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Sergiy Milman and the price of not knowing
Unpaid invoices sent Sergiy Milman looking for better questions. With YouControl and YC World, the Ukrainian founder turned that search into a business that follows corporate connections across borders.
Louis Hur and the internet's missing map
Louis Hur built StealthMole around a gap in cybersecurity intelligence about Asia. His path runs from a university hacking club to live investigations, with a classroom never very far away.
Jen Snell Learned to Market AI Before AI Learned to Talk Back
Before chatbots became a category, Jen Snell was teaching companies how to give machines a useful voice. Two decades later, the Babel Street CMO is still translating between technical possibility and human judgment.
Nataliia Chornohub Is Turning Open Data Into a Trust Machine
After years of persuading institutions to open their records, the Ukrainian executive now has a harder brief: make those records useful when the stakes include sanctions, reconstruction and national security.
Kristopher Schroeder Built a Room Where Risky Work Can Breathe
After 17 years inside a giant consultancy, Schroeder chose the smaller, stranger bet: build secure digital rooms where investigators, engineers and AI teams can do dangerous work without dragging the danger home.
Guy Halfon
Guy Halfon is the co-founder and CEO of Rescana, a Tel Aviv and New York based cybersecurity company building autonomous, agent-based third-party risk management. After years running security for global gaming operator Playtech and founding boutique security consultancies, he started Rescana in 2016 to connect cyber risk to business decisions. The company now uses teams of AI agents to discover, classify and assess vendors and continuously map external attack surfaces at enterprise scale, including its no-code Vega platform.
Evan Kohlmann
Evan Kohlmann spent two decades tracking terrorists through their own chatrooms, earning the nickname 'the Terrorist Search Engine.' He built cyberintelligence firm Flashpoint from his bedroom, wrote its original code, and served as NBC News' terrorism analyst for nearly 18 years. Today he is founder and CEO of Cloudburst Technologies, a New York company that maps the off-chain human networks behind crypto fraud - the pump-and-dumps, pig-butchering rings, and market manipulation that live in forums and chatrooms rather than on the blockchain. Cloudburst raised a $7M Series A in 2025 backed by Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, and In-Q-Tel.
Bilawal Sidhu
Bilawal Sidhu is a creative technologist, former senior product manager at Google (AR/VR & 3D Maps), host of The TED AI Show podcast, venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor. After shipping landmark products like Google Maps Immersive View and the ARCore Geospatial API to billions of users, he left Google to become a full-time creator, curator, and investor at the intersection of spatial intelligence, generative AI, and immersive media. His newsletter and YouTube reach over 1.6 million followers, and he made headlines in April 2026 when he built WorldView - a real-time OSINT geospatial platform - in three days.