Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform that gives developers and operations-research teams the tooling to build, test, deploy, monitor, and govern optimization and decision models - things like vehicle routing, scheduling, and packing. It treats decision models the way DevOps treats software: version control, CI/CD, scenario testing, shadow production tests, and a system of record for every decision. Founded in 2019 by ex-Grubhub engineers Carolyn Mooney and Ryan O'Neil, the company raised an $8M Series A led by FirstMark Capital and was acquired by FICO in May 2026.
Mohamed Elgendy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolena, a San Francisco-based AI testing and validation platform that raised $21M to help enterprises build reliable, trustworthy AI systems. An Egyptian-American technologist and author of the widely-read 'Deep Learning for Vision Systems' (Manning Publications, 20,000+ copies sold), Elgendy cut his teeth building AI/ML organizations at Amazon, Twilio, Rakuten, and Synapse (acquired by Palantir) before founding Kolena in 2021. His mission: bring software engineering rigor - unit testing, regression analysis, scenario-level validation - to a field that has long relied on aggregate accuracy scores that mask real-world failures.