Eric Anderson

Humans& a human-centric frontier AI lab that reimagines AI not just as a tool for automation, but as the connective tissue that strengthens how people interact together. Instead of optimizing for single-turn task completion, they're training models from the ground up to pursue long-horizon goals through genuine collaboration by helping users clarify intent, propose plans, negotiate tradeoffs, and maintain context over time.

BigID is transforming how enterprises protect and manage the privacy of personal data. Organizations are facing record breaches of personal information and proliferating global privacy regulations like the EU GDPR with fines reaching 4% of annual revenue. Currently, enterprises lack dedicated purpose built technology to help them track and govern their customer data at scale. By bringing data science to data privacy, BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the most important asset organizations manage: their customer data.

Honeycomb defined Observability, and its solution is designed for modern Engineering and DevOps teams to observe, debug, and improve their production systems more efficiently so that business-critical apps perform with minimal disruption to users.

Galileo offers a comprehensive suite of tools for AI debugging and observability, enabling AI engineers and stakeholders to gain visibility into the performance of their AI models. By providing not only customizable evaluation functionality, but also error analysis, and tracing, Galileo goes beyond bare bones evaluation and enables customers to understand not just if their models are wrong, but why they are wrong and how to fix them.

Permit.io is the creator of full-stack authorization-as-a-service. Authorization has been built and managed at large tech companies in-house, but is a key pain point for engineering teams and a top contributor to technical debt. Recent changes have made authorization both more critical problem to address and easier to outsource, as microservice usage grows and fragmented authorization systems become more standardized. Permit.io provides developers with all of the infrastructure and tools to manage authorization, solving access control for the final time.

DataStax is a real-time data platform company, best known for Astra DB and enterprise services built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax was acquired by IBM in 2025 to power management of data for AI at scale.