Mohan Sivam is the founder and CEO of Neuralzome Cybernetics, a Bengaluru deeptech startup teaching robots to drive themselves across orchards, farms and job sites no GPS map can describe. His pitch is deceptively plain: robots should learn by watching a human do the job once, not by waiting on a team of PhDs to code every turn. Neuralzome's NeuralPilot autonomy stack, RedPill simulation engine and rugged Jeeno platform aim to put off-road robots to work where labor is scarce and the terrain is unforgiving. In August 2025 the company raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding led by 8X Ventures. A serial builder who previously co-founded Flo Mobility and ran GAMASOME, Sivam describes his mission with a phrase that sticks: making robots sentient.
Felipe Chávez Cortés is the CEO and co-founder of Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot), the company that put sidewalk delivery robots on college campuses worldwide. A Colombian entrepreneur who turned a burrito delivery sticker shock at UC Berkeley into a fleet of 500+ autonomous robots completing over 1 million tasks across the US, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and pilot cities in Europe and Asia. Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 for Latin America in 2018, he previously co-founded and sold Lulo - Colombia's first app to accept credit card payments - before pivoting to build what has become one of the world's most-deployed autonomous delivery networks.