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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Trevor McFedries
Co-founder & CEO of Brud
Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.
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About Brud: Brud is a group of problem solvers specializing in robotics, artificial intelligence, and their applications to media businesses.
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Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO of Harness
Jyoti Bansal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harness.
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About BIG Labs, Harness, Traceable, Unusual Ventures: Harness is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Alok Aggarwal
Chairman, CEO and Chief Data Scientist of Scry Analytics
In February 2014, Alok founded Scry Analytics, a company that codifies different kinds of workflows in various industries and uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining as well as statistical analysis to improve their efficiency with respect to timeliness, quality, money earned, customer experience, compliance and aggregated risks. He received his B. Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1980 in Electrical Engineering and his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1984. After, he joined IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Since then, he has published 104 research articles and has been granted eight patents from the US Patents and Trademark Office. During 1984 and 1993, he also won two innovation awards from IBM. Futhermore, during 1984 and 1996, Alok served as a program chairman for a number of conferences, including Symposium on Theory of Computing, Foundations of Computer Science, and Symposium on Computational Geometry. He also served as a Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and was on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, and Journal of Symbolic Computation. Finally, during the fall of 1988 and 1989, he was on sabbatical from IBM and taught two courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and supervised two Ph.D. students.
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About Scry Analytics: Using Big Data Science and Analytics to Improve Work-flows.
Guy Caspi
CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Guy Caspi is a leading mathematician and a data scientist global expert. Guy Caspi has 15 years of extensive experience in applying mathematics and machine learning in a technology elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), financial institutions and intelligence organizations around the world. Guy Caspi led some of the largest government cyber and Big Data projects in Israel and other countries. In addition, Guy Caspi was the president and general manager of a leading division at Comverse/Verint Group. Guy Caspi brings substantial management background in leading innovative technological challenges from R&D through commercialization. Guy Caspi holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and MBA degrees in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from leading universities in Israel and the U.S.
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About Deep Instinct, Forbes Technology Council: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
Sahil Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder of Onera
Sahil joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2010. In the summer of 2011, he moved to Silicon Valley to help start Bain Capital Ventures’ Palo Alto office. Sahil is a strong advocate of social content discovery and data-intensive platform services; therefore, he spends most of his energy with early-stage companies in consumer, mobile and social. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil started Zodah, an Internet startup focused on improving consumer bill management. Zodah was a DogPatch Labs and First Growth Venture Network portfolio company and exited to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Prior to Zodah, Sahil worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
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About Onera: Onera is building the Onera Decision Engine—the cognitive operating system that harnesses AI to power the modern commerce supply chain.
Shreesha Ramdas
CEO & Co-Founder of Strikedeck
Shreesha’s an entrepreneurial executive with a track record of launching and growing products in competitive markets. He has demonstrated experience as a GM in the areas of product conception and development, growth hacking, go-to-market strategy and execution. Shreesha is currently VP of Corp Dev & Partnerships at CallidusCloud. Shreesha Ramdas was the co-founder & COO at LeadFormix, a marketing automation platform, where he raised the initial funding, built the company and contributed to a successful acquisition by CallidusCloud in January 2012. Prior to LeadFormix, Shreesha was a co-founder of OuterJoin, an online marketing services company and an early member at Yodlee, where he held the role of General Manager of Yodlee’s offshore development center in Bangalore, India.
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About Aavenir, AccuKnox, BuyerAssist.io, Cultivate, Enact Systems, Forbes Communications Council, Fullcast.io, Medallia, Metadata, Promethium, Revv, Rocketlane, Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
James Wu
Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap
James Wu is the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap Inc. He is a former Principal Architect at Baidu, Inc and Principal Engineer at Upthere. Mr. Wu graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.
Brett Granberg
CEO of Vannevar Labs
Brett Granberg is the CEO of Vannevar Labs.
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About Vannevar Labs: Machine learning products for the country’s most critical national security problems
Johnson Shan
CEO & Co-Founder of Black Sesame Technologies
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About Black Sesame Technologies: Black Sesame Technologies is an AI digital imaging technology firm that creates solutions for real-world AI challenges.
Pavan Sondur
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unbxd
The co-founder and CEO of Unbxd, Pavan Sondur is the architect of its global growth story. Pavan was previously a developer at NetApp and Gluster, where he built GlusterFS, its multi-petabyte open source file storage system. Pavan is passionate about technology, the internet and consumer behavior. Pavan’s views on the e-Commerce industry are frequently covered in the international media.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Nicola Munarini
CEO and Co-Founder of PKRS.AI
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About PKRS.AI: The future of personal coaching. AI powered, human enhanced.
