The My NEXT Raise Founder–Funder Event on April 16, 2026 in Potomac, MD connects selected startups with active early-stage investors through curated 1:1 meetings.
There is no cost to apply or attend. Applications close March 31. heyor.ca/fSYjAJ
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Startup Spotlight: Vercel
Vercel is a frontend cloud platform enabling developers to build fast, modern web applications.
Why it matters: Performance and developer experience drive user adoption.
Learn more about Vercel: vercel.com/home
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Startup Spotlight: Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building reliable and steerable AI systems.
Why it matters: Safe, aligned AI is critical as adoption accelerates.
Learn more about Anthropic: anthropic.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Scale AI
Scale AI provides high-quality training data and infrastructure for AI applications.
Why it matters: Data quality determines model performance. Scale AI enables reliable AI at scale.
Learn more about Scale AI: scale.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Pinecone
Pinecone is a vector database built for high-performance AI applications and semantic search.
Learn more about Pinecone: pinecone.io/
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Startup Spotlight: LangChain
LangChain provides an open-source framework that helps developers build applications powered by large language models.
Learn more about LangChain: langchain.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Mercury
Mercury is a digital banking platform built specifically for startups, offering banking, treasury, and financial tools in one place.
Learn more about Mercury: mercury.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Synthesia
Synthesia is an AI video platform that helps teams create professional videos without cameras, studios, or actors.
Learn more about Synthesia: synthesia.io/
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Startup Spotlight: Hightouch
Hightouch enables companies to sync customer data from their warehouse into business tools in real time.
Learn more about Hightouch: hightouch.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Rillet
Rillet is building modern financial software that gives finance teams real-time visibility into company performance.
Learn more about Rillet: rillet.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Typeface
Typeface is an enterprise generative AI platform built to help brands create personalized, on-brand content at scale.
Learn more about Typeface: typeface.ai/
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Startup Spotlight: Abridge
Abridge uses AI to transform clinical conversations into structured medical documentation, reducing administrative burden for clinicians.
Learn more about Abridge: abridge.com/
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Startup Spotlight: Relari
Relari is a U.S.-based AI infrastructure startup helping teams evaluate, test, and deploy AI systems with confidence. Their platform brings structure and reliability to AI development through automated evaluation and governance.
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Startup Spotlight: Mantle
Mantle simplifies cap table and equity management for founders.
Why it matters: Clear equity management supports better founder decisions.
Learn more about Mantle: mantle.xyz/
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Startup Spotlight: Humans&
Humans& builds human-centric AI tools that amplify intent and context.
Why it matters: Human-aligned AI drives adoption and trust.
Learn more about Humans&: humansand.ai/
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Startup Spotlight: Town
Town builds accessible software tools that help teams collaborate and build more efficiently.
Why it matters: Lowering barriers to development expands innovation.
Learn more about Town: heyor.ca/0C7EP5
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Startup Spotlight: Pace
Pace is a fintech platform modernizing insurance operations through AI-powered workflow automation.
Why it matters: Automation reduces friction and cost in traditionally manual insurance processes.
Check it out: withpace.com/
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Startup Spotlight: FLORA
FLORA is an AI creative platform that gives designers, artists, and creative teams a unified canvas where text, image, and video models work together.
Learn more: flora.ai/
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Phia is an AI shopping agent that helps consumers instantly compare prices, assess resale value, and discover better options across thousands of retail and secondhand sites, all in one place.
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