Member Directory
Neev Gupta studies computer science and economics at UT Austin and works on growth at Base44, the AI app builder. He is also a software engineer with Convergent, UT Austin's student builder community, and has previously worked at State Farm, H-E-B and Zonda.
Vishvesh Bhat is Co-founder and CEO of CoreThink AI, a San Jose company that builds explainable, multi-step AI reasoning workflows for enterprises, including tasks like diagnostics, clinical trials and supply chains. Before that, Vishvesh worked on AI capabilities such as factuality and instruction-following at Primer AI and Pebble Finance, and contributed to an AI textbook. He is focused on neuro
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
Samaresh Kumar Singh is a Principal Engineer at HP Inc. in Austin, where he works on the Technology Innovation team on HP's edge computing and AI strategy. HP makes PCs, printers and related technology for consumers and businesses. Samaresh has been at HP since 2015 and has worked on projects including HP AI Studio and HP Z Boost. He is a Docker Captain, a Google Developer Expert in AI and an NVID
CTO at @diadia-ai, also co-founder @mnemonic-labs. Previously (self-driving, marketplace dynamics, ML) @uber eng @google;
Sharon Sloane is the President and CEO of WILL Interactive, which she has led since 1994. The company runs a behavioral intelligence platform that shows where employee behavior creates risk, delivers targeted training in areas like harassment prevention, cyber security and leadership, and measures behavior change over time. Sharon co-invented the patented interactive behavior modification system b
John Ryan is the Founder and CEO of ORM Technologies, a Dallas company that builds prescriptive revenue analytics for B2B SaaS sales and marketing leaders. He was CEO and President of the security company Entrust from 1996 to 2001, and he founded ORM in 2011. John's team builds custom forecast models on a company's CRM data to spot pipeline risks early and tell sales teams what to do next.
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
Darrell Merrick is the founder and CEO of RocketshipLabs, a Phoenix-based AI lab that helps businesses build AI into their processes, currently including Google Ads management. He began working in AI at the Lockheed AI Center in Silicon Valley, where he built rule-based decision systems that helped choose materials for satellites, and he also owns Internet Cocktail and DM Business Advisors. Darrel
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
Anant Garg is the Founder and CTO of CometChat, a Denver company that gives developers tools to add text, voice and video chat, calling and AI copilots to their apps and websites. Anant has spent more than 15 years building software businesses, and CometChat went through Techstars Boulder in 2019. He hosts "Beyond the Bubble," a series that looks at how platforms such as Fiverr use in-app chat.
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
Adam G. Southam is the Founder and CEO of Food for Health®, a patented Clinical Nutrition Operating System that calculates how each food affects each person's health. Adam brings more than 35 years of leadership in innovation, strategy, invention, start-ups and branding, and he created the GoNo Food Finder app, which scans product barcodes to recommend foods. He also co-chaired a day-long educatio
Greg Fitzgerald is the CEO of Artificial By Design, Inc., an Austin company building a compatibility layer that lets AI workloads run on the best available compute without rewriting the application. Greg co-founded Sevco Security, chairs CyberForce Security, and earlier led go-to-market work as founding CMO at Cylance and as an executive at Fortinet, Sourcefire, TippingPoint, BMC Software and Jave
Prince Agyei Tuffour is a software QA engineer at dynaConnections in Austin, where he designs test automation frameworks for enterprise web applications. Prince is also CTO and co-founder of Akomapa Health Foundation, where he is building Nkwapa, a patient management platform for underserved communities in Ghana. He previously interned as a software engineer at Cita Marketplace. He now builds open
Heidi Raines is a healthcare founder and Founding Partner of Performance Health Partners, a Sentact company that makes patient safety software to help healthcare organizations report risks and prevent harm. Heidi founded Performance Health Partners and led it as CEO until Sentact acquired it in December 2025, when she joined Sentact as Chief Strategy Officer. She previously founded Medical Executi
Steve Culores is co-founder and Managing Partner of Boonli, a cloud-based platform that helps schools, school districts, caterers and workplaces manage meal orders and payments, from school lunch to student fees, fundraising and after-care programs. Steve co-founded Boonli in 2006 and has led it since then, building software that connects schools, parents and their food partners. He works with AI
Gireesh Puthumana is the Founder and CCO of Intrium, an AI-native platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) businesses that links a company's workflow and data systems with outside market signals. The company was previously called Genzoic. Earlier, Gireesh co-founded AugmentIQ Data Sciences, which was acquired by LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech). Before that, he held database and engineering roles
Timothy Miller is the founder and CEO of ConvertAble, which helps local businesses turn leads into booked jobs and win referrals and repeat customers through automated text messaging. Tim has watched the internet change over more than 18 years, working hands-on with rug care, cleaning and remediation companies across the US and Canada. He has spoken on local search marketing at industry events inc
Steve Jamison is the Founder and CEO of PXch, a live shopping and webinar platform based in Miami. PXch helps businesses turn online meetings into shopping events, where viewers can browse and buy products in real time while hosts run webinars, podcasts and social media sessions. Steve has led the company since September 2024 and works with tools such as Claude, Gemini, ElevenLabs and HeyGen.
