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Kurt Kratchman
Kurt Kratchman is the New York-based CEO of Virti, an AI role-play and interactive video training platform used to teach communication, leadership and clinical skills. A technology operator with two decades in adtech, martech and media, he was COO of Grapeshot (acquired by Oracle, where he became a Group VP) and a founding partner at Makude Investment Partners. At Virti he leads the company's push to make experiential learning scalable through virtual humans, 360-degree video and generative AI.
Sriharsha Guduguntla
Sriharsha 'Sai' Guduguntla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyperbound, a YC S23-backed enterprise AI platform that pioneered AI sales roleplay. A self-taught full-stack engineer with 12+ years of software development experience and a UC Berkeley CS graduate (2022), he previously worked at Salesforce's Einstein AI Chatbots team and as a founding engineer at Bloom (YC W21). After conducting 2,000+ user interviews, he and co-founder Atul Raghunathan pivoted Hyperbound from email automation into the first scalable AI sales practice arena - trusted by IBM, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Bloomberg, and Autodesk. In September 2025, Hyperbound raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV Partners.