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Satish

ex-CEO @Polymorph (acquired by @Walmart ) • MS @Berkeley • Double majors in Electrical & Mechanical Engg • 30 Under30 award from India's #1 private university.

Santiago

Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.

Kara

Kara works with sports entities to build strategy tied to commercial development and athlete marketing. She is currently a Senior Advisor to Riot Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team, and Division Street, Nike Founder Phil Knight’s new athlete marketing startup. She is also the co-author of Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability.

Maksim

Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org

Chris

Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.

Alex

Going deep on climate/energy deep tech and applied AI. So far I’ve spent most of my career build pure software companies and now very excited to move into the world of bits + atoms.

Somdev

Achievements ● Back to back NCAA singles Champion in 2007 & 2008 while at UVa ● Career high of #62 in ATP singles rankings 2011 (highest Indian since Ramesh Krishnan in 1992) ● Wins over Raonic, Cilic, Baghdatis, Isner, Anderson, Johnson, Sock, Vesely, Schuettler, Tipsarevic, Dolgopolov, Malisse, among others ● Led India to the World Group of Davis Cup in 2009 & 2010 ● Singles gold medalist at 2010 Commonwealth Games in men’s singles ● Men’s singles and doubles gold with Sanam Singh at 2010 Asian Games ● 2 career ATP World Tour Finals - 2009, Chennai and 2011, Johannesburg Awards and Recognitions ● Arjuna Award 2011, for Outstanding Performance in sports ● After major shoulder surgery in 2012, was nominated for Comeback Player of the year by the ATP in 2013 and lost out to Rafael Nadal ● Padma Shri 2018 (4th highest civilian award in India) ● NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame inductee 2019 Post Retirement from the ATP Tour in March 2016 ● Trustee of Life is a Ball Public Charitable Trust ⇢ Charity co-founded in 2011 that enables children across India to play sport ⇢ Works with over 1000 children every year ● Co-founded GetFit in 2013, a movement that works on development of children through sport in schools ⇢ Worked with over 100 schools across India ● Co-founder/ Director of Wild Warrior ⇢ Leaders in obstacle races across India ● National Observer for tennis for the Indian Ministry of youth and sports affairs 2017-18 ● Consultant for several pro’s and juniors on the tour as a mentor/ guide including: ⇢ Prajnesh Gunneswaran Career high 75 ⇢ Sumit Nagal Career high 68 ● Travelled with the Indian Davis Cup team as consultant ● High performance coach at Nensel Academy in Peine, Germany ● Media work with tennis as a commentator/ expert analyst ⇢ Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Summer Olympics ⇢ Asian games 2018 and 2023 ⇢ Australian Open 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 ⇢ ATP 250 Pune Maharashtra Open 2019, 2020 & 2022 ⇢ Roland Garros 2022, 2023, 2024 ⇢ Commonwealth Games 2022

Praveen

Praveen Chekuri is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated payments, financing, & payment operations. Previously he's worked at Hippo, Houseparty & Instacart.

Malcolm

Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.

Markus

Currently building WorkForge, the easiest way to get the info you need at work. Previously founder of Lobe, a visual tool to build custom deep learning models (acquired by Microsoft 2018). Graduate '14 Master's CS and '13 M&T dual degree program at Penn.