Industry Network
888 people tracked across hundreds of AI articles. Who is being quoted, who is writing, and who keeps coming up.
Apurva Shrivastava
FounderCo-Founder, Co-CEO at Avoca
Co-founder of Avoca discussing AI voice automation for home services businesses and autonomous operations.
Arbaaz Khan
FounderFounder and CEO at Graphon AI
Founded Graphon AI to build a pre-model intelligence layer for AI systems processing multimodal enterprise data.
Ari Tuchman
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Quantifind
CEO and co-founder of Quantifind, which raised $200M for AI-native Risk Intelligence to detect financial crime.
Ariel Avitan
FounderCo-Founder & CCO at Percepto
Co-founder discussed Percepto's autonomous drone inspection technology and FAA canopy waiver enabling BVLOS missions across Chevron's assets.
Aris Theologis
FounderChief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Coefficient Bio
CEO and co-founder of Coefficient Bio, an AI biotech startup acquired by Anthropic for $400 million, previously served as chief business officer at Evozyne and vice president at Paragon Biosciences.
Arjun Mathur
FounderCo-founder at Dream
Arjun Mathur, co-founder of Dream, previously served as senior vice president at Palantir and is building AI systems for architecture and engineering.
Armen Aghajanyan
FounderCo-founder at Perceptron
Former Meta FAIR researcher co-founded Perceptron to develop frontier vision models for industrial robotics.
Arnon Joseph
FounderCo-founder at Glow
Former Meta engineering leader who co-founded Glow, an AI-native endpoint security company.
Artem Kuchukov
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at KEWAZO
Co-founder and CEO of Kewazo robotics company discussing deployment of LIFTBOT automation technology across industrial facilities.
Arvid Winterfeldt
FounderCEO at Qura
Founded and led Qura, an AI-native legal research startup acquired by Legora to become the foundation of its legal research capabilities.
Arvind Sujeeth
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Billables AI
CEO of Billables AI discussing the company's expansion to surface operational data and provide intelligence to law firms.
Ashwin Gopinath
FounderCEO at Sentra
Gopinath articulated the thesis that memory is not a sidecar to intelligence but the layer that decides what reality reasoning operates on.
Ashwin Sreenivas
FounderPresident / Co-Founder at Decagon
Co-founder of Decagon, a leading conversational AI platform for enterprise customer experience, alongside Jesse Zhang.
Assaf Elovic
FounderCo-Founder at Tavily
Co-founded Tavily, a search engine designed for AI agents, which was acquired by Nebius for up to $400 million in February 2026.
August Erséus
FounderCo-Founder at Legora
Co-founder of Legora announced acquisitions of Wexler and Qura and the Series E funding round.
Austin Spiegel
FounderCo-founder at Sift
Co-founder of Sift, which builds infrastructure for AI-controlled hardware systems; former SpaceX engineer.

Avi Barliya
FounderCo-founder at Q.ai
Co-founded Q.ai, an AI startup specializing in imaging and machine learning acquired by Apple for nearly $2 billion.
Aviad Maizels
FounderCEO at Q.ai
Sold Q.ai to Apple for nearly $2 billion, his second company sale to Apple after PrimeSense in 2013.
Baiju Bhatt
FounderFounder at Cowboy Space Corporation
Robinhood co-founder established Cowboy Space in 2024 with strategy to use rocket second stage as data center satellite.
Banu Guler
FounderCo-founder and CEO of Co-Star, Chief Design Officer of Midjourney at Co-Star and Midjourney
Founder of Co-Star who joined Midjourney to help build company's first apps.
Bastien Chatelard
FounderCo-founder at Koyeb
Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.
Ben Zhou
FounderCTO and Co-founder at Memories.ai
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Memories.ai, developing large visual memory models for AI systems.
Bernt Bornich
FounderCEO and Founder at 1X
Wrote progress update claiming new developments might debunk Moravec's paradox through advances in foundation models and robotics.
Bernt Børnich
FounderCEO and Founder at 1X
1X CEO announcing breakthrough 25-DOF tendon-driven hands for NEO humanoid achieving near-human dexterity levels.
