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$700K+ Live ARR in 6 months, growing 20% MoM. $6M strong pipeline. Trusted by Fortune 500

CEOs spend $400B on AI transformation, consulting, and systems — and still can't answer their most critical workforce questions without months of manual work. What should org look like as humans and AI agents work side by side? Which roles to automate? Where to redeploy talent? Who should step into critical roles? 

Today these decisions run through spreadsheets, consultants, and static HR systems. They take months, cost millions, and are outdated before they land. As AI compresses years of org change into quarters, workforce decisions can no longer happen once a year. Acceler8 makes them continuous with agentic AI.

Founders: 
• Chinmay is 2nd-time founder, raised $80M from Peter Thiel fund, Goodwater, DST, YC. ~$250M valuation. Scaled to team of 400. IIT Bombay 
• Trish was Chief People Officer for 35 markets. Led workforce restructuring for 30 companies as Director at PwC. Stanford GSB

Co-Founder

Acceler8

Advocate is the AI care coordination system that turns staff voice notes into coded, compliant, auditable billing packets — unlocking hundreds per patient per month in reimbursement for work facilities already do. No new hires, no workflow changes, pure margin.

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CTO

Advocate

Alike is killing slack with autonomous agent to agent communication. We're an SF + UK Oxford/MIT team of best friends with the rare combination of expertise this requires. We are live in teams in 10 companies, have 100 companies on the waitlist from word of mouth, and signed 20 design partners such as Exus Renewables ($1B backing from Partners Group, powering Google's data centres), K-ID ($51 million raised from Lightspeed and a16z), and NewtonX ($47M raised, trusted by Microsoft and TikTok).

Co-founder and CEO

CTO, Alike

Chief Commercial Officer

Alike

Amdahl helps B2B enterprises make sense of messy go-to-market data — structuring it, operationalizing it, and giving teams one place to build data-driven strategies and execute on them, all grounded in rich customer context.

AI in GTM fails when the input data is wrong. Amdahl is the intelligent context layer that structures and understands your data across Sales, Support, and Customer Success, and channel performance. So teams can act on the right context and drive real revenue outcomes.

Amdahl is coming out of stealth with $4M in pipeline from companies like Instacart, OpenTable, Airwallex, and Stripe.

Co-founder & CEO

Cofounder & Lead Engineer

Amdahl

💡 Insights: Gen Z play video game to socialize. Social mechanics increases organic growth and retention. Nobody is pushing social play on mobile.
👥 Team: We spent our careers taking complex multiplayer genres and making them accessible to hundreds of millions of players.

Antihero Studios is a mobile game studio pushing the boundaries of social on mobile, founded by former Supercell and King veterans who collectively worked on eight billion-dollar games including Brawl Stars, Clash Royale, and Candy Crush.

We're building MISFITZ, the first mass-market extraction game on mobile, tapping into the fastest-growing genre in gaming. 

Beyond the game, we're building Antihero as a player-facing brand like A24 or Liquid Death, powered by an organic creator-driven growth engine. A compounding distribution advantage that grows with every game we make.

CEO, Co-founder

CTO Antihero Studios

Chief Product Officer

Antihero Studios

August is the platform where banking work runs. 
Domain-specific AI for commercial banking, turning underwriting, servicing, risk etc. into software.

Usage compounds a proprietary context layer.

Deployed at a +$170B bank. Pipeline growing.

Founded by ex-8200 operators who built military AI systems.
reach out at bar@tryaugust.com

August

Auto is your AI camera. Turn your photos into Frames - mini apps that help you everyday.

The founding team is ex-Snapchat, has spent years working on camera & creator products and both have significant previous exits.

Frames make your camera intelligent. They know your calories, help you dress better, care for your plants, split the bill, give you travel advice, remember your goals, and anything else you can think of.

And if Auto can't do it yet, you can build a Frame that can.

Auto

Belong is pioneering FanTech by building the financial infrastructure of fandom — the financial layer that turns engagement into identity, access, and economic value.

Fans already drive billions in economic activity around the artists they love — across tickets, travel, merchandise, and everyday spending — yet almost none of that value flows back to artists. Belong changes that.

We connect fan identity to financial rails, enabling fans to be recognized and rewarded for their participation — while creating a new, recurring revenue stream for artists from the spending that already exists.

As the world shifts from the attention economy to the engagement economy, Belong transforms fandom into a measurable, bankable system — where identity drives activity, and activity creates value.

Co-founded by Nick Holmsten, former Global Head of Music at Spotify, and Ash Pournouri, who built Avicii into one of the world’s biggest artists.

