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Hannes Lenke
Hannes Lenke is the CEO and co-founder of Checkly, a code-first synthetic monitoring platform that helps engineering teams detect and resolve production issues faster. A serial founder in the software testing and reliability space, he earlier built TestObject, a mobile testing startup acquired by Sauce Labs in 2016, where he then ran EMEA operations. He teamed up with Tim Nolet and Timo Euteneuer to launch Checkly, popularizing the 'Monitoring as Code' approach built around Playwright and OpenTelemetry. Checkly has raised $32.25M to date, including a $20M Series B led by Balderton Capital in 2024.
Spiros Xanthos
Spiros Xanthos is the Founder and CEO of Resolve AI, the San Francisco-based agentic AI company building autonomous software reliability engineering at unicorn valuation. A serial entrepreneur who co-created OpenTelemetry, sold two companies (Log Insight to VMware, Omnition to Splunk), and went on to run Splunk's $400M+ observability business before founding Resolve AI in 2024. In under 18 months the company raised $160M, reached a $1.5B valuation, and landed customers including Coinbase, DoorDash, and Salesforce - built on the conviction that engineers spend 70% of their time keeping software running rather than building it.