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Vidur Mahajan Makes Every AI Sit for an Interview
A physician who once had to choose among scattered radiology algorithms is building the neutral layer that tests, hires and watches them at work. His ambition now stretches far beyond the reading room.
Dan Hnatkovskyy
Dan Hnatkovskyy is a Ukraine-born, Austin-based PropTech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Jome (formerly NewHomesMate), an AI-powered real estate marketplace built to help buyers find, compare, and purchase new construction homes. A serial founder whose earlier ventures included Preenster and Brainify, he launched the company in 2020 and grew it despite a pandemic, recession, and the war in Ukraine, reaching 16 U.S. markets and more than 100,000 buyers. He was named to Forbes' inaugural Austin 30 Under 30 list in 2023, and in December 2024 the company raised a $9.8M Series A and rebranded as Jome.
Alex Atallah
Alex Atallah is the CEO and co-founder of OpenRouter, the unified API and marketplace that routes developer requests across hundreds of large language models. He previously co-founded OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, where he was CTO before leaving in 2022 to build from zero to one again. A Stanford computer scientist and Palantir alum, he turned a side project that connected browsers to AI models into infrastructure now routing roughly 25 trillion tokens a week, and raised a $113M Series B in 2026.
Nicolas Desmarais
Nicolas Desmarais is the chairman and co-CEO of AppDirect, the San Francisco-based B2B subscription commerce platform he co-founded with Daniel Saks in 2009 out of an apartment at age 23. AppDirect now powers digital marketplaces for thousands of providers across software, telecom, energy, hardware and AI, has raised roughly $750M, and most recently unveiled an AI-led 'everything store' for B2B procurement.