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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.
Michal Miernowski
Michal Miernowski is the co-founder and CEO of Amperos Health, a New York-based startup building an AI-native denial management and revenue recovery platform for healthcare providers. He spent years as a healthcare services investor before starting Amperos in 2023 with Alvin Wu and Wilson Wang. The company launched Amanda, marketed as the first AI biller for healthcare denials and collections, and raised a $16M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in April 2026.
Jingle
Jingle is a Menlo Park marketplace that flips food and services delivery on its head. Instead of the usual model where a courier is dispatched to fetch your order, Jingle runs a 'push' model: mobile stores - shops on wheels - stocked with ice cream, pastries, and services like grooming or knife sharpening drive through neighborhoods and ping nearby users through the app when they roll by. Think ice cream truck, but with software, a map, and a flat $2.99 delivery fee. Founded in 2022 by former venture capitalist Baris Karadogan, the company raised a $2.9M seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners to help local and artisanal vendors go mobile, reach customers directly, and skip the fees and wait times of conventional delivery apps.
Bassam Chaptini
Bassam Chaptini is the co-founder and co-CEO of Avantos, a New York fintech building an AI-native operating system for client management in financial services. An MIT-trained AI PhD, former McKinsey partner, and founding CTO of no-code pioneer Unqork, he spent years watching banks and wealth managers drown in siloed client data. In 2024 he and co-founder Rabih Ramadi launched Avantos to fix it with a knowledge graph and AI agents that shadow advisors through onboarding, servicing, and growth. In February 2026 the company raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, and Guardian Life.
Li Sun
Li Sun is the founder and CEO of Shennon Biotechnologies, a San Francisco single-cell immunotherapy company that profiles millions of immune cells in hours to pinpoint the rare T cells and antibody targets that fight cancer. A physicist by training (PhD from Harvard's Weitz lab, M.Eng from MIT), she spent five years as a deep-tech venture investor at Bessemer and Foundation Capital before building the platform herself. Shennon emerged from stealth in March 2023 with a $13M seed round led by DCVC.
Alex Schmelkin
Alex Schmelkin is the founder and CEO of Sixfold, a New York company building generative AI for insurance underwriting. After two decades founding and running digital design and software firms - Alexander Interactive, Cake & Arrow, and a founding role at no-code pioneer Unqork - he launched Sixfold in 2023 to give underwriters a virtual team of AI researchers that reads submissions, scores risk, and shows its sources. Sixfold has processed more than a million submissions across 40-plus lines of business, raised a $30M Series B in 2026, and counts Zurich North America, Guardian, and Generali among its clients.
Lydia Hylton
Lydia Hylton is the co-founder and CEO of Strella, an AI-powered customer research platform that runs adaptive, AI-moderated interviews and synthesizes the results in hours instead of weeks. A Georgia Tech computer engineer and Stanford MBA, she moved from Facebook data science and Bain consulting into venture capital at Redpoint and Bain Capital Crypto before teaming up with her high-school friend Priya Krishnan to build Strella. After a 'Wizard of Oz' MVP and a perfect 12-for-12 design-partner conversion, the company raised a $14M Series A led by Bessemer in October 2025 and now serves Amazon, Duolingo, Chobani, Square and Apollo GraphQL.
Parker Mitchell
Parker Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Valence, the New York company behind Nadia, billed as the world's first enterprise AI coach. He spent two decades before that building Engineers Without Borders Canada, the charity he co-founded out of the University of Waterloo in 2000, and advising Fortune 500 leaders at McKinsey. In 2025 Valence raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nadia deployed across companies like Delta, Experian, Kraft Heinz and General Mills, having logged more than a million coaching conversations.
Rabih Ramadi
Rabih Ramadi is the co-founder and CEO of Avantos, a New York fintech building an AI-native operating system for client onboarding and servicing inside banks, asset managers, and insurers. He spent a career on the inside of financial services - technology strategy at The Bank of New York, leading capital markets as a senior partner at KPMG, then helping build Unqork from the ground floor as a founding team member and chief revenue officer - before deciding the client-service layer of finance needed to be rebuilt around a knowledge graph and AI agents. In early 2026 Avantos raised a $25 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $35 million.
