Zapier is the automation platform that connects more than 8,000 apps so people can build workflows - called Zaps - without writing code. Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, the fully remote company has grown from a Y Combinator side project into a roughly $5 billion business serving millions of users, and it is now reorienting around AI agents that don't just move data between apps but make decisions inside the workflow.
Alexey Aylarov is the CEO and co-founder of Voximplant, a Voice AI orchestration and cloud communications platform (CPaaS) powering 30,000+ customers and 2+ billion calls annually. A VoIP engineer turned serial entrepreneur, he spent 20+ years in telecommunications before building Voximplant into an enterprise-grade platform combining serverless infrastructure with AI-driven voice and video communications. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he co-founded the company in 2013 alongside Sergey Poroshin and Andrey Kovalenko, guiding it to profitability in under two years and through a $30M Series C raise in 2021.
Tray.ai is an AI-ready enterprise integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that connects 700+ apps, orchestrates AI agents, and lets companies build production-grade agentic workflows on a single composable foundation. Founded in London in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it underpins agent and automation programs at thousands of companies.
Workato is a Palo Alto-based enterprise automation and integration platform (iPaaS) that lets IT and business teams build cross-app workflows - called Recipes - with low-code/no-code building blocks and a growing layer of AI agents. It connects more than a thousand SaaS apps and on-prem systems, and is used by companies like Atlassian, Box, GitLab, Broadcom, and Toast to automate everything from employee onboarding to order-to-cash.
Rakesh Vaddadi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beacon.li, a Milpitas-based AI orchestration platform that automates enterprise software implementation - from configuration and testing to deployment and hypercare support. A BITS Pilani computer science alumnus and serial entrepreneur, Rakesh previously co-founded WINDO (an Instagram commerce platform used by 200,000+ sellers in 144 countries) and Gear6 (a bike maintenance startup). At Beacon.li, he is tackling one of enterprise software's biggest blind spots: the gap between a signed contract and a successful go-live, using AI agents that learn through the UI without any backend access. The company raised a $7M Series A in March 2025 led by Sorin Investments.
Ed King is the Founder and CEO of Openprise, a RevOps data automation platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from UC Berkeley, Ed spent over a decade in enterprise middleware and product management roles at IBM, Oracle, Qualys, and Axway before founding Openprise in 2013. He built the company to solve the data chaos he witnessed firsthand in go-to-market operations — enabling non-technical RevOps teams to automate complex data workflows without writing a single line of code. Under his leadership, Openprise has raised $57.93M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in March 2024, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace three consecutive years.