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Jeong Kim Built a PDF Company in a Sushi Shop. Then He Bought His Old Employer.
He left Artifex to turn printing technology into paperless software. Eighteen years later, he returned as the buyer - and now wants PyMuPDF to become a gateway between the world's documents and its AI models.
Alberto Gimeno Learned to Sell the Software He Used to Build
Three university friends spent a decade building together. Their useful discovery was not a flashier model, but a stubborn lesson: find the market that pulls, then give it your full attention.
Etienne Bernard Is Teaching AI to Read the Fine Print
The physicist who helped make machine learning automatic at Wolfram is now shrinking document AI into focused models that turn unruly files into useful data - with privacy, precision, and a well-placed null.
Aman Mishra Is Teaching AI to Read the Fine Print
After low-latency trading systems and enterprise copilots, the Unsiloed AI co-founder found his company in a broken table: the place where flat text loses the plot.
Adit Abraham Found a Business in the Documents Everyone Else Hated
A failed memory tool, a two-week pivot and 154 days of enterprise courtship taught Adit Abraham a durable lesson: the useful work is often the work nobody wants to brag about.
Kushal Byatnal
Kushal Byatnal is the co-founder and CEO of Extend, a New York company building a full-stack cloud for document processing. Extend turns messy PDFs, images, and emails into production-ready structured data using vision models, large language models, and human-in-the-loop tooling, and is used by teams at Brex, Chime, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, and Checkr. A two-time technical founder and Duke computer science graduate, Byatnal was an early engineer at Brex and co-founded the creator fintech Stir before starting Extend in 2023. In June 2025 the company raised $17 million led by Innovation Endeavors.
Cyrus Khajvandi
Cyrus Khajvandi is the co-founder and CEO of Humata, an Austin-based AI startup often described as 'ChatGPT for all your files.' A Stanford biology graduate and serial entrepreneur, he built Humata after struggling to keep up with scientific papers, turning that personal frustration into a tool that lets people ask questions of their documents and get cited, fact-checkable answers. The company launched in early 2023, grew to millions of users processing tens of millions of pages, and raised $3.5M led by Google's Gradient Ventures with ARK Invest and M13.
Shawn Heide
Shawn Heide is a Boston-based entrepreneur who blends culinary creativity with digital storytelling and enterprise AI. As co-founder of 9muse Creative Studio, he crafts cinematic brand films for companies across New England. His culinary arc spans founding Wagwan Jerk Bar in 2017 — a Caribbean-meets-New England pop-up launched at Boston farmers markets — to directing culinary operations at The Kitchen at White Barn, a Neapolitan pizza restaurant grown from a working farm. Pursuing his MBA at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Shawn is also connected to Upstage AI, the enterprise AI company known for document intelligence and large language models that raised a $120M Series C in early 2026.
Sung Kim
Sung Kim (김성훈), known professionally as Hun Kim, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upstage AI, South Korea's first generative AI unicorn. A former HKUST professor and founding head of Naver Clova AI, he co-founded Upstage in October 2020 to solve the gap between enterprise data and practical AI deployment. Under his leadership, Upstage developed Solar - a compact 10.7B parameter language model - and Solar Pro 2, which outperforms GPT-4.1 at half the compute cost. With $326M in total funding and a Series C close in early 2026, Upstage is positioning itself as a global AI frontier company focused on enterprise document intelligence and AI agents.
Lucy Park
Lucy Park (Eunjeong Park) is the co-founder and US CEO of Upstage, the first Korean generative AI startup to achieve unicorn status. A PhD in Data Mining from Seoul National University and MIT Innovators Under 35 honoree, she built KoNLPy - the go-to Korean NLP library used in classrooms and production systems across Korea - before leading the Papago machine translation team at NAVER. At Upstage, she drives the company's AI models and document intelligence products into enterprises across insurance, finance, legal and healthcare, with the company's Solar LLM powering mission-critical workflows globally.
Dan Ashton
Dan Ashton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brain Co., a San Francisco-based AI company that builds applied intelligence platforms for the world's most complex institutions - from government permit offices to hospital systems. He brought his AI startup Serene AI into Brain Co.'s orbit and now leads a company backed by $30M in Series A funding from Elad Gil, Affinity Partners, Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy. Before Brain Co., he was an early operator at three unicorns - Opendoor, Faire, and Clubhouse - and a McKinsey consultant before that. Brain Co. has already deployed AI that unlocks $375M annually in permitting value and mitigated $100M+ in supply chain losses.