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James Ding
James Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Draftwise, a New York-based legal AI company building contract drafting, review, and negotiation software for elite law firms. A former engineering lead at Palantir with a computer science degree from Emory University, Ding started Draftwise in 2020 after interviewing about 100 lawyers and concluding that repetitive contract work was ripe for automation. The company went through Y Combinator, raised a $5M seed in 2023 and a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures in 2024, and now serves clients among the world's top-tier law firms from offices in New York and London.
Shaival Shah
Shaival Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Indigo, an AI-powered home transaction and offer-negotiation platform for real estate agents, buyers and sellers. A repeat proptech founder, he previously built and led Ribbon, the all-cash offers platform that handled roughly $20 billion in offers a year. The son of Indian immigrants who needed a community loan to buy their first home, Shah builds technology aimed at making the most complex, opaque part of real estate, the contract, transparent and fair.
Praful Saklani
Praful Saklani is the Founder and CEO of Pramata, an enterprise contract AI company he built from a bootstrapped startup in Minnesota into a 300-person global platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies. Inspired by watching attorneys manually search through contracts during a 2001 acquisition, he spent nearly two decades turning that frustration into a radically simple contract lifecycle management platform now powered by generative AI. Along the way he's been named to Comparably's Best CEOs for Diversity lists, grown Pramata to $49.7M in annual revenue, and attracted backing from Volition Capital.
Jack Porter
Jack Porter is a serial entrepreneur, multi-time CEO, and co-founder of Cognizer Inc, an AI-powered contract intelligence company based in Pleasanton, California. With a career spanning decades and leadership of more than seven software companies, Porter has worked on AI projects for clients including American Express, Discover Card, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline. At Cognizer, he is building a platform that uses knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, and large language models to help enterprise legal, sales, and procurement teams extract intelligence from contracts at scale. Cognizer has raised over $16M in funding and is recognized for its Genius AI platform, which achieves 97% accuracy in extracting contract terms and clauses.