Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Tido

Tido is a co-founder at Koala. Prior to that, he was Chief Product Officer (overseeing eng, product, design, and security) at Segment. Before that, software engineer @ Dropbox and Facebook.

Ruchi

Ruchi Sanghvi is the founding member of the SPC Community. She was the first female executive at Dropbox and served as their Vice President of Operations. She was responsible for product, marketing, communications, recruiting and other functions. She came to Dropbox through its acquisition of Cove, a company she founded in 2011. Prior to that Ruchi was the first female engineer at Facebook, and was instrumental in implementing the first versions of key features like News Feed, Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect and Privacy. Ruchi has also served as a director on the board of Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments platform, and is currently on the board of UCSF. ‍ Prior to SPC Ruchi was an active angel investor in 50+ companies including Gusto, Pinterest, Paytm, Brex, Figma and Stemcentrx. Ruchi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Connor

Connor is the CEO, co-founder of Speak, an AI Speaking App that teaches users English. Prior to that, Connor created Flashcards+ which is an education app used by over 5 million students worldwide and eventually sold it to Chegg.

Vinay

Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.

Pranav

Building AI x Insurance, prev: Agents for Prior Auth Review, VC Copilot, CRM Copilot for Banks. IIT Madras, Northwestern Alum.

Scott

Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS

Ning

Ning came from Meta FAIR where he worked as a research engineer on speech/text translation and multimodal LLM. Ning is exploring the intersection of AI applications and SMS platforms.

Deon

Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.

Sheetal

Exploring next-gen experiences at the intersection of media x social gaming x AI. Seasoned AI/ML product leader: voice agents, SLMs, speech AI, generative designs. Previously: @sarvamai, office ai @microsoft. Cooking, coffee, and geeking out on TV/shows (current obsession - Succession)

Harshvardhan

Hey, you can call me Harsh! Founder of Metarch (metarch.ai) & Manifold Research (manifoldrg.com). Previously, AI Research Scientist & Faculty @ Georgia Tech, Peraton/Perspecta Labs, Paperspace ATG, Harvard My aim is to research, build, and commercialize high leverage science and technology to advance human civilization, starting with Next Generation AI.