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Reza Javan
Reza Javan is the CEO and co-founder of Telescope, a London-based AI prospecting platform that automates B2B outbound across email and LinkedIn. Before he sold software to salespeople, he was Dr. Reza Rezaei Javan, an Oxford DPhil microbiologist who sequenced thousands of pneumococcal genomes and discovered new families of antimicrobial peptides. He swapped the lab bench for a startup at Entrepreneur First's LD17 cohort, where Telescope was born in 2021. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital and Entrepreneur First.
Mei Siauw
Mei Siauw is the Co-founder and CEO of LeadIQ, a San Francisco-based B2B sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams prospect smarter and faster. Born in Indonesia and educated at Cornell (CS) and Wharton (MBA), she spent a decade at Oracle before co-founding LeadIQ in 2015 with Angelo Huang. Under her leadership, LeadIQ raised $42M in total funding (including a $30M Series B in 2021 led by Cathay Innovation), built a fully remote team spanning 33+ countries, and serves 20,000+ sales professionals globally. A tireless advocate for outbound sales and data-driven prospecting, Siauw has become one of the most prominent voices in the sales tech space.