Jethro (JethroData) is an enterprise software company that makes interactive business intelligence run fast on big data. Its index-based SQL engine sits between BI tools like Tableau, Qlik and MicroStrategy and data stored in Hadoop or Amazon S3, using full indexing, auto-cubes and result caching to return queries in seconds across tens of billions of rows and thousands of concurrent users - at Hadoop-scale cost and without manual data engineering.
MDClone is a healthcare data company that lets clinicians, researchers, and analysts explore patient data without touching real patient records. Its ADAMS platform ingests structured and unstructured health-system data into a longitudinal database, then generates statistically faithful synthetic data that carries no risk to patient privacy. That combination turns months-long, IRB-heavy data requests into self-service exploration, letting front-line staff ask their own questions, run analyses, and share results across organizations. Founded in Israel in 2016 and used across the U.S., Canada, and 100% of the Israeli healthcare market, MDClone has raised roughly $112M to expand data-driven discovery in health systems, government, payers, and life sciences.
Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and AI company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. It builds the Data Intelligence Platform - a lakehouse architecture that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on open formats. Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, Databricks helps enterprises store, govern, and analyze data and build AI applications on top of it, all under a single governance model.
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that integrate large, messy data sets and put them to work for decision-making. Founded in 2003 in the shadow of PayPal's fraud-detection work, the company sells four flagship products - Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) - to governments, defense and intelligence agencies, and commercial enterprises in finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Led by co-founder and CEO Alex Karp, Palantir has grown from a controversial government contractor into a fast-growing public company riding demand for operational AI.
Khachik Sahakyan is the co-founder and CEO of Grovf, a deep-tech hardware company building AI back-end fabric IP, chiplets and 400/800 Gbps SmartNICs that move data between AI accelerators with sub-2 microsecond RDMA latency. A microwave engineer and former Yerevan State University lecturer turned founder, he splits Grovf between Newark, California and Yerevan, Armenia, and has spent the last several years convincing data-center buyers that the path to scale is in silicon, not software.
PDF Solutions is a Santa Clara semiconductor analytics company that turns the firehose of chip-manufacturing and test data into decisions. Its Exensio platform connects fabs, foundries, OSATs and fabless designers, normalizing data across silos so customers can ramp yield faster, catch defects earlier and run AI/ML models on the factory floor. Founded in 1991 and public since 2001 (Nasdaq: PDFS), it serves 130+ semiconductor companies including TSMC, Intel, Qualcomm, Analog Devices and DENSO.
Ottometric is a Waltham, Massachusetts software company that uses AI to automate the validation and training of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous-vehicle software. Its platform distills petabyte-scale, multimodal sensor data into decision-ready KPIs, cutting validation cost and time by more than half for the Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs that build the cars' eyes and reflexes.
Aqfer is a white-label marketing data platform - 'The Marketing Data Engine' - that gives adtech and martech companies the heavy data infrastructure they need without building it themselves. Founded in 2018 by ad tech veterans Dan Jaye and Raymie Stata, Aqfer handles data collection, enterprise identity resolution, audience enablement, and AI data enablement at massive scale, processing trillions of rows of marketing data inside a client's own cloud. The pitch is blunt: cut back-end data costs by 40-50% and ship new data products in weeks instead of years.
Alain Samaha is President & CEO of Teletrac Navman and President of Alternative Energy & Sustainable Fleets at Vontier, bringing over 20 years of technology leadership to the intersection of IoT, AI, and fleet management. A Stanford-trained aeronautical engineer turned enterprise software executive, he previously held senior roles at Trimble including President of the Utilities and Public Administration group. At Teletrac Navman - a global telematics SaaS leader with ~850 employees and $245M in annual revenue - Samaha is steering the company's push into AI-powered fleet safety, multi-energy transition, and a 'single pane of glass' platform vision for fleet operators worldwide.
Deren Baker is the CEO of Flywheel Ventures, the innovation arm of Flywheel Commerce Network - now part of Omnicom Group after a landmark $835 million acquisition in 2023. A serial operator with deep roots in digital commerce analytics, Baker has led transformative companies including Jumpshot (which tracked 160 billion monthly clicks) and Edge by Ascential. He is a recognized thought leader in ecommerce strategy, retail media, and data-driven advertising, with bylines in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
