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Achi Rotem and the case for thinking smaller
After years spent moving telecom data, Achi Rotem built K2view around a smaller unit: one customer at a time. His career traces how an engineering idea became an enterprise business, and his continuing role after the CEO title changed hands.
Lisa Luscap Makes Complicated Technology Sound Like a Human Decision
From Dolby's cinema screens to Snowflake's record-setting market debut and Starburst's data platform, Lisa Luscap has built a career around a deceptively hard task: making technical change clear enough to matter.
Ju-Kay Kwek Has Spent 15 Years Making Data Less Precious
Before AI could answer a revenue question, someone had to make the numbers trustworthy. The Switchboard co-founder has built a career in that stubborn, essential gap.
Artem Bugara Is Teaching Search to Bring Back the Whole Story
He started with a tiny Python wrapper, four Y Combinator applications and a Telegram chat called “First million.” Now the NewsCatcher co-founder is betting that AI agents need fewer clever summaries and far more complete evidence.
Vasu Sattenapalli Is Turning Data Trust Into a Product
After years inside enterprise data systems, the RightData co-founder arrived at a plain conclusion: a dashboard is only useful when people believe the number. Now he is building the controls that turn corporate data from a hopeful guess into something teams can use.
Lokesh Anand
Lokesh Anand is the co-founder and CEO of Sigmoid, a data engineering and AI consulting company he started in 2013 with two IIT Kharagpur classmates. Under his leadership, Sigmoid has grown into a 1,300-person firm serving Fortune 500 clients across CPG, retail, healthcare, BFSI and AdTech, backed by Sequoia Capital India. An electrical engineer by training with early stints at Siemens and Procter & Gamble, Anand has built Sigmoid around a distinctive thesis: bring rigorous engineering to analytics so enterprises can turn data into measurable business impact.
Erin Tavgac
Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.
Manu Bansal
Manu Bansal is co-founder and CEO of Lightup, an AI-powered data quality and observability platform for the enterprise data stack. A Stanford EE PhD and IIT Kanpur alum, he first co-founded Uhana, a machine-learning analytics company for mobile carriers that VMware acquired in 2019. The grind of debugging bad data at Uhana became the seed for Lightup, which now runs hundreds of thousands of daily data-quality checks across petabytes of customer data and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Vinay Mohta
Vinay Seth Mohta is the CEO and co-founder of Manifold, a vertical AI platform for life sciences that aims to make clinical research roughly 10 times faster and a tenth of the cost. An MIT-trained engineer who began at MathWorks and was an early team member at Endeca (acquired by Oracle) before co-founding and serving as CTO of Kyruus, Mohta started Manifold in 2016 as a pragmatic AI lab and has since rebuilt it into a product company tackling what he calls the 'Life Sciences Chasm.' He raised an $18M Series B in December 2025, bringing total funding to about $40M.