Shelf is an AI-driven knowledge and data quality platform that cleans, enriches, and governs the unstructured content enterprises feed into generative AI. By diagnosing and fixing the messy documents, duplicates, and outdated answers buried across corporate systems, Shelf aims to make GenAI and RAG applications accurate and trustworthy. Founded in 2017 and based in New York and Stamford, Connecticut, it serves enterprises like John Deere, HelloFresh, DSW, and Glovo.
Bill Schild is the CEO of Aqfer, a marketing data Platform-as-a-Service built for the advertising and marketing ecosystem. Appointed in August 2025, he is a 20-plus-year ad-tech operator known for scaling growth-stage companies and steering them to acquisitions, with prior leadership runs at Viant, Beeswax (acquired by FreeWheel/Comcast), Channel Factory, and WeWork. At Aqfer he is positioning the company as the data infrastructure layer for the GenAI era.
Sedarius Tekara Perrotta is the co-founder and CEO of Shelf, a New York-based knowledge management and AI data-quality platform. A former Peace Corps volunteer turned serial software entrepreneur, he has spent two decades applying machine learning and NLP to the unglamorous problem of finding the right answer fast - building knowledge systems for the World Bank, Harvard Business School, MIT and Stanford before turning that craft into a company that raised $52.5M in Series B funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners.
Neo4j is the company behind the world's most widely deployed graph database. It stores data as nodes and relationships rather than rows and tables, which makes connections - the part most databases treat as an afterthought - the main event. Used by a large majority of the Fortune 100 and a community of more than 250,000 developers, Neo4j powers fraud detection, recommendation engines, supply-chain analysis, and, increasingly, the knowledge graphs that ground generative AI in real facts (GraphRAG).
Tudip Technologies is a value-driven software services company founded in 2010 in Pune, India, that helps enterprises and startups build and scale digital products. With 500+ engineers, Tudip delivers AI/ML, cloud transformation, data engineering, DevOps, IoT, Salesforce, QA and product engineering work for clients ranging from Google and Adobe to early-stage startups, operating across India, the US, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Colombia, UAE and Nigeria.
Patrick Brown is SVP of Global Marketing at Adobe, leading growth, analytics, media, and marketing engineering across the company's global B2B and B2C operations. He oversees Adobe's Digital Economy Index — a research engine that tracks a trillion e-commerce transactions across 100 million SKUs — and has emerged as one of the most data-forward voices in enterprise marketing. Based in San Jose, California, Brown combines an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business with deep experience in technology, finance, and consumer goods sectors.
Emil Eifrem is the co-founder and CEO of Neo4j, the company he built from a cocktail-napkin sketch on a 2000 flight to Mumbai into the world's leading graph database platform. He coined the term 'graph database,' developed the property graph model, and has guided Neo4j to a $2.2B valuation, over $200M in annual revenue, and adoption by 84 of the Fortune 100. Beyond enterprise metrics, he launched the Graphs4Good program channeling graph technology toward cancer research, pandemic supply chains, and investigative journalism — most famously the Panama Papers investigation that won the Pulitzer Prize and toppled Iceland's government.
Neuron7.ai is a Santa Clara-based enterprise AI company building service resolution intelligence - software that helps technicians, agents, and customers diagnose and fix complex products in seconds rather than days. Its platform fuses unstructured manuals, ticket histories, telemetry, and expert know-how into guided, real-time answers used by Fortune 1000 service organizations across medical devices, telecom, industrial equipment, and high tech.
Niken Patel is the Founder and CEO of Neuron7.ai, a San Jose-based AI company building resolution intelligence for complex enterprise service environments. With over 20 years in customer service and enterprise technology, he co-founded Neuron7 in 2020 after a career spanning Deloitte, Fujitsu, and leading Serene Corporation through its acquisition by AST LLC. Neuron7 has raised over $58M (Series B led by ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Keith Block's Smith Point Capital) and achieves 90%+ resolution accuracy across medical devices, high-tech, industrial, and telecom sectors by combining deterministic AI with autonomous reasoning.
Unstructured is a San Francisco company building the data layer for generative AI. Its open-source library and enterprise platform ingest PDFs, slide decks, emails, images and 70+ other file types, then transform them into clean, structured data that LLMs and RAG pipelines can actually use.
Simbian is a Mountain View startup building autonomous, self-improving AI agents for security operations. Its platform pairs a Context Lake of institutional knowledge with TrustedLLM-powered agents that triage alerts, hunt threats, run pentests, and manage firewalls 24/7 — built to counter AI-powered attacks that move faster than humans can react.
