Dhaivat Pandya is the founder and CEO of Verse Medical, a New York healthtech company building software to modernize the $50B-plus world of in-home medical supplies, an industry still run largely on fax machines. A Harvard computer science and statistics graduate and a longtime open-source builder and technical writer, he came up through quantitative research at Two Sigma and Kensho and core engineering at Apollo GraphQL before starting the company in 2018 through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch. Verse Medical pivoted from an earlier consumer venture (JetLenses) into a software-driven medical supplier and has grown to roughly 160-200 employees, backed by investors including Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Josh Buckley, and Paul Graham.

Reiner Pope is the co-founder and CEO of MatX, an AI chip startup based in Mountain View, California, designing purpose-built silicon for large language models. A former Google Senior Staff Software Engineer who led AI software development for Google's TPUs and served as Efficiency Lead for PaLM, Pope left Google one week before ChatGPT launched to build what he calls 'the best chips for LLMs that physics allows.' MatX has raised approximately $604M to date, including a $500M Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness LP, and is building a hybrid SRAM-HBM chip architecture targeting the world's leading AI labs.