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Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is the founder and CEO of Hook, a New York-based AI music platform that lets fans legally remix and mash up licensed songs and share them to social feeds while artists and rights holders keep control and get paid. A Johns Hopkins and Peabody Conservatory-trained musician turned operator, he previously helped scale India's JioSaavn to hundreds of millions of listeners and built and sold two consumer-tech startups. In 2026 Hook closed a $10 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $16 million.
Matthew Elsley
Matthew Elsley is co-founder and CEO of QSIC, an AI-driven in-store audio and retail media platform used by 7-Eleven, McDonald's, Coles Express and other chains across three continents. Founded in Melbourne in 2012 with schoolfriend Nick Larkins, QSIC bootstrapped for years before raising a $4M Series A from Carthona Capital and a $25M Series B led by Hedosophia in January 2025. Elsley relocated to Dallas to run North American growth as QSIC rolled out Gulp Radio to 12,000 7-Eleven, Speedway and Stripes stores.