Xgrid is a tech-first digital services and cloud innovation company founded in 2012. It helps Fortune 500 enterprises, high-growth unicorns, and B2B SaaS startups design, build, and run cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, Temporal workflows, custom applications, and full-service digital marketing. With teams across the US, UAE, and Pakistan, Xgrid pairs engineers drawn from AWS, Google, Salesforce, Nvidia, and VMware with a delivery model built around taking co-responsibility for a client's growth.
Mohit Garg is the co-founder and CEO of OLOID, a Sunnyvale-based company building passwordless authentication and identity tools for the 1.8 billion frontline and deskless workers who clock in on shared devices rather than personal laptops. A serial entrepreneur out of Silicon Valley, he earlier co-founded Mindtickle, the AI-driven sales-readiness platform that grew into a unicorn, and trained at the Stanford StartX accelerator on a computer-vision product for the enterprise. He was named to Thinkers50's Leaders50 list in 2024.
Bob McCollum is the long-serving CEO and driving force behind R.S. Hughes Co., Inc., an employee-owned industrial distributor headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that has grown into a $527 million enterprise spanning North America. A University of Michigan alumnus and former college quarterback, McCollum spent decades building RS Hughes into one of North America's top 50 industrial distributors, known for its culture of integrity and genuine care for employees. He has been recognized for significant philanthropic contributions to the University of Michigan athletics program, endowing the quarterbacks coaching position with a $2 million gift in 2022.
Kerem Ozkay is the CEO of Carbon Health, the modern primary and urgent care chain. An aerospace engineer turned marketer turned operator, he ran growth and operations at Carbon for years before founder Eren Bali handed him the top job in August 2024. He now steers the company through a Chapter 11 restructuring designed to refocus on its hybrid care model and homegrown EHR.
Rajendra Soni runs the United States arm of PNG Jewellers, the 190-plus-year-old Pune house famous for gold, diamonds and old-school karigari. He turned a single Sunnyvale storefront into the Bay Area's go-to address for South Asian wedding jewellery, then helped open Fremont, and keeps showing up at every ribbon cutting with the same line: customer first, then employees, then the bling.
Scott Sellers is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Azul, the Sunnyvale-based company that has spent two decades making Java run faster, cheaper, and freer from Oracle's licensing grip. Before Azul, he co-founded 3dfx Interactive, the graphics company that gave PCs real-time 3D before NVIDIA bought it. Eight patents, a Princeton EE degree (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and a backup-quarterback origin story round out a quietly relentless career.
Shlomi Ben Haim is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of JFrog, the Sunnyvale and Israel based company that built Artifactory and turned the unglamorous business of storing binaries into a Nasdaq listed platform for the software supply chain. A former Israeli Air Force major who spent twelve years in uniform before running AlphaCSP, he has led JFrog since 2008 with a slogan engineers actually quote back at him: liquid software, continuous updates, zero downtime.
Clover builds cloud-based point-of-sale systems and payment processing for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in Sunnyvale in 2010 and acquired by First Data in 2012 (now part of Fiserv), Clover bundles Android-powered hardware with a software platform for restaurants, retail, and personal services - processing well over $300B in annualized card volume.
InfrasAI (formerly iLife Technologies) is a Sunnyvale-based AI infrastructure company that builds the plumbing behind modern insurance distribution. Their headless API platform lets insurance carriers connect to any distributor channel - agents, brokers, IMOs - without rebuilding integrations from scratch each time. The core bet: use agentic AI to auto-generate workflows from natural language, collapsing integration timelines from 24 weeks to about 2. Customers include Transamerica and Guardian Insurance. Backed by Foundation Capital, Brewer Lane Ventures, SCOR, and others, InfrasAI has raised $28M total.
Lyric is a Sunnyvale-based AI platform built for the people who actually run supply chains. Its Lyric Studio harmonizes data, algorithms, configurable workflows, and accelerated compute so that planners, engineers, and data scientists can model, test, and deploy decision intelligence apps - from demand forecasting and inventory to network design and transportation. Fortune 500 customers use it to compress months-long modeling cycles into days.
Ganesh Ramakrishna is the Founder and CEO of Lyric, a Sunnyvale-based AI-native supply chain decision intelligence platform that raised a $43.5M Series B in August 2025. A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in operations research, he previously co-founded Opex Analytics — building it from zero to 140 employees before its acquisition by LLamasoft — and then played a key role as SVP in LLamasoft's $1.5B sale to Coupa Software. At Lyric, he is rebuilding how global enterprises design and deploy supply chain models, combining composable architecture, AI foundation models, and real-time analytics to serve customers including Coca-Cola, Mondelez International, and Google.
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.
Sarang Jagdale is a PhD engineer turned supply chain AI co-founder who spent over two decades cracking some of the world's hardest logistics problems - from IBM's global consulting floors to the startup that eventually became Lyric. As Head of Decision Science at Lyric, he architects the algorithmic core of a platform now trusted by Coca-Cola, Google, and Mondelez to make their supply chains think for themselves. Lyric raised $43.5M in Series B funding in August 2025, bringing total funding to $67M.
Rafay Systems is a Sunnyvale-based platform-engineering company that builds infrastructure orchestration and workflow automation software for Kubernetes, GPU workloads and AI/ML pipelines. Its cloud-based platform lets enterprises offer self-service compute to developers and data scientists while keeping platform teams in control of cost, security and compliance across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem environments.
Sean Mehra is the co-founder and CEO of HealthTap, a Sunnyvale-based virtual-first primary and urgent care platform serving millions of Americans across all 50 states. A Yale biomedical engineering graduate and Stanford MBA, Mehra pivoted from aspiring physician to serial tech entrepreneur—building games companies with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous players before co-founding HealthTap during his first year at Stanford business school. Under his leadership as CEO (appointed June 2021), HealthTap has grown to serve over 350 million consumers, partnered with Samsung Health to embed virtual care in millions of Android devices, and launched Dr.A.I., an LLM-powered pre-visit interview system. Mehra also co-founded what is now Yale's TSAI City entrepreneurship incubator.
Vikram Takru is the Co-Founder and CEO of KloudGin Inc., a Sunnyvale-based SaaS company building the utility industry's only cloud-native, mobile-first combined field service and enterprise asset management platform. With over 27 years of enterprise software experience and two successful exits - including growing Frontline Consulting Services (FCS) to 500+ employees and $40M+ revenue before its 2012 acquisition by TEKSystems - Takru brings a rare blend of deep R&D roots (Oracle) and street-level execution to one of infrastructure's most underserved technology gaps. Under his leadership, KloudGin has developed the 'Single Face of Work' platform powered by its AssetIQ AI co-pilot, raised $16.4M in total funding, and built a team of 240 serving electric, gas, and water utilities across the United States.
Jeffrey Chou is the CEO and co-founder of Sonatus, the Sunnyvale-based company building AI-powered software-defined vehicle platforms for the automotive industry. A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a track record of exits to Cisco and Brocade, Chou co-founded Sonatus in 2018 with Yu Fang, applying datacenter-era thinking to automobiles. Under his leadership, Sonatus has raised over $110 million, won the 2022 PACE Innovation Partnership Award with Hyundai, and deployed its platform across more than 6 million production vehicles globally from Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia.
Anandan Chinnalagu is a PhD computer scientist and serial technology entrepreneur leading MindPro Technologies, an AI-focused software development firm headquartered in Karur, Tamil Nadu, India, with personal base in Sunnyvale, California. With over two decades of building enterprise software companies - from founding AC INFOTECH INC in 2003 to steering MindPro's 110-person team - he specializes in machine learning, natural language processing, and Google Cloud AI integrations. His academic research in sentiment analysis has been published in PeerJ Computer Science and IJACSA, while his products span educational platforms, IoT consulting, and notification automation under the CanString brand.
