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Erik Goldman
Erik Goldman is the founder and CEO of Sfara, a Hoboken, New Jersey company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a safety and collision-detection platform using on-device AI and sensor data. A connected-vehicle pioneer, he co-founded Hughes Telematics in 2006, grew it to more than 1,000 employees and roughly $250M in revenue, and saw it acquired by Verizon in 2012, where he served as Group President of Verizon Telematics. At Sfara he is building AI that detects crashes at all speeds, suppresses false positives, and speeds emergency response and insurance claims for automakers, insurers, fleets and wireless carriers.
Desteia
Desteia is an AI-native platform for global trade that turns the messy, unstructured data of logistics - emails, chat messages, PDFs, customs filings - into a single validated source of truth. Using large language models to read documents and graph theory to model shipments as networks of locations and routes, Desteia gives supply chain operators end-to-end visibility across ocean, ground, and air, with particular depth on the roughly $850B U.S.-Mexico cross-border corridor. Founded in 2023 by former Tesla executive Francoise Lavertu Stevens and Stanford engineers Diego Solorzano and Austin Poore, the New York-based company raised an $8M seed round in early 2025.
Logan Green
Logan Green co-founded Lyft in 2012 after being inspired by Zimbabwe's crowdsourced carpool networks, transforming it from a college carpooling experiment called Zimride into one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies. After stepping down as CEO in 2023, he now serves as a venture partner at Autotech Ventures, focusing on the future of mobility and sustainable transportation. Born in LA and educated at UC Santa Barbara, Green was the youngest director of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District and created campus car-sharing programs before revolutionizing urban transportation for millions.