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Jason Craparo
Jason Craparo is the founder and CEO of Hovr, a Philadelphia-based marketing technology company whose patented, no-code tool sits on top of hotel and travel brand websites and turns static pages into interactive, video-rich experiences that drive direct bookings. A Babson MBA who started as a dishwasher at 14 and ran Sonic Drive-In franchises by 21, Jason spent six years at social enterprise Juma Ventures before founding networking apps Contap and Hio, then pivoting the technology into hospitality. He holds a dozen granted patents, is a certified private pilot who flies aerobatics, runs triathlons, and is a father of three.
Jenkin Richard
Jenkin Richard is the co-founder and CEO of ChatLabs, an AI platform that turns social media traffic into personalized, on-brand shopping journeys for luxury and consumer brands. Incubated inside LVMH's innovation accelerator, ChatLabs raised a $3.2M seed round led by Silicon Road Ventures in December 2024 and counts LVMH houses like Dior and Tiffany, plus Kering, Richemont and Samsung among its partners. Before ChatLabs, Richard founded and served as CTO of the social commerce firm Chatly, which was acquired by Salesforce. He holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School and an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.
Yuxin Zhu
Yuxin Zhu is the co-founder and CEO of Replo, a San Francisco low-code platform that lets ecommerce brands build high-converting Shopify landing pages without writing code. A UC Berkeley computer scientist, he first made his name building Berkeleytime, a course-scheduling tool that grew to over a million annual sessions and was acquired by the University of California. After six years engineering and managing product teams at Uber through its IPO, he reunited with college friend Noah Gilmore to launch Replo in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. The company has raised over $8 million and onboarded thousands of brands, much of it on word-of-mouth growth.
Sophie Buonassisi
Sophie Buonassisi is SVP of Marketing at GTMfund and GTMnow, where she leads a 58,000+ subscriber newsletter and media brand at the intersection of go-to-market strategy, venture capital, and B2B SaaS. A criminology graduate turned growth marketer, she spent 4.5 years as the first GTM hire at Spiralyze before standing out from 400+ applicants to join GTMfund. She transformed the GTM Newsletter into GTMnow - a full media brand that includes the reacquired Sales Hacker podcast (622+ episodes), a private Inner Circle community, and editorial content reaching 50,000+ founders, GTM leaders, and investors globally.