Jerry Ting
Co-Founder and CEO of Evisort
Jerry Ting is a Co-Founder and CEO at Evisort Inc. He is a former Board Member at Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project and Harvard Association for Law & Business and was an Account Executive at Yelp.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Paul Johnson
CEO of Lemonaid Health
Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Lemonaid Health. He moved from the UK to the US in 2014. In the UK Paul’s entrepreneurial career started aged 17 where I was a runner up in a Daily Mail sponsored entrepreneur of the year competition and founded his first company ran from the garage of his family home. Later Paul founded and ran the UK’s largest online pet retailer and became Head of Online for the second largest drugstore chain. Paul continues to advise McKinsey & Company and others on e-commerce, innovation and business strategy. In the UK Paul was an advisor to the Government on Entrepreneurism and Enterprise.
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Allen Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitbod
Allen is the Co-founder & CEO of Fitbod.
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
John Fohr
CEO of TrustLayer
John Fohr is a Managing Director at Hawthorne Capital, focused on helping companies expand to emerging markets, including the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. John spent six years as a Senior Advisor to Lux Venture Capital Management, where he advised on international investment opportunities and technology deal flow. After working in the White House on the China Free Trade agreement, John drafted speeches and worked on economic policy for a number of U.S. presidential candidates. He has advised foreign governments on the security of their monetary supplies and has published on global petroleum security. John received his B.A. magna cum laude from Georgetown University, and his J.D. with Honors from University of Wisconsin. John also studied law in China while at the University of Beijing.
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About Hawthorne Capital, Sand Hill Angels, TrustLayer: TrustLayer is an insurtech company automating insurance verification with machine learning and AI.
Thomas Siebel
CEO of C3 AI
Tom Siebel is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of C3.ai. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Siebel Systems, which merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006. Founded in 1993, Siebel Systems became a leader in application software with more than 8,000 employees in 32 countries, over 4,500 corporate customers, and annual revenue in excess of $2 billion.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Giancarlo Maniaci
Co-Founder & CEO of ColorTV
Giancarlo Maniaci is the Co-Founder & CEO at ColorTV.
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About ColorTV, Estimote: ColorTV is a data and advertising company that provides data, discovery, and analytics solutions for connected TV.
Don Kingsborough
CEO&Founder of OneMarket
Don has been a serial entrepreneur for 30+ years and is Managing Director GM/VP Payments & Ventures at Capital One. He was formerly Head of Retail at PayPal, CEO of Worlds of Wonder and President of Atari. He was also the Founder and former CEO of Blackhawk Network. Don lives in Silicon Valley and likes to vacation in Hawaii.
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About OneMarket: OneMarket offers customer data management and activation that empowers mid-sized and emerging retailers to acquire new customers.
Stephen Balaban
Co-Founder & CEO of Lambda
Stephen Balaban is the Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda.
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About Lambda, Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Chris Mansi
CEO, Co-Founder of Viz
Dr Mansi is a former Neurosurgeon and the CEO of Viz.ai an Applied AI Healthcare company.They recently received FDA clearance for the first ever AI aided triage and notification platform, opening the door to AI in acute emergency healthcare. Chris is a clinician innovator, entrepreneur and optimist focused on increasing healthcare access, building and supporting great teams and improving provider experience. Viz.ai builds clinician facing products that enable and empower doctors, allowing them to provide the best care to patients, everytime, everywhere.
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About Viz: Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology.
Samir Vasavada
Co-Founder & CEO of Vise
Samir Vasavada is the Co-Founder & CEO of Vise. Vise is a venture-backed startup using Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize Portfolio Construction and Management for RIAs and Family Offices. Vise allows investment advisors the ability to provide tailored financial advice to each of their clients powered by proprietary Portfolio Intelligence making them smarter and more efficient. Vise AI is backed by Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund, Bling Capital, Great Oaks Ventures, and the Wharton School of Business amongst other investors. In his respective position, Samir is responsible for Operations, Business Development and managing a team of Engineers and Ph.D. AI and Quantitative Finance Researchers. Prior to Vise AI, Samir founded NYX Group, a technologies firm specializing in Marketing and Software Development. He oversaw an international team of developers and projects. Samir sits on advisory boards for several SaaS startups as well as a fellow at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He is also a consultant with GLG and Coleman Research amongst his own personal portfolio. He has consulted with firms such as UBS, BCG, Mass Mutual, Deutsche Bank and others on Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio Management and Infrastructure in the AI space. Alongside consulting, Samir actively speaks on AI & Fintech at conferences around the globe such as Money20/20, InVest, Raymond James Institutional Investors, AI World and more.
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About Vise: Vise is an AI-driven portfolio management platform for financial advisors.
Keyvan Mohajer
Founder & CEO of SoundHound
Keyvan leads the company’s management, corporate strategy and operations. He is also the principal executive responsible for SoundHound’s technology development. With more than 12 years of executive experience as a visionary entrepreneur
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Jeremy Born
Founder & CEO of CoinGenius
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About CoinGenius, NFT Genius: CoinGenius is an advanced intelligence and analytics platform specifically intended for cryptocurrency traders.
Paul Dabrowski
CEO of Synthego
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About Synthego: Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables access to CRISPR to accelerate life science research and development.
Eric Dahan
CEO & Co-founder of Open Influence
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About Open Influence, YPO: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Shikhar Shrestha
Co-Founder & CEO of Ambient.ai
Shikhar Shrestha is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai.
