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 United States based Founder operating in the Art space. If you think a Founder 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.
Itai Tsiddon
Co-Founder of Lightricks
Itai Tsiddon was one of the 5 co-founders at Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn. He leads two deals a year, broadly ranging from 6-60m in size (early A to Pre IPO). Itai serves as a board member at Lightricks, Frame.io, Homesome, and Standard Bots and led Forter’s Series E pre IPO fundraise with Bessemer and Felix capital joining his TS as a solo capitalist.
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About Lightricks: Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices.
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Brien Colwell
CTO & Co-Founder of HeadSpin
Brien previously founded YC-backed Nextop. He worked on mobile architecture at Quora and started and led the Android team through many international launches. He was also an early engineer at Palantir and a lead engineer at a number of data and mobile startups.
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Pieter Abbeel
Founder, President, Chief Scientist of Covariant
Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter’s work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.
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About Covariant, University of California Berkeley: Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.
Igor Jablokov
Founder & CEO of Pryon
Igor is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges. Previously at IBM, Igor grew impatient with the gap between the invention and commercialization of AI, and departed to establish cloud computing pioneer Yap. Five years later, Amazon acquired the company for its AI expertise and machine learning (ML) technology, now embedded in billions of Alexa-powered devices. Igor was subsequently awarded Eisenhower and Truman National Security fellowships to leverage entrepreneurial ecosystems in addressing geopolitical concerns. Igor passionately supports STEM career and educational opportunities. As such, he is a TechStars’ Alexa Accelerator mentor, was a Blackstone NC Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR), and founded a chapter of Global Shapers, a program of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Igor holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus, and an MBA from The University of North Carolina.
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About Pryon: Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management.
Scott Lynn
Founder of Masterworks
Scott Lynn is the founder of Masterworks. He is also the founder and chairman of [Payability](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/payability#/entity). Previously, he held the same positions at [Adknowledge](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adknowledge#/entity).
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About Masterworks, Payability, v2 Ventures: Masterworks.io helps everyone to invest in the fine art industry.
Chris Gibson
Co-Founder & CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Chris completed his PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in the fall of 2013 before taking a leave of absence from medical school (he was enrolled in the MD/PhD program) to found and grow Recursion. He developed the core technology underlying this venture while in the lab of Dr. Dean Li. Chris comes from a family of entrepreneurs, is a graduate of Rice University with degrees in bioengineering and managerial studies, and recently completed an intense course in entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB. Chris is also a Board Member of CureHHT, a patient advocacy group for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. Chris enjoys cycling on both the road and the trails that cut through Utah’s great wilderness,as well as spending precious time with his family.
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
April Koh
Co-Founder & CEO of Spring Health
April Koh is Co-Founder & CEO at Spring Care. She is a former Product Management at Shazam and Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Spylight. Ms. Koh received a bachelor of arts in Sociology and Computer Science at Yale University.
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About Spring Health: Spring Health provides employers with a comprehensive and effective solution for employee mental well-being.
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.
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder of Anyscale
Ion Stoica is a Co-Founder at Anyscale. he is also the Executive Chairman and co-founder of Databricks. Ion also serves as a professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, and as a co-director of the AMPLab. At AMPLab Ion has been leading the software systems effort, which included the development of Apache Spark, as well as two other high profile open source projects: Apache Mesos and Tachyon. In 2006, he co-founded Conviva, a startup to commercialize technologies for large scale video distribution, where he is serving as a CTO. Ion is an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), and the ACM doctoral dissertation award (2001). Ion holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. in Computer Science and Control Engineering from Polytechnic University Bucharest.
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About Anyscale, Conviva, Databricks, Databricks, Opaque: Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.
Michael I. Jordan
Founder of Anyscale
Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive and biological sciences, and have focused in recent years on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in distributed computing systems, natural language processing, signal processing and statistical genetics. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015 and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, ASA, CSS, IEEE, IMS, ISBA and SIAM.
