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In an era where traditional news consumption is fragmented across countless apps and platforms, Haystack News exists to solve the fundamental problem of news accessibility. Over 40 million viewers trust Haystack to deliver personalized news from 400+ local, national, and global channels - all in one place and absolutely free. The company partners with hundreds of broadcasters including ABC News, CBSN, Bloomberg, and local stations nationwide to ensure viewers can stay informed without navigating multiple sources or paying subscription fees. Haystack News transforms how people consume news by leveraging AI-powered personalization to create curated newscasts tailored to each viewer's interests. Available across mobile devices, smart TVs, and streaming platforms, the service delivers breaking news, local weather, and in-depth coverage through its innovative 'My Headlines' feature and interactive Newsline ticker. By reimagining news distribution for the streaming age, Haystack ensures that high-quality journalism remains accessible, relevant, and engaging for millions of viewers worldwide.

For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in powering communities that thrive and empowering the people who lead them. The company provides a unified cloud-based platform of ready-to-deploy permitting, licensing, and code enforcement software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. Governments today face increasing demands to provide services more efficiently while maintaining transparency - Accela sits at the heart of solving this challenge, serving over 300 million citizens worldwide with digital government service delivery. Accela's open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today while ensuring they are well-prepared for emerging challenges of the future. From building permits and business licensing to environmental health and fire prevention, their platform handles the complexities of IT management so agencies can focus on their core purpose: serving their communities. The result is faster permitting times, streamlined processes, and governments that can keep pace with modern citizen expectations for convenient, digital service delivery.

At SKELAR, we believe the next generation of tech unicorns will be built by people who refuse to settle for 'good enough.' As a venture builder, we don't just invest in companies - we build them from the ground up, assembling high-performing teams to launch product-led tech businesses across EdTech, marketplaces, fashion, and petcare. Our portfolio companies like AlphaNovel, Brighterly, and Dressly serve millions of users globally and have been featured in Wired, TechCrunch, and The Washington Post. We move fast here. SKELAR doubled to over 1,300 employees in a single year because we prioritize speed over bureaucracy and action over process. Our engineers, product leaders, and marketers take ownership from day one - generating hypotheses, running A/B tests, and shipping directly to users. We don't just talk about growth; we enable it with infrastructure teams, internal clubs (product, tech, marketing), and active learning programs from AI bootcamps to Google conferences. Recognized as Ukraine's #1 IT employer in our category, we've built an environment where 98% of employees say they're satisfied with career growth and proud to recommend the company.

At koppla, we believe the best work happens in small, high-performing teams where personal responsibility, open communication, and honest feedback are the norm - not exceptions. Founded in 2020 by three friends from Potsdam, we've grown from a simple idea into a platform trusted by 100+ construction companies across Germany. Our engineering team works end-to-end across our TypeScript stack, collaborating directly with product and design in a truly cross-functional process. We're hybrid-friendly by design, with our Berlin office serving as a hub for collaboration rather than a requirement for facetime. We aspire to create an environment similar to Netflix or Ashby - where team spirit trumps competition, and where everyone who joins makes a meaningful impact. Beyond the code, we're on a mission to help the construction industry build more efficiently. Our platform enables real-time collaboration between office and construction site, reducing delays and keeping projects on schedule. We've helped our customers achieve multi-month speed-ups in their projects, and we're backed by leading VCs who believe in tackling this billion-dollar opportunity in an underserved market. At koppla, you'll work on challenging problems alongside ambitious colleagues who support each other's growth - because we believe that's how the best products get built.

We are building an AI-native performance marketing engine that gives enterprise brands direct control over the inputs that drive their results. Our platform trains on each customer's complete data foundation - their brand DNA - to generate on-brand creative variations, optimize campaigns in real-time, and provide transparent visibility across channels. We saw that enterprise marketing teams were struggling with fragmented tools, slow creative cycles, and platform algorithms that optimized within silos rather than across the full marketing mix. Our solution unifies creative generation, performance analytics, and cross-channel optimization into one system that compounds gains instead of hitting plateaus. Early customers like Alaska Airlines, Brooks Running, and Servco have seen 2x higher return on ad spend, 10x faster time-to-market, and 40% lower customer acquisition costs. We're a Seattle-based team backed by Village Global, and we believe the future of performance marketing isn't about more AI features - it's about taking back control with transparency, speed, and brand-specific intelligence that actually learns what works for your business.

Opala transforms fragmented healthcare data into real-time action, serving over 7.8 million patients and 111,000 providers with more than nine years of healthcare data processed. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Seattle, Opala was created by health plan and provider stakeholders to solve healthcare's most complex data challenges through seamless data exchange and interoperability. Opala's HealthSynq platform ingests and normalizes claims, clinical, lab, and ADT feeds in near real-time, achieving greater than 97% patient-matching accuracy across disparate systems. The company delivers data within minutes rather than weeks, enabling rapid ROI with implementation times of just 4-6 weeks. Opala partners with leading organizations including Da Vinci and HL7 International to empower payers, providers, and digital health innovators to improve care outcomes, optimize costs, and meet interoperability mandates across value-based care initiatives.