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LaunchDarkly helps some of the biggest companies in the world take total control over software launches, get deeper and actionable insights into how users experience their products, and revolutionize the ways technical and business teams work independently. After living through software launches that turned into late, stressful nights, co-founders John Kodumal and Edith Harbaugh knew there had to be a better way to manage feature releases. The company's feature management platform enables teams to decouple feature rollout from code deployment, serving as the first scalable feature management platform. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags, supporting feature flagging, experimentation, and continuous deployment. The vision is to create a world where every software release is safe and unceremonious. Today, LaunchDarkly serves over a thousand global companies across industries including financial services, retail, healthcare, and government.

Empower is an award-winning financial services company that administers more than $1.5 trillion in assets and serves over 19 million people across the United States. The organization provides comprehensive retirement planning, wealth management, investment accounts, and advisory services through workplace retirement plans and individual solutions. Empower combines digital-first experiences with personalized guidance to help Americans achieve financial freedom throughout life's milestones. With a heritage dating back to 1891 and formally established in 2014 through a strategic merger, Empower has grown into the nation's second-largest retirement services provider. The company offers products including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, IRAs, high-yield cash accounts, and managed investment portfolios. Empower's technology platform delivers tools for retirement planning, budgeting, net worth tracking, and portfolio analysis, making sophisticated financial management accessible to everyone.

At EvolutionIQ, we believe the intersection of human expertise and artificial intelligence can transform one of insurance's most complex challenges: claims management. Founded in 2019, we pioneered Claims Guidance AI that helps claims adjusters focus on the right claims at the right time, leading to faster recoveries and better outcomes for injured workers. Our explainable AI doesn't replace human judgment - it amplifies it, providing specific Next Best Action guidance that enables insurance professionals to deliver more accurate, fair, and efficient claims handling. Today, our platform serves the majority of U.S. disability carriers and a growing list of workers' compensation carriers worldwide. Our engineering culture is built on values of simplicity, transparency, and continuous learning. We've grown from a founding team of three to over 200 employees across the United States, Europe, and Australia, all while maintaining our focus on technical excellence and meaningful impact. We move fast, but we prioritize code quality, testing, and maintainability. Whether we're deploying LLM-powered features for medical synthesis or building full-stack web applications that scale across multiple lines of business, we believe that the best solutions come from close collaboration between engineers, data scientists, and the insurance experts who use our products every day.

Liven powers the future of hospitality with Asia Pacific's largest end-to-end hospitality technology platform. The company serves over 6,000 venues across Australia, the USA, and Southeast Asia, processing more than 120 million transactions worth $3 billion AUD annually. Liven's all-in-one platform integrates POS systems, digital ordering, inventory management, customer loyalty programs, and AI-enriched data insights into a single cloud-based ecosystem. In 2023, Liven completed $152 million in acquisitions of OrderUp, Abacus, Zeemart, and Copper to create a comprehensive hospitality technology group. The platform enables restaurants, cafes, bars, and franchises to streamline operations, maximize profitability, and deliver exceptional guest experiences through unified ordering, kitchen management, supply chain optimization, and customer engagement tools. As an AI-first organization, Liven automates workflows and provides venues with the intelligence needed to compete in today's market.

At Striveworks, we believe in moving at the speed of trust. Our team operates in a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. Founded by data scientists and engineers, we value work that intersects passion and perseverance - we geek out about the potential of our contributions and find joy in working hard on things that matter. Our engineers are trusted on day one to be core contributors to our products and company direction, with real ownership over their work. We optimize for focus and autonomy, not facetime - which is why we offer a hybrid workspace with flexible on-site time and fully remote options. Our engineering culture embraces cloud-neutral development, hexagonal event-driven microservice architecture, and everything-as-code principles. We value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results. This culture-first approach has earned us recognition as a Built In Best Place to Work for four consecutive years and a spot on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

At Forerunner, we believe climate adaptation is a necessity, not a luxury. We're building the modern operating system for government agencies, replacing fragmented legacy tools with an AI-powered platform that turns complex geospatial data into actionable insights. Our engineers work directly with public servants on the frontlines of climate change - processing hundreds of datasets, building real-time flood visualizations, and creating automated workflows that cut response times from weeks to hours. We ship constantly, own features from database modeling to pixel-perfect UI, and leverage AI-assisted development tools like Cursor and Claude Code to move faster. We've raised $39M to double down on our commitment: 190+ agencies now rely on Forerunner to manage floodplains, coordinate emergency responses, streamline permits, and build stronger, safer communities. Engineering, product, design, and customer success aren't siloed here - we build together, hear directly from users, and let that feedback shape what we ship next. If you're passionate about using technology to help communities prepare for our changing climate, you'll fit right in.