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Jake Cooper
Jake Cooper is the CEO and co-founder of Grow Therapy, a New York based company building the infrastructure that lets therapists and psychiatric providers run insurance-covered private practices. Since 2020 he has grown it into a national network spanning 125+ insurers and tens of thousands of providers, raising $388 million to date, including a $150 million Series D in 2026. A former Blackstone and Apollo private equity investor and summa cum laude Duke graduate, Cooper is focused on making mental health care easier to find, afford, and stick with.
Yann Magnan
Yann Magnan is the CEO and co-founder of 73 Strings, an AI-powered valuation and portfolio-monitoring platform for the private capital industry. A corporate-finance veteran of more than 25 years, he built Duff & Phelps' Paris office in 2007 and rose to lead its EMEA region across 27 offices before joining a pair of former colleagues to attack one of finance's most stubborn problems: pricing illiquid private assets. Under his leadership, 73 Strings raised a $55M Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives in February 2025 and now serves managers overseeing trillions in assets from offices spanning Paris, New York, London, Bengaluru and beyond.
Jessvin Thomas
Jessvin Thomas is the CEO of Auguria, a cybersecurity startup building what it calls the first SIEM designed from the ground up for AI - a 'Security Knowledge Layer' that curates the flood of security logs before analysts ever see them. A Cornell-trained operations researcher who started his career hand-inspecting firewall logs during the dot-com boom, he has spent two decades across Nokia, Blackstone, Optiv, SKOUT/Barracuda, and Adlumin. He is also a Venture Partner at SYN Ventures and, in a twist, the owner of Tenn Street Coffee & Books in Denver.
Alex Leonardi
Alex Leonardi is the co-founder and CEO of VectorShift, a New York no-code AI automation platform that lets teams build enterprise-grade LLM applications, search engines, chatbots and workflows by dragging and dropping instead of coding. A Harvard statistics-and-computer-science graduate who built generative AI capabilities at Blackstone, he launched VectorShift in 2023 through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and raised a $3M seed in February 2024. The company has since sharpened its focus into an AI operating system for private market investors.
Shantanu Gangal
Shantanu Gangal is co-founder and CEO of Prodigal, a Y Combinator-backed AI company in Mountain View building AI agents for consumer lending, loan servicing and collections. He previously led data science at Fundbox and worked at Blackstone and Boston Consulting Group. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Wharton.