ClickHouse is the open-source columnar database engineered for real-time analytics on petabyte-scale data. Born inside Yandex in 2009 and spun out as ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021, it now powers analytics for Anthropic, Tesla, Sony, Meta, Lyft, and roughly 3,000 other paying customers as a managed cloud service.
Fligoo is a forward-deployed AI engineering firm that embeds senior engineers inside large enterprises to ship production AI - models, agents, and data pipelines - across banking, wealth, insurance, retail, and telecom. Founded by Argentine engineers and headquartered in San Francisco, it built its name partnering with Broadridge on predictive analytics for wealth advisors.
Kyligence is the company behind Apache Kylin, the open-source OLAP engine for big data. Founded in 2016 by the project's original creators, it now sells an AI-powered metrics platform and a copilot that lets non-technical employees chat with their business numbers instead of writing SQL.
Deepak Diwakar is the Co-Founder and COO of Mindtickle, the AI-powered revenue enablement platform that became a $1.2B unicorn in 2021. An IIT Bombay computer science graduate and former machine learning engineer at PubMatic, Diwakar built Mindtickle's technology infrastructure from the ground up, helping transform how enterprise sales teams learn, practice, and perform. Under his watch, Mindtickle raised $281M in total funding, hit $118M+ in revenue, and earned recognition as a Forrester Wave Leader in Revenue Enablement Platforms.
Jamie Hale is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ladder, the Palo Alto-based digital life insurance company that has issued over $42 billion in coverage and raised $194 million in venture funding. Motivated by losing his father at age 11 and experiencing firsthand the stabilizing power of a life insurance payout, Hale set out to strip the life insurance industry down to its essential truth: a pure, flexible term product that takes minutes to buy online, not weeks of paperwork. Ladder reached a $900 million valuation in its 2021 Series D and has tripled revenue year-over-year, making Hale one of the most prominent voices in insurtech.
Luke Han is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kyligence, the enterprise data analytics company built by the team that created Apache Kylin - the first Apache Software Foundation top-level project developed in China. A former eBay big data product lead, Han co-invented Apache Kylin in 2013, open-sourced it in 2014, then founded Kyligence in 2016 to commercialize the technology. Under his leadership, Kyligence raised $110M+ in funding including a $70M Series D, serves clients including UBS, McDonald's, and L'OREAL, and has evolved into an AI-powered metrics platform. Han is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Apache Kylin VP, Forbes Technology Council member, and Fortune China 40 Under 40 honoree.
Marcos Martinez is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fligoo, a San Francisco-based AI company building intelligent recommendation and predictive analytics solutions for financial institutions. Born in Córdoba, Argentina, he co-founded Fligoo in 2012 after earlier stints in software development. Under his technical leadership, Fligoo evolved from a social-graph gift recommendation engine into a WealthTech platform serving major institutions including Mastercard, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Wells Fargo. Fligoo was named to the WealthTech100 in 2024 and has raised over $17M in funding, including a Series A round in 2020.
Raj Bains is the Founder and CEO of Prophecy, a Palo Alto-based low-code data engineering platform that lets analysts and engineers build Apache Spark pipelines visually - generating real, production-grade code to Git. With a background spanning compiler engineering at NVIDIA (where he was a founding CUDA team engineer), product management at Hortonworks through its IPO, and a patent for designing a language for insurance contracts, Bains launched Prophecy in 2017 to solve a problem he had watched the data industry ignore for two decades: making data transformation fast and accessible for everyone, not just Spark specialists. The company has raised $114M+ from Insight Partners, SignalFire, JPMorgan, and HSBC, and counts Fortune 50 enterprises including HSBC, JP Morgan, Microsoft, and Toyota among its customers.
Vadim Ogievetsky is the Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Imply, the commercial company behind Apache Druid - the real-time analytics database powering data infrastructure at Netflix, Salesforce, Reddit, and 150+ enterprises. One of the original four co-authors of Apache Druid (launched 2011), he also co-created D3.js at Stanford's Visualization Group - the JavaScript charting library that became the foundation of modern data visualization on the web. Before Imply, he was UI Lead at Metamarkets (acquired by Snap). He built Plywood and Pivot, open-source tools for querying and exploring Druid data, and created KoalasToTheMax, a beloved interactive D3 visualization. Imply raised $215M total and reached unicorn status with a $100M Series D in May 2022.

