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Gartner
For 47 years, Gartner has sold executives something rarer than information: a defensible way to choose. Now the firm behind the Magic Quadrant is turning its own research library into an AI product - while protecting the human network that makes the library valuable.
Joe Essenfeld
Joe Essenfeld is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO of FORA (fora.day), a New York-based AI communication intelligence platform that transforms unstructured enterprise meeting, email, and chat data into actionable leadership insights. He previously founded Jibe, a recruiting technology platform that raised $40M+ and was acquired by iCIMS in 2019, where he served in senior executive roles before launching FORA. FORA raised a $3.8M pre-seed round in January 2024 and counts Converge, GTM Fund, Zelkova, and Everywhere Ventures among its backers.