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Prabhav Jain
Prabhav Jain is the CEO of 11x, a San Francisco-based AI company building autonomous digital workers for revenue teams, backed by a16z with $102M raised. A three-time founder and MIT CS alumnus, he sold his second company CommonLounge to Brex in 2020, rose to Head of Engineering for Financial Services there, then joined 11x as CTO in 2024 before stepping up to CEO in May 2025. He is also an angel investor in 45+ companies and an a16z Scout.
Ben Tossell
Ben Tossell is a British founder, creator, and investor who built Makerpad (sold to Zapier in 2021), launched Ben's Bites - the AI newsletter that reached 162,000+ subscribers - six weeks before ChatGPT dropped, and now heads Developer Relations at Factory.ai. A self-described 'technical, non-technical person,' he has never written traditional code yet scouts for both Sequoia and a16z and has backed companies like Supabase, Pika Labs, and Gamma.