Colin McGlynn is the Chief Business Officer at Copado, the intelligent DevOps platform built for Salesforce and low-code enterprise development. He runs the commercial engine of a company that raised $140M in Series C funding and crossed a valuation north of $400M. A Dartmouth economics and classical archaeology grad with a Yale MBA, he built his operator's instinct across BCG, Gartner, Business Intelligence Advisors, Uplift, and Own Company, where he overhauled go-to-market for a $150M+ ARR business before taking the reins of Copado's business strategy.
Noam Mills is the co-founder and CEO of Panax, an AI-native cash flow management platform for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. Before fintech, she was an elite epee fencer who ranked first in the world among under-20 competitors and became the first Israeli to fence epee at the Olympics, at Beijing 2008. She studied economics at Harvard, earned a Harvard MBA, and built a finance career across BCG, FIMI Opportunity Funds, SparkBeyond, and Mixtiles before founding Panax in 2022.
Kevin H. Johnson is the CEO of Focal Systems, an AI-powered retail operations company deploying shelf-scanning cameras across brick-and-mortar stores worldwide. A 30-year veteran of building and scaling tech businesses, he grew Ebates forty-fold before selling it to Rakuten for $1 billion, then led Udemy as a publicly-traded company, and now applies that commercial track record to the frontier problem of putting real-time AI intelligence into every grocery aisle.
Melissa Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Minted, the San Francisco-based design marketplace that connects consumers with independent artists for premium stationery, art, and home decor. Hired in 2007 as Director of Finance and Strategy straight out of Stanford Business School, she was later named co-founder by Mariam Naficy in recognition of her foundational role in building the company. Under her leadership as CEO, Minted surpassed $300 million in revenue in 2026, with double-digit year-over-year growth, a wholesale business that grew 31% in 2025, and profitability that doubled - all fueled by a sharp premium-market focus and an owned-channel marketing strategy built on the virality of physical design.
Rushil Goel is the CEO and Co-founder of Nirvana Insurance, an AI-native commercial trucking insurance company valued at $1.5 billion after a $100M Series D in December 2025. Before founding Nirvana, he spent five years at Samsara scaling fleet telematics from zero to $400M+ ARR, where he spotted the gap between how much safety data existed and how little insurance companies used it. An IIT Bombay CS grad with a Wharton MBA, Goel has built two companies and scaled products across India and the US - from mobile payments at Ola to connected fleet operations - before channeling everything into rebuilding commercial insurance from the ground up.
Shantanu Gangal is co-founder and CEO of Prodigal, a Y Combinator-backed AI company in Mountain View building AI agents for consumer lending, loan servicing and collections. He previously led data science at Fundbox and worked at Blackstone and Boston Consulting Group. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Wharton.
Rajko Radovanović is an investing partner on the AI and infrastructure team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he backs the builders reshaping how software is made. He has led or co-led investments in Cursor, Mistral AI, Udio, Luma AI, Black Forest Labs, World Labs, and Braintrust, and runs a16z's Open Source AI Grant Program. Before a16z, he was a venture investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where his portfolio included Perplexity AI, Sentry, and Weaviate. He studied economics and computer science at Harvard, did language studies in Beijing, and attended the United Nations International School — a biography that reads like someone engineered to operate at every intersection of tech, capital, and global culture.
Adam Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, the AI system of record for communications and public affairs teams. A Harvard summa cum laude graduate and Fulbright Scholar, he bootstrapped Clipbook to $1M ARR before landing a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban - won through a single cold email. Before building Clipbook, he served as Communications Director for Abdul El-Sayed's historic 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign and as a Strategy Consultant at BCG, where he led healthcare and government transformation work. Clipbook now monitors 1M+ media and policy sources for 200+ clients including Weber Shandwick and BCG.
Daniel Museles is a Principal at NFX, the San Francisco-based venture firm behind a $450M fund and the NFX Signal network. He leads NFX's crypto practice and invests across AI, space, and Web3 at the pre-seed through Series A stage. A Cornell ILR grad and former BCG consultant who answered what colleagues called a 'wacky job listing,' he backed Starcloud (space data centers, now valued at $1.1B) and Known (voice-AI dating app) before being promoted to Principal in September 2024. He finds founders before they find him.