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Michael Malakhov
Michael Malakhov is the founder and CEO of Carpool Logistics, an Atlanta-based technology company that modernizes how cars move across the supply chain by bundling vehicle shipments to cut costs and emissions. After nearly two decades in freight and automotive logistics - 16 years at C.H. Robinson and an executive role at ACERTUS - he launched Carpool in 2021. The company has shipped more than 150,000 vehicles for over 1,800 clients and raised a $12M Series A in 2025 led by Wavecrest Growth Partners with participation from CarMax. An immigrant who says he has lived under communist, socialist, and American systems, Malakhov is a vocal believer that 'the American dream is alive and well.'
Kevin Song
Kevin Song is the founder and CEO of withco, a New York-based company helping small business owners buy the buildings they rent through a lease-to-own model. The son of Korean immigrants whose Brooklyn grocery store was lost when a landlord doubled the rent, Song turned that family loss into a venture-backed mission: turn tenants into owners. A Cornell economics graduate and former J.P. Morgan analyst named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social entrepreneurship, he raised more than $30 million from Founders Fund, Canaan, NFX and Initialized, plus backers including Venus Williams, Kevin Durant, Will Smith's Dreamers VC and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.