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Matt Soule
Matt Soule is the founder and CEO of Parallel Systems, a Los Angeles company building autonomous, battery-electric railcars that move freight in small, self-propelled platoons instead of behind diesel locomotives. A former SpaceX avionics leader who once ran a 300-person department, Soule started Parallel in 2020 to pull short-haul freight off congested highways and onto underused rail. The company has raised more than $91 million, secured a Federal Railroad Administration pilot near the Port of Savannah, and aims to convert a slice of the $700 billion U.S. trucking market to cleaner rail.
Sergiy Nesterenko
Sergiy Nesterenko is the founder and CEO of Quilter, a Los Angeles company building AI that designs printed circuit boards on its own. A former SpaceX avionics engineer who spent five years on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy electronics, he watched one of his first boards literally burn up in his hands and decided manual PCB layout was a problem worth a decade. Quilter trains its system on physics and constraints rather than copying human designers, and in 2025 it produced the world's first fully functional computer laid out by AI.
Kyle Moore
Kyle Moore is co-founder and Software Fellow at Pyka, the Alameda, California company building the world's largest commercially-approved autonomous electric aircraft. A self-taught programmer who started writing code at age 11 from rural Washington, Moore brought firmware and robotics expertise from Google X to help design Pyka's Pelican — a 1,320-lb autonomous electric aircraft now spraying crops across four continents and delivering cargo for the U.S. Air Force. Pyka has raised $95M in total funding and achieved back-to-back FAA authorizations for the largest uncrewed aircraft systems in U.S. commercial history.