Robert Eng is Co-Founder and CPO of Pylon, the AI-native B2B customer support platform built for how enterprise teams actually communicate. A Caltech computer science and history double major who cut his teeth at Facebook, DoorDash, and Affinity, he co-founded Pylon in November 2022 with Advith Chelikani and Marty Kausas. The company - backed by $51M from a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator - has grown to 750+ customers including Together AI, Cognition, and AssemblyAI with 5x+ year-over-year revenue growth for two consecutive years.
Yuma AI is a Boston-based AI customer support platform purpose-built for ecommerce brands. Founded in late 2022 by serial YC founder Guillaume Luccisano (Socialcam, Triplebyte), Yuma deploys autonomous AI agents that resolve 60–93% of customer support tickets end-to-end — handling returns, refunds, WISMO queries, and order changes — inside the helpdesks merchants already use (Gorgias, Zendesk, Kustomer and more). With 100+ paying Shopify merchants, over 5 million automated queries, and a $5M seed round backed by Google's Gradient Ventures, Yuma is building the AI customer experience layer for modern commerce.
ZeroDev is a New York-based B2B blockchain infrastructure company that provides account abstraction wallets as a service. Founded in 2022 by Derek Chiang and backed by Y Combinator (W23), ZeroDev built Kernel — the first modular, extensible smart contract account — enabling developers to ship wallets with social login, gasless transactions, session keys, and transaction batching without seed phrases. By the time of its acquisition by Offchain Labs (Arbitrum's creator) in August 2025, ZeroDev powered 5+ million smart accounts across 130+ EVM-compatible chains for 100+ applications including Gemini, Crossmint, and DIMO.