Hyland is a Westlake, Ohio software company that helps large organizations capture, manage, and act on their unstructured content - the contracts, claims, patient charts, and forms that pile up in every enterprise. Built around its flagship OnBase platform and bolstered by acquisitions like Alfresco and Nuxeo, Hyland has spent three decades turning document chaos into automated workflows. Today it is repositioning around the Content Innovation Cloud, layering AI agents and intelligent document processing on top of the content services its 4,000-ish employees have sold to healthcare systems, banks, insurers, and governments worldwide.
Alessio Alionco is the Brazilian-born founder and CEO of Pipefy, a San Francisco-based AI-driven process automation platform he built from scratch in 2015. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Harvard OPM alumnus, and Endeavor Entrepreneur, he turned a front-row view of chaotic enterprise workflows into a company with 4,700+ deployed AI agents, partnerships with Accenture, and over $225M in total funding. His prior venture, Acessozero, grew to 1 million users before being acquired by Brazilian local-search giant Apontador in 2012 - a deal that planted the seeds for Pipefy.
Pipefy is an AI-powered, no-code business process automation platform that lets non-developers in finance, HR, procurement, IT and customer service design, run and govern complex workflows. Founded in 2015 by Alessio Alionco in Curitiba, Brazil and now headquartered in San Francisco, it serves thousands of corporate customers in 150+ countries.
Plenful is a San Francisco-based AI workflow automation company building software that takes the busywork out of pharmacy and healthcare operations. Founded in 2021 by former pharmacy operator Joy Liu, the company helps health systems, specialty pharmacies, and infusion teams automate 340B audits, rebate management, prior authorization, and patient intake - work that has long been trapped in PDFs, faxes, and spreadsheets.
Workato is a Palo Alto-based enterprise automation and integration platform (iPaaS) that lets IT and business teams build cross-app workflows - called Recipes - with low-code/no-code building blocks and a growing layer of AI agents. It connects more than a thousand SaaS apps and on-prem systems, and is used by companies like Atlassian, Box, GitLab, Broadcom, and Toast to automate everything from employee onboarding to order-to-cash.
Wing Assistant is a managed virtual assistant marketplace that pairs businesses with dedicated, vetted remote professionals to handle recurring administrative, sales, marketing, and operational tasks. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Wing combines a proprietary AI-enhanced supervision platform with human assistants - covering everything from executive support and social media management to lead generation and customer success. With over 50,000 customers globally and assistants operating across 8 countries, Wing positions itself as a cost-effective alternative to in-house hires, offering dedicated (not shared) assistants starting at $699/month.
Francesco D'Alessio is a UK-based productivity media entrepreneur and co-founder of Tool Finder, a platform and YouTube channel (400,000+ subscribers) dedicated to helping people discover, compare, and master productivity software. Starting at age 15 with app reviews, he built Keep Productive into one of the most trusted independent productivity media brands before rebranding it as Tool Finder in 2024. He has reviewed over 1,000 tools, co-created the Bento Focus iOS app, and reached 120,000+ monthly readers through his writing and newsletter.