Amr Aloufi
Amr Aloufi is a Co-Founder at Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing), a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that uses AI and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize revenue for short-term rental property managers and vacation rental hosts worldwide. With roots in Saudi Arabia and a background in business administration and human resources, Aloufi brought operational and business development acumen to a company that has grown to serve 715,000+ listings across 44,000+ cities, raised $46M in funding, and priced over $15 billion in bookings.
Andre Ferraz
Andre Ferraz is the co-founder and CEO of Incognia, a Palo Alto-based privacy-first location identity company that uses passive behavioral signals - where your phone goes, how it moves, what Wi-Fi networks it trusts - to verify users without passwords or biometric friction. Before Incognia, Ferraz co-founded In Loco Media in 2011 at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, building it into a company that mapped 6 million indoor venues and captured 250 billion location data points monthly, before selling it to Brazilian retail giant Magazine Luiza in 2020. With Incognia, he pivoted that location intelligence from advertising into fraud prevention, raising $46.5M total (including a $31M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in 2024), deploying technology on over 200 million smartphones, and pioneering what he calls zero-factor authentication - security that works without the user doing anything at all.
Joanna Strober
Joanna Strober is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, the first menopause startup to achieve unicorn status, raising $100M in Series D funding in February 2026 at a $1B+ valuation. A former Bessemer Venture Partners general partner and Sterling Stamos managing director turned entrepreneur, she built Midi Health after her own year-long struggle to get a perimenopause diagnosis in her late 40s. Midi now serves 230,000+ patients across all 50 states through a network of 500+ clinicians, with care covered by approximately 80% of PPOs. Named to TIME100 Health 2025, CNBC Changemakers 2025, and Forbes 50 Over 50 2023, Strober is also a published author (Getting to 50/50) and a former founder of Kurbo Health, the first digital therapeutic for childhood obesity, which she sold to WW.
Mayank Goyal
Mayank Goyal is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (Head of AI) at Leena AI, an enterprise agentic AI platform that automates HR, IT, and Finance support for organizations worldwide. An IIT Delhi alumnus in Production and Industrial Engineering, Mayank co-founded ChatterOn in 2015 with Adit Jain and Anand Prajapati before pivoting to Leena AI in 2017 after noticing large enterprises like Coca-Cola and Vodafone using their chatbot platform for internal support. Leena AI joined Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch, raised $40M+ across multiple rounds including a $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and now serves 500+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries, reaching 3+ million employees. Mayank leads the AI research and product intelligence that powers Leena AI's pre-built AI colleagues - Gavin (HR), Miles (IT), and Harper (Finance).
Medha Agarwal
Medha Agarwal is a General Partner at Defy VC, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Woodside, California, where she partners with founders from day zero through Series A. With roots at Redpoint Ventures (7 years as Partner), Bessemer Venture Partners, and two founder stints of her own, she brings a rare blend of operator instinct and institutional investing muscle to sectors including vertical SaaS, fintech, AI-first companies, healthcare technology, and marketplaces. A Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumna, Medha is also a prolific writer—her Medium essays on vertical SaaS and AI pricing have become required reading in startup circles—and was named one of Business Insider's 66 Rising Stars of Venture Capital in 2023.
Byron Deeter
Byron Deeter is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and one of the defining voices in cloud and SaaS investing over the past two decades. A former founder who built and sold Trigo Technologies to IBM, he brings hard-won operator empathy to backing companies like Twilio, DocuSign, Box, ServiceTitan, Canva, and Anthropic - with 26 unicorn investments and 13 IPOs to his name. A four-time NCAA rugby national champion and former Ironman triathlete, Deeter applies an athlete's discipline to both portfolio management and founder wellness, having created STRIVE, Bessemer's holistic health program for CEOs. He is also a minority owner of the San Francisco 49ers.