Doron Aspitz is the President and CEO of Verix, a Santa Clara-based AI platform that helps pharmaceutical companies optimize their commercial operations through predictive analytics, HCP targeting, and GenAI-powered decision intelligence. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in technology leadership, he previously co-founded Blue Pumpkin Software - a workforce management company acquired by Witness Systems for ~$75 million in 2005. At Verix, he has built the Tovana platform, now trusted by global pharma giants including Bayer, Novartis, Roche, and GSK, bringing AI-driven commercial intelligence to the complex world of drug commercialization.
Matt Cain is a technology executive who served as Chair, President, and CEO of Couchbase from April 2017 through September 2025, guiding the company from a growth-stage NoSQL database startup through a 2021 NASDAQ IPO and ultimately a $1.5 billion acquisition by Haveli Investments. With an engineering degree from Northwestern and an MBA from Stanford, Cain built his career across a decade at Cisco Systems, senior roles at Symantec, and the presidency of Veritas Technologies' worldwide field operations before joining Couchbase. Under his leadership, Couchbase expanded from pure NoSQL into a multi-model developer data platform powering AI-enabled applications for global enterprises.
Ronen Schwartz is the CEO of K2view, an Israeli-founded data product company at the forefront of enterprise AI readiness. With 25 years in the data industry — including a 14-year run at Informatica and a stint at NetApp where he grew the cloud storage business 12-fold to dominate a $600M division — Schwartz took the helm at K2view in December 2023. He is focused on turning fragmented enterprise data into live, governed data products that power agentic AI applications at scale, positioning K2view as the infrastructure layer that makes real-time AI not just possible, but production-ready.
Alastair Paterson is the co-founder and CEO of Harmonic Security, a San Francisco-based startup building language models that protect enterprise data as employees pour it into generative AI tools. He previously co-founded Digital Shadows in a London kitchen in 2011 and ran it for eleven years through to its $160M acquisition by ReliaQuest in 2022. A Bristol-trained engineer who cut his teeth at BAE Systems Detica, he is now back on his second cybersecurity company, this one wagering that coaching beats blocking.
Vishal Gauri is the CEO of Seclore, a data-centric security company protecting enterprise information in the AI era. A scientist-turned-entrepreneur with 18 patents and a PhD from Ohio State, he built his career from General Electric labs to Silicon Valley boardrooms, co-founded a venture capital fund (IvyCap Ventures), and now leads a $59.5M-revenue company that guards sensitive data as it flows across organizations, borders, and AI systems.
Dexter Ligot-Gordon is a California-born Filipino-American entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Swarm, a GenAI consulting and implementation firm helping enterprises move AI projects from proof-of-concept to production. Before Swarm, he co-founded Kalibrr - the first Southeast Asian startup accepted into Y Combinator (W13) - and spent nearly a decade in public policy including serving as a UC Berkeley Student Regent. Swarm raised a $1.1M pre-seed round in November 2023 from Hustle Fund and Plug and Play.
Saket Saurabh is the co-founder and CEO of Nexla, an AI-powered data integration platform built for the age of generative AI. A serial entrepreneur who started as an engineer at NVIDIA — where he worked on GPU tech for the PlayStation 3 and automotive computing — he went on to co-found Mobsmith, a mobile ad-serving startup that was acquired by Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI). Armed with a BTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Wharton School, Saket founded Nexla in 2016 to automate the hardest parts of data engineering, earning recognition as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor and landing enterprise customers like DoorDash, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. Nexla has raised $33.5 million in funding.
Aigerim Shorman is VP of Product Management for Meta's Horizon product, where she leads the platform connecting billions of people across virtual worlds. Born in Kazakhstan, she bootstrapped her way from community college to USC, taught with Teach For America, worked at UBS, and co-founded Triptrotting - a travel startup that raised $1.8M and grew to 150+ countries - before joining Meta where she built the avatar system used by 3+ billion people. One of the most senior women in Meta's metaverse organization, she's also an angel investor backing early-stage consumer and social startups.
Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform designed for developers, startups, and SMBs, offering simple, predictable pricing and powerful infrastructure from virtual machines to high-performance GPU instances. Known for its community-first approach and Hacktoberfest, it has grown into a $9.4B public company competing with hyperscalers by focusing on usability and AI democratization.
Weights & Biases (W&B) is the leading AI developer platform for machine learning and generative AI, offering tools for experiment tracking, hyperparameter optimization, model registry, and LLM application development. Founded in 2017 by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis in San Francisco, W&B powers over 1 million developers and 1,400+ organizations — including OpenAI, Meta, and NVIDIA — by making it easier to build, train, evaluate, and deploy AI models. Acquired by CoreWeave for ~$1.7B in May 2025, W&B continues expanding its platform with Weave for LLM/agent observability, cementing its position as the de facto infrastructure for modern AI development.