Bert Belder
FounderFounder & CTO at Deno
Co-founder of Deno leading the effort to merge Celld with Workerd at Cloudflare.
Bill Lennon
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Ollie
Announced Ollie's shutdown on November 6 after the privacy-focused AI assistant startup couldn't compete and raise capital against Muse and Instinct.
Billy Libby
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Upper90
Former Goldman Sachs quantitative trader and co-founder of Upper90 who financed General Compute's $400 million loan using inference chips as collateral.
Bobby Cooper
FounderFounder & CEO at Retention Intelligence
Shared platform data showing more than 50% of CSM activities have no correlation with retention; moderated panel on customer success practices.
Boris Cherney
FounderCo-Founder, Claude Code creator at Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder who created Claude Code and signed the open letter on pacing frontier AI development.
Boris Sofman
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Bedrock Robotics
Previously led Waymo's self-driving trucks program and co-founded Anki Robotics; now leading Bedrock Robotics which raised $600M in Series C funding.
Boyd Mulvey
FounderFounder and Executive Chairman at Chorus Intelligence
Founder and Executive Chairman of Chorus Intelligence, commenting on the company's $20M investment and plans to accelerate AI product roadmap.
Brad Squicciarini
FounderCo-founder at Coco Robotics
Co-founded Coco Robotics and donated one of their bots to UCLA's research lab.
Brandon Thomas
FounderFounder, CEO at Artcraft
Built ArtCraft, a suite of cheaper open-source alternatives to Adobe's design tools with no subscription fees.
Brannin McBee
FounderCo-Founder and Chief Development Officer at CoreWeave
CoreWeave co-founder who argued compute isn't fungible as a commodity and discussed DGX reference specifications.
Breck Fresen
FounderFounder and CEO at Row Zero
Announced Row Zero's acquisition by Databricks to integrate spreadsheets with AI agents and governance.

Brett Bejcek
FounderCo-Founder at Limitless
Co-founded Limitless (formerly Rewind), an AI startup that created an AI-powered pendant to record conversations, which was acquired by Meta.
Brett Linkletter
FounderChief Executive Officer at Dishio
Co-founder of Dishio AI growth engine for restaurants; previously founded restaurant marketing agency Dineline; raised $2.5M seed funding to help restaurants turn guest data into repeat revenue.
Brian Machado
FounderFounder at BracketBot
Founded BracketBot, a wheeled robot manipulator priced under $3,000 aiming to ship billions of robots.
Brooke Hopkins
FounderFounder and CEO at Coval
Founded Coval, a voice AI evaluation platform, leveraging experience building evaluation systems for autonomous technologies at Waymo.
Bruce Falck
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Halcyon
CEO and Co-Founder of Halcyon, an AI platform for the energy sector, discussing the company's $21M Series A funding and mission.
Bryan Mahoney
FounderCEO at Chord
CEO of Chord quoted on rebuilding platform so AI can operate inside companies with full context as the engine behind decisions.
Bryan McCann
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at you.com
Among the most-cited AI researchers in the world, co-founder of You.com.
Bryan Salesky
FounderFounder at Argo AI
Co-founder of Argo AI who led the autonomous vehicle startup before it shut down; now leads Stack AV developing self-driving trucks.
Burkay Gur
FounderCEO at fal
Burkay Gur, CEO of fal, explained that frontier AI advances come from optimizing models and systems together, highlighting fal's research capabilities in pushing quality and inference performance boundaries.
Cade Netscher
FounderFounder and CEO at Neurun
Built Official World Cup Concierge AI system; discusses deployment of AI agents to test and grade bot answers.
Cal Henderson
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Slack
Slack cofounder who left within years of Salesforce acquisition
Callum Downie
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Capsa AI
Co-founder of Capsa AI with background in building AI products and leading machine learning teams.

Carina Hong
FounderCo-founder at Axiom Math
Stanford Ph.D. student and math wizard who co-founded Axiom Math to build an AI mathematician that can solve hard math problems with verifiable proofs.
