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Terrell Marshall
Terrell Marshall is the founder and CEO of Passage (YC S24), a San Francisco startup building an AI co-pilot for customs brokers and trade compliance teams. Before Passage, he worked on AI products used by more than a billion people at Google, including Google Photos, Google Payments, and Hotels Search, and was a software engineer at Workday. He co-founded Passage with Aditya Nadkarni, a college friend with whom he also holds a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Passage automates the manual data entry and email correspondence that customs teams spend hours on, pulling data from commercial invoices, bills of lading, and packing lists to pre-fill entry filings and validate compliance.
Saurabh Jain
Saurabh Jain is the founder and CEO of Spire.AI, a domain-intelligent AI copilot for talent that uses a Large Graph Model for skills to help enterprises match, mobilize, and reskill their workforce. A three-decade veteran of enterprise software with earlier stops at Oracle, SAP, Yahoo, and Apigee, he now writes and speaks about skills-based organizations, ethical AI, and treating the CHRO and CFO as equal partners.
Dan Schuleman
Dan Schuleman is the co-founder and CEO of Qumis, a Chicago-based AI platform that reads and interprets complex insurance policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would. A former insurance coverage litigator and in-house counsel at Kin Insurance, he started Qumis in 2023 after years of marking up dense policy PDFs by hand. The company has raised roughly $6.75M and counts five of the 15 largest U.S. insurance brokers among its users.
Ali Akhtar
Ali Akhtar is the co-founder and CEO of Letter AI, a Chicago-based, AI-native revenue enablement platform that helps B2B sales teams build training, content, coaching, and live deal guidance with generative AI. A University of Chicago and Michigan Ross graduate, he spent roughly a decade leading machine learning and product teams at Samsara, project44, and McKinsey before launching Letter AI through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch. By early 2026 the company had raised more than $52 million, including a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, and counted Lenovo, Adobe, Novo Nordisk, Plaid, and SolarWinds among its customers.
Luke Han
Luke Han is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kyligence, the enterprise data analytics company built by the team that created Apache Kylin - the first Apache Software Foundation top-level project developed in China. A former eBay big data product lead, Han co-invented Apache Kylin in 2013, open-sourced it in 2014, then founded Kyligence in 2016 to commercialize the technology. Under his leadership, Kyligence raised $110M+ in funding including a $70M Series D, serves clients including UBS, McDonald's, and L'OREAL, and has evolved into an AI-powered metrics platform. Han is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Apache Kylin VP, Forbes Technology Council member, and Fortune China 40 Under 40 honoree.