Applied Computing Research Labs

SylphAI, Inc. is a Mountain View-based applied AI company founded in 2023 by former Meta AI research scientist Li Yin. It built the open-source AdalFlow framework for auto-optimizing LLM pipelines and commercialized it as AdaL, an AI coding and agentic-engineering platform for developers and engineering teams.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open-source observability stack Grafana (visualization), Loki (logs), Mimir (metrics) and Tempo (traces), commercialized as the fully managed Grafana Cloud with 10,000+ customers including most of the Fortune 50. It has added AI products including Grafana Assistant, multi-agent Assistant Investigations, AI/LLM observability and official MCP servers.

Dust, founded in 2023 in Paris, France, develops AI assistants for enterprises, designed to integrate with internal company data to optimize workflows and boost productivity. The startup currently generates $1 million in annual recurring revenue, with customers including Watershed, Alan, Qonto, Pennylane, and PayFit.

OpenHands, founded in 2024 in Boston, USA, develops an open-source cloud-based autonomous coding agent platform capable of scaling to hundreds or thousands of agents in isolated environments.

Laravel is the company behind the open-source PHP web framework created by Taylor Otwell in 2011 (legal entity Laravel Holdings Inc., formerly Laravel LLC), based in Arkansas. It sells Laravel Cloud, Forge, Vapor, Nightwatch and Nova, and ships AI developer tooling including Laravel Boost (an MCP server for AI coding agents) and the Laravel AI SDK.

MCPJam is a San Francisco-based startup building a testing, debugging and evaluation platform for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and ChatGPT Apps/MCP apps. Its open-source flagship Inspector, which began as a fork of Anthropic's official MCP Inspector, lets developers test MCP server compatibility and reliability across AI clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Copilot, and run evaluations in CI/CD. Founded in 2025 by Matthew Wang and Marcelo Jimenez, it went through Open Core Ventures' Catalyst program.