340 companies. One conviction.

From radiology to autonomous data ops, SpireRise founders are turning AI from a feature into entire categories. Here's who they are.

// by the numbers

The portfolio at a glance.

340+
Companies
$1.4B
Raised after program
19
Acquisitions
5
Unicorns
// sectors

Where our founders are building.

AgentsInfrastructureHealthcare FintechDev ToolsEnterprise RoboticsConsumerClimateSecurity
// featured

Vectra

An autonomous data-operations layer that keeps enterprise pipelines clean and self-healing. Started at SpireRise Cohort 04 as two engineers and a notebook; now a Series B company serving Fortune 100 data teams.

AgentsEnterpriseSeries BCohort 04
$0 → $40M ARR in 26 months.
// companies

A sample of the cohort.

Lumen

AI radiology

FDA-cleared models flagging missed findings across 9 hospital networks.

Synth

Voice agents

Answering calls and booking jobs for 12,000 local businesses.

Forge AI

Agentic DevOps

Autonomous incident response for cloud infrastructure teams.

Nimbus

AI weather risk

Hyperlocal climate forecasting for insurers and farmers.

Quanta

Quant research copilot

LLM tooling for systematic trading desks.

Helix

Protein design

Generative models for novel therapeutic candidates.

Orbit

Support automation

Resolving 60% of tickets end-to-end for SaaS companies.

Parallax

3D from text

Generative pipelines for game and film studios.

Northwind

Grid optimization

Reinforcement learning that balances renewable energy loads.

// breakdown

How the portfolio splits.

Enterprise / Agents38%

The largest slice, where AI is replacing entire workflows for large organizations.

Vertical AI26%

Healthcare, fintech, legal and climate teams owning a specific industry end to end.

Infrastructure22%

The picks and shovels: eval, serving, orchestration and data tooling.

Consumer & other14%

New interfaces and creative tools reaching people directly.

// outcomes

Outcomes that compound.

71%
Reach Series A
$4.1M
Median seed raised
2.3x
Avg. valuation step-up
94%
Still operating
// in their words

What founders say.

"Being in a room of AI-native founders who were one week ahead of us changed our trajectory. We borrowed every lesson the day they learned it."

Sana Iqbal
Sana Iqbal
Co-founder, Lumen · Cohort 03

"Seeing peers one step ahead made every hard call obvious. We stopped guessing."

Tom Ardent
Tom Ardent
Founder, Orbit · Cohort 06

"The cohort became our first board, our first users and our first real fans."

Priya Nair
Priya Nair
CEO, Parallax · Cohort 05
// alumni

Where they are now.

// reach

Founders from everywhere.

42%

North America

Hubs in SF, NYC and Toronto.

31%

Europe

London, Berlin, Stockholm and beyond.

18%

Asia

Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Tokyo.

9%

Rest of world

From São Paulo to Lagos to Sydney.

// next cohort

The next name on this list could be yours.