
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
DataPattern is a San Ramon, California based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2019 that helps regulated and data-heavy enterprises move from legacy systems to modern data, AI and IoT platforms. Its teams build data engineering pipelines, generative AI and machine learning solutions, IoT use cases, cloud migrations and DevOps/MLOps practices, with a stated emphasis on data governance, quality and lineage as the foundation for reliable AI. The company works across manufacturing, healthcare, finance and energy, positioning itself as a hands-on transformation partner rather than a single-product vendor.
DynPro Inc. is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based global IT consulting and services firm founded in 1996. It helps Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations orchestrate fragmented data, processes and customer experiences across enterprise platforms, with practice areas in Process Transformation, Data & Integration, and Automation & Advanced Analytics. DynPro implements and integrates SAP, Salesforce, Workato, Snowflake and related cloud ecosystems, and complements delivery with IT staffing and talent solutions from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Morocco.
Jade Global is a San Jose-based IT services and digital transformation firm founded in 2003 that helps mid-size to large enterprises implement, integrate, and manage business platforms from Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, NetSuite, Workday, Boomi and more. With roughly 2,000+ consultants, a global delivery center in Pune, India, and 400+ customers across high tech, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing and financial services, the company pairs enterprise application expertise with cloud, data/analytics and AI - including its Kanverse.ai document-automation subsidiary.
Luzid is a San Francisco-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise software implementations. Its AI agent, David, orchestrates every phase of SAP and Salesforce projects - capturing requirements from workshops, tracking scope in real time, and auto-generating test scripts. Founded in 2025 by Stanford grads Andres Carranza and Matheus Dias, Luzid targets the roughly 75% of implementation projects that run over budget or over time, and is used by SAP system integrators including Numen, delaware, NTT Data and Seidor.
Nova Intelligence builds an agentic AI platform purpose-built for SAP teams. Its AI agents analyze, document, modernize, and generate the custom code that runs payroll, supply chains, and finance inside Fortune 500 systems, mapping legacy custom code to SAP standard to cut complexity and cost. Founded in 2024 by a Google DeepMind researcher, a repeat founder, and the co-inventor of SAP HANA, Nova targets the roughly $89 billion S/4HANA migration wave companies must complete by 2030. It has raised $40M total, including a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry.
Andres Carranza is the co-founder and CEO of Luzid, a San Francisco startup building David, an agentic AI copilot that orchestrates SAP and Salesforce implementations. A Stanford dropout and former AI researcher, he interned at NASA, Harvard, MIT and was the youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history before leaving school to build a company that aims to turn months-long enterprise software rollouts into something closer to a software update.
Emma Qian is the co-founder and CEO of Nova Intelligence, a San Francisco startup building an agentic AI platform that analyzes, modernizes, and generates custom code for SAP systems. A former research engineer at Google DeepMind and software engineer at Meta AI, Caltech-trained Qian left frontier AI research to attack one of enterprise software's least glamorous and most expensive problems: the migration of decades of custom SAP code to S/4HANA. Nova has raised over $40 million, including a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry with backing from Accel, Conviction, and SAP.io, and counts customers like Festo who report working roughly five times faster. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
PrideVel Consulting LLC is a Naperville, Illinois-based IT services and consulting firm that has spent two decades as an SAP Services Partner and a global professional-services partner for Cisco. The company helps mid-size and large North American enterprises run S/4HANA and SAP HANA migrations, cloud infrastructure, IoT and mobile projects, leaning on proprietary automation (ABAP optimization, BW migration) and a 'Rapid Business Solutions' plus Design Thinking method it says cuts cost and time-to-market by roughly 40%. More recently PrideVel has repositioned its website around 'The Control Layer for Enterprise AI,' extending its SAP-and-cloud heritage toward AI governance and chatbots.
Rootshell Inc is a Santa Clara-based IT consulting and solutions company founded in 2000 that helps enterprises navigate digital transformation. It pairs Silicon Valley delivery with offshore centers in India to provide CRM, CPQ, SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce, DevOps and managed services, plus its own platforms (Subcontract.com, Howtube, CricFantasy). Led by serial entrepreneur Vijay Gopineedi, the ~93-person firm serves clients across the US, India, Singapore and the Middle East under the tagline 'Excellent Delivered.'
Specright is the first cloud-based, patented platform for Specification Data Management - the digital backbone that captures the DNA-level data of products, packaging, formulas, and bills of materials in a single source of truth. Founded in 2014 by packaging veteran Matthew Wright, it helps the world's largest brands and challenger startups cut costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce waste by replacing scattered spreadsheets with connected, auditable specification data. The platform now hosts more than 5 million products and is layering AI across formulation and spec-first PLM workflows.
Tranzeal Incorporated is a San Jose, California-based global business transformation and IT consulting firm. An SAP Certified Services Partner, it pairs domain knowledge with technical competency across enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, supply chain, CRM, cloud, data analytics, testing, and staffing - delivering full-lifecycle technology solutions to clients across high-tech, retail, banking, healthcare, logistics, energy, and aerospace.
VentureSoft is a Silicon Valley IT services and consulting firm that helps enterprises modernize through AI, secure cloud infrastructure, and data solutions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with offices in Dubai and Bengaluru, the company has delivered 1,000+ projects to more than 300 clients ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 names like Nike, Tesla, Intuit and Gap. Its work spans data analytics and AI, security and GRC, cloud and DevSecOps, ERP/CRM, application development, and 24/7 managed services.
Bristlecone is the industry's largest pure-play supply chain services provider and a Mahindra Group company. Founded in 1998 in San Jose, California, it helps Global 2000 organizations plan, source, and fulfill through AI-first supply chain transformation - blending consulting, system integration, and its own cloud platform, Bristlecone NEO. Roughly 2,500-2,700 consultants across a dozen global hubs have delivered over 1,000 engagements for more than 300 customers in life sciences, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, and high-tech.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.
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.
Mala Anand is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Microsoft, leading the Customer Experience & Success division. A 25-year technology veteran who immigrated from Mumbai at 17 on a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship, she has shaped enterprise software at Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft, driving AI-powered transformations that measurably improve how customers get support. She is also executive sponsor of Women at Microsoft and an independent board director at Agilent Technologies.
Peter Russo is VP of Core Business Workflows, Product & Solution Marketing at ServiceNow, where he leads go-to-market strategy for the platform's finance, supply chain, and creator workflow product lines. A seasoned technology marketing executive with roots in SAP and Oracle, he has spent his career helping enterprise software companies articulate the value of complex platforms to buyers who care about outcomes, not features. Based in Austin, TX, he is known in the industry for championing the 'beyond ERP' narrative and for helping ServiceNow stake its claim in the mid-market with the 2025 Core Business Suite launch.
Sanjay Poonen is the CEO and President of Cohesity, the data security and management company that absorbed Veritas' enterprise backup business in late 2024 to become the largest data protection vendor in the world. A Dartmouth-Stanford-Harvard alumnus who arrived in Boston at 18 with fifty dollars, he previously helped double revenues at both SAP (from ~$10B to ~$20B) and VMware (from ~$6B to ~$12B), where as COO he architected the landmark VMware-AWS partnership and the AirWatch acquisition.
Alert Enterprise is a Fremont, California-based software company that converges cyber security, physical security and identity management on a single SaaS platform. Its Guardian suite — now extended with AI agents on ServiceNow — automates who gets through which door, server, and substation across airports, utilities, banks, hospitals and Fortune 500 workplaces.
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.
Gadi Shamia is the CEO and co-founder of Replicant, a voice AI platform that automates customer service calls at enterprise scale. A serial entrepreneur who sold his first company (TopManage) to SAP, helped EchoSign sell to Adobe for $400M, and scaled Talkdesk from seed to unicorn as COO, he brings two decades of building and scaling B2B software companies to the challenge of replacing traditional IVR systems with natural-sounding, AI-driven conversations. Under his leadership, Replicant has automated over 1 billion minutes of customer interactions and raised $113M in funding.
Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, a Fremont-based enterprise SaaS platform that converges physical security, cybersecurity, and identity governance through AI. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Punjab in 1985, Gill previously founded Virsa Systems — a pioneer in governance, risk, and compliance software — which was acquired by SAP in 2006. He then built the SAP GRC business unit before leaving to found AlertEnterprise in 2007. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the company has become an industry leader in cyber-physical security convergence, deploying AI-powered access control and identity management for critical infrastructure, utilities, and enterprise clients worldwide.

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.

Bill McDermott is the Chairman and CEO of ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company serving nearly 90% of the Fortune 500. After 17 years at Xerox and 17 more at SAP - where he grew market cap from $39 billion to over $156 billion as its first American-born CEO - he joined ServiceNow in 2019 and has since tripled revenues, crossing $10 billion without a single acquisition of revenue or round of layoffs. A self-made entrepreneur who bought a deli at 16, he distills his philosophy into one word: trust.
Deepak Nagpal is the CEO of Audax Labs, a Bothell, Washington-based technology innovation company he has led since 2016. With a career spanning over two decades across NTT DATA, Capital One, and Interra Information Technologies, and an MBA from Oxford's Said Business School, he has built Audax Labs into a multi-practice consultancy operating across AR/VR/MR, AI, IoT, cloud migration, and data analytics - serving industries from automotive and healthcare to BFSI and government, with partnerships spanning Microsoft, Google, Amazon AWS, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, and Rocket Software.
Jigish Shah is the Executive Chairman of ArchLynk, a global digital supply chain consulting firm headquartered in San Jose, California. He co-founded Krypt in 2008 and built it into an eminent player in the SAP Supply Chain ecosystem over 14 years before orchestrating its 2022 merger with Novigo to create ArchLynk - backed by BV Investment Partners. Under his leadership as CEO, ArchLynk further acquired WCS Consulting in 2023 and grew to approximately 350 employees with $35M in annual revenue, establishing itself as an SAP Gold Partner serving enterprises across 4 continents with expertise in SAP Transportation Management, Integrated Business Planning, Global Trade Services, and AI/ML-driven supply chain solutions.

Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world's largest data-center company. A Trinity College Dublin graduate who once taught school in Ireland, she spent 18 years at Oracle, 14 at SAP, and three at Google Cloud before taking the top job at Equinix in 2024. She runs 280 data centers across 77 markets and calls the internet 'the fourth utility'.
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.

Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.