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BuyPower
BuyPower is a Nigerian bill-payment platform that lets people buy prepaid and postpaid electricity tokens - plus airtime, data and TV subscriptions - online and through its mobile app, 24/7. Founded in 2016 in Abuja after its founders grew tired of queueing at utility offices, it integrates directly with Nigeria's electricity distribution companies (DisCos) and has grown into a cash-flow-positive business reporting roughly $20.6M in revenue by the end of 2024. It was the first company from Northern Nigeria backed by Y Combinator (W17).
Kyle Moore
Kyle Moore is co-founder and Software Fellow at Pyka, the Alameda, California company building the world's largest commercially-approved autonomous electric aircraft. A self-taught programmer who started writing code at age 11 from rural Washington, Moore brought firmware and robotics expertise from Google X to help design Pyka's Pelican — a 1,320-lb autonomous electric aircraft now spraying crops across four continents and delivering cargo for the U.S. Air Force. Pyka has raised $95M in total funding and achieved back-to-back FAA authorizations for the largest uncrewed aircraft systems in U.S. commercial history.
Sarthak Jain
Sarthak Jain is the CEO and co-founder of Nanonets, a San Francisco-based AI company that automates document-heavy business workflows for enterprises. A two-time founder and IIT Gandhinagar gold medalist, he previously built and sold Cubeit to Myntra before launching Nanonets through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch. Under his leadership, Nanonets grew from an OCR tool to a $100M ARR autonomous AI agents platform serving over a third of the Global Fortune 500 - with just 130 employees.