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Sanjeev Saxena
Sanjeev Saxena is a serial medical-device entrepreneur and engineer who has spent more than 30 years trying to move cancer screening out of expensive central labs and into villages, clinics and pop-up sites. He is founder, CEO and CTO of Harae Dx Corp., a Pleasanton, California startup building a low-cost, portable, automated cancer detection system based on lab-on-a-disc microfluidics. Earlier he founded POC Medical Systems, whose MammoAlert and Pandora CDx platforms brought portable breast-cancer screening to emerging markets, and he co-founded Scanis, Actis Biologics and Telesto Diagnostics. He has raised more than $70 million across his ventures and sits on the board of the Texas Tech Research Park.
Workday
Workday is a Pleasanton, California cloud software company that runs the core people and money systems for large organizations. Founded in 2005 by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Workday built a single-code-base, subscription-delivered platform for human capital management, financial management, planning, and analytics. It has grown into one of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors, serving thousands of organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is now pushing agentic AI deep into HR and finance workflows.
Flexon Technologies Talent360.ai
Flexon Technologies is a Pleasanton, California-based IT services and staffing firm founded in 2015 that pairs technology consulting, custom software development and cloud/DevOps engineering with a global talent-sourcing practice. Under CEO Amar Bandaru, the roughly 120-person, bootstrapped company has moved into AI - building Talent360.ai, an AI-powered talent-management and recruiting platform, alongside a suite of vertical products (Flex EHR, Flex LMS, Flex TMS, Flex LPS, Flex FIT) aimed largely at healthcare and enterprise operations.
Apostle Inc
Apostle Inc is a Pleasanton, California biotechnology company that develops nucleic acid isolation and preservation technologies for liquid biopsy. Its flagship magnetic-nanoparticle kit, Apostle MiniMax, extracts circulating cell-free DNA and RNA from blood for applications in early cancer detection, non-invasive prenatal testing, infectious disease research, and even astronaut biospecimen collection in commercial spaceflight. Founded in 2018 out of the Stanford StartX accelerator, the company sells reagents, automation instruments, and CLIA/CAP lab services to researchers and diagnostics developers worldwide.
Michael Wei
Michael Wei is the CEO of Accelight Technologies, a Pleasanton, California ODM that designs and manufactures optical transceivers, EDFA amplifiers, and passive fiber components for telecom carriers and AI data centers. He is an electrical engineer with three decades in the trenches of optical networking hardware, with earlier stops at Mitel, ADVA Optical Networking, Adaptix, Navini Networks, Schlumberger, and Invocon.
Smart ERP Solutions
Smart ERP Solutions is a Pleasanton, California enterprise-software and consulting firm founded in 2005 by Oracle and PeopleSoft veterans. It builds configurable add-on solutions and delivers implementation, upgrade, managed-services, and cloud-migration work across Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite. Its flagship product, Smart Onboarding, automates pre-boarding, onboarding, and off-boarding with integrated Form I-9 and E-Verify. Serving 300+ clients across higher education, healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing, the company was acquired by Mythics, LLC in April 2025 to expand global Oracle Cloud capability.
VentureSoft
VentureSoft is a Silicon Valley IT services and consulting firm that helps enterprises modernize through AI, secure cloud infrastructure, and data solutions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with offices in Dubai and Bengaluru, the company has delivered 1,000+ projects to more than 300 clients ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 names like Nike, Tesla, Intuit and Gap. Its work spans data analytics and AI, security and GRC, cloud and DevSecOps, ERP/CRM, application development, and 24/7 managed services.
Deep Sentinel
Deep Sentinel is a Pleasanton, California security company that pairs proprietary AI with live human guards to stop crime while it is happening rather than document it after the fact. Its cameras use computer vision to filter out harmless motion and surface genuine threats to remote 'LiveSentinel' guards, who intervene through two-way audio and a 100+ dB siren within seconds and escalate to police with verified, crime-in-progress information. The company sells to both homeowners and businesses and has expanded into a Bring Your Own Camera program that works with major third-party camera brands.
Sciens Building Solutions
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.
Misty Jones
Misty R. Jones is the president and CEO of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley, a Pleasanton-based hospital affiliated with Stanford Medicine. A nurse-turned-operator with an MSN and MBA, she stepped in on June 9, 2025, after two decades running academic medical centers in the Midwest, and is now steering a 66,000-square-foot east wing expansion that will more than double the emergency department.
Terry Heath
Terry Heath is the founder and CEO of Sciens Building Solutions, a Pleasanton, California-based fire and life safety integrator he built from a whiteboard plan in 2016 into one of the largest independent platforms of its kind in the United States. A former Royal Navy electrical engineer who came to America via Siemens, Heath has stitched together more than sixteen acquisitions and now runs a roughly 1,800-person company headquartered in the East Bay.
Yucheng Zheng
Yucheng Zheng is listed as Deputy CEO at Zoom, the San Jose-based video communications company, working from the Bay Area. Public information about this individual is limited; this profile draws on verifiable details about the role context and Zoom itself.
Cowbell
Cowbell is a Pleasanton-based insurtech that sells adaptive cyber insurance to small and mid-sized businesses, using an AI-driven continuous underwriting platform that scores cyber risk and can issue a policy in under five minutes.
Fred Helou
Fred Helou is the founder and CEO of Vagaro, a cloud-based business management platform used by over 75,000 beauty, fitness, and wellness businesses across four countries. Born in Beirut in 1969, he escaped the Lebanese Civil War at 18, arrived in the United States penniless after being pickpocketed in France, and worked his way up from a $5-an-hour pickup boy to director of software development before being laid off in the 2008 recession — the catalyst that led him to build what is now a billion-dollar company. Vagaro has processed over $15 billion in payments, booked over 600 million appointments, and achieved unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation following a 2021 reinvestment by FTV Capital.
Israel Felix
Israel Felix is the CEO and Founder of CBQA Solutions Inc., a Pleasanton, California-based technology services firm specializing in QA automation, software development, cybersecurity, and cloud migrations. With 30+ years of experience spanning Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Veeva Systems, Felix built CBQA from scratch in 2015 into an 80-person operation with offices in the US, Mexico, and Colombia, serving Fortune 500 clients including Honda, Toyota, Bio-Rad, iRhythm, and United Airlines. He is also co-founder and CTO of Auditate, a fixed asset management platform, and a member of LBAN (Latino Business Action Network) Cohort 16.
Ram Naresh
Ram Naresh is the CEO and co-founder of Brillius Technologies, a Pleasanton, California-based IT services company he built from zero to $30 million in annual revenue over a decade. Starting as Formac Inc. in 2014, he steered the company through early-stage grind - 100-hour work weeks in the first five years - to become an Inc. 5000 honoree and a trusted DevOps and cloud transformation partner for Fortune 100 clients including Amazon, Apple, Verizon, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente. A former HP executive turned entrepreneur, he is now eyeing a doubling of revenue twice over the next ten years while expanding into AI, Canada, and Mexico.