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Sofia Vyshnevska and the Follow-Up Nobody Had Time to Make
After six accelerator rejections, three pivots and one pandemic-timed launch, the Ukrainian-born Jome co-founder has a precise idea about AI: let it chase the cold leads, so people can handle the warm moments.
Dima Syrotkin Is Teaching Companies to Hear What Change Sounds Like
At Pandatron, Dima Syrotkin is turning a founder’s long interest in self-awareness into an AI system for the awkward human work between corporate strategy and execution.
Alexander Khuda
A failed education startup left Alexander Khuda with a smaller question: how can one live feed travel everywhere? Restream grew from a $15 donation in Vinnytsia into the control room behind millions of broadcasts - and its next bet is on everything that happens after the stream ends.
Dan Hnatkovskyy
Dan Hnatkovskyy is a Ukraine-born, Austin-based PropTech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Jome (formerly NewHomesMate), an AI-powered real estate marketplace built to help buyers find, compare, and purchase new construction homes. A serial founder whose earlier ventures included Preenster and Brainify, he launched the company in 2020 and grew it despite a pandemic, recession, and the war in Ukraine, reaching 16 U.S. markets and more than 100,000 buyers. He was named to Forbes' inaugural Austin 30 Under 30 list in 2023, and in December 2024 the company raised a $9.8M Series A and rebranded as Jome.
Vlad Matsiiako
Vlad Matsiiako is the Ukrainian-born co-founder and CEO of Infisical, the open-source secrets, certificate, and access management platform that processes well over 100 million secrets a day. After studying in the Netherlands, working as one of the first data scientists at bunq, picking up a master's at Cornell, and a stint at Figma, he teamed up with two Cornell friends, cycled through ideas like a VR marketplace, and finally bet on the unglamorous problem that bites every engineer: leaked API keys and sprawling .env files. Infisical went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch, open-sourced its code to earn developer trust, and raised a $16M Series A led by Elad Gil in 2025.