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United States

A country; 48 companies based here.

Named as a company's country in the team's company map.

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Companies based here

48 companies we follow, as the team's company map gives their country.

  • 0xbow. Plug-and-play on-chain privacy with built-in compliance.
  • Air Apps. Portuguese-rooted full-cycle product studio with 30+ AI-powered consumer apps and 100M+ downloads, with a San Francisco hub; says it is on track for $100M revenue in 2026.
  • Airia. AI security and governance platform: one control layer for agents, models, tools, data access, runtime policy, red teaming and audit-ready evidence.
  • Akamai. Cloud company that powers and protects AI applications: cloud computing from core to edge plus multi-layered security against cyber threats.
  • Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Venture capital firm; Lusa reports partner Marcus Segal among the announced 2026 speakers.
  • Cerebras. Builds AI infrastructure (wafer-scale systems), on premises and in the cloud, for corporations, research institutes and governments.
  • Cisco (Outshift by Cisco). Networking and security; at Web Summit it presents Outshift by Cisco (incubation of emerging tech) and Cisco DevNet (developer platform for agentic AI), with open-source projects in agentic AI, quantum and next-gen infrastructure.
  • Cloudflare. Connectivity cloud and security platform; its homepage now leads with "Build for the agent era".
  • Cognizant. Global IT services company positioning itself as an AI builder for enterprises.
  • CrowdStrike. Global cybersecurity company with a cloud-native, AI-native platform protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data.
  • Datadog. AI-powered observability and security platform that unifies telemetry, secures applications from code to cloud and resolves incidents with AI-driven workflows.
  • Defined.ai. Enterprise AI training data platform: multilingual, multimodal datasets with human-in-the-loop quality and compliance.
  • Delinea. Identity security platform that governs what humans, machines and AI agents do once they have access, extending privileged access management into continuous, just-in-time authorization across on-premises, multi-cloud and ephemeral infrastructure.
  • Deque Systems. Web and mobile accessibility software, services and training.
  • Descope. Customer and agentic identity platform: passwordless login, MFA, SSO and multi-tenancy, and it secures AI agents and MCP servers with standards-based authorisation, scoped access and token management, so human and machine identities live in one place.
  • Directus. Collaborative backend and self-hostable headless CMS over any database, with REST, GraphQL and MCP for AI assistants.
  • Elastic. The Search AI Company: search, observability and security solutions built on the Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than half of the Fortune 500.
  • Emergence. Builds agentic infrastructure for enterprise: verified, governed AI agents that plan, reason and act across complex systems.
  • Exa. Search API for AI agents: real-time web data, deep research and structured content from one endpoint.
  • Genspark. All-in-one AI workspace aiming to autopilot busywork for knowledge workers; says it reached $250M ARR in 12 months.
  • Google Cloud. Optimised AI stack (infrastructure, Gemini models, data, multi-cloud security, developer tools, agents and applications) for organisations in the agentic era.
  • IBM. AI solutions including watsonx, IBM Research and consulting to scale responsible AI across the enterprise.
  • LaunchDarkly. Runtime control platform: feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback and runtime control for code and AI agents in production.
  • Linux Foundation (Agentic AI Foundation). The Linux Foundation hosts open-source projects; the speaker is Executive Director of its Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a neutral foundation for open standards in agentic AI.
  • Mastra. Open-source TypeScript framework and enterprise platform for building, iterating and managing production-grade agents.
  • Neo. Startup residency, recruiting platform and mentorship community for the next generation of tech leaders.
  • Neo4j. Graph data and intelligence platform used for knowledge graphs behind AI systems and agents.
  • Nisos. Open source intelligence company that unmasks digital threats and the real people behind them (from its CEO's Web Summit bio; its site refused an automated read of robots.txt, so nothing from it was read).
  • Orb. Usage-based billing for AI companies, now part of Adyen: pricing, billing and revenue intelligence.
  • Persona. Identity platform that helps businesses verify people and organisations, assess risk and build trust online (from its CEO's Web Summit bio; the company site refused an automated read).
  • PitchBook. Financial data and software on venture capital, private equity, M&A and emerging technology.
  • Polygraf AI. AI security and governance for mission-critical operations: its AI Behavioral Control Plane gives real-time visibility, governance and inline enforcement across human and agentic AI interactions, to stop data exposure, unauthorised AI actions and compliance violations.
  • Primitive. Email built for agents: gives AI agents their own email address and the tools to act on it over standard email protocols; backed by Y Combinator.
  • Prisma. Agent infrastructure for TypeScript: Prisma ORM, Prisma Postgres and Prisma Compute (app hosting next to the database).
  • Proofpoint. Enterprise cybersecurity and compliance (email, web, cloud, data); its CEO describes the mission as human- and agent-centric security.
  • Qase. Test management platform used by 2,000+ engineering teams; launching Tiden, which records what was asked and checks every change made by coding agents against it.
  • Qualcomm. Semiconductor and computing company (AI, low-power computing, connectivity, edge and data centre).
  • Replit. Agentic software creation platform that lets anyone build applications in natural language; millions of users and 500,000+ business users.
  • ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools). Independent nonprofit building open-source online safety tools as a public good.
  • Runpod. AI developer cloud for building, training, fine-tuning and deploying AI workloads on GPUs.
  • SageOx. Collaboration platform that turns humans and AI agents into teams by giving them one shared context.
  • Scrut Automation. AI compliance automation (GRC) platform: evidence collection, risk assessment and vendor risk management with AI agents, for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and 60+ frameworks.
  • Sphere. AI-native platform automating revenue-based (tax) compliance across 130+ regions: registrations, filings and remittance.
  • Temporal. Open-source durable execution platform for building reliable applications and long-running workflows.
  • TestMu AI. Agentic QA for web, mobile, chat, voice and IVR, and 'agent assurance' for enterprises; founded as LambdaTest (2017).
  • TrustScale. Configures and measures AI against a customer's own criteria (AI training, evaluation and assurance).
  • Twilio. Customer engagement platform providing communications and data APIs across the customer journey.
  • You.com (Recursive & You.com). You.com provides search and inference infrastructure for AI ("the core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs").

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