Dheeraj Pandey is the co-founder and CEO of DevRev, an AI-native CRM and support platform valued at $1.15 billion. A serial unicorn builder, he previously co-founded Nutanix in 2009 and led it as CEO through its 2016 Nasdaq IPO, scaling it to an $18+ billion enterprise. Born in Patna, Bihar, India, he arrived in the US in 1997 with $900 borrowed from education trusts, earned his MS at UT Austin, and spent over two decades building distributed systems before founding two generational companies. He sits on Adobe's board and has donated over $20 million to humanitarian causes, including a $10 million gift to UT Austin for personalized medicine research.
Mike Tung is the founder and CEO of Diffbot, the company behind the world's largest automated knowledge graph — a continuously-rebuilt database of 10+ billion entities and over a trillion facts extracted from the open web. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate and Stanford AI lab dropout, Tung spent 15+ years building Diffbot with minimal funding (under $15M total) into a platform used by Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, Snapchat, and 400+ enterprises. In January 2025 he launched the Diffbot LLM, an open-source language model grounded in the knowledge graph, achieving top factual accuracy benchmarks among sub-100B models.
Gabe Gotthard is the CEO of DataWalk Inc., a graph analytics and AI-powered investigation platform used by top U.S. and European banks, national security agencies, and defense organizations to detect fraud, money laundering, and organized crime. With over 33 years in enterprise IT - including a stint at 3ParData (acquired by HP for $2.5B) where he coined 'utility storage' - Gotthard now leads a Wrocław-born, Silicon Valley-validated company that has displaced Palantir at the U.S. Department of Justice and earned Ally Financial's 2023 Technology Disruptor Award. Based in Redwood City, California, he is building DataWalk into a leading global alternative to Palantir for government and financial-sector intelligence work.
Steven Banerjee is the Founder and CEO of Nextnet, a life sciences AI platform that organizes and connects the world's biomedical knowledge. A serial biotech entrepreneur originally from New Zealand, he trained as a mechanical engineer at the University of Canterbury, served as a Doctoral Fellow at IBM Labs, and collaborated with gene sequencing pioneer Ron Davis at Stanford before founding his first venture, Mekonos - a cell and gene therapy company that raised over $40 million and was acquired. He then founded Nextnet in late 2020 to bring AI-native research tools to scientists, building a platform now used across 100+ countries by researchers at Harvard, MIT, MD Anderson, and UCSF. Nextnet's Copilot and Explorer tools are powered by a purpose-built biomedical ontology unifying data from PubMed, ChEMBL, Ensembl, and millions of scientific sources.
Zep AI builds the context engineering infrastructure that makes AI agents actually useful. Their platform - powered by a temporal knowledge graph called Graphiti - gives agents persistent memory across sessions, letting them track what users said, what changed, and when. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator (W24), the San Francisco team hit $1M ARR within months of launch and now serves 240+ customers including Fortune 500 companies. With 25,000+ GitHub stars on Graphiti and a published arXiv paper, Zep is quietly becoming foundational infrastructure for the AI agent era.