Carlo Edoardo Ferraris
FounderFounder and CEO at Natura Umana
Carlo Edoardo Ferraris founded Natura and previously founded Rolling Square; he developed the Interface smart ring to help people interact with AI agents hands-free.
Carmen Martin-Alonso
FounderFounding Scientist at Amplifyer Bio
Lead author of research paper on AI-designed molecular sensors for cancer detection.
Carol Lin
FounderFounder at Z.ai
Founder of Z.ai confident they can build a Fable-class GLM model before year's end, discussing benchmarks and AGI.
Charles Gorintin
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Alan
Co-founder of French insurtech Alan, founded in 2016 alongside Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve.
Charlie Holtz
FounderFounder & CEO at Conductor
Advocated for keeping human engineers in control rather than building around fully autonomous factories.
Charlie Wu
FounderFounder at Orchard Robotics
Founded Orchard Robotics in 2022 as a former Cornell student and Thiel fellow; quoted on farming data being the core problem to solve.
Chase Reid
FounderCEO at Aslan
Reid founded Aslan to build AI agents that act as operatives in national security missions and can pose as analysts in criminal forums.
Chen Kaijie
FounderFounder at Mind Lab
Founder of Mind Lab and creator of Macaron personal agent; previously founded MidReal and Macaron app.
Chris Anderson
FounderFounder at 3D Robotics
Former Wired editor-in-chief who left to start robotics company, cited as example of Maker Movement intellectual gaining influence through participation
Chris Liu
FounderCo-founder and CTO at DeepReach AI
Chris Liu is Co-founder and CTO of DeepReach, quoted on using Gemini Robotics ER 2 for physical AI data labeling.
Chris Urmson
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Aurora Innovation
CEO of Aurora Innovation leading autonomous freight expansion with second-generation driverless trucks.
Christian Lawless
FounderFounder & General Partner at Cognition
Early investor who joined Cognition full-time as Founder & General Partner

Christoph Lassner
FounderCo-Founder at World Labs
Cofounded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence and world models.
Ciaran Dowds
FounderCofounder at Oshen
Co-founded Oshen as an electrical engineer to build fleets of autonomous micro-robots for ocean data collection.
Cien Solon
FounderCEO and Founder at LaunchLemonade
Reported that GLM 5.2 is now in the top five models on the platform alongside Claude and ChatGPT.
Cix Liv
FounderFounder and CEO at REK
CEO of REK robotics startup that hosted human versus humanoid robot cage fight event with YouTuber Frankie LaPenna.
Clem von Stengel
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Conduit Intelligence
Co-founder of Conduit developing brain-computer interface technology for thought-to-text AI.
Colby Adcock
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Scout AI
Scout AI CEO and Figure AI board member who states that AI agents can replace the entire kill chain autonomously.
Collin Otis
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Scout AI
Scout AI CTO who claims they are the first to execute the entire kill chain remotely from humans without intervention.
Comron Sattari
FounderFounder at Sixty Watt, Inc.
Provided objections to arguments about AI code generation killing software moats.

Connor Zwick
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Speak
Leading Speak, an AI language tutor that teaches fluency through speaking out loud.
Craig Piggott
FounderFounder at Halter
Stated 'The goal was to make pasture farming more sustainable and productive using technology' for Halter's AI-powered cattle collars.
Dag Kittlaus
FounderFounder at Siri
Co-founder of Siri who left Apple after Steve Jobs died; reflected on how the product stagnated without Jobs' vision and how current AI technology could realize the original Siri vision.
Damion Shelton
FounderCo-founder and Chairman at Agility Robotics
Discussed how AI enables scaling of robotic applications while emphasizing safety systems should not use generative AI.
Dan Adika
FounderCEO and Co-founder at WalkMe
CEO and co-founder of WalkMe commenting on the governance crisis created by shadow AI adoption in enterprises.
Dan Fox
FounderFounder at Johnson Hana
Founded alternative legal service provider acquired by Eudia to create AI-augmented workforce serving major corporations.
