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NetApp
NetApp is a San Jose-based data infrastructure company that helps enterprises store, manage, protect and move their data across on-premises systems and every major public cloud. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, it built its business on the ONTAP data management operating system and today sells all-flash storage arrays, cloud storage services and software that increasingly targets AI and machine-learning workloads. A Fortune 500 company trading on the Nasdaq as NTAP, it reported record fiscal-2026 revenue of roughly $6.93 billion.
Teramot
Teramot is an AI-powered data infrastructure company that connects any AI model - Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini - to a company's real data in under an hour, with no technical team required. Its system of specialized AI agents inspects existing databases, warehouses, ERPs, CRMs and APIs, detects data-quality issues, proposes transformations and generates transparent, auditable SQL that produces a production-ready, queryable data layer called a Gold Table. Founded in 2022 (formerly Halley) and led by CEO Bruno Ruyu, the company is based in San Francisco with roots in Cordoba, Argentina.
Hovhannes Kuloghlyan
Hovhannes Kuloghlyan is a co-founder and Head of Operations at Wirestock, a San Francisco-based platform that sits at the intersection of the creator economy and AI data infrastructure. With a PhD in Cosmology from Yerevan Physics Institute and early career stints in blockchain development with Ripple, he transitioned into building one of the world's leading platforms for ethically sourced multimodal AI training data. Wirestock now serves over 700,000 creators globally and surpassed a $40M annual revenue run rate, closing a $23M Series A in May 2026. Kuloghlyan also chairs Grōksmith, a software design and development company with clients including PwC, the Ethereum Foundation, and UEFA.