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About Pendo

Pendo is a leading product experience and software analytics platform that helps companies understand how users interact with their software and improve those experiences. It operates in the product analytics and digital adoption space, enabling organizations to combine analytics, in-app guidance, and user feedback in one unified platform.

Pendo – Key Highlights

• Founded in 2013, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Serves 14,000+ companies globally
• Processes 20B+ daily events and supports 1B+ users
• 850+ employees across global offices
• Raised $350M+ total funding from investors like General Atlantic, Tiger Global, and Sapphire Ventures

Chisel was acquired by Pendo in 2026, marking a key milestone in its journey. The acquisition strengthens Pendo’s push into AI-driven product experience, with Chisel’s agentic capabilities becoming a core part of Pendo’s broader platform vision.

Chisel Labs is an AI-powered product management platform built to help product teams move faster and make better decisions. It operates in the product management and AI SaaS space, bringing feedback, roadmapping, and documentation into a unified system of record.

At its core, Chisel functions as an AI PM Agent, automating workflows like PRDs, research, and feedback analysis - allowing teams to focus on strategy, prioritization, and product outcomes.

About Chisel

Chisel is a lean, globally distributed team with presence across the US and India. The team operates at the intersection of AI, product management, and enterprise SaaS, with a strong emphasis on ownership, speed, and building for real-world product teams at scale. Post-acquisition, the team is now part of Pendo’s broader organization.

🏆 Milestones

• Founded in the early 2020s as a next-gen product management platform
• Built one of the early AI-native PM agents for automating product workflows
• Grew adoption across global teams with integrations like Jira, Salesforce, and Zendesk
• Achieved strong product recognition across PM tooling ecosystems
• Acquired by Pendo (2026) to accelerate AI innovation in product experience

StepSecurity is dedicated to enhancing CI/CD security by providing solutions to prevent pipeline attacks. Founded by seasoned security professionals with experience at Microsoft, Uber, and Plaid, StepSecurity addresses the security gaps highlighted by major breaches like SolarWinds and Codecov.

Founders:

- Varun Sharma: CEO & Co-Founder, formerly at Microsoft.

- Ashish Kurmi: CTO & Co-Founder, with experience at Plaid, Uber, and Microsoft.

Advisors:

- Sekhar Sarrukai, David Cross, Gagan Gulati, Jordan Harband, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar.

Investors:

StepSecurity is backed by leading VCs and notable angel investors, including Anmol Malhotra (Coinbase), Ash Devata (GreyNoise), and David Cross (Rain Capital).

Funding raised: $3M - Seed Funding

For more detailed information, visit - https://www.stepsecurity.io/team

TheCodersHub is a startup that offers services in #androiddevelopment, #webdevelopment, #softwaredevelopment, #mobiledevelopment, and #iosdevelopment. While still in the early stages, we are focused on growth and innovation within the tech industry.

Recruiting Bond is a global leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Executive Search, Headhunting, Talent Mapping, and Workforce Consulting. Founded by Pavan B, we are on a mission to power businesses through transformative talent strategies that scale teams, accelerate innovation, and unlock human potential.

With a presence across 25+ industries—from IT, Healthcare, and FinTech to Gaming, BioTech, and Web3—we specialize in hiring that drives outcomes. Our domain expertise spans high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, delivering elite CXO and leadership talent, strategic workforce solutions, and inclusive hiring at scale.

We help businesses:

✔️ Hire the right leaders and builders

✔️ Scale globally with speed and precision

✔️ Build talent-first roadmaps from MVP to IPO

Whether you're launching, scaling, or transforming—Recruiting Bond is your strategic partner in talent.

🔹 Industries: Technology | Healthcare | FinTech | Retail | Manufacturing | EdTech | Crypto | Real Estate | Web3 | Logistics | Energy & more

🔹 Services: Executive Hiring | RPO | Talent Strategy | Workforce Design | Startup Consulting | Diversity Recruitment

📨 Let’s build the future—together: https://recruitingbond.c

Blitzy is a Boston, MA based Generative AI Start-up with an established office in Pune, India. We are on a mission to automate custom software creation to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, have success as founders at the last start-up, and dozens of Generative AI patents to our names.

Our Culture

Our Co-Founder and CTO is a Serial Gen AI Inventor who grew up in Pune, India, is a BITS Pilani graduate, and worked at NVIDIA's Pune office for 6 years. There, he was promoted 5 times in 6 years and was transferred to the NVIDIA Headquarters in Santa Clara, California. After making significant contributions to NVIDIA, he proceeded to attend Harvard for his dual Masters in Engineering and MBA from HBS. Our other Co-Founder/CEO is a successful Serial Entrepreneur who has built multiple companies. As a team, we work very hard, have a curious mind-set, and believe in a low-ego high output approach.

Funding Journey

In September 2024, Blitzy secured $4.4M in seed funding from prominent investors including Link Ventures, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Flybridge, and four other strategic investors, demonstrating strong market confidence in their autonomous software development platform.

Our Values

1. We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company's and our client's most precious asset. We move fast and fearlessly to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally to our clients.
2. We have a Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
3. We have a Passion for Invention: We are inventors at heart. We value starting with best practices and open source, but we are pushing the frontier of what is possible.
4. We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships to deep, meaningful partnerships.

What We Ask of Candidates

Please ask yourself if you are ready for a challenge before applying. Even in optimal conditions, Start-Ups are hard, and are always a lot of work. What you do week to week will change. If this feels exciting, not concerning, that's a good sign.

At MindBridge, we partner with businesses to solve complex challenges and unlock new opportunities for growth through consulting, shared services, and AI-powered solutions. We combine deep industry expertise with technology to help organizations transform critical business functions across finance, compliance, HR, IT, legal, and ESG. By delivering scalable, future-ready solutions, we enable our clients across the USA, UK, Europe, and the Middle East to improve operational efficiency, strengthen governance, and achieve sustainable business outcomes.

What sets us apart is our people and our collaborative culture. We believe in working together, embracing innovation, and creating meaningful impact for our clients, our communities, and one another. At MindBridge, you'll have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, grow alongside talented professionals, and contribute to building solutions that shape the future of global businesses.