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Manu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Labelbox
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Co-Founder & CEO of platform.ai
Arshak is a technology entrepreneur having founded Launchpad.AI, Fellowship.AI, and is a co-founder of Platform.AI. He has delivered AI solutions for some of the largest enterprises in the world as well as multi-billion dollar quantitative hedge funds. Previously Arshak served as the Chief Technology Officer at Sentient Technologies. He has also been in technology leadership roles at Argyle Data, Alpine, Endeca/Oracle.
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About Launchpad.AI, platform.ai, Startup.ML: platform allows domain experts to produce high-quality labels for AI applications in minutes in a visual, interactive fashion.
Lukas Biewald
Co-founder & CEO of Weights & Biases
Lukas Biewald is the CEO and the Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. He is an expert-level Go player.
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Maria Artunduaga
Founder and CEO of Respira Labs
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About Respira Labs: Respira Labs is building an AI-powered sensor platform to track, predict, and prevent chronic lung disease.
Vladimir Novakovski
Co-founder and CEO of Lunchclub
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About Lunchclub, South Park Commons: Lunchclub utilizes AI to match people for one-on-one video meetings.
Kai Yu
Founder & CEO of Horizon Robotics
Dr. Kai YU is the founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics Inc. He is a recognized pioneer and leader in deep learning and artificial intelligence. He was the founder and Head of Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), the first and most established artificial intelligence R&D center in China industry. Dr. Yu is elected to China “Top 1000 Talents”, a prestigious group of technology leaders of the country.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Krishna Gade
Founder & CEO of Fiddler AI
Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler Labs, an enterprise startup building an Explainable AI Engine to address problems regarding bias, fairness and transparency in AI. At Facebook, he led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why am I seeing this?’. He’s an entrepreneur with a technical background with experience creating scalable platforms and expertise in converting data into intelligence. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, he’s seen the effects that bias has on AI and machine learning decision making processes, and with Fiddler, his goal is to enable enterprises across the globe solve this problem.
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About Fiddler AI, Pinterest: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Emrah Gultekin
Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch AI
Emrah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Chooch, an AI recognition and autonomous training platform. He is an entrepreneur and visionary.
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Matt Schwartz
CEO & Co-Founder of Afresh Technologies
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About Afresh Technologies: Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores.
George Sivulka
Founder & CEO of Hebbia
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About Hebbia: Hebbia is a cutting-edge ML productivity tool that supercharges knowledge workers.
Vlad Voroninski
CEO of Helm.ai
Vlad Voroninski is an applied mathematician, AI researcher, and entrepreneur, with thirteen years of R&D experience in algorithmic development. His PhD thesis in mathematics at UC Berkeley made fundamental algorithmic contributions to phase retrieval and quantum tomography, causing these topics to became an intensive focus of study in the applied math community. For this work he received several awards, including the university wide award for best applied math thesis award from UC Berkeley and the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize awarded to 3 out of 3000 papers for ”work that brings a fresh look at an existing field or that open up new areas of applied mathematics”. He was previously on the faculty at MIT and has solved open problems in optimization, quantum mechanics, deep learning and computer vision, publishing in prestigious math journals and top computer vision and machine learning conferences such as ECCV, NIPS and COLT. He served as Chief Scientist at Sift Security (acquired by Netskope), a cybersecurity machine learning startup, before co-founding Helm.ai.
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About Helm.ai: Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
Ravi Vadrevu
Founder & CEO of Kriya AI Labs
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About Kriya AI Labs: AI labs for future of work
Robin Bordoli
Chief Executive Officer of NextRoll
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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Satyen Sangani
CEO & Co-Founder of Alation
Satyen Sangani founded Alation in July 2012, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer. He spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, he was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Sangani holds a Masters from the University of Oxford and a Bachelors from Columbia College, both in Economics.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
David Zamir
CEO of Nana Academy
David Zamir is CEO and Founder of Nana Academy. David immigrated to the US from Israel in 2013. He learned how to fix appliances on youtube, then bootstrapped the company to $4M in revenue while fixing himself 2,500 appliances. With Nana — named after his mother —David aims to up-skill the 30M people who will lose their jobs because of tech automation with trade skills. Nana is a free online vocational school for appliance repair that gives graduates their first job and then helps them build their career through an AI-powered marketplace platform. Skilled trades are in high demand, but the current workforce isn’t equipped to meet it. At the same time, the U.S. is dealing with massive unemployment and underemployment caused by the pandemic. Nana is creating a pipeline of skilled tradespeople to meet the demand while also providing opportunity for millions of unemployed individuals across the country. We are backed by the Uber engineering founding team and other impressive investors. We’re excited to launch in new markets, make more investments in our in-person and online training efforts, and launch new verticals and product offerings. It’s a fun team as well — we have monthly BBQs with our technicians and are lucky to have an incredible office on the 11th floor of the beautiful and historic Oakland Tribune Tower (right off 12-street BART).
