MakerSights is a San Francisco software company that gives consumer brands a Voice-of-Consumer platform for testing product ideas before they are made. Founded in 2015, it lets apparel, footwear and accessories teams put concepts, line plans and assortments in front of thousands of real target shoppers in hours, helping them make fewer wrong bets and cut down on overproduction. Its newer MakerLabs offering uses AI-trained digital twins to deliver synthetic consumer readouts in under an hour. Brands including New Balance, Madewell, Champion, Ralph Lauren and Hoka use it to align what gets made with what people actually buy.
Raj Gajwani is Chief Business Officer at OpenArt AI, the San Francisco generative-AI creator suite for images and video. Before OpenArt he spent over a decade at Google, scaling DoubleClick's channel program to $1.3 billion in revenue and founding Orion Wifi, one of the most successful projects out of Google's Area 120 incubator (now part of Android). He also runs Day 0, an enterprise AI strategy consultancy, and serves as a board member, advisor, and angel investor across startups including Couchsurfing, MultiView, and the Wireless Broadband Alliance. A Harvard graduate who also studied at the London School of Economics, he sits at the intersection of frontier AI products and enterprise go-to-market.
Actively AI is a New York-based enterprise software company building Intelligence-Led Revenue: custom reasoning models and Per-Account AI agents that work 24/7 to research accounts, identify high-value opportunities, and guide go-to-market teams on the next best move. Founded in 2022 by Stanford AI researchers Mihir Garimella and Anshul Gupta, it pitches a sharper alternative to the 'spray and pray' automation of earlier AI sales tools, and counts Samsara, Ramp, Ironclad, Attentive, and Verkada among its customers.
Starbridge is a New York-based AI go-to-market platform built for companies selling to government and education. It scrapes the messy, fragmented world of public sector data - board meeting minutes, budgets, RFPs, contract expirations and procurement records - and turns it into ranked buying signals, account intelligence and auto-drafted proposals so sales teams can find and win deals before the RFP drops. Founded in 2024 by Coursedog veteran Justin Wenig, it has raised $52M total, including a $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures in October 2025, and serves 160+ enterprise public sector sales teams.
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.
Jai Glazer is a Harvard junior in Pforzheimer House concentrating in Social Studies who has stacked an unusually deep venture and go-to-market resume before finishing his degree. He is Vice President of Strategy at the Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group, a scout at Afore VC, and has worked on go-to-market teams at Rho and at Sana, a Forbes AI 50 startup, plus a summer as an analyst at Alinea Ventures. He also writes opinion pieces for the Harvard Independent and practices Muay Thai.
Joel Kandy is the Chief Business Officer at Lyzr AI, the New Jersey-based agent-building platform, where he runs global enterprise sales and pushes governed, production-ready AI agents into banks, insurers, healthcare and e-commerce. A Columbia computer-science grad who started on a Credit Suisse trading-tech desk, he spent the 2010s selling security and intelligence software in heavily regulated markets at ThetaRay, KELA, CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and IronVest before betting on agentic AI. He argues, loudly and often on LinkedIn, that banks are stalled not by the models but by operating discipline.
Darrin Chen is the VP of Global Partners (NPN) GTM & Operations at NVIDIA, where he leads go-to-market strategy and operations for the NVIDIA Partner Network - the company's global partner ecosystem spanning solution providers, systems integrators, and channel partners. With 30+ years in technology from storage to networking to AI infrastructure, Chen joined NVIDIA through the 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, where he had spent over a decade building worldwide channel programs. In mid-2023, NVIDIA expanded his mandate as it split its global channel chief role in two, tapping Chen to oversee its entire NPN program as the company transformed into a full-stack AI computing company.
Disha Rustogi is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Twilio, where she leads global Product Marketing and Go-To-Market Enablement teams. With 15+ years of marketing leadership at household-name tech companies — Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian — she has shaped how enterprise software gets positioned, launched, and sold to the world. Now at Twilio, she is at the forefront of the agentic AI communications era, helping define how companies build intelligent customer experiences using Twilio's platform.
Eric Bensley is VP of Product Marketing - CRM at ServiceNow, bringing over 25 years of experience in CRM solutions and enterprise software marketing. A self-described 'recovering perfectionist' and introvert who built product marketing functions at Citrix, Salesforce, and Asana before joining ServiceNow, he is known for translating complex enterprise platforms into crisp, sticky messaging - and for believing that great leaders grow people, not just products.
Justine Davis is the VP of Developer Marketing, Community, and Developer Relations at ServiceNow, where she oversees a developer community of more than one million members and shapes the narrative of ServiceNow as a global developer platform. With roots in digital marketing and a career arc that ran through Hotwire, Atlassian (over nine years), and Postman, she has built a reputation for translating complex technical products into language that resonates with developers and enterprise buyers alike. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, she is known for her candid takes on developer marketing, her emphasis on showing rather than telling, and her belief that DevRel and Developer Marketing are two sides of the same coin.
