Best Startup
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 San Francisco, California based CEO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence 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.
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.
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Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
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.
David J. La Placa
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Intellectus Partners, LLC
David J. La Placa is the Chief Executive Officer | Founder at Intellectus Partners, LLC.
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About Forbes San Francisco Business Council, HintBox.ai, Intellectus Partners, LLC, Orbital Insight: Intellectus is an exclusive, private MFO for Entrepreneurs offering Wealth Creation&Preservation,Investment Mgmt, Venture & startup Advisory
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
André Madeira
Co-Founder & CEO of Meemo
André Madeira is the Co-Founder & CEO at Meemo.
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About Meemo: Meemo is an AI-powered social finance app that lets users receive personal rewards based on recent activity and transfer money to friends.
James Kuffner
Chief Executive Officer of Woven Planet Holdings
Prior to being named CEO at TRI-AD in March 2018, Dr. Kuffner was the Chief Technology Officer at TRI. Dr. Kuffner received a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Dept. of Computer Science Robotics Laboratory in 1999, and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo working on software and planning algorithms for humanoid robots. He joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2002. Before joining TRI, Dr. Kuffner was a Research Scientist and Engineering Director at Google from 2009 to 2016. Dr. Kuffner was part of the initial engineering team that built Google’s self-driving car. Dr. Kuffner was appointed head of Google’s Robotics division in 2014, which he co-founded. Dr. Kuffner continues to serve as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development, Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Karthik Krishnan
Founder and CEO of Concentric AI
Karthik Krishnan is currently Founder/ CEO, Concentric. Prior to Concentric, he was VP, Security Products at Aruba/HPE where he managed their security portfolio that included the Niara acquisition and their network access control product lines. He was part of the founding team and VP, Products at Niara, a security analytics company focused on user and entity behavior analytics. Niara was acquired by Aruba/HPE in 2017. He has more than 15 years of experience in engineering and marketing at various hardware, software and systems such as Intel, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, PGP Corporation and Embrane. He has a Bachelors in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
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About Concentric AI: Concentric AI delivers data risk assessment, monitoring, and protection for corporate data.
Jerry Yue
Founder and CEO of Brain Technologies
Jerry Yue is the Founder and CEO of Brain Technologies.
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About Brain Technologies: Brain Technologies is an AI company that develops a generative interface allowing software to be in sync with its users’ intentions.
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.
Ted Krantz
Chief Executive Officer of App Annie
Ted has over 25 years of senior-level experience leading high-growth sales organizations across the technology industry. Most recently he served as CRO for global marketing software provider Kenshoo, where he led global sales and customer operations for three years. Prior to Kenshoo, he held senior-level sales positions at SAP and PeopleSoft. Ted holds an M.B.A, International Business and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
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.
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.
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.
Dwight Crow
Co-Founder and CEO of Whisper
Dwight Crow is a product manager at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Previously, he served as the founder of Carsabi.com. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at Whisper.ai. Crow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology and computer science from the [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-berkeley#/entity). He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Jon Carr-Harris
CEO of CRED Investments
Jon is a leading innovator in technology. As the founder of Swish Labs he’s built the largest distributed ecosystem spanning 30+ countries. Jon’s consulted with many of the top fortune 500 on innovative product opportunities and strategy. Jon has advised top startups including Airbnb, Kik and Khan Academy. Jon studied at McGill & Stanford university and has a deep background in product, economics and psychology.
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About CRED Investments, Swish: CRED uses artificial intelligence to invest in the future of talent. Helping realize the commercial & financial potential of talent.
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.
Moawia Eldeeb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tempo
Moawia Eldeeb is the co-founder and CEO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Nuno Sebastiao
Co- Founder, Chairman & CEO of Feedzai
Prior to starting Feedzai, Nuno was an engineer for the European Space Agency, and worked closely with several successful technology startups. In 2011, Nuno, along with his fellow co-founders Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro, established Feedzai to fight financial fraud with advanced machine learning technology. Fast forward to today, Nuno has been named the Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, shared a stage with tech leaders such as Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, and has been the driving force of Feedzai’s global growth. Under Nuno’s leadership, Feedzai has raised more than $282 million in venture funding, surpassed 500 employees, and continues to keep commerce safe for many of the leading banks, retailers, and payment processors around the globe. Nuno has an MBA from the London Business School.
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About Feedzai: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
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.
Pranay Kapadia
Co-Founder & CEO of Notable
Pranay Kapadia is a VP of Product at Blend Labs.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
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.
