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Mike

Building KOAH - Ad network for LLM applications https://koahlabs.com

Ciro

Founder. Went from bootstrap to acquisition to IPO in 5 years. Really into startups, ML, NLP, Data and strange music.

Amanda

Amanda is CEO and Co-Founder of Unseen AI. Her experience is physics and signal processing, applied to develop purpose-built multi-channel acoustic devices found on autonomous cars by GM and Zoox. Prior to AVs and consumer electronics, her focus was simulation for architectural acoustics. Projects included shape/finish optimization of 36 recording studios for Warner Music Group, 16 Apple Stores, the Apple Campus.

Keshav

Currently thinking about how people learn with AI; previously studied causal inference and machine learning at Stanford. Hacker at heart. Learning how to play squash and piano., Thinking about applications of agentic workflows. Previously at Stanford doing research in causal inference, machine learning, and online experiments.

Deanna

Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.

D.

Co-founder of Tonita, reimagining online commerce search. Previously spent over a decade at Google as a Research Director with a focus on search, machine learning, and applied research at scale.

Benjamin

New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!, I spent the last 8 years at Stripe, where I was the founding engineer on Stripe Terminal, drove the acquisition of Index, and post-launch led integration experience and global expansion for the Terminal product. I've run teams large (50) and small, led mobile strategy across Stripe with @shreyas as my mentor, and spent the last 2 years working on Stripe Connect. I'm so excited to be building something new with Rob Cheung, who I met at Venmo.

Christopher

Chris is an entrepreneur and engineer from Waterloo, Canada. With a background in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Chris has worked at several companies doing software, firmware, neurotechnology research, and machine learning.

Jon

Jon is the co-founder of Gamma, reinventing business communication with a modern, multimedia memo format. Previously led product at Optimizely, helping enterprises build experimentation-driven cultures.

Yuguang

A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years