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Ken Sena
Ken Sena is the CEO and co-founder of Aiera, a New York-based generative AI platform that turns earnings calls, investor presentations, and corporate events into real-time transcriptions, sentiment analysis, and decision-grade insights for institutional investors. A former Wall Street internet analyst who led global internet research coverage at Evercore ISI and Wells Fargo Securities, Sena launched Aiera in 2018 to apply machine learning to the research workflow he had spent two decades inside. The company now covers more than 13,000 equities, processes tens of thousands of public events a year, and closed a $25 million Series B in June 2025 backed by ten of Wall Street's largest research firms with Microsoft as its strategic technology partner.
Siran Jiang
Siran Jiang is the CEO and cofounder of Moonlight, a San Francisco edtech startup that began as a gamified focus-and-productivity app and grew into an AI-powered personalized learning platform turning lessons into quests for kids. A daughter of generations of teachers, she traded a finance-and-entertainment resume that runs from Evercore and Warburg Pincus to MGM Studios and Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty for a mission built on attention. She holds a BA from Columbia and an MBA from Stanford GSB, and on the side has spent over a decade as a college admissions tutor.
Samir Dutta
Samir Dutta is the co-founder and CEO of Farsight, a New York AI company that automates the grunt work of high finance - pitch decks, valuation models, CIMs and buyer lists - directly inside Excel and PowerPoint. An MIT graduate who did time at Evercore and General Atlantic before building the tool he wished he'd had, Dutta raised a $16M Series A led by SignalFire in 2025 and landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the AI category for 2026.
Brian Roberts
Brian Roberts is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he works across the American Dynamism and AI Apps funds. Known as BK to those in the know, Roberts is a serial CFO turned investor who took Lyft public at a $24 billion valuation, helped Splunk get acquired by Cisco for $28 billion, and was OpenSea's first CFO during the NFT boom. With 30+ years spanning investment banking at Evercore, corporate development at Microsoft and Walmart, and C-suite finance roles at some of tech's most pivotal companies, he joined a16z in October 2024 to bring an operator's lens to early and growth-stage investments in enterprise software, fintech, and America's strategic tech infrastructure.