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Blueshoe
Blueshoe is an AI-native law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with proprietary legal reasoning software to make quality legal help affordable and always-on for individuals and small businesses. Founded in 2025 by Harvard Law graduate Casey O'Grady and MIT-trained engineer Kai Yee Wan, the Y Combinator-backed company started as a legal-reasoning research platform piloted at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools, then extended into a full-stack firm covering employment, housing, consumer, personal injury, and product-liability matters without billable hours.
Shashank Bijapur
Shashank Bijapur is co-founder and CEO of SpotDraft, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform used by in-house legal teams at companies including Airbnb. A Harvard Law LLM and former corporate attorney at White & Case in New York and Talwar Thakore & Associates in Mumbai, he started SpotDraft in 2017 after realizing that self-driving cars existed while lawyers still copy-pasted contract clauses. The company has raised roughly $90M in total funding, with a Series B led by Premji Invest, and employs around 330 people across India and the US.
Bridgit Mendler
Bridgit Mendler is the co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, an El Segundo startup mass-producing phased-array ground stations to move data between satellites and Earth. A former Disney Channel lead (Teddy Duncan on Good Luck Charlie) and platinum-selling pop singer, she pivoted through the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School into deep-tech, and by early 2026 had raised more than $100 million and won a $49.8M U.S. Space Force contract to modernize the Satellite Control Network.
Garth Sheldon-Coulson
Garth Sheldon-Coulson is the co-founder and CEO of Panthalassa, a Portland, Oregon company building free-floating, wave-powered nodes that generate clean electricity in the open ocean and pair it with onsite AI computing. A Harvard-trained lawyer with an MIT master's and a Bridgewater investing background, he pivoted from finance to spend nearly a decade inventing marine energy hardware. In May 2026 Panthalassa raised a $140M Series B led by Peter Thiel, pushing its valuation near $1 billion, on a bet that the open ocean is one of only three energy sources on Earth with tens of terawatts of untapped capacity.
Sherry A. William
Sherry A. William is the founder and managing attorney of Pacific Ivy Law Group, a Los Angeles-area corporate boutique that pairs Big-Law rigor with what she calls emotional IQ. Harvard Law educated and trained at three top-tier firms in New York and Los Angeles plus a stint in Tokyo, she negotiates deals for companies, individuals, governments, and financial institutions worldwide. Raised by an immigrant single mother in the Egyptian American community, she is fluent in Arabic, licensed to practice law in California and New York, holds real estate broker licenses in both states, and leads the Harvard Law School Association of Los Angeles and the League of Egyptian American Professionals.
Deven Hurt
Deven Hurt is the co-founder and CEO of PredictionStrike, a New York based platform he calls a stock market for sports fans, where users buy and sell virtual shares of NBA and NFL players whose prices move on real on-field performance. A Harvard College bioengineer turned Harvard Law graduate, he ran cybersecurity work touching Nike and the NBA before building the company with best friend Brad Chabra in 2018. He raised a $10M Series A led by Bullpen Capital, grew the platform past 200,000 users and $100M in transactions, and reached per-user profitability in late 2024.
James Rosenthal
James (Jim) Rosenthal co-founded BlueVoyant in 2017 and built it from a startup into a global cybersecurity company with more than 650 employees across five continents. A former Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley, where he answered to the CEO and board for cybersecurity, he turned a Wall Street obsession with protecting the financial system into a company that defends businesses and governments against internal and supply-chain threats. In May 2026 he handed the CEO role to John Hernandez and became Chairman of the Board.
Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins (Charles M. Collins) is a Harvard-trained lawyer, MIT city planner, and former real estate developer who spent nearly two decades as President and CEO of YMCA of Greater San Francisco, transforming it into an organization serving more than 42,000 children annually across three Bay Area counties. Born in San Francisco's Fillmore district in 1947 and raised as one of the first Black families in Mill Valley, he brings a lifetime of crossing boundaries to his work at the intersection of community, equity, and opportunity. Now a Presidential Fellow at USF's Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service, he continues to shape the region's civic life.
MarqVision
MarqVision is an AI-powered managed-service platform for brand control. Founded in 2020 by Harvard Law students, it helps global brands detect and remove counterfeits, impersonations, pirated content, and unauthorized sellers across more than 1,500 online platforms and websites in 118+ countries.
Rob Tarkoff
Rob Tarkoff is the CEO of Seismic, the AI-powered sales enablement platform serving enterprise revenue teams worldwide. A Harvard Law graduate who pivoted from investment banking to building some of tech's most consequential enterprise platforms, Tarkoff spent seven years as CEO of Lithium Technologies, growing it 5x before selling to Vista Equity Partners, then seven more years running Oracle's Customer Experience suite. He joined Seismic in October 2025 as a former Seismic customer himself, and promptly orchestrated a landmark merger with rival Highspot in February 2026, positioning the combined company toward a $1 billion revenue run rate.
Jean-Denis Greze
Jean-Denis Greze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, an AI-powered tax platform for small businesses that raised an $18M seed round led by First Round Capital in March 2025. Previously, he served as CTO of Plaid, where he scaled the engineering team from 20 to 350 people, and before that as Director of Engineering at Dropbox. A Columbia CS grad and Harvard Law JD, he brings an unusually cross-disciplinary approach to building technology companies at the intersection of finance, law, and software.