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Tech Mahindra
The Mahindra Group's software arm turned a British Telecom side project and a rescued fraud case into a 148,000-person, 90-country IT services house - now betting the next chapter on agentic AI.
NetBox Labs
NetBox Labs is the commercial company behind NetBox, the widely used open source network source of truth that engineering teams rely on to document, model, and automate their networks and infrastructure. Founded in 2023 by CEO Kris Beevers, the New York-based company builds commercial products - NetBox Cloud, NetBox Enterprise, NetBox Discovery, and NetBox Assurance - on top of the open source project, helping Fortune 500 enterprises, hyperscalers, AI data center operators, and government agencies replace spreadsheets and manual processes with an automation-ready model of their infrastructure.
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a Fremont, California-based global IT services and digital solutions company founded in 1997. It helps large enterprises run and modernize their technology at scale - spanning digital workplace services, IT service desk and NOC operations, cloud and infrastructure, application and digital engineering, AI/automation, and platform work on ServiceNow and Salesforce. The company employs roughly 2,600-3,100 people, serves more than 200 clients across about 31 countries, and is majority-owned by The Halifax Group with a minority stake held by Two Sigma Impact.
Nathan Patrick
Nathan Patrick is the Chief Executive Officer of Sonic, a California-based fiber internet provider that has been challenging the telecom duopoly since 1994. A career network engineer turned executive, Patrick rose through the ranks to CTO before taking the helm as CEO in 2024. He won the 2016 FTTXcellence Award for his technical leadership and has spearheaded Sonic's aggressive expansion beyond its Bay Area roots into Oakland, Los Angeles, and Dallas - backed by the belief that fast, honest internet shouldn't be a luxury.