Evvy is a precision women's health company building the first AI-powered vaginal healthcare platform around a CLIA-certified, at-home metagenomic vaginal microbiome test. Founded in 2021 by Stanford alums Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, Evvy pairs state-of-the-art testing that screens for 700+ bacteria and fungi with clinician-reviewed results, personalized prescription treatment, and one-on-one health coaching. By generating one of the largest datasets on female biomarkers, Evvy aims to close the gender health gap - starting with conditions like bacterial vaginosis that have been chronically under-researched.
Inkitt is a San Francisco-based AI-powered publishing and entertainment company that uses reader data and machine learning to identify breakout stories before they become hits. Writers upload fiction to Inkitt's community platform; the platform's algorithm tracks reader engagement to surface manuscripts with bestseller potential. Top stories move to Galatea, a premium immersive reading app offering ebooks, audiobooks, and chat-style fiction, and then to CandyJar, a short-drama streaming app. The result: a story-to-screen pipeline with 33 million users, a new million-dollar novel produced every four weeks, and 40x the hit-rate of traditional publishers.
Matik is a San Francisco SaaS that automates personalized, data-driven presentations, PDFs, and reports by pulling live data from CRMs, data warehouses, and BI tools into branded templates. It is used by customer success, sales, and account teams at companies like Asana, Zapier, and Reddit to turn hours of slide-grunt-work into minutes.
Nikola (Nik) Mijic is the co-founder and CEO of Matik, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that automates the creation of personalized, data-driven presentations and documents. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, he fled the Bosnian civil war as a toddler - spending years in Hungary and Germany before his family settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. After studying accounting and economics at Westminster College, he moved into customer success technology, building internal presentation tools at LinkedIn before co-founding Matik in 2019 with engineer Zak Stein. Matik has raised $26.1M from Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, grown to over $10.7M ARR, and counts Asana, SalesLoft, Greenhouse, and Glassdoor among its customers.
Jake Olsen, P.E. is the CEO of Stratus, the leading cloud software platform for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) contractors, helping hundreds of firms digitize workflows from BIM design through fabrication to field installation. A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years in construction technology, Olsen previously co-founded DADO - a construction document management startup that was acquired by Stanley Black & Decker - and also built Hangerworks, DEWALT Design Assist, and Powercalc Anchor Design. He steered Stratus to a $32 million Series B funding round in January 2025 led by Radian Capital, positioning the company as the connective tissue between the design table, fabrication shop, and job site in the evolving era of data-driven MEP contracting.
Gustaf Alstromer is a General Partner at Y Combinator, the world's most prestigious startup accelerator. A Swedish-born, San Francisco-based operator-turned-investor, he spent five years scaling Airbnb's growth team from 3 to 100+ people before joining YC in 2016. At YC he has mentored 600+ startups with a combined valuation of $118B+, reviewed 9,000+ applications, and become one of Silicon Valley's most cited voices on growth, experimentation, and climate tech entrepreneurship.
Emily Oster is a Harvard-trained economist, Brown University professor, and the mind behind ParentData - a platform transforming how millions of parents make decisions. With four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, TIME's 100 Most Influential People recognition, and over a million books sold, she wields data like a scalpel against pregnancy myths and parenting guilt, convincing readers that evidence beats anxiety every time.