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Anvil
Anvil is a San Francisco software company that turns paper-heavy back-office processes into programmable digital workflows. Its API-first platform bundles PDF generation and filling, no-code webforms, embedded e-signatures (Etch), and workflow automation so developers and product teams can collect data, generate compliant documents, and get them signed without stitching together multiple tools. Founded in 2018 by Mang-Git Ng and Ben Ogle, Anvil serves customers across insurance, financial services, HR, real estate, healthcare, and education, and has raised $10M in Series A funding.
Sarah Chou
Sarah Chou is the co-founder and CEO of Informed K12, an Oakland-based software company that helps school districts trade paper forms and manual approvals for digital workflow automation. A former district administrator who ran an $8M professional development program in Providence, she met co-founder Qian Wang at Stanford's Graduate School of Education in 2012. After their first idea (a teacher-collaboration tool called Chalk) failed, they noticed that the real pain in schools wasn't a lack of ideas but a mountain of paperwork. Informed K12 now serves hundreds of districts with a team of 70+ people, most of whom come from education or social-sector backgrounds.