Simon Adar is the co-founder and CEO of Code Ocean, a New York-based platform that packages research code, data, and compute environments into reproducible 'compute capsules' so scientists can rerun each other's work without wrestling with dependencies. A hyperspectral imaging PhD from Tel Aviv University turned Cornell Tech Runway postdoc, he started the company after concluding that too much of his own research time went into trying, and failing, to rerun other people's code.
Vishnu Sridhar is the Cofounder and CEO of Matter Intelligence, a deep-tech startup building ultraspectral satellite sensors and geospatial AI to map the planet at molecular resolution. A Queens-raised Indian American engineer, Sridhar spent years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Cognizant Engineer for the SuperCam instrument aboard the Mars Perseverance rover and as Flight Director for the Opportunity rover before pivoting to commercialize the same sensor physics for Earth. Matter Intelligence emerged from stealth in October 2024 with $12M in seed funding backed by Lowercarbon Capital, Toyota Ventures, and Mark Cuban, building toward EARTH-1, a satellite that will deliver more than 500x the information density of existing sensors.