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About Anyscale: Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.
Robert Nishihara
Co-Founder and CEO of Anyscale
Robert Nishihara is a fourth-year PhD student working in the UC Berkeley RISELab with Michael Jordan. He works on machine learning, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
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About Anyscale, UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.
Jason Chicola
Founder, CEO of Rev.com
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About Rev.com: Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
J.M Sawkat Akbar
Founder and Chairman of BJIT Group
Jem Akbar Shukat is the founder and Chairman of BJIT.
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About BJIT Group: BJIT Group is an information, communications, and ICT company that provides software development and information technology service.
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.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Rustin Kretz
Founder, Chief Product Officer, Chairman of the Board of Scorpion
Rustin Kretz is the Founder, Chief Product Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Scorpion. Scorpion is the product of Rustin’s vision. His dedication and leadership have been the driving force behind Scorpion and the foundation for its unprecedented growth and innovative approach to digital marketing for local businesses since 2001.
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About Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Eli David
CSO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Eli David CTO Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Existing solutions are limited in their protection: identifying only known threats or covering specific platforms, while exhibiting detection capabilities that are time consuming and far from optimal. As a result, there is a critical need for a new solution that can protect against brand new (zero-day) threats and sophisticated APT attacks in real-time. By applying deep learning, Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity, offering the same level of groundbreaking results that are exhibited when deep learning is applied to other domains such as computer vision. Dr. Eli David is one of the leading global experts in the field of computational intelligence, specializing in deep learning (neural networks) and evolutionary computation. He has published more than thirty papers in leading artificial intelligence journals and conferences, mostly focusing on applications of deep learning and genetic algorithms in various real-world domains. For the past ten years, he has been teaching courses on deep learning and evolutionary computation at Bar-Ilan University, in addition to supervising the research of graduate students in these fields. Dr. David has also served in numerous capacities successfully designing, implementing, and leading deep learning based projects in real-world environments. Dr. David is the developer of Falcon, a grandmaster-level chess playing program, which automatically learns by processing datasets of chess games. The program reached the second place in World Computer Speed Chess Championship 2008 relying solely on machine learning for its performance. Dr. David received the Best Paper Award in 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the Gold Award in the prestigious “Humies” Awards for Human-Competitive Results in 2014, and recently the Best Paper Award in 2016 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.
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About Deep Instinct, DeepCube, Nano Dimension: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
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.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
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.
Sam Strasser
Founder of Treasure Financial
Sam Strasser is the CEO and founder of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
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
Jay Casey
President & Co-Founder of Intellectus Partners, LLC
Experienced investor and financial professional working in various roles; including Venture & Private Equity investing, Portfolio Management, Trading, and Client Relationship Management. Experienced investor in Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Private companies. Previous experience with First Union, Manulife Financial, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, and currently Intellectus Partners.
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About Intellectus Partners, LLC: Intellectus is an exclusive, private MFO for Entrepreneurs offering Wealth Creation&Preservation,Investment Mgmt, Venture & startup Advisory
Genevieve Wolff Jurvetson
Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of Fetcher
Genevieve Wolff Jurvetson is the chief marketing officer and co-founder of Fetcher. Prior to co-founding Fetcher, Genevieve served as the senior director of marketing at Apartment List. She also held positions at various companies including Klout, Goldman Sachs, Brookwood Associates, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Delta Airlines. Genevieve holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management and a BS degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Fetcher: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
Chris Calmeyn
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Fetcher
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at Scout.
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About Fetcher: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
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.
Saket Modi
Founder & CEO of Safe Security
Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise cybersecurity platforms company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35under35, Forbes Magazine’s 30under30 lists among others. The Government of India awarded him with the title of “Champion of Change” in 2017.
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About : Safe Security is a cyber risk management startup that helps organizations mitigate cyber risk in real-time.
Ranveer Kunal
Co-Founder of Meemo
Ranveer Kunal is a co-founder 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.
