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Tom Montgomery and the business behind the numbers
An accountant’s training took Tom Montgomery into capital markets, a 300-person advisory firm and private investing. In 2025, the next chapter became a family enterprise.
InfStones sells the luxury of sleeping through the night
Behind a blockchain’s promise of independence sits a surprisingly ordinary job: keeping computers running. InfStones built a business around taking that job off other people’s hands.
The Realtime Group makes the awkward parts work
A medical device can work perfectly on a bench and still bewilder its user. This Plano engineering firm builds for the messier test: people, production, and proof.
Nanda Santhana
Nanda Santhana is the co-founder and CEO of DataBahn.ai, a Plano, Texas startup building AI-powered telemetry data pipelines for security, observability and AI workloads. Before DataBahn he spent nearly a dozen years as a founding member and SVP at Securonix, with earlier stints at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Vaau. In June 2025 DataBahn closed a $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital, taking total funding to $19M.