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BayOne Solutions
BayOne built a sizable business by selling two things enterprises usually buy separately: the technology work and the people who make it run. Now its bet on AI, managed delivery and diverse talent is turning a staffing heritage into a broader transformation play.
Cygnis
Cygnis is a Pleasanton, California-based custom software and AI development studio founded in 2010 (originally Cygnis Media). It builds web, mobile, SaaS and AI-powered products for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and has delivered more than 300 projects across healthcare, finance, education, real estate, transportation, hospitality and government. The company's current focus is turning AI ambitions into working software - embedding machine learning and generative AI into existing products or building AI-native systems from scratch, alongside data engineering, business intelligence and workflow automation.
Tom Benson
Tom Benson is the founder and CEO of Mitrix Bio, a Pleasanton, California biotech building toward whole-body mitochondrial transplantation. A serial software, hardware, and science entrepreneur, he managed the Linac Coherent Light Source femtosecond X-ray laser at Stanford's SLAC before turning his attention to the cell's power plants. His pitch is audacious and specific: grow young mitochondria from a person's own stem cells in a bioreactor, then transfuse them back to restore cellular energy and push the human lifespan toward 130 years.
QASource
QASource is a Silicon Valley-based software QA and testing company that gives engineering teams a full quality-assurance department without the cost and hassle of building one. Founded in 2000 by Rajeev Rai, the firm runs a hybrid onsite-offshore model - U.S. management and embedded QA engineers paired with technical talent in India and Mexico - delivering everything from manual, automation, performance and security testing to AI-augmented test automation, LLM evaluation, RLHF tuning, red teaming and RAG application testing. With roughly 1,400 professionals and a client roster spanning startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, QASource has built a reputation on a 95% customer-retention rate and two decades of steady double-digit growth.
Deepak Nagpal
Deepak Nagpal is the CEO of Audax Labs, a Bothell, Washington-based technology innovation company he has led since 2016. With a career spanning over two decades across NTT DATA, Capital One, and Interra Information Technologies, and an MBA from Oxford's Said Business School, he has built Audax Labs into a multi-practice consultancy operating across AR/VR/MR, AI, IoT, cloud migration, and data analytics - serving industries from automotive and healthcare to BFSI and government, with partnerships spanning Microsoft, Google, Amazon AWS, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, and Rocket Software.