Wisam Dakka
Co-Founder of Meemo
Wisam Dakka is a co-founder 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.
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.
Robson Araújo
Co-Founder of Meemo
Robson Araújo is a co-founder 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.
Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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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.
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.
Tolonda Michele Tolbert
Co-Founder and Head of Strategy and Culture of Eskalera
Tolonda M. Tolbert, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder, and Head of Strategy and Culture at Eskalera, Inc. She comes to the role with almost two decades of hands-on experience in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and culture change. Prior to that, she served as Senior Director of the Inclusive Leadership Initiative and Consultant for Catalyst, partnering with global organizations to build their capacity to create and sustain inclusive workplaces, specializing in D&I strategy, curriculum design, and implementation. She also led the Employee Resource Leadership Initiative (ERLI) with a mission to engage and connect affinity group leaders to share ideas and best practices while learning how to amplify inclusion. Previously she led special anti-bias projects at the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute and GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network). She was also a staff developer at Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility and a faculty member at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work teaching graduate and faculty courses on Inclusive Pedagogy. She holds a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, she is a published writer, independent scholar, and community activist.
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About Eskalera: Eskalera improves employee engagement, productivity, and growth to help large and medium-sized companies transform their HR operations.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Vibhore Kumar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unscrambl
18+ years of industry and research experience designing enterprise systems. 10 patents, 30+ publications.
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About Unscrambl: An augmented intelligence company that is creating AI-powered cognitive agents for the enterprises.
Mike Macadaan
Co-Founder of Urbandig Inc.
Mike Macadaan is the Product Design Leader at Facebook.
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About Ground Control, Meta, Urbandig Inc.: Off the beaten path experiences.
Higinio O. Maycotte
CEO and Co-Founder of Molecula
Higinio is CEO & co-founder at Molecula.
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About Molecula, Pilosa, YPO: Molecula closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI.
Dot Bustelo
CEO/Founder of Loupe
Dot Bustelo, CEO/Founder of Apple TV visual art streaming platform Loupe, recognized as a Creative Technologies/Entertainment Software Strategist. She developed Loupe in 2016 as a visual complement to streaming music platforms, featured by Apple and reaching #1 Lifestyle app around the world. An internationally-recognized Apple Logic Pro consultant, music producer, Emmy Award-winning sound designer, author and stage demonstrator of Apple software, Dot formerly worked on Apple’s Worldwide Product Team introducing Apple product software techniques to A-list artists, engineers and their producers such as Maroon 5, The Killers, John Legend, One Republic, T. Pain and M.I.A. After Apple, she went on to author #1 Amazon best-selling books on Apple software and online courses for Lynda.com and consulted to iOS and Mac audio app companies. An electronic music producer herself with licenses to Sony PlayStation, NBC, VH1, CBS, and MTV, she serves on the Recording Academy’s National Advisory Council of the Producers & Engineering Wing. In her spare time, Dot writes science fiction.
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About Loupe: Pioneering service transforming how art is experienced; #1 Lifestyle app in 64 countries on AppleTV/Fire TV/Android/PlutoTV/Samsung/Comcast
Andrew Ninh
Co-Founder and CSO of Docbot
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About Docbot: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
William Karnes
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Docbot
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About Docbot, UC Irvine Health: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
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.
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 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.
Peter Brodsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperscience
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Peter drives the strategy and direction of Hyperscience.
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About Hyperscience, Instinctiv: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
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.
Amine Anoun
Co-Founder & CTO of Evisort
Amine Anoun is the co-founder and CTO of Evisort. Prior to that, he served as a data scientist at Uber.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Jake Sussman
Co-Founder & COO of Evisort
Jake Sussman is a co-founder and COO at Evisort.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Ian Van Every
Co-Founder & UK Managing Director of Lemonaid Health
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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.
