Harvey, founded in 2021, uses AI to streamline repetitive legal work like contract review and discovery. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund, it grew from prototypes tested with law firms to a platform expanding into compliance and tax, helping professionals handle complex, document-heavy workflows more efficiently.

Daydream began in 2022, when its founders — frustrated by endlessly scrolling through irrelevant search results online — asked a straightforward question: why is it still so hard to find the right thing to buy online? What started as personal frustration quickly grew into a mission to make online shopping smarter and more personal. By early 2023, Daydream had launched with the goal of becoming a true digital shopping agent. Fueling the Vision It didn’t take long for Google V

Notion began in the early 2010s, born from founders Ivan Zhao, Chris Prucha, Jessica Lam, Simon Last, and Toby Schachman’s frustration at how fragmented and inefficient productivity tools had become. Determined to cut through the complexity of managing multiple apps for notes, databases, wikis, and project management, they imagined a workspace experience that was unified, flexible, and genuinely useful. The company was founded in 2013, designed to be approachable to both ind

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