Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is an American space rocket, defense, launch service, and offers satellite internet via Starlink, its subsidiary. Elon Musk founded the company in 2002 aiming to reduce the cost of space travel and with an end goal of colonizing Mars.

SpaceX was the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX managed to cut the expense of space launch by reusing boosters. The company also created the rocket, Starship, which broke records for both its size and power.

SpaceX signed national defense contracts with US government agencies. SpaceX has four launch sites across the United States: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, Kennedy Space Center, and the Brownsville Starbase. Starlink, a wholly-owned subsidiary, provides broadband internet around the world.

Perplexity AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides innovative solutions to real-world problems. The company's technology uses machine learning and natural language processing to enable machines to think and interact with humans more effectively. With the help of its cutting-edge algorithms, Perplexity AI is able to analyze large amounts of data accurately and quickly in order to gain insights into customer behavior. This enables the company to provide tailored solutions that are both cost-effective and efficient.

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Scale AI is a privately held US technology company headquartered in San Francisco. Scale AI works to support the development of AI applications through its Generative AI platform and Data Engine. The Scale Generative AI platform allows companies to create and test customized generative models; its Data Engine provides a suite of tools to manage and collect and label data. Scale AI’s full-stack solution helps companies manage the entire ML lifecycle.

Anduril is an American private defense products company founded by Palmer Luckey in 2017 and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. The company has assembled an expert team of Silicon Valley engineers and military veterans to make cutting edge software and hardware for defense purposes. Their solutions have applications in the areas of AI, robotics, sensors, aerospace, VR, aircraft, simulation and secure networking.

The company works with the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security, as well as other international partners.

A core Anduril product is Lattice OS which allows individuals to see, share, and manage data collected in real-time from thousands of sources across a battle space spanning water, land, and sky. Lattice OS then relies on advanced AI and ML technology to assist operators in decision making and implementation based on this data.

In addition to software, the company produces a suite of manned and unmanned vehicles designed for underwater, flight, and driving missions.

Anduril challenges the old guard of US defense companies like Lockhead Martin, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics. Anduril stands out by taking on the R&D costs, making finished products, and selling them as opposed to waiting for specific orders from the Pentagon.

Anduril also faces competition from private companies including Shield AI and Rebellion Defense. As of 2023, the company had 4 significant acquisitions: Blue Force Technologies, Adranos, Area-I, Copius Imaging, Dive Technologies.

Revolut's mission is to streamline your financial goals, eliminating any obstacles. The platform is designed to be effortless, seamless, and borderless, ensuring a captivating user experience. With a relentless commitment to delivering faster and smarter products, Revolut empowers users to effortlessly handle all money-related activities such as spending, saving, investing, borrowing, and managing. This comprehensive approach allows customers to enjoy a wide range of financial services with just a few taps. Revolut believes that fostering a culture of excellence among its brilliant team members leads to optimal outcomes.

Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, was formerly the vice president of research at competing company OpenAI. Amodei left OpenAI and founded Anthropic in 2021 in an effort to make safer advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The company’s goal is to research AI and create adaptable models which can analyze and interpret data. The company created Claude, an AI chatbot that is capable of searching documents, answering questions, writing and coding.

The most recent version of Claude, Claude 3, is able to analyze graphs, handles translations, and can transcribe notes written by hand. Although Claude 3 can analyze user images, documents and diagrams it does not generate images itself. When tested, Anthropic’s Opus outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 in terms of of knowledge and reasoning.

Zach Perret and William Hockey founded Plaid in 2013 to promote universal access to financial services. Plaid provides a financial technology for financial apps like Venmo and Chime giving them the ability to offer banking services to their clients without having to build their own data transferring infrastructure.

Private payments company competitors are Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, and others. Plaid acquired Quovo and Cognito.

Canva is an Australian privately-held company founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cameron Adams, and Cliff Obrecht. Canva provides a user-friendly design platform individuals and teams can use to create professional designs.

The company’s templates help users with creative projects from illustrations, web design, and presentations to clothing, posters, and graphics. Canva also supplies stock images, video footage and audio users can incorporate in their creative works. Canva’s Magic Studio provides an suite of AI tools to boost productivity for both text and image-based content.

