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Nidhi Kapur
Nidhi Kapur is the founder and CEO of Maiden Home, a New York-based custom furniture company she launched in 2017 after stints at McKinsey, Google, and Birchbox. Frustrated by the gap between generic big-box stores and unreachable designer boutiques while furnishing her first apartment, she built a direct-to-consumer brand that links shoppers straight to artisanal workshops in North Carolina. Maiden Home has grown profitably since day one, opened a New York flagship in 2023 and a 4,000-square-foot Miami Design District flagship in 2025, all under Kapur's discipline of restraint, permanence, and craft.
Tom Nakata
Tom Nakata (Tomofumi Nakata) is the co-founder and CEO of Qlay, a San Francisco AI startup he built after stints at McKinsey, J.P. Morgan, and Disney and a Harvard statistics degree. Qlay began as a generative-AI consumer-sentiment engine and pivoted into AI-powered interview proctoring - eye-gaze tracking, speech-cadence analysis, and multi-camera monitoring that catches AI-assisted cheating in remote technical interviews. Raised across Singapore, Tokyo, and California, Nakata describes his team as 'a shark that never stops,' chasing authenticity and measurable impact while sourcing engineering talent across Africa, Vietnam, and beyond.
Aaron Sin
Aaron Sin is the co-founder and CEO of Develo, a startup building what it calls the first AI-native operating system for independent pediatric practices. A physician by training with an MD from Stanford and a biomedical engineering degree from Yale, he traded the exam room for the product roadmap after stints leading value-based care products at Innovaccer and healthcare engagements at McKinsey. Founded in 2022 with CTO Han Ke, Develo replaces the patchwork of clunky EMRs, intake tools, and billing systems that pediatricians juggle with one unified platform. In May 2026 the company raised a $14 million Series A led by Blueprint Equity, and its software is now deployed across hundreds of pediatric providers in more than two dozen states.
Jordan Wallach
Jordan Wallach is the co-founder and CEO of Belfry, a New York-based vertical SaaS company building the operating system for physical security firms. A Stanford math-and-computing grad who passed through Microsoft and McKinsey, he bet his career on one of the least glamorous corners of the economy: the back office of America's 8,000 security-guard companies. In January 2025 Belfry raised a $12 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, taking total funding past $20 million, to consolidate scheduling, timekeeping, payroll and billing into a single platform for a roughly $50 billion industry.