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Josh Wais
Josh Wais is the co-founder and CEO of Good Dog, a New York-based marketplace that helps people find and get a dog from vetted breeders, shelters, and rescues. A Wharton graduate and early Jet.com operator, Wais built Good Dog with co-founder Lauren McDevitt after they hit a wall trying to find a puppy themselves and discovered how opaque and scam-prone the process was. The company applies expert-backed vetting standards to a fragmented, roughly $70-billion pet industry, and has raised over $18 million from investors including Felicis, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, and the founders of Warby Parker and Harry's.
Raz Golan
Raz Golan is the CEO and co-founder of Shopic, a Tel Aviv-based retail technology company that makes a clip-on device that snaps onto standard grocery carts and turns them into AI-powered smart carts. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200 and a former Check Point security researcher, Golan started Shopic in 2015 with Eran Kravitz and Dan Bendler after concluding that big supermarkets did not need a new cart - they needed a small computer that could ride along on the one they already owned.
Avneesh Agrawal
Avneesh Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Netradyne, the San Diego AI company that turns dashcams into a real-time safety coach for commercial drivers. After more than a decade at Qualcomm, where he led 4G LTE research, ran corporate R&D, and served as president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, he left in 2015 to chase a convergence he saw coming: cheap camera sensors, edge computing, and deep learning arriving at the same moment. Netradyne's Driver-i platform now analyzes billions of miles of driving and reduces accidents by 30 to 50 percent. In January 2025, a $90 million Series D led by Point72 pushed the company past a $1 billion valuation. A Stanford PhD with more than 150 US patents, Agrawal builds at the intersection of research and the real world.
Rish Gupta
Rish Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Spot AI, a San Francisco-based video intelligence company turning passive security cameras into AI-powered teammates for the physical economy. A Stanford GSB alum originally from Delhi, Rish built his first company—LetsIntern.com—to 4 million users and sold it before moving to Silicon Valley. At Spot AI, he leads a team that processes more daily video than YouTube receives in uploads, serving 1,000+ customers across 17 industries with an AI platform that has driven 40% injury reductions in manufacturing and 8X ROI in auto services. The company has raised $93M from Redpoint, Bessemer, Scale Venture Partners, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Spot AI
Spot AI builds a video intelligence platform and AI camera system that turns ordinary security footage into real-time, searchable intelligence. Through cloud-managed cameras, an intelligent NVR, and Video AI Agents, it helps manufacturers, retailers, schools, and logistics operators detect incidents, automate responses, and pull insights from millions of hours of camera feeds.
Yoav Einav
Yoav Einav is the CEO and co-founder of Guidde, the AI-powered video documentation platform that turns complex enterprise workflows into step-by-step video guides in minutes. A product leader with over 13 years in B2B software — spanning stints at Qwilt, Iguazio, and GigaSpaces — Einav co-founded Guidde in 2020 with Dan Sahar, leveraging their shared background in video infrastructure to solve a problem every scaling company hits: how do you transfer what your best people know? In February 2026, Guidde closed a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $80.6M, and is now used by 4,500+ enterprises — from Nasdaq to Bayer — across 50,000 applications.
Nagraj Kashyap
Nagraj Kashyap is co-founder and General Partner of Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed a $330 million Fund I in September 2025 focused on AI-powered SaaS companies at the early-growth stage. He brings 20+ years of venture capital experience, having previously founded Qualcomm Ventures (2003), launched M12 (Microsoft's venture arm, 2016), and served as Managing Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund II. His portfolio includes breakout companies such as Zoom, Waze (10x return, acquired by Google), Xiaomi, Cloudflare, Fitbit, Kahoot!, Livongo, and Outreach.
Varun Jain
Varun Jain is a Founding General Partner at SE Ventures, the $1.1B AUM corporate venture capital fund backed by Schneider Electric, where he has spent over a decade investing in AI-led enterprise software startups transforming industry, mobility, and the built environment. Before SE Ventures, he led Qualcomm Ventures' global early-stage practice, backing over 80 companies including Zoom, Cruise Automation, and Matterport. A Kellogg MBA and McCormick Scholar, Jain was named one of GCV's Top 50 Emerging Leaders in both 2021 and 2022.