The company competes with other design software companies like Figma, Webflow, and PicsArt. Canva has acquired Affinity, Flourish, Zeetings, Kaleido, SmartMockups, Pexels, Pixabay, Serif and SlidesCarnival.

OpenAI is a privately-held generative AI research and AI development unicorn. The company has created and released Dall.E (images), ChatGPT (large language model), and Versatile (speech). OpenAI and its AI models have become household names because of their widely applicable nature.
OpenAI was founded by Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Ilya Sutskever, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Sam Altman and Elon Musk were on the original board of directors. The company was established in 2015 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. This unusual structure was specifically chosen to support the company’s mission: to better humanity and avoid being guided by profit incentives. CEO Sam Altman did not to invest in OpenAI stock to avoid any conflicts of interest. Elon Musk invested $50 million in OpenAI but due to worries about AI safety, Musk severed his association with the company. He later founded competing company, X.ai, that creates AI specifically for its own use. In 2019 the OpenAI changed to its structure which was limiting its ability to take in funding. OpenAI formed OpenAI GP LLC and a capped profit subsidiary, OpenAI Global LLC. When the company launched ChatGPT in 2023, it quickly broke records for being the fastest-growing consumer app in history by MAU in the first 2 months. By comparison, Bytedance's TikTok reached the same number of MAU over 9 months. OpenAI purchased Rockset and Multi in June 2024.

Cerebras Systems specializes in building a new class of computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) work. Their mission focuses on developing the fastest AI hardware to address complex AI problems. With their recent introduction of Andromeda, the industry's largest supercomputer, partners can train large language models more efficiently, achieving higher accuracy and better results in less time and energy consumption. Cerebras Systems comprises a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers committed to revolutionizing the future of AI work, enabling significant advancements in deep learning capabilities. The company competes with NVIDIA which owns +80% of the AI chip market share.

Chargebee is a Revenue Growth Management platform designed for subscription businesses. Its comprehensive suite of solutions includes subscription management, recurring billing, pricing and payment optimization, revenue recognition, collections, and customer retention. As the leading end-to-end revenue management platform for businesses employing a subscription model, Chargebee enables businesses to easily launch and manage subscriptions, automate recurring payments, and enhance customer experiences. With Chargebee's unified platform, businesses can maximize revenue opportunities and optimize operational costs.

CEO Jonathan Ross founded Groq with the goal of making high performance AI available to everyone.

Groq operates in a crowded space with intense competition including NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Intel, Cerebras, Graphcore, etc. NVIDIA has an overwhelming estimated market share of 80%.

CEO Ross believes Groq’s speedier, more affordable chip will be readily adopted by startups in particular and help Groq gain market share.

Groq has broken records in the AI space by being able to run chatbots faster than Gemini, ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s GrokAI. For reference, the company claims Groq chips can run OpenAi’s chatbot ChatGPT 13 times faster than it does currently. Groq is making chips with LPUs more suitable for AI language models as opposed to NVIDIA’s GPUs. GPUs are needed for training AI models, but LPUs reduce the time from inputs to making predictions or decisions (inference).

Groq acquired Maxeler Technologies in 2022 and Definitive Intelligence in 2024. The company partners with BittWare, iqt, Poe, Cirrascale, VAPI, carahsoft.

Kraken emerges as a prominent and highly secure crypto platform, renowned for its extensive experience in the field. Its primary objective revolves around facilitating the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency, aiming to empower individuals with financial freedom and inclusion. As a gateway to the crypto universe, Kraken sets itself apart by offering a wide array of services, including spot trading with margin, parachain auctions, staking, regulated derivatives, and index services. Additionally, Kraken distinguishes itself through its commitment to transparency, having pioneered Proof of Reserves audits in the industry. Safeguarding investors' crypto assets and NFTs stands at the forefront of Kraken's agenda, implementing a comprehensive suite of security measures. Notably, their adherence to open-source blockchains ensures transparency for users, while routine Proof of Reserves reviews grant peace of mind and confidence in the authenticity of their holdings.