Dan Gibson
FounderFounder and Chief Investment Officer at Sylebra Capital
Founded Sylebra Capital Management and leading inaugural equity capital solutions fund for high-growth technology companies.

Dan Siroker
FounderCo-founder at Limitless
Co-founded Limitless, an AI hardware startup that pivoted to making AI pendants and was acquired by Meta.
Dan Wright
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Armada
Co-founder and CEO of Armada who states the AI race will be won by companies that can manufacture, deploy and improve AI infrastructure at scale and speed.
Danai Antoniou
FounderCo-founder & Chief Scientist at Gradient Labs
Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.
Daniel Dhawan
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Rork
Co-founder of Rork who believes AI will lead to more consumers starting companies and entrepreneurs building for mobile platforms.
Daniel Ek
FounderFounder and Executive Chairman at Spotify
Spotify founder who discussed how Sferical One will enable ambition and agreed that the pace of AI discovery is accelerating weekly.
Daniel Tarnagda
FounderNon-profit Founder at Local Non-profit
Immigrant from Burkina Faso who leads a soccer team for under-18 immigrants and was quoted about wanting to be part of something
Danny Freed
FounderFounder and CEO at Blueprint
CEO of AI operating system for therapists noting that nearly all company code is now AI-written, up from 40% in August.
Danny Rensch
FounderChief Chess Officer at Chess.com
Participating in Gambit Cup livestreamed event on Twitch and YouTube.
Danyal Oezduezenciler
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Capsa AI
CEO of Capsa AI, co-founder with experience in private equity and investment banking, building AI OS for private capital firms.
David Morin
FounderFounder, First External Board Member at Academy Software Foundation
Named first external OpenClaw Foundation board member; stated foundation will be 'Switzerland of AI'.
De-vine
FounderGame Designer at Ghost Town Games
Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who worked with Duncan to develop Overcooked and spent 2016 developing downloadable content for the retail version
Deval Patel
FounderCo-founder at Warp Sciences
Co-founder of Warp Sciences alongside Kevin Weil, working to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into pharmaceutical labs.
Devon Lim
FounderFounder at Sales startup
Sales startup founder who used Cursor to replace an outsourced engineer.
Devon Yang
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Vesta
Co-founder of Vesta AI startup that helps lenders originate mortgages using AI agents.
Dhananjay Yadav
FounderFounder at NeoSapiens
Wearable AI startup founder who alleged that products were stolen from his company's stall at the venue.
Dieter De Mesmaeker
FounderCEO at Conveo
De Mesmaeker told Axios Pro exclusively that Conveo raised a $50 million Series A led by DST Global Partners for its AI customer interview platform.
Dimitri Masin
FounderCEO at Gradient Labs
Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.
Divesh Naidoo
FounderFounder at Simulon
Founder demonstrating mixed-reality woolly mammoth AI interaction
Doge Nakamura
FounderCo-Founder at Periodic Labs
Co-founder of Periodic Labs, former skip-level report from Demis at DeepMind, created Genome tool at DeepMind.
Dominic Jud
FounderCTO and co-founder at Gravis Robotics
Dominic Jud is CTO and co-founder of Gravis Robotics, explaining how their AI handles physical feedback from construction equipment.
Doug Proctor
FounderCOO & Co-founder at Candid Health
Built Candid Health's AI agents and rules engine for automating medical billing across 1,000+ insurers.
Doug Wightman
FounderCEO at Groq
Google engineer who co-founded Groq with Jonathan Ross and became CEO after Ross was hired by Nvidia.
Dr Yichuan Zhang
FounderCEO and co-founder at Boltzbit
Argues that AI wrapper startups are structurally fragile because they depend entirely on third-party APIs and lack defensibility against platform providers entering their markets, using Jasper as an example.
Dr. Varun Sivaram
FounderFounder and CEO at Emerald AI
Founded Emerald AI and leads the company in transforming data centers into flexible grid assets for power management.
Drew Houston
FounderCo-founder at Dropbox
Stepping into Executive Chairman role after 19 years as CEO; led Dropbox to $1B ARR profitably but faced challenges building second act with AI.
