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Checkit wants to catch the fridge before it fails
Behind the cold doors of hospitals, laboratories and supermarkets, Checkit turns readings into jobs people can act on. Its next test is making that everyday usefulness pay.
Stephanie Weagle Makes Cybersecurity Speak Human
Liongard's chief marketing officer built her career by listening closely, translating technical complexity, and rolling up her sleeves. Now she is helping a small team carry asset intelligence into a crowded cybersecurity market.
Jeff Westover Wants to Give the Industrial World a Memory
After three decades selling software, telematics and transformation, Jeff Westover has arrived at Geoforce with a deceptively plain mission: make invisible equipment visible, then make the market understand why that matters.
Shawn Herring Would Rather Be Less Wrong Than Loudly Right
A biology student became a B2B SaaS operator by treating every campaign as a hypothesis. At EZO, Shawn Herring is still testing - now with brand trust, asset intelligence, and the cost of being confidently wrong.
Axonius Bet Every Security Team Had the Same Blind Spot - Then Turned Inventory Into a $200 Million ARR Business
The clever part was not finding one more signal. It was making hundreds of tools compare notes - and turning the discrepancies into a product security teams could act on.
Liongard’s Bet: The MSP Tool That Turned Stale Documentation Into a Living Map
MSPs used to document a client’s network and watch the truth expire. Liongard built a business by turning that slow leak of accuracy into a continuously updated asset-intelligence layer - useful when the rollout discipline is as good as the software.
Buzz Solutions Found the Grid’s Most Expensive Bottleneck: The Human Eyeball
Utilities learned how to photograph every pole and tower. Then the pictures piled up. Buzz Solutions built the software layer that turns that visual backlog into repair orders - and a wind-turbine class project into a utility business.
Jonathon Barkl Is Teaching Parking Lots to Pay Attention
A student parking problem became a lesson in door-to-door sales, operational grit, and the value of seeing what everyone else ignores. Now AirGarage is using parking as the first test of a larger idea: physical real estate can behave like software once it becomes observable.
H3 Zoom
H3 Zoom is a Singapore-based deep-tech company that turns drone, robotics, 360-degree and existing visual data into regulator-defensible building and infrastructure inspection reports. Its AI platform automates facade and interior condition assessments - detecting, grading and mapping defects - to cut inspection time and cost while improving worker safety. Spun out of aerospace group H3 Dynamics and founded in 2016, the company has completed more than 10,000 inspections across seven countries and closed an oversubscribed USD $3.6 million Series A in 2026 to scale across Asia.
Paul Kromidas
Paul Kromidas is the founder and CEO of Summer, a New York short-term rental technology company behind SummerOS, which he pitches as the asset-intelligence platform for vacation-rental owners and operators. A former Airbnb product and strategy lead who helped build Airbnb Luxe, he started Summer in 2021 to make high-performance vacation-rental ownership accessible, then pivoted the business toward SaaS software that forecasts rental revenue and optimizes property performance.
Pandian Gnanaprakasam
Pandian Gnanaprakasam is the CEO and co-founder of ORDR, a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity company specializing in IoT, OT, and IoMT security with $94M in funding. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in networking and security, he previously co-founded Aruba Networks — acquired by HPE for $3 billion in 2015 — and led engineering at Cisco's multi-billion-dollar Wi-Fi business. At ORDR, he returned as CEO in March 2025 to spearhead the evolution of the ORDR AI Protect platform, which provides agentless device discovery, AI-driven risk scoring, and automated zero-trust policy enforcement across millions of connected devices in healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure.