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Evan Brown
Evan Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Rebar, a New York vertical-AI company building an operating system for the HVAC, electrical, and plumbing trades. Rebar's platform reads blueprints and spec books, pulls out tens of thousands of data points per project, and turns estimating and quoting work that once took days into a task of minutes. Brown grew up in his uncle's HVAC supplier office and later spent years as an estimator and sales engineer before starting Rebar in October 2024 with Andrew Schwartz. In March 2026 the company closed a $14M Series A led by Prudence.
Marc Visent
Marc Visent is the co-founder and CEO of Knowify, a New York-based cloud software company that helps trade contractors and small construction businesses run job costing, project management, billing, and accounting in one place. A trained computer engineer and lawyer turned software entrepreneur, he started Knowify in 2012 with Daniel de Roulet Jr. and has grown it into a platform used by thousands of contractors, an Intuit QuickBooks partner, and a 2025 Inc. 5000 honoree.
Jason Rudin
Jason Rudin is the founder and CEO of Clad, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) startup building what he calls the operating system for telecom construction. From a New York base, Clad unifies project operations and finance so utilities, internet companies, and their subcontractors can bid, manage, permit, and get paid for laying fiber and rebuilding power networks. Before founding Clad in 2022, Rudin spent four years as a product manager at Meta and Instagram, externed at Google[X], and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey after graduating from Penn's Wharton School and its Management & Technology program. A self-described builder fascinated by how physical things get made, he woodworks, makes art, and reads widely when he is not automating the unglamorous plumbing of American infrastructure.
Catherine Jiang
Catherine Jiang is the founder and CEO of Dill, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) software company that helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable, online payments, credit applications, and lien rights management to get paid faster. A second-time founder, she previously co-founded SiteTrace (acquired by BuildCentrix) and was a product manager at Yelp. She holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford. Dill launched in 2023 serving foodservice distributors and later refocused on the construction supply chain, where late payments and paper-based invoicing choke cash flow.
James Gallagher
James Gallagher is the CEO and co-founder of GreenLite, a New York based construction technology company that pairs AI with licensed architects, engineers, and former regulators to deliver code-compliant building permits in days rather than months. A former Marine infantry and intelligence officer who deployed to Afghanistan, Gallagher spent a decade scaling the physical footprints of venture-backed companies like Gopuff, Bandit, and Good Uncle before realizing that permitting was the real bottleneck holding builders back. He founded GreenLite in 2022 with fellow Gopuff alum Ben Allen, and has since raised $86M across three rounds, including a $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners in September 2025.
Micah Rodman
Micah Rodman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kojo, the leading AI-powered construction procurement platform processing over $5 billion in annual materials orders for 600+ contractors across the US and Canada. A Yale alumnus who cut his teeth as a manager on Ray Dalio's team at Bridgewater Associates, Rodman co-founded Kojo in 2018 to digitize the paper-and-phone world of construction materials procurement. He transitioned from COO to CEO after founding CEO Maria Davidson stepped back, steering the company through a $94M fundraise and partnerships with industry giants like Wesco International.
Ro Bhatia
Ro Bhatia is the CEO and Board Member of PlanHub, the leading preconstruction SaaS platform connecting over 32,000 general contractors, 350,000 subcontractors, and 30,000+ suppliers across the United States. A veteran SaaS executive with 18+ years spanning Google, eBay, Yahoo, and The Home Depot, Bhatia joined PlanHub in January 2022 and transformed it from a slow-growing lifestyle business into a fast-growing platform with 245% revenue growth over three years, culminating in PlanHub's acquisition by GrowthCurve Capital in September 2025.