Iain Usiri is the co-founder and CEO of Ramani, a Tanzanian fintech building financial infrastructure for Africa's consumer-packaged-goods supply chains. A Stanford computer science graduate and former Salesforce product manager, he gave up his US immigration status and flew home one-way in 2019 to start the company with his brother Calvin and friend Martin Kibet. Ramani gives micro distribution centers free point-of-sale and inventory software, then monetizes through lending - and in 2022 raised a $32M Series A led by Flexcap Ventures after passing through Y Combinator's W20 batch.
WalkWater Technologies is a San Jose-based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2010. It began as an ERP and CRM system integrator specializing in Oracle, SAP, Workday, and Salesforce, and has grown into a cloud-first practice spanning cloud migration, AI/ML, data analytics, ServiceNow, and Oracle Cloud IoT. An Oracle Gold Partner and Google Cloud partner, WalkWater helps enterprises 'make the cloud yours' by ingesting, curating, visualizing, and monetizing data as a strategic asset.
Wilco Source is a Santa Clara-based Salesforce consulting and implementation firm built exclusively for healthcare and life sciences. A Salesforce partner since its founding in 2014, the roughly 440-person company helps pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, payers, providers, and specialty hub service providers run patient services, clinical trials, and lead-to-cash operations on the Salesforce platform, with proprietary accelerators like Wilco Docx and REMS Central. In November 2022 it was acquired by healthcare technology firm CitiusTech, and it now operates as 'Wilco Source, a CitiusTech company.'
Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Zuddl is a modular event management platform built for B2B event marketers, unifying conferences, field events, and webinars in one system. It handles the full event lifecycle - registration, ticketing, branded virtual stages, on-site check-in, attendee engagement, and post-event content - while pushing engagement data into CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot so teams can prove and improve event ROI. Founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, Alpha Wave Incubation, and Qualcomm Ventures, Zuddl serves brands including Google, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and the United Nations.
Wasim Shahzad is a Lahore-based Salesforce developer and consultant who builds the connective tissue of modern customer operations - communities, integrations, and the quiet plumbing that lets sales, service, and analytics speak the same language. He has spent years deep inside Salesforce's Service Cloud and Community Cloud, wiring email-marketing data into the CRM and turning calendars and customer portals into working software.
Contentful is an API-first, cloud-native content platform - the company that popularized the 'headless CMS.' Founded in Berlin in 2013, it separates content from presentation so teams can store structured content once and deliver it anywhere: websites, mobile apps, kiosks, smart watches, or AI agents. It serves more than 4,800 brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, and in June 2026 entered an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce to power the content layer behind Agentforce.
QBurst is a global digital product engineering and consulting firm founded in 2004 in Trivandrum, India. It builds custom software, cloud platforms, data and AI solutions, and digital experiences for a blue-chip client base across the US, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa. Now majority-owned by Multiples Alternate Asset Management after a ~USD 200 million 2025 deal, QBurst employs roughly 3,500 people across more than 20 cities and positions itself as a 'High AI-Q' partner blending human expertise with intelligent technology.
Tudip Technologies is a value-driven software services company founded in 2010 in Pune, India, that helps enterprises and startups build and scale digital products. With 500+ engineers, Tudip delivers AI/ML, cloud transformation, data engineering, DevOps, IoT, Salesforce, QA and product engineering work for clients ranging from Google and Adobe to early-stage startups, operating across India, the US, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Colombia, UAE and Nigeria.
Dan Streetman is the CEO and Board Member of Tanium, the enterprise cybersecurity and autonomous endpoint management company. A West Point graduate, Harvard MBA, and Bronze Star-decorated Army Ranger, Streetman brings military-grade discipline to enterprise security — leading Tanium's push into AI-powered autonomous IT operations for the world's largest organizations. Before Tanium, he drove double-digit growth as CEO at TIBCO Software and Allvue Systems, and held senior leadership at BMC Software, Salesforce, and C3.ai.
Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code app platform he is now refounding around AI. In January 2026 he launched Superagent, a multi-agent system that coordinates specialized AI workers in parallel - Airtable's first standalone product in 13 years.
Atom is a San Francisco-based enterprise transformation company that helps mid-size and Fortune 500 organizations move to the cloud and modernize on platforms like Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, SAP and ServiceNow. Founded in 2020 by Zain Aziz, it pitches an asset-based 'Living Services' model with packaged accelerators (Atom CORE) that compress traditional multi-year transformations into 3-6 month rollouts.
Databook is a Palo Alto-based AI sales intelligence company building the 'Decision System for Enterprise Sales' - a guided selling platform that turns financial filings, executive signals, and CRM data into account strategy for sellers chasing Fortune 500 deals.
Nue.io is a unified quote-to-revenue platform built natively on Salesforce that enables B2B SaaS companies to price, quote, sell, bill, and recognize revenue across any channel, pricing model, or mid-term change. Founded by veterans from Zuora, Salesforce Steelbrick, and Anaplan, Nue replaces the patchwork of legacy CPQ and billing systems with a single data model spanning from pricing through billing. Trusted by companies like OpenAI, Glean, Jasper, and Chili Piper, Nue has achieved 3x year-over-year growth and raised $35M to date.
Aaron Katz is the Co-Founder and CEO of ClickHouse, the world's fastest OLAP database company, which he has built from a 12-person open-source project into a $15 billion enterprise serving 4,000 customers including Tesla, Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI. A veteran of Salesforce (12 years, from $20M to $4B in revenue) and Elastic (CRO, $5M to $500M), Katz assembled a founding team mid-pandemic, relocated engineers from Russia to Amsterdam, and raised over $1 billion in funding. In January 2026 ClickHouse closed a $400M Series D; by May 2026 the company surpassed $250M ARR, growing 250% year-over-year.
Brendan O'Connor co-founded AppOmni in 2018 after a decade as Salesforce's Chief Security Officer and a stint as Security CTO at ServiceNow. Frustrated by the lack of proper tooling to secure enterprise SaaS environments, he built the solution he wished he'd had. AppOmni pioneered the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) category, raised over $202 million in funding, protects more than 100 million SaaS user accounts, and counts 25% of the Fortune 100 among its customers. O'Connor now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder.
Bret Taylor is the co-founder and CEO of Sierra, an enterprise AI agent platform valued at $15.8 billion following its $950M Series E in May 2026. A Stanford computer science graduate, he co-created Google Maps, helped invent Facebook's Like button, served as Facebook CTO, co-founded Quip (acquired by Salesforce), and rose to co-CEO of Salesforce before founding Sierra in 2023. He also chairs the OpenAI board, having stabilized the company after Sam Altman's brief ouster in November 2023. Forbes recognized him as a billionaire in 2025, and Silicon Valley has nicknamed him the 'Forrest Gump of Silicon Valley' for his uncanny presence at every landmark moment in the internet age.
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.
Heather Conklin is CEO of Torch, a San Francisco-based digital coaching platform that pairs leaders with expert coaches to drive measurable behavior change at scale. A Salesforce veteran who spent nine years there - culminating as SVP & GM of Trailhead - she joined Torch as COO in 2022 before being elevated to CEO in August 2024. Her philosophy blends behavioral science, data-driven measurement, and the radical idea that vulnerability is a leadership strength, not a weakness.
Kraig Swensrud is the co-founder and CEO of Qualified, the AI-powered pipeline generation platform built natively on Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur and former Salesforce CMO, he has founded three companies - Kieden (acquired by Salesforce in 2006), GetFeedback (acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2014, later by SurveyMonkey), and Qualified (acquired by Salesforce in April 2026 for an estimated multi-hundred million valuation). At Qualified, he built the category of conversational marketing and agentic AI for B2B enterprises, raising $163M in funding and growing to ~260 employees before the acquisition completed a full-circle return to Salesforce.
