Startups Directory

Together AI is an AI Acceleration Cloud platform enabling developers and researchers to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models at scale. The platform supports over 200 open-source models across all modalities (chat, image, audio, vision, code, embeddings) with 2-3x faster inference than hyperscalers, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and infrastructure scaling from 16 to 100,000+ GPUs. Founded by Stanford professors and serial entrepreneurs, Together AI is positioned as the cloud infrastructure layer for the open-source AI ecosystem, with recent expansion into data transformation through the Refuel.ai acquisition.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that provides 600+ pre-built connectors to sync data from applications, APIs, databases, and data warehouses into centralized destinations. The platform automates data pipeline creation with no-code/low-code connector builders and includes pipeline debugging and monitoring tools. Founded in 2020, Airbyte has become the leading open-source alternative to proprietary solutions, powering 1.2M daily data pipelines for over 40K data engineers.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage platform designed for enterprises that need complete control over their data infrastructure. Built for Kubernetes-native deployments across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments, it enables organizations to run their own S3-compatible storage without vendor lock-in. The software-defined architecture optimizes for AI/ML workloads, analytics, and large-scale data processing, with support for objects up to 50TB and deployment flexibility that traditional cloud storage cannot match.