Dylan Babbs
FounderCo-founder at Profound
Dylan Babbs is a co-founder of Profound, the AI search visibility marketing startup.
Edi Gotlieb
FounderCo-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Cymphony
Cybersecurity veteran and CTO at Cymphony, brings hardware engineering experience from Apple and Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Edo Liberty
FounderCEO and Founder at Pinecone
Discussed in video about memory requirements in LLMs beyond RAG and storage as a bottleneck for AI agents.
Edouard Bonlieu
FounderCo-founder at Koyeb
Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.
Eiso Kant
FounderCo-founder at Poolside AI
Explained Poolside's Model Factory approach, how Laguna S was built in 8 weeks, and vision for multiple foundation model companies.
Elliot Wolf
FounderCo-Founder at Wolf Games
Co-founder of AI gaming startup Wolf Games, whose mystery games are being integrated into Peacock's mobile platform.
Emily Yuan
FounderCo-Founder And COO at Corgi
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Corgi, an AI-native insurance platform that raised $160M in Series B funding.
Eren Bali
FounderCofounder/CEO at Monogram
Udemy co-founder announced Monogram's emergence from stealth with $40M seed funding for an iOS app that generates visual interfaces.
Eric Foster
FounderChief Executive Officer at TENEX.AI
Leading Sarasota-based cybersecurity firm that raised $250M Series B for AI-powered managed detection and response services.
Eric Migicovsky
FounderFounder at Pebble
Pebble founder building an AI ring expected to debut in 2026 with voice interaction capabilities.
Eric Nguyen
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Radical Numerics
Co-founded Radical Numerics with $50M funding to train AI models directly on biological data for drug discovery and biodefense.
Eric S. Yuan
FounderFounder & CEO at Zoom
Quoted about connecting Muse with Zoom to bring conversation context into Muse and help turn discussions into action for small businesses.
Eric Simmons
FounderCEO and Founder at Bolt
Provided testimonial praising the advisor tool for making better architectural decisions on complex tasks with no overhead on simple ones.
Erik Bernhardsson
FounderCEO/Founder at Modal
Byline author announcing Modal's $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation, discussing new building blocks for AI infrastructure.
Erik Voorhees
FounderChief Executive Officer at Venice.ai
Founded privacy-first AI platform Venice with 850k+ visitors, raised $65M Series A at $1B valuation.
Ertuğrul Çavuşoğlu
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Mindlid
Testing Gemini Embedding 2 for embedding conversational memories with audio and visual embeddings, seeing 20% lift in top-1 recall.
Ethan Hu
FounderFounder at Meshy
Founded Meshy, raising $400M for AI-powered 3D generation models and agents at 1.5B valuation.

Evan Cater
FounderCo-founder at Convogo
Co-founded Convogo and joined OpenAI as part of the acqui-hire to work on AI cloud efforts.
Evan Conrad
FounderCo-founder and CEO at SF Compute
Guest arguing that credit constraints, not chips or power, are the bottleneck in AI compute; discusses long-term contracts and market dynamics.
Evan Goldberg
FounderFounder and Executive Vice President at Oracle NetSuite
Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed integrating Gemini models to help customers improve visibility and automate work within NetSuite.
Fabian Hedin
FounderCo-founder at Lovable
Co-founder of Lovable vibe-coding platform, announced the company crossed $600 million ARR with adoption across two-thirds of Fortune 500.
Fabrizio Pirondini
FounderCEO and co-founder at Xoople
CEO and co-founder of Xoople who announced the company's $130 million Series B funding round and described the satellite constellation's data quality as two orders of magnitude better than existing systems.
Fan-Yun Sun
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Moonlake AI
Co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.
Faraj Aalaei
FounderCEO and Founder at Cognichip Inc.
Founded Cognichip to use AI to accelerate chip design, claiming ability to reduce development costs by 75% and timelines by more than half.
