Paul Nemirovsky is the cofounder and CEO of dMetrics, the Brooklyn-born AI company behind Minsky, a natural language processing platform that lets non-technical experts steer AI across the world's largest financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations. An MIT Media Lab PhD who once built musical navigation shoes and showed interactive art at the Centre Pompidou, he has grown dMetrics from two founders to a 40-person team without venture capital, and in 2024 the company landed a Department of Defense AI/ML production contract worth up to $99.5 million.
Nate Kharrl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spec (specprotected.com), a San Jose-based fraud prevention platform that uses behavioral analytics to detect and block sophisticated fraud, bots, and abuse before they impact customers. With a career spanning Akamai Technologies, ThreatMetrix, and eBay, Kharrl channeled nearly a decade of watching fraud fighters struggle with siloed tools into founding Spec in 2020. The company has raised over $33 million in funding, including a $15 million Series A led by SignalFire in October 2023, and protects Fortune 500 companies transacting billions in online commerce.

Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.