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Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs is a San Jose-based semiconductor company building optical input/output (I/O) technology that moves data between chips using light instead of copper. Its silicon-photonics chiplets - the TeraPHY optical engine and the SuperNova multi-wavelength light source - are designed to be co-packaged directly with GPUs and other processors, letting AI and high-performance-computing systems scale across thousands of accelerators with far higher bandwidth and far lower power than electrical interconnects. Spun out of a DARPA-funded university research effort, the company raised a $500M Series E in 2026 with backing from NVIDIA and AMD.
Andra Munteanu
Andra Munteanu is a product and technology executive who became Onfleet's first Chief Product Officer in October 2023, steering the roadmap of one of the fastest-growing last-mile delivery management platforms. With more than two decades across consulting, SaaS, enterprise software and fintech, she has built and led research, engineering and design organizations at Craft.co, Experian, Checkr and Visa. Beyond the C-suite, she is an angel investor with Pipeline Angels and an advisor with Future VC, channeling capital and mentorship toward founders who are usually overlooked.
Maite Telleria
Maite Muniz Telleria is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Truora Inc., a San Francisco- and Colombia-based startup that helps Latin American businesses verify identities, run background checks, and automate customer engagement via WhatsApp. A former McKinsey consultant turned startup builder, she left corporate strategy to co-found Truora in 2018 alongside Daniel Bilbao, David Cuadrado, and Cesar Pino. Under her product leadership, Truora scaled from a single-country MVP to a multi-country platform serving clients like Bancolombia, Didi, Mercado Libre, and Rappi, raising $15M in a Series A led by Accel and BBVA's Propel fund in 2022. Maite is also an angel investor focused on women-led ventures and a board member of The F Code.
Abhijit Kane
Abhijit Kane is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by 20+ million developers and 98% of Fortune 500 companies. A BITS Pilani alumnus, he joined Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti in 2014 to turn a viral Stack Overflow side project into a $5.6 billion company that defines how developers build, test, and collaborate on APIs.
Christopher Coleman
Christopher Coleman is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Clutch (withclutch.com), a San Francisco-based fintech company transforming how credit unions compete in the digital age. A MIT mechanical engineering graduate and Stanford MBA, Coleman co-founded Carlypso (a Y Combinator-backed used-car marketplace sold to Carvana in 2017) before joining Carvana as Senior Product Director and then launching Clutch in 2020 with co-founder Nicholas Hinrichsen. Clutch has raised $106 million in total funding, including a $65M Series B in January 2025 led by Alkeon Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, and now serves 150+ credit unions - including 6 of the top 10 largest in the country - having facilitated over $10 billion in consumer loans and deposits.
Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada is the Co-Founder, CTO, and CPO of Alpaca Markets - the fintech unicorn building what he calls the 'Global Financial OS.' A Keio University-trained computer scientist who rewrote parts of PostgreSQL (Window Functions, PL/v8), Harada spent years building distributed databases at Greenplum before co-founding Alpaca in 2015 with Yoshi Yokokawa. The company, named after an alpaca they spotted on a Silicon Valley billionaire's estate, has grown to command 94% of the global tokenized US equities market, serve 300+ financial institutions across 40+ countries, and reach unicorn status at $1.15B valuation with a $150M Series D in January 2026.
Nishant Mungali
Nishant Mungali is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mindtickle, the AI-powered revenue enablement platform that became a unicorn in 2021. An IIT Guwahati-trained designer and engineer, he co-founded Mindtickle in 2011 alongside Krishna Depura, Mohit Garg, and Deepak Diwakar after experimenting with online gamification through a group called TeraMeraIdea. Mungali has been the product and design force behind Mindtickle's evolution from a gamified onboarding tool to a $1.2 billion platform serving over 2,000 enterprises globally with AI-powered sales coaching, training, and readiness capabilities.
Robert Eng
Robert Eng is Co-Founder and CPO of Pylon, the AI-native B2B customer support platform built for how enterprise teams actually communicate. A Caltech computer science and history double major who cut his teeth at Facebook, DoorDash, and Affinity, he co-founded Pylon in November 2022 with Advith Chelikani and Marty Kausas. The company - backed by $51M from a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator - has grown to 750+ customers including Together AI, Cognition, and AssemblyAI with 5x+ year-over-year revenue growth for two consecutive years.
