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Fast, Efficient Inference at Scale with Heterogeneous Hardware | Gimlet Labs x d-Matrix | RAISE 2026
Zain Asgar, Sid Sheth, Sid Shade
Gimlet Labs, founded and led by former NVIDIA and Stanford professor Zain Asghar, has secured nearly $80 million in Series A funding to deploy an industry-first multi-silicon cloud capable of making AI inference workloads ten times more efficient. The platform orchestrates heterogeneous hardware by distributing fine-grained AI components across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to optimize memory and compute trade-offs for agentic workloads. Operating a vertically integrated infrastructure to manage complex network and cooling challenges, Gimlet partners with chipmakers like D-Matrix to deliver five-fold capacity increases while redefining data center design away from GPU-only scaling.
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How Is AI Changing the CFO Office? | RAMP x DFCG | RAISE Summit 2026
Jacob Wallemberg, Armand Angeli
Jakob Wallenberg is leading RAMP, a US-based finance automation platform serving 70,000 clients, through its expansion from American markets into the UK and broader Europe starting this summer. The company distinguishes itself with a full suite of products ranging from corporate cards to newly launched AI-native agents that automate book closing and enforce policy compliance via large language models. By integrating deeply with existing ERPs while providing granular visibility into AI model spending for CFOs and CIOs, RAMP aims to transform enterprise financial operations from manual processes to a rapid, automated system of action.
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Fireside Chat with Jarek Kutylowski, Founder & CEO of DeepL | RAISE Summit 2026
Jarek Kutylowski, Lionel Laurent
Founded in 2017 by Jarek Kutsiwowski, DeepL has evolved from a startup building its own GPU infrastructure into a specialized translation provider serving 100,000 enterprise clients with proprietary models designed for high-stakes legal and technical domains. Facing recent market shifts, the company implemented a 20% workforce reduction to align operations with AI adoption while leveraging its unique position as a backend engine for major consumer platforms like YouTube. Looking forward, DeepL aims to eliminate language barriers in global business by combining real-time speech capabilities with human-in-the-loop oversight, maintaining its European roots while competing against US-based AI dominance through agile innovation.
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Beyond Creativity: Why Generative Media Is Becoming Core Infrastructure | Fal | RAISE Summit 2026
Gorkem Yurtseven, Joshua Shirazi, Josh Rossi, Gorkham, Yigit Boyar
Alkion Capital Management and FAL AI are capitalizing on a fragmented generative media market by providing a unified platform that hosts over 600 base models for 2 million developers across image, video, and audio modalities. While video generation initially dominated revenue, the platform has pivoted to image editing as Flux models matured, addressing high compute costs and Hollywood's recent adoption of AI-native workflows. Future growth depends on solving cinematic consistency for long-form video and navigating complex IP landscapes, with major expansion anticipated in untapped sectors like healthcare and education.
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The Compounding Gap: One Existential AI Infrastructure Crisis | Density AI x Gradient | RAISE 2026
Ganesh Venkat, Zachary Bratun-Glennon
Density AI founder Ganesh Reddy is launching a new wafer-scale, SRAM-based architecture to solve the critical divergence where AI inference demand grows 300% annually against a meager 3% grid expansion and 30% efficiency gains. This initiative builds on Reddy's prior creation of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer, aiming to deliver 10x more intelligence per joule by eliminating the latency and flexibility trade-offs inherent in current GPU and ASIC designs. By targeting the thermodynamic limits of token processing, the company intends to establish a foundational infrastructure capable of sustaining frontier AI growth through the next decade.
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Deepfakes, Bots and Agentic Security | Pindrop x Palo Alto Networks | RAISE Summit 2026
Dr. Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Raphael Marichez, Rafael
Founded in 2011 by Dr. Balasubramanian, PinDrop commercialized "phone printing" technology to replace insecure legacy authentication with acoustic device fingerprinting for voice and video calls. The firm now addresses escalating threats from deepfakes, state-sponsored cyber espionage, and autonomous AI agents by deploying a three-pillar defense model that continuously monitors identity, intent, and action. As the digital landscape shifts toward an era of trillions of AI interactions, the technology ensures humans retain final agency for high-stakes transactions while neutralizing sophisticated fraud tactics.
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The Pilot Trap: Why Enterprise AI Stalls and How to Break Through | RAISE Summit 2026
Industry leaders are transitioning AI from low-value experimental pilots to production-ready agents that drive significant P&L impact through process re-engineering and high-level decision automation. Success hinges on overcoming trust barriers by implementing robust infrastructure for real-time observability, identity management, and deterministic governance that allows for immediate intervention. While adoption faces regulatory friction and requires rigorous change management to integrate with human workflows, the net result is predicted to be job creation driven by expanded AI consumption and specialized physical domain applications.
