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Sascha Eder
Sascha Eder is CEO and co-founder of NewtonX, a New York-based B2B market research platform that uses an AI-driven Knowledge Graph to custom-recruit specialists from a pool of more than a billion professionals. A German-born former national track and field athlete, he trained at MIT and HEC Paris, consulted at McKinsey and BCG, and started NewtonX in 2017 with fellow McKinsey alum Germain Chastel after growing frustrated with the panels and speed of legacy research.
Bassam Chaptini
Bassam Chaptini is the co-founder and co-CEO of Avantos, a New York fintech building an AI-native operating system for client management in financial services. An MIT-trained AI PhD, former McKinsey partner, and founding CTO of no-code pioneer Unqork, he spent years watching banks and wealth managers drown in siloed client data. In 2024 he and co-founder Rabih Ramadi launched Avantos to fix it with a knowledge graph and AI agents that shadow advisors through onboarding, servicing, and growth. In February 2026 the company raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, and Guardian Life.
Meijie Wang
Meijie Wang is the co-founder and CEO of MetaNovas, an AI-driven biotech that designs functional peptides for skincare, supplements and drug discovery. A former NVIDIA AI infrastructure engineer who built VR games and worked on AI at Stanford's School of Medicine, he now runs a Silicon Valley and Shanghai operation whose knowledge-graph platform aims to compress the decade-long hunt for new bioactive ingredients into something far shorter. MetaNovas counts L'Oreal, Beiersdorf, Haleon, Takeda and Unilever among its partners and raised a Series A led by GL Ventures.
Rabih Ramadi
Rabih Ramadi is the co-founder and CEO of Avantos, a New York fintech building an AI-native operating system for client onboarding and servicing inside banks, asset managers, and insurers. He spent a career on the inside of financial services - technology strategy at The Bank of New York, leading capital markets as a senior partner at KPMG, then helping build Unqork from the ground floor as a founding team member and chief revenue officer - before deciding the client-service layer of finance needed to be rebuilt around a knowledge graph and AI agents. In early 2026 Avantos raised a $25 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $35 million.
Dheeraj Pandey
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
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
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
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.