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Alvaro Silberstein Is Turning Accessibility Into Travel Infrastructure
A Patagonia expedition revealed a market hiding in plain sight. Alvaro Silberstein built Wheel the World to turn scattered accessibility details into reliable travel infrastructure.
Divyaanshu Makkar
Divyaanshu Makkar is the co-founder and CEO of WizCommerce, an AI-powered B2B commerce platform that helps wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers digitize their end-to-end sales. An IIT Delhi engineer with an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, he moved from management consulting at EY-Parthenon to venture investing at Bessemer Venture Partners before building his own company. WizCommerce serves 100-plus customers with more than 700 sales reps and 300,000 buyers, and raised an $8M Series A led by Peak XV Partners in 2025. Makkar was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2023.
Bimohit Bawa
Bimohit Bawa is the co-founder and CEO of TrueCare24, a San Francisco-based health and wellness marketplace that connects families and employers with vetted nurses, caregivers, and clinicians for in-home care, telehealth, and on-site COVID-19 testing and vaccination. A software engineer by training - IIT Roorkee, a master's from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Berkeley Haas - Bawa spent nearly a decade building systems at Cisco and ServiceSource before joining TrueCare24 as its founding technical lead in 2015. He has since steered the company through 500 Startups' accelerator, a pivot into pandemic-era testing logistics, and a current chapter rebuilding senior care around AI and automation.
Perry Gershon
Perry Gershon is the CEO of FTN (For The Numbers) Network, the fantasy-sports, sports-betting and DVOA data company he bought into and now leads. A Yale-trained molecular biophysicist who spent 25 years as a heavyweight commercial real estate lender, he opened one of New York City's first sports bars in 1987, then walked away from finance to run twice for Congress in New York's 1st District. In late 2023 he took the helm of FTN and led a $3M seed round, betting that the numbers behind sports are a business as much as a pastime.
Moses Lo
Moses Lo is the co-founder and CEO of Xendit, the Southeast Asian payments infrastructure company that became Indonesia's first Y Combinator unicorn. He runs it from San Francisco and Jakarta, and built it after pivoting away from a bitcoin remittance idea six weeks into YC.
Shilpa Shah
Shilpa Shah is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Cuyana, the San Francisco-based sustainable luxury fashion brand built around two words: fewer, better. A UC Berkeley-trained UX designer who spent a decade building interfaces for Disney, AT&T, and Sun Microsystems before pivoting to business school at 32 — pregnant during her first semester — Shah co-founded Cuyana in 2011 with Karla Gallardo. The company has grown into a cult-favorite direct-to-consumer brand with 7 retail locations, 150+ employees, celebrity fans including Jessica Alba and Ayesha Curry, and $30 million in Series C funding from H.I.G. Capital. At Cuyana, Shah is the architect of the customer experience, championing quality over quantity in an industry obsessed with the opposite.
Chase Roberts
Chase Roberts is an AI Ops Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's infrastructure team across AI operations, go-to-market strategy, and portfolio company scaling. A self-described 'VC coach for entrepreneurs,' he built his career across five years at Box in sales and partnerships, a stint launching Segment's BD function, and a tenure as a principal at Vertex Ventures US before serving as COO at Northflank - a developer platform startup he had personally backed. Now at a16z, Roberts brings a rare operator-investor hybrid lens to the AI infrastructure moment, writing and thinking publicly about why AI will expand enterprise software markets rather than shrink them.