Scott Britton
Co-Founder of Troops
Scott Britton is the co-founder of Troops. Prior to founding Troops, he also founded Life-LongLearner.com and handled Business Development in SinglePlatform. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics at Princeton University.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Jennifer Bisceglie
Founder and CEO of Interos
Jennifer Bisceglie is the President and CEO of Interos Solutions, Inc. and Vigillence Inc., which are vendor and supply chain risk management (SCRM) companies that serve the US public, and global commercial, sectors. Interos is a leading provider of cyber security solutions and supply chain risk reduction to the Federal Government. Named the AT&T Innovator of the Year for its Global Threat Information Center (GTIC) ™ launched in 2015, Interos is renowned for its expertise in cyber security, supply chain risk management (SCRM) and network security. As such, Jennifer is a sought after expert on the impact of cyber risk and supply chain risk on US and global economies. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience in managing and mitigating risks in supply chains, Jennifer launched Vigillence in 2016, as the world’s leading supply chain risk research and advisory company. Vigillence provides a big data and analytics platform to proactively reduce supply chain threats for its global commercial clients by identifying risks based on each customer’s unique operational requirements and third-party partnerships. Vigillence partners with its customers to define their risk assessment posture based on organizational vulnerabilities related to supply chain vendors, partners and service providers; benchmark current risk profiles and provide “what if” scenario analyses; and provide its clients’ Boards, senior leadership and business managers with the knowledge required to make informed decisions on acceptable vendor risk exposure and how to allocate resources to mitigate it.
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About Interos: Interos helps companies manage risk and continuously monitor their supply chain and business relationships to avoid disruptions.
Banu Guler
Founder & CEO of Co–Star
Founder and CEO of Co-Star, the hyper-personalized, social astrology app bringing astrology into the 21st century. Fashion industry veteran, working with brands such as Diane von Furstenberg, Alex & Ani, Ann Taylor, VFILES, and Michael Kors. Began career as a graphic designer. After realizing the power of digital in the fashion space, shifted focus to creating immersive, digital experiences to integrate community and content into commerce. Studied psychology at NYU. Scorpio.
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About Co–Star: Co–Star is a real-time horoscopes bringing astrology into the 21st century.
Patricia House
Co-Founder of C3 AI
Pat House is the Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman at C3 Energy. She co-founded and served as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President of Siebel Systems. Patricia House is chairman of the Mary Mae Foundation and is a member of the board of directors of the Hewlett Foundation and The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Numaan Akram
Founder & CEO of Rally
Numaan is the founder and CEO of Rally Bus, a New Haven startup which combines crowdsourcing and event travel.
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Siheun Song
Co-Founder & President of Rally
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
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.
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering of Lambda
Michael Balaban is the Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Lambda.
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About 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.
Matt Doherty
Founder & CTO of ResoluteAI
Matt Doherty is the Founder & CTO at ResoluteAI.
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About ResoluteAI: ResoluteAI makes information retrieval seamless, helping you to innovate smarter.
Ankit Somani
Co-Founder of AllyO
Ankit Somani is the Chief Product Officer at HireVue. He is responsible for leading the Product, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and I/O Psychology Teams. Before joining HireVue, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an innovative chatbot and conversational AI tool that was acquired by HireVue to help deliver personalized, automated conversations for high volume recruitment. He has 10+ years of Product Management and Software Engineering experience at Google and Oracle. Ankit holds an MS in Thermal-Fluid Sciences & Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About AllyO, HireVue: AllyO tackles workplace engagement challenges, from hi to goodbye through the world’s first AI powered HR Communications Platform.
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.
Majid Emami
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
James Hom
Co-Founder & VP Products of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Eugene Izhikevich
Co-Founder & CEO of Brain Corp
Eugene M. Izhikevich is Chairman and CEO of Brain Corporation in San Diego and was formerly Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego.He is editor-in-chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed.
