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Hiroyuki Suzuki and the work between the stops
After more than 30 years of Shinkansen commuting, Hiroyuki Suzuki has a particular interest in what makes work move. Workato’s Japan founder and Field CTO is applying a career in connecting systems to the people, processes and controls behind enterprise AI.
ElectroNeek and the case for bots without a meter
A second-hand clothing seller needed fewer clicks, not a grand AI strategy. ElectroNeek’s answer reveals why the economics of automation matter as much as the software.
CDC Software makes the phone remember
A caller should not have to become a courier for their own history. CDC Software connects the phone system to the customer record, with a lesson for any business drowning in perfectly respectable software.
SnapLogic makes the connections. Your people make the difference.
At AstraZeneca, a two-person central team helped spread integration skills across the business. SnapLogic is betting the same idea can carry enterprise AI from a clever conversation to useful work.
Harish Shetty Wrote the Recipes That Made Software Talk
Before enterprise automation became a boardroom phrase, Harish Shetty was answering Rails questions, wiring stubborn systems together and insisting that a useful bot should do more than announce trouble. Workato grew from that practical instinct.
Scott Henderson and the Art of Giving AI Less Freedom
He left NetSuite for a garage, spent two decades connecting the software businesses depend on, and arrived at an unfashionable idea for the AI age: the safest agent may be the one allowed to do less.
Geoff Blaine Has Made a Career of Explaining the Invisible
From cyberthreat reports to AI automation, Jitterbit's chief marketing officer has spent two decades turning technical complexity into a story people can act on.
eOne’s 25-Year Bet: Move the Data, or Leave It Where It Is
The Fargo software company spent two decades making old business systems talk. Its latest trick is knowing when data should not move at all.
Boomi Bet the Enterprise Would Become a Mess. Now It Wants to Wire the AI Age.
A startup above a Pennsylvania pizza shop survived the integration wars by rebuilding itself for SaaS. Twenty-six years later, Boomi is betting that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI from becoming another expensive island.
The IT Department Bought Too Many Tools. TeamDynamix Wants to Sell It One.
The Columbus software company is betting that IT leaders are tired of paying for complexity. Its answer is a no-code suite that turns tickets, projects, assets, integrations and AI support into one operating layer.
Jitterbit Connected the SaaS Explosion. Now It Wants to Keep AI Agents From Breaking the Office.
The 23-year-old integration company grew by making incompatible software talk. Its next bet is that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI useful, visible, and on a leash.
The Company That Teaches Your Software to Talk to Itself
Two former NetSuite engineers spent a decade turning the least glamorous job in software - getting one app to speak to another - into a business ranked the #1 iPaaS and worth an estimated half a billion dollars.
Neutrinos
The Singapore startup betting that insurers do not need to replace their aging core systems - they need software smart enough to work around them.
LinkToAny
LinkToAny (formerly ShoppinPal) is a Los Angeles-based integration platform that helps commerce software providers onboard merchants, migrate data between systems, and connect the apps a business already runs. Its iPaaS-style platform links point-of-sale, ecommerce, accounting, loyalty and ordering systems - working with names like Shopify, Lightspeed, Clover, Intuit/QuickBooks, Square, GoDaddy and PayPal - so platforms can go live with new merchants in days rather than weeks, with an increasingly AI-native approach to onboarding and migrations.
Kinter.ai
Kinter.ai builds AI Accountants that execute the month-end financial close. Founded as Alloy Automation, an e-commerce integration platform, the company pivoted its connectivity expertise toward finance teams. Its agents proactively identify and log journal entries for accruals (payroll, prepaid, fixed assets), run cash application reconciliation, and work through the close checklist - learning on the job, scaling on demand, and costing less than traditional BPO. Kinter is trusted by global leaders including Amazon, Mastercard, and UPS, and is backed by a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Pipedream
Pipedream is a developer-first integration and automation platform that lets engineers connect more than 3,000 APIs and 10,000+ pre-built actions to build workflows, products, and AI agents without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, it grew to more than one million users on the strength of a serverless model that mixes drag-and-drop triggers with full Node.js, Python, Go, and Bash code. In 2025 it became the connective tissue for AI agents through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and in late 2025 it agreed to be acquired by Workday.
Gregg Mojica
Gregg Mojica is the founder and CEO of Kinter.ai, the AI-accounting company that grew out of Alloy Automation, the integration platform he co-founded with Sara Du in 2019 (YC W20). He started coding at 12, shipped three apps before he turned 18, got into Cornell and skipped it to build payments infrastructure at First Data/Fiserv, then helped build Alloy into the connective tissue for thousands of ecommerce and AI-agent workflows backed by a16z and Bain Capital Ventures. Today his AI Accountants close the books for enterprises including Amazon, Mastercard and UPS.
Hevo Data
Hevo Data is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that builds no-code, automated data pipeline infrastructure for modern data teams. Founded in 2017 by Manish Jethani and Sourabh Agarwal, the platform connects 150+ data sources to warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift in real time - with zero maintenance overhead. Backed by Sequoia Capital India with $43M in total funding, Hevo serves 2,000+ data teams across 40+ countries, processing over 1 petabyte of data monthly. The company had $46.9M ARR in 2024 and is recognized as a G2 Leader in ETL and iPaaS categories.
Rich Waldron
Rich Waldron is the Co-founder and CEO of Tray.ai, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI automation and integration platform. He co-founded the company in 2012 out of the UK alongside Alistair Russell and Dominic Lewis, famously surviving 3.5 years without salary by running a web agency, publishing a magazine, and selling shoes on eBay. Under his leadership, Tray.ai has raised $149.1M in funding (most recently a $40M Series C extension in 2022), earned Gartner Visionary recognition in 2024 and 2025, and evolved from an iPaaS provider into an AI-ready enterprise orchestration platform championing the concept of the 'Autonomous Enterprise.'
Tray.ai
Tray.ai is an AI-ready enterprise integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that connects 700+ apps, orchestrates AI agents, and lets companies build production-grade agentic workflows on a single composable foundation. Founded in London in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it underpins agent and automation programs at thousands of companies.
Workato
Workato is a Palo Alto-based enterprise automation and integration platform (iPaaS) that lets IT and business teams build cross-app workflows - called Recipes - with low-code/no-code building blocks and a growing layer of AI agents. It connects more than a thousand SaaS apps and on-prem systems, and is used by companies like Atlassian, Box, GitLab, Broadcom, and Toast to automate everything from employee onboarding to order-to-cash.
Vijay Tella
Vijay Tella is the co-founder and CEO of Workato, a $5.7B enterprise automation platform that has become the integration backbone for over 21,000 businesses worldwide. With 30+ years spent building the middleware plumbing of Silicon Valley - from co-founding TIBCO Software to architecting Oracle Fusion Middleware to selling Qik to Skype - Tella launched Workato in 2013 with a straightforward conviction: integration should be something anyone can do, not just engineers with specialized tools. His book 'The New Automation Mindset' became a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2023, and Workato has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for iPaaS seven consecutive years running.
Syncari
Syncari is an Agentic Master Data Management (MDM) platform built for the AI era. It unifies, governs, and synchronizes customer data in real-time across enterprise systems, producing AI-ready pipelines that fuel LLMs, copilots, and autonomous agents. Founded by ex-Marketo executives, the company is trusted by Fortune 1000 enterprises and recently crossed 2 trillion data operations.