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Neil Serebryany
CEO of Calypso AI
Neil is the founder and the CEO of Calypso.
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About Calypso AI: Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of AI technologies.
Adam Bry
Chief Executive Officer of Skydio
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About Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Henry Shao
Co-Founder & CEO of Zippia
Henry is the founder and CEO of Zippia, Inc. Henry is a passionate technology entrepreneur who have started 4 software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brought innovations to the real estate industry through Movoto.com. Prior to founding Movoto, he co-founded MediSpark, which was acquired by iScribe and then Caremark, as well as Cranite Systems, a wireless security software company. Henry has also held a number of business and product management positions at Applied Materials and FormFactor. Henry holds Master of Science degrees in both management and in engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. https://www.zippia.com
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About Zippia: Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives.
Malinka Walaliyadde
Co-Founder & CEO of AKASA
Malinka Walaliyadde is Co-Founder & CEO of Alpha Health, the first Unified Automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
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About AKASA: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Diane Keng
CEO & Cofounder of Breinify
Diane Keng is the CEO and co-founder of Breinify, an artificial intelligence and contextual marketing platform for predicting and acting on customers’ highly dynamic interests. Diane is on Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, TechCrunch, OZY, and Inc. Magazine. Diane ran three successful businesses before she was 18 and is a noted software innovator who frequently speaks on the intersection of AI, personal data, privacy, and the future of smarter products. Prior to Breinify, she was at Apple and Symantec. She graduated with computer engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Breinify: Predictive Personalization at Scale
Ram Shanmugam
Founder & CEO of AutonomIQ
Ram Shanmugam is the Founder & CEO at AutonomIQ.
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About AutonomIQ: AutonomIQ is a cloud platform uses AI and ML to autonomously test, release and deploy software on any cloud.
Walter De Brouwer
Co-Founder & CEO of doc.ai
CSO & founder at doc.ai, Chief Executive Officer at XY.ai, Chair at IEEE, Stanford MD Admissions MMI Rater at Stanford University & Investment Banker at Lazard Asset Management.
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About doc.ai, Lazard Asset Management, Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine, XY.ai Inc., Yale School of Management (SOM): doc.ai is a digital health company designed for a new generation of medical research.
Jordan Brandt
Co-founder & CEO of Inpher.io
Jordan Brandt is CEO at Inpher.io.
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About Inpher.io: Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.
Scott Phoenix
Co-founder & CEO of Vicarious
Scott Phoenix is the co-founder and CEO of Vicarious, an AI company that is building artificial general intelligence for robots. Vicarious has raised over $135 million in funding from luminaries including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos. Prior to co-founding Vicarious, Mr. Phoenix was entrepreneur-in-residence at Founders Fund, and a CXO at OnlySecure (acquired byNetShops) and at MarchingOrder (Ben Franklin Partners). He is an advisor to Base10 Partners, Felicis Ventures, and 8VC in the areas of AI and hard technology investments, and a global advocate for the development of safe AI. He earned his BAS in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About MarchingOrder, Vicarious: Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence.
Krishna Kumar
CEO & Founder of App Orchid Inc
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About App Orchid Inc: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Vaibhav Nadgauda
CEO of App Orchid Inc
Vaibhav Nadgauda is a partner at Moneta Ventures. Prior to joining Moneta, Vaibhav was President of the SAP Business Unit at KPIT, managing a global portfolio of over $100 Million in revenue and a team of over 1,800 employees. He was co-founder and partner at Sparta Consulting, where he served as Executive Vice President and played a key role in growing the company to $100+ Million in five years. He was Vice President of Corporate Development and Global Delivery at Fujitsu Consulting, a Fortune Global 500 company, leading a team of over 1700 consultants globally. Vaibhav started his career 21 years ago at Siemens. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electronics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Management, both from the University of Pune.
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About App Orchid Inc, Moneta Ventures: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Kanjun Qiu
CEO and Co-founder of Generally Intelligent
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and Co-founder at Generally Intelligent.
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About Generally Intelligent, Sequoia Capital: Generally Intelligent is an AI research company that works on building human-level general machine intelligence that can learn naturally.
James Crawford
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
James Crawford has two decades of experience leading innovative software projects: empowering farmers with climate data at the Climate Corporation, working to get a commercial robot on the moon at Moon Express, making the world’s books searchable at Google, and managing robotics at NASA Ames Research Center. At Orbital, he’s using software expertise to create a whole new source of market data for all kinds of industries.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Kevin E. O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
Kevin leads all commercialization strategy and activities for Orbital Insight, as well as leading financial oversight, reporting and strategy. Prior to his role at Orbital Insight, Kevin was the Regional Director for the Americas, Global Banking & Brokerage, for FactSet Research Systems. Kevin joined FactSet in conjunction with the acquisition of Revere Data, LLC, where he was President and CEO. Originally trained as a software engineer, Kevin earned a BBA in Management Information Systems from James Madison University. He earned an MBA in Innovation, Strategy & Information Technology from the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Andrew Lockhart
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Fathom
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About Fathom: Fathom develops a coding automation platform designed to expedite medical coding practice.
