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Grips Intelligence
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that measures daily online and offline product sales, giving brands, retailers, and investors a competitor- and SKU-level map of digital commerce. Founded in Berlin in 2018 by Moritz Thoma and Daniel Schmeh, Grips turns transaction signals into estimates of revenue, units sold, pricing, conversion, and market share so customers can spot growth opportunities and blind spots across marketplaces and direct-to-consumer stores.
KeyData
KeyData (Key Data Dashboard) is a Santa Rosa Beach, Florida based analytics company that turns verified, direct-from-source reservation data into market intelligence for the short-term and vacation rental industry. By integrating directly with property management systems rather than scraping listing calendars, it gives professional property managers, destination marketing organizations, investors and enterprise research teams real-time benchmarks on occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and booking demand. Founded in 2018 and backed by $12.4M in funding, the company reports coverage of millions of properties and thousands of property managers across global markets.
Dustin Downing
Dustin Downing is the CEO of Key Data, a short-term and vacation rental analytics company that turns property management system data into real-time market intelligence across hundreds of global markets. He stepped into the role in mid-2026 after joining as president, succeeding co-founder Jason Sprenkle. Downing spent nearly two decades in product leadership across travel and data-driven technology, including nearly a decade at Sabre, a stint at influencer commerce firm LTK, and six years scaling OrderMyGear. His focus at Key Data is deepening the company's proprietary dataset and building the AI-driven intelligence layer he believes the rental industry will run on.
Cutting Edge Information
Cutting Edge Information (CEI) is a Research Triangle Park-based market research and data analytics firm that builds the world's largest specialty-specific database of Fair Market Value (FMV) rates for engaging healthcare professionals. Pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies use CEI's FMV data, HCP Fee Calculator, and Compliance Insights to set rates that are both competitive enough to attract top clinical talent and defensible enough to satisfy regulators. With 230,000+ rate observations across 126 countries and 280+ specialties, CEI serves more than 300 clients, including over 70% of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and 8 of the top 10.
Standard Metrics
Standard Metrics (formerly Quaestor) is a San Francisco-based financial data and portfolio monitoring platform for venture capital. It automates the messy work of collecting, standardizing, and benchmarking metrics from private portfolio companies, giving investors real-time performance data and giving founders a single source of truth for investor reporting. More than 100 VC firms track thousands of portfolio companies on the platform, which now connects directly to LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT through a Model Context Protocol server.
Avant-garde Health
Avant-garde Health is a Boston-based healthcare data analytics company whose CareMeasurement platform helps hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and physicians measure the true cost, quality and processes of surgical care - then turn those insights into measurable savings and better patient outcomes. Founded in 2014 out of value-based care research at Harvard Business School, the company applies Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) across EMR, financial, claims and patient-reported outcomes data to reveal what was previously invisible inside the operating room and the care pathway around it.
Matt Schulman
Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave, the AI-powered compensation platform he built after watching coworkers at Facebook struggle to understand their own stock options. Starting with a cold email to 200 executives in 2019 (59 replied within 24 hours), he grew Pave into a $1.6 billion company with 3,500+ customers and $471M in total funding - making it the largest compensation data provider for private companies in the world after acquiring Option Impact from Morgan Stanley in 2022.
Pave
Pave is a San Francisco-based compensation management platform that helps companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay in real time. Founded in 2019 by ex-Facebook engineer Matt Schulman, the company replaced HR's tangle of spreadsheets with live market data drawn from thousands of HRIS integrations, and now powers compensation decisions at Alphabet, Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox, and thousands of others.
Mohamed Elgendy
Mohamed Elgendy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolena, a San Francisco-based AI testing and validation platform that raised $21M to help enterprises build reliable, trustworthy AI systems. An Egyptian-American technologist and author of the widely-read 'Deep Learning for Vision Systems' (Manning Publications, 20,000+ copies sold), Elgendy cut his teeth building AI/ML organizations at Amazon, Twilio, Rakuten, and Synapse (acquired by Palantir) before founding Kolena in 2021. His mission: bring software engineering rigor - unit testing, regression analysis, scenario-level validation - to a field that has long relied on aggregate accuracy scores that mask real-world failures.
Jason Ding
Jason Ding is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce, leading the engineering teams behind Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Revenue Cloud — the backbone of the world's largest CRM platform. A PhD computer scientist turned performance engineering pioneer, he set nine SPEC benchmark world records at Cisco, helped drive UCS to $1 billion in revenue in under three years, and is now steering Salesforce's engineering toward a future of AI agents and billion-transaction-per-day scale. With 14+ years at Salesforce and deep roots in academia and chip-level performance work at Intel, Ding brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor and enterprise execution.