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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
Winning Accelerator Playbook 2026 by BambuUP
EDTECH: LEVERAGING AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
TPiCS-X Production Management System
TPiCS Laboratory is a Tokyo software company founded in 1984 that has developed the TPiCS production management series since 1986. It targets manufacturers that struggle with forecast errors,…
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i-Reporter Paperless Shop-Floor Forms
CIMTOPS is a Tokyo software company founded in 1991 that develops production scheduling, process management and paperless field reporting tools for manufacturers. Its i-Reporter product replaces paper inspection…
Conduktor Kafka Operations Platform
Conduktor Inc., headquartered in New York with offices in London, was founded in 2020 by Nicolas Orban, Stephane Derosiaux and Stephane Maarek. It helps companies that run Apache…
Volt Active Data Real-Time Decisioning Platform
Volt Active Data, headquartered at Mall Road in Burlington, Massachusetts, traces its origin to 2009 when database pioneer Michael Stonebraker conceived VoltDB, an in-memory relational database first released…
Bronco Core AI Agents for Chip Verification
Bronco AI is a San Francisco applied AI lab founded in 2023 and part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch. It builds AI verification engineers for chip design,…
Cognichip ACI Enterprise for AI-Driven Chip Design
Cognichip, Inc. is an AI-first semiconductor design company founded in 2024 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It addresses the high cost and long, sequential cycles of chip…
CrateDB Real-Time Analytics Database
Crate.io AG develops CrateDB, an open-source distributed SQL database for real-time analytics on high-volume, high-cardinality operational data. Founded in Dornbirn, Austria, the company moved its headquarters to the…
Hydrolix Streaming Data Lake
Hydrolix Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, builds a streaming data lake for very high-volume log and event data such as CDN, video streaming, security and bot traffic telemetry.…
Confluent Data Streaming Platform
Confluent, Inc., whose main address is in Mountain View, California, was founded by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka and became a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM in…
Aerospike Real-Time Database 8
Aerospike, Inc., headquartered at El Camino Real in Mountain View, California, develops a real-time distributed database for mission-critical workloads that need millions of transactions per second at millisecond…