Michael Lamarti is the founder and CEO of Jola Interactive, a Brooklyn-based team of web development and 3D CGI specialists that builds eCommerce websites with 3D applications such as visual configurators and augmented reality for B2B brands. Michael has led the company since founding it in 2010, and in that time it has worked mainly with North American brands in the furnishing industry.
Rick Cancelliere is the Founder and CEO of PracticeBeat, a Pittsburgh company that gives independent medical practices a patient access and engagement platform with tools for appointment scheduling, billing integration and performance analytics. Rick started a healthcare design firm in 2002, then launched Nerve Medical, a technology agency for medical startups, in 2009. In 2012 he became CEO of Tr
Louis Hendriks is the founder and CEO of Global Value Web, a data services company building an AI-enabled data-as-a-service platform for healthcare and life sciences. Before founding the company, Louis worked at Capgemini across energy, telecom and life sciences, helping multinational companies rethink their value chains with automation. He now focuses on human-centric, data-driven value chains in
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
Keith Pelatowski is Chief Executive Officer of Points North, a Duluth, Minnesota software company that has led since 2019. Points North makes cloud-based tools that help employers handle HR compliance, including certified payroll reporting, ACA reporting and tracking, attendance compliance and benefits data aggregation. Keith describes himself as a business leader in technology and medical industr
Lindsay McGregor is co-founder and CEO of Factor.ai, a New York company that builds AI tools for leadership, legal operations and demand generation to help teams work better. She also co-founded Vega Factor, a consulting and technology company that helps organizations build high-performing cultures, and co-authored the book Primed to Perform. Before that, Lindsay led projects at McKinsey & Company
I am the co-founder and CTO of AvanSaber, building AI products that turn everyday business requests into completed work. ERPClaw is our open-source, AI-native ERP for growing and midsize businesses. It brings accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales and operations into one system that teams can work with in plain language. Own your software, keep control of your data and build around the way your
Andrew Mills is the founder and CEO of New Amsterdam Genomics (NAGenomics), a Boston-area company that uses computer analysis of DNA data to offer genetic testing to physicians and their patients. Andrew became interested in entrepreneurship while earning his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, and he has since founded four companies, each built around a scientific idea. He is also a techn
Michael Maltsev is the founder and CEO of RigER, an Austin-based company that makes job management software for oilfield service and equipment rental companies, covering field tickets, job scheduling and rental fleet management. Before building oilfield software, Michael was CFO at an oilfield rental company. He studied at MIT Sloan School of Management and has led RigER since 2012, serving custom
Ken Reimer is the CEO of Continuum Venture Partners, a Miami company that invests in and acquires small and medium-sized B2B software businesses, with a focus on banking and education software. Before Continuum, Ken was CEO and portfolio manager at Altair Software, and he is also a managing partner at Five Holdings. Today he leads Continuum's enterprise software investments, and his team builds wi
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
Bob Drobish is the co-founder and CEO of Recon InfoSec, an Austin-based managed detection and response company. It helps organizations of all sizes improve their security, including through outsourced cybersecurity partnerships for small and medium businesses. Before Recon, Bob was CEO of True Games Interactive and Application Cartography, served as senior vice president of operations at K2 Networ
Aloke Nath is the Founder and CEO of OrderCup, an Irvine-based company whose web-based software helps eCommerce businesses automate order processing and shipping, connecting shopping carts with carriers such as USPS, UPS and FedEx. Aloke has led OrderCup since 2008 and earlier worked as CEO and president of Syncata, as a vice president at On Business Solutions, and as a principal consultant at Ash
Sergiu Costin is the founder and CEO of Oronex.ai, a Seattle-based company that builds inventory intelligence for fine jewelry brands. He also founded AMZgemz, an agency that helps jewelry companies sell on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and Walmart, after he started selling fine jewelry on eBay in 2006. Sergiu now works on AI agents for jewelry brands, with a focus on agentic commerce, visibility in
Italo Leiva is a founder and the CRO of PathFinder, which audits a company's live HubSpot portal, prices each problem it finds and builds the fix inside the CRM for revenue teams. Before PathFinder, Italo founded and led Peddle, a HubSpot Solutions Partner that handled RevOps, CRM implementations and migrations. He is a three-time founder with three exits. He now builds AI-driven revenue systems w
Richard Turner is President and Founder of Convergence Data, an Orlando company that pairs product information management (PIM) software with data services like taxonomy design for manufacturers. Richard spent much of his earlier career as a consultant helping companies improve product development, and at Convergence Data he has architected software and led data conversion projects for PLM and PIM
Dirk Neumann is the founder and CEO of Brisken, a Houston company that builds AI-powered treasury software for corporate treasury and finance teams. Dirk used to consult on treasury systems before he started building them, and in 2025 he split Brisken into two business units, Brisken Treasury Solutions and Brisken Cloud Services. He is now building Verve.Works, which uses governed agents to carry
Alexander is a Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus. He previously worked as a Salesforce operations manager at GE Capital. At xappex.ai he is bringing CRM, support, marketing, knowledge base, billing and AI agents into one role-based workspace.
