Confluent

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Companies leading their respective industries have realized success with this new platform paradigm to transform their architectures to streaming from batch processing, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Backed by Benchmark, Index Ventures and Sequoia, Confluent is headquartered in Palo Alto and London with offices globally. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io. Download Confluent Platform at www.confluent.io/download.

OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

Bosch

As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.”

Clover Network

Clover, a First Data company empowers small businesses to run and grow their businesses. We’ve built the largest open-architecture point-of sale product and platform – we enable more than 2 billion transactions/year in the U.S. alone for hundreds of thousands of merchants. Our products are changing the consumer/merchant experience for the better, opening avenues for seamless customer-merchant interactions. There are five versions of Clover, including the Clover Station, Clover Mobile, Clover Mini, Clover Go, and Clover Flex. Clover has 1 Million+ devices in real merchants hands. Clover processes 14,000 transactions at peak times. At Clover we are building next-gen smart, customized point of sale systems that make running business easier. Our mission at Clover is to empower small businesses to run and grow their business

Aurora

Aurora works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning to address one of the most challenging, important and interesting opportunities of our generation: transforming the way people and goods move. Our mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We will deliver on our mission with the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together our software, hardware, and data services to operate, as the driver, across vehicle makes and models, from the largest tractor-trailer or passenger bus to small cars and anything else that drives on the roads. Founded by three of the world’s leaders in the self-driving vehicle industry — Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, and Drew Bagnell —  Aurora has offices and tests its vehicles in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh.

LiveRamp

At Liveramp, we are on a quest to build the most flexible and scalable data marketplace. The platform underlying the marketplace ingests, analyzes, enriches and transforms tens of petabytes of data and then delivers the enriched data to our customers. Powering it is a massive Hadoop cluster with over 80K cores and counting. The cluster hosts over 90 petabytes of data.

Poshmark

Poshmark is currently the largest social commerce marketplace for fashion. Anyone on the platform can buy, sell, and share their personal style with millions of other users. Poshmark brings together a vibrant community every day and encourages them to express themselves and share their love for fashion.

HomeLight

HomeLight is a Google-backed startup with a line of data-driven real estate products that empower people to make smarter decisions during one of life most important moments: buying or selling their home