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Anant Bhardwaj
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, a San Francisco-based AI platform that helps enterprises extract intelligence from unstructured data - PDFs, images, emails, and documents of every kind. He dropped out of a PhD at MIT in 2015 to build what has become a $1.24 billion company with $277M in total funding, serving clients like NatWest, AXA, Uber, and four of the five largest U.S. banks. Born in Bihar, India, he studied at Pune, Stanford, and MIT before pioneering the idea that the enterprise's biggest untapped asset is the data it can't yet read.
Jonathan Grandperrin
Jonathan Grandperrin is the co-founder and CEO of Mindee, a Y Combinator-backed (W21) API-first platform that automates document understanding using computer vision and machine learning. A graduate of École Polytechnique and UC Berkeley, he previously served as CTO at ECTOR and TankYou before founding Mindee in 2018. Under his leadership, Mindee has raised over $23M, participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, grown to $3.5M ARR with 200-250% net dollar retention, and become a leading developer tool for intelligent document processing serving accounting, finance, and enterprise software companies worldwide.