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Billy Gilmartin and the trouble with knowing
He built a business cleaning America’s largest sewer pipes. At SewerAI, Billy Gilmartin is working on the distance between spotting a problem underground and getting someone to fix it.
Greg Bentley and the art of letting go
He joined his brothers after building a software business of his own. Three decades later, Greg Bentley helped take their company public, then made room for a CEO whose surname was not Bentley.
Mariano Lisiotti Is Turning Fieldwork Into Software
After years of managing telecommunications projects across South America, the Argentine engineer built Sytex to replace scattered spreadsheets, photos, and reports with one shared operating layer for the field.
George White Put the Construction Notebook on Notice
A mechanical engineer went into the field, listened to inspectors and built a company around a stubborn idea: the record of a public works project should be as modern as the project itself.
Dharmesh Thakker
Dharmesh Thakker is a General Partner at Battery Ventures, one of the world's longest-running technology venture capital firms, where he leads investments in infrastructure software, AI-powered applications, cloud/DevOps, data, security, and open source. An immigrant from India turned engineer turned VC, he joined Battery in 2015 after leading Intel Capital's global cloud and big-data practice. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from UT Austin and an MBA from Wharton. His portfolio spans category-defining companies including Databricks, Postman, Gong, ClickHouse, and Weaviate, with notable exits including Confluent (IPO), JFrog (IPO), and Sumo Logic (IPO). He hosts the 'Billion-Dollar B2B' podcast, writes for TechCrunch and Forbes, and was named to the Forbes Midas Brink list in 2016.
Fred Wang
Fred Wang is a General Partner at Adams Street Partners, where he leads growth equity investments in infrastructure software — with a sharp focus on cybersecurity, data/AI infrastructure, and enterprise security. With over 30 years in technology and venture capital, he joined Adams Street in 2017 after 18 years as a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was one of the first engineers and first product manager at Intuit. He holds degrees from Stanford (BS Electrical Engineering, MS Industrial Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His active portfolio includes Arctic Wolf Networks, Cyberhaven, Arize AI, and Axonius.