In this episode, we speak with Amit Sharma, Founder and CEO of CData Software, a data connectivity company that helps organizations connect applications and analytics tools to enterprise data across 350+ sources. CData provides real-time data access and data replication through a single platform used to reduce data silos and simplify integration across SaaS, databases, and big data environments. CData’s platform is used by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, including organizations such as Office Depot, Bayer, FedEx, and Intel.

Amit founded CData and has led the company since 2014 after serving as CTO from 2010 to 2014. He oversees CData’s technical platform and business strategy.

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In this episode, we speak with Ray Villeneuve, CEO and board director of BriteCore, a cloud-native core insurance platform built for property and casualty insurers and MGAs. BriteCore supports policy administration, billing, and claims in a unified system, with configuration tools to launch new products and built-in reporting and analytics. The platform also includes portals for agents and policyholders, and is used by more than 100 insurers across North America.

Ray has served as CEO and a board director at BriteCore since 2021. His background is in scaling SaaS businesses, with work spanning go-to-market execution, product roadmap planning, and company-building.

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In this episode, we speak with Anthony Deighton, CEO of Tamr, an AI-native master data management (MDM) solution that unifies, cleans, and enriches fragmented enterprise data to produce “golden records” for generative AI initiatives, automation, and decision-making. Tamr’s patented approach combines machine learning and AI agents with human refinement and oversight, delivering value in days or weeks and giving organizations 360-degree views that link data across silos in real time.

Anthony previously served as Tamr’s chief product officer and general manager for data products, and earlier held senior leadership roles at Celonis and Qlik focused on enterprise data and software growth. 

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In this episode, we speak with Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling, an AI translation platform built to help organizations translate and localize content across channels. Smartling’s LanguageAI™ combines AI and machine learning to automate parts of the translation workflow, integrate with existing tech stacks, and support translation quality at scale. The platform is used by hundreds of brands, including OpenAI, Apple, Disney, Shopify, Pinterest, Pepsi, and Verizon.

Bryan is a three-time CEO with a background in e-commerce and SaaS leadership, including roles at eBay and as Co-Founder and CEO of WHI Solutions, an automotive e-commerce platform acquired by eBay in 2012.

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In this episode, we speak with Edris Bemanian, CEO and board member of Engage3, a retail pricing and analytics company that helps retailers and brands understand and optimize their Price Image. Engage3 combines competitive pricing data, predictive analytics, and price optimization models to help retailers balance customer perception, margin performance, and store traffic. Its platform is used across grocery, convenience, mass, and specialty retail to support localized pricing decisions in highly competitive markets.

Engage3 works with many of the world’s largest retailers and consumer brands, providing tools that connect pricing strategy with consumer behavior and trade promotion effectiveness. Edris brings a long-standing background in pricing analytics and consumer behavior to the company’s leadership.

Edris supports Learn To Be and Kindling Smiles.

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In this episode, we speak with Trevor Kaufman, CEO of Piano, a digital experience platform that helps organizations understand customer behavior and deliver personalized experiences across channels. Piano unifies customer data, analyzes engagement and behavior metrics, and enables companies to tailor content, offers, and journeys in real time. The platform is widely used by global media, aviation, financial services, and retail organizations managing direct-to-consumer relationships at scale.

Kaufman joined Piano’s founding team in its early days as Tinypass and helped grow the business before leading its evolution through a series of acquisitions that expanded its analytics, personalization, and engagement capabilities. Under his leadership, Piano has scaled into a global platform serving publishers and enterprises navigating subscription, engagement, and monetization challenges.

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In this episode, we speak with Ken Claffey, President and CEO of VDURA, a company building data infrastructure for high-performance computing and AI workloads. VDURA’s platform is built on the PanFS parallel file system and combines flash-first performance, software-defined services, and a global namespace to support on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The company serves more than 1,000 organizations operating AI pipelines, digital twins, and large-scale scientific and enterprise compute.

Claffey joined the company to lead its evolution from a hardware appliance model to a software-first platform and to align PanFS with emerging AI use cases. He focuses on connecting product strategy, architecture, and customer requirements as organizations scale their compute environments.

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In this episode, we speak with Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, a company developing high-performance AI compute infrastructure for training and inference. Cerebras is known for its Wafer Scale Engine—currently the largest processor built for AI—and for its CS-3 systems, which can be clustered into some of the world’s largest AI supercomputers. Enterprises, research institutions, and government agencies use Cerebras technology on-premise and through the Cerebras Cloud to accelerate model development, real-time inference, and large-scale experimentation.

Before founding Cerebras, Feldman co-founded SeaMicro, where he pioneered energy-efficient microservers later acquired by AMD. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Force10 Networks and Riverstone Networks through its IPO.

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In this episode, we speak with Melissa Solis, CEO of Inbenta, an AI customer experience platform used by more than 1,000 companies worldwide. Founded in 2005, Inbenta offers a suite of Conversational AI tools—including Chat, Search, Assist, Knowledge, and Learn—that help enterprises automate user interactions, improve support workflows, and serve customers across 100+ languages.

Melissa brings more than three decades of leadership experience across insurance and technology. Before joining Inbenta, she co-founded GIACT Systems and served as CEO through its acquisition by Refinitiv. At Inbenta, she oversees efforts to expand the platform’s enterprise footprint while advancing safe, intent-driven AI capabilities for customer-facing teams.

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In this episode, we speak with Rajat Mishra, Co-Founder and CEO of Prezent, an AI-powered business communication and presentation platform used across Fortune 2000 enterprises. Prezent helps teams create structured, audience-tailored, brand-consistent presentations through a combination of AI agents, software tools, and expert services—streamlining workflows and improving communication effectiveness across large organizations.

Before launching Prezent, Mishra held senior leadership roles at Cisco, Mu Sigma, McKinsey, and Microsoft. He now leads Prezent as it supports tens of thousands of professionals across more than 80 companies.

Rajat supports No Kid Hungry and Sonia Nabeta Foundation.

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In this episode, we speak with Chris Sullens, CEO of CentralReach, a software and services platform used across autism and IDD care settings—from ABA practices to multidisciplinary clinics and PreK–12 special education programs. The platform supports more than 185,000 professionals globally and continues to expand its capabilities across home, school, and community environments.

Chris joined CentralReach with a long history of leading and scaling customer-centric SaaS businesses. Before this role, he spent a decade as President and CEO of WorkWave, where he guided the company’s expansion from a single-product provider into a multi-product SaaS organization serving field service and last-mile logistics markets.

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In this episode, we speak with Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Stellar Cyber, a security operations platform used by organizations in more than 50 countries by over 14,000 customers. Stellar Cyber brings SIEM, NDR, Open XDR, and AI-driven analytics together in a unified system designed to help security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats more efficiently.

Subo spearheads the development of their award-winning AI-driven Open XDR solutions. With more than 25 years of experience, Subo has held senior leadership roles at industry-leading companies like SolarWinds, Dell, N-able, and CA Technologies.

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In this episode, we speak with Enrique Lizaso, Founder and CEO of Multiverse Computing, a company developing quantum and AI software for enterprises across industries. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Spain, Multiverse has expanded across Europe and North America, offering tools that improve efficiency and performance through quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Its key products include CompactifAI, which compresses AI models for real-time use, and Singularity, a platform that applies quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms to industrial and financial applications.

Before founding Multiverse, Enrique served as Deputy CEO of Unnim Bank and co-founded startups in blockchain and healthcare technology.

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In this episode, we speak with Marc Levine, Chief Executive Officer of MetricStream, a company helping organizations manage governance, risk, and compliance more effectively. MetricStream’s AI-first platform unifies risk, compliance, audit, cyber, and resilience functions on a single low-code cloud solution used by over one million professionals across 35 countries. Its tools automate evidence collection, testing, and reporting, allowing teams to focus on strategic decision-making and performance.

Marc became CEO in 2025 after more than two decades in enterprise SaaS, data, and analytics, including ten years at Moody’s Analytics, where he led the Structured Finance division.

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In this episode, we speak with Scott Sellers, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Azul Systems, a company dedicated exclusively to building high-performance Java runtime solutions. Founded in 2002, Azul provides trusted, standards-compliant Java platforms used by 36% of the Fortune 100 and many of the world’s leading enterprises. Its products, including Zulu and Zing, power mission-critical applications that require speed, reliability, and scalability.

Before founding Azul, Scott co-founded 3dfx Interactive, a pioneering graphics processor company later acquired by NVIDIA. At Azul, he leads a global team focused on advancing Java performance and value for developers and enterprises worldwide.

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In this episode, we speak with Alex Bouzari, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of DataDirect Networks (DDN), a company specializing in large-scale data infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. DDN has supported over 500,000 GPUs and has enabled tens of exabytes of data across enterprise AI, analytics, and research workloads. Its technology underpins critical operations for organizations such as NVIDIA, NASA, PayPal, and many others.

Alex co-founded DDN in 1998 alongside Paul Bloch to address the data bottlenecks in emerging supercomputing environments. Today, the company’s technology underpins data operations for more than 85 Fortune 500 companies across sectors including financial services, automotive, and healthcare.

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In this episode, we speak with Matt Martin, Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwise, an AI-powered calendar assistant used by more than 40,000 organizations including Atlassian, Asana, and Uber. Clockwise has helped create over seven million hours of focused work by automatically optimizing schedules across teams and time zones. Its platform learns individual preferences and reshapes meetings and focus time to help people work more effectively.

Before launching Clockwise in 2016, Matt worked in software engineering and management at Salesforce and began his career in corporate law. The company is backed by top tier investors including Accel, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, and Coatue.

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In this episode, we speak with Justin Borgman, Founder and CEO of Starburst, a data platform that provides fast, secure access to distributed data across clouds, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments. Built on open source Trino, Starburst helps organizations unify their data without costly migrations, enabling advanced analytics and AI at scale. Today, the company is trusted by enterprises in more than 60 countries for mission-critical applications.

Justin founded Starburst in 2017 after serving as Vice President and GM at Teradata, which acquired his prior company Hadapt, an early pioneer of SQL-on-Hadoop.

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In this episode, we speak with Jon Belmonte, CEO of AutoVitals, a SaaS platform designed for independent auto repair shops. AutoVitals helps shops manage digital vehicle inspections, workflow, marketing, and customer communication, enabling teams to run more efficient operations while keeping customers informed throughout the repair process.

Jon has led AutoVitals since 2019, building on a career of scaling technology companies across SaaS, e-commerce, and digital media. Earlier, he served as CEO of Active Network, guiding its $1 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners, and co-founded Spoutable, a publisher monetization platform later acquired by Proper Media.

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Today, we speak with Rochan Sankar, Co-Founder and CEO of Enfabrica, a company developing foundational networking technologies for the age of AI and accelerated computing. Enfabrica’s hardware-software co-design approach enables modern data centers to connect GPUs, CPUs, and memory more efficiently, supporting the scale and performance required for today’s AI workloads.

Rochan is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and networking industry. Before founding Enfabrica, he led Broadcom’s Data Center Ethernet switching business, where he was responsible for bringing multiple generations of Tomahawk and Trident chips to market — technologies that became widely adopted across cloud infrastructure. Today, he guides Enfabrica’s strategy to deliver the I/O fabrics that underpin next-generation AI systems.

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Today, we speak with Paul Meinshausen, Co-Founder and CEO of Aampe, a B2B SaaS company that helps consumer technology businesses deliver continuously personalized customer experiences. By using reinforcement learning, Aampe automates personalization, testing, and optimization for messaging and in-app interactions, enabling teams to adapt to user preferences in real time. The company works with brands across Europe, Asia, and North America to strengthen customer engagement.

Paul previously co-founded PaySense, a fintech credit platform in India that was acquired by PayU for $185 million. With a background in behavioral, cognitive, and organizational science, he has led data science, engineering, and product teams globally, and is also an advisor and early-stage investor.

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Today, we speak with Luca Cartechini, Co-Founder and CEO of Shop Circle, a technology group building AI-powered software that supports the core operations of modern enterprises. Shop Circle scales mission-critical B2B products from launch to market leadership, embedding AI to automate workflows, turn data into action, and drive growth.

Luca began his career in equity research at Jefferies covering European technology companies and later worked in venture capital before founding Shop Circle in 2021.

Since then, the company has raised more than $150 million from investors including NFX, QED, Nextalia, 645 Ventures, and more, and now serves over 130,000 customers worldwide.

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A self-taught developer turned entrepreneur, Bryan launched Limble in 2015 after exploring underserved markets and discovering the daily challenges faced by maintenance professionals. His focus on customer problems and practical solutions turned Limble into a trusted tool for industries ranging from manufacturing and energy to hospitality and agriculture.

Today, Limble supports thousands of organizations worldwide and has helped customers save over $134 million in annual downtime costs.

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Today, we speak with Alex Atzberger, Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely, a leading marketing technology company that helps brands create, optimize, and deliver high-impact digital experiences through an AI-powered operating system for marketers.

Since becoming CEO in 2019, Alex has led Optimizely through a period of strategic growth, including a major rebrand and a series of successful acquisitions. His leadership has positioned the company as a top choice for enterprise marketing teams worldwide.

Optimizely’s composable platform now powers marketing at leading global brands like Salesforce, Zoom, and Toyota—helping them move faster, experiment smarter, and deliver high-quality digital experiences at scale.

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Alation is backed by Thoma Bravo, Riverwood Capital, Salesforce Ventures and other notable investors.

Since 2012, Satyen and his team have been passionate about helping enterprises create thriving data cultures where anyone can find, understand, and trust data.   Prior to founding Alation, Satyen spent a decade at Oracle where he managed the financial services warehousing and performance management business. 

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Based in Chicago, LogicGate serves almost 400 brands across the globe - simplifying the complex to help GRC leaders be more efficient, productive and effective. They have expertise in FinTech, Banking, Healthcare, Hospitality, Energy and many other industries.

Matt and Jon support Seneca Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.

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The company has taken in over $4 billion of capital and is backed by Ontario Teachers and Brookfield, among others.

In 2011, Chris’ vision was to focus on greenfield projects and deliver customizable, scalable, sustainable, and low-cost data centers in an expedited time frame.  Since its inception, Compass Datacenters has embraced sustainability with the efficient use of land, green energy, water-free cooling, and building materials.

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In 2015, Chris and his team saw that the web would be endlessly more performant, secure and scalable if it would move off the traditional monoliths to a new decoupled architecture. By uniting an extensive ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow, Netlify unlocks new levels of team productivity, while saving time and money.

Netlify has raised over $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, Bond, EQT and other notable investors.

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In 2013, Workato was founded by Vijay Tella, Gautham Viswanathan, and Harish Shetty. Their intention was automating workflows through a no-code platform. Prior to Workato, Vijay was CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. 

Workato has raised over $400 million and is backed by Battery Ventures, Altimeter, Insight Partners, Norwest, and other notable investors.

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In 2014, Scott teamed up with two former Innuvo colleagues to develop the earliest iterations of Fullstory. Scott’s mission is for organizations to understand their customers like never before. FullStory’s platform allows businesses to create world-class experiences that increase funnel conversion, easily detect malicious behaviors and fraud, and identify their highest-value customers effortlessly.

Prior to co-founding Fullstory, Voigt led marketing at Silverpop before the company was acquired by IBM. Previously, he worked at Noro-Moseley Partners, the Southeast's largest Venture firm, and also served as COO at Innuvo, which was acquired by Google.

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In 2009, after previous years of helping businesses embrace cloud communications, Brian decided to take that same model and help service providers with their next-generation infrastructure. Service Providers that are powered by Alianza are growing faster, drastically simplifying their operations, and delivering better customer experiences.

Before Alianza, Brian founded GetFon, which was sold to AT&T/Alestra in 2008. 

Brian supports Water for South Sudan. To learn more about this organization click here.

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David is a recognized leader in IT innovation and has been architecting disruptive computing platforms since his early work in supercomputing and Linux systems. Early on, David had a fascination with understanding how things work, a passion for technology, and the potential to make significant contributions to society through innovation.

Before Hammerspace, David pioneered the use of flash for enterprise application acceleration as founder and former CEO of Fusion-io, which was acquired by SanDisk in 2014.  He also served as Chief-Architect at Linux Networx where he was instrumental in the creation of the OpenFabrics stack and designed several of the world’s largest supercomputers leveraging Linux clustering, InfiniBand, and RDMA-based technologies.

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Armada enables companies to rapidly deploy, operate and monitor a complete modular data center to the remote corners of the world.

Before Armada, Dan was the CEO of DataRobot and COO of AppDynamics. He is invested in the future of technology as an investor, advisor, and board member for various visionary startups, including Abnormal Security, Avi Networks (acquired by VMware), and Embrace.

Dan is a Board Member of JDRF. To learn more about this organization click here.

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David leads the company in using his in-depth knowledge of semiconductors, data/telecommunications, photonics, clean energy industries, and extensive international business experience. 

His impressive career background includes being an Executive Chairman of POET Technologies, Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures, and founder of Intermolecular.

David supports the Canary Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.

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In 2012, Fivetran was founded by Taylor Brown and George Fraser.  They participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2013.  By responding to the needs of customers, Brown and Fraser found their product market fit in 2014 and continued to grow from there. 

Today, thousands of global brands, including Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation.

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Loadsmart was founded in 2014 and went on to gain capital backing from investors like Maersk, Ports America, TFI, CSX, BlackRock and Softbank. From day one, Felipe has been responsible for all product strategy and development. 

Previously, Felipe was an attorney at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC and before that an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. 

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Florian co-founded Dataiku in 2013 - he envisioned a future for businesses with AI to become mainstream through the collaborative effort of everyone in the company, not just data scientists or technical experts. Today, more than 500 companies worldwide use Dataiku across industries including life sciences, logistics, retail, manufacturing, energy, financial services, software, and technology.

Florian began his technology career at Exalead, a search engine startup, and has held multiple positions in product management, engineering, and data analytics in various fast-growing tech companies. 

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More than 17,000 customers trust AvePoint’s Confidence Platform to optimize their SaaS operations and secure collaboration. AvePoint’s SaaS solutions are also available to managed service providers via more than 100 cloud marketplaces.

TJ co-founded AvePoint in 2001 and has served as the company’s CEO since 2005. TJ was recently named a Top 50 SaaS CEO of 2023 by The Software Report.

TJ launched MaivenPoint, an edtech company that enables educators, students and organizations to create engaging learning experiences to meet their unique, evolving needs.

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Founded in 2013,  Sourcegraph uses the power of AI with Cody, their AI coding assistant, to help developers better understand their code. Over one million engineers use Sourcegraph to improve code security, efficiently onboard developers, promote code reuse, resolve incidents, and boost code health.

Before Sourcegraph, Quinn was the Co-founder of Blend Labs, which created a platform to transform consumer banking experiences and streamline workflows for their teams. Currently, he is a Board Member of Hack Club, a national nonprofit that brings coding clubs to high schools nationwide.

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A three-time entrepreneur, Olson teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco, and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. Its customers include the world’s leading companies, including Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk.

Todd’s passion for helping digital teams build great products led him to write his first book: “The Product-Led Organization: Drive Growth By Putting Product at the Center of Your Customer Experience”.

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Founded in 2009 by Raj De Datta and Ashutosh Garg, Bloomreach was primarily focused on creating products centered around site search, which later evolved to include additional tools for merchandisers, such as product recommendations. They unify real-time customer and product data so businesses understand what customers really want.

Before launching Bloomreach, Raj was entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, served as Cisco’s director of product marketing, and was on the founding team of telecom company FirstMark Communications.

Raj supports RepresentUs and United States Tennis Association.

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Created in 2011, MindTickle’s goal was to create frameworks and solutions to help influence revenue leaders who want to create high-performance teams. These world-class companies include Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, and Wipro. 

Before founding Mindtickle, Krishna most recently was the Director of Product Management at PubMatic. Additionally, Krishna has worked with leading companies and startups, including Microsoft, Tejas Networks, and Infinera.

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Chris sees Palmetto as the ultimate platform to make the most significant impact on mitigating climate change and he is constantly seeking ways to compound their impact for the betterment of the environment, people, and consumers. 

Chris is currently a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Environment Programme and a Chairman for Pay It Forward For Climate. 

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Raghu co-founded the company with a vision to make customer and enterprise interactions more effective and effortless. Since its inception, Raghu and his team have successfully expanded Yellow.ai’s presence across the U.S., Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Australia and Latin America with over 1,000 customers in over 85 countries.

Previously, Raghu worked for 16 years with leading tech companies such as Texas Instruments, and Broadcom across leadership roles in engineering, product management and business development both in the Bay Area and India.

Raghu was recently recognized as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2023 by The Software Report. The company is backed by Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, WestBridge Capital, and other notable investors.

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In 2014, after Hari’s credit card information was stolen, he was inspired to start Aura and today, the company offers an easy-to-use, integrated suite of services trusted by more than one million customers.

Previously, Hari founded Endurance Group (Nasdaq:EIGI), a leading provider of cloud services for small businesses with worldwide operations and over 5 million customers.

He is also the Founder and CEO of Jump Ventures, a scalability infusion firm focused on long-term collaboration and strategically investing in businesses to drive exponential growth. 

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The original vision of Talos was to build an intuitive system from the ground up, leveraging the latest technology and harnessing the power of blockchains to surpass what could be done in traditional markets. 

Before co-founding Talos, Anton was Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management. Before that, he was the Director of Software at Broadway Technology. 

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Oyster automates cross-border employment and makes it easy for growing companies of all sizes to tap the global talent pool and provide a great employment experience to remote hires around the world.

Jack Mardack’s mission was to redress the unequal distribution of job opportunities by encouraging organizations to think more globally about their talent. He is motivated by a vision of the world in which no talent is wasted because of location.

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Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company was founded in 2017 by industry luminaries and is backed by investors including SoftBank, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Intel Capital, Google Ventures, and other notable investors.

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Jerome is an entrepreneur with a strong interest in recruiting and technology. His overall goal is to bring the economy to its full potential by removing friction in the labor market and eradicating unemployment.

Jerome has also previously founded MrTed Ltd, Talents Technology, and Accord Group ECE.

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Co-founders Steven Bartel and Nick Bushak were previously engineering managers at Dropbox and Facebook, both companies that at the time were looking to rapidly hire and expand. Steven and Nick knew that managing and nurturing relationships with top talent was going to require a new kind of software—built specifically for recruiters—that could automate tasks, track touchpoints, show pipeline views, and offer analytics for forecasting hires.

Over 1,200 industry leaders, including Wayfair, Dropbox, Cintas, Robinhood, and UnitedHealth, trust Gem to fuel their growth.  The company is backed by ICONIQ, Greylock, Accel, and other notable investors.

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Founded in 2016, Amperity’s main drive in business is to enable larger consumer brands such as Wyndham and Alaska Airlines, to develop and maintain a unified view of their customer, using patented AI and ML methods. Now with more than 400 brands on their roster, Amperity is a trusted resource for turning data into business value.

The company has raised over $180 million and is backed by HighSage Ventures, Tiger Global, Madrona, and others.

Prior to Amperity, Derek was on the founding team at Appature and held engineering leadership positions at various business and consumer-facing startups, focusing on large-scale distributed systems and security.

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Since its founding in 2000, the company has raised more than $680 million from TPG, Apax, TA Associates and other notable investors and has empowered more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with its AI, data, and analytics-driven business strategies.

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Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second.

Before founding ClickHouse, Aaron helped grow salesforce.com between 2002 - 2014 from a private, 200 employee startup, to a $200 billion market leader. He was also part of the team that took Elastic public and drove revenue from $5 million to $500 million.

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Thousands of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at leading companies, including Okta, Adobe, Workday, Zoom, and Finastra, use Clari’s execution insights to make their revenue process more connected, efficient, and predictable.

The company is backed by Blackstone, Silver Lake, Sapphire Ventures, Tenaya, Bain Capital, Sequoia and other notable investors.

Prior to Clari, Byrne was a founding executive at Clearwell, which he helped grow from pre-product and pre-revenue in 2005 to an $80 million annual revenue run rate until its acquisition by Symantec in 2011.

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John is a business and technology leader with a successful track record of building great teams to drive emerging technology patterns.

Tackle works with more than 550 software companies including CrowdStrike, HashiCorp, Lacework, New Relic, VMware, and many more at every stage - from companies scaling their go-to-market to the largest software companies in the world.

They are venture backed by three of the world's top SaaS investors - a16z, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Coatue.

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Founded in 2015, the company has raised over $300 million dollars and is backed by GGV Capital, Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, and other notable investors.

Vercel unlocks developer potential and enables users to go from idea to global application in seconds. Vercel enables customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier to build delightful user experiences on the Web.

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Before founding Celona, Rajeev was the VP of product management and marketing for Federated Wireless, where he launched the industry’s first and leading Spectrum Access System. Prior to Federated, Rajeev held multiple product management leadership positions at Aruba Networks, including creating its Cloud Wi-Fi business.

Taking advantage of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum, Celona’s solution architecture is designed to simplify and automate deployment of cellular wireless technology by enterprise IT organizations and managed service providers.

The company was born with the idea that a combination of 5G radio technology, edge computing and machine learning software will fundamentally change how organizations work and do business.

Celona is backed by Digital Bridge Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Norwest, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and other notable investors.

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The company is backed by B Capital Group, Softbank, DCM Ventures, and Y Combinator, among others.

Sean joined Fountain as CEO in 2020. Prior to joining the company, he served as CEO and Founder of Stratim (acquired by KAR), an intelligent mobility and fleet infrastructure platform powering the future of transportation.

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Invoca is the cloud leader in AI-powered conversation intelligence for revenue teams that enables marketing, sales, customer experience, and eCommerce teams to understand and immediately act on the information consumers share via conversations.

The company has raised $184 million from leading venture capitalists including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.

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