Rajesh Kalidindi
Founder & CEO of LevaData
Rajesh has over twelve years of experience managing strategic sourcing and supplier management for large enterprises. He’s delivered significant bottom line savings through data-driven procurement practices for Cisco and Palm. An MBA with concentrations in supply chain management and information systems from Michigan State University, he is a thought leader on fusing human with artificial intelligence for procurement innovation.
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About LevaData: LevaData develops a supply management platform that helps control risks, reduce costs, and accelerate new product development.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO of Databricks
Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the original creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop. Ali received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 2006 in the area of Distributed Computing.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Andres Angelani
Chief Executive Officer of Softvision
As the CEO of Softvision, Andres is responsible for both the day-to-day operations and the strategic vision of the firm. He most recently served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Globant, responsible for the design and development of digital solutions while leading strategic customer engagements globally. His areas of expertise include product development, agile transformation, and gaming. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Andres founded and served as the EVP and GM of Globant’s gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as VP of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K. Andres has spoken at many leadership, strategy, and tech conferences and co-authored the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. Originally from Argentina, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Andres holds a Bachelors of Science in Business from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and enjoys cross-fit training, skiing with his wife, Laura, and their four kids, running and playing classical piano.
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About Alliance of Chief Executives, Cognizant Microsoft Business Group, Forbes Technology Council, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
Trevor Templar
Chief Executive Officer & President of Aviso
Trevor has a 22 year track record of executing rapid revenue growth for leaders in the SaaS and Enterprise software space. He has built high-performance teams that deliver customer value to the enterprise space. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Templar served as Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com where he led one of the company’s largest revenue-generating business groups with multiple years of 100% plus revenue growth. During this time, Salesforce.com’s revenue grew from $1B to over $4B. Trevor has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle, Baan and PTC where he led some of their largest enterprise relationships. Trevor has a dual masters in MIS and Accounting from Arizona State University. He also has a bachelors in mathematics and economics from St Xavier’s
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Mark Rojas
CEO & Founder of Proper
Mark Rojas is an American technology entrepreneur and product designer.
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About Proper: Proper provides AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping services to property managers and asset managers.
Gabrielle Chou
CEO & Co-Founder of Allure Systems
Gabrielle Chou is founder & CEO at Allure Systems.
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About Allure Systems, New York University Shanghai: Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eCommerce.
Ian Coe
CEO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Ian Coe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tonic. For over a decade, Ian has worked to advance the use of data by removing barriers impeding teams from answering their most important questions. As an early member of the commercial division at Palantir Technologies, he led teams solving data problems in industries ranging from financial services to the media. At Tableau, he continued to focus on analytics, driving the vision around statistics and the calculation language. As a founder of Tonic, Ian is directing his energies toward synthetic data generation to break down traditional data silos, protect customer privacy, and drive analytic efficiency.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Matthew Darrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Vivun
10+ year enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering product.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Sanjoe Jose
CEO & Co-founder of Talview
Sanjoe Tom Jose is a prominent thought leader in the HR Tech space and the founder & CEO of Talview. He is passionate about building technologies that make talent management at organizations more effective and efficient. Some of his innovations include AI-Powered Behavioral Insights and the world’s first Cognitive Proctoring platform. Currently, he is creating a new HR Tech category called the Instahiring Experience platform, which aimed at beating Hiring Lag with the use of AI, Cloud, and Automation technologies. A serial entrepreneur, Sanjoe founded Talview in 2017 and has been driving its vision and strategy since its inception. He is an author and well-known keynote speaker in the areas of AI, Entrepreneurship, and HR Technology. He has spoken at various international forums like Microsoft Industry Days, IBM Business Connect, StartupBridge, SEAAGE, PeopleMatters, etc., and featured in leading podcasts and magazines.
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About Interview Master, Talview: Talview offers a recruiting automation and education tech platform that enables schools to remotely screen, interview, and test students.
Sarthak Jain
CEO of NanoNets
Sarthak Jain is the CEO of NanoNets
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About NanoNets: NanoNets provides machine learning APIs to help developers create machine learning models.
Sanish Mondkar
Founder & CEO of Legion Technologies
Sanish Mondkar is the Founder & CEO at Legion.
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About Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Tim Tuttle
Founder & CEO of MindMeld
Tim is the Founder and CEO of Expect Labs, a San Francisco startup developing technology to power the emerging generation of ‘anticipatory computing’ applications. Tim was the Founder and CEO of Truveo, which launched in 2005 and became one of the Web’s largest video search engines. Truveo’s search engine powered many of the world’s most popular websites, reaching over 70 million users every month across 15 countries. Truveo was acquired by AOL, and Tim Tuttle served as Senior Vice President at AOL Time Warner, responsible for online video. Prior to Truveo, Tim was the Founder and CTO of Bang Networks, a company that pioneered the real-time web messaging industry. Tim has also held appointments as a member of the research staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the MIT Lab for Computer Science. Tim served as Research Director at Lucent Bell Laboratories where his work focused on high-performance computing platforms for Internet services. Tim studied at the MIT AI Lab and Lab for Computer Science, where he received his MS and PhD degrees. Tim also received his BS from MIT, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Tim has authored 18 technical publications and has been awarded several patents. Tim is a recipient of the Harvard Business School Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship and was selected as one of the 100 Top Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review Magazine.
