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Ross McNairn
Ross McNairn is the Edinburgh-based co-founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, a legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. A lawyer-turned-operator, he sold his first startup to Skyscanner, then spent five years as CPO/CPTO at TravelPerk scaling it from $1m to roughly $170m ARR. In 2023 he co-founded Wordsmith with Volodymyr Giginiak and Robbie Falkenthal; by mid-2026 the company had raised $100m total, including a $70m Series B led by Highland Europe and Index Ventures, and counts BT, Canva, Financial Times, Sage, Starling and Trip.com among 500+ customers.
Vishal Sunak
Vishal Sunak is a Boston software founder best known for co-founding LinkSquares in 2015 and running it as CEO for a decade, building an AI-powered contract-management platform for in-house legal and finance teams that raised roughly $161 million and grew to around 450 employees. Born in Brazil to Indian parents and raised in Rhode Island, he trained as an engineer, worked on military RF electronics, and cut his teeth in Boston B2B software at Backupify and InsightSquared before starting LinkSquares. He stepped back from the CEO role in early 2025, stayed on as a founding board member and advisor, and is now building a new, largely stealth venture called Joyride (joyride.ai).
Nick Fleisher
Nick Fleisher is the co-founder and CEO of Sandstone, the first platform built for AI-native in-house legal departments. An engineer who once tried to drop out of college to build apps, he later led McKinsey's legal tech and AI practice in New York before reuniting with his freshman-year roommate and a lawyer-turned-engineer to launch Sandstone in 2025. The company raised a $10M seed round led by Sequoia Capital and runs out of Brooklyn, where Fleisher is betting that institutional legal knowledge can become a company's competitive advantage instead of a bottleneck.
Kathy Zhu
Kathy Zhu is the co-founder, CEO, and general counsel of Streamline AI, an intelligent intake and workflow automation platform built for in-house legal teams. A former first commercial lawyer at both Medallia and DoorDash, she built Streamline AI to solve the bottleneck she lived through firsthand - legal teams drowning in unstructured requests with no metrics to prove their value. Born in Shanghai and raised across four continents, she trained as a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini before deciding that the tool she wished existed was worth leaving a dream job to build.