James Reilly is the co-founder and CEO of Latent Knowledge, a New York based AI company behind LitView, a semantic search engine that maps and clusters technical literature in 3D so researchers can find related work across disciplines instead of hunting database by database. A West Point life-science researcher with a background spanning psychology, physiology and education, Reilly built LitView after noticing how often ideas in unrelated fields quietly overlap. The platform has been trialed at West Point, Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Geneva and King's College London, and Latent Knowledge struck a co-selling partnership with Microsoft in 2022.
Eric Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Consensus, an AI search engine that pulls evidence-based answers out of more than 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers. A former Northwestern University offensive lineman who became a data scientist at DraftKings, Olson built Consensus with his college teammate Christian Salem so that ordinary people would not feel like outsiders to science. The company launched publicly in 2022 and raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024 led by Union Square Ventures, with backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.