Brave is a privacy-first technology company that makes a fast, open-source, Chromium-based web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default. Founded in 2015 by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich and engineer Brian Bondy, Brave has grown into a full privacy suite: an independent search engine (Brave Search), a built-in AI assistant (Leo), a Web3 crypto wallet, a VPN, and an opt-in advertising model powered by the Basic Attention Token (BAT) that pays users and creators. In 2025 the browser passed 100 million monthly active users.
HERE is the enterprise browser company formerly known as OpenFin. Built on Google Chromium, its software turns the workday browser into a unified workspace - stitching web apps, internal tools and data together so employees stop paying the 'toggle tax' of jumping between disconnected applications. After 14 years winning over the world's largest banks with its desktop interoperability platform, OpenFin relaunched as HERE in June 2024 to take the same technology beyond finance into contact centers, healthcare, government and any enterprise drowning in browser tabs.
Mazy Dar is the CEO and co-founder of Here (formerly OpenFin), a New York workspace-software company that grew out of Wall Street trading floors into an enterprise browser used to fight the 'toggle tax' - the four hours a week knowledge workers lose flipping between apps. A Cornell computer-science and French-literature grad who started as a UBS programmer, Dar built and sold the electronic credit-derivatives business at Creditex (a $625M sale to ICE) before founding OpenFin in 2010 to modernize how applications reach enterprise desktops. In 2024 he rebranded the company to Here, launched an enterprise browser built on Chromium, and raised a $35M Series D to take the technology beyond finance.
Song Zou is Vice President of the Edge Growth Team at Microsoft, where he leads the growth strategy for one of the world's most widely-used browsers. A 25-year Microsoft veteran, he has shaped the user experience of nearly every major Windows release - from MSN Money to Vista's desktop to Windows 7's taskbar and Start menu - before steering the pivotal migration of Microsoft Edge to the Chromium engine and building the microservices infrastructure behind it. Trained as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he is a rare operator who bridges deep systems-level engineering with executive-scale product growth.