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Vishal Sunak
Vishal Sunak is a Boston software founder best known for co-founding LinkSquares in 2015 and running it as CEO for a decade, building an AI-powered contract-management platform for in-house legal and finance teams that raised roughly $161 million and grew to around 450 employees. Born in Brazil to Indian parents and raised in Rhode Island, he trained as an engineer, worked on military RF electronics, and cut his teeth in Boston B2B software at Backupify and InsightSquared before starting LinkSquares. He stepped back from the CEO role in early 2025, stayed on as a founding board member and advisor, and is now building a new, largely stealth venture called Joyride (joyride.ai).
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.
James McGillicuddy
James McGillicuddy is the CEO and Co-founder of BRM (Buyer Relationship Management), a San Francisco-based AI-powered vendor management and procurement automation platform. After key early roles at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for $390M), Sourcegraph (valued at $2.6B), and Carta (where he led CartaX), McGillicuddy co-founded BRM in May 2022 to rebalance the power dynamic between buyers and their vendors. BRM raised $21.6M in total funding - a $6M seed from Base10 Partners and a $15M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital in December 2024 - and serves customers including Deel and Cadence with AI SuperAgents that automate vendor discovery, contract extraction, compliance monitoring, and negotiation.
Daniel Lewis
Daniel Lewis is the Global CEO of LegalOn Technologies, the most well-funded AI platform for in-house contract review, having raised over $200 million. A Stanford Law grad who co-founded Ravel Law from a Stanford dorm, partnered with Harvard to digitize 360 years of U.S. case law, and then led LexisNexis's Practical Guidance division before taking the helm at LegalOn in 2022. Under his leadership, LegalOn's US and UK business quadrupled, secured a $50M Series E led by Goldman Sachs, and struck a strategic partnership with OpenAI - all while building attorney-curated AI playbooks that help legal teams cut contract review time by up to 85%.
Jay Nath
Jay Nath is Co-CEO and co-founder of Authorium, an AI-powered government procurement and document workflow platform that processes over $50 billion in government transactions. Before Authorium, he served as San Francisco's first Chief Innovation Officer for nearly a decade, where he created landmark programs including Startup in Residence (STIR), Civic Bridge, and Open311 — the nation's first read-write open data standard for 311 systems, adopted by over 50 cities worldwide. Recognized by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change, Nath has spent his career bridging the gap between Silicon Valley agility and the scale of public sector impact.
Sunil Patro
Sunil Patro is the Founder and CEO of Signeasy, the electronic signature and contract management platform he built after a frustrating afternoon hunting for a fax machine in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2009. He bootstrapped the company for over a decade, coded the first version from hostels across Central and South America, and grew it to 10 million users across 180+ countries before taking any outside funding. A former Microsoft software engineer and IIT Kharagpur graduate, Patro has made a career out of making complex workflows embarrassingly simple.