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Jon Plax
Jon Plax is a Vice President of Software Engineering (Customer Centric Engineering) at Salesforce, where he has spent the bulk of a 23+ year career building and leading globally distributed engineering teams. Known internally as a technically deep yet empathy-driven leader, he has tackled some of Salesforce's most complex scaling challenges - JVM tuning, database bottlenecks, and multi-continent team coordination. He spent five years in Salesforce's Dublin office, briefly detoured to Bumble, then returned to Salesforce. A photography hobbyist with a consistent 'spaceman1066' handle across the internet, he is married to Talia Bailey Plax, a product marketing leader at Atlassian.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
FibroGen, Inc.
FibroGen, Inc. is a San Francisco biopharmaceutical company that spent three decades building first-in-class medicines around hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) biology. Its best-known drug, roxadustat, is an oral treatment for anemia approved in China, Japan and Europe. After selling its China business to AstraZeneca in 2025 and paying down debt, the company rebranded as Kyntra Bio (Nasdaq: KYNB) in January 2026 to concentrate on oncology and rare disease, led by FG-3246, a first-in-class CD46-targeting antibody-drug conjugate for metastatic prostate cancer.
Braid Health
Braid Health is a San Francisco health-tech company building an FDA-cleared, AI-powered diagnostic collaboration platform for medical imaging. Founded in 2018 by Apple and Twitter alumni Kevin Quennesson and Alessandro Sabatelli, Braid pairs AI imaging copilots with board-certified radiologists to deliver faster, lower-cost reads of MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-ray studies. It serves urgent care networks, health systems and retail clinics, and in 2026 launched a direct-to-patient second-opinion service that offers expert radiologist re-reads for $199.
Collectly
Collectly is a San Francisco-based healthcare fintech that automates the patient side of revenue cycle management. Its AI platform plugs into more than 20 EHR and practice-management systems to run digital billing, eligibility checks, cost estimates, payments and follow-up, so medical groups collect more, faster, with fewer staff hours. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator graduate, Collectly says it serves 3,000+ healthcare facilities and has processed over $1 billion in patient payments. In 2025 it launched Billie, a 24/7 AI agent that answers patient billing questions and takes action across voice, chat, text and email.
Comulate
Comulate builds AI-powered accounting automation and revenue-intelligence software for large insurance brokers. Its platform handles the industry's most manual, error-prone back-office work - direct billing, cash application, carrier payables and revenue integrity - by extracting data from disparate sources, reconciling it against policy systems, and flagging discrepancies. Founded in 2022 by former Asana and Brex operators Jordan Katz and Michael Mattheakis, the San Francisco company scaled to eight-figure revenue in under three years and raised a $20M Series B led by BOND and Workday Ventures in February 2025.
Convey
Convey is a San Francisco AI workforce platform that lets non-technical operators build, train, and manage "digital teammates" - AI workers that take over repetitive operational tasks like invoice processing, financial reconciliation, and campaign reporting without any engineering. Founded in 2025 by former DoorDash early engineer Rohan Chopra with Stanford friends Will Harvey and Diego Canales, Convey raised a $38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026 and says it has completed more than one million hours of real work for enterprises including NBCUniversal, Unity, Samsara, and Faire.
ELSA, Corp
ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant) is an AI-powered English pronunciation and speaking coach built on proprietary speech-recognition technology trained on non-native accents. Founded in 2015 by Vu Van and speech scientist Xavier Anguera, the app gives learners real-time, phoneme-level feedback on how they actually sound - not just what they type. It has grown to tens of millions of users across 100+ countries and expanded from a consumer app into ELSA Business, ELSA Schools, an API, and a generative-AI conversation tool called ELSA AI Tutor.
Goodcover
Goodcover is a San Francisco insurtech offering cooperative renters insurance built around a member-first model. Founded in 2017 and launched out of Y Combinator, it operates as a Managing General Agent that pools members' premiums, takes a fixed fee, pays claims, and returns leftover premium to members as an Annual Member Dividend. The pitch: renters insurance for roughly half the price of legacy carriers, with a fully digital sign-up, human support, and a structure that aligns the company's incentives with its members rather than with retaining unclaimed premium as profit.
Redrob
Redrob is an AI company building large language models and go-to-market tools for sales, recruitment, and prospecting. Its platform combines a 700M+ contact data pool, verified emails, and real-time buying signals to help B2B teams find prospects, automate outreach, and screen talent. Founded by former international lawyer Felix Kim, Redrob positions itself as an affordable, enterprise-grade AI stack for emerging markets and cost-conscious companies, and aims to become one of the world's most-used LLM platforms by 2028.
