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OpenText
How a project to digitize the Oxford English Dictionary became Canada's largest software company - and why the world's biggest enterprises trust it to run the information they can't afford to lose.
Kovai.co
A Microsoft consultant noticed a gap in a server product, wrote a tool to fill it, and never took a dollar of venture money. Fifteen years later Kovai.co runs four software products and 290 people from London and Coimbatore.
Churn360
The AI customer success platform Kovai.co built to fight churn - launched in 2023, retired in 2024, and a candid lesson in how hard the customer success market is to crack.
Peak3
Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech) is a Singapore-headquartered insurtech that builds cloud-native, AI-ready core software for the insurance industry. Its modular platform - spanning policy administration, distribution, claims and orchestration - lets insurers, MGAs and brokers launch and run life, health and property & casualty products across many markets. Founded in 2018 out of Chinese insurtech ZhongAn and rebranded to Peak3 in 2024 alongside a US$35M Series A led by EQT, the company powers global insurers such as AIA, Generali, Prudential and Zurich, and embedded-insurance programs for digital platforms including Grab, Klook, Lazada and PayPay. Its software has supported over a billion policies across 20-plus countries.
Sal Sferlazza
Sal Sferlazza is the co-founder and CEO of NinjaOne, the Austin-based IT and endpoint management platform valued at $12.3 billion in June 2026. A serial entrepreneur, he built and sold four previous companies (Realm Interactive, Lasso Logic, PacketTrap, Anchor) before launching what was originally NinjaRMM in 2013 with his childhood-camp friend Chris Matarese. NinjaOne is profitable, debt-free, and still majority-controlled by its founders.
Sentieon
Sentieon builds ultra-fast, highly accurate software for analyzing DNA and RNA sequencing data. Its pipelines - DNAseq, DNAscope, TNseq, and TNscope - replace the open-source GATK workflow with matching or better accuracy while running many times faster on ordinary CPUs, no specialized hardware required. Founded in 2014 and based in the Bay Area, the company has won top honors in multiple precisionFDA and DREAM challenges, and its tools are used by pharma, clinical labs, sequencing platform makers, and genomics researchers worldwide to turn raw reads into trustworthy variant calls quickly and cheaply.
SmarTrak.ai
SmarTrak.ai is an AI-native sales engine built by Cisco partners for Cisco partners. It unifies fragmented install-base data pulled from 30-40 sources across Cisco, distributors, partners, and customers, then turns it into prescriptive intelligence that tells channel partners what to sell, when to sell it, and how to grow adoption. Instead of static dashboards, the platform surfaces renewals, upsell gaps, and expansion opportunities so sales, customer success, and operations teams work from a single view of recurring revenue.
Trunal Bhanse
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.
Lesley Marincola
Lesley Silverthorn Marincola is the founder and CEO of Angaza, a San Francisco-based B2B software company that powers pay-as-you-go financing for solar home systems and other off-grid products across emerging markets. A Stanford-trained product designer and mechanical engineer, she launched Angaza in 2010 after a course called 'Designing for Extreme Poverty' lit a fire she hasn't put out since. Today, Angaza's platform reaches over 5 million people across 50 countries, enabling low-income households to pay for life-changing energy products through weekly micropayments via mobile money — replacing kerosene lamps one $1 payment at a time. Her work earned Angaza the 2018 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and a TED stage appearance. She is a Forbes '30 Under 30' alum, Echoing Green Fellow, and World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper.
Charlie Warren
Charlie Warren is a startup founder-turned-investor who built Convex, a commercial services software platform, from a garage bootstrapping sprint through $60M in venture funding and a YC Top Companies nod, before selling to ServiceTitan in 2024. Today he serves as a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, bringing hard-won founder experience to the next wave of vertical SaaS builders. His unusual arc - Goldman Sachs to energy policy to enterprise software - gives him a perspective on markets that most investors simply don't have.