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Adarsh Katyal Built VARITE for the Work Between the Work
For 25 years, the VARITE founder has worked in the unglamorous machinery of enterprise talent - matching people, programs and trust across borders. His record offers a useful lesson: durable companies are often built where coordination matters more than applause.
Anju Abel Built a Career on the Part of Staffing Spreadsheets Miss
The LanceSoft CEO arrived in New York with optimism, built her way through the machinery of contingent work, and now argues that the industry’s most useful technology is still a human connection.
Amar Amte
Amar Amte is the founder and CEO of Pegbo, a Menlo Park construction-tech company that helps general contractors and public agencies find, vet, and track small, local, and diverse trade partners. After roughly a decade at Google and five years at Yahoo in engineering and program-management roles, he left big tech in 2023 to attack one of construction's oldest headaches: the 'spray and pray' bid invitation. Pegbo runs a searchable directory of more than a million verified trade partners and automates outreach, bid coverage, and Good Faith Effort compliance reporting. The company raised $1.4 million in a 2024 pre-seed round led by Nirman Ventures and is a pre-qualified supplier to contractors including Skanska, Webcor, Swinerton, and Hathaway Dinwiddie.