Salesforce, Inc.

We're a global software company that's been helping manufacturers design, make, and service better products for nearly 40 years. Our portfolio of solutions - including CAD, PLM, ALM, SLM, IoT, and augmented reality - helps companies manage product complexity from concept through delivery. What makes us different is our deep industry expertise and collaborative approach: we don't just sell software, we work alongside our customers as partners in their digital transformation journey. With 95% of Fortune 500 discrete manufacturers as customers, we've seen firsthand how the right tools can unlock innovation across the entire product lifecycle. Our team of nearly 7,000 people worldwide embraces values like 'Customers Matter' and 'Team PTC' because we win together. We're committed to continuous innovation - not just in our products like Creo, Windchill, ThingWorx, and Onshape, but in how we work. We're actively transforming to a SaaS model, embedding AI throughout our solutions, and helping manufacturers tackle sustainability challenges. At our core, we believe technology should empower people to solve real problems and create products that make a difference in the world.

In 2023, three founders with deep roots in engineering and logistics realized something profound: while AI was transforming consumer technology, the industries that move our physical world - supply chains, freight, logistics - remained stuck in manual, inefficient processes. Pablo Palafox, his brother Javier Palafox, and Luis Paarup saw that these real-economy businesses were drowning in repetitive communication tasks: endless phone calls to book loads, check shipments, and coordinate schedules. They understood the solution wasn't just better chatbots, but an AI-native operating system that could truly handle end-to-end work with human-like intelligence. So they built HappyRobot - an AI workforce platform that doesn't just augment human workers but autonomously manages complex operations across phone, email, messaging, and documents. Starting with logistics and industrial operations, HappyRobot has grown rapidly, deploying AI workers across over 150 enterprise customers including DHL and Ryder. With $62 million in funding from top-tier investors like Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, the company is now expanding to redefine how the real economy operates, freeing humans to focus on strategy and creativity while AI handles the patterned work at scale.

SellScale is building the first Agentic Revenue Org, starting with Selix - an AI Agent designed specifically for the sales floor. The company's mission is to help businesses grow by bringing Artificial General Intelligence to the non-technical workforce, starting with the hardest workflow to crack: cold outreach. SellScale believes that the future of sales is human x machine, where AI agents work alongside sales teams to scale outbound efforts in ways that purely human-driven processes cannot match. The team is deeply technical and agent-focused, having worked on agentic AI systems since 2024. They're backed by leading investors including Pear VC, Ovo Fund, and growth leaders from companies like Notion, Athelas, Ramp, Figma, Moveworks, and Clay. Based in San Francisco, SellScale operates as a tight-knit team that values in-person collaboration, shipping across the stack, and solving complex problems at the intersection of AI and enterprise sales.

Intelliforce-IT Solutions Group is a Woman-Owned Small Business delivering technical solutions that protect our nation's infrastructure. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ellicott City, Maryland, Intelliforce provides Intelligent Solutions for the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. The company specializes in Software and Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Agile Development, System and Database Administration, Information Assurance, and Project Management services. Intelliforce engineers develop the systems and data models that enable mission success across critical government programs. Their expertise spans cybersecurity threat detection and protection, artificial intelligence and machine learning pipelines, data visualization interfaces, and analytics platforms for processing massive data volumes. The company has been recognized as a Baltimore Business Journal Best Place to Work multiple times and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, reflecting its commitment to both technical excellence and workplace culture.

Northslope builds AI software on the Palantir operating system, delivering mission-specific AI applications that enable organizations to fulfill their mission and dominate their industry. As Palantir's first and only Vanguard: Elite partner, Northslope leverages forward-deployed engineering to solve complex business challenges across aerospace, energy, defense, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other critical industries. The company operates more like a product startup than a traditional services firm, with teams that are lean, fast-moving, and focused on building solutions that actually work for end users. Founded by former Palantir engineers, Northslope brings the same Forward Deployed Engineering DNA to every customer engagement, shipping working MVPs within days and delivering measurable results in weeks. Backed by $22 million in Series A funding from Friends & Family Capital, Goldcrest, and other investors, Northslope is pioneering a new approach to enterprise AI that prioritizes outcomes over activity and rapid iteration over lengthy consulting cycles.

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, used by its member cooperatives, and owns SEEDWAY, the largest full-line seed company in the United States. The company operates an expansive network of river and rail terminals to meet customer fertilizer needs, even during peak seasons. Founded in 1927 when nine local agricultural supply cooperatives in Illinois organized to meet growing demand for reliable fuel supply, GROWMARK has grown into a regional agricultural powerhouse. The organization now serves cooperatives, retailers, businesses, and customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. GROWMARK's commitment to delivering products customers need by people they trust has earned it a reputation as a strong and financially-stable business partner with a customer-first attitude at its core.