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Sami Senapathy
Sami (Sahitya) Senapathy is the solo founder and CEO of Endeavor AI, a San Francisco startup applying generative AI agents to the back-office and front-office grind of American factories and distributors. He started coding as a kid, built a FEMA disaster-response app in sixth grade, worked at the Air Force Research Lab at 16, interned at AWS, and shipped Palantir's first commercialized generative AI product in 2023 before launching Endeavor from his University of Pennsylvania dorm room and raising a $7M seed led by Craft Ventures.
Mok Oh
Mok Oh is the co-founder and CEO of Foundation EGI, a startup building what it calls the world's first Engineering General Intelligence platform - an AI system that turns messy engineering instructions into machine-executable workflows for design and manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT Ph.D. in computer graphics and vision, he previously founded EveryScape (a Street View for building interiors), served as Chief Scientist at PayPal where he built the data science org, and was CTO of Mercari US. Foundation EGI, spun out of MIT research, raised a $23M Series A in 2025, bringing total funding past $30M.