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Shlomi Vaknin Builds Powerful AI by Taking Away the Keys
After 25 years spent making complex systems work, DevRev founding engineer Shlomi Vaknin has arrived at an unfashionable rule for the AI age: the cleverest agent may be the one with the fewest permissions.
Rajeev Shrivastava Is Betting AI’s Next Breakthrough on the Lines Between the Dots
After years building products at Google, NICE inContact, Rackspace, and Satmetrix, TigerGraph’s CEO has a deceptively simple thesis: intelligence gets useful when it understands relationships.
Brian Gilman Has Spent 25 Years Making Science Easier to Search
Before AI promised to read all of biology, Brian Gilman was already trying to make scientific information usable. At Plex Research, his old obsession has acquired a new engine - and a stricter test: show the evidence.
Rupert Hopkins Has Spent Decades Teaching Engineering Documents to Talk
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Rupert Hopkins was worrying about a quieter problem: the specifications, parts records and requirements that machines still could not understand. His answer became XSB, a 26-year experiment in making industrial knowledge usable.
Tarjei Vassbotn Is Building a Memory for Work
After Google, wireless sensors and a conference-room pitch that went nowhere, Tarjei Vassbotn found his next problem hiding in plain sight: work remembers almost nothing.
Carl Bate Wants AI to Show Its Work
After three decades translating between software, strategy and human behavior, the Evidium founder is pursuing a stubborn idea: consequential AI should make its reasoning inspectable.
Anthony Goldbloom Is Making Company Data Compete
After turning machine learning into a public contest at Kaggle, Anthony Goldbloom is back with Sumble - a second act built around a familiar conviction: messy data becomes useful when the evidence can be ranked, tested and explained.
Paul Nemirovsky
Paul Nemirovsky is the cofounder and CEO of dMetrics, the Brooklyn-born AI company behind Minsky, a natural language processing platform that lets non-technical experts steer AI across the world's largest financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations. An MIT Media Lab PhD who once built musical navigation shoes and showed interactive art at the Centre Pompidou, he has grown dMetrics from two founders to a 40-person team without venture capital, and in 2024 the company landed a Department of Defense AI/ML production contract worth up to $99.5 million.
Emil Eifrem
Emil Eifrem is the co-founder and CEO of Neo4j, the company he built from a cocktail-napkin sketch on a 2000 flight to Mumbai into the world's leading graph database platform. He coined the term 'graph database,' developed the property graph model, and has guided Neo4j to a $2.2B valuation, over $200M in annual revenue, and adoption by 84 of the Fortune 100. Beyond enterprise metrics, he launched the Graphs4Good program channeling graph technology toward cancer research, pandemic supply chains, and investigative journalism — most famously the Panama Papers investigation that won the Pulitzer Prize and toppled Iceland's government.
Sherman Ye
Sherman Ye is the Founder and CEO of NebulaGraph (vesoft Inc.), the company behind one of the world's most scalable open-source distributed graph databases. After engineering stints at Facebook and Ant Financial — where he worked directly on graph database infrastructure — Ye founded vesoft in 2018 to bring enterprise-grade graph database technology to a market hungry for connected-data insights. NebulaGraph can handle trillions of edges with millisecond latency, and counts Tencent, Meituan, and JD Digits among its users. Ye led the company through a $8M pre-A round in 2020 and a Series A in 2022 led by Jeneration Capital, while pioneering the GraphRAG concept that merges knowledge graphs with large language models.
Brendan Madden
Brendan Madden is the founder and CEO of Tom Sawyer Software, a Berkeley-based pioneer in graph visualization and analysis technology that he has led since 1992. With four decades of experience in the graph field - starting at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center - Madden built one of the world's foremost graph visualization platforms, serving industries from finance and government to manufacturing and cybersecurity. Under his leadership, Tom Sawyer Software has become a go-to platform for building scalable graph-powered applications, digital twins, and systems modeling tools, with the company's latest push into AI-powered graph technologies and SysML v2 viewer capabilities.
Jack Porter
Jack Porter is a serial entrepreneur, multi-time CEO, and co-founder of Cognizer Inc, an AI-powered contract intelligence company based in Pleasanton, California. With a career spanning decades and leadership of more than seven software companies, Porter has worked on AI projects for clients including American Express, Discover Card, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline. At Cognizer, he is building a platform that uses knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, and large language models to help enterprise legal, sales, and procurement teams extract intelligence from contracts at scale. Cognizer has raised over $16M in funding and is recognized for its Genius AI platform, which achieves 97% accuracy in extracting contract terms and clauses.