Diana Frappier is the co-founder of Promise, an Oakland-based AI-powered government payment platform that helps municipalities and utilities distribute relief, recover revenue, and automate eligibility checks at scale. A UC Hastings-trained lawyer turned social entrepreneur, she co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights with Van Jones in 1996, helped launch the first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, and then pivoted to fintech after years running operations at Green For All and Honor. At Promise, she and CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins have raised over $48M and built a platform that has distributed $150M+ in government relief to hundreds of thousands of residents.
Nehal Shaikh is the Chief Executive Officer (India) at Front, the customer operations platform headquartered in San Francisco. Front helps more than 8,000 companies manage customer communication across email, SMS, live chat, and other channels through shared inboxes, AI-powered automation, and real-time analytics. Backed by $338M in total funding and valued at $1.7B since its 2022 Series D, Front crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue in 2025. Based in Maharashtra, India, Shaikh leads Front's India operations as the company scales its AI-driven customer service platform globally.
Rich Waldron is the Co-founder and CEO of Tray.ai, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI automation and integration platform. He co-founded the company in 2012 out of the UK alongside Alistair Russell and Dominic Lewis, famously surviving 3.5 years without salary by running a web agency, publishing a magazine, and selling shoes on eBay. Under his leadership, Tray.ai has raised $149.1M in funding (most recently a $40M Series C extension in 2022), earned Gartner Visionary recognition in 2024 and 2025, and evolved from an iPaaS provider into an AI-ready enterprise orchestration platform championing the concept of the 'Autonomous Enterprise.'
Vijay Tella is the co-founder and CEO of Workato, a $5.7B enterprise automation platform that has become the integration backbone for over 21,000 businesses worldwide. With 30+ years spent building the middleware plumbing of Silicon Valley - from co-founding TIBCO Software to architecting Oracle Fusion Middleware to selling Qik to Skype - Tella launched Workato in 2013 with a straightforward conviction: integration should be something anyone can do, not just engineers with specialized tools. His book 'The New Automation Mindset' became a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2023, and Workato has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for iPaaS seven consecutive years running.
Bruno Ruyu is an Argentine physicist-turned-AI entrepreneur who has spent over two decades at the intersection of data, energy, and enterprise intelligence. As Founder and CEO of Teramot, he is building what he calls 'the first Artificial Data Team' — an AI-powered data infrastructure platform that connects to databases, writes production-ready SQL, and builds ETL pipelines autonomously. A veteran of YPF, Xerox, and executive roles at Reba and Grupo San Cristóbal, Ruyu trained his first neural network in 2005 before the term 'AI' became a buzzword, and today operates from San Francisco with a seed-funded company on a mission to democratize data engineering for every company on earth.
Arjun Mangla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fulcrum, an AI-powered workflow automation platform that is quietly transforming how commercial insurance brokers operate. A Columbia-trained computer scientist turned McKinsey consultant, Mangla left a high-flying advisory career to tackle one of corporate America's most overlooked inefficiencies: the manual, error-prone drudgery of insurance policy checking and proposal generation. Under his leadership, Fulcrum has captured nearly a third of the top 50 U.S. insurance brokers as customers, raised $25M in total funding led by CRV, and grown revenue 5x in six months - all by making insurance brokers dramatically faster and more accurate without replacing the humans who know their clients.