Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.
Brain Co. is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that deploys production-ready AI applications for the world's most complex, regulated industries - from government and healthcare to hospitality, energy, and supply chain. Founded by a constellation of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Elad Gil and Dan Ashton, and backed by an elite roster of investors including Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy, Brain Co. raised a $30M Series A in September 2025. Its core technology converts dense regulatory documents into executable rules engines that make AI decisions auditable and compliant - so that governments can permit faster, hospitals can care better, and supply chains can run leaner.
Arjun Prakash is the Co-Founder and CEO of Distyl AI, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company valued at $1.8 billion after raising $175M in a September 2025 Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures. Drawing on nearly a decade at Palantir Technologies where he built and led a 30+ person team of Forward Deployed strategists and engineers, Prakash co-founded Distyl to help Fortune 500 companies become genuinely AI-native - not by layering AI onto existing processes, but by rearchitecting how enterprises operate. Distyl claims a 100% production success rate against an industry norm of 95% failure, serves clients across healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services, and reached profitability in Q3 2024.