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Mohak Sharma
Mohak Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of HoneyHive, a New York-based AI observability and evaluation platform that helps companies ship reliable AI agents to production. Built OpenTelemetry-native, HoneyHive lets engineering teams trace, test, and monitor multi-step AI pipelines and answer the deceptively hard question of what their agents are doing and why. Sharma started the company in 2022 with his former Columbia roommate Dhruv Singh, and by 2025 had raised $7.4M in total funding, including a $5.5M seed led by Insight Partners, while serving Fortune 100 customers in insurance and banking.
Mainak Mazumdar
Mainak Mazumdar is Chief Business Officer at Fiddler AI, the AI observability and trust company, where he leads sales, customer success and partnerships. A data scientist by training with a Ph.D. from Brown, he spent two decades remaking how the media and advertising industries measure audiences - as Chief Data Officer at Nielsen (where he launched NielsenOne), Chief Research and Analytics Officer at Fox, and a leader at DoubleClick/Google, GfK and Simulmedia. His 2020 TED Talk, 'How bad data keeps us from good AI,' argued that biased data, not algorithms, is the root of unfair AI. He holds more than 15 U.S. patents and has served on the U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee.
Zubin Koticha
Zubin Koticha is the CEO and cofounder of Raindrop, a San Francisco startup building observability and alerting for AI agents, often described as 'Sentry for AI.' Before Raindrop, he cofounded Opyn, the DeFi options platform that pioneered the power perpetual (Squeeth), crossed $15B+ in volume, and was acquired by Coinbase. A UC Berkeley alum who taught himself to code there, he pairs a fascination with esoteric financial derivatives with bachata, deadlifting, and obscure geography trivia.
Ankur Goyal
Ankur Goyal is the Founder & CEO of Braintrust, a San Francisco-based AI evaluation and observability platform that helps engineering teams ship reliable AI products. Previously VP of Engineering at SingleStore (MemSQL) and founder of Impira (acquired by Figma in 2022), Goyal brings over a decade of distributed systems and ML infrastructure experience to the challenge of making AI applications production-ready. Braintrust has raised $121M in total funding, including an $80M Series B at an $800M valuation in February 2026, backed by ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and a roster of elite angels including Greg Brockman and Elad Gil.
Jonathan Trevor
Jonathan Trevor is a Co-Founder of Observe, Inc., an AI-powered observability platform built on a streaming data lake that unifies logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster. He came to Observe from Wavefront (now VMware Tanzu Observability), where he served as Frontend Lead, and before that led frontend engineering at Shocase. Trevor holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University. Observe - co-founded with Jacob Leverich (ex-Splunk), Jon Watte (ex-Roblox), and Philip Unterbrunner (ex-Snowflake) and incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures - raised $156M in Series C funding in July 2025 before Snowflake announced its intent to acquire the company for approximately $1 billion in January 2026, its largest acquisition to date.
Krishna Gade
Krishna Gade is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI observability and control platform that has raised over $112 million in funding. Before founding Fiddler in 2018, he built data infrastructure at scale at Microsoft/Bing, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook - where he led the team that created the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature, 'Why am I seeing this?' in News Feed. Fiddler AI sits at the intersection of AI transparency, model monitoring, and governance, serving Fortune 500 companies, the US Navy, and organizations that need to trust the decisions their AI systems make.