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Xiaohan Shen
Xiaohan Shen is the co-founder and CEO of Coldreach (YC W23), a San Francisco startup that uses AI to find ready-to-buy leads by watching public buying signals and to personalize cold outbound at scale. A University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science and data science grad, he calls himself an 'outbound nerd' after writing more than 1,000 cold emails by hand at his first startup, EasyJobs, which he and co-founder Hankel Bao grew to 20,000 monthly active users before pivoting into the tooling problem they lived themselves.
Divyaanshu Makkar
Divyaanshu Makkar is the co-founder and CEO of WizCommerce, an AI-powered B2B commerce platform that helps wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers digitize their end-to-end sales. An IIT Delhi engineer with an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, he moved from management consulting at EY-Parthenon to venture investing at Bessemer Venture Partners before building his own company. WizCommerce serves 100-plus customers with more than 700 sales reps and 300,000 buyers, and raised an $8M Series A led by Peak XV Partners in 2025. Makkar was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2023.
Riccardo Pellegrini
Riccardo (Ricky) Pellegrini is the co-founder and CEO of Knode.ai, a New York-based AI sales-management platform that mines sales conversations to coach reps, score calls, and turn winning behaviors into repeatable playbooks. A Harvard College and Harvard Business School graduate, he built his career as a product leader - Head of Product for AWS Data Exchange and VP of Product at RapidSOS - before founding Knode in 2023 with Nicholas Horelik and Henry Katz. He is an inventor on multiple software patents and an active angel investor.