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Bigeye Watches the Data Your AI Forgot to Question
Bigeye began by catching broken tables before they reached the boardroom. Now it wants to watch the agents reading them, too - a useful expansion for enterprises, and a lot of machinery for everyone else.
Vin Sharma
Vin Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Vijil, a Menlo Park startup building trust infrastructure that helps enterprises deploy AI agents that are reliable, secure, and safe. He spent roughly three decades in AI, data, cloud, operating systems, and security, most recently as GM and Director of Engineering at AWS AI, where he worked on the deep-learning engines behind Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Earlier he ran a division at Intel that built a bespoke datacenter for BMW's autonomous-driving research and held product and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard across open source, big data, cloud, and Linux. Founded in 2023, Vijil has raised $23 million, counts SmartRecruiters, DigitalOcean, and DuploCloud among its users, and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.
Vijil
Vijil is a Menlo Park-based AI company building trust infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. Founded in 2023 by senior AWS leaders, its modular platform tests, defends, and continuously hardens agents so they are verifiably reliable, secure, and safe - cutting the time it takes enterprises to trust an agent from about six months to six weeks. Vijil raised $17 million in 2025 (total $23 million) and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor.
Miriam Haart
Miriam Haart is the founder and CEO of ActionAI, a Reliable AI company building auditable, accountable infrastructure for mission-critical enterprise workflows. A Stanford computer science graduate who became the department's youngest lecturer at 19, she built her first iOS app at 13 after YouTubing 'how to make an app.' Known to millions from the Netflix series My Unorthodox Life, she has shipped more than ten apps, given a TED talk on independent thinking, and in April 2026 raised a $10 million seed round to fix AI's trust problem.
Anand Tharanathan
Anand Tharanathan is Group Vice President and Global Head of Product Research and Insights at ServiceNow, where he leads end-to-end user research and AI trust initiatives for one of enterprise software's fastest-growing platforms. With a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School, and a career that runs from Honeywell's aerospace labs through Facebook to the frontier of enterprise AI, he bridges rigorous science and product craft at scale. His current focus on building trust in generative AI systems puts him at the intersection of human factors research and the most pressing question in enterprise technology.