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About Cisco, MindMeld: MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces.
Matt Ivester
Co-Founder & CEO of Hotshot
Matt Ivester is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is currently CEO of Kindr Inc., a company dedicated to making online kindness fun and easy. In 2011, through Serra Knight Publishing, he published lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. And in 2012, he published the high school edition of the same. Since its release, lol…OMG! has become Amazon’s top-selling book on the topics of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. He has spoken at various institutions around the country on these topics. Prior to writing lol…OMG! he started several companies, including a concert ticket auction site, a multi-million dollar investment fund, and a college gossip site. In 2005, Ivester graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. In 2012, he graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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About Hotshot: Screenshot technology
Dachi Choladze
CEO & Founder of Pulsar AI
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About Pulsar AI: Pulsar AI is the conversational AI for Auto Dealers that helps schedule appointments with no human involvement.
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Swapnil Jain
CoFounder and CEO of Observe.AI
Swapnil Jain is the CEO and co-founder of Observe.AI.
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About Observe.AI: Observe.AI is an Intelligent Workforce Platform that helps teams improve CX and agent performance.
Suresh Katta
Founder & CEO of Saama
Suresh founded Saama Technologies, Inc. with a vision to turn raw data into actionable insights that enable enterprise leaders to make timely and reliable decisions for critical business discovery. As the CEO of Saama, Suresh is responsible for the strategy, vision and the execution of the company’s long-term plan. Suresh applied his lifelong love of mathematics to solve complex data analysis well before the term “big data” became ubiquitous. Today, Saama is made up of intelligent, helpful people with a passion for math, data, and analytics. Since the company’s launch, Suresh and his team have built an extensive history of providing data scientist led solutions and services in the big data and business analytics market for top enterprise companies, and public sector agencies. Suresh has successfully launched two start ups, including co-founding GVI, which developed groupware applications and was sold to Netscape in 1995. His work has earned industry-wide recognition and he can frequently be seen at IT conferences as a discussion panel member and featured speaker. Suresh earned his M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Southwest Louisiana, and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering at the University of Bangalore in India.
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Muddu Sudhakar
Co-Founcer and CEO of Aisera
Muddu Sudhakar is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Aisera. Muddu was VP & GM at VMware and Pivotal from 2010 to 2014 for Big Data Analytics and Cloud Services. At VMware and Pivotal he had responsibility for a wide range of projects Big Data Analytics, Cloud Services, Software-defined Storage, Mobile Security at VMware. Muddu was co-founder and CEO of Cetas which was acquired by VMware in 2012. At EMC he was Chief Strategy Advisor & VP/GM for Cloud Information Services. His work involved Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Information Services at EMC. Muddu was CEO and Founder of Kazeon from 2003 to 2010, which was acquired by EMC. Muddu leads Kazeon to be a leader in Information Security, eDiscovery, and Enterprise Search markets. Sudhakar holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from UCLA. He is widely published in industry journals and conference proceedings and has more than 20 patents in Analytics, Cloud Services, Enterprise Search, Information Management, Distributed systems, Storage technologies, SAN/NAS, Server technologies, Virtualization, Search, Information security, Networking technology, and VLSI chip design.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Ryan Tseng
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Shield AI
Ryan Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Shield AI, Ryan founded and led a series of other successful technology companies, including WiPower, a wireless charging company that was acquired by Qualcomm. The technologies Ryan and his WiPower team created launched the magnetic resonance wireless power industry; technology pioneered by WiPower now forms the cornerstone of the Airfuel (previously, Rezence) wireless charging standard that has been adopted by over 200 companies including market leaders Samsung, Intel, and Verizon. Ryan earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida and his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
Manan Patel
CEO & Co-Founder of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Manan has diverse and rich work experience of over 20+ years in various industries across multiple disciplines. At Volansys, as a CEO and Founder, Manan is responsible for defining Business Strategies and Company’s Overall Direction, Engineering Function, Technology Management, Talent Nurturing and Leadership Enabling & Team Building. His expertise lies in identifying optimum technologies for solutions, architecture and design of solutions encompassing complete life cycle in the areas of Audio / Video and Convergence, Web Based Technologies, Renewable Energy, Consumer Electronics, Streaming Media & Surveillance Systems. During his last tenure, Manan held technology leadership roles in one of India’s leading Electronic Design Services Companies. As a founding team member, he grew the company to 700+ people with revenue in excess of USD 18M. He established and grew the Embedded Division to 250+ team members with revenues exceeding USD 8M+ in three years. He was instrumental in building Streaming Media and Surveillance practices. Manan holds Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University, INDIA.
