Softjourn is a full-cycle software development and IT consulting company founded in 2001, headquartered in Fremont, California (Silicon Valley) with research and development offices in Ukraine, Poland, and Brazil. With 200-300 engineers and consultants, it builds custom software for three core verticals - Fintech and Cards & Payments, Event Ticketing, and Media & Entertainment - offering services from product design and development to QA, DevOps, AI/ML, blockchain, and dedicated development teams. Clients include Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Vendini, SecuTix, eTix, and PEX, and the firm has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list multiple years running.
Virtual Assistant Talent, LLC is a US-based outsourcing company that connects entrepreneurs, startups, real estate investors, and small businesses with college-educated, English-speaking Filipino virtual assistants. Founded in 2009 by HR veteran John Davern Jr., the Fremont, California firm offers both non-technical and technical remote staffing - from admin and customer service to SEO, web development, and marketing automation - with a dedicated project manager model and pricing that can cut labor costs by up to 75%.
Web Spiders (WS Group) is a 25-year-old enterprise AI and digital engineering company that helps Fortune 2000 enterprises and government agencies drive customer engagement through voice AI, conversational bots, data services and digital products. Founded in 2000 in Kolkata, it has grown from two computers to roughly 290-300 people with delivery hubs in the US, UK, Singapore and India, and product lines spanning SpiderX (voice AI agents), e2m.live (enterprise event platform) and Gecko (AI video interview bot).
Wisdom is a New York-based AI-powered dental revenue cycle management platform that helps dental practices collect more from insurers, faster. Founded in 2023 by fintech veteran Stoyan Kenderov and billing expert Ashley Bond, Wisdom pairs proprietary AI with dedicated human billing teams to handle the full claims lifecycle — from insurance verification to denial appeals. The company has raised $28M in funding and reports that over 98% of clients see increased insurance billing revenues after joining.
Wing Assistant is a managed virtual assistant marketplace that pairs businesses with dedicated, vetted remote professionals to handle recurring administrative, sales, marketing, and operational tasks. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Wing combines a proprietary AI-enhanced supervision platform with human assistants - covering everything from executive support and social media management to lead generation and customer success. With over 50,000 customers globally and assistants operating across 8 countries, Wing positions itself as a cost-effective alternative to in-house hires, offering dedicated (not shared) assistants starting at $699/month.
Alyssa Bernstein is the co-founder, President, and CEO of wrrk, an Austin-based company that provides fully managed, fractional customer support solutions for fast-growing brands and startups. With a background in product management at RetailMeNot and Main Street Hub, she launched wrrk in 2016 to give entrepreneurs access to experienced, embedded support teams without the overhead of building in-house. Under her leadership, wrrk has grown to serve 125+ brands including Bombas, Taylor Stitch, and Supergoop, offering omnichannel support via US-based and offshore teams in the Philippines.
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
Amy Pritchard is the founder and CEO of ModSquad, a global leader in outsourced digital engagement services. A former commercial litigator, she launched the company in 2007 inside a virtual bar in Second Life with four colleagues - their first gig was guarding Newt Gingrich's avatar. Today ModSquad runs 10,000+ independent contractors across 70 countries, serving clients from the NFL to the U.S. Department of State with customer support, content moderation, trust and safety, and community management - blending agentic AI with high-EQ human expertise.
Igor Repeta is the CEO of Empat Tech, a Kyiv-based software development and outsourcing firm with nearly 200 engineers serving clients across 17 countries. He rose from Project Manager to Chief Executive Officer in four years, formally taking the helm in February 2026 after co-authoring the company's operational playbook as COO. Empat ranked #5 globally on the Clutch 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2026 and holds back-to-back #1 Best IT Employer rankings in Ukraine (DOU 2024 and 2025). Beyond commercial growth, Repeta launched two civic tech projects during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RevengeFor, a military fundraising platform channeling funds to ComeBackAlive, and HealUA, a peer-to-peer medical consultation platform for Ukrainian doctors.
Oleg Lola is the CEO and founder of MobiDev, a custom software development company he built from a startup in 2009 into a 334-person global operation serving clients across healthcare, retail, fintech, and beyond. Based in San Francisco and known for his pragmatic take on AI adoption, Lola is also a Forbes Technology Council member and co-founder of Treegress, an autonomous QA startup launched in 2023. He's the kind of engineer-turned-executive who will tell you straight up that AI is 'heavily overhyped' - and then show you exactly how to use it anyway.
Alex Batyrev is the President and CEO of AB Soft, a roughly 150-person software services firm headquartered in Odesa, Ukraine, with an operating presence in South San Francisco. For more than a decade his Odesa engineers have been a long-running build crew behind RingCentral's cloud communications stack. A mathematician by training, Batyrev has spent his career stitching American product ambitions to Ukrainian engineering bench depth.
Alexander Kachaev is the Chief Executive Officer of EffectiveSoft, a 350-person product development services firm headquartered in San Diego. An engineer by training with a Master of Science specializing in Automatic Control Systems, he stepped into the CEO seat in October 2023 after more than two decades building delivery teams for Fortune 500 clients across financial services, retail, automotive, manufacturing and Silicon Valley ISVs.
Karan Kanwar is the co-founder and CEO of Wing Assistant, a managed virtual assistant marketplace that grew from his UC Irvine dorm room to over 1,000 employees across 8 countries and $20 million in annual revenue. Born in Mumbai and raised in Hong Kong, Kanwar speaks five languages, started coding at age 8, and previously consulted for Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and the United Nations before building Wing into one of the fastest-growing B2B staffing platforms in the US.