Farza Majeed
FounderFounder at HeyClicky
Founder of HeyClicky/Clicky who previously built and shut down buildspace with $10M funding, now building AI cursor assistant in Y Combinator; his viral demo got 3M views and total content passed 15M views.
Felix Schlegel
FounderCo-founder at The Interaction Company of California
Co-founder of Poke AI agent startup.
Finn Puklowski
FounderCEO at General Compute
CEO of General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup that secured a $400 million loan for inference-specific chip infrastructure.
Flaviu Radulescu
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Runware
CEO of Runware detailing plans to scale production of modular AI data centers to 30 megawatts per day by 2028.
Flo Crivello
FounderFounder & CEO at Lindy
Reported that Lindy moved 100% of traffic from Claude to DeepSeek, saving millions of dollars.
Fred Shentu
FounderCTO at XDOF
UC Berkeley researcher and CTO of XDOF, co-founded the robotics data startup with Philipp Wu and led GELLO teleoperation project.
Gabor Barta
FounderCo-founder at Oppira
Oppira co-founder published a guide on September 28 that maps customer objections to pages for their Objection Finder product.
Gabriel Hubert
FounderCo-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Dust
Founded Dust, a multiplayer AI platform for human-agent collaboration in enterprises.
Gabriel Le Roux
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Primer
Co-founder and CEO of Primer announcing $100 million Series C funding for AI-powered payment infrastructure.
Gagan Biyani
FounderCEO at The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
Discussed education in the AI era alongside Amjad Masad on the a16z podcast.

Gary Steele
FounderCEO at Shield AI
Stated that Shield AI's Hivemind software is a cornerstone for everything they do and will be the long-term growth driver enabling next generation aircraft development.
Gautam Narang
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Gatik
Leads Gatik, an autonomous vehicle startup raising $200 million for self-driving box trucks; discusses scaling plans and evolution from pilot programs to commercial operations.
Georgia Witchel
FounderCEO at Mantis
Founded startup creating digital twins using AI and physics engines to generate synthetic biomedical datasets for rare diseases.
Gil Elbaz
FounderFounder at Common Crawl
Founded Common Crawl and stated in 2012 that the archive should be used respecting copyright and fair use.
Greg Foster
FounderCo-founder at Graphite
Co-founded Graphite, a startup using AI to review and debug code that was acquired by Cursor.
Greg Kenny
FounderManaging Partner at Cleora
Kenny is the Managing Partner of Cleora, the 55-acre residential development in Salida, Colorado using RIC Robotics for 3D-printed homes.

Greg Yang
FounderCo-founder at xAI
Co-founder who announced stepping back last month due to battle with Lyme disease.
Gregory Mostyn
FounderCEO, Co-Founder at Wexler
Founded Wexler, a fact intelligence platform for litigation that was acquired by Legora; the acquisition combines fact extraction capabilities with agentic legal workflows.
Grzegorz Kuliś
FounderChief Information Officer and Owner at Delta Robots
Democratism organizer and Delta Robots owner who staged robot protest outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry calling for AI regulation.
Guillaume Genthial
FounderCo-Founder at Fragment
Co-founder of Paris-based Fragment acquired by Sierra, bringing expertise in building human-centered AI experiences to Sierra.
Guneet Singh
FounderCo-founder at Sparkonomy
Using Gemini Embedding 2 as foundation for Creator Economic Equality Engine, slashing latency by 70% and doubling semantic similarity scores.
Hamish McKenzie
FounderCo-founder at Substack
Recruited Lenny Rachitsky to Substack early on and called him poster child for what's possible on the platform.
Hamza Derbas
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Maven Robotics
Founded Maven Robotics after Apple's special projects group; leading development of autonomous robots for warehouse palletization.
Hanjun Dai
FounderCofounder and CTO at Precur AI
Cofounder of Precur AI startup building an Agent Compiler, quoted regarding the company's use of Tunix
Hansi Singh
FounderCEO & Co-founder at Planette AI
Leading project DL4MCS combining deep learning with physics-based weather forecasting models to predict mesoscale convective systems.