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About VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES: VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Rakesh Mathur
Co-Founder & CEO of Whiterabbit.ai
Rakesh is a co-founder of Webaroo. He has been a founder of three technology start up companies in the past 10 years and also an early stage investor in several other companies. He was a founder and CEO of Junglee, whose virtual database technology led to the creation of comparison shopping on the Internet. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. He founded Armedia, which was one of the first companies with chip designs for the video component of the DVD standard. Armedia was acquired by Broadcom in 1999. He also founded PurpleYogi, now Stratify which provides enterprise solutions to the management of unstructured data. Rakesh is a board member of Geodesic, a BSE listed company whose Mundu Instant Messenger is used by millions of people. Rakesh was recognized as a member of the 1998 Upside 100, the 2001 India Today Global 100 and Junglee technology was given the Computerworld – Smithsonian award as one of the top five technologies of 1998. Rakesh received his MS from the University of Texas at Arlington and his B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
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About GupShup, Percipient.ai, Terralogic, WhiteRabbit, Whiterabbit.ai: Whiterabbit.ai develops software using artificial intelligence to detect cancer at the earliest stages.
Vishal Sikka
CEO & Founder of Vianai
Vishal Sikka is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides advanced technological software and services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to large companies around the world. He currently also serves on the board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI. Prior, Sikka served as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys. On August 18, 2017, he stepped down as managing director of Infosys. He quit as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys on August 24, 2017, when Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the new Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Infosys, Sikka was a member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, leading all SAP products and innovation globally. In his 12 years at SAP, Sikka led SAP’s product portfolio including the breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and all their applications, cloud and technology solutions. He is credited with accelerating SAP’s development processes, transforming its innovation culture and leading several successful product co-creation initiatives with clients. He is also the creator of the concept of ‘timeless software,’ which represents the renewal of products without disruption to customer environments. Sikka left the SAP board in May 2014 for “personal reasons,” and was announced as CEO and MD of Infosys on June 12, 2014. After three years at Infosys, Sikka left on August 18, 2017. India Today magazine ranked him #32nd in India’s 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
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About Vianai: Vianai provides enterprise artificial intelligence solutions.
Peter Szulczewski
CEO of Wish
Peter Szulczewski is currently the CEO of ContextLogic and previously a coder at Google, Microsoft, ATI, and Nvidia.
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About Wish: Wish is an e-commerce shopping app, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide.
Bindu Reddy
CEO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Bindu Reddy is the CEO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. RealityEngines.AI is a foundational AI research company that solves the hard problems that enterprises face in the AI/ML space, and packages that research into easy to use, pay as you cloud services. Before starting RealityEngines.AI, she was the General Manager for AI Verticals at AWS, AI. She started the AI verticals organization at AWS, which created and launched Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast, the first of their kind AI services that enable organizations to create custom deep-learning models easily. Prior to that, she was the CEO and co-founder of Post Intelligence, a deep-learning company that created services for social media influencers that was acquired by Uber. Bindu is proud to be a Xoogler (ex-Googler) where she was the Head of Product for Google Apps, including Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides, Sites and Blogger. Bindu has a Masters Degree from Dartmouth and B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI, Amazon Web Services: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Andrew Ng
Founder & CEO of Landing AI
Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera in 2012, served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board. He is the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, a Chinese language search engine, where he was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng is also an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. In 2011, he led the development of Stanford’s Massive Open Online Course platform and taught an online machine learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students – the initiative that led to the co-founding of Coursera. Previously, Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain deep learning project. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. In 2013 he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AI Fund, Coursera, Deeplearning.ai, Landing AI, Stanford University, Zunavision: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Jon Vlachogiannis
Founder – CEO of AgentRisk – Superhuman Wealth Management
Senior Executive with a 17+ year track record of successfully managing complex, high-risk, high-value projects through conceptualization, development, launch and product maintenance. Founded a company with just $100K, drove it to profitability and made it the biggest in the Mobile BigData space. In only two years, sold it to a public company (SPLK), giving a double digit return to the investors. Has tons of patents for distributed realtime databases. When not giving tech presentations around the world, Jon uses C and Erlang to design and build a database for BigData visualizations called LDB – that powers BugSense and handles data from more thousands of millions of mobile devices. In his spare time, he writes on his algotrading blog at http://Jon.io about Machine Learning, Forex algorithms and Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Jon started programming at the age of eight. He has worked for and with leading companies and agencies in the public and private sectors including P&G and NATO. His contributions range from photorealism algorithms to digital signage to cloud computing. Deep in his heart, though, he is an opensource geek and inventor. He won the “New Scientist” award for his next generation virtual machine (gNVM) at the 1rst eRA conference, gained 3rd place in a national web innovation contest held in Greece with his non-profit KarmaEffect.org, received a medal and distinction from NATO on electronic warfare and had the first advertising platform for opensource projects running on Google AppEngine. Jon can also be found teaching Python to the United Nations in order to identify nuclear explosions, guest lecturing at the Stanford or organizing Instagram exhibitions across Europe. He is the founder of ZeroFund and he likes building autonomous planes that (might) go to the stratosphere. Strong Competencies: • New Business Development • Client Relationships • Competitive Positioning • Big Data Analysis and Visualization
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About AgentRisk – Superhuman Wealth Management: Automated portfolio management & option strategies, all managed by A.I.