Keigo Okumura is Vice President of Marketing at ServiceNow Japan, bringing over two decades of marketing leadership across enterprise technology giants including Oracle, Adobe, Dell Technologies, and Citrix. Based in Japan, he oversees marketing strategy for ServiceNow's Japan region, helping drive the AI-powered workflow platform's expansion in one of the world's most demanding enterprise markets. His career arc - from systems engineer at Hitachi Solutions to VP at a $13B+ cloud company - reflects a rare blend of technical grounding and strategic marketing acumen.
Peter Cray is VP Strategy & Operations for AWS Sales, Marketing and Global Services at Amazon Web Services, where he oversees go-to-market strategy, business and sales operations, competitive strategy, and field marketing across 122 subsidiaries worldwide. With nearly three decades in enterprise technology, he spent 15 years at Microsoft in increasingly senior roles - including COO & Chief Business Officer for Microsoft China & Greater China Region - before joining AWS in 2022. He reports to Greg Pearson as part of AWS's integrated global sales organization alongside peers Dave Levy and Robert Chu.
Sean Regan is SVP of Product and Solutions Marketing at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform reshaping how work gets done. With a career that spans Atlassian, Symantec, and DocuSign, he is one of the sharper B2B marketing minds in Silicon Valley - someone who built product marketing orgs from scratch and is now helping position ServiceNow's AI-native platform at the frontier of autonomous enterprise work. He also founded Deviate Partners in 2014, an advisory firm where he advises and invests in tech companies.
Apollo.io is an AI-powered go-to-market platform that combines a 275M+ contact B2B database with sales engagement, deal management, and conversation intelligence. It helps revenue teams find buyers, automate outreach, and close deals from a single workspace.
Takeshi Numoto is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, appointed in October 2023 after his predecessor Chris Capossela's 32-year tenure. A University of Tokyo law graduate and Stanford MBA, Numoto joined Microsoft in 1997 after serving as a trade negotiator for Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Over nearly three decades at Microsoft, he has been the architect behind the marketing strategies that powered the explosive growth of Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, and now leads all worldwide marketing for the company's AI-driven Copilot era — overseeing brand, advertising, product marketing, events, and communications globally.
Vanessa Thompson is the Vice President of Revenue and Growth Marketing at Twilio, where she leads a global team driving top-of-funnel growth across demand generation, lifecycle marketing, product marketing, competitive intelligence, and the developer network. A New Zealander who built her career through government tech, analyst research at IDC, and SaaS consulting at Bluewolf before joining Twilio in 2018, she has ascended from IoT marketing director to interim CMO and now oversees the full revenue marketing engine at one of the world's leading cloud communications platforms.
Andrew Higashi is the Co-founder and CEO of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps companies communicate with and engage their people the way the best brands engage customers. A three-time company builder, he spent a decade honing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy at Gigya, WorkSpan, and Sendoso before founding ChangeEngine in 2021 with the same co-founding team he has worked alongside for ten years. ChangeEngine has raised $15.5 million in total funding, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures in 2024, and serves 310+ employees globally with operations in the US, UK, and Latin America.
Bill Liu is the Co-Founder and COO of Seel, the San Francisco-based company that invented Return Assurance — AI-powered insurance that lets shoppers add a refund window to final-sale purchases at checkout. Liu co-founded the company (originally called Kover.ai) in 2019 with CEO Zack Peng after completing the Techstars MetLife Digital Accelerator. He oversees team-building and go-to-market strategy for a platform now trusted by 5,000+ merchants, protecting 24 million+ orders and serving 2 million+ monthly shoppers. Seel has raised $29M+ in total funding including a Series B in May 2025 and was named to CB Insights' AI100 list of the world's most promising AI startups in 2023.
Bill Robbins is the Chief Executive Officer of Menlo Security, a Mountain View-based cybersecurity company specializing in browser-based security and AI-driven threat prevention. With over 30 years of enterprise technology sales and leadership experience across Symantec, Nuance Communications, FireEye, Mandiant, and Sophos, Robbins joined Menlo as President in November 2024 and was elevated to CEO in February 2026 after helping the company surpass $140M in ARR. He now leads Menlo's push into AI agent security and agentic AI runtime protection, targeting the next wave of enterprise threats.
