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Aaron Fessler
He built booking software for the tours-and-attractions world by first living inside it - running a 100-acre racetrack in the Nevada desert. Now Aaron Fessler wants to hand every operator the tools he wished he'd had.
Pricemoov
Pricemoov is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that builds a cloud-native price management and optimization platform. It combines data science, automation, and competitive market intelligence to help retailers, distributors, and enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices across channels - protecting margins and lifting revenue. Founded in 2016 by Pierre Hebrard, Francois Aubert, and Jean Saglio, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 and serves customers across auto-parts, grocery, retail, distribution, and rental industries.
Spresso.AI
Spresso.AI is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that uses AI, machine learning and reinforcement learning to help retailers, brands and CPG companies set profit-maximizing prices at the SKU level. Spun out of the online wholesaler Boxed, Spresso packages its Pricing Intelligence, Enterprise Commerce Suite and Spend Management tools into a modular platform that continuously tests price points and allocates customer traffic toward the most profitable one. Led by CEO Jared Yaman and backed by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, the company serves roughly 15 enterprise customers, including AEON Group and Fortune 500 brands.
Jared Yaman
Jared Yaman is the CEO and a co-founder of Spresso, a New York-based AI company that builds pricing intelligence and price-optimization software for retail, CPG, and ecommerce businesses. A three-time founder with a University of Michigan law and economics background, he previously co-founded and served as COO of Boxed, the online wholesale retailer that competed with Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, weathered the pandemic, and went public before winding down. At Spresso he is turning the pricing engine built inside Boxed into a standalone product, arguing that AI should supplement rather than replace human judgment.
Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Ronak Sheth
Ronak Sheth is the CEO of Pricefx, the cloud-native pricing software company, where he has pushed a disciplined 'smart growth' playbook and an aggressive bet on AI pricing agents. He arrived in 2021 as President and Chief Revenue Officer and took the top job in 2022. Before Pricefx he co-founded and led Label Insight, a B2B data SaaS company acquired by NielsenIQ. A Northwestern-trained industrial engineer with a Washington University MBA, he is a fixture of the St. Louis startup scene, sitting on boards and mentoring founders through Arch Grants.
Vendavo
Vendavo is an enterprise software company that helps B2B manufacturers and distributors price, quote, and sell more profitably. Its commercial platform unifies price optimization, intelligent CPQ (configure-price-quote), and rebate management with pricing science and explainable AI, aiming to capture 1 to 3 percent of incremental gross margin from complex commercial processes. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Vendavo is backed by Francisco Partners and Accel-KKR and serves global industrial customers.
Belong
Belong is a tech-enabled, AI-powered rental management network that vertically integrates the entire home-rental experience for both homeowners and residents. It markets homes across 26+ listing sites, vets residents, collects rent, handles maintenance, and offers homeowners Guaranteed Rent so they get paid on the first even when a resident is late. The mission is to let homeowners become financially free while helping residents feel they belong - and eventually become homeowners themselves.
Pricefx
Pricefx is a cloud-native, AI-powered pricing platform that helps enterprises set, manage, and optimize prices. Founded in 2011 in Germany, it offers a modular suite spanning price analytics, price setting, quoting (CPQ), rebate and agreement management, and AI-driven optimization. Today it serves enterprise manufacturers, distributors, and B2B leaders, and is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for B2B Pricing and Rebates Optimization Software.
Beyond
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a San Francisco-based revenue management platform for short-term rental owners and property managers. Its data-driven pricing engine, market insights, booking engine, and OTA distribution tools help hosts and managers grow bookings across 340,000+ listings in 7,500+ cities. Bessemer-backed and led by CEO Julie Brinkman, Beyond has powered billions in booking revenue and is widely viewed as the category's category-definer.
Dimension
Dimension is a San Francisco-based B2B waste management platform (formerly Trash Warrior) that uses software and an AI price quoter, Mirror Mirror, to coordinate hauling, recycling, and hazardous waste removal for enterprise customers like Amazon, Instacart, Home Depot, and the DEA - with the long-term aim of pulling the U.S. recycling rate from 35% to 75%.
Sharath Dorbala
Sharath Dorbala is the CEO of Vendavo, the Denver-based B2B pricing and commercial-excellence software company. A two-decade veteran of enterprise SaaS, CPQ, and subscription billing - with stops at Oracle, Amdocs, Conga, and the corner office at Vindicia - he now runs the company that helps the world's manufacturers and distributors squeeze margin out of every quote.
Tugce Erten
Tugce Erten is a Partner on the Growth team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads pricing and packaging strategy for portfolio companies. Drawing on a career spent inside high-growth tech companies - Atlassian, PagerDuty, and Freshworks - she has become one of Silicon Valley's go-to voices on B2B SaaS monetization, generative AI pricing, and the art of bundling. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, she brings an economist's rigor (NERA Economic Consulting, Edgeworth Economics) to the distinctly human problem of what something is worth.