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Vlad Baskakov
Vlad Baskakov is the co-founder and CEO of VOYGR (YC W26), a San Francisco startup building real-world place intelligence for AI apps and agents. He spent years on Google Maps leading product strategy and go-to-market for places and local advertising, and worked in ridesharing and travel at Gett and OYO before that. A McKinsey alum with a Harvard MBA, he is now betting that AI agents need a maps API that knows not just that a restaurant is 'open till 10,' but whether the chef left and the locals moved on.
Gary Little
Gary Little is President and CEO of Foursquare, the world's leading independent location technology platform. A rare operator-investor hybrid, he spent six years running internet monetization at Yahoo, then pivoted into investment banking at Credit Suisse, Lazard, and UBS before co-founding Buckthorn Partners and rising to Managing Director at The Raine Group. At Raine he led the $150M Foursquare investment and negotiated the company's transformative acquisitions of Placed and Factual - then stepped into the CEO seat himself in January 2021. Under his leadership, Foursquare has evolved from a nostalgic social check-in app into the dominant infrastructure layer for location intelligence, covering 190 countries, indexing over 200 million points of interest, and powering the geospatial stacks of enterprises across retail, advertising, real estate, and urban planning.