Katharine Lau is the CEO and co-founder of Stuf, a tech-enabled self-storage company that turns underused space inside commercial buildings into neighborhood storage. She started Stuf in New York in 2020 after a pandemic spring-cleaning session exposed how clunky and inconvenient traditional storage had become. Before Stuf, Lau led real estate growth at the shared-workspace company Industrious and worked across institutional and proptech real estate. Stuf has raised roughly $12.8 million, including an $11 million Series A in 2023, and operates in major U.S. metros from New York to Seattle.
Nate Okonkwo (also known as Aneto Okonkwo) is the co-founder and CEO of Remarkable AI, the New York software company formerly called Chatdesk. After 7+ years at Google building Voice Search and the Google Assistant, he left to apply machine learning to customer service - an industry that employs millions and, in his view, was ripe for both better software and better jobs. His platform now helps more than 1,000 brands grow revenue through personalized messaging across email, social, and SMS, blending AI with human agents to hit 90%+ customer satisfaction.