Mark Hoadley is the co-founder and CEO of Hauler Hero, a vertical software company building cloud-native, AI-powered tools for the waste and recycling industry - CRM, dispatch, routing, billing and customer portals for the haulers that pick up the trash. A former ServiceTitan sales leader, he and brother-in-law Ben Sikma launched the company in 2020 after watching how outdated the software running garbage trucks really was. Hauler Hero now serves more than 200 hauling companies and has facilitated roughly 35 million trash pickups, raising a $16M Series A led by Frontier Growth in early 2026.
AppDirect is a San Francisco-based B2B subscription commerce platform that connects technology providers, advisors, and businesses so they can buy, sell, and manage software, hardware, connectivity, AI, and energy services in one place. Founded in 2009, it powers white-label marketplaces for telecom giants and enterprises, and is assembling an 'Everything Store' for B2B technology through a rapid string of acquisitions.
Nue.io is a unified quote-to-revenue platform built natively on Salesforce that enables B2B SaaS companies to price, quote, sell, bill, and recognize revenue across any channel, pricing model, or mid-term change. Founded by veterans from Zuora, Salesforce Steelbrick, and Anaplan, Nue replaces the patchwork of legacy CPQ and billing systems with a single data model spanning from pricing through billing. Trusted by companies like OpenAI, Glean, Jasper, and Chili Piper, Nue has achieved 3x year-over-year growth and raised $35M to date.
Mark Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Nue.io, a San Francisco-based revenue lifecycle management platform that modernizes CPQ, billing, and order management natively on Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of business experience, Walker previously founded Strongpoint (acquired by Netwrix in 2021) and held executive roles at ScribbleLive and Skyytek. Under his leadership, Nue raised a $20M Series A in January 2025, achieved $10M ARR, and counts OpenAI among its customers.
Nishant Nair is the Founder and CEO of RecVue, a Palo Alto-based enterprise revenue operating system that manages over $100 billion in revenue for global enterprises. With 20+ years navigating quote-to-cash complexity, he built RecVue to unify billing, revenue recognition (ASC 606/IFRS 15), and partner compensation on a single AI-powered platform—bridging the stubborn gap between CRM and ERP that legacy systems have never solved. Backed by $20.19M in funding including a $13.19M Series A led by Cota Capital, RecVue processes over 100 million transactions monthly for customers like Hertz, World Wide Technology, and Crown Castle.
Socotra is a cloud-native insurance core platform that gives carriers, MGAs, and InsurTechs a fully configurable system for policy administration, billing, claims, and analytics - so they can launch new products in weeks instead of years, and run them on infrastructure that updates 48 times a year without breaking.

Anh-Tho Chuong is the co-founder and CEO of Lago, the open-source billing and invoicing platform trusted by companies like Mistral AI, Groq, PayPal, and Synthesia. Born in Réunion to a Vietnamese father who fled the war, she built her career through McKinsey consulting, a formative run as VP Growth (employee #1) at Qonto, and a pivot inside Y Combinator that turned a failed data-tools idea into one of Europe's fastest-growing developer infrastructure plays. Lago has raised $44M in total funding, amassed 9,000+ GitHub stars, and is reshaping how SaaS companies handle complex pricing without handing control to Stripe.