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Mamoun Benkirane
Mamoun Benkirane is the co-founder and CEO of MarketLeap, an AI-driven operating system that helps direct-to-consumer brands sell and scale across global online marketplaces. A former Amazon and Jumia executive who built and expanded marketplaces across Europe and Africa, he started MarketLeap after realizing that even the biggest platforms left independent sellers drowning in fragmented data and complexity. Backed by an $8M Series A led by Smedvig Ventures in 2025, MarketLeap now operates across 30+ countries and is expanding into Madrid and New York.
Trunal Bhanse
Trunal Bhanse is the CEO and co-founder of Clazar, a San Francisco-based cloud GTM automation platform that simplifies how SaaS companies sell through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud marketplaces. Before founding Clazar in 2023, he spent years scaling cloud infrastructure at Airbnb (Engineering Manager, Homes Host team) and Confluent (Director of Engineering, Lifecycle & Cloud Partnerships), where he experienced firsthand the pain of building marketplace integrations from scratch. Clazar raised $10M in Series A funding in April 2024 led by Ridge Ventures and Ensemble VC, and now serves 250+ customers including Supabase, Atlan, and Rootly.