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Dragos-Florin Stanculescu Wants Your Digital Face to Feel Like You
After 13 years making games, the Holotech co-founder turned a webcam, a digital mask and one stubborn idea about expression into FaceRig, then rebuilt the premise as Animaze.
Alex Mitchell Is Turning the First Chair Into an Open Seat
A competitive violinist learned to sell songs, read crowds and build products. Now the Boomy co-founder is testing a more consequential idea: what happens when making music becomes an invitation instead of an audition?
Alexander Khuda
A failed education startup left Alexander Khuda with a smaller question: how can one live feed travel everywhere? Restream grew from a $15 donation in Vinnytsia into the control room behind millions of broadcasts - and its next bet is on everything that happens after the stream ends.
Suyash Sinha
Suyash Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Exly (YC W19), an all-in-one business platform that helps creators, coaches and knowledge entrepreneurs launch, manage and grow their online businesses. An IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta graduate and former Boston Consulting Group consultant, he first built MyScoot, a marketplace for home-hosted social experiences, then pivoted the company through the pandemic to create Exly. The company has raised roughly $9.8 million to date, including a $6.2 million round led by Chiratae Ventures in 2024.
Raj Gajwani
Raj Gajwani is Chief Business Officer at OpenArt AI, the San Francisco generative-AI creator suite for images and video. Before OpenArt he spent over a decade at Google, scaling DoubleClick's channel program to $1.3 billion in revenue and founding Orion Wifi, one of the most successful projects out of Google's Area 120 incubator (now part of Android). He also runs Day 0, an enterprise AI strategy consultancy, and serves as a board member, advisor, and angel investor across startups including Couchsurfing, MultiView, and the Wireless Broadband Alliance. A Harvard graduate who also studied at the London School of Economics, he sits at the intersection of frontier AI products and enterprise go-to-market.
Daniel Yousefian
Daniel Yousefian is a co-founder of Clubhouse, the voice-based social networking platform that captured the world's attention during the pandemic. Built under Alpha Exploration Co. and backed by $112M from Andreessen Horowitz, Clubhouse pioneered drop-in audio rooms before boldly pivoting toward intimate friend-to-friend voice messaging - complete with AI-powered custom voice cloning. Based in Yerevan, Armenia, Yousefian is part of the founding trio alongside CEO Paul Davison and co-founder Rohan Seth.
Justine Moore
Justine Moore is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she invests in AI-native consumer products and generative media, with a portfolio spanning companies like ElevenLabs and Viggle AI. A Stanford alum who co-founded Cardinal Ventures as a student, she launched the 'Accelerated' newsletter with her identical twin sister Olivia (also a partner at a16z), and together they are known as the 'Venture Twins.' Before a16z, Justine spent four years at CRV investing in DTC and consumer startups, and briefly took an operator role at Canal between VC stints. Her mother was a venture investor, making her something of VC royalty who grew up watching pitch meetings from a stroller.