Adrian Turner
CEO of Data61
CEO, Co-Founder of new platform company in stealth. CEO and entrepreneurial business builder focused on leveraging platform economics and pervasive computing to disrupt traditionally conservative industries. Member of Accenture’s Tech Vision External Advisory Board. Member of Business School Advisory Board of University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Author of the eBook BlueSky Mining that analyzes the underlying conditions that have made Silicon Valley so successful in spawning new billion dollar industries. http://www.blueskyminingbook.com Past President and Chairman of Australia’s expat network Advance, with 25,000 members across 90 countries. 3 of the last 4 Australian Prime Ministers have been patrons to Advance.
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About Data61: Data61 is the largest data innovation group in Australia. Bringing together our Digital Productivity team and National ICT Australia
Brian Shin
Co-founder & CEO of Searchable.ai
Brian Shin is co-founder and CEO of Searchable.ai, a new kind of work search engine. Previously, Brian was a co-founder or early team member of 8 startup companies, 7 of which exited. He was recently a managing director on the Providence Strategic Growth team of Providence Equity. Mr. Shin has 20 years of experience building high growth technology companies and 12 years as an angel investor or early shareholder in over 40 technology startup companies, including HubSpot, Drift, Vesper, Misfit, Kayak, Sirtris Pharma, Frequency Therapeutics and Atrium. Prior to joining Providence, Mr. Shin was a partner with In-Q-Tel, a strategic investment firm supporting the missions of the United States Intelligence Community. Before In-Q-Tel, Mr. Shin was founder and CEO of Visible Measures, a venture-backed video analytics company that was acquired in 2017, and founder and chairman of Mustbin, a venture-backed mobile security company that was also acquired in 2017. Mr. Shin received a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
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About Mustbin, Searchable.ai: Searchable.ai is a developer of a personalized semantic search engine used to improve work productivity.
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.
Mike Chen
CEO, Co-Founder of Magic
Mike Chen is the CEO at Magic
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About Bettir, Magic: Magic provides a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.
Alex Senemar
CEO of Voxel
Experienced CEO and advisor working at the cutting edge of technology. Expertise in enterprise applications, healthcare, manufacturing, and AI.
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About Huma Therapeutics, Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Arvind Patel
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowzzy
Seasoned Silicon Valley executive and CEO with direct experience in managing multi-million dollar companies. Wide range of experience in tech management, raising capital, revenue growth and M&A. Tenure in technology has spread across many verticals to include Hardware, Contract Manufacturing and Software. His multilingual skills leverage his wide network. Current activity is to lead a next-gen AI platform to funding, product launch and rapid growth.
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About Rowzzy: Innovators of NVU™ a PaaS /A.I. Voice-to-Display solutions for eCommerce and beyond.
Shay Bloch
Co Founder & CEO of JOBOX.ai
Shay Bloch, a serial global entrepreneur, is the CEO and co-founder of Jobox. He is also a board member in a number of external startups. Bloch holds over 15 years of experience in managing business development, sales, product marketing, and internet application development for the tweens demographic. Bloch sold his first startup at age 27, and led his second, Tweegee.com, from a garage stage startup to a successful global company that raised over $12M in funds and within two years became the leading web platform for kids in Russia, Turkey and Israel. The company launched successful activities in Argentina and Brazil, and is heading towards the rest of LATAM and Europe. Today, Shay is the CEO of Jobox, which serves over 5,000 pros in 39 states and has processed over $1B of transactions on its platform.
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About JOBOX.ai: JOBOX.ai is a AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy. Jobox officially launched from stealth mode in April 2022.
Ravi Vadrevu
Founder & CEO of Kriya AI Labs
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About Kriya AI Labs: AI labs for future of work
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.
Paolo Privitera
Co-Founder and CEO of Evensi
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About Doochoo, Evensi, Lombardstreet Ventures: Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.
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.
Derek Schueren
CEO & Co-Founder of Akorda
Derek Schueren is the CEO and co-founder of Akorda where he is working to bring the market together to transform how businesses contract. Previously, he founded Recommind, a big data analytics company where he worked with Global 2000 clients, global law firms, and technology partners in the areas of eDiscovery and Information Access. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been named one of the top 100 Global Tech Leaders by Citytech Magazine. He is also an active investor and advisor to various start-ups with a focus on enterprise software and artificial intelligence. Derek holds a BS in Molecular Biology from Brown University and a Masters from University of Oregon.
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About Akorda: Saas, Legal AI, Contact Negotiation & Review, Enterprise Software
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
Gerard Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Winistry
Gerard is a Blue Chip & Startup CEO, Board Member, Adviser and Investor. He is a former CMO, with expertise in strategy, operations, Big Data, AI, Digital Transformation, Mobile.
