Vik Kashyap is the founder and CEO of Toi Labs, the San Francisco company behind TrueLoo, an AI-enabled toilet seat that quietly turns ordinary bathrooms in senior living communities into a source of passive wellness data. A Harvard graduate and former Battery Ventures associate, he previously built Canopy, a consumer healthcare SaaS company acquired by Aetna and later CVS. TrueLoo was named a 2024 TIME Best Invention and is deployed across dozens of senior communities. He holds about 10 patents and has been cited or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, and Science Translational Medicine.
Ripcord is a Hayward, California company that uses robots, machine learning, and generative AI to digitize the world's paper. Founded in 2015 out of NASA research, it built robots that scan documents - pulling staples and turning records into searchable, structured data through its cloud platform. Today it positions itself as a Document Intelligence as a Service (DIaaS) company, ingesting, classifying, and extracting data from both physical and digital records for clients across financial services, energy, government, insurance, and more.