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Jeff Yen
Jeff Yen is a Stanford-trained experimental physicist turned entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Etherdyne Technologies, a Santa Clara startup building 'wire-free' power. His company's Ether Power platform uses low-frequency magnetic resonance to deliver up to 100 watts through the air to multiple devices at once inside a three-dimensional 'Power Zone,' no cords or fixed charging pads required. After eight years of quiet R&D with co-inventor Dr. Robert Moffatt, Yen brought the technology to CES 2026, raised more than $1.2 million from over 400 investors on StartEngine, and now pitches wireless power as the next utility, an 'Electrification 2.0' as ubiquitous as Wi-Fi.
Pratap Ranade
Pratap Ranade is the CEO and co-founder of Arena (Arena Physica), a New York startup building Atlas, an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics that helps semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, medical-device and defense companies design and test physical hardware. A Stanford and Columbia-trained physicist who left a PhD to join McKinsey, he previously co-founded Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir) and led engineering and machine learning at Enigma. Arena raised a $30M Series B in April 2025 and counts AMD, Bausch & Lomb and Anduril among its partners.