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 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 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.