HubSpot is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that pioneered the inbound marketing movement and built an AI-powered CRM platform spanning marketing, sales, service, and content. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah after meeting at MIT, the company went public in 2014 and reached $3.13 billion in annual revenue by 2025, serving over 288,000 paying customers in 135+ countries. Its all-in-one platform - built around the idea that businesses should attract customers rather than interrupt them - has become the operating system for growth-minded companies worldwide.
Warmly, is a San Francisco-based AI revenue orchestration platform built for SMB sales teams. It identifies anonymous website visitors at the person level, aggregates real-time buyer intent signals from multiple sources, and deploys AI agents to orchestrate personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and ads - all within seconds of a prospect showing interest. Founded in 2020 by four ex-Google engineers and backed by Felicis, NFX, and RTP Global with $21.5M raised, Warmly, turns the classic problem of 'who is on my website?' into a fully automated pipeline generation engine.
Mark Godley is the CEO of LeadGenius, a Berkeley-based B2B data intelligence platform that combines AI with human computation to deliver precision contact data for enterprise go-to-market teams. A self-described C-suite startup junkie with 30 years of SaaS expertise, Godley joined LeadGenius in 2017 — first as President, then stepping into the CEO role — and has driven the company's pivot from a service-heavy model to a scalable SaaS platform serving 400+ enterprise customers across 42 countries including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and Autodesk. Under his leadership, LeadGenius has distinguished itself as the first crowdsourcing company to set a minimum wage tied to the cost of living in each country of operation, building a global decentralized workforce of data researchers while remaining GDPR and CCPA compliant.
Matt Curl is the CEO of Apollo.io, the AI-native go-to-market platform approaching $200M ARR with nearly 100,000 paying customers. A career operator who scaled companies from seed to exit at Fivestars and led product launches at Checkr before joining Apollo as COO in 2024, Curl was elevated to CEO in February 2026 after effectively running the company for a year. His thesis: AI should not merely recommend - it should act.
Jonathan Spier is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with 20+ years of experience building AI-driven B2B technology companies. He currently leads Rev Intelligence (formerly LeadCrunch), a San Diego-based platform that uses exegraphics and machine learning to help enterprise sales teams identify and prioritize their best-fit accounts - claiming 3x higher win rates and 50% faster sales cycles. Previously, he co-founded NetBase, a natural language processing pioneer that became the category leader in social media analytics before its acquisition and rebrand as NetBaseQuid. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has shepherded companies from founding through tens of millions in revenue.
Maximus Greenwald is the co-founder and CEO of Warmly, an AI-powered revenue orchestration platform that helps B2B companies identify, prioritize, and engage high-intent buyers in real time. A Princeton CS & Public Policy grad and ex-Google PM (where he helped build the famous 'Where's Waldo' Google Maps Easter egg), Max survived seven major pivots over five years to turn Warmly into a signal-based selling category leader with $3M+ ARR and $21.5M in total funding. Known for his mantra 'slope over y-intercept' and his 'Purple Cow' series on remarkable entrepreneurs, he is one of the most candid voices on the realities of finding product-market fit.
Orange Slice AI (YC S25) is an AI-powered sales intelligence platform that uses real-time web signals to find high-intent prospects for B2B sales teams. Co-founded by Kishan Sripada and Vihaar Nandigala — who met on a Bollywood dance team at the University of Michigan — the platform lets sales teams generate targeted lead lists using plain English, enrich existing lists with live data, detect niche buying signals before competitors, and manage pipelines through conversation. Backed by $5.3M in seed funding co-led by 1984 Ventures and Moxxie Ventures, with Paul Graham as an angel investor, Orange Slice has attracted 5,000+ sales and RevOps teams including Oracle, Confido Health, Pirros, and Glass Health.