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Gal Vered
Gal Vered is the co-founder and CEO of Checksum.ai, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to automatically generate, run, and self-heal end-to-end software tests in Playwright and Cypress. A former Google product manager, Y Combinator-backed CTO, Kellogg MBA, and Israeli Navy officer, Vered is betting that as AI writes more of the world's code, the scarce and valuable skill becomes verification - proving the software actually works. Checksum sells testing as a result rather than a tool, generating 100-150 tests in a customer's first week and keeping them green as the product changes.
Yunhao Jiao
Yunhao Jiao is the co-founder and CEO of TestSprite, a Seattle startup building an autonomous AI testing agent that aims to be the verification layer for AI-generated code. A competitive programmer turned AWS engineer, he left a five-year run at Amazon after a single production regression on an on-call shift convinced him that verification, not generation, had become software's weakest link. Since founding TestSprite in 2023 with Shawnie Shan and Rui Li, he has grown it to roughly 100,000 developers and raised about $8.1 million across pre-seed and seed rounds, led most recently by Trilogy Equity Partners.
Fred Stevens-Smith
Fred Stevens-Smith is the British co-founder and CEO of Rainforest QA, a San Francisco-based no-code test automation platform that has run over 60 million software tests for more than 10,000 product teams. A Y Combinator W2012 alumnus who self-describes as 'pretty unemployable,' Fred pivoted from failed AWS analytics ideas to QA 30 days before Demo Day after cold-emailing his entire network and finding universal demand for better software testing. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Jason Lemkin, Marc Benioff, and Garry Tan, Rainforest QA has raised $42.3M and now leads the market in AI-powered, self-healing test automation.
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.