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Ario
Ario is a Palo Alto company that turns real, consent-based, SKU-level purchase history into behavioral intelligence brands can act on. Founded in 2022 by a team of ex-Shape Security security and data-privacy veterans, Ario started as an AI personal assistant built to offload the 'invisible labor' of family life admin, raised a $16M seed in 2024, and has since evolved into a B2B data platform - Ario Link and Ario CoreLens - that lets shoppers share their own verified transaction data so companies can see what customers actually buy, including off their own shelves, without surveys, panels, or bots.
Dom Wong
Dom Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Pogo, a New York startup rebuilding the data economy by paying people directly for their own data. What began as 'Honey for the real world' - an app that rewards users for sharing location, email, and transaction history - has grown into an AI-powered consumer research platform that lets brands interview hundreds of purchase-verified shoppers within an hour. With 3M+ opted-in users, visibility into roughly 1 in every 150 American shopping trips, and over $30M raised, Wong has turned the question 'why don't people get paid for their own data?' into a business ranked the #1 loyalty app in America by Newsweek two years running.