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Chris McNulty
Chris McNulty is the interim CEO of Ring Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech developing genetic medicines that use commensal anelloviruses as delivery vectors. An MIT-trained engineer with a Harvard MBA, he joined Ring in May 2023 as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy and stepped up to lead the company in December 2024. Over more than 15 years in pharma and biotech finance, he has closed financing transactions worth more than $300 million across companies including VBI Vaccines, InVivo Therapeutics, Repligen, and Genzyme.
Humatics
Humatics is a Waltham, Massachusetts technology company building microlocation systems - hardware and software that pinpoint the position of people, vehicles, and machines to millimeter and centimeter precision. Combining industrial-grade ultra-wideband radio with inertial sensors, GNSS, and analytics software, its platform serves two markets: industrial automation and robotics through the Milo Microlocation System, and rail and transit through the Humatics Rail Navigation System. Founded in 2015 by MIT professor David Mindell and industry veteran Gary Cohen, the company works with partners including Siemens Mobility and Hitachi Rail on projects such as the New York MTA subway signaling upgrade.
Ioannis Kymissis
Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he directs the Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) and works on thin-film materials for displays and sensors. He is co-founder and acting CEO of Lumiode, a New York startup building high-brightness micro-LED microdisplays for augmented reality and wearables. A serial entrepreneur who has spun four companies out of his lab, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, Optica, and the Society for Information Display, and helped launch the Makerspace @ Columbia.
Jonathan Birnbaum
Jonathan Birnbaum is the founder and CEO of OpenYield, a New York-based fixed income marketplace that brings an equity-like, fully automated trading experience to bonds. A former US credit trading COO at Morgan Stanley and fixed income execution lead at Bridgewater Associates, he later helped build consumer investing platforms as general manager of SoFi Invest and founding COO of Domain Money. He founded OpenYield in 2023 to make bonds cheap and easy to trade for retail investors, backed by a 2026 Series A of more than $6 million from investors including LeveL Markets, Draper Associates, Canapi Ventures and Clocktower Ventures.
Minna Song
Minna Song is the cofounder and CEO of EliseAI, a New York company that builds conversational AI for property managers and, more recently, healthcare providers. She started the company in 2017 after taking a front-desk job at a real estate firm to see the workflow up close, and in 2025 raised a $250 million Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2 billion valuation. EliseAI now serves roughly 70-75% of the fifty largest U.S. rental operators and crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
Nick Solinger
Nick Solinger is President and CEO of FIA Tech, the derivatives market infrastructure company owned by a consortium of clearing firms and the Futures Industry Association. He leads the Trade Data Network, the post-trade processing hub that quietly moves listed derivatives trades among executing brokers, clearing brokers, and end clients. A CFA charterholder with an MIT computer science degree, he spent much of the 2000s and 2010s at Traiana building the Harmony network before taking over FIA Tech in January 2016.
Peter Howard
Peter Howard is co-founder and CEO of Realtime Robotics, a Boston-based company building motion-planning software that lets industrial robots plan collision-free paths in milliseconds. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT management degree, he has founded five companies, taken two public, and now runs a Series B robotics firm working with Fortune 100 automakers and manufacturers.
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.
Sarim Khan
Sarim Khan is co-founder and CEO of Triomics, a New York-based startup building oncology-specific AI agents that read the thousands of pages inside a cancer patient's chart so that clinicians don't have to. A chemical engineer trained at IIT Roorkee with a brief stint researching polymer gels in brain tissue at MIT, he started Triomics in 2021 with college friend Hrituraj Singh, went through Y Combinator's W21 batch, and by mid-2026 had raised $22 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures and deployed the platform at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Yale Cancer Center, and four of the top ten U.S. News cancer hospitals.
Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Andreas Stuhlmüller
Andreas Stuhlmüller is the cofounder and CEO of Elicit, an AI research assistant that automates evidence synthesis for scientists and analysts. A cognitive scientist by training (PhD, MIT), he built probabilistic programming languages before turning to a single question: can AI help people reason well about hard problems? His answer is process supervision, the idea that you get trustworthy machines by watching how they think, not just grading what they produce. Elicit, which spun out of his nonprofit Ought, raised a $22M Series A in 2025 and serves hundreds of thousands of researchers.
Andreas Wallendahl
Andreas Wallendahl is a co-founder and COO of Tenet, a New York fintech that makes electric-vehicle ownership cheaper by rewiring how EV loans get made. An MIT-trained engineer and former McKinsey consultant who helped build businesses inside Ethereum studio ConsenSys, he now partners with credit unions, green banks and asset managers to originate lower-cost EV financing, and bundles free smart-charging so customers save while they drive. Tenet has raised roughly $73 million in equity plus more than $100 million in committed loan funding.
