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Anthony Habayeb
He spent a career refusing to specialize, then a bike ride with doctors handed him the one hard problem worth building a company around: making the AI behind real decisions something a human can actually answer for.
Monitaur
Monitaur is a Boston-based B2B software company that builds an AI governance platform for highly regulated industries, most notably insurance and financial services. Its 'policy-to-proof' approach helps enterprises define AI policies, inventory and manage models, and automatically generate the evidence, monitoring, and audit trails that businesses, regulators, and consumers need to trust high-impact AI. Founded in 2019 by Anthony Habayeb, Andrew Clark, and Michael Herman, the company raised a $6M Series A in 2024 and has been recognized by Forrester as a Customer Favorite in AI governance.
Guide Labs
Guide Labs is a San Francisco AI research company building interpretable foundation models - large language and diffusion models that can reliably explain how they reach an answer, trace outputs back to their training data, and be steered without retraining. Founded in 2023 by machine-learning researcher Julius Adebayo and colleagues from the academic interpretability world, the company argues that the black-box status quo is a solvable engineering problem, not an unavoidable cost of scale. Its flagship open-source release, Steerling-8B, is pitched as the first large-scale inherently interpretable language model, and its Clarity platform packages interpretability tools for teams in regulated, high-stakes fields like lending, medicine, and drug discovery.
Sixfold
Sixfold is a New York-based enterprise AI company building purpose-built artificial intelligence for insurance underwriters. Its platform learns a carrier's risk appetite, reads and summarizes complex submissions, surfaces cited risk signals, and deploys AI agents that research, write referrals, and advance cases - so underwriters spend their time on judgment instead of paperwork. The company serves global carriers, MGAs, and reinsurers across property & casualty and life & health, and has processed more than a million submissions for insurers representing hundreds of billions in gross written premium.
Krishna Gade
Krishna Gade is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI observability and control platform that has raised over $112 million in funding. Before founding Fiddler in 2018, he built data infrastructure at scale at Microsoft/Bing, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook - where he led the team that created the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature, 'Why am I seeing this?' in News Feed. Fiddler AI sits at the intersection of AI transparency, model monitoring, and governance, serving Fortune 500 companies, the US Navy, and organizations that need to trust the decisions their AI systems make.
Vianai Systems, Inc.
Vianai Systems is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company founded by Dr. Vishal Sikka - former CEO of Infosys and CTO of SAP - that builds human-centered AI platforms designed to make generative AI genuinely useful at scale. Its flagship product, hila, is a conversational AI analytics platform that lets C-suite executives query enterprise data in plain language, while its broader MLOps platform handles model explainability, drift detection, bias monitoring, and automatic retraining across industries including financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, and defense. Backed by $440 million in funding including investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Vianai partners with TCS, Google Cloud, Cognizant, and Boomi to deploy trusted, responsible AI for the world's largest enterprises.