Manish Jethani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hevo Data, a no-code data pipeline platform that helps over 2,000 companies in 40+ countries move data from 150+ sources into cloud data warehouses. A serial entrepreneur from Shahdol, India, who became the first person from his hometown to gain admission to IIT Roorkee, Jethani built two companies before Hevo - including food-delivery startup SpoonJoy, acquired by Grofers in 2015. Hevo has raised $43 million in total funding, including a $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India in 2021, and has reached approximately $46.9M in annual revenue.
Surej Kp is a Silicon Valley technology executive who became CEO of Intelliswift Software in March 2024 after five years as its President. With deep roots in global IT services - spanning TCS, Cognizant, and UST Global - he has spent decades scaling technology organizations across North America and beyond. Trained in Electronics Engineering and executive leadership at Harvard, he combines technical depth with business acumen, steering companies that bridge the gap between enterprise technology needs and skilled talent. At Intelliswift and previously connected to BayOne Solutions, he focuses on AI-powered workforce solutions, cloud enablement, and digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients.
Harshita Arora is General Partner at Y Combinator - the youngest in the organization's history - having dropped out of school at 15 in Saharanpur, India, taught herself to code, built and sold a crypto app featured by Apple at age 16, won India's Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar, moved to San Francisco on an O-1 visa, co-founded AtoB (the 'Stripe for Trucking' valued at ~$800M), and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 before joining YC as a Visiting Partner in 2025 and ascending to General Partner in April 2026 at age 25.