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About Brain Corp, Scholarpedia: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Allen Gruber
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Board Member of Brain Corp
Allen Gruber is a neuroscientist, physician, and founder of several successful technology companies. In 1993, Gruber co-founded INTERVU, Inc, a streaming video provider, which went public and was sold to Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: AKAM) for $2.8 billion. He founded Kintera, Inc., in 1999, and later served as Executive Vice President in charge of Engineering for Kintera, Inc., an online fundraising and marketing platform for nonprofit organizations. Kintera reached a market capitalization of $500 million and was sold to Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB). Gruber graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biochemistry and also with an MD. He attended Washington University for clinical and research training and was on the faculty of the University of Texas. Gruber was a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Neural Computation at UCSD in 2007. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Neuroscience, and IEEE.
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About Brain Corp, Intheon: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
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.
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.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Shlomo Zippel
Co-Founder of Whisper
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Bay McLaughlin
Co-Founder of Brinc
I’ve supported technology startups for the last 13 years. Half of this time was spent at Apple as a founding team member of their global SMB channel and as the founder of their first Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel. To support startups at Apple, I partnered with the world’s best founders, venture capitalists, incubators and accelerators to identify and solve their most pressing strategic issues. My team at Apple grossed more than $350M USD in sales and is still the #1 team globally in Apple SMB’s division. The other half of my career has been spent inside of or founding startups, two of which failed, one of which exited successfully. Currently, I have equity positions in 143 companies across 35 countries, ranging from B2B SaaS platforms to the number one website in surfing and medical and drone technologies that improve lives and our world every day (plus two Unicorns ;-). Most recently, I’ve co-founded Brinc.io, a global venture accelerator platform. We have 9 accelerator programs, offices in 6 countries, and 2 venture capital funds. We are also one of the top 10 largest early-stage venture capital firms globally. I also serve on the Boards of Brinc, Soundbrenner, SilentMode (combined worth more than $100M and growing fast) and the not for profit entrepreneurship society called EYES. I create content from the heart and only want to do one thing well… provide value to everyone that interacts with me and help everyone out just like others have done for me.
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About Brinc: Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in 7 countries.
Nick Cianfaglione
Founder & CEO of Artist Republik
Nick Cianfaglione people know as Nicholas Cianfaglione is an Entrepreneur, the Founder, and Chief Executive Officer at Artist Republik. Nick Cianfaglione was born on October 5, 1998, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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About Artist Republik: Artist Republik is a music business networking that allows independent music artists from around the world to take control.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Daeil Kim
Founder and CEO of AI.Reverie
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Paul Walborsky
Founder & COO of AI.Reverie
Paul Walborsky is the Founder at AI.Reverie .
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
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.
Sean Brehm
Co-Founder and President of Gradient Cyber
Sean Brehm is the Co-Founder and President at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Darren Morris
COO and Co-Founder of Gradient Cyber
Darren Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Gradient Cyber.
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About Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
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.
Surbhi Rathore
CEO & Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai, Women in AI: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Toshish Jawale
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Josh Troy
Co-Founder & CFO of Urbint
Josh Troy is the Head of Ops & Finance at Urbint.
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About Urbint: Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen.
Rene Bharti
Founder & Executive Chairman of Future Fertility
Rene has held several key roles in both public and private companies, including those in the resource, technology and entertainment industry. Rene Bharti co-founded ARHT Media, along with legendary singer Paul Anka, with the aim of creating the worlds most lifelike digital humans to conduct e-commerce in a unique and viable platform. Rene Bharti holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Queens University.
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About Future Fertility, Spend: Future Fertility is a provider of artificial intelligence tools for reproductive medicine.
