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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.

Tripp

I'm working on an AI coaching app with my cofounder. Based out of Brooklyn!

Aaron

Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial

Pierre

Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.

Matthew

PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs

Andrew

I'm a VC living in Hawaii. I work with founders investing in the things that make life worth living. My biggest hobbies are running (marathoner aiming to BQ) and surfing. Say hi!

Katrin

AI researcher with 15 years of experience, mostly in NLP, machine translation and speech recognition. Previously at Google Research. Interested in AI for inclusivity and accessibility in speech domain. Here to explore the open source AI world.

Jackson

Founding CEO of Mentor Collective (edtech). Led company to 100s of customers and 4x listings on Inc 5000. Stepped into Chairman role after 10 years and now exploring new ventures.

Ayush

Focused on AI-augmented reading tools and modeling human behavior. Did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine learning and Recommendation Systems) at Stanford, Masters in Economics; undergrad at IIT Bombay Computer Science. Previously co-founded MoveUp AI and worked at Google. Always open to connecting — reach out to discuss mutual interests!

Grace

Kintsugi is developing novel voice biomarker software to detect clinical depression and anxiety from 20-seconds of free-form speech, closing mental health care gaps across risk-bearing health systems, saving time and lives.