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About Winistry: The Intelligent Mobile App Platform: “WordPress for Mobile Apps, plus AI”
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.
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.
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.
Hariharan Kolam
CEO and Co-founder of Findem
Hariharan Kolam is the CEO and Co-founder of Findem (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/findem). Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of [Instart Logic]. Before that, he was employed at Aster Data, where he worked on all features across the entire development stack, ranging from the kernel to BI application layer. Kolam holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India, and Stony Brook University respectively.
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About Findem, Instart: Findem is a People Intelligence company that helps you search for talent like never before and make amazing hires.
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.
Phillip Walker
CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Transcend Robotics
A serial entrepreneur who values hitting milestones for investors and producing scalable results.
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About Transcend Robotics: Transcend Robotics is a startup that develops ground-based mobile robots.
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.
Ming S. Zhao
Chief Executive Officer of Proven Skincare
Ming S. Zhao is a Co-Founder and CEO at Proven Skincare. She is a former Head Of Partnerships at NerdWalled and Private Equity Investor at Bain Capital.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
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.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
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
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
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.
Stefan Behrens
CEO & Co-Founder of GYANT
Stefan is a repeat entrepreneur in the digital consumer space. After spending almost a decade in strategy consulting driving large-scale transformation programs for international telco companies, he took multiplayer gaming company Aeria Games from humble beginnings to an acquisition by ProSiebenSat.1, Europe’s leading media company. As a co-founder of Invincible Brands, he oversaw the launch and development of two lifestyle brands (Natural Mojo and Hello Body) in the healthy living space leveraging the power of social influencers to drive growth. At GYANT he focuses on product, bridging the gap between engineering, clinical content teams and UX to deliver a compelling patient experience.
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About GYANT: GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and resources.
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.
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.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Mahi de Silva
Co-founder & CEO of Amplify.ai
Mahi is the Co-founder & CEO at Amplify.ai. Previously, Mahi was responsible for commercial activities for Opera’s consumer mobile products and services. Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010. Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded Frengo Corporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team. From 2002 to 2006, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Wireless and Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he built the world’s leading mobile messaging and mobile entertainment business with revenues exceeding $600M per year. Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.
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About Amplify.ai, Opera Mediaworks: Amplify.ai is the developer of the first enterprise-class Conversational AI platform
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.
Deepak Sekar
Co-Founder and CEO of Prof Jim
An inventor with 125 patents and the creator of Sally the Robot, Deepak is responsible for technology, products, and strategic partnerships as President of Chowbotics. Deepak founded Chowbotics in 2014 to make fresh food more accessible to all through the application of advanced robotics. Prior to Chowbotics, he was a Director at Rambus and Chief Scientist at MonolithIC 3D Inc. He received his B. Tech from IIT Madras in 2003 and PhD from Georgia Tech in 2007.
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About Prof Jim: Prof Jim is an educational platform that revolutionizes the education sector by using artificial intelligence.
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.
Roger Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of Computable
Roger Chen is working on a new venture and cochairs the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference. Previously, he was a principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where he invested in and worked with early stage startups primarily in the realm of data, machine learning and robotics. Roger has a deep and hands-on history with technology, having spent a past life as an engineer and scientist prior to working in venture capital. He developed novel nanotechnology as a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and spent stints as an engineer with Oracle, EMC and Vicor. Roger holds a BS from Boston University and a PhD from UC Berkeley, both in electrical engineering.
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
John Daniels
Co-Founder, CEO of NavTrac
John Daniels joined NavTrac as Co-Founder, CEO in 2017.
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About NavTrac: Next Gen Yard Management System (YMS)
Michael Young
Founder & CEO of Photon Commerce
Founder of multiple venture-backed and exited tech startups. CEO of Photon Commerce: AI for invoices, receipts, and payments.
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About IBM, Photon Commerce, Smart Focus: AI for instant payments, invoices and receipts
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
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.
Swapnil Shinde
CEO & Co-Founder of Zeni
Swapnil Shinde is the CEO and Co-founder at Mezi, an AI-powered personal travel assistant. He previously co-founded Dhingana, a music startup that was acquired by Rdio. At Rdio, he served as the VP of Product for international markets. Prior to working at Rdio and Dhingana, he worked at Yahoo as a Senior Product Manager, leading the overall vision for Yahoo’s web performance optimization products. He received a Bachelor’s of Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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About Twin Ventures, Zeni: Zeni is an AI-powered finance concierge for startups and small businesses.
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.
Lauren Kunze
Co-Founder & CEO of Pandorabots
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About Pandorabots: Pandorabots is a platform for building and deploying artificially intelligent chatbots.
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.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
John-Michael Scott
CEO of GreenData.IO
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About BloxNexus, Future Think Labs, GreenData.IO, MonstRpreneur, NoLoBlox, Sandalwood Ventures: Venture Builder bringing Corporations & Startups expertise in startup mindset & operational execution, creating the Data Driven Enterprise.
Amiram Shachar
Founder & CEO of Spot.io
Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst.
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Sai Prashanth Soundararaj
Co-founder & CEO of FloydHub
Sai Prashanth Soundararaj is Co-founder at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
Daniel Putterman
Co-CEO of Kogniz
Founder and Co-CEO at Kogniz.
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About Kogniz, PogoPlug: Kogniz offers leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to create safer, smarter workspaces using predictive safety.
Paul Mikesell
Founder / CEO of Carbon Robotics
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics develops robots for agriculture-related applications.
Eli Dawson
Co-Founder and CEO of StatMuse
Co-Founder, CEO at StatMuse.
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About StatMuse: StatMuse is a sports statistics website that allows users to search for players and view customizable statistics.
Taylor Freeman
Founder & CEO of Axon Park
Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with at MIT in 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.
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About Axon Park: Welcome to your new virtual campus. Empowering organizations and individuals to harness the power of XR + AI for learning.
Nicolai Wadstrom
CEO, Founder & General Partner of BootstrapLabs
Nicolai is the Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. And today one of the most active firm in the Applied Artificial Intelligence space. Nicolai launched his first business at 15, first tech startup in his early 20’s, and launched BootstrapLabs in San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. He brings 25+ years of operational experience as founding CEO & CTO scaling software technology platforms in VR (90’s), Internet, Financial Trading Systems (publicly listed on NASDAQ:OMX), Enterprise Software, etc. Through BootstrapLabs he has invested in, advised, and mentored 40+ companies and founding teams, helping them successfully build and scale proprietary technology, products, teams and operations Applying lifetime of operational, entrepreneurial and technology product development experience to support the BootstrapLabs portfolio companies to build and scale He is also a frequent speaker and mentor at top Universities and Conferences in the US and Europe on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Disruption, Startups and Venture Capital.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
Joel Hyatt
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Globality
Joel is a serial entrepreneur with broad experience successfully launching and scaling disruptive service companies. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyatt Legal Services, Hyatt Legal Plans (acquired by MetLife) and Current TV (acquired by Al Jazeera).
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Noah Ready-Campbell
Founder, CEO & Engineer of Built Robotics
Noah is the founder and CEO of Built Robotics, a company building automated guidance systems for heavy equipment. He founded the company in 2016, and has raised over $48 million from leading Silicon Valley investors including Founders Fund, NEA and Next47. Previously, Noah founded an ecommerce startup called Twice, which raised $23 million from Andreessen Horowitz before eBay acquired it in 2015. Noah began his career at Google, and he studied business and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, but his first job was working as a carpenter’s helper for his dad, helping to renovate old houses in rural New England.
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About Built Robotics: Built Robotics transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots for the $1 trillion earthmoving industry.
Matias Muchnick
Founder & CEO of NotCo
Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.
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About NotCo: NotCo is a food technology company that produces plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Matt Martin
Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise
Previously a civil litigator at an Am Law 100 firm in Minneapolis, founder of inbode, and founder MN Publius. Holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and a J.D. from UPenn in Philadelphia.
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About alesforce.com, Clockwise, LegalReach, RelateIQ: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Nathan Harding
CEO & Co-Founder of LUUM
Mr. Harding is Co-founder and CTO of Foxeye Robotics. He previously served as CEO of Foxeye Robotics and CEO of Ekso Bionics, a NASDAQ listed human exoskeleton developer. His technical and leadership skills were honed working at the Department of Energy, Carnegie Mellon’s Field Robotics Center, Berkeley Process Control, and the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. Nathan holds 19 US patents and has many more pending. Nathan received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and his master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About LUUM: Revolutionizing Beauty Service with Automation
Jim Kaskade
Chief Executive Officer of Conversica
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About Conversica: Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Zhifei Li
Founder and CEO of Mobvoi
Zhifei Li is the founder and chief executive officer of Chumen Wenwen, an information enquiry voice application for individuals traveling outside China. Prior to that, he was a machine translation researcher at Google and a main producer at Google Telephone Offline Translation System. Li obtained a doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Mobvoi: Mobvoi develops technologies in Chinese language speech recognition, natural language processing, and vertical mobile search.