Co-Founder & President

Belong

Bilrost automates commercial loan processing, starting with commercial real estate lending. We compress 90-hour workflows into under 3 minutes.

Just 5 weeks after launch, we’re pushing toward $680K ARR and are working with 5 of the 10 largest U.S. banks on pilot scoping and enterprise rollout, representing eight figures of revenue potential. As of this past Monday, we began integration with one of them.

Our team has unusual founder-market fit. I grew up in a CRE family, previously launched a credit product that generated $100M+ in revenue in under 2 quarters, and worked at Bridgewater. Our CTO led AI strategy at a unicorn, cut client onboarding time by 90%, and scaled its footprint 30x. Our founding engineer has 3 successful exits, including one Nasdaq-listed company. Our strategic investor is one of the largest CRE borrowers in the market, giving us direct access to decision-makers across 73 banks.

We’re raising a $4M seed round to accelerate enterprise rollouts across large banks.

Cofounder & CTO

Bilrost

Bota is the first AI agent infra for real world context, starting with voice data. 

In just 5 weeks, Bota grew from 0 to over $700k in contracted ARR. Our customers include top AI agent companies in sales, healthcare, law, finance, productivity and many more.

The Bota founders sold their previous startup for 8 figures to a top AI hardware company. We built hardware at Stanford, Tesla and Apple, and built infra at Amazon and AWS. We deeply understand AI hardware and B2B. Our vision is to be the default real-world context engine for AI agents.

Cofounder CEO

Co-founder & CTO

Bota

Cascade is the AI prediction layer for all construction projects, enabling the physical world to be built faster and financed smarter.

In the last 3 months, we went from 0 -> $201k cARR. 15 companies signed, 11 in the last month. Our first three companies have more than doubled their spend with us.
Our clients have built airports like JFK & LGA, hotels like the Four Seasons & the Ritz, and data centers and nuclear reactors.

Hannia & Joana worked together for many years at another AI startup before starting Cascade. Hannia helped scale Google Pay from zero to 100M users, built AI for Pakistan's COVID response and received an award from the Prime Minister. Joana built ML systems for Google Search and for the UK's largest trading app (scaleup). 

Our Head of Growth was ranked the #2 sales rep at Procore, where she drove $3M in ARR in 2025.

Cascade

Cedar is building the AI-native professional network. Recruiting is the wedge.

The best talent doesn't apply. It gets referred. But referrals break as companies scale. Not from culture, but from math. Companies like Stripe threw 100 people and $10M a year at this problem. Cedar scales this with agents.

Every 15-minute call maps an employee's trusted professional relationships, surfaces high-signal candidates, and deepens a graph no one else is building. Every customer makes it smarter.

Traction: Closed $3M in revenue while in stealth. 

Team: Greg Gunn and Beier Cai built Hootsuite from 5 to 1,500 people and zero to $100M ARR in under four years. Referrals were their best channel. They collapsed at exactly the moment they needed them most.

Advisors: Laszlo Bock (Google), Tiffany Fenster (Stripe), Brendan Browne (Replit).

CEO / Co-Founder

Cedar

$800K D2C revenue, $18M B2B contracts signed in <8 weeks. 

Clair is the first continuous hormone monitor- a jewelry-inspired wrist wearable that helps women understand their bodies and optimize their health. Clair leverages a custom biosensor stack and an in-house female biology world model to track estrogen, progesterone, LH, and PdG. Its unique hormonal insights can be applied to understanding skin health, fertility, mood changes, (peri)menopause, and female athletic optimization.

Clair Health

Coalition Systems is building the shared coordination layer for the national security ecosystem. The defense software stack is hyper-fragmented, and in the absence of purpose-built infrastructure, military units, agencies, intelligence services, and critical infrastructure coordinate on Signal, WhatsApp, and Google Sheets. None of them connected by software built for the purpose. Coalition OS fixes that.

Founded by an Oxford AI Engineering PhD researcher, a critical infrastructure engineer, and a former US DoD intelligence officer. Backed by General H.R. McMaster, the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Speedrun fund.

Coalition Systems

Traction: $210K in annualized revenue in 3-months.

Concorda is building the AI operating system for litigation. Built by two lawyer-engineers (Harvard CS, UChicago Law, Northwestern Law), we saw firsthand that existing legal AI tools sit on top of workflows instead of executing them. We’re building the system that runs litigation end to end, charging for both our legal services (AI-native litigation services) and access to our platform (B2B SaaS).

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