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Scott Davis Keeps Asking the Question Software Forgets: Does It All Connect?
From a nine-year SAP run to rebuilding Calero's marketing stack and explaining AI governance at Stonebranch, Davis has made a career of translating complex systems into a sequence people can actually follow.
Jaeman An Is Building the Plumbing for AI's Expensive New Age
Before AI could write the future, someone had to make the machines cooperate. The VESSL AI co-founder turned a decade of infrastructure headaches into a company built for the age of scarce GPUs and restless models.
Tim Cherkasov
Tim Cherkasov is the co-founder and CEO of Trace (YC S25), an AI-native workflow orchestration platform that routes tasks between human teams and AI agents. A serial founder since age 17 with a fintech and data science background, he built and shut down the crypto-portfolio startup Clustr before pivoting into Trace, which topped the YC Launchpad leaderboard for the Summer 2025 cohort and raised a $3M seed round in early 2026.
Alexey Aylarov
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.
Marty Sprinzen
Marty Sprinzen is the co-founder and CEO of VANTIQ, a Walnut Creek, California-based platform company building real-time AI orchestration and agentic AI systems for mission-critical environments. A serial entrepreneur with a BSEE from Cooper Union (class of 1970), he previously co-founded Forte Software, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems for over $1 billion in 2000. After a 15-year hiatus spent flying planes, skiing, and sailing a Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole, he returned to found VANTIQ in 2015 with a mission to apply software to the world's toughest challenges - from disaster response and healthcare to smart cities and defense.
Rakesh Vaddadi
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
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.