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Data & Memory Layer
Data products, document intelligence, knowledge graphs, multimodal understanding, and memory layers for AI-native work.
Why this category matters
The AI application layer depends on better context, retrieval, structured data, and memory over messy enterprise information.
Startups to know in Data & Memory Layer
Submit a startupEnterprise AI grounded in company context
Glean connects enterprise information through search, a company knowledge graph, and permissions-aware AI assistants and agents that answer questions and act across workplace systems.
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Knowledge and long-term memory for AI
Pinecone supplies managed vector search and AI knowledge infrastructure, helping developers retrieve relevant context and build grounded applications without operating their own search systems.
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Memory as reasoning about people and agents
Plastic Labs builds Honcho, an AI memory and reasoning system that models people and agents over time so applications can personalize behavior around individual users.
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Contextual data powers trusted AI decisions
Quantexa resolves entities and builds contextual relationships across enterprise data, giving organizations a trusted foundation for AI decisions, investigations, and risk management.
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Expert data for specialized models and agents
Snorkel develops expert training data, evaluation datasets, and simulated environments that help frontier labs and enterprises specialize AI models and deploy domain-specific agents.
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A unified data foundation for the AI stack
VAST Data unifies storage, databases, and real-time processing in an AI operating system designed to move data across model training, inference, and agent workloads.
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Expert research can become continuous infrastructure when interviews, source evidence, and institutional context are connected through AI-assisted workflows
Qualitate combines AI-moderated expert interviews, transcript research, and continuous market signals to help investors and enterprises build reusable primary intelligence.
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Licensed real-world data for AI builders
Protege connects AI developers with licensed real-world data, organizing rights-cleared audio, video, health, and other specialized datasets for model development.
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Document intelligence becomes reliable enterprise data
Hyperscience uses proprietary machine learning and human review to turn complex documents into structured, reliable data for automated business processes and AI applications.
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Foresight brings unified data and AI workflows to private-market investing
Foresight connects private-market data, portfolio monitoring, and investment workflows, using AI agents to extract information, analyze companies, and support fund decisions.
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Verified business identity for workflows and agents
Enigma resolves business identities across public and private data, giving financial workflows and AI agents verifiable company records, relationships, and operating signals.
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External data can become an on-demand utility, with a common ontology connecting fragmented datasets to usable business and AI insights
Carbon Arc turns licensed external data into structured intelligence that businesses and AI systems can access on demand through an exchange with consumption-based pricing.
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Company knowledge becomes usable workflows
Askollo connects company tools and knowledge so teams can search scattered information, run AI workflows, and produce outputs with visible sources and auditability.
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Aaru uses simulated populations to predict consumer, market, and political behavior
Aaru simulates populations of AI agents grounded in demographic and behavioral data, helping businesses model consumer choices, market responses, and strategic decisions.
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