Slingshot
Slingshot is a San Francisco-based crypto trading app that lets people buy, sell, and swap hundreds of thousands of tokens across multiple blockchains from a single USDC balance - hiding the usual friction of wallets, bridges, and gas fees behind a clean consumer interface. Founded in 2020 by Coinbase alum Clinton Bembry, it raised roughly $18M through a Ribbit Capital-led Series A and was acquired by NFT marketplace Magic Eden in April 2025.
AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is a San Francisco AI-search optimization platform that helps brands see, measure, and improve how they appear inside generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Founded in 2025 by ex-Google Search and DeepMind PM Andrew Yan and ex-ServiceNow engineer Alan Yao, the Y Combinator-backed company treats GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) as the successor to traditional SEO, analyzing millions of AI responses to tell companies whether AI models recommend them - and what to change if they don't.
Fintesa
Fintesa is a San Francisco-based fintech SaaS platform that lets any business compliantly collect payments in more than 200 countries within about ten minutes, while issuing cards that let merchants manage spending, earn cashback, and skip conversion fees across 143 currencies. Founded by CEO Khalid Alomari and backed by 500 Global (S23) and Sanabil Investments, the patent-pending company grew to 4,800+ merchants, 53+ partnerships and $100M+ in GMV on a lean $300K of capital.
Fleet
Fleet is a San Francisco-based commuter benefits management platform that helps employers set up, run, and stay compliant with pre-tax and subsidized transportation programs. It manages all mobility spend in one place - pre-tax transit and parking, employer subsidies, government grants, and rewards - across transit, parking, bikes, e-bikes, scooters, rideshare, and vanpools. By integrating with 180+ HR and payroll systems, Fleet lets HR teams roll out commuter benefits quickly, meet local mandates in cities like NYC, LA, and the Bay Area, and nudge employees toward lower-carbon commutes.
Foundry Robotics
Foundry Robotics is a San Francisco startup building 'The Everything Factory' - an AI-first, assembly-focused contract manufacturer that uses Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models to run flexible robotic assembly cells. Instead of retooling a line for every new product, Foundry aims to let general-purpose robots switch between building drones, robot dogs, battery packs and satellite components on demand. Founded in 2025 by ex-Ghost Robotics and Scale AI robotics lead Adarsh Kulkarni, the company positions itself as a dual-use manufacturer serving both commercial customers and the U.S. Department of Defense, backed by a seed round led by Khosla Ventures and Garuda Ventures.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
Pareto.AI
Pareto.AI is a San Francisco-based, talent-first human data platform that connects AI labs with a deeply vetted network of expert labelers to produce premium training data, RLHF, and evaluation signals. Founded by Thiel Fellow Phoebe Yao, the company started as a bootcamp for women and work-from-home mothers, pivoted into AI data labeling in 2023, and now positions itself as the 'verification layer' for reinforcement learning on real-world expertise, turning specialist judgment into durable reward signals under the banner 'Expert data for AGI.'
Jon Carr-Harris
Jon Carr-Harris is the Founder & CEO of CRED, a San Francisco-based AI-powered predictive intelligence platform that raised $15M in seed funding in June 2025. CRED unifies data from 200+ integrations and 10,000+ external sources to deliver business predictions 60-90 days in advance with 92% claimed accuracy - giving enterprises the kind of forward-looking intelligence once reserved for hedge funds. A serial entrepreneur who advised Airbnb, Kik, and Khan Academy early in their growth, Carr-Harris built and exited Swish Labs (a global tech consulting ecosystem spanning 30+ countries) before founding CRED in 2023, which emerged from stealth with 25 enterprise clients and $100M+ in documented customer revenue impact.
Jing Zhu
Jing Zhu is the Founder and CEO of Duet (Dashboard Story, Inc.), a B2B SaaS platform built for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers across the United States. A Cornell PhD-turned-Berkeley MBA, she spent a decade in corporate healthcare before founding Duet — first as a neighborhood carpooling app, then pivoting to a full-stack dispatching and billing platform that helps wheelchair, stretcher, and ambulatory transport operators run leaner and get paid faster. Based in San Francisco, Zhu leads a 12-person team and has raised $120K in seed funding.
John Manoochehri
John Manoochehri is the Founder and CEO of Treasury, a San Francisco-based registry and discovery system for the world's most valuable spatial assets - from architectural designs and film sets to real estate and world monuments. An architect and environmental scientist with an Oxford degree in ancient languages, he co-founded Treasury with Zaha Hadid Architects and Spaceform in 2022, securing backing from Google's AI fund Gradient Ventures. Before Treasury, he wrote policy frameworks for UNEP and WWF, ran a sustainable design firm working on Sweden's Kiruna city relocation, and launched Last Meter - an architectural tech company integrating circular consumption into real estate. He hosts two podcasts: Resource Talks and Futureperfect Talks (Epic Games-sponsored), and has taught architecture at KTH Stockholm.