Floyd Arnold
Founder of Full Swing Golf
Floyd Arnold is the Founder of Full Swing Golf, Inc. Mr. Arnold is a Pioneer of Indoor Golf. His impact on the golfing industry continue to grow as the full swing golf simulator expends its reach into the mainstream of both entertainment and golf industry applications. In 1986, marked the year he formed full swing golf and his quest began. After exploring various routes to achieve his goal for a realistic system , he invented and patented an ingenious design of tracking the golf ball in fight after impact with the golf club over a defined period of time. This allowed the participants to not only hit a read golf ball indoors but it also allowed the user to see a real-time visual representation of the entire ball flight exactly as it was happening. His invention is located in many of the finest golf facilities and organizations around the world including the PGA of America and the world golf hall of Fame. There are more than 3000 full swing golf simulators in operatinon around the globle that have been experienced by close to one billion user.
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About Full Swing Golf: Full Swing Golf is the Worldwide Leader in Golf Simulation.
Pradeep Elankumaran
Co-Founder & CEO of Farmstead
Pradeep Elankumaran is the CEO and co-founder of Farmstead, the new AI-powered digital micro-grocer reinventing the supermarket model with technology that sources and delivers local food from farm-to-fridge in 60 minutes.Prior to founding Farmstead, he spent many years building and running design and operations-focused consumer technology products. Notably, Pradeep led mobile video monetization and Livetext at Yahoo, managed the driver growth product team at Lyft and also co-founded a YC-backed mobile photo-sharing product. Pradeep received his BS in Physics & Astronomy from the University of Maryland.
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About Farmstead: Farmstead is an artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup.
Kevin Li
Co-Founder of Farmstead
Kevin Li is the Co-founder of Farmstead.
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About Farmstead: Farmstead is an artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup.
Rudina Seseri
Founder & Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures
Rudina Seseri is a Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI-powered technology companies that connect consumers and enterprises and secure the ecosystem. With over 15 years of investing and transactional experience, Rudina has led technology investments and acquisitions in startup companies in the fields of robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), SaaS marketing technologies and digital media. Rudina’s portfolio investments include Talla, Celtra, CrowdTwist, Jibo and SocialFlow. Rudina has been appointed by the Dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) for a fourth consecutive year to serve as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Business School, as Executive-In-Residence for Harvard University’s innovation-Lab and has most recently been named to the 2018 HBS inaugural group of Rock Venture Capital Partners. She is also a Member of the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College. Rudina also serves as Advisor for L’Oreal USA Women in Digital, as Director on the Board of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) and on the Board of Overseers for Boston Children’s Hospital. She has been named a 2017 Boston Business Journal Power 50: Newsmaker, a 2014 Women to Watch honoree by Mass High Tech and a 2011 Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 honoree for her professional accomplishments and community involvement. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and International Relations and with an MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies.
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About ChaosSearch, Glasswing Ventures, Harvard Business School, Inrupt: Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage VC firm investing in next gen AI and frontier technology startups enabling the intelligent enterprise.
Rick Grinnell
Founder, Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures
Rick co-founded TD Capital Ventures in 2001 and Fairhaven Capital Partners in 2007. He has invested and served on the boards of companies including: Brabeion, Bridgeport Networks (acquired by Counterpath), Dataupia, Everypoint and EqualLogic (acquired by Dell). Rick held senior marketing positions at Adero, Inc and ClearOne Communications, and held senior engineering and marketing positions at PictureTel. He worked for General Electric and Fidelity Ventures. Rick earned BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Harvard Business School.
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About Glasswing Ventures: Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage VC firm investing in next gen AI and frontier technology startups enabling the intelligent enterprise.
Gregg Brockway
Co-Founder & CEO of Chairish
Co-founder and president of TripIt. Co-founder of Hotwire. This fearless leader is constantly leaning forward and pushing us to do what seems impossible, but somehow manages to miraculously occur. He’s a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, travel freak and former member of the 1980s US Ski Team (complete with Miami Vice-ish speed suit.) While his first love is turning good ideas into amazing products that become great companies, it turns out he also covets Palm Springs modern. Other current obsessions include Maker Faire, mountain biking and tangerine swivel chairs. Gregg earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College.
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About Chairish: Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.