Mark Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Nue.io, a San Francisco-based revenue lifecycle management platform that modernizes CPQ, billing, and order management natively on Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of business experience, Walker previously founded Strongpoint (acquired by Netwrix in 2021) and held executive roles at ScribbleLive and Skyytek. Under his leadership, Nue raised a $20M Series A in January 2025, achieved $10M ARR, and counts OpenAI among its customers.
Nishant Nair is the Founder and CEO of RecVue, a Palo Alto-based enterprise revenue operating system that manages over $100 billion in revenue for global enterprises. With 20+ years navigating quote-to-cash complexity, he built RecVue to unify billing, revenue recognition (ASC 606/IFRS 15), and partner compensation on a single AI-powered platform—bridging the stubborn gap between CRM and ERP that legacy systems have never solved. Backed by $20.19M in funding including a $13.19M Series A led by Cota Capital, RecVue processes over 100 million transactions monthly for customers like Hertz, World Wide Technology, and Crown Castle.
Sameer Kazi is the CEO of Pantheon, the leading WebOps platform powering websites for The Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, and Doctors Without Borders. A two-decade SaaS veteran who scaled ExactTarget through its $2.7B Salesforce acquisition, ran Cheetah Digital across 18 countries, and served as ActiveCampaign's first-ever president, Kazi brings a rare combination of operational rigor and growth instinct to Pantheon's 10,000-customer platform.
People.ai is an enterprise AI revenue platform that captures every sales interaction - emails, meetings, calls - and turns the data into deal insights, forecasts, and next-best-actions for B2B sales teams. Founded in San Francisco in 2016 by Oleg Rogynskyy, it became a unicorn in 2021 and rebranded as Backstory in April 2026.
Qualified is the San Francisco company that built Piper, the AI SDR agent that nurtures and converts website visitors into qualified pipeline for B2B enterprises. Born inside the Salesforce ecosystem and now being absorbed back into it, Qualified turned the corporate website from a brochure into a 24/7 sales floor.
Sean Whiteley is a three-time enterprise software founder and President of Qualified, the AI pipeline generation platform he co-built with long-time partner Kraig Swensrud. Having navigated every major tech platform shift - from on-premise to cloud to AI - across a 30-year career that includes stints at AOL, PwC, PeopleSoft, webMethods, and Salesforce, Sean brings rare pattern recognition to go-to-market strategy. His companies have a track record of building deep inside the Salesforce ecosystem and exiting to strategic acquirers: Kieden to Salesforce (2006), GetFeedback to SurveyMonkey (2019), and now Qualified to Salesforce again (2025), in a deal that cements his legacy as one of enterprise software's most consistent repeat founders.
Zain Aziz is the Founder and CEO of Atom, a San Francisco-based enterprise cloud and digital transformation company. A former Marine and Harvard alumnus, he built Atom in 2020 to tackle the gap between how people live and how enterprises work - delivering cloud transformations across HR, Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain in 26 weeks or less. Atom has raised $15.8M in total funding, including a $6.8M Series A in October 2022, and serves clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across 6 continents with ~220 employees.
Openprise is a San Mateo-based enterprise SaaS company that builds a no-code RevOps Data Automation Cloud. Its platform handles the unglamorous plumbing behind revenue teams - cleansing, deduping, enriching, scoring, routing, and unifying B2B data across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, Eloqua, Pardot and other GTM systems - so marketing, sales and ops teams can stop firefighting spreadsheets and start pulling levers.
Spin.AI is an AI-powered SaaS security and data-protection company based in Palo Alto. Its SpinOne platform unifies SaaS Security Posture Management, ransomware defense, automated backup and recovery, and browser extension risk control for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack - serving more than 1,500 organizations across 100+ countries.
Vivun is an AI-powered presales platform that helps enterprise B2B companies scale their sales engineering teams through structured intelligence. Founded in 2019 by two married couples with 25+ years of combined presales experience, Vivun builds AI agents that reason through expert knowledge rather than simply generating language - grounding every deal recommendation, demo, and forecast in the structured expertise of elite practitioners. With $131M raised and customers like Snowflake, Okta, Zoom, and CrowdStrike, Vivun has become the operating system for technical sales.