue share diverging quickly@TaliaGoldX · Sep 16, 2026
  QuotedGavin Baker@GavinSBakerExtraordinary share gains for OpenAI vs. Anthropic over the last two months. Per Openrouter, OpenAI has gone from 20% share to 50% share vs. Anthropic (meaning Anthropic has gone from 80% to 50%) since June. https://t.co/zQEq4juBte
• The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/14/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/12/26 featuring funding details for Fab2, Maven Robotics, Latitude, and thirty-six other deals representing $10.2B in new funding that you need to know about.AlleyWatch · Sep 13, 2026

Alumni 3 went on to found or lead

• Deepa PapannaVice President - Talent→Vice President- Talent & Community at Bessemer Venture Partners India
• Tim SpencerFellow→Co-Founder & CEO at Didero
• Yaniv ShimoniInSITE Fellow→Co-Founder at Take2 AI

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