Meet the founders who presented on July 21.

Akash Kapoor is building ChartR Health — the AI-driven intelligence layer for healthcare governance. Hospitals run on data trapped in silos: EHRs, insurance claims, live hospital systems. ChartR connects all of it, giving clinicians and administrators real-time operational insight where there used to be lag and guesswork. The team is going deep on frontier techniques — reinforcement learning, reward modeling, post-training — applied to a system that desperately needs them.

Hiring: founding machine learning researcher and founding strategic project lead. Reach out to us!

Daniel Mishin already built and exited June Homes. His second act is bigger: Manifest OS powers the world's first truly AI-native law firms — proprietary AI platform, unified branding, and centralized back-office for affiliated firms, all on outcomes-based fixed fees instead of billable hours. The announcement dominated the legal and financial press. $60M Series A at a $750M valuation from Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital, and Quiet Capital.

Hiring: senior GTM engineer and software engineer. Details here.

Jack Weinberger grew up hearing his lawyer parents complain about timekeeping — so he built Ajax, the AI timekeeper for law firms that tracks your work and drafts time entries for you. The numbers are absurd: 200+ firms, zero logo churn ever, a 97% pilot win rate, and they've won every competitive pilot. Now expanding into bill review and dashboards to help lawyers run their firms better. $9M raised from Fika, MXV, Bloomberg Beta — and 14 of their own customers.

Hiring: customer activation, account executive, senior design engineer, full stack engineer. Details here.

Jimmy McDermott sold his last company at 24. Now he's attacking the reason enterprise software never gets replaced: migration pain. Rubie's AI platform automates complex data migrations and streamlines onboarding so software companies can finally "rip and replace" their competitors. Roughly 4x growth this year. $15M raised to date from Outsiders Fund, Afore Capital, and Gallery Ventures — and there may be another announcement coming very soon.

Hiring: software engineers, account executives, sales development representatives. Details here.

Tyson Chen is building the AI front office for America's services economy. Avoca answers every call, works every lead, and checks in on every customer for the trades — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, automotive — keeping boards full and teams focused on the work that matters. Trusted by 800+ operators. Just closed $125M+ at a $1B valuation from Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and General Catalyst.

Hiring: account executive, AI strategist, forward deployed engineer, software engineer (product). Details here.

Everyone treats August like the off month. Decisions pushed to September. Auto-replies on. "Let's circle back after Labor Day."

The data says otherwise.

In the past week alone: three billion-dollar rounds in three days, a $190B valuation, and two NYC Series As that closed while everyone else was at the beach. Companies that raise in August build their hiring plans in August — which means the people who show up now get the September offers.

The same logic applies to rooms. The founders who come out in mid-August aren't networking out of obligation. They're the ones actively building — closing rounds, making their first ten hires, looking for the operator who can change their trajectory. The room self-selects, and it selects for serious.

That's why our August Founder Showcase might be the highest-signal one we run all year.

Same format as always. Curated founders building something real, in a room full of people who are ready to move — on August 24th, while everyone else is still setting their out-of-office.

Summer's not the break. It's the head start.

See you there!