Shreyans Chopra is the founder and CEO of Mstack, an AI-native specialty chemicals company based in Houston that helps North American and global buyers source custom chemicals from a diversified manufacturing network. A chartered accountant turned BCG consultant turned Lightspeed India investor, he started Mstack in July 2022 and scaled it to more than 100 enterprise customers and operational profitability, raising a $40 million Series A led by Lightspeed and Alpha Wave in 2024. In 2025 the company launched Chemstack AI, an R&D platform that compresses molecule synthesis timelines from roughly 18 months to days.

Eden Ovadia is the co-founder and CEO of FINNY, a New York-based AI prospecting platform built for financial advisors. A McGill-trained software engineer who worked in private equity and financial services at Boston Consulting Group, she launched FINNY in 2024 with Victoria Toli and Theodore Janson through Y Combinator. The company uses a proprietary F-Score to match advisors with high-intent prospects and automate outreach. FINNY raised a $17 million Series A led by Venrock in December 2025, bringing total funding above $20 million, and Ovadia was named to WealthManagement.com's Ten to Watch in 2025.
Hakan Unsal is the founder and CEO of Primerli, a Los Angeles area edtech company that compresses how an entire industry works into one-hour, entertainment-quality crash courses. A former BCG principal with a Cornell master's and a Columbia PhD, he started Primerli after years of cramming on unfamiliar sectors before client projects convinced him that slide decks are a terrible way to learn. His pitch: professional training should feel less like a lecture and more like a documentary you actually want to finish.
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.