BlueMark is an independent impact verification and market-intelligence firm for the sustainable and impact investing industry. Spun out of impact consultancy Tideline in 2020 and led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud, it audits how asset managers, allocators and issuers measure, manage and report the social and environmental impact of their investments. Its verifications, benchmarks and analytics - including the flagship 'Making the Mark' report and the BlueMark IQ intelligence platform - help investors prove their impact claims are credible and reduce the risk of impact-washing.
Protege is a New York-based AI data platform that connects owners of private, real-world data - hospitals, media libraries, motion-capture studios and more - with the AI labs and enterprises that need it to train, fine-tune and evaluate models. It licenses and curates proprietary datasets under strict privacy, IP and compliance controls, so data holders get paid and provenance is preserved. Founded in 2024 by Bobby Samuels and Travis May, Protege has assembled access to billions of clinical notes, hundreds of millions of medical images, and hundreds of thousands of hours of video and audio, positioning itself as core infrastructure for the post-web era of AI development.

Dan Hendrycks is the Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), the UC Berkeley PhD who created MMLU - the benchmark that shaped how the world measures AI intelligence - and invented GELU, the activation function running inside BERT, GPT, and virtually every major AI model. From a rural evangelical town in Missouri, he's become one of AI safety's most consequential voices, advising Elon Musk's xAI and Scale AI while sounding alarms about civilizational-scale AI risk, accepting $1/year to keep his independence intact.

Kyle Poyar is a SaaS growth and pricing strategist who helped turn product-led growth into a global movement at OpenView Partners, then bet his career on a weekly newsletter called Growth Unhinged that now reaches 84,000+ readers. In 2024 he co-founded Tremont, an early-stage B2B/AI venture firm, while continuing to run Growth Unhinged full-time. He is one of the most cited voices on SaaS pricing, AI monetization, and usage-based business models.