Divakar Tantravahi is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Innominds, a San Jose-based AI-first digital product engineering company with 1,400 employees and $80M in annual revenue. Starting his career at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in 1987, he moved through Informix and a startup called Everypath before founding Innominds in 2003. Under his leadership, Innominds has become a full-cycle product engineering partner helping technology companies build products that land in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Recognized for his employee-centric leadership style, Tantravahi was named one of India's Best Leaders in Times of Crisis 2021 by Great Place to Work India and received ET Now's 'CEO with HR Orientation' Award in 2019.

Bassel Ojjeh is the CEO and co-founder of LigaData, a Menlo Park-based data platform company specializing in AI-powered telecom analytics and big data infrastructure. A Syrian-American serial entrepreneur, Ojjeh previously co-founded digiMine (behavioral targeting pioneer, later Audience Science), DMX Group (acquired by Yahoo, where he served as SVP), and nPario (big data platform). He also co-founded Syria's first English-language private university and SYNC, the first international tech conference held in Syria in 50 years, working to bridge Silicon Valley with Damascus.
Anthony Lye is Chairman and CEO of Quid, the AI-powered consumer and market intelligence platform based in Santa Clara, California. A Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years in enterprise software, he previously served as CEO of Amplience, Global Head of Apollo at Palantir Technologies, and EVP & GM of NetApp's Public Cloud Business Unit — which he grew from $500K to $550 million over five years. He is also an Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, a Board of Trustees member at the University of Bath, and an active angel investor.
Evan Kaplan is the CEO of InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB - the world's most popular open-source time series database with over 1.3 million developers. With nearly 20 years in CEO roles across multiple companies, he took InfluxData from a scrappy open-source project of 3,000 users to a platform handling billions of data points per second for 1,900+ enterprise customers. His path to the C-suite ran not through computer science but through environmental science degrees and years spent as a mountain guide in his late 20s - an unconventional origin story that shows up in how he thinks about resilience and long-term endurance.

John Kibarian is the co-founder, President, and CEO of PDF Solutions (NASDAQ: PDFS), a Santa Clara-based semiconductor analytics company he has helmed for over 35 years. Armed with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, Kibarian started building yield-improvement algorithms while still a researcher at SEMATECH - then turned those algorithms into a company. Today PDF Solutions generates $219 million in annual revenue helping chipmakers, test facilities, and battery manufacturers squeeze more quality out of every wafer, with flagship products like the Exensio Analytics Platform and the Sapience Manufacturing Hub driving AI-powered collaboration across global semiconductor supply chains.
Keith Zubchevich is the President and CEO of Conviva, the streaming intelligence and digital experience platform that monitors over 5 billion sensors and processes 3 trillion real-time events daily. A serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies and raised over $500 million across his career, Zubchevich joined Conviva in 2008, served as Chief Strategy Officer, and stepped into the CEO role in 2021. Under his leadership, Conviva has evolved from streaming quality-of-experience monitoring into a full agentic AI analytics platform. He is widely recognized as a clear-eyed voice on the limits and measurement requirements of AI agents in consumer-facing applications.

Kon Leong is the CEO and co-founder of ZL Technologies, a Milpitas-based enterprise software company he built from the ground up in 1999 to tackle the problem nobody else wanted to solve: the mountain of unstructured human data - emails, documents, messages - that sits at the center of every corporate compliance, legal, and AI challenge. A serial entrepreneur who migrated from China to India to Canada to the US, Leong brought a rare mix of deep IT engineering, Wall Street M&A finance, and startup grit to a market that was just waking up to its own data problem. Today, ZL Technologies serves Fortune 500 companies and government agencies across financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, with a platform that manages data in-place at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than conventional approaches.
Ling Xiao is the CEO of Ruvixx, Inc., a San Francisco-based SaaS platform helping enterprise brands protect intellectual property, automate license compliance, and convert market opportunities into revenue. A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in Silicon Valley, he co-founded Playdom - the social gaming company acquired by Disney in 2010 for up to $763 million - and later co-founded GGWP, an AI-powered platform tackling toxicity in online gaming. Trained in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford, Xiao brings a rare combination of engineering rigor, product instinct, and entrepreneurial range that has taken him from Google's data teams to Disney's exec suite to the frontier of brand intelligence.
Quentin Gallivan is a Silicon Valley serial technology CEO with over 25 years of experience scaling enterprise software and cloud companies from startup to acquisition. He led BlueJeans Network through its $400-500M acquisition by Verizon in 2020, and previously sold Postini to Google, Aster Data to Teradata, and Pentaho to Hitachi Vantara. Known for taking companies through rapid growth phases and successful exits, he has served as CEO of at least six technology companies across cloud security, SaaS BI, big data, video conferencing, and enterprise architecture.

Surej Kp is a Silicon Valley technology executive who became CEO of Intelliswift Software in March 2024 after five years as its President. With deep roots in global IT services - spanning TCS, Cognizant, and UST Global - he has spent decades scaling technology organizations across North America and beyond. Trained in Electronics Engineering and executive leadership at Harvard, he combines technical depth with business acumen, steering companies that bridge the gap between enterprise technology needs and skilled talent. At Intelliswift and previously connected to BayOne Solutions, he focuses on AI-powered workforce solutions, cloud enablement, and digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients.