Most of the investors and advisors in our fund are full-time engineering leaders. Naturally, we're focused narrowly on the infrastructure, data and machine learning categories, where we represent the ideal customer, and thus can be most helpful to founders, functioning as an engaged, always-on informal product and go-to-market advisory board.
Erhan Ciris is the co-founder and CEO of 4D Sight. Previsouly he was a member of IAB Tech Lab, and President of the VR AR Association.
4D Sight creates virtual billboards for e-sports leagues. Audiences see ads, gamers do not. As such, the company acts as a stream monetization platform for e-sports and streamers. The company’s technology inserts ads into the game environment in real-time but doesn’t require any integration with the game engine, and doesn’t interfere with gamers’ experience either.
Erhan Ciris is the co-founder and CEO of 4D Sight. Previsouly he was a member of IAB Tech Lab, and President of the VR AR Association.
Airfold is a real-time data platform that enables developers to ingest unstructured and structured data, query it with SQL and publish the results as APIs to share with other teams.
Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Alectio. A data science leader and a data strategist, she takes great pleasure in envisioning the future of data science. She is particularly skilled in growing and managing early-stage data teams, and is highly comfortable managing hybrid teams, including product managers, data scientists, data analysts and engineers across the board.
Alectio is the first Data Prep Ops platform built for machine learning. Alectio uses active learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning and generative models, to identify the right training data to increase machine learning model performance while reducing model training cost.
Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Alectio. A data science leader and a data strategist, she takes great pleasure in envisioning the future of data science. She is particularly skilled in growing and managing early-stage data teams, and is highly comfortable managing hybrid teams, including product managers, data scientists, data analysts and engineers across the board.
Ben Burkert is the Co-founder and CTO of Anchor. He was previously a Software Engineer at Heroku, GitHub, and Cloudflare.
Wesley Beary is the co-founder and CEO of Anchor where he creates exceptional developer experiences. He was a Devex Advisor for Ubicloud, an Architect of Engineering Practices & Culture at Salesforce/Heroku, and a Developer Advocate at Engine Yard,
Anchor delivers effortless encryption for backend infrastructure. Native tools and packages drop seamlessly into any development environment and infrastructure. Our fully hosted SaaS solution means never running additional services yourself. With our new approach to X.509 certificate management removes operational toil while freeing up developer cycles.
Ben Burkert is the Co-founder and CTO of Anchor. He was previously a Software Engineer at Heroku, GitHub, and Cloudflare.
Wesley Beary is the co-founder and CEO of Anchor where he creates exceptional developer experiences. He was a Devex Advisor for Ubicloud, an Architect of Engineering Practices & Culture at Salesforce/Heroku, and a Developer Advocate at Engine Yard,
Sergei Egorov is the co-founder and CEO of AtomicJar. He was previously a member of the Spring Open Source team at Pivotal/VMware, and earlier an SRE/Engineer at Zalando, N26, TransferWise, and another dev tools company ZeroTurnaround. He is also a Java Champion and Apache Committer.
Eli is the co-founder of AtomicJar. He started his career as one of the first-50 engineers at AWS, working on the launch team of S3 and Mechanical Turk. Most recently Eli was a GM of Cloud Products and Alliances at Pivotal Software and VMware’s Tanzu division (post acquisition) where he (among other things) led the work with Microsoft to create a first-party managed-service for Spring on Azure: Azure Spring Apps
AtomicJar transforms how teams create software with products that empower developers to iterate faster and ship with confidence, just as infrastructure has taken control away from developers and made it painful to work locally.
Sergei Egorov is the co-founder and CEO of AtomicJar. He was previously a member of the Spring Open Source team at Pivotal/VMware, and earlier an SRE/Engineer at Zalando, N26, TransferWise, and another dev tools company ZeroTurnaround. He is also a Java Champion and Apache Committer.
Eli is the co-founder of AtomicJar. He started his career as one of the first-50 engineers at AWS, working on the launch team of S3 and Mechanical Turk. Most recently Eli was a GM of Cloud Products and Alliances at Pivotal Software and VMware’s Tanzu division (post acquisition) where he (among other things) led the work with Microsoft to create a first-party managed-service for Spring on Azure: Azure Spring Apps
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder of Bubble. Born in Paris, he studied computer science and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is committed to breaking the economic limits of technology and devising solutions that enable innovation and product development without coding software.
Joshua Haas is the co-founder and lead engineer of Bubble. After studying at Harvard, he worked for Bridgewater Associates, an asset management firm; and then founded a company called KeywordSmart, a platform to help photographers organize their photo libraries.
Bubble is a no-code software development platform that empowers people without programming skills to design, develop, and launch their own applications, tech products, or tools for solving their business problems.
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder of Bubble. Born in Paris, he studied computer science and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is committed to breaking the economic limits of technology and devising solutions that enable innovation and product development without coding software.
Joshua Haas is the co-founder and lead engineer of Bubble. After studying at Harvard, he worked for Bridgewater Associates, an asset management firm; and then founded a company called KeywordSmart, a platform to help photographers organize their photo libraries.
Melanie is the co-founder and CEO at Canva, an innovative online design and publishing tool. As CEO, she raised one of Australia’s largest early stage investment rounds. Canva has been growing rapidly since its launch in August 2013 and is now empowering millions of people from every corner of the globe to create great designs and reach their goals, whether that's landing a job with a stylish resume, getting their business off the ground by creating great marketing materials or connecting with their community by designing great social media graphics.
Cliff is the co-founder and COO at Canva, founded with Melanie in 2013. Cliff helped to build the company into the largest school yearbook company in Australia, then expanding it internationally. Since its inception, Canva has grown to have more than 10 million users in 179 countries and a team of more than 150 people across two offices. With Melanie, he has raised over $US 42 million in funding from top US and Australian investors such as Matrix Partners, Felicis Ventures & Blackbird alongside Hollywood celebrities Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.
Cameron is the co-founder and CPO at Canva. He leads the design and product teams there, focusing on future product directions and innovative experiences. Cameron started his own design agency before working with Lars and Jens Rasmussen — co-founders of Google Maps — to realise the design vision for their groundbreaking communication tool, Google Wave. He then founded an ambitious email startup with two other Google alumni before meeting Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht, and deciding to help them build the beginnings of Canva.
Canva is a simple-to-use online design and publishing platform that allows everyone to create professional quality designs.
Melanie is the co-founder and CEO at Canva, an innovative online design and publishing tool. As CEO, she raised one of Australia’s largest early stage investment rounds. Canva has been growing rapidly since its launch in August 2013 and is now empowering millions of people from every corner of the globe to create great designs and reach their goals, whether that's landing a job with a stylish resume, getting their business off the ground by creating great marketing materials or connecting with their community by designing great social media graphics.
Cliff is the co-founder and COO at Canva, founded with Melanie in 2013. Cliff helped to build the company into the largest school yearbook company in Australia, then expanding it internationally. Since its inception, Canva has grown to have more than 10 million users in 179 countries and a team of more than 150 people across two offices. With Melanie, he has raised over $US 42 million in funding from top US and Australian investors such as Matrix Partners, Felicis Ventures & Blackbird alongside Hollywood celebrities Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.
Cameron is the co-founder and CPO at Canva. He leads the design and product teams there, focusing on future product directions and innovative experiences. Cameron started his own design agency before working with Lars and Jens Rasmussen — co-founders of Google Maps — to realise the design vision for their groundbreaking communication tool, Google Wave. He then founded an ambitious email startup with two other Google alumni before meeting Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht, and deciding to help them build the beginnings of Canva.
Derek Bugley is the founder and CEO of Capability. He was previously the Head of Growth at Filtered.ai and an earlier Director of Product Management at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology.
Plaid for candidate assessment: a single unified API that normalizes skill assessment data with one standard connector.
Derek Bugley is the founder and CEO of Capability. He was previously the Head of Growth at Filtered.ai and an earlier Director of Product Management at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology.
Zan is the co-founder and President of Coherence. He previously worked as a Senior Sales Director at Braze, an Enterprise AE at Percolate and a Senior AE at Salesforce.
Zachary is the co-founder and CEO of Coherence. He is also a consulting CTO at quip. and previously worked as the CTO of Maven Clinic and a Product Management Director at Percolate where he met his co-founder Zan.
Coherence makes development teams productive by offering them a vertically integrated toolkit for best practice workflows that make deploying their software orders of magnitude easier.
Zan is the co-founder and President of Coherence. He previously worked as a Senior Sales Director at Braze, an Enterprise AE at Percolate and a Senior AE at Salesforce.
Zachary is the co-founder and CEO of Coherence. He is also a consulting CTO at quip. and previously worked as the CTO of Maven Clinic and a Product Management Director at Percolate where he met his co-founder Zan.
Laurent is the co-founder and CEO at Datakin. He was previously CTO at WeWork and VP Engineering at Spotify where he led the music recommendations team.
Datakin is an end-to-end DataOps solution for savvy data engineers and data scientists working in complex tech environments. It automatically discovers and traces relationships between datasets as they change over time, so that teams have the transparency and tools they need to quickly resolve issues or prevent them from happening. c
Laurent is the co-founder and CEO at Datakin. He was previously CTO at WeWork and VP Engineering at Spotify where he led the music recommendations team.
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Derek Osgood is the co-founder and CEO of DoubleO. He was previously the Director of Product Marketing at Rippling where he helped scale from early days through Series B. Prior to Rippling he led product and marketing teams throughout Silicon Valley, including leadership roles with BBVA’s fintech innovation arm, various startups, and brand ownership for some of PlayStation’s flagship brands.
Karthik Suresh is the co-founder of DoubleO. Karthik is a product and a technology leader with experience as a founder, an early startup hire, and a key player in defining product strategy, and finding market fit. He has extensive experience building products in consumer and enterprise domains across early-stage and established companies like Craft&Meta.
Double O enables non-developers to create AI-driven automations with ease.
Derek Osgood is the co-founder and CEO of DoubleO. He was previously the Director of Product Marketing at Rippling where he helped scale from early days through Series B. Prior to Rippling he led product and marketing teams throughout Silicon Valley, including leadership roles with BBVA’s fintech innovation arm, various startups, and brand ownership for some of PlayStation’s flagship brands.
Karthik Suresh is the co-founder of DoubleO. Karthik is a product and a technology leader with experience as a founder, an early startup hire, and a key player in defining product strategy, and finding market fit. He has extensive experience building products in consumer and enterprise domains across early-stage and established companies like Craft&Meta.
Tristan Kalos is the co-founder and CEO of Escape. He was previously the Entrepreneur In Residence at X-HEC Entrepreneurs and an earlier Machine Learning Engineer at source{d}.
Antoine Carossio is the co-founder and CTO of Escape. He was previously the Machine Learning Researcher at Apple and an earlier Cybersecurity Engineer for the French National Defense.
Escape is an API Security Company. We generate realistic requests and fire them at API endpoints in development to spot security issues before they hit production.
Tristan Kalos is the co-founder and CEO of Escape. He was previously the Entrepreneur In Residence at X-HEC Entrepreneurs and an earlier Machine Learning Engineer at source{d}.
Antoine Carossio is the co-founder and CTO of Escape. He was previously the Machine Learning Researcher at Apple and an earlier Cybersecurity Engineer for the French National Defense.
Etai Avrahami is the Co-Founder and CTO of FlyCode. He was previously the Chief Software Architect at Dropit Shopping and earlier as the Senior Software Developer at Leverate.
FlyCode helps subscription-based businesses recover lost revenue from failed payments and reduce churn. Our platform automates retries, charges alternate cards, and optimizes recovery to maximize retention.
Etai Avrahami is the Co-Founder and CTO of FlyCode. He was previously the Chief Software Architect at Dropit Shopping and earlier as the Senior Software Developer at Leverate.
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Kurrent is an open-source state-transition database, for businesses to uncover the true potential of their source data.
Eyal is the co-founder and CEO at Lunar. Eyal has extensive experience in cyber security and team leadership with a decade of experience as a cyber security engineer and leader of teams in the IDF before transitioning to the private sector. There, Eyal leveraged his expertise to drive global sales and build a new business unit in a cybersecurity company. Eyal is passionate about helping organizations to manage and optimize their 3rd party API consumption.
Roy Gabbay is the co-founder and CTO at Lunar, where he leverages his extensive experience in full-stack development and cloud infrastructure development to drive the company's technological advancements. A seasoned security researcher, Roy has a wealth of knowledge in cybersecurity and has led an R&D group in a top-tier cybersecurity company. As a tech enthusiast, Roy is passionate about discussing the latest technological trends and advancements.
Lunar's mission is to enable engineering teams to control 3rd party API consumption in production environments, and reducing costs, optimizing performance and building resilience. Lunar, co-exists with your infrastructure and shines a light on 3rd party API issues, enabling real-time fixes in production, alerts and recommendations.
Eyal is the co-founder and CEO at Lunar. Eyal has extensive experience in cyber security and team leadership with a decade of experience as a cyber security engineer and leader of teams in the IDF before transitioning to the private sector. There, Eyal leveraged his expertise to drive global sales and build a new business unit in a cybersecurity company. Eyal is passionate about helping organizations to manage and optimize their 3rd party API consumption.
Roy Gabbay is the co-founder and CTO at Lunar, where he leverages his extensive experience in full-stack development and cloud infrastructure development to drive the company's technological advancements. A seasoned security researcher, Roy has a wealth of knowledge in cybersecurity and has led an R&D group in a top-tier cybersecurity company. As a tech enthusiast, Roy is passionate about discussing the latest technological trends and advancements.
Waleed Atallah is the Co-founder and CEO of Mako. He previously worked as a Product Manager at Untheter AI and Intel.
Lukasz Dudziak is the Co-founder and CTO of Mako. Prior to his role at Mako, he was an AI researcher and engineer at Samsung Electronics and Intel.
Mohamed Abdelfattah is the Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mako. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. He previously worked as Principal Scientist at Samsung Electronics and as Machine Learning Acceleration Engineer at Intel.
Mako is an innovative compiler that leverages hardware-aware deep learning-based search to automatically select from the growing ecosystem of vendor-provided and open-source GPU kernel libraries
Waleed Atallah is the Co-founder and CEO of Mako. He previously worked as a Product Manager at Untheter AI and Intel.
Lukasz Dudziak is the Co-founder and CTO of Mako. Prior to his role at Mako, he was an AI researcher and engineer at Samsung Electronics and Intel.
Mohamed Abdelfattah is the Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mako. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. He previously worked as Principal Scientist at Samsung Electronics and as Machine Learning Acceleration Engineer at Intel.
Owein Dourneau is the co-founder and CEO of MecAgent. He is currently part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik as an ML Engineer and held roles in data science and software engineering at Metyis and PIMAN Group.
Guillaume Debregeas is the co-founder and CTO of MecAgent. He is also part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik and held mechanical engineering roles at EXXACT Robotics, Ortec Group, and as a freelancer. Earlier in his career, he worked on electric vehicle design with Formul'UT and gained hands-on experience in CNC machining at Solmeca.
Alexandre Senet is the co-founder and CPO of MecAgent. He is also part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik and has worked as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer with Malt, Extreme Agency, Groupe DEMS, and Gruau.
MecAgent is an AI Copilot for Mechanical CAD Software. Built to boost your engineering productivity, it handles low-value CAD tasks so you can focus on real mechanical design.
Owein Dourneau is the co-founder and CEO of MecAgent. He is currently part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik as an ML Engineer and held roles in data science and software engineering at Metyis and PIMAN Group.
Guillaume Debregeas is the co-founder and CTO of MecAgent. He is also part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik and held mechanical engineering roles at EXXACT Robotics, Ortec Group, and as a freelancer. Earlier in his career, he worked on electric vehicle design with Formul'UT and gained hands-on experience in CNC machining at Solmeca.
Alexandre Senet is the co-founder and CPO of MecAgent. He is also part of the Ship It program at Founders, Inc. He previously co-founded Fairwik and has worked as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer with Malt, Extreme Agency, Groupe DEMS, and Gruau.
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Fastest, Most Affordable Graph Database
Andrew Firestone is the CEO of Mermaid Chart. He previously co-founded Watson Living and was co-founder and General Partner at Cavstone Investments.
Knut Sveidqvist is the CTO of Mermaid Chart and created the Mermaid open-source project. He was previously a Front-end Architect at inkClub and Construction Manager at Telia.
Mermaid Chart is building the next generation of diagramming and visual collaboration tools for enterprise teams.
Andrew Firestone is the CEO of Mermaid Chart. He previously co-founded Watson Living and was co-founder and General Partner at Cavstone Investments.
Knut Sveidqvist is the CTO of Mermaid Chart and created the Mermaid open-source project. He was previously a Front-end Architect at inkClub and Construction Manager at Telia.
Pablo Mendes is the co-founder & CEO of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Senior Researcher and an earlier Engineering Manager @Apple
Joachim Daiber is the co-founder of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple and an earlier Research Scientist at Lattice.
Lance Hasson is co-founder of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Software Engineer at Apple and before that completed a CS degree at Georgia Tech.
Objective, Inc. is a modern search platform that learns from human feedback.
Pablo Mendes is the co-founder & CEO of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Senior Researcher and an earlier Engineering Manager @Apple
Joachim Daiber is the co-founder of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple and an earlier Research Scientist at Lattice.
Lance Hasson is co-founder of Objective, Inc. He was previously a Software Engineer at Apple and before that completed a CS degree at Georgia Tech.
Antoine is the co-founder and CEO of Okay, which helps other engineering leaders lead high-performing teams. He built and led engineering teams of 50+ people going through rapid growth, in startups and public companies.
Okay is a company building dashboards for engineering leaders to manage high-performing teams.
Antoine is the co-founder and CEO of Okay, which helps other engineering leaders lead high-performing teams. He built and led engineering teams of 50+ people going through rapid growth, in startups and public companies.
Co-Founder & CEO @Otti, CTO @Greenhouse, Software Developer @Thomson Reuters, Independent Consultant @LendingTree
What if everyone knew how to succeed in their job?
Co-Founder & CEO @Otti, CTO @Greenhouse, Software Developer @Thomson Reuters, Independent Consultant @LendingTree
Oleg is the cofounder and CEO and at People.ai. Previously, he helped start and scale three AI/machine learning companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has a strong interest in data science, machine learning, and NLP.
People.ai delivers the industry’s leading ROI platform. It transforms business activity data into recommendations that increase the impact of Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
Oleg is the cofounder and CEO and at People.ai. Previously, he helped start and scale three AI/machine learning companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has a strong interest in data science, machine learning, and NLP.
Gilles Chehade is Plakar's co-founder. He previously founded the OpenSMTPD project and is a longtime contributor to major open-source initiatives. As a software engineer and IT architect, Gilles has worked across diverse industries, including security, search, distributed storage, email, e-commerce, and banking.
Plakar is an effortless open-source backup solution combining simplicity, security, and minimal storage footprint to set new standards in data protection.
Gilles Chehade is Plakar's co-founder. He previously founded the OpenSMTPD project and is a longtime contributor to major open-source initiatives. As a software engineer and IT architect, Gilles has worked across diverse industries, including security, search, distributed storage, email, e-commerce, and banking.
Play is the first native iOS design tool for creating mobile products. Design, prototype & collaborate directly from your phone.
Plural: Enterprise Kubernetes Management, Accelerated
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Popsink makes it possible to set up non-intrusive, incremental, real-time data replication pipelines in mere minutes.
Dan is the co-founder and CEO at ProdPerfect, where he fixes the web by analyzing live user traffic to automate QA engineering. Before founding ProdPerfect, Dan was director of engineering at WeSpire, making enterprise employee engagement software. Previously, he ran engineering for a number of startups and was a software performance consultant to Fortune 500 companies at Avanade.
Erik is the co-founder and chief revenue officer at ProdPerfect, where he oversees revenue and growth. Having initially studied mechanical engineering and political science at MIT, Erik transitioned from a consulting role with Stroud International to an operations and sales executive position in the startup HelmetHub before co-founding ProdPerfect in 2018. Erik's ambition is to use artificial intelligence to help large organizations and societies consistently identify truth from falsehood, and make better fact-based decisions.
ProdPerfect is an autonomous regression testing solution. It improves QA testing coverage and deployment rate by automating the development of end to end tests for web applications.
Dan is the co-founder and CEO at ProdPerfect, where he fixes the web by analyzing live user traffic to automate QA engineering. Before founding ProdPerfect, Dan was director of engineering at WeSpire, making enterprise employee engagement software. Previously, he ran engineering for a number of startups and was a software performance consultant to Fortune 500 companies at Avanade.
Erik is the co-founder and chief revenue officer at ProdPerfect, where he oversees revenue and growth. Having initially studied mechanical engineering and political science at MIT, Erik transitioned from a consulting role with Stroud International to an operations and sales executive position in the startup HelmetHub before co-founding ProdPerfect in 2018. Erik's ambition is to use artificial intelligence to help large organizations and societies consistently identify truth from falsehood, and make better fact-based decisions.
Eric spent 20+ years building, launching, scaling enterprise software products including roles as CPO at DrumG and Head of US Client & Products at SIX Digital Exchange. He's also a 6x NYC Marathon Finisher.
Andrew is the Developer of Prospective, an open-source data, and analytics project part of the FINOS/Linux Foundation. Prior to The Prospective Company, he was Executive Director at J.P.Morgan as well as the 2021 Grand Champion in the Hogs For The Cause BBQ Festival.
The Prospective Company is on a journey to eliminate the friction between data and decisions. Builders, consumers, and analysts of large and streaming datasets use Perspective, an open source data visualization and analytics tool, to seamlessly deliver and act on insights.
Eric spent 20+ years building, launching, scaling enterprise software products including roles as CPO at DrumG and Head of US Client & Products at SIX Digital Exchange. He's also a 6x NYC Marathon Finisher.
Andrew is the Developer of Prospective, an open-source data, and analytics project part of the FINOS/Linux Foundation. Prior to The Prospective Company, he was Executive Director at J.P.Morgan as well as the 2021 Grand Champion in the Hogs For The Cause BBQ Festival.
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Prowler is powering Open Cloud Security: allowing organizations to secure their cloud environments with transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
At Pydantic we are building cloud services and tools that developers love
Romaric Philogène is the co-founder and CEO of Qovery. He was previously the Site Reliability Engineer at Ullink and earlier co-founded Nousmotards.
Pierre Mavro is the co-founder and CTO of Qovery. He previously co-founded MySocialApp and an earlier Staff SRE Lead at Criteo.
Qovery is a DevOps management platform that simplifies and speeds app deployment and cloud infrastructure provisioning, giving greater visibility and control for improved performance and reduced costs.
Romaric Philogène is the co-founder and CEO of Qovery. He was previously the Site Reliability Engineer at Ullink and earlier co-founded Nousmotards.
Pierre Mavro is the co-founder and CTO of Qovery. He previously co-founded MySocialApp and an earlier Staff SRE Lead at Criteo.
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David Gu is the co-founder & CEO of Recall. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Perfect Recall.
Recall is the universal API for meeting bots. They offer a unified API to capture data from meeting platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.
David Gu is the co-founder & CEO of Recall. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Perfect Recall.
Aber Whitcomb is the CEO of Salt AI. Previously, he was the founder and CTO of Rough House Games and co-founded MySpace and Jam City .
Jim Benedetto is the CTO of Salt AI. Previously, he co-founded Gravity (acquired by AOL) and Core Scientific, and served as the SVP of Technology at MySpace.
Salt is redefining how teams build and scale AI by putting the power of advanced AI workflows into the hands of every member of your organization. At its core, Salt is a collaborative platform designed to empower teams to build and work together. Whether you're a data scientist, engineer, or non-technical team member, Salt enables you to harness the full potential of AI to create real-world impact.
Aber Whitcomb is the CEO of Salt AI. Previously, he was the founder and CTO of Rough House Games and co-founded MySpace and Jam City .
Jim Benedetto is the CTO of Salt AI. Previously, he co-founded Gravity (acquired by AOL) and Core Scientific, and served as the SVP of Technology at MySpace.
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Viktor Lidholt is the founder and CEO of Serverpod. He was previously the CEO and founder of Newstech, and earlier a Senior Software Engineer at Google.
Serverpod is an open-source, scalable app server, written in Dart for the Flutter community.
Viktor Lidholt is the founder and CEO of Serverpod. He was previously the CEO and founder of Newstech, and earlier a Senior Software Engineer at Google.
Kurt is the co-founder & CEO at Shortcut. He drives the company’s vision of making work more enjoyable for software teams around the world.
Andrew is the co-founder and CDO at Shortcut, responsible for providing product design direction. Andrew has has previously worked as head of front-end engineering at Intent.
Shortcut is a collaborative project management platform that streamlines and refines existing workflows.
Kurt is the co-founder & CEO at Shortcut. He drives the company’s vision of making work more enjoyable for software teams around the world.
