Member Directory
Dennis Won is Founder and CTO of Newton Labs in San Francisco, which builds an authorization layer for onchain transactions so teams can enforce compliance policies like identity checks, jurisdiction rules and spending limits directly in smart contracts across chains. Dennis is also Co-Founder and CTO at Magic Labs, where he led the protocol team, and he previously worked at Alchemy, Harmony, Kaia
Sasan Daneshvar is CTO and cofounder of Permit Genie, a San Francisco company whose agentic AI workflow turns any U.S. address into a permitting roadmap covering zoning, costs, timelines, approval risk and document prep for real estate projects. A full-stack engineer and technical founder with more than 18 years of experience, he also invests as an angel in real estate and construction tech. Sasan
Ro Arora is co-founder of Operative, a San Francisco company building dynamic authority technology for autonomous AI agents. Before Operative, Ro founded DealOps, which has provided M&A operations support, including deal sourcing and financial modeling, to middle market private equity firms and corporate acquirers since 2015. Ro was earlier a partner at a boutique advisory and turnaround firm.
Pavan Sondur is Co-Founder and CEO of Legend, a San Francisco company building an AI-native operating system for go-to-market teams. He previously co-founded Unbxd and led it as CEO until it was acquired by Netcore. He then co-founded Coreworks AI, which uses multi-agent AI to turn raw business data into traceable reports, spreadsheets and presentations. Pavan comes from an engineering background
Avikalp Gupta is the Founder and CTO of x1025, based in San Francisco, and a member of South Park Commons. Avikalp previously worked at Microsoft Research, was an early employee at GetMega, and founded Vibinex, an open-source code review tool, after studying computer science at IIT Kanpur. Avikalp also builds open-source AI tools such as byok-relay, which lets frontend-only apps call LLMs using pe
Advait Shinde is the co-founder and chairperson of GoGuardian, an education technology company that builds classroom management, content filtering and student safety tools for K-12 schools. Before starting GoGuardian in 2014, Advait was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on Google Wallet and Bluetooth LE. At GoGuardian he was CTO, then became CEO in 2017. On GitHub he shares side proje
Michael Young is the founder and CEO of Photon Commerce in San Francisco, whose AI reads invoices and bank statements, categorizes the transactions and automates reconciliation and payments for fintech companies and banks, with clients including FIS, Brex, Settle and Teampay. He advises the Nacha ACH Network board and has been a FedNow showcase provider with the Federal Reserve. Before Photon he c
Prakash Sadasivam is the founder and CEO of Sigmaways, a Fremont, California company that provides IT consulting, software product engineering and technology services to software businesses. Prakash founded Sigmaways in 2006 and previously served as director of quality assurance at Eventbrite. In 2022, Nasdaq-listed HeartCore acquired a majority stake in Sigmaways. He is a member of the Forbes Tec
Guy Yalif is Chief Evangelist at Webflow, the website platform, where he talks with marketers about how AI and personalization are changing B2B marketing. He cofounded Intellimize, which used machine learning to personalize websites, and served as its CEO until Webflow acquired it; before that he was a marketing leader at Twitter, BrightRoll and Yahoo. Guy has been part of four exits and has spent
Marcin Wudarczyk is the Founder and CEO of IT Booster, a San Francisco company that is reworking pre-agentic business workflows with AI. He is also CEO of NG Logic, which he has led since 2003. Before that, he spent five years as Chief Software Architect at ContractRoom, and today he builds with tools like LangGraph, Claude, Qwen and Ollama.
Jeremy Vince is Co-Founder and CEO of NexDiscovery, a San Francisco company that builds an AI platform for enterprises. It runs inside a customer's own environment and reads CRM, billing, support, finance and product data together to find opportunities that dashboards miss. Before NexDiscovery, Jeremy was Chief of Staff at Anglepoint, where he connected CRM, finance and operations data to find gro
Massimo Arrigoni is CEO and co-founder of Beefree, which makes no-code email design tools for marketing teams through RGE Studio and an embeddable email builder for software companies through Beefree SDK. Massimo previously led product at MailUp, where his team created the free BEE editor that grew into Beefree, and earlier co-founded Early Impact, maker of the ProductCart ecommerce system. He is
