
Steve Peltzman is the CEO of FeedbackNow, the company behind the smiley-face feedback buttons in airport bathrooms and security lines. A former U.S. Air Force officer who worked on the B-2 Stealth Bomber, a decade-long CIO of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Forrester's first Chief Business Technology Officer, he spun FeedbackNow out of Forrester in September 2024 with a $9M Series A. He is turning a network of physical sensors and one-tap buttons into a real-time, AI-driven operating system for hospitals, convenience stores, airports and stadiums across 40 countries.
Chenxi Wang is the founder and managing general partner of Rain Capital, a cybersecurity-focused venture fund based in the Bay Area. A computer scientist turned operator turned investor, she built a code-obfuscation technique (chenxification) used by the U.S. Department of Defense, helped found Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity lab, ran research at Forrester, strategy at Intel Security and Twistlock, and now writes seed and Series A checks into AI-native security companies.