Andrew is the co-founder and CDO at Shortcut, responsible for providing product design direction. Andrew has has previously worked as head of front-end engineering at Intent.
Advait is the co-founder and CEO of SuperTokens. SuperTokens is one of the largest open-source projects for user authentication. Prior to SuperTokens, Advait led a $1.6M Kickstarter campaign for a modular smartwatch - making it the top 0.01% of crowdfunded projects in the world. He has also worked in a $450M AUM VC firm called Lightbox VC.
Open-source user authentication that is quick to implement and easy to customize.
Advait is the co-founder and CEO of SuperTokens. SuperTokens is one of the largest open-source projects for user authentication. Prior to SuperTokens, Advait led a $1.6M Kickstarter campaign for a modular smartwatch - making it the top 0.01% of crowdfunded projects in the world. He has also worked in a $450M AUM VC firm called Lightbox VC.
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Marek Galovic is the co-founder and CEO of TopK. He previously led engineering at Pinecone as a principal engineer. Earlier in his career, he worked on fraud detection and forecasting as a data scientist at Shopify and applied game theory with generative methods in the computer security domain at CTU Prague.
Jergus Lejko is the co-founder and CTO of TopK. Before that, he was a Staff Engineer at Pinecone —building developer tooling, build & release pipelines, and managing multi-cluster multi-cloud infrastructure—and an Engineering Manager at Parrot, where he led product engineering teams and supported ML teams on the platform side to build transcription and LLM pipelines for legal use cases.
TopK is a cloud-native search engine for the AI era. It sits on top of your existing data infrastructure, providing a powerful retrieval layer. The engine is designed with native support for _true_ hybrid retrieval, flexible scoring and great performance for both large-scale and multi-tenant workloads.
Marek Galovic is the co-founder and CEO of TopK. He previously led engineering at Pinecone as a principal engineer. Earlier in his career, he worked on fraud detection and forecasting as a data scientist at Shopify and applied game theory with generative methods in the computer security domain at CTU Prague.
Jergus Lejko is the co-founder and CTO of TopK. Before that, he was a Staff Engineer at Pinecone —building developer tooling, build & release pipelines, and managing multi-cluster multi-cloud infrastructure—and an Engineering Manager at Parrot, where he led product engineering teams and supported ML teams on the platform side to build transcription and LLM pipelines for legal use cases.
Hiro is the founding CEO of Treasure Data, a SaaS company focussed on CDP (Customer Data Platform). His vision of delivering data warehousing as a cloud-based service drives all aspects of the company’s service and business development. Hiro is a long-time open source advocate, and at Red Hat was a catalyst in bringing together open source innovation and enterprise computing.
Treasure Data is a global leader in Customer Data Platforms (CDP) and enterprise data management. Providing the ability to aggregate and translate massive volumes of scattered and siloed data.
Hiro is the founding CEO of Treasure Data, a SaaS company focussed on CDP (Customer Data Platform). His vision of delivering data warehousing as a cloud-based service drives all aspects of the company’s service and business development. Hiro is a long-time open source advocate, and at Red Hat was a catalyst in bringing together open source innovation and enterprise computing.
Kaveh Khorram is the founder and CEO of Usage AI and he was previously a Software Engineer at LivePerson.
Usage does cloud contract arbitrage to help companies save up to 60% on their AWS bill in 5 minutes.
Kaveh Khorram is the founder and CEO of Usage AI and he was previously a Software Engineer at LivePerson.
Basel is the co-founder and CEO of User Interviews. A repeat founder who graduated from Duke and Harvard university, Basel previously worked at the Lean Startup Circle, one of the largest ongoing startup meetups in Boston. He helped bring the Boston startup community together to maintain their lead in innovation, providing members with pragmatic guidance on how to run their startups and fostering connections between like-minded entrepreneurs.
User Interviews is a user research platform which helps teams discover and embrace user insights by solving the biggest pain points in user research.
Basel is the co-founder and CEO of User Interviews. A repeat founder who graduated from Duke and Harvard university, Basel previously worked at the Lean Startup Circle, one of the largest ongoing startup meetups in Boston. He helped bring the Boston startup community together to maintain their lead in innovation, providing members with pragmatic guidance on how to run their startups and fostering connections between like-minded entrepreneurs.
