L-Charge designs, manufactures, and operates scalable off-grid ultrafast EV charging solutions. Using modular power units that run on natural gas, renewable natural gas, and other low-carbon fuels, the company delivers Charging-as-a-Service to commercial fleets, ports, airports, school districts, and construction sites - bypassing utility queues and grid bottlenecks.
Shaurya Saluja is the co-founder and CEO of Fleet, a San Francisco commuter-benefits platform he spun out of research at Stanford in 2018. He turned a Bay Area gripe - the Big Tech shuttle buses crowding the freeways - into a company that hands the commuting superpowers of giant employers to companies of any size. Fleet automates pre-tax transit benefits, employer subsidies, government grants, and rewards across every mode of transport, and raised over $5 million led by Congruent Ventures. A Stanford computer scientist and data analyst, Saluja brought peer-to-peer carsharing to Eastern Europe and launched demand-responsive carpooling in the Bay Area before Fleet, and was named to the Association for Commuter Transportation's 2023 40 Under 40.
Bryan Frist is the CEO and co-founder of Yoshi Mobility, a Nashville-based automotive services startup that began by delivering gasoline to cars in San Francisco and has grown into a fleet maintenance, virtual vehicle inspection, and mobile EV charging company backed by General Motors, ExxonMobil, Bridgestone, and Y Combinator. A Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate and son of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, he also runs the early-stage investment firm Friale Ventures and has raised more than $90M for Yoshi at a valuation north of $200M.
Shoaib Makani is the co-founder and CEO of Motive (formerly KeepTruckin), an AI platform for the physical economy used by more than 120,000 fleets across trucking, construction, agriculture and field services. He left Khosla Ventures in 2013 to build software for an industry most of Silicon Valley ignored, and turned a paper-logbook replacement into a multi-billion-dollar company.