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Cusman

Cusman, also styled Cusman AI, is a San Francisco-based customer success platform startup founded in 2023 by Eliah Timonin, who serves as co-founder and chief product officer. The company builds software aimed at helping businesses manage and retain their existing customers, a software category generally known as customer success, which focuses on reducing churn and

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Cusman is a San Francisco customer success platform startup, founded in 2023, that helps subscription businesses track account health and reduce churn.

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Dangote Group

Dangote Group, formally Dangote Industries Limited, is a Nigerian conglomerate founded by Aliko Dangote that makes and sells cement, sugar, salt, fertilizer and refined petroleum products. It dates its beginnings to 1981, when it started as a trading business. Its best-known operations are Dangote Cement, the largest listed company in West Africa according to the

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Dangote Group is a Nigerian conglomerate founded by Aliko Dangote in 1981 that makes cement, sugar, salt and fertilizer and runs the Lekki refinery.

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Darktrace

Darktrace is a British artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity company that uses self-learning algorithms to detect and respond to cyberattacks across a network, cloud, email and operational technology systems in real time. Founded in Cambridge, England in 2013, the company built its reputation on technology that learns the normal pattern of activity for every device and

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Darktrace is a British AI cybersecurity company, founded in 2013, known for self-learning threat detection and acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024.

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Embody

Embody is a period- and cycle-tracking app built around a privacy-by-default model, storing a user’s health data locally on their own device rather than on a company server by default. Launched in March 2023 by Anna Hall, a former educator, and incubated by the product studio Thesis, Embody was created directly in response to the

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Embody is a period-tracking app that stores health data locally on the user's device by default rather than on company servers.

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ExxonMobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation, usually called ExxonMobil, is an American energy and chemicals company headquartered in Spring, Texas. It finds and produces crude oil and natural gas, refines them into fuels, makes petrochemicals, and is building lower-emission businesses such as carbon capture and storage. The company reported sales and other operating revenue of $323.9 billion for

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ExxonMobil is a Texas-based American energy and chemicals company formed in 1999 by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.

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Fanvue

Fanvue is a subscription-based creator platform that lets creators monetize content through paid subscriptions, pay-to-view messages and tips, occupying a similar business category to platforms like OnlyFans and Patreon. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown by William Monange, Joel Morris and Harry Fitzgerald, Fanvue has distinguished itself from most competitors by explicitly welcoming AI-generated

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Fanvue is a subscription-based creator platform, founded in 2020, that is notable for explicitly welcoming AI-generated creators alongside human ones.

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Fentech

Fentech is a French startup that builds AI-powered sales forecasting software for retailers. Its product, called Clairvoyant, predicts demand at the level of individual products and stores so retailers can plan inventory, pricing, and promotions without relying on manual spreadsheets. What Clairvoyant does Clairvoyant is organized into four modules that cover demand forecasting, supply and

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A French startup whose Clairvoyant platform uses AI to generate detailed, store-level sales forecasts for retailers.

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Findem

Findem is an AI talent-intelligence company that builds recruiting and workforce-planning tools around what it calls “3D data,” an expert-labeled dataset intended to capture a fuller picture of a candidate than a resume or public profile alone. The company’s data-labeling engine launched in 2020, and Findem has since grown into a recruiting-technology vendor competing with

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Findem is an AI talent-intelligence company that builds recruiting tools around an expert-labeled "3D data" candidate dataset.

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FlutterFlow

FlutterFlow is a low-code platform for building mobile and web applications through a visual, drag-and-drop interface rather than hand-writing every line of code. The company raised twenty-five and a half million dollars in a Series A funding round announced in January 2024, bringing its total funding to around thirty million dollars at an estimated valuation

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A low-code platform for visually building mobile and web apps, backed by GV, Gradient Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is an American automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, that builds vehicles under the Ford and Lincoln brands. Henry Ford and a group of investors founded it in 1903, and its 2025 annual filing reports about 169,000 employees and roughly 4.4 million vehicles wholesaled that year. History of Ford Motor Company Henry Ford

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Ford Motor Company is an American automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, founded in 1903, that builds Ford and Lincoln vehicles.