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Nick Miller
Nick Miller is the founder and CEO of Universe, an Atlanta-based holding company that buys and builds vertical software businesses. He first built Gather, a hospitality SaaS platform for private events that grew from a 200-square-foot closet to a company acquired by Vista Equity Partners and later merged into Tripleseat. With Universe he now owns and operates Goldie, an all-in-one business tool for solopreneurs, and Equilab, a training community for equestrians, applying lessons from one exit to a portfolio of purpose-built software for overlooked markets.
Adam Braun
Adam Braun is the CEO and co-founder of Clarasight, a New York-based AI platform for carbon planning and intelligence that helps large enterprises forecast and reduce emissions. A three-time entrepreneur, he founded the nonprofit Pencils of Promise with $25 on his 25th birthday, growing it to 600+ schools worldwide, then co-founded the debt-free education startup MissionU (acquired by WeWork) and ran WeGrow. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Promise of a Pencil and a globally rated keynote speaker.
Andy Feis
Andy Feis is the co-founder and CEO of Renterra, a Chicago-based company building a cloud-based operating system for the equipment rental industry. A Stanford-trained engineer and former Bain & Company consultant, Feis launched Renterra in 2022 with co-founder Nick Hibberd to modernize a sector that runs construction, infrastructure, and local economies but had long been underserved by software. By early 2026 the platform served hundreds of rental companies across the U.S. and Canada, processing hundreds of millions in annual rental transactions, and raised a $9M Series A led by Avenue Growth Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $16M.
Don Le
Don Le is the co-founder and CEO of Everest Education (E2), a Ho Chi Minh City-based edtech company that brings blended Math and English enrichment, test prep, and college admissions help to students from Grade 1 to 12. A Stanford economics graduate who started out at Bain & Company and Red Mountain Capital, he moved to Vietnam in 2007 and helped build finance, technology, and consumer businesses, including Highlands Coffee and Pho 24 operator Viet Thai International, before turning to education. Everest has raised about $5.4M, capped by a $4M Series B in 2019, and in 2022 launched a joint venture with Spark Education to localize world-class online learning for Vietnam.
Laird Russell
Laird Russell is the co-founder and CEO of ExaCare AI, a New York-based company building an AI operating system for post-acute care. After a brief Wall Street and consulting run at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company, the former Brown University hockey player turned his attention to the messiest corner of healthcare: the paperwork, handoffs, and admissions decisions that govern how seniors move between hospitals, skilled nursing, and home care. ExaCare's AI agents now run inside roughly 1,500 to 2,000 facilities, have processed more than two million patients, and pulled in a $30 million Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.