Frank Zamani is the Founder, President, and CEO of Caspio, a pioneering low-code platform that has powered over one million business applications in 150+ countries. Born Farhang Zamani in Tehran, Iran, he fled religious persecution as a Baha'i in 1986, was smuggled across the border to Pakistan, and received U.S. asylum in 1988 - arriving in San Francisco with his brother and just $70 between them. After earning a CS degree from Cal State Chico, working on Microsoft's PowerPoint team, and co-founding Autoweb.com (which IPO'd in 1999 at a $938 million valuation), he started Caspio in 2000 with a single conviction: business professionals should not need to code to build the tools their organizations need. By 2024, Caspio had grown to $120.7 million in annual revenue, 15,000+ customers, and roughly 230 employees.
John McCutcheon is President, CEO, and Director of EBR Systems, Inc., the Sunnyvale-based medical device company behind the WiSE CRT system - the world's first FDA-approved leadless solution for left ventricular pacing. With over 40 years in medical device sales, marketing, and general management, McCutcheon has shepherded EBR through pivotal clinical trials, FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, and the landmark FDA approval in April 2025. Before EBR, he led Ceterix Orthopaedics to a $105 million acquisition by Smith & Nephew. He brings a track record of building and selling medical device companies, now steering EBR's commercial launch of a technology that could transform how heart failure patients receive cardiac resynchronization therapy.
Leander Yu is the founder and CEO of Graid Technology Inc., a Sunnyvale-based startup that invented the world's first GPU-accelerated RAID solution for NVMe SSDs - SupremeRAID. With over 25 years in the storage industry and a prior successful exit (Bigtera to Silicon Motion in 2017), Yu built Graid in 2019 to solve a fundamental bottleneck: traditional RAID controllers can't keep up with modern NVMe speeds. By offloading RAID computation to a GPU, SupremeRAID delivers up to 28 million IOPS and 260GB/s throughput from a single card. The company raised a $30M Series B in March 2025 led by Foxconn and CTBC joint venture, and signed a landmark licensing deal with Intel for VROC technology in late 2025.
Dr. Sophia Yen, MD, MPH is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pandia Health, the only women-founded, women-led, doctor-founded, physician-led birth control and menopause telemedicine and medication delivery service in the United States. A Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medical School with 20+ years in medicine, she brings MIT engineering instincts, UCSF medical training, and UC Berkeley public health expertise to the problem of making prescription contraceptives and hormonal care radically more accessible for women. She co-founded SheHeroes.org to inspire girls in STEM and has been a nationally recognized voice on reproductive rights, menstrual equity, and women's health innovation.
Steve Kelley is a serial clean-energy entrepreneur and CEO of L-Charge, the Sunnyvale-based pioneer of off-grid ultra-fast EV charging for commercial fleets. With six successful startup exits and over two decades building energy and mobility ventures, Kelley co-founded Green Charge Networks (acquired by Engie), scaled InCharge Energy's revenues nearly tenfold, and in October 2025 took the helm at L-Charge to push its grid-free Charging-as-a-Service model nationwide. Under his leadership, L-Charge closed a $10 million funding round in January 2026, enabling fleet operators to electrify in weeks rather than months by bypassing grid bottlenecks entirely.
Bardia Pezeshki is a serial entrepreneur and photonics pioneer who has spent three decades turning light into bandwidth. As co-founder of Avicena Tech, he is leading the push to replace copper chip-to-chip interconnects with microLED-based optical links - a bet that energy efficiency, not raw speed, is the bottleneck holding back AI infrastructure. With a Stanford PhD in electrical engineering, a prior company (Santur) that moved most of the world's long-distance internet traffic, and a $65M Series B closed in May 2025, Pezeshki is now in the race to wire the AI data center of the future with light.
Santhosh Purathepparambil is Co-Founder and Chief AI Scientist at Discern Security, an AI-native security policy management platform he co-founded in 2023 alongside Sai Venkataraman and Rohan Puri. A Stanford School of Engineering alumnus, he previously served as Sr. Director of Engineering at McAfee, co-founded SecurityAdvisor (acquired by KnowBe4 in 2021 - the company that created the Human Detection and Response category), and was VP of Product Strategy at KnowBe4. At Discern, he architects AI agents that help Fortune 500 companies continuously monitor, assess, and optimize their security posture at machine speed, backed by $3M in seed funding from BoldCap, WestWave Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund, and Security Syndicate.