Ning Zhang is the founder and CEO of Gloco.ai, the AI-era evolution of Flatfee, a managed marketplace that lets small and mid-sized businesses handle the legal, accounting, HR, and logistics paperwork of going global for predictable flat fees. A former cross-border lawyer with 15-plus years at firms including Jones Day, White & Case, and CKR Law, she left big-law billing behind to build software that does the unglamorous back-office legwork of international expansion for the smallest companies. Trained in journalism at Fudan and law at Georgetown, she now turns the friction of operating across borders into something an e-commerce seller can buy off a menu.
Wiedza i Praktyka (WIP) is one of Poland's largest providers of specialist professional information. Founded in Warsaw in 1997, it equips accountants, HR and payroll specialists, occupational-safety officers, healthcare managers, educators, lawyers and public administrators with the practical, up-to-date guidance they need to apply constantly changing regulations. WIP blends print and e-letters, industry web portals, software tools, expert helplines, and the Educado online learning platform, plus open and in-house training through Akademia Wiedza i Praktyka. Since August 2025 it has been wholly owned by Germany's VNR Group.
NetSuite is the world's first cloud ERP and CRM platform, founded in 1998 by Evan Goldberg and now owned by Oracle. Trusted by 43,000+ organizations across 220 countries, NetSuite unifies financials, CRM, e-commerce, HR, and supply chain in a single cloud-native suite — making it the go-to business operating system for companies scaling from startup to enterprise.
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Tania Brown is an ACCA-qualified executive and entrepreneur who serves as Area Vice President of APAC Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company. A digital and accounting leader with roots in venture capital, tech startups, and real estate, she has built a career spanning Brisbane, London, Melbourne, Singapore, and Sydney. Alongside her corporate career, she co-founded Jacq Leigh, a women's leather laptop bag brand launched in 2019 after noticing a gap in the market for functional, stylish bags designed for corporate women.
Merge builds the connective infrastructure for modern SaaS and AI: one unified API that lets a product offer hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, ticketing, and accounting integrations - and a newer Agent Handler that gives AI agents secure, observable access to thousands of third-party tools.
Gil Feig is the Co-Founder and CTO of Merge, the unified API platform that lets B2B software companies add hundreds of integrations to their products in days instead of months. He started coding at 12, got a cease-and-desist from Facebook at 16, and launched Merge in the middle of COVID after interviewing 100 companies before writing a single line of code. The company has raised $74.5M, serves 4,000+ customers, and named Feig and co-founder Shensi Ding to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Jamil Khatri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Uniqus Consultech Inc., a tech-enabled global consulting firm he launched in September 2022 after nearly 27 years at KPMG. A rare dual-qualified Indian CA and US CPA, Khatri spent decades pioneering accounting advisory in India, scaling KPMG's global Accounting Advisory Services to a $1 billion practice with 4,000+ consultants before striking out on his own. Uniqus has since grown to 700+ professionals, raised $42.5 million across four funding rounds including a $20 million Series C in April 2025, and serves blue-chip clients from HDFC Bank to Grammarly - with an IPO and $500 million revenue target firmly on the horizon.
Jessica McKellar is the CEO of Pilot.com, the largest accounting firm for startups in the US, which she co-founded in 2017 alongside longtime collaborators Waseem Daher and Jeff Arnold. A MIT computer science alumna, she previously co-founded Zulip (acquired by Dropbox) and served as Director of Engineering at Dropbox. Beyond building companies, she has been a transformative force in the Python open source community, growing Boston's Python user group to the world's largest, and teaching Python inside San Quentin State Prison. Pilot reached unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.2B valuation and over $222M raised from Sequoia, Index Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.
Mark Rojas is the Founder & CEO of Proper AI, a San Francisco-based company that has reinvented property accounting by combining human expertise with AI automation. Raised in New York's real estate world and trained as a designer, Rojas channeled a Fine Arts background and a stint at a Sequoia-backed startup into building a company that handles bookkeeping for property managers overseeing hundreds of thousands of units. Proper AI has raised over $17 million in funding and employs 320 people, offering property managers a full outsourced accounting team at roughly 30% less than in-house alternatives.
Nathan Stewart is a founding engineer at Merge (merge.dev), the unified API platform that lets B2B SaaS companies connect to hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting, and ticketing systems through a single integration. Based in New York and educated at The Ohio State University, Stewart is a backend developer who joined Merge in its early days and has helped scale the company to over 140 employees and $74.5M in funding. He describes himself as a 'Software Engineer & Puzzle Aficionado,' an apt description for someone building the connective infrastructure that keeps the modern SaaS stack wired together.
Pilot is a San Francisco-based finance back-office for startups and small businesses, combining software with U.S.-based accountants to deliver bookkeeping, tax prep, and CFO services. Founded in 2017 by three MIT friends who had sold two prior startups together, it now serves thousands of venture-backed companies and is backed by Sequoia, Index, and Jeff Bezos.