Tomer London
Tomer London is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gusto, a $9.5 billion payroll and HR platform serving 400,000+ small businesses across the United States. Born and raised in Haifa, Israel, where his father ran a clothing store for over 35 years, Tomer taught himself Visual Basic at age 12 to build inventory software for the family business — a founding instinct that never left him. After earning his B.S. from the Technion and pursuing graduate studies at Stanford, he co-founded Gusto (originally ZenPayroll) in 2011 with Josh Reeves and Eddie Kim, going through Y Combinator and building the company into one of the most beloved B2B products in Silicon Valley, known for its unusually high NPS scores and the philosophy that payroll software should feel like a celebration, not a chore.
Vignesh Girishankar
Vignesh Girishankar is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Rocketlane, a San Francisco-based professional services automation platform that has raised $105M in total funding. Before Rocketlane, he co-founded Konotor (acquired by Freshworks in 2015), where he transformed an in-app messaging tool into FreshChat, scaling it to $13M ARR. Based in Chennai, India, Vignesh is known for his rigorous customer discovery approach - conducting 80+ interviews spanning 200+ hours before writing a line of code - and for building category-defining enterprise software from India without relocating to Silicon Valley.
Shelley Perry
Shelley Perry is a seasoned software executive with nearly three decades of experience scaling technology organizations. As CEO and Founder of ScaleLogix Ventures and Operating Partner at Insight Partners, she specializes in helping SaaS companies navigate the 'messy middle' - the critical growth phase between product-market fit and full-scale maturity. Her career spans VP Engineering at TicketMaster, CTO of Industry SaaS Solutions at HP, Chief Product Officer at NTT, and Operating Partner at Insight Partners, where she built their Product Center of Excellence and launched the CPO Accelerator program. She is a keynote speaker, board director at multiple SaaS companies including Chargebee, and founder of the Path to CPO initiative.
Mehak Aggarwal
Mehak Aggarwal is the Co-Founder, CPO, and Head of AI at Sybill, an AI-powered sales assistant platform that analyzes sales calls, writes follow-up emails, and updates CRMs automatically. A product of IIT Delhi's dual-degree program in Mathematics and Computing, she went on to conduct research at Harvard's biomedical imaging center (where she developed a patented CT scan fracture-detection algorithm), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Singapore University of Technology and Design. She and her co-founders - including her brother Gorish Aggarwal - built Sybill into a 700+ customer platform with $14.6M in total funding. In 2025, she was named a fully funded Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, continuing to lead Sybill while studying.
Sualeh Asif
Sualeh Asif is the 26-year-old co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor - the AI-powered code editor that reached $2 billion in annual recurring revenue faster than any B2B company in history. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, he represented his country at the International Mathematical Olympiad three times before studying at MIT, where he and three classmates built the product that is now rewriting how software gets made. Valued at $1.3 billion on Forbes' 2026 Billionaires List, Asif went from teaching math to Karachi students to co-architecting the tool powering 50,000+ enterprises including Nvidia, Adobe, and Uber.
Tomer Cohen
Tomer Cohen spent 14 years reshaping LinkedIn from a dusty resume repository into a platform used by a billion professionals daily. As Chief Product Officer, he oversaw the transformation of the feed, led the charge into AI-first product development, and coined the 'Full Stack Builder' model that is rewriting how product teams work. Born in Beer Sheba to Tunisian immigrant parents who lived in transit camps, he coded BASIC at age 10, served in IDF intelligence, backpacked through Latin America and Southeast Asia, earned an MBA from Stanford, and arrived at LinkedIn in 2012 - leaving more than a decade later as one of the most influential product minds in Silicon Valley.
Prasad Raje
Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.
Casey Winters
Casey Winters is a co-founder and CEO of SuperMe, an AI-native professional network backed by Greylock and Reid Hoffman. He is one of the most respected growth and product operators in Silicon Valley, having scaled Grubhub from 40,000 customers in 3 cities to 3 million users in 1,000+ cities, then led Pinterest's growth from 40 million to 400 million users, and later served as CPO of Eventbrite through a pandemic that wiped out the live events industry. A longtime Reforge program partner and prolific writer at caseyaccidental.com, Winters is known for first-principles thinking, blunt contrarianism, and a deep aversion to cargo-cult growth frameworks.
Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri is a product management authority, author, Harvard Business School lecturer, and founder of Produx Labs. Best known for 'Escaping the Build Trap' (O'Reilly, 2018), she has helped reshape how companies think about product strategy - moving organizations from output-obsessed feature factories to outcome-driven, customer-centric teams. Through her consultancy, online school, CPO Accelerator, and Product Thinking podcast, she has trained thousands of product leaders worldwide and advised companies from Fortune 500s to VC-backed scale-ups.