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(8)Igor Shvartsman
Igor Shvartsman is a technology executive associated with Breezeworks, the San Francisco company behind mobile and desktop software that helps independent service professionals - plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, appliance techs and similar trades - run scheduling, dispatch, invoicing and payments from a phone. Breezeworks launched as 'Breeze' on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2013 and went on to raise roughly $7 million, including a $5 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures with backing from technology figures such as Marc Benioff, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel. Shvartsman is listed as chief executive of the company in current business records.
Super Teacher
Super Teacher is a New York-based edtech company building an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students. Founded in 2022 by former Google product manager and NYC math teacher Tim Novikoff, it delivers unlimited, conversational one-on-one tutoring in reading and math for roughly $15 a month - a fraction of the cost of a human tutor. Unlike most AI education tools, Super Teacher avoids large language model guesswork in favor of a deterministic content system designed to always give correct answers. Around 20,000 families have signed up, and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii now use the app in classrooms.
Hikari Senju
Hikari Senju is the founder and CEO of Omneky, a San Francisco generative AI platform that creates, analyzes, and optimizes personalized ad creative at scale. A Harvard computer scientist and son of celebrated Nihonga painter Hiroshi Senju, he began building in generative AI in 2018, five years before ChatGPT made the field mainstream. His mission is to lower the cost of effective advertising so that any founder with a compelling idea can reach customers without a million-dollar budget. Omneky has raised over $13 million from investors including SoftBank and AIX Ventures, and in 2024-2025 Senju pivoted the company toward agentic AI that autonomously plans and runs campaigns across Meta, Google, and TikTok.
Marc Gyoengyoesi
Marc Gyoengyoesi is the founder and CEO of OneTrack.AI, a Chicago company that puts AI cameras on forklifts to give warehouses the kind of real-time visibility that factory floors take for granted. He started out building autonomous inventory drones at Northwestern's startup incubator as Intelligent Flying Machines, crashed one on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in front of 2,500 people, picked up 12 stitches from another crash in development, and concluded that the cameras mattered more than the things flying them. Today OneTrack runs on deep learning, computer vision and distributed computing across trillions of images, turning forklift footage into safety alerts, shipment validation and operational intelligence.
Robert Page
Robert Page is the CEO and founder of Pulse Protocol (formerly MedRepublic), a Los Angeles healthcare marketplace and B2B SaaS platform that helps clinics and facilitators run medical-travel businesses - matching patients to vetted providers, automating coordination, payments and marketing. A global-health operator since 2000, he previously built MedToGo International, co-authored three industry guidebooks, took MedRepublic into TechCrunch Disrupt's top 25 startups of 2016, and graduated from Amplify LA's accelerator. His through-line is unglamorous but stubborn: transparent pricing, quality control, and giving patients real options.
Sebastian Peralta
Sebastian Peralta is a physicist-turned-roboticist and co-founder of Mbodi AI, a New York startup teaching industrial robots new skills through plain language and quick demonstrations instead of weeks of reprogramming. A former core engineer on Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science, and physics from UPenn, he builds embodied-AI systems where one robot's lesson instantly becomes the whole fleet's. Mbodi won ABB Robotics' global AI Startup Challenge, reached the Startup Battlefield Top 20 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, and is rolling out factory deployments with a Fortune 100 consumer-goods partner.
Tim Novikoff
Tim Novikoff is the founder and CEO of Super Teacher, an AI tutoring app for elementary students that has reached roughly 20,000 families and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii. A former NYC math teacher with a PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell, he co-authored a PNAS paper on the math of spaced repetition, built and sold the video-editing startup Fly Labs to Google in 2015, then worked on Google Photos and ran Google Colab before returning to education. As a kid he voiced Jeffy on MTV's animated series Daria.
Sam Wong
Sam Wong is Chief Business Officer at ChatLabs - the LVMH Innovation Award-winning AI social commerce platform serving luxury and consumer brands - and CEO of FundableStartups.com, a startup training academy. A five-time startup executive with 30+ years in the trenches and three successful exits under his belt, Wong has turned serial entrepreneurship into a second act: coaching founders and investing through Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest angel group. He's also the author of '21 Secrets of Successful Startups' and a regular fixture at TechCrunch Disrupt, Fortune, and the startup conference circuit.