Uniqus Consultech is a tech-enabled, global consulting firm founded in 2022 by ex-KPMG and ex-EY leaders Jamil Khatri and Sandip Khetan. It blends accounting, ESG, risk, valuations, and AI-powered tooling (the UniVerse suite) to modernize how Big Four-style advisory work gets delivered to enterprises like HDFC Bank, Reliance, Flipkart, and Zomato.
Laurel is a San Francisco AI company that automates timekeeping for the world's largest law, accounting, and consulting firms. Its platform watches the digital exhaust of professional work - email, documents, browsers, calls - and turns it into ready-to-review timesheets, so billable hours stop being a chore reconstructed from memory on Friday afternoons.
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
Henrique Andrade is the CEO and co-founder of CEFIS, Brazil's largest corporate education platform for accounting, tax, and labor law professionals. Founded in Goiânia in 2013 and launched in 2014, CEFIS has scaled to over 400,000 students and 5,000+ courses, reaching its first million reais in revenue within 14 months. Under Andrade's leadership, CEFIS expanded internationally to Redwood City, California in 2018, inspired by Silicon Valley's best practices in e-learning and talent management. Based in San Francisco, Andrade blends a meritocracy-driven culture - drawing inspiration from Goldman Sachs and the 3G Group - with a Google-style workplace designed to attract top engineering talent.
Greg Strickland is the CEO of Ignition, a Sydney-founded revenue operations platform used by over 7,500 professional services businesses globally. A Silicon Valley veteran with 20+ years of experience scaling SaaS companies, Greg helped grow Box from 18 employees to a publicly traded enterprise, served as COO at Periscope Data and Productboard, and advised startups including Loom, Preset, and Grain before joining Ignition as Global President in 2024. In his first year he drove a 50% year-over-year revenue increase in North America, and in early 2025 he stepped up as CEO as co-founder Guy Pearson moved to Executive Chairman.
John Glasgow is the founder, CEO, and CFO of Campfire, the AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies. A 15-year finance veteran who passed through Adobe, Invoice2go, and Bill.com before founding Campfire during parental leave in 2023, Glasgow has raised over $100 million in funding — $35M Series A and $65M Series B in just 12 weeks — and is steering the company toward an IPO. His platform's proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) achieves 95% accuracy on financial workflows, and customers like Replit, Decagon, and PostHog have traded NetSuite for Campfire's AI-first stack.
Max Adams is the CEO of Executech, one of the largest managed IT services providers in the western United States and a flagship company within Evergreen Services Group's portfolio. A licensed CPA who cut his teeth at KPMG auditing clients with up to $60 billion in revenue, Adams joined Executech as CFO in 2023 and climbed to CEO, bringing a finance-first discipline to an industry often run by technologists. He leads a 240-person team serving 700+ organizations with a 97.7% customer satisfaction rate, while advocating loudly for AI and automation as the dividing line between MSPs that survive and those that don't.
Jeff Seibert is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor best known as co-founder and CEO of Digits, the world's first AI-native accounting platform, and previously co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics — the mobile crash reporting platform acquired by Twitter for over $100 million just 14 months after founding. A Stanford computer science graduate who taught himself to code at 12, Seibert also served as Twitter's Head of Consumer Product, appeared in the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, and has made 100+ angel investments. He is based in San Francisco, California.
Ethan Choi is a Partner at Khosla Ventures leading the firm's Growth Fund, where he writes checks between $15M and $70M into cloud infrastructure, SaaS, enterprise, and consumer internet companies from Seed through Series C. Before joining Khosla in 2024, he was a Partner at Accel, where he backed Klaviyo (now NYSE: KVYO), 1Password, and Pismo (acquired by Visa). His investing philosophy pivoted from metrics-first to founder-first — he now spends 90% of his diligence energy on the people rather than the numbers. A former LDS missionary who spent two years in South Korea, Choi is an unusually direct voice on AI's disruption of white-collar work and the coming robotics inflection point.
Seema Amble is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focused on early-stage SaaS and B2B fintech investments globally. Armed with a Harvard JD/MBA (Baker Scholar), regulatory experience at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and over a decade of fintech investing at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, she backs founders building financial operations software, AI-native accounting tools, and payments infrastructure. She hosts a16z's 'My First 16' podcast, interviewing founders like Plaid's Zach Perret and Mercury's Immad Akhund on how they landed their first enterprise customers.
Ellie Bof is the Director of Finance at Forum Ventures, a leading pre-seed venture capital fund and B2B SaaS accelerator based in New York. A Commerce graduate of Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management, she spent 13 years mastering accounting and operations at Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation before pivoting to the fast-paced world of venture capital. At Forum Ventures - which backs over 100 companies annually - Ellie keeps the financial engine running: closing books, ensuring accurate LP reporting, and processing invoices across a 30+ person team. Her promotion to Director of Finance recognized her as, in the firm's own words, 'a warrior in closing our books, ensuring accurate reporting to our LPs, processing invoices, and ultimately keeping the lights on.'