Helen Oleynikova
FounderFounder & CEO at Exclaim Robotics
Stated that despite many pilots and demos, there is no provable working solution yet for robot replacement of human data center work.

Henrik Werdelin
FounderFounding Partner at Prehype
Founding partner of startup studio Prehype and cofounder of Audos, discussing AI agents for launching businesses and entrepreneurship principles.
Henrique Dubugras
FounderCo-CEO at Brex
Co-CEO of Brex, shares responsibility with Franceschi for the restructuring decision.
Henry Kang
FounderFounder and CEO at Clipto.AI
Founded Clipto in 2023 after working on related problems for two decades; previously founded startups including one acquired by Tencent in 2020.
Hironobu Tamba
FounderSenior Vice President at SoftBank
Stated that bringing physical AI into the real world requires enormous computing and collaboration across Japan and globally.
Huang Guan
FounderCEO at GigaAI
CEO of Beijing world-model startup GigaAI pursuing Hong Kong IPO at $3 billion valuation.
Hursh Agrawal
FounderCo-founder at The Browser Company
Hursh Agrawal co-founded The Browser Company and pivoted to build Dia AI browser.
Idan Berkovits
FounderCo-Founder, Chief Product Officer at Cymphony
Cybersecurity veteran and CPO at Cymphony, served as Research Group Manager in Israeli Prime Minister's Office.
Igor Babushkin
FounderCo-founder at River AI
Former xAI co-founder launched River AI to build personalized AI agents that adapt to each user's style and goals.
Illia Polosukhin
FounderArtificial Intelligence Researcher at NEAR Protocol
Co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper at Google; founded NEAR AI to build decentralized private AI ecosystem; discusses evolution of frontier models and blockchain infrastructure for agents.
Ivan Burazin
FounderFounder at Daytona Platforms
Ivan Burazin founded Daytona and announced the $60M Series B funding round in a blog post.
Jace Kovacevich
FounderCOO, Co-Founder at Dishio and Dineline
Co-founder of Dishio and previously co-founder of Dineline; built Dishio to unify guest data across restaurant touchpoints and turn it into AI-powered marketing automation.
Jack Soslow
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Ciridae
Former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta; founded Ciridae to bring AI transformation to mid-market companies through embedded AI operating systems.
Jack Stein
FounderCo-founder at Cathedral
Former DOGE employee co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup for military cybersecurity.
Jack Weissenberger
FounderCTO & Cofounder at Ciridae
Former engineering leader at Salesforce and Head of ML at Teneyx; co-founded Ciridae to build AI operating systems for real-economy businesses.
Jacob Dai
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Airwallex
Quoted describing AP2 as critical for building a secure ecosystem for agentic AI payments
Jacob Robinson
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Motif Neurotech, Inc.
Co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, developing brain-computer interface for mental health treatment.
Jacob Sansbury
FounderFounder at Spawn
Founder of multiplayer game company Spawn who described using agents to write most code and ship hourly, with AI judges making decisions.
Jake Loosararian
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Gecko Robotics
CEO of Gecko Robotics discussing the company's robotics technology and AI capabilities for naval ship maintenance.
Jake Taylor-King
FounderCo-Founder, CIO & Head Of Technical Operations at Relation Therapeutics
Cofounder of drug discovery startup Relation discussing TechBio business models and patent strategy for drug development.
James Bartlett
FounderGimlet Labs, Inc.
James Bartlett is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.
James Clift
FounderFounder at Durable
Founder of Durable, an AI business builder that helps entrepreneurs launch and optimize with agents.
James Cox
FounderCo-founder at FluidStack
Co-founded FluidStack in 2017 from Oxford University; helped build the company into a dedicated AI infrastructure provider.
James Emerick
FounderCo-founder at Cosmic Robotics
Co-authored article about autonomous city construction on Mars with Cosmic Robotics mission.
James Patrick-Evans
FounderFounder and CEO at RevEng.ai
Founded RevEng.AI to build binary-native verification layer for software supply chain security using AI.
James Yu
FounderChairman and CEO at QCraft
CEO and Chairman of QCraft discussing autonomous driving AI advancement and transition toward superhuman intelligence in physical-world AI.

