Pierre-Olivier Lepage is the CEO and co-founder of Cruisebound, a New York-based digital-first cruise booking platform he launched in 2022 after struggling to book his own first cruise online. A Polytechnique Montréal engineering graduate who earned dual MIT master's degrees in Transportation and Operations Research, Lepage previously built operations at Rocket Travel (a Booking Holdings company) and consulted at McKinsey before betting that the $66B cruise industry — where 80% of bookings still flow through travel agents — was ripe for a tech-native overhaul. Cruisebound has since raised $37.8M in total funding, serves customers averaging nine years younger than typical cruisers, and routes 42% of support queries through AI, positioning itself as the fastest-growing national online cruise agency.
Ticketure is a cloud-based, mobile-first ticketing, point-of-sale, and membership platform built specifically for museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens, and high-volume visitor attractions. It unifies advance and on-site ticket sales, timed entry, memberships, donations, and visitor data into one connected system, helping cultural institutions grow revenue and understand their audiences. Spun out of TixTrack as a standalone company in July 2025 with backing from Dahlia Equity Partners, Ticketure processes over 200 million visits and $1.5B+ in tickets annually for more than 100 institutions worldwide.
Dashverse is an AI-native entertainment company building tools and platforms that let anyone create, publish and monetize stories - from comics to microdramas - at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional production. Its ecosystem includes Frameo.AI (generative video studio), DashReels and ShortFree (microdrama apps), and Dashtoon (AI comics).
Hourly is a Palo Alto-based fintech platform that combines payroll, workers' compensation insurance, and time tracking into a single mobile-first system built for small businesses with hourly workers. Its pay-as-you-go workers' comp model calculates premiums against actual wages in real time, eliminating year-end audits and helping employers avoid overpaying. Founded in 2018 by Tom Sagi, Shay Litvak, and Amir Faintuch, the company raised $39M+ and serves 500+ businesses across construction, manufacturing, transportation, and similar industries. In July 2025, Hourly was acquired by Israeli insurtech WeSure in a deal valued at approximately $168M.
Humand is a mobile-first, all-in-one HR platform built for the 2.7 billion deskless and frontline workers who have never had a proper digital work home. Founded in 2020 by Nicolas Benenzon and Geronimo Maspero, the platform combines 30+ HR modules - from internal communications and payroll to performance reviews and AI-powered automation - into a single app. With 1.6 million workers across 1,500+ organizations in 51 countries, and a $66M Series A raised in February 2026 co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, Humand is positioning itself as the operating system for the world's largest workforce segment.
MaintainX is a mobile-first, AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform (CMMS/EAM) used by frontline industrial teams to replace paper work orders, prevent equipment downtime, and run safer, more predictable operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 11,000+ companies and manages over 11 million assets across manufacturing, facilities, food & beverage and distribution.
Nicolas Benenzon is the CEO and co-founder of Humand, an AI-powered HR and internal communication platform built for the world's 2.7 billion deskless workers. Founded in 2020 in Argentina and now headquartered in San Francisco, Humand serves 2+ million employees across 2,000+ organizations in 51 countries. In February 2026, Benenzon led the company's $66 million Series A - described by Nasdaq as the largest in Latin American history for its category - backed by Kaszek, Goodwater Capital, Y Combinator, and notable angels including the founders of Dropbox, Vercel, and MercadoLibre.
Sanidhya Narain is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dashverse, the parent company behind Dashtoon, DashReels, and Frameo.AI - a portfolio of AI-native entertainment platforms reaching 20+ million users worldwide. A chemical engineer turned content entrepreneur, Narain spent nearly four years at Pocket FM building its global content engine to $120M in revenue before pivoting to his conviction that generative AI would do for storytelling what the camera phone did for photography. Dashverse raised a $13M Series A led by Peak XV Partners in August 2025 and, by early 2026, had inked a multi-year deal with Harlequin to co-produce animated microdramas using its Frameo.AI studio.
Signeasy is an AI-powered eSignature and contract management platform used by 130,000+ businesses to sign, send, and manage agreements from mobile, web, and inside tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Founded in 2010 by Sunil Patro, it was bootstrapped for a decade before raising its first outside capital, and is known for being radically easier to use than legacy competitors.
Hazim Mohamad is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoffeeSpace, a San Francisco-based AI-powered cofounder matching platform that functions like Tinder for entrepreneurs. After spending four years managing a $40 billion portfolio at the World Bank, he traded financial risk for startup risk - building a mobile-first platform that has amassed 25,000+ users and 2M+ swipes by connecting founders, early hires, and collaborators across the global startup ecosystem. CoffeeSpace raised $1M in pre-seed funding and was featured at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
Sunil Patro is the Founder and CEO of Signeasy, the electronic signature and contract management platform he built after a frustrating afternoon hunting for a fax machine in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2009. He bootstrapped the company for over a decade, coded the first version from hostels across Central and South America, and grew it to 10 million users across 180+ countries before taking any outside funding. A former Microsoft software engineer and IIT Kharagpur graduate, Patro has made a career out of making complex workflows embarrassingly simple.