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Six Days in the Field: What a Defense Deployment Teaches About Sovereign AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Dan Wright, Dr. Chaouki Kasmi, Tala Aj Jabri, Shawi Kasmi
UAE-based Taktika AI and US-based Armada successfully deployed a modular, AI-enabled data center in a remote, isolated field environment within six days to address urgent maritime and geospatial intelligence challenges. This sovereign infrastructure operates as a fully air-gapped system, delivering speed and resiliency by utilizing pre-existing mobile assets rather than relying on external cloud providers or complex supply chains. The partnership aims to replicate this high-efficiency model in Europe and the US, targeting organizations with stranded data assets while adapting the technology for both defense and non-defense sectors.
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AI for Chip Design & Chip Design for AI | Ricursive Intelligence | RAISE Summit 2026
Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Azalea Amir-Hosseini
Founded by former Google Brain engineers Anna Goldie and Azalea Amir-Hosseini, Recursive Intelligence deploys its AlphaChip reinforcement learning system to replace months of manual chip design with superhuman layout generation that runs 1,000 times faster than commercial tools. The company is currently in Phase One, accelerating physical design for major manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, while its roadmap targets a "design-less" future where companies specify workloads to receive co-optimized hardware instantly. Ultimately, Recursive aims to close a recursive self-improving loop by eventually building its own chips and models, promising up to 20x performance gains through microarchitectural customization.
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0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months: Genspark & the Global Knowledge Worker | RAISE Summit 2026
GenSpark, founded by MIT PhD Wen Sang and a team of ex-Google and Microsoft veterans, has scaled to $250 million ARR and 6,000 enterprise clients by transitioning from a product-led search engine to an AI agent orchestrator that automates complex business workflows. The company distinguishes itself by abstracting model complexity through a unified architecture that integrates over 70 underlying AI models, enabling rapid deployment of custom applications and driving efficiency gains such as a fivefold client increase for specific financial consultants. This technology was showcased at a New York Stock Exchange event where CEO Wen Sang detailed the shift from traditional software tools to autonomous agents that augment human creativity while redefining workforce productivity.
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Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Building Growth That Compounds | Clay x CapitalG | RAISE Summit 2026
Clay repositions itself as an AI go-to-market platform that transitions sales operations into self-learning revenue engines by integrating third-party data signals to execute scalable growth campaigns. Co-founder Varun leads a strategic shift toward "marketing alpha," utilizing unique tactics like custom film production and rapid, data-driven prospecting to secure high returns on investment for clients such as Canva and Anthropic. The company further distinguishes its value through a new pricing model based on workflow outcomes rather than data tokens, while emphasizing environmental fit in talent acquisition to maximize organizational performance.
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Indexing Humanity: A Fireside With the Simulation Company | Simile | RAISE Summit 2026
Joon Sung Park, Sahir Azam, Jun
Simile, founded by former Stanford researchers including CEO Jun, has launched a foundational model of human behavior that replicates individual subpopulations with 85% accuracy for enterprise clients like CVS and Fortune 500 companies. Leveraging strategic partnerships with Gallup and Dynata to access a 20-million-person data panel, the company differentiates itself by prioritizing human imperfections and biases over pure algorithmic efficiency to augment corporate decision-making in market research and product development. Supported by Index Ventures, Simile operates on a four-stage simulation hierarchy ranging from individual dynamic testing to society-wide forecasting, while adhering to strict ethical principles regarding data consent and transparency.
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The Token-per-Watt Era: What's Next for AI Hyperscalers | Nebius x Accel | RAISE Summit 2026
Roman Chernin, Philippe Botteri
Nebius, an AI-specialized cloud provider led by Chief Business Officer Roman Tchernin, marks its second anniversary as an independent entity with shares rising tenfold following its IPO. The company targets the projected $11 trillion global investment in AI infrastructure by offering a vertically integrated stack ranging from bare metal for hyperscalers to managed inference for AI-native startups. Nebius anticipates that true enterprise adoption beyond current exceptions like fintech firms remains unrealized and aims to future-proof its platform by shifting pricing models toward billing for solved tasks rather than raw compute hours.
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Fireside Chat with Matan Grinberg, Founder & CEO of Factory | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded in 2023 by ex-physics PhD Matan Grinberg, Factory operates as a model-agnostic router that enables enterprises to deploy fully on-premises autonomous software agents directly within existing developer workflows. The company rapidly scaled from ten to ten thousand users within months by offering a cost-effective alternative to vendor lock-in, notably accelerating legacy COBOL migration and allowing sovereign data deployments for regulated industries. Backed by investors including Sequoia and Avant Capital, Factory currently automates both software engineering tasks and emerging non-software productivity use cases while predicting a future dominance of open models over frontier closed ones.
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AI Is Only as Fast as Your Slowest Process | Jyoti Bansal, Harness | RAISE Summit 2026
After selling AppDynamics to Cisco for $4 billion, Jyoti Bansal founded Harness in 2017 to resolve the velocity gap between AI-generated code and downstream software delivery bottlenecks. The company implements a risk-based autonomy model to automate testing, security, and compliance, enabling major enterprises like JP Morgan Chase and United Airlines to safely ship software twice as fast. Beyond accelerating release cycles, Harness provides cost management tools that tie AI token expenditure directly to business outcomes while advocating for creativity-focused education to counteract AI-induced homogenization.