Robert Frederick is the founder, CEO and President of Sirqul, Inc., a Seattle IoT company built around an Engagement-as-a-Service platform of hundreds of APIs and patented edge devices. An MIT Media Lab alum and TR35 honoree with 41 issued patents, he helped launch Amazon Anywhere and co-founded Amazon Web Services and the AWS Marketplace before scaling the voice startup Snapvine past 5 million users. He is also an author and music producer.
Trunal Bhanse is the CEO and co-founder of Clazar, a San Francisco-based cloud GTM automation platform that simplifies how SaaS companies sell through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud marketplaces. Before founding Clazar in 2023, he spent years scaling cloud infrastructure at Airbnb (Engineering Manager, Homes Host team) and Confluent (Director of Engineering, Lifecycle & Cloud Partnerships), where he experienced firsthand the pain of building marketplace integrations from scratch. Clazar raised $10M in Series A funding in April 2024 led by Ridge Ventures and Ensemble VC, and now serves 250+ customers including Supabase, Atlan, and Rootly.