Valora Technologies is a Massachusetts-based information governance company that builds AutoClassification software powered by machine learning. Its PowerHouse engine and BlackCat interface scan, analyze, tag, and defensibly dispose of enterprise content across cloud and on-premises repositories, helping legal, compliance, records, and IT teams tame sprawling, unstructured data for privacy, eDiscovery, and AI-readiness use cases.
Workiva is a cloud software company that turns the painful, deadline-driven work of regulatory, financial, and sustainability reporting into a connected, audit-ready process. Founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2008 as WebFilings, its platform links data, documents, and people in real time so finance, risk, audit, and ESG teams can collect, manage, and report critical business data with full version control and traceability. Today Workiva serves more than 6,000 organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is layering agentic AI across finance, GRC, and sustainability workflows.
Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.
Aravo Solutions is a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company that builds cloud software for third-party risk, governance, and compliance. Its Intelligence First Platform - now wrapped with an AI agent layer called Aravo AI - helps Fortune 500 companies manage vendors, suppliers, and partners across 154 countries and 36 languages.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scrut Automation, a SaaS-based GRC platform that automates compliance and risk management for mid-market and enterprise companies. A former McKinsey consultant and IIT Ropar / ISB graduate, he co-built Scrut after experiencing firsthand how compliance bottlenecks stall enterprise sales - discovering the solution while trying to sell a different product entirely. Under his leadership, Scrut has grown to 800+ customers globally, raised $20.5M from Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, and Endiya Partners, earned a LinkedIn Top 20 Startup 2024 ranking, and been recognized by G2 as a fastest-growing and highest-satisfaction product in security compliance.
Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, a Fremont-based enterprise SaaS platform that converges physical security, cybersecurity, and identity governance through AI. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Punjab in 1985, Gill previously founded Virsa Systems — a pioneer in governance, risk, and compliance software — which was acquired by SAP in 2006. He then built the SAP GRC business unit before leaving to found AlertEnterprise in 2007. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the company has become an industry leader in cyber-physical security convergence, deploying AI-powered access control and identity management for critical infrastructure, utilities, and enterprise clients worldwide.
Michael Saracini is the CEO of Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company he has led since 2011. With over two decades building profitable high-growth software businesses across CRM, HCM, and supply chain, Saracini has positioned Aravo as the category-defining platform for third-party risk management - managing 10.5 million suppliers and vendors across 177 countries for global enterprises in financial services, pharma, high-tech, and consumer goods. Under his leadership, Aravo has earned five consecutive Chartis Category Leader designations, won the 2025 TPRM Innovator Award, and built an AI-driven TPRM platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies navigating an era of regulatory complexity.
Scrut Automation is a security-first GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) platform that helps cloud-native companies automate evidence collection, manage risk, and stay continuously audit-ready across 60+ frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Sprinto is a compliance and trust automation platform that helps cloud-first companies achieve and maintain certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR without drowning in spreadsheets. It connects to 300+ business systems, continuously monitors controls, and orchestrates audits end-to-end - turning what used to be a six-month consulting project into a continuous, mostly-automated background process.
Vanta is the trust management platform that automates security and compliance for more than 16,000 companies - turning SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and dozens of other frameworks from a months-long PDF marathon into something a startup can pass before lunch.
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.