InStride Health is a Boston-based virtual specialty clinic that treats anxiety and OCD in kids, teens, and young adults ages 7 to 24. Founded by Harvard-trained clinicians from McLean Hospital, it delivers insurance-covered, evidence-based care - cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention - through a dedicated three-person care team that coaches patients in the real-world settings where their anxiety actually shows up: school, home, the dinner table. The company has raised $56 million and operates across the Northeast.
Gabriel Paunescu is the founder and CEO of Naologic, a no-code platform that lets companies build and customize enterprise software (ERP, CRM, workflow apps) without a development team, and now layers multi-agent AI on top of legacy business systems. A Romanian-born serial entrepreneur with seven startups and two exits behind him, he started exporting essential oils at 17 and now keynotes at Google Next, mentors at UC Berkeley, and writes about building AI agents that catch their own hallucinations. His core belief: buying software you cannot modify is like buying a horse instead of a car.
NetSuite is the world's first cloud ERP and CRM platform, founded in 1998 by Evan Goldberg and now owned by Oracle. Trusted by 43,000+ organizations across 220 countries, NetSuite unifies financials, CRM, e-commerce, HR, and supply chain in a single cloud-native suite — making it the go-to business operating system for companies scaling from startup to enterprise.
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Kees Hertogh is Vice President of Public Sector & Healthcare Marketing at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. A Netherlands-born executive who joined Microsoft via the 2002 Navision acquisition, he has spent over two decades at the company rising from product management on Microsoft Dynamics AX through to VP-level leadership over the global marketing strategy for Microsoft's healthcare, life sciences, education, and government verticals. He is the primary public face of Microsoft Dragon Copilot - the AI clinical workflow assistant reaching 100,000+ clinicians - and a prolific industry blogger and conference speaker on responsible AI in healthcare.
Peter Russo is VP of Core Business Workflows, Product & Solution Marketing at ServiceNow, where he leads go-to-market strategy for the platform's finance, supply chain, and creator workflow product lines. A seasoned technology marketing executive with roots in SAP and Oracle, he has spent his career helping enterprise software companies articulate the value of complex platforms to buyers who care about outcomes, not features. Based in Austin, TX, he is known in the industry for championing the 'beyond ERP' narrative and for helping ServiceNow stake its claim in the mid-market with the 2025 Core Business Suite launch.
Atom is a San Francisco-based enterprise transformation company that helps mid-size and Fortune 500 organizations move to the cloud and modernize on platforms like Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, SAP and ServiceNow. Founded in 2020 by Zain Aziz, it pitches an asset-based 'Living Services' model with packaged accelerators (Atom CORE) that compress traditional multi-year transformations into 3-6 month rollouts.
Shawn Lane is the Chief Executive Officer of Ottimate, an AI-powered accounts payable automation and payments platform serving mid-market businesses across hospitality, healthcare, construction, retail, and manufacturing. With more than 30 years of experience scaling enterprise SaaS and supply chain software companies - from Procter & Gamble to i2 Technologies to E2open - Lane brings rare operational depth to one of fintech's fastest-growing categories. His career is a through-line of companies that challenged legacy processes with intelligent automation, and Ottimate is his biggest stage yet.
Wiley Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of DOSS, a San Francisco-based AI-native operations cloud for physical goods companies. A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Wiley spent his early career at Sprite Robotics in China, then at Verkada and Athelas before co-founding DOSS in 2022 with Arnav Mishra. DOSS has raised $73M in total funding including a $55M Series B in March 2026, positioning itself as the inventory and supply chain intelligence layer for modern ERP stacks.
Darwin Thangappan is the CEO and founder of ASIR Technologies, a bootstrapped enterprise technology company headquartered in Milpitas, California, with development operations in Bangalore, India. A mechanical engineering graduate turned software entrepreneur, Darwin spent nine years at Oracle building and managing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne before launching ASIR Technologies in 2014. Under his leadership, the company has grown to 75+ employees and developed ACRA Suite, a 100% no-code automation platform that slashes regression testing time by 60% across JD Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, and Salesforce environments. Honored by Marquis Who's Who in 2025 for excellence in technology and product development, Darwin also holds a U.S. patent for computer user interface technology.
Loren Straub is a General Partner at Bowery Capital, a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise software and B2B SaaS. Based in San Francisco, she spearheaded Bowery's West Coast expansion in 2019, leads investments in supply chain, B2B marketplaces, and enterprise resource planning (ERP), and serves on the boards of nine portfolio companies. Before joining venture capital, she held roles at Goldman Sachs (investment banking), Groupon (corporate finance and APAC FP&A), and Activision Blizzard (investor relations). She is also a Venture Committee Member at The Vinetta Project, supporting female founders.