Jim Douglas is a five-time CEO and seasoned enterprise technology executive now leading Luciq (formerly Instabug) as it pioneers the category of Agentic Mobile Observability. With over 30 years of executive experience — including transforming Wind River from a flat-growth embedded software company into a half-billion-dollar enterprise — Douglas brings a rare combination of go-to-market expertise and operational scale to a startup that counts DoorDash, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Disney among its customers. Appointed CEO in February 2025, he oversaw Instabug's September 2025 rebrand to Luciq.ai, signaling a shift from passive monitoring to AI agents that autonomously detect, diagnose, and fix mobile app issues.
Jay Campbell is a Knoxville-based fractional AI GTM leader and serial product builder who spent 15+ years in enterprise sales at Staffmark, Avionte, and Sense before turning his builder habit into the point of it all. He has shipped 45+ AI products - including Cadence (a personal AI OS with 50+ API integrations), DealIQ OS (an AI deal-coaching CRM), and getaFNjob - and writes the Selling with AI newsletter, which runs a 70% open rate. His thesis: most companies use AI to do the same things faster; winning teams use it to do things they could never do before.
Nick Haase is co-founder of MaintainX, the AI-powered CMMS and connected worker platform that reached a $2.5B valuation after its $150M Series D in July 2025. Leading go-to-market strategy, Haase has helped grow MaintainX to 11,000+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, food & beverage, and facilities — while separately angel-investing in 40+ startups including Anduril, Hadrian, and Figure. A former mobile marketing founder turned industrial software builder, he's spent years on factory floors helping maintenance teams ditch paper checklists and embrace digital workflows.
Windfall is a San Francisco-based people intelligence and AI company that estimates the net worth, career signals, and giving capacity of every U.S. household, then plugs that data into the workflows that go-to-market and fundraising teams already use. Founded in 2016 by Arup Banerjee, Cory Tucker, and Dan Stevens, it serves more than 1,500 organizations - from Make-A-Wish to the University of Michigan - and raised a $65M Series B from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in 2025.
Vasili Triant is the CEO of UJET, an AI-powered cloud contact center platform backed by $183M in funding and built on Google Cloud. With over 20 years spanning Cisco, Serenova, LiveOps, and ShoreTel, he has navigated virtually every inflection point in enterprise communications - from on-premise PBX to cloud-native AI. Appointed sole CEO in April 2025 after serving as CBO, COO, and Co-CEO, Triant now leads UJET's push to reshape customer experience with agentic AI orchestration, deep CRM integration, and a mobile-first architecture that treats the smartphone as the default CX channel.
Aliisa Rosenthal is a General Partner at Acrew Capital and the firm's first GP hire since founding in 2019. She was the first commercial leader at OpenAI, where she scaled enterprise revenue from roughly $10M to roughly $10B and built ChatGPT Enterprise's go-to-market motion. She invests in AI-native companies reshaping enterprise software.
Dana Oshiro is General Partner at Heavybit, San Francisco's specialist fund for developer-first and cloud infrastructure startups. She joined in 2014 as the firm's original Operating Partner and has since helped launch 60+ developer products, led early positioning for companies like Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty, and co-founded the DevGuild conference series. Before tech, she worked in public health and political strategy in Canada, including campaigns to establish North America's first safe injection site. Her investment sweet spot is $1.5M at pre-seed to Series A, backing technical founders building category-defining enterprise infrastructure.
Chris Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of Grasp Technologies, a Dublin, Ohio-based company that has been the backbone of travel data management for corporate programs and travel management companies since 1996. He brought 28+ years of enterprise software sales and leadership experience to the role when he joined in June 2024, having previously scaled revenue at Hazelcast (six years as CRO) and PSPDFKit (two years as CRO), and earlier built high-performing sales teams at Oracle, Skytree, and Magnet Systems. Based in Los Altos, California, Wilson is known for his go-to-market expertise and his vision for Grasp as a platform at the intersection of travel data consolidation, virtual payments, and AI-ready analytics.
Michael McBride is a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures), where he leads early-stage investments in enterprise technology, AI, and open-source-powered companies. A Stanford-trained mechanical engineer who spent three decades building high-growth startups before pivoting to venture capital, McBride brought operational credibility from five years as GitLab's CRO - where he oversaw a 100x+ revenue run-rate expansion before its 2021 IPO. He joined GV in December 2023 and quickly became one of its most active dealmakers, leading GV's $319 million Cribl Series E - the firm's second-largest investment ever.
Viviana Faga is a General Partner at Felicis, the early-stage venture firm behind breakout companies like Shopify, Fitbit, and Canva. A first-generation Mexican-American who grew up dismantling appliances to understand how things work, she spent 20+ years building category-defining brands at Salesforce, Yammer (acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B), Zenefits, and Platfora before making the leap into investing. At Felicis she leads investments from seed to Series B across AI infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and enterprise software - bringing an unusually hands-on operational lens to portfolio companies like Runway, Supabase, and Exowatt.