Scott Cahill is the co-founder and former CEO of LEXI, an intelligent enterprise IoT platform headquartered in Lebanon, Ohio. He built the company from a smart lighting passion project into a universal wireless building automation system that claims up to 90% cost savings over competitors. Over 7.5 years he led LEXI through a $2.6M seed round, a $3.5M pre-Series A, and multiple equity crowdfunding campaigns, accumulating $5.5M raised and a $30M valuation by 2024. In 2024 he handed the CEO role to Hans Bukow to accelerate LEXI toward IPO, while remaining as an advisor.
Honghao Deng is the CEO and co-founder of Butlr, a San Francisco-based Physical AI company that uses anonymous thermal sensors to understand how spaces are occupied - without cameras or personal data. A Harvard GSD MDes graduate and MIT Media Lab researcher, Deng spun Butlr out of MIT in 2019 alongside co-founder Jiani Zeng. The company has raised over $105M in venture funding, deployed 30,000+ sensors across 22 countries, and processes 1 billion data points daily. Deng is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (2022), a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and the inventor of 'Illusory Material' - a multi-material 3D printing breakthrough named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2021.