Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the widely used open-source dashboarding and observability platform. Founded in 2014 to commercialize Torkel Odegaard's visualization tool, it has grown into a full-stack observability vendor built on a 'big tent' philosophy - letting teams unify metrics, logs, traces and profiles from any source without ripping out existing tools. Its LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise now serve more than 7,000 paying organizations, including roughly 70% of the Fortune 50, with the business surpassing $400M in annual recurring revenue and a $6B valuation.
Moawia Eldeeb is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tempo, a San Francisco-based AI-powered home fitness company that raised $316M and uses 3D sensors and computer vision to deliver real-time form correction and personalized training. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he immigrated to the US at age 9, dropped out of school in 6th grade to work 12-hour shifts at a pizza restaurant, survived homelessness in a Harlem shelter, and put himself through Columbia University by working as a personal trainer - before building one of the most-funded fitness tech startups in history.

Varun Srinivasan is a co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network protocol built on Ethereum, and currently works at Tempo, Stripe's stablecoin-focused blockchain. Previously, he spent over four years at Coinbase rising to Senior Director of Platform, and co-founded SoundFocus, a Y Combinator-backed mobile audio startup. A Carnegie Mellon graduate and prolific reader, Srinivasan has spent his career building platforms that give users control over their data and identity.

Matt Huang is co-founder and Managing Partner of Paradigm, the research-driven crypto investment firm he launched with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam in 2018. With $12.7 billion in AUM and foundational investments in Uniswap, Optimism, Flashbots, and dozens of other protocols, Huang transformed venture capital by treating his firm as a hybrid research lab, engineering organization, and fund. The son of a Goldman Sachs derivatives head and a pioneering computer science professor, he turned a $500K bet on a language-barrier pitch from Zhang Yiming into an estimated $500M windfall. In 2025, he added founding CEO of Tempo - the Stripe-Paradigm blockchain for global payments - to his portfolio, while raising a new $1.5B fund to expand into AI and robotics.

Simon Taylor is a fintech operator, writer, and speaker who built the #1 weekly fintech newsletter Fintech Brainfood to 45,000+ subscribers while holding senior roles at Barclays, co-founding 11:FS (UK's leading fintech consultancy), and most recently joining Tempo - the Stripe and Paradigm-incubated payments blockchain - as GTM Lead. His famous thesis 'Fintech is only 1% finished' captured an industry's imagination, and his independently-written weekend newsletter has become required reading for bankers, founders, and investors globally.