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Melody McCloskey
Melody McCloskey is the founder and CEO of StyleSeat, the largest online marketplace for beauty, grooming, and wellness services, connecting over 350,000 independent beauty professionals with 10 million+ consumers across the United States. She co-founded StyleSeat in 2011 alongside Dan Levine, bootstrapped the company for 18 months before raising $40.7 million in venture funding, and has helped power over 200 million appointments while generating $12+ billion in total revenue for small businesses. A San Francisco native who studied French and International Relations at UC Davis, McCloskey built StyleSeat out of her own frustration with booking beauty appointments, turning a personal pain point into a platform that fundamentally reshaped how independent beauty professionals run their businesses. She is also an angel investor and Cleo Capital scout, focused on backing female-led startups at the pre-seed through Series A stages.
Monik Pamecha
Monik Pamecha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Toma, an AI voice platform built for automotive dealerships. A programmer since age 11-12, he published ML research in 2016, built AI at Uber, Turing.com, and Braze, and co-founded Skindex (a skincare AI startup that was acquired) before landing in the car business - almost by accident. Toma, backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz with a $17M Series A, automates inbound calls, appointment scheduling, and customer follow-ups for 100+ U.S. dealerships, handling over 1 million call minutes and approaching eight-figure ARR in under two years.