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Katie Fairchild Runs Marketing by the Numbers - and Keeps Finding Another Gear
The first CMO of Buyers Edge Platform has spent nearly two decades turning complicated software into useful stories. Her résumé has an unexpected metronome: a mathematics master’s, four faster marathons, and a habit of making growth measurable.
Dana Loof Makes Complicated Technology Sound Useful
Across three decades, Dana Loof has sold ideas most people cannot see - cloud storage, zero-client computing, AI security screening, and now the quiet software behind safer kitchens. Her specialty is turning technical machinery into a story that makes operational sense.
TransAct Paid $3.55 Million to Stop Renting Its Software Future
The 30-year-old printer maker built a useful software business on code it did not control. Now it owns a perpetual license, runs BOHA! on Azure, and is weighing what to do with the casino unit that still pays most of the bills.
Stable Kernel Found Its Edge in the Messy Middle of Enterprise Software
The Atlanta consultancy does not sell a magic platform. It sends researchers, designers, engineers and data specialists into the awkward gap between a big company's legacy stack and the product its customers actually want.
Botrista, Inc.
Botrista is a San Francisco-based food-and-beverage technology company that builds an AI-driven automated beverage platform. Its flagship BotristaPro machine lets restaurants, campuses, hospitals, theme parks and other venues serve a wide range of craft cold drinks - boba teas, smoothies, refreshers, cold brew, lemonades and more - from a single compact, self-cleaning unit in seconds, without specialized baristas. Founded in 2017 by former Tesla automation engineer Sean Hsu, the company pairs patented multi-ingredient dispensing hardware with cloud-based analytics and demand forecasting, and has raised roughly $126 million to date, including a Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation.