Sirqul is a Seattle-based platform company that turns scattered IoT signals into engagement. Founded in 2013 by AWS technical co-founder Robert Frederick, its Intelligence-of-Things 'Engagement-as-a-Service' platform bundles dozens of APIs, customizable native app templates, smart-mesh networking, and edge-plus-cloud analytics so businesses can launch connected experiences - across retail, venues, healthcare, and logistics - in weeks instead of years. More recently the company has folded agentic AI and edge devices into its AIE platform.
Fligoo is a forward-deployed AI engineering firm that embeds senior engineers inside large enterprises to ship production AI - models, agents, and data pipelines - across banking, wealth, insurance, retail, and telecom. Founded by Argentine engineers and headquartered in San Francisco, it built its name partnering with Broadridge on predictive analytics for wealth advisors.
Arup Banerjee is the CEO and Co-founder of Windfall, a San Francisco-based people intelligence platform that uses AI to estimate the net worth of every American and deliver actionable consumer financial data to over 1,500 organizations. With a background spanning investment banking at Citi, venture capital at Updata Partners, and product leadership at Radius Intelligence and GoodData, Banerjee founded Windfall in 2016 after identifying critical inaccuracies in consumer wealth data. In April 2025, Windfall raised a $65 million Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, bringing total funding to over $95 million.
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.
Ian Christopher is the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Qventus, the AI-powered hospital operations platform backed by KKR and Bessemer Venture Partners. A Stanford-trained computational engineer, he co-built Qventus from a 2012 YC startup into a $400M+ company that automates how hospitals manage patient flow, surgical scheduling, and care coordination - reducing staff burnout and cutting length of stay for major health systems across the US.
Kannan Kothandaraman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Selector AI, a Santa Clara-based AIOps and network observability platform that uses large language models, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to help Fortune 1000 enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure issues faster. Before founding Selector in 2019, Kannan spent nearly two decades at Juniper Networks - rising from senior software engineer to Vice President of Product Line Management - and before that at Cisco Systems. Selector has raised $104 million in total funding, including a $32M Series B in February 2026 at a valuation of $375 million, and counts Fortune 20 companies in manufacturing and healthcare among its customers.
Marcos Martinez is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fligoo, a San Francisco-based AI company building intelligent recommendation and predictive analytics solutions for financial institutions. Born in Córdoba, Argentina, he co-founded Fligoo in 2012 after earlier stints in software development. Under his technical leadership, Fligoo evolved from a social-graph gift recommendation engine into a WealthTech platform serving major institutions including Mastercard, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Wells Fargo. Fligoo was named to the WealthTech100 in 2024 and has raised over $17M in funding, including a Series A round in 2020.
Abacus.AI is a San Francisco-based AI research company building an end-to-end platform that lets professionals and enterprises automate work with generative AI, agents, and applied machine learning. Its consumer-facing super assistant ChatLLM bundles access to leading frontier models, while its enterprise platform powers forecasting, personalization, and custom AI workflows.
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.
VELMENI is a Sunnyvale-based dental AI platform that uses computer vision and deep learning to analyze 2D and 3D dental radiographs in real time. Its FDA-cleared flagship product, VELMENI for DENTISTS, is the first dental AI approved to detect pathologies in panoramic X-rays — catching caries, bone loss, and other findings that experienced clinicians miss roughly one-third of the time. Beyond diagnostics, the platform automates insurance claims, enables voice-assisted periodontal charting, interprets CBCT scans, and delivers VR-based patient education, all from a single integrated workflow. Founded in 2020 by CEO Mini Suri and Chief Dental Officer Dr. Arvin Oberai, the company has been beta-tested by over 1,300 dentists across 500+ practices in 50+ countries.
ZeeMee is a higher education technology platform that bridges the gap between college-bound students and institutions through authentic community and behavioral intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, ZeeMee gives students a social space to showcase their personalities beyond transcripts while giving colleges AI-powered insights that predict enrollment intent with up to 98% accuracy. With 2.6M+ active student users, 300+ institutional partners, and a 4.7-star app rating, ZeeMee has quietly become one of the most influential platforms in college enrollment - helping students find roommates, discover campus culture, and connect with admissions teams before ever setting foot on campus.
Anthony Lye is Chairman and CEO of Quid, the AI-powered consumer and market intelligence platform based in Santa Clara, California. A Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years in enterprise software, he previously served as CEO of Amplience, Global Head of Apollo at Palantir Technologies, and EVP & GM of NetApp's Public Cloud Business Unit — which he grew from $500K to $550 million over five years. He is also an Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, a Board of Trustees member at the University of Bath, and an active angel investor.
Jorge Torres is the Co-Founder and CEO of MindsDB, an open-source AI data platform headquartered in Berkeley, California. He is a Visiting Research Scholar at UC Berkeley focused on machine learning automation and explainability. Torres built MindsDB to democratize AI—letting any developer query AI models directly from databases using plain SQL or natural language. Under his leadership, MindsDB has raised over $77 million in funding from investors including Benchmark, NVIDIA, Mayfield, and Y Combinator, garnering recognition from Forbes as one of America's most promising AI companies and from Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Data and AI.
Michael Jaszczyk is the CEO (US) of NEWWORK Software, a Berlin and Palo Alto-based startup founded in 2023 by former SAP and Workday veterans to rebuild enterprise software for the AI era. With over two decades of technology leadership - including 15 years at GK Software SE where he rose from CTO to Chief Digital Transformation Officer and CEO of GK Americas - he is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and enterprise workflow automation. Jaszczyk helped pioneer retail AI as far back as 2003 through the Metro Group Future Store initiative, and today leads NEWWORK's mission to replace legacy ERP, CRM, and HR systems with AI-native, agentic platforms that understand business requirements and generate working solutions in minutes.
Mike Fitzgibbons is the CEO and Founder of Claritas Rx, a South San Francisco-based healthtech company that uses AI and real-world patient-level data to help biopharmaceutical companies track, understand, and support patients across the specialty drug treatment journey. Founded in 2011, Claritas Rx serves 20+ rare and specialty therapeutic areas and has appeared on Inc.'s 2025 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Before founding Claritas Rx, Fitzgibbons spent seven years at Morgan Stanley as an equity research analyst covering pharma services and drug distribution, then joined Genentech where he worked on pricing strategy and led the Avastin marketing team - experiences that directly shaped his conviction that patient-level data, not aggregated reports, is what biopharma companies actually need.
Rohan Marfatia is the CEO of DataCRaiM, Inc. (formerly Beround), a technology consulting firm specializing in Data, AI, and CRM solutions for equipment leasing, finance, and MedTech/healthcare sectors. With over 20 years of experience across India, the UK, the Netherlands, and the United States, he has built a career at the intersection of enterprise technology and human-centered leadership. A TEDx and keynote speaker, President of IAMCP Northern California, and a 2024 Fremont mayoral candidate, Marfatia is also running for Alameda County Supervisor in 2026. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an engineering degree from Sardar Patel University.
Will Lansing is the CEO of FICO, the analytics software company that invented the credit score - a number that quietly governs whether Americans can buy homes, cars, or start businesses. Since taking the helm in January 2012, he has transformed FICO from a $620M revenue business into a nearly $2B enterprise, steering it through the AI revolution while insisting that credit decisions must remain explainable and transparent. A lawyer by training, a McKinsey veteran by discipline, and an endurance athlete by temperament, Lansing has spent 30+ years running companies across internet media, direct marketing, and private equity before landing at the company whose three-digit score most Americans know by heart.
Jonathan Spier is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with 20+ years of experience building AI-driven B2B technology companies. He currently leads Rev Intelligence (formerly LeadCrunch), a San Diego-based platform that uses exegraphics and machine learning to help enterprise sales teams identify and prioritize their best-fit accounts - claiming 3x higher win rates and 50% faster sales cycles. Previously, he co-founded NetBase, a natural language processing pioneer that became the category leader in social media analytics before its acquisition and rebrand as NetBaseQuid. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has shepherded companies from founding through tens of millions in revenue.
Bindu Reddy is the CEO and co-founder of Abacus.AI, the company behind what it calls the world's first AI Super Assistant for enterprises and professionals. She previously served as Head of Product for Google Apps (where she helped shepherd Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides into existence), founded Post Intelligence (a deep-learning social media analytics company acquired by Uber in 2017), and ran AI Verticals at AWS where she launched Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast. Backed by Eric Schmidt, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, and Coatue, Abacus.AI has raised over $90M and grown to 210 employees serving Fortune 500 companies across retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.