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Data & Memory Layer category

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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

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Glean

Enterprise 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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries FInfra

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· 2d ago
Pinecone

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries BInfra

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· 2d ago
Plastic Labs

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.

Data & Memory LayerPre-seedInfra

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· 2d ago
Quantexa

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries FInfra

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· 2d ago
Snorkel AI

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries DInfra

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· 2d ago
VAST Data

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries FInfra34views

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· 2d ago
Qualitate

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries AInfra157views

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Added: deepens the data, memory, and research infrastructure layer. · May 18, 2026
Protege

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries AInfra136views

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Added: deepens the data, memory, and research infrastructure layer. · May 18, 2026
Hyperscience

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries EInfra

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Hyperscience appears to be beyond the map's pre-seed, seed, or Series A criteria. · May 4, 2026
Foresight

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeedInfra163views

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Seed-stage company serving private-market workflows with data and AI infrastructure. · May 4, 2026
Enigma

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.

Data & Memory LayerUnknownInfra77views

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· 2d ago
Carbon Arc

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries AInfra139views

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Raised significant Series A funding to scale its data exchange. · Apr 9, 2026
Askollo

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.

Data & Memory LayerUnknownInfra

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· 2d ago
Aaru

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.

Data & Memory LayerSeries AInfra171views

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Series A company applying AI agents and simulation to research, polling, and market prediction. · May 4, 2026