Matt Barnard is the cofounder and CEO of one.bio, a Sacramento biotechnology company turning plant fiber into odorless, tasteless nutrients that can be dosed into everyday food to reshape the gut microbiome. A seventh-generation Wisconsin farmer turned technology operator, he first became known as the cofounder and CEO of Plenty, the SoftBank-backed indoor vertical farming unicorn. He now applies the same obsession - control what people eat, control their health - to fiber science spun out of UC Davis.
Nate Mazonson is the co-founder and CEO of Alara Imaging (Alara Gateway), a San Francisco health-tech startup building a secure gateway-as-a-service that moves radiology data between hospitals and the cloud in real time. A Dartmouth-trained environmental engineer turned Stanford MBA, he spent five years in venture capital at Cambridge Associates and Kleiner Perkins before co-founding the vertical-farming company Plenty in 2015 and then Alara in 2019. His through-line: take antiquated, high-stakes infrastructure - first food, now medical imaging - and rebuild it as modern, machine-learning-ready software.