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Evan Wong
Evan Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, a legal AI company he started in Sydney in 2016 and now runs from New York. Checkbox builds an AI 'legal front door' that lets in-house legal teams intake, triage and automate routine work through a no-code, drag-and-drop platform. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 17, Wong studied Commerce and Law at UNSW, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019, and in early 2026 raised a US$23M Series A that valued Checkbox at roughly US$100M. His customers include large enterprises such as PepsiCo, SAP, Telstra and Woolworths.
Timothy Cocaro
Timothy Cocaro is the founder and CEO of Canibuild, an AI-powered instant site feasibility platform that lets builders and homeowners check in seconds whether a house, granny flat, pool or shed can go on a block of land - collapsing weeks of surveying, drafting and estimating into a single click. A builder by trade with a computer science degree from the University of Sydney, Cocaro spent two decades running RESCON Builders, Australia's largest dedicated granny-flat company, before turning his own construction frustrations into software in 2019. Canibuild raised an AUD 8 million Series A led by EVP in 2022, grew to thousands of daily users across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and was named #1 in Real Estate at the Google Maps Platform Awards 2025.