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Michael Mazur
Michael Mazur is co-founder and CEO of AI Clearing, an Austin-based platform that ingests drone imagery, BIM designs, schedules and ground data to produce autonomous progress tracking and quality control for large infrastructure builds. A former PwC partner who ran the firm's global Drone Powered Solutions unit, Mazur left in 2020 with co-founder Adam Wisniewski to spin the idea out as an independent company; in October 2023 the company closed a $14M Series A led by Prudence, on the back of 15x revenue growth.
Kyle Moore
Kyle Moore is co-founder and Software Fellow at Pyka, the Alameda, California company building the world's largest commercially-approved autonomous electric aircraft. A self-taught programmer who started writing code at age 11 from rural Washington, Moore brought firmware and robotics expertise from Google X to help design Pyka's Pelican — a 1,320-lb autonomous electric aircraft now spraying crops across four continents and delivering cargo for the U.S. Air Force. Pyka has raised $95M in total funding and achieved back-to-back FAA authorizations for the largest uncrewed aircraft systems in U.S. commercial history.
Nikhil Vadhavkar
Nikhil Vadhavkar is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Raptor Maps, the leading solar lifecycle management software platform. A Johns Hopkins and MIT-trained engineer, he pivoted from researching spacesuit thermal control systems and drone-based medical supply delivery in Africa to building the operating system for the global solar industry. Under his leadership, Raptor Maps has scaled to managing over 50 GW of solar PV assets across 40+ countries, raised $63.9M in total funding including a $35M Series C in December 2024, and established itself as the system of record for utility-scale solar asset management.