John Glasgow is the founder, CEO, and CFO of Campfire, the AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies. A 15-year finance veteran who passed through Adobe, Invoice2go, and Bill.com before founding Campfire during parental leave in 2023, Glasgow has raised over $100 million in funding — $35M Series A and $65M Series B in just 12 weeks — and is steering the company toward an IPO. His platform's proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) achieves 95% accuracy on financial workflows, and customers like Replit, Decagon, and PostHog have traded NetSuite for Campfire's AI-first stack.
Michael Jaszczyk is the CEO (US) of NEWWORK Software, a Berlin and Palo Alto-based startup founded in 2023 by former SAP and Workday veterans to rebuild enterprise software for the AI era. With over two decades of technology leadership - including 15 years at GK Software SE where he rose from CTO to Chief Digital Transformation Officer and CEO of GK Americas - he is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and enterprise workflow automation. Jaszczyk helped pioneer retail AI as far back as 2003 through the Metro Group Future Store initiative, and today leads NEWWORK's mission to replace legacy ERP, CRM, and HR systems with AI-native, agentic platforms that understand business requirements and generate working solutions in minutes.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Vijay Gopineedi is the CEO and serial entrepreneur behind Rootshell Inc, a Santa Clara-based IT consulting firm he has led since 2010. Starting his career as a software developer in 1999, he went on to found EZ Info Systems, consult at PwC and Deloitte, and eventually build Rootshell into a ~93-person global IT services company specializing in CPQ, ServiceNow, Salesforce, DevOps, and digital transformation. He is also an early investor in Deepfactor, the developer application security platform acquired by Cisco in August 2024.
Vikash Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Infovity, Inc., a San Mateo-based Oracle Cloud consulting firm he built from scratch in 2008 into a 380-person, $85M-revenue enterprise serving clients across manufacturing, pharma, financial services, and more. A former Oracle engineer turned entrepreneur, he leads one of the most Oracle-obsessed consulting shops in North America - a company where nearly 70% of employees are former Oracle insiders, and where roughly 90% of new business comes from referrals. He is also a General Partner at BAT VC, a venture fund focused on fintech, healthtech, and web3 with a dual US-India investment thesis.
Vina D'Souza is the Chief Executive Officer and President of WalkWater Technologies, a San Jose-based IT services and cloud solutions firm she leads with over two decades of experience in technology recruiting and enterprise services. Under her leadership, WalkWater has grown into an Oracle Gold Partner with 58 employees, specializing in Oracle Fusion Cloud, ServiceNow, ERP systems, cloud migration, and IT staff augmentation for clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and the non-profit sector.
Cornelius Menke is a former Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he spent roughly three years building the firm's European investment portfolio from London. A German national educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, Menke moved from management consulting at Boston Consulting Group to venture capital after an earlier stint inside Klarna's CFO office - one of Sequoia's landmark European bets. At Sequoia, he backed companies across industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and enterprise fintech, co-investing in Robco, Tacto, LangChain, Flow, Pennylane, and Rillet while also running the firm's Arc accelerator cohorts for European pre-seed and seed founders. He departed Sequoia in 2025/2026 and his next move remains to be announced.
Umair Azam is the Founder and CEO of Integration Xperts, Pakistan's leading cloud implementation and enterprise software firm with 180+ employees and offices across Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, and the USA. As Pakistan's first Salesforce Value-Added Reseller and one of the largest Oracle and SAP Gold partners in the country, he built the company from scratch in 2016 after a career spanning Oracle, Avaya, and Inbox Business Technologies. He secured a seven-figure USD investment from the Atlas Group in 2020 and has set his sights on an IPO on the Pakistan Stock Exchange by 2027.
Zalos builds computer agents that automate repetitive finance operations - from reconciliation to accounts payable - without replacing existing systems. Instead of API integrations, its agents learn directly from screen recordings and then log into ERPs like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage the same way a human would, handling 2FA, navigating screens, and maintaining full audit trails. A Y Combinator Fall 2025 company, Zalos raised $3.6M seed to put invisible finance workers inside the software CFOs already use.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is Microsoft's flagship suite of intelligent, cloud-based enterprise business applications combining CRM and ERP capabilities under a single unified platform. Launched in November 2016, it covers sales, customer service, finance, supply chain, HR, commerce, and field service — all deeply integrated with Microsoft 365, Azure, LinkedIn, and Power Platform. With embedded Copilot AI and autonomous AI agents, Dynamics 365 serves nearly 100,000 organizations worldwide and is a consistent Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader across CRM, ERP, and Sales Force Automation categories.
SAP CRM, now branded as SAP Customer Experience (SAP CX), is the customer relationship management portfolio of SAP SE — Germany's largest software company and the world's leading enterprise application vendor. Founded in 1972, SAP CRM has evolved from an on-premise suite launched in 2000 into a comprehensive cloud-native platform encompassing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud (Emarsys), Commerce Cloud, and Customer Data solutions. Serving 98 of the world's top 100 companies and over 425,000 customers globally, SAP CX differentiates itself through deep native integration with SAP ERP/S4HANA and AI capabilities via its Joule copilot, enabling end-to-end business process automation from back-office operations to customer-facing interactions.