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Ankur Edkie Is Teaching Software How to Speak
Ankur Edkie spent a decade building systems people rarely noticed. At Murf AI, he is applying that engineer's instinct to a more intimate interface - the human voice.
Ruth Harper
Ruth Harper began by teaching people how to read maps. Now she helps a global workforce company navigate the two forces redrawing work itself: artificial intelligence and the green transition.
Anthony Habayeb
He spent a career refusing to specialize, then a bike ride with doctors handed him the one hard problem worth building a company around: making the AI behind real decisions something a human can actually answer for.
Bitfury
For over a decade Bitfury built the picks and shovels of the Bitcoin economy - the chips, the cooling, the code. Now it is spending its winnings on the next wave of computing.
Reejig
Reejig is an enterprise workforce-intelligence company that has repositioned itself as a Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Founded in Sydney in 2019 and now headquartered in New York, it maps every job, task and workflow inside an organisation into a structured Work Ontology and Work Context Graph, then uses independently audited Ethical AI to help companies redesign work, deploy AI agents, and measure the hours and value unlocked. It works with large enterprises such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Mastercard, and pursues a mission it calls Zero Wasted Potential.
Mahesh Devalla
Mahesh Devalla is the Chief Technology Officer of Players Health, a Minneapolis-based sports insurance and risk-management company that protects youth athletes and sports organizations. He leads product and engineering strategy and applies human-centered, ethical AI to athlete safety and real-time decision support. Before Players Health, where he rose from Director of Engineering, he architected enterprise-scale AI platforms across finance, utilities and software at firms including Citi, Bank of America, American Water, Hexagon and App Orchid. He holds a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence from Dartmouth College, authored the book 'The AI Dilemma: Why Businesses Still Fail to Embrace AI,' and has been named a USA 40 Under 40 honoree and ranked among global top AI leaders.
Censia
Censia is a San Francisco-based talent intelligence company that uses AI to turn billions of workforce data points into skills-based profiles of employees and candidates. Its platform enriches HR systems - most notably Workday - so enterprises can see hidden internal talent, plan their workforce around skills rather than job titles, and make faster, fairer hiring and mobility decisions. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Joanna Riley, Censia sells to large enterprises and pitches itself on ethical, bias-aware AI applied to talent data.
Siobhan Savage
Siobhan Savage is the CEO and co-founder of Reejig, a workforce intelligence and AI orchestration platform built to eliminate what she calls 'zero wasted potential' in the labor market. Sketched during maternity leave in 2018 and now used across 66 countries, Reejig became the first company to independently audit its talent AI for bias. Savage is a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and previously spent almost two decades running workforce strategy on billion-dollar infrastructure programs including Sydney Metro, Melbourne Metro, and Roy Hill.
Phoebe Yao
Phoebe Yao is the founder and CEO of Pareto.AI, a talent-first human data platform that recruits and trains the top sliver of expert labelers to produce high-quality training data for the world's leading AI labs. A Chinese-American immigrant, classical violist, 2020 Thiel Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, she dropped out of Stanford during the pandemic to build what began as a bootcamp training women as remote virtual assistants and pivoted in 2023 into the human-data backbone for AI research. Her companies have worked with the likes of Character.AI and Imbue and researchers at Stanford and UPenn, all anchored by a single conviction: the humans behind AI deserve to be treated as experts, not anonymous clickworkers.
Flawless
Flawless is an AI filmmaking company building assistive tools that let studios re-edit dialogue and localize films into other languages while preserving the original actor's performance. Its products TrueSync and DeepEditor use computer vision and deep learning to reshape an actor's lip movements and expressions to match new lines or dubbed dialogue, removing the disconnect of traditional dubbing and subtitles. Co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann and tech entrepreneur Nick Lynes, Flawless positions itself as a rights-first, consent-driven alternative to generative AI in cinema, endorsed by SAG-AFTRA and used across hundreds of studio productions.
Amit Kapur
Amit Kapur is co-CEO of Flawless, the London-based AI filmmaking company building 'assistive AI' tools for visual dubbing, performance editing and film localization. A Stanford-trained mechanical engineer who grew up in South Dakota, Kapur rose to COO of MySpace at its 125-million-user peak, co-founded the AI personalization startup Gravity (acquired by AOL in 2014), ran AOL's publisher platform, and later worked as an executive in residence at Redpoint Ventures. He advised and sat on Flawless's board for two years before stepping into the co-CEO seat alongside filmmaker Scott Mann, drawn by what he calls the company's ethical-AI approach to amplifying filmmakers rather than replacing them.
Sama
Sama is a San Francisco-based AI training-data company that combines a 5,000-plus full-time annotation workforce - most based in Kenya, Uganda and India - with proprietary tooling to deliver labeled data, model evaluation and red-teaming for the world's largest AI builders. Founded as the nonprofit Samasource in 2008 by the late Leila Janah, it relaunched as a for-profit B Corp in 2019 and counts Google, Walmart, NVIDIA, Ford and Microsoft among its customers.
Wirestock
Wirestock is a two-sided marketplace that connects 700,000+ photographers, videographers, illustrators, and 3D artists with AI labs that need ethically-sourced, high-quality multimodal training data. After pivoting from stock-content distribution in 2023, the company now supplies six of the largest foundation-model makers and is running at a $40M revenue run rate.
Wendy Gonzalez
Wendy Gonzalez is the CEO of Sama, a mission-driven AI data annotation and model evaluation company that employs thousands of workers in East Africa. She joined Sama in 2015, rose through the ranks as COO and President, and assumed the CEO role in 2020 following the passing of founder Leila Janah. Under her leadership, Sama closed a $70M Series B - at the time the largest funding round for a woman-led AI infrastructure company - achieved Forbes AI 50 recognition, and scaled to over 3,000 employees while maintaining its B Corp certification and social mission of lifting people out of poverty through dignified work in the AI economy.
Paravision
Paravision is a San Francisco-based Identity AI company building face recognition, liveness, deepfake detection, and age estimation tools used by governments, airports, banks, and stadiums worldwide. Rebranded from Ever AI in 2019 after topping NIST's facial recognition leaderboard, it sells ethically trained biometric SDKs to enterprises and Five Eyes partners.
Tracy Chan
Tracy Chan is the CEO of Splash, the AI music platform that turned Roblox into the world's biggest music game with 480 million players. A veteran music-tech executive who built creator tools at YouTube, founded and sold CrowdAlbum to Spotify, scaled Spotify for Artists, led music at Twitch during the pandemic, and ran content at SoundCloud before joining Splash in March 2024 - Chan has spent his career at the exact intersection where technology meets the moment an artist connects with a fan. At Splash, he is building the infrastructure for a generation that doesn't just listen to music, it creates it.