Al Watania Information Systems

In 2009, Stephen Bohanon, Gary Nelson, and Sean McElroy founded Alkami Technology with a singular vision: to empower regional and community financial institutions to compete with the nation's largest banks. The founders recognized that while megabanks had sophisticated digital platforms, community banks and credit unions were being left behind, unable to offer their customers the seamless digital experiences they had come to expect. Starting with a cloud-native approach - a rarity in banking at the time - they built a unified digital banking platform that would level the playing field for these smaller institutions. Today, Alkami has evolved from that initial insight into a publicly-traded company serving over 19.5 million users across hundreds of financial institutions. The platform has expanded beyond core digital banking to encompass onboarding, data analytics, marketing automation, and fraud prevention - all integrated into a single codebase that delivers continuous innovation. Alkami's commitment to excellence has been recognized by J.D. Power, which certified the company's Mobile App Platform for providing 'An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience' in both 2024 and 2025. Under CEO Alex Shootman, the company continues its mission to help financial institutions grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities.

Solventum is a healthcare innovation company dedicated to enabling better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. Built from a legacy of more than 70 years of delivering healthcare breakthrough solutions, the company became an independent entity through its spin-off from 3M on April 1, 2024. Solventum operates at the intersection of health, material, and data science, pioneering innovations that address healthcare professionals' toughest challenges and improve patient outcomes across the continuum of care. The company's comprehensive portfolio spans medical solutions including advanced wound care, surgical solutions, IV site management, sterilization assurance, and patient monitoring technologies. Solventum also leads in oral care with dental and orthodontic solutions, health information systems that leverage clinical intelligence and data science, and purification and filtration technologies for biopharmaceutical, manufacturing, and water applications. With approximately $8.3 billion in annual sales and over 10,000 employees worldwide, Solventum combines deep scientific expertise with a patient-centered approach to transform healthcare delivery.

We're a team of nearly a thousand people spread across Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, London, and beyond, united by a single vision - to make every search interaction meaningful and rewarding. Since starting in 2012, we've grown from a small startup to powering over 30 billion search requests every week, helping companies like Under Armour, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens deliver experiences that feel almost magical. But what really drives us isn't the scale - it's seeing developers build something that makes their users' lives a little easier. Our platform is API-first by design because we know how frustrating it can be to wrestle with clunky integrations and outdated systems. We've built tools for AI search, recommendations, personalization, and analytics that developers actually enjoy using - fast, reliable, and flexible enough to handle whatever you're building. Whether it's an ecommerce site, a SaaS platform, or something entirely new, we're here to help you create search experiences that keep people coming back. We're not just building software; we're building the infrastructure for understanding intent at internet scale.

Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, powering hundreds of financial institutions across 40+ countries. With over 7 million brokerage accounts opened through their platform and 61,000+ monthly active developers, Alpaca has established itself as the de facto standard for embedded finance and trading APIs. The company's commission-free trading infrastructure enables developers and businesses to build customizable investing applications across stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto asset classes. As a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer with regulatory approvals across multiple jurisdictions, Alpaca combines proprietary technology with compliant infrastructure to serve fintechs, institutions, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges worldwide. Their mission to open financial services to everyone on the planet has attracted over $320 million in total funding from top-tier investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator, supporting a global team of 230+ professionals distributed across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.

Every year, Fortune 500 companies struggle to deliver mission-critical software products that can scale from kernel to cloud without compromising on performance or reliability. Janea Systems exists to solve this exact problem - providing elite engineering expertise that transforms the most complex technical challenges into production-ready solutions. For over two decades, they've been trusted by industry giants like Microsoft, ARM, Merck, and Deutsche Telekom to build and optimize technologies used by millions of developers and billions of consumers worldwide. Janea Systems is a remote-native, globally distributed team of the top 1% of engineers across 20+ countries. They don't just write code - they architect resilient, cost-optimized, high-performance software that accelerates delivery and integrates AI at every stage of the development lifecycle. From optimizing Bing Maps' deep learning pipelines to reviving Microsoft PowerToys as open-source software, their work impacts real people in meaningful ways. By combining deep systems-level expertise with AI-accelerated engineering practices, Janea Systems helps enterprises navigate the full technology adoption journey - from strategy to implementation - ensuring seamless integration, operational efficiency, and long-term success.

We're a team building software that turns complex satellite data into clear, actionable answers. Our platform combines data from over 90 geospatial sources, including synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, to help organizations understand what's happening on the ground anywhere in the world. We've spent the last decade building partnerships with satellite providers and developing the data pipelines that make this possible. Our mission is to make geospatial intelligence accessible to anyone who needs it. We work with government agencies, defense organizations, and companies across finance, energy, and maritime industries to provide insights that support critical decisions. Whether it's monitoring maritime activity, tracking infrastructure changes, or responding to natural disasters, our platform delivers rapid reports without requiring specialized training. Headquartered in Ithaca, New York, we bring together expertise across remote sensing, data science, and geographic information systems to solve real-world problems.