Jon Beck
Jon Beck is the Founder and CEO of Ursus, Inc., a San Francisco-based staffing firm he built from scratch in 2015 into one of the fastest-growing in the U.S., recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for four consecutive years. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate and three-time rugby All-American, Beck brings 25+ years of technology executive experience across startups and global enterprises — including a stint at Cisco-acquired Embrane — to a company built around technical and creative talent for the digital transformation era.
Kevin Gibbs
Kevin Gibbs is co-founder and CEO of Terraton, a San Francisco climate-tech startup building a 'business-in-a-box' franchise model for biochar carbon removal. Before climate, he built two pieces of internet plumbing most people use without knowing his name: Google Suggest (search autocomplete) and Google App Engine. He went on to co-found Quip with Bret Taylor, sold it to Salesforce in 2016 for roughly $750M, and ran it to north of $100M ARR. Terraton raised an $11.5M seed in August 2025 led by Lowercarbon and Gigascale.
Khalid Alomari
Khalid Alomari is the founder and CEO of Fintesa, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that lets businesses collect compliant payments across 200+ countries in roughly ten minutes. A computer scientist by training and a cybersecurity engineer by trade, he moved from Amman to San Francisco to take Fintesa through 500 Global and Y Combinator's startup school, building cross-border payment rails for merchants tired of conversion fees.
Swyx (Shawn Wang) & Alessio Fanelli
Swyx (Shawn Wang) and Alessio Fanelli are the co-hosts of Latent Space, the #1 AI Engineering podcast and newsletter with 200,000+ subscribers and 10M+ total readers. Swyx — a former Singapore hedge fund trader turned developer advocate who coined the term 'AI Engineer' — and Alessio — a Forbes 30 Under 30 VC partner and Rome-born dropout-turned-engineer — together define the curriculum and culture of a generation of engineers building with AI.
Justin Dawe
Justin Dawe is the founder and CEO of Earth Force Technologies, a San Francisco climate-tech company building in-cabin sensor tablets and a web portal that give forestry operators real-time, tree-level guidance for wildfire prevention and forest restoration. A Stanford-trained engineer and Harvard MBA, he has spent more than two decades in climate and mobility ventures, including roles as CEO of Scoot Networks, VP of New Ventures at Bird, and founding CEO of C12 Energy. Earth Force has raised about $8.6M in seed funding from BOLD Capital Partners, Alley Robotics Ventures, and others.
Karn Saroya
Karn Saroya is the co-founder and CEO of Re, a decentralized reinsurance protocol built on Avalanche that connects alternative capital to the nearly $1 trillion global reinsurance market. A Canadian-born, MIT-trained Fulbright scholar, he previously co-founded the YC-backed insurtech Cover and worked as a financial-services consultant at Oliver Wyman before deciding the insurance stack itself needed to be torn down and rebuilt on-chain.
AltruBio Inc.
AltruBio is a clinical-stage San Francisco biotech developing first-in-class immune checkpoint enhancer antibodies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Its lead program, ALTB-268, targets PSGL-1 to restore T-cell homeostasis, and is advancing through mid-stage trials in ulcerative colitis. The company rebranded from AbGenomics in 2020 under CEO Judy Chou and closed an oversubscribed $225M Series B in 2024.
Canvas Medical
Canvas Medical builds programmable EMR infrastructure for the companies reinventing how care gets delivered. Its ONC-certified electronic medical record pairs a FHIR API and a Workflow SDK so clinicians and developers can extend the chart like software, then layers AI agents - led by the open-source Hyperscribe ambient copilot - that listen, document, place orders, and prep claims in real time. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Canvas powers primary care, behavioral health, weight loss, longevity, and other modern clinics that want their EMR to bend to their workflows instead of the other way around.
Fulcrum
Fulcrum is a San Francisco AI platform that automates the unglamorous backbone of insurance brokerages - policy checking, proposal generation, certificate issuance and carrier sales prep - so account managers can scale their books of business without scaling headcount. Founded in 2023 by Arjun Mangla and Sambhav Anand, it raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A led by CRV in January 2026 and is in use at nearly half of the top 50 U.S. brokerages.
Gimlet Labs, Inc.
Gimlet Labs is a San Francisco applied research company building the first multi-silicon inference cloud - software that runs AI workloads simultaneously across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. Founded by ex-Google and ex-NVIDIA engineers behind the Pixie observability project, Gimlet ships Gimlet Cloud (serverless agent inference) and kforge (autonomous kernel generation from PyTorch). The company exited stealth in October 2025 with eight-figure revenue and raised an $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures in March 2026.