Andrew Meyer
Andrew (AJ) Meyer is the founder and CEO of Pickle Robot Company, a Boston-area startup building Physical AI robots that autonomously unload trucks. An MIT-trained engineer and serial founder, he watched fifteen people unload trailers on a freezing UPS night shift in 2018 and decided robots should do that job. Pickle's one-armed machines now pick boxes up to 50 pounds at speeds reaching 1,500 boxes an hour for customers like UPS and Yusen Logistics. In late 2024 the company closed a $50 million Series B, bringing total funding past $114 million.
Anuj Bhardwaj
Anuj Bhardwaj is the co-founder and CEO of SecondWave Systems, a Minneapolis-St. Paul medical device company building the SecondWave MINI, a wearable, noninvasive ultrasound device that aims to calm chronic inflammation by aiming focused sound at the spleen. He took a family-owned industrial ultrasound business founded by his parents in 1977 and redirected its core technology toward medicine, raising a $7M Series A in 2025 on top of more than $15M in government research funding from DARPA, NIH, and ARPA-H. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Penn State with an MS and MBA from MIT, he sits at the crossroads of hardware, bioelectronic medicine, and the emerging field of bio-ultrasonic therapy.
Ara Knaian
Ara Knaian is an MIT-trained electrical engineer and inventor on more than 36 U.S. patents who now runs Acceleron Fusion, a Cambridge company chasing energy from muon-catalyzed fusion - a route that runs closer to 1,000 degrees C instead of the 100-million-degree plasmas everyone else fights. Before fusion he co-founded the product-design firm NK Labs, architected Google's modular Project Ara phone, tuned the drive waveforms behind Amazon's Kindle, and built the Milli-Motein, a self-folding robot chain at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. Acceleron raised a $24M Series A led by Lowercarbon Capital and Collaborative Fund and logged over 100 hours of continuous fusion at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.
Austin Oehlerking
Austin Oehlerking is the co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, an Alameda, California robotics company reinventing how parcels are stored, sorted, and sequenced inside the supply chain. A mechanical engineer trained at MIT with a Harvard MBA, he cut his teeth building electric vehicles at Arcimoto and Tesla before starting Boxbot in 2016 as a self-driving last-mile delivery venture. When customers proved more excited about the box-handling robot than the delivery van, Oehlerking pivoted the company toward AI-driven, high-density parcel storage, turning the flat conveyor belt into a three-dimensional machine. Boxbot has raised roughly $28-29.5M from Playground Global, Toyota Ventures, Maersk Growth, Pear Ventures, and Artiman Ventures.
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.
Cameron McCord
Cameron McCord is the co-founder and CEO of Nominal, a defense-tech software company modernizing how the world tests and validates mission-critical hardware. A former US Navy nuclear submarine officer who logged 484 days underwater, he studied physics and nuclear engineering at MIT and earned an MBA at Harvard before building product at Anduril and investing at Lux Capital. Founded in 2022, Nominal reached a $1 billion valuation after raising $155 million in ten months, counting four of the five largest US defense contractors among its customers.
Carlos Araque
Carlos Araque is the co-founder, president and CEO of Quaise Energy, a Houston- and Cambridge-based startup trying to drill the deepest holes in human history to tap superhot geothermal heat. A Medellin-born mechanical engineer with two MIT degrees, he spent 15 years at oilfield-services giant Schlumberger, then ran technology at MIT's venture platform The Engine, where he met the plasma physicist whose millimeter-wave drilling idea became Quaise. His pitch: vaporize rock instead of grinding it, reach depths where water turns supercritical, and use the resulting heat to run the same turbines and power plants fossil fuels use today.
Chazz Sims
Chazz Sims is the CEO and co-founder of Wise Systems, a Boston-area company that uses machine learning to plan and continuously re-plan last-mile delivery routes in real time. Born in Irmo, South Carolina, he studied computer science at MIT and turned a Media Lab class project into a logistics platform now used by fleets like Anheuser-Busch and Lyft. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology in 2021 for the company's role keeping supply chains moving during the pandemic.
Chris Compean
Chris Compean is the co-founder and CEO of Mayan, a fully-remote SaaS platform that helps Amazon sellers grow with data-driven automation for advertising, inventory, and analytics. An MIT graduate and former early team member at Thrasio, he launched Mayan in 2020 with three MIT fraternity brothers, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, and raised a $5M Series A in 2023 led by Bright Pixel. Mayan has driven over $160M in total Amazon sales for its customers.