Jared Zoneraich
FounderCo-founder & CEO at PromptLayer
Presented on how Claude Code works at an AI engineering conference.

Jason Fried
FounderCofounder and CEO at 37signals
Discussed his philosophy on building products and running a company in an AI & I podcast episode.
Jason Goodison
FounderCTO at General Compute
CTO of General Compute, co-founder of the AI inference cloud startup.
Jason Kulatunga
FounderFounder at Fasten Health
Cautioned Slack group about risks of giving health apps broad leeway to pull medical records, noting security and privacy systems must be designed around malicious actors.
Jason Levin
FounderFounder at Memelord Technologies
Created Memelord.com, an AI tool for generating memes, and raised $3M in funding.
Jason Stoner
FounderCo-founder at Retro Reset
Luke's father and co-founder who helped convert the school bus and emphasizes the educational mission to inspire young people in computing
Jay Allen
FounderCo-founder at Moondream AI
Co-founder of Moondream joining Prime Intellect to scale inference and advance multimodal models.
Jay Chooi
FounderFounder at Robocurve
MATS fellow who founded Robocurve, an independent public benefit corporation that measures frontier robotics capabilities and risks, after identifying a gap in systematic evaluations of physical AI applications.
Jay Li
FounderFounder & CEO at Proception.AI
Former Tesla Optimus lead who founded Proception to develop high-dexterity robotic hands, settled trade secret lawsuit and raised $11M seed round.
JB Straubel
FounderFounder at Redwood Materials
Tesla co-founder and former CTO, now runs Redwood Materials which supplies energy systems for Crusoe's Spark data center units.
Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Alan
Co-founder and CEO of French insurtech Alan, which raised €480M for AI-driven prevention insurance.
Jean-Denis Greze
FounderCo-Founder, Mayor and CEO at Town
Founder of AI assistant platform Town who uses AI assistants to coordinate fifty-fifty split parenting responsibilities with his wife without nagging.
Jeff Atwood
FounderCo-founder at Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow co-founder who invited subscribers to private beta in July 2008.
Jeff Chang
FounderCo-Founder at Rad AI
Former practicing ER radiologist who cofounded AI healthcare startup Rad AI; designed tools to save radiologists time rather than replace them.

Jeff Huber
FounderCo-founder at Chroma
Co-founder of Chroma discussing the evolution from RAG to context engineering and vector database challenges.
Jeffrey Morgan
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Ollama
CEO of Ollama; stated that open models should be easy to run and available wherever work gets done; leads company with 8.9M monthly developers.
Jenny Nordlöw
FounderCEO at Sferical AI
CEO of Sferical AI discussing the capabilities of Sferical One supercluster for researchers in Sweden and the Nordics.
Jeremie Harris
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Gladstone AI
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.
Jia Li
FounderCo-founder, President and Chief AI Officer at LiveX AI Inc.
LiveX.ai founder developing physical AI agents to transform retail venues, sporting events and consumer experiences; featured on the NVIDIA AI Podcast discussing holographic AI agents like Toy Jensen.
Joan Vendrell
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at NeuralTrust
Co-founder and CEO of NeuralTrust discussing the company's mission to secure enterprise AI agents.
Joe Averbukh
FounderCo-founder at Instant
Instant co-founder whose team was acquired by OpenAI to build real-time AI agent memory infrastructure.
Joe Luchs
FounderFounder and CEO at Datalinx AI
Left Amazon as global head of AWS and Ads partnership to co-found Datalinx AI.

John Carmack
FounderFounder
Proposed using a long fiber loop as an L2 cache to hold AI model weights for near-zero latency and gigantic bandwidth.
John Gleeson
FounderFounder & GP at SuccessVP
Provided framework on how AI succeeds through high context and verifiable correctness, and discussed scaling dynamics from $1M to $300M+ ARR.
John Han
FounderCo-founder at Blockitt
John Han discussed how Claude Managed Agents made building a production-ready meeting prep agent 3x faster.