Merge builds the connective infrastructure for modern SaaS and AI: one unified API that lets a product offer hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, ticketing, and accounting integrations - and a newer Agent Handler that gives AI agents secure, observable access to thousands of third-party tools.
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by over 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations. Growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, India, he taught himself programming as a child, built virtual tour software before finishing college, and turned a side project Chrome extension into a company valued at $5.6 billion. He moved Postman from Bangalore to San Francisco in 2017 and has raised $433 million in total funding, including a $225M Series D in 2021.
Tray.ai is an AI-ready enterprise integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that connects 700+ apps, orchestrates AI agents, and lets companies build production-grade agentic workflows on a single composable foundation. Founded in London in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it underpins agent and automation programs at thousands of companies.
Vendia is an AI data platform that enables real-time, governed data sharing across companies, clouds, and regions. Founded by Tim Wagner (creator of AWS Lambda) and Shruthi Rao (former AWS blockchain head), Vendia helps enterprises like BMW, Delta Air Lines, and Fannie Mae break down data silos through its flagship product Vendia Share and newer MCP Gateway - allowing multiple parties to collaborate on trusted data without sacrificing security, compliance, or control.
Jorge Torres is the Co-Founder and CEO of MindsDB, an open-source AI data platform headquartered in Berkeley, California. He is a Visiting Research Scholar at UC Berkeley focused on machine learning automation and explainability. Torres built MindsDB to democratize AI—letting any developer query AI models directly from databases using plain SQL or natural language. Under his leadership, MindsDB has raised over $77 million in funding from investors including Benchmark, NVIDIA, Mayfield, and Y Combinator, garnering recognition from Forbes as one of America's most promising AI companies and from Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Data and AI.
Bruno Ruyu is an Argentine physicist-turned-AI entrepreneur who has spent over two decades at the intersection of data, energy, and enterprise intelligence. As Founder and CEO of Teramot, he is building what he calls 'the first Artificial Data Team' — an AI-powered data infrastructure platform that connects to databases, writes production-ready SQL, and builds ETL pipelines autonomously. A veteran of YPF, Xerox, and executive roles at Reba and Grupo San Cristóbal, Ruyu trained his first neural network in 2005 before the term 'AI' became a buzzword, and today operates from San Francisco with a seed-funded company on a mission to democratize data engineering for every company on earth.
Tim Wagner is the co-founder and CEO of Vendia, and the inventor of AWS Lambda - the service that launched the global serverless computing movement. With a PhD from UC Berkeley and stints at AWS (as GM of Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless App Repository) and Coinbase (as VP Engineering), Wagner brings a rare double expertise in serverless infrastructure and blockchain. At Vendia, he has combined both disciplines to build a platform that enables secure, real-time data sharing across companies, clouds, and ecosystems - positioning it as the operating layer for the AI data era.
Gary Lerhaupt is VP of Product Architecture at Salesforce leading Agent Interoperability and Orchestration for Agentforce. He co-founded Clockwise, the AI calendar company used by Uber, Netflix, and Atlassian, and was a founding engineer at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for ~$390M). Earlier in his career he created DKMS, the Linux kernel module framework still baked into most Linux distributions today. He holds a BS from Ohio State and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Kent C. Dodds is a world-renowned web development educator, open source engineer, and entrepreneur based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Creator of React Testing Library and the Testing Library ecosystem, he left a staff engineering role at PayPal in 2019 to build a self-employed education empire spanning EpicReact.dev, EpicWeb.dev, TestingJavaScript.com, and now EpicAI.pro. Recognized as a Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and GitHub Star, he has taught tens of thousands of developers through hands-on workshops, books, courses, and his long-running newsletter. Father of six and an adrenaline enthusiast who snowboards and rides a onewheel, Kent believes that kindness and teaching compound faster than any technology trend.