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Moorepay sells the hours before payday
The British payroll specialist turns a recurring administrative headache into a software-and-service business. Its most revealing pitch is the time customers say they get back.
BrightHR Put the Awkward Parts of Being a Boss in One Pocket
Leave requests, late shifts, payroll handoffs and risk assessments rarely belong in the same conversation. BrightHR built a business by putting them in the same app - with a lawyer or safety adviser available when the software runs out of answers.
Wilshire Law Firm
Wilshire Law Firm turned a contingency-fee practice into a 500-plus-person litigation operation. Its real product is not a courtroom promise - it is the capacity to carry an ordinary person’s case against insurers, employers and corporations.
Bradford & Barthel, LLP
Bradford & Barthel built a statewide legal machine around one stubbornly complicated field. Its edge is not courtroom theater, but a network of local counsel, specialist units and practical training designed to make workers' compensation claims move.
Blueshoe
Blueshoe is an AI-native law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with proprietary legal reasoning software to make quality legal help affordable and always-on for individuals and small businesses. Founded in 2025 by Harvard Law graduate Casey O'Grady and MIT-trained engineer Kai Yee Wan, the Y Combinator-backed company started as a legal-reasoning research platform piloted at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools, then extended into a full-stack firm covering employment, housing, consumer, personal injury, and product-liability matters without billable hours.
Janine Yancey
Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.
Jordan Lewis
Jordan Lewis is the General Counsel of Redbud VC and Vice President & General Counsel of The Premiere Group, both based in Columbia, Missouri. A dual-licensed attorney (Missouri and Illinois) with a decade-plus of experience, he bridges the worlds of law, tax, and venture capital - handling M&A, fund structuring, governance, and legal strategy for a pre-seed VC firm that bets on founders shaped by struggle. Before Redbud, he cut his teeth as a litigator at Carmody MacDonald in St. Louis and has been a published voice in Missouri In-House Counsel on biometric privacy and employment law.