Christina Qi
Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, an on-demand market-data platform for quants and asset managers, and a founding partner of Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running high-frequency trading hedge funds in the world. She started Domeyard from an MIT dorm room with $1,000 in savings, grew it to trade billions of dollars a day, then wound it down and built Databento to fix the broken market-data infrastructure that had frustrated her for a decade. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, MIT trustee, and financial-literacy advocate, Qi turned a rough start into a career spent lowering the barriers to Wall Street for everyone else.
Coach Wei
Coach Wei is a serial technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Neural Galaxy, a brain-science company spun out of Harvard Medical School and MIT that maps the individual human brain and delivers personalized neuromodulation therapy for brain disorders. A Tsinghua University electrical engineer with an MS from MIT, he began building software at EMC before founding three venture-backed startups over two decades: Nexaweb (pioneering Rich Internet Applications), Yottaa (web performance and cloud), and now Neural Galaxy, which has raised roughly $100M including a $75M Series A. He holds six patents and was named to Boston's 40 Under 40.
Doug Yeum
Doug Yeum (Korean name Yeom Dong-hoon) is President and CEO of MegazoneCloud, one of Asia's largest cloud managed-service providers and a flagship AWS partner. An MIT-trained engineer, he spent years building Google Korea, ran AWS Korea, served as chief of staff to Andy Jassy, and then led AWS worldwide channels and alliances before taking the top job at MegazoneCloud. In 2025 he steered the company to a profitability turnaround on $1.16 billion in revenue and is now pushing an aggressive US expansion built around agentic AI, cloud security, and MegazoneCloud's own AIR and HALO platforms.
Fred Goff
Fred Goff is the co-founder and CEO of Jobcase, the Cambridge-based social platform built for and around workers rather than recruiters. A first-generation college graduate from Toledo, Ohio, he ran roughly a billion dollars in emerging-markets trading on Wall Street before turning a machine-learning hedge fund team loose on the labor market in 2009. Jobcase now counts more than 130 million registered members and ranks among the largest online destinations for career services. Goff has become one of the more vocal executives arguing that the AI era should put people first, a stance that landed him on the 2026 TIME100 list.
Garth Sheldon-Coulson
Garth Sheldon-Coulson is the co-founder and CEO of Panthalassa, a Portland, Oregon company building free-floating, wave-powered nodes that generate clean electricity in the open ocean and pair it with onsite AI computing. A Harvard-trained lawyer with an MIT master's and a Bridgewater investing background, he pivoted from finance to spend nearly a decade inventing marine energy hardware. In May 2026 Panthalassa raised a $140M Series B led by Peter Thiel, pushing its valuation near $1 billion, on a bet that the open ocean is one of only three energy sources on Earth with tens of terawatts of untapped capacity.
Godard Abel
Godard Abel is the co-founder and CEO of G2, the software review platform that brought Yelp-style peer reviews to enterprise software buying. A third-generation entrepreneur born in Germany and raised in Pittsburgh, he built and sold two SaaS companies before G2: BigMachines (acquired by Oracle for a reported $400M+) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce). At G2 he has raised more than $260M, weathered a near-bankruptcy earlier in his career, and is now steering the company through the AI wave with its buying agent Monty and the 2026 acquisition of Gartner's Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice.
Gregory Price
Gregory (Greg) Price is the CEO and co-founder of Shipwell, an Austin-based logistics technology company building a connected, AI-driven transportation management platform. A blue-collar Houston kid turned MIT-trained engineer, he spent seven years building hardware and algorithms for the U.S. Department of Defense at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, then applied machine learning to Fortune 100 supply chains at McKinsey before founding Shipwell in 2016 to bring automation, visibility, and intelligence to the notoriously opaque freight industry.
James Hedrick
James Hedrick is the co-founder and CEO of Azul 3D, a Skokie, Illinois deep-tech company commercializing HARP (High Area Rapid Printing), a resin 3D-printing technology he helped invent during his PhD at Northwestern University in Chad Mirkin's lab. HARP uses a flowing, non-stick liquid interface to carry away heat, letting large parts print continuously up to 100 times faster than layer-by-layer machines - fast enough and strong enough to challenge injection molding. Hedrick started his first company at 16 to pay his way through MIT, where he was an NCAA athlete, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Manufacturing & Industry list in 2020.
James Paterson
James Paterson is the co-founder and CEO of Aerobotics, a Cape Town-based precision agriculture company that turns drone and satellite imagery into AI-powered, tree-by-tree insights for fruit and nut growers. Raised on a family citrus farm and trained as a mechatronics engineer at the University of Cape Town before a masters at MIT, Paterson pairs first-hand farming instinct with aerospace-grade robotics. Since founding Aerobotics with Benji Meltzer in 2014, he has grown it into a global player that now analyzes a large share of the Florida citrus crop and has raised roughly $30 million, insisting the company is 'a farming company, enabled by technology' rather than a tech company that dabbles in farming.