Devaki Raj
CEO and Founder of CrowdAI
Devaki Raj is the CEO and Cofounder of CrowdAI. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energy and [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. She noticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms in rural areas. This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which was picked up by Y-Combinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes’ Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Inc Magazine’s 30 companies under 30.
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Ken So
Founder & CEO of Flowcast
Ken So is the founder and CEO of Flowcast / Tillful, a Silicon Valley-based fintech focused on modernizing SMB credit. Flowcast is backed by ING Ventures, Katalyst Ventures, StartX and BitRock Capital, among others. He is a serial fintech startup founder with 20+ years in strategic partnerships, M&A & investment, investment banking, research, and engineering MBA from Haas, Berkeley; MSEE from University of Illinois – UC. So has a proven track record of originating and executing corporate development initiatives including acquisitions, venture investments, and alliance partnerships. Holds 11 patents with 2 pending. 2021 Speaking Engagements include the 2021 BAFT Virtual Supply Chain Finance Forum (“Supply Chain Resiliency: ESG, Inclusion and MBE”) and the 2021 Forbes Small Business Summit (“Capital Evaluation: Current Challenges & Solutions”).
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About Flowcast, Tillful: Flowcast provides an AI platform that automates and powers lender credit decisions.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Emil Eifrem
CEO of Neo4j
Emil Eifrem is CEO of Neo Technology and co-founder of the Neo4j project. Before founding Neo, he was the CTO of Windh AB, where he headed the development of highly complex information architectures for Enterprise Content Management Systems. Committed to sustainable open source, he guides Neo along a balanced path between free availability and commercial reliability. Emil is a frequent conference speaker and author on NOSQL databases.
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Ahryun Moon
Co Founder, CEO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Arye Barnehama
Co-founder and CEO of Elementary Robotics
Co-Founder & CEO @ Elementary Robotics, building affordable, intelligent robots powered by computer vision and machine learning. Backed by Fika Ventures, Fathom Capital, Toyota AI Ventures, and more! Previously founded Melon, startup in residence at IDEO, shipped thousands of units of hardware, and acquired by Daqri in 2015.
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About Elementary Robotics: Elementary Robotics is a robotics startup that built a platform for applying machine learning to the logistics industries.
Isaac Madan
Co-Founder & CEO of Nightfall AI
Co-Founder & CEO at Nightfall.
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About Nightfall AI: Nightfall identifies business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.
Jay Madheswaran
Founder & CEO of Butler Labs
Jayanth Madheswaran is the Founder and CEO of Butler. Jay was previously a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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About Butler Labs: Butler Labs uses AI to automated document processing and eliminate manual data entry.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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About Golden: Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Gordon Campbell
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Cornami
Gordon Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process. Mr. Campbell began his career as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager moving into managing one of the company’s largest divisions. He left Intel to found SEEQ Technology, which became a leading manufacturer and the developer of the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, Campbell founded and became Chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies, the world’s first fabless semiconductor company. CHIPS and Technologies was instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that early customers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell now dominate. As a result of his success at CHIPS and Technologies, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”. In his 40-year career, Mr. Campbell has also served on the Board of Directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm, and has founded, invested in, and been involved with a number of highly successful start-ups, including CHIPS and Technologies, 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate. In honor of this repeated success, the FSA named Mr. Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Connor Landgraf
Co-Founder & CEO of Eko Health
Connor Landgraf is the co-founder and CEO of Eko.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Gaurav Bhattacharya
CEO & Co-Founder of Involve.ai
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About Founder Institute, Involve.ai: involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Davit Buniatyan
Co-founder and CEO of Activeloop
Davit Buniatyan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Activeloop. He received a bachelor of science in Computer Science at the University College London, U. of London and is a PhD candidate at Princeton University.
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About Activeloop: Activeloop structures the unstructured data to seamlessly connect your computer vision data to machine learning models.
Kimberly Shenk
Founder & CEO of Novi Connect
Kimberly Shenk is the Director of Data Science Solutions at Domino Data Lab where she is helping change the way data science teams work through a Data Science Platform that accelerates research, increases collaboration, and lets companies productionize their models faster. Leveraging her past experience as a data scientist in the United States Air Force, a data science consultant helping small businesses and non-profits and then building the data science organization at Eventbrite, Kimberly will be talking about the best practices she has seen in highly successful data science teams.
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About NakedPoppy, Novi Connect: Novi is a technology platform that uses AI to ingest proprietary chemical information from chemical manufacturers.
Andy Dinh
Co-Founder and CEO of Blitz App
Andy Dinh is the founder and CEO at Blitz App.
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About Blitz App, Team SoloMid: Your personal gaming coach for League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Fortnite and more— powered by AI and built with professional players.
