NEA

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world’s largest and most established venture capital firms, focused primarily on technology and healthcare investing across all stages from seed to IPO. Founded in 1977, NEA has backed many category-defining companies over nearly five decades. Two of their portfolio companies will be represented in the programme.

– Horizon3.ai is an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on autonomous penetration testing and proactive attack-surface management. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is best known for its flagship platform, NodeZero®, which continuously simulates real-world cyberattacks to identify exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do.

– Granica is an AI data infrastructure company focused on helping enterprises make their data smaller, cheaper, safer, and more useful for AI workloads. The company develops software that optimizes unstructured and structured data for large-scale AI and analytics systems.