Steve Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Notable Systems, a Denver-based company using AI, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop review to turn messy healthcare paperwork into clean, usable data. Three decades before that, he co-founded Johnson-Grace, whose patented compression algorithm delivered the first online pictures on America Online in 1993 - a building block of modern streaming media. AOL acquired the company in 1996 and made him a VP running software and technology development; he later founded the personalization pioneer ChoiceStream. In 2025 Notable Systems raised a $12M Series B to push beyond order intake into full revenue cycle automation.
Nanonets is a San Francisco-based AI company that turns messy, unstructured documents - invoices, receipts, contracts, claims - into clean, structured data that flows directly into systems like SAP and Salesforce. Founded in 2017 by Sarthak Jain and Prathamesh Juvatkar, the company builds OCR and deep-learning agents that automate the dull back-office work nobody wants to do.
Sarthak Jain is the CEO and co-founder of Nanonets, a San Francisco-based AI company that automates document-heavy business workflows for enterprises. A two-time founder and IIT Gandhinagar gold medalist, he previously built and sold Cubeit to Myntra before launching Nanonets through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch. Under his leadership, Nanonets grew from an OCR tool to a $100M ARR autonomous AI agents platform serving over a third of the Global Fortune 500 - with just 130 employees.
Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ) is an AI-powered accounts payable automation platform that captures, codes, verifies, and pays invoices end-to-end. Founded in 2014 to fix the back-office mess inside restaurants, it now serves CFOs and AP teams across hospitality, healthcare, construction, retail, and grocery.
Upstage is a South Korea-born, US-expanding AI company building Solar - a family of frontier large language models - alongside Document AI tools that turn messy PDFs, scans, and contracts into structured data for enterprise workflows.
Sung Kim (김성훈), known professionally as Hun Kim, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upstage AI, South Korea's first generative AI unicorn. A former HKUST professor and founding head of Naver Clova AI, he co-founded Upstage in October 2020 to solve the gap between enterprise data and practical AI deployment. Under his leadership, Upstage developed Solar - a compact 10.7B parameter language model - and Solar Pro 2, which outperforms GPT-4.1 at half the compute cost. With $326M in total funding and a Series C close in early 2026, Upstage is positioning itself as a global AI frontier company focused on enterprise document intelligence and AI agents.
Jonathan Grandperrin is the co-founder and CEO of Mindee, a Y Combinator-backed (W21) API-first platform that automates document understanding using computer vision and machine learning. A graduate of École Polytechnique and UC Berkeley, he previously served as CTO at ECTOR and TankYou before founding Mindee in 2018. Under his leadership, Mindee has raised over $23M, participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, grown to $3.5M ARR with 200-250% net dollar retention, and become a leading developer tool for intelligent document processing serving accounting, finance, and enterprise software companies worldwide.
Sid Manchkanti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pulse, a production-grade document intelligence platform that converts complex unstructured documents into LLM-ready structured data. A Berkeley CS graduate with experience at NVIDIA and D.E. Shaw, he co-founded Pulse in 2024 after going through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. The company raised a $3.9M seed round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and has processed over one billion pages for Fortune 100 enterprises across finance, healthcare, insurance, legal, and supply chain sectors.
Vik Paruchuri is the founder and CEO of Datalab, an AI startup building small, efficient foundation models for document intelligence. A self-taught ML engineer who majored in American History, he previously founded Dataquest - an online learning platform that taught data skills to over 1 million students. His open-source projects (Marker, Surya, Chandra OCR) have earned thousands of GitHub stars and benchmark-topping accuracy scores. He publishes 'The Vik Letter' newsletter covering semiconductors and tech.