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.
Ron MacInnis is CEO and CPO of Document Agility, which turns a business's most important repeatable document, such as a contract, loan application or onboarding package, into a custom AI expert system for regulated industries. Ron founded Document Agility, and his earlier work history includes AccuDraft and Environmental Health Technologies. He also works as a fractional CPO and enterprise AI prod
Jeremy Dalnes is co-founder of Pulse Insights, a Boston-based AI-powered experience optimization platform whose agents spot website visitors who are about to give up, ask what they need and help them finish orders, sign-ups or searches. Before co-founding the company in 2015, Jeremy spent years in client-side digital strategy and ecommerce roles at Panasonic, Zeo and Synthes. He is now focused on
Seth Hurd is the Founder and CEO of Brand Expand, a St. Petersburg-based software company that helps ecommerce sellers improve product ranking and sales on US marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, Target and TikTok. From 2015 to 2021 he sold on Amazon as a third-party seller, then exited that business and started Brand Expand. Seth now focuses on drawing verified shoppers to sellers' listings and
Tim Silk is the founder and COO of American AI Logistics, a government technology company whose software helps businesses pursue government contracts by generating proposals tailored to each opportunity. Tim is based in Tampa and studied at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. He is currently focused on growing the platform and building out the company's account management team.
Matt Johan is a New York-based fractional CFO and COO who works with OnDomain and other AI startups. Matt is also co-founder and executive director of Stepwise, a utilities company he has led since 2021. He previously served as head of corporate finance at Arctic Securities. His current focus is on providing finance and operations support to early-stage AI companies.
Chris Brisson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Salesmsg, a business texting and calling platform that helps sales, marketing and support teams text leads, make calls and automate follow-ups with AI inside their CRM. Before launching Salesmsg in 2017, Chris co-founded Call Loop, a messaging company started in 2011, and he has built several businesses without outside funding. He speaks on podcasts about
Dustin Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Alive5, a Houston company that makes simple AI chat and SMS tools for customer-facing teams. Before he started Alive5 with co-founder Glenn Gutierrez in 2017, Dustin was president and CEO of WebsiteAlive, the live chat software company that Alive5 spun off from. At Alive5, he is working to bring SMS, live chat and social messaging together in one AI-powered p
A Nott is a cofounder of Vinculum, a software company that helps brands and retailers sell across online marketplaces, direct-to-consumer channels and physical stores. Vinculum's products include order management and warehouse management systems for omnichannel retail and fulfillment. Based in Phoenix, Nott works on the company's omnichannel retail and e-commerce software.
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
Hunter Correll is Co-Founder and CEO of Athos, a San Diego company that builds an AI platform for insurance sales teams to screen candidates, train agents with AI role-play prospects and score real sales calls. Hunter also co-founded Unity, an insurance agency, and describes his work as building insurance companies and the technology to scale them. He studied at Northern Arizona University's W. A.
Nick Sullivan is an Austin-based AI architect and the founder of Carmenta Collective, where he builds heart-centered AI tools and infrastructure for AI-native software development. A self-taught programmer with 25 years in software, Nick has served as a CTO and was often the first technologist at a company, and he created AICodeBot, an early terminal coding assistant. He now builds open-source Cla
Raj Maddula is Founder and CEO of Denken Solutions, an Irvine-based IT staffing and consulting firm, and of Global Squirrels, whose Squirrels AI platform provides AI agents that handle calls, emails and texts for sales, recruiting and business process automation. Raj founded Denken Solutions in 2010 and holds a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Utah. His
Drew Scheifele is co-founder and CEO of SaltyCloud, an Austin-based public benefit corporation whose Isora GRC platform helps security teams in higher education and the public sector run risk assessments, manage vendors and track compliance. Drew co-founded the company in 2018. Isora GRC began inside UT Austin's Information Security Office, and the company went through Techstars in 2020. He serves
Rick Morris is the Founder and CEO of Thrive Technologies, a Marietta, Georgia company whose AI inventory platform helps multi-location wholesale distributors cut dead stock and lost sales by tuning the settings in their existing ERP systems. Rick founded Thrive in 2001 and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional who has written about inventory topics such as measuring vendor lead times. He now f
Ron Laughton is the founder and CEO of ReviewInc, a Woodland Hills company that makes reputation management software for local businesses. The software tracks reviews on more than 600 sites, helps businesses get new reviews, manages their listings, and helps them show up in local and AI search. Ron started ReviewInc in 2012 with co-founder Henri Isenberg and has run it ever since.
Raz Choudhury is the co-founder and CEO of Sam.ai, a New York company that builds an AI prospecting platform for B2B sales, commercial real estate and recruitment teams, using warm introductions and intent signals to help them find prospects and book meetings. Raz began his career as an engineer at IBM, where he spent six years leading major Northeast accounts, and in 1999 he founded USAWeb, now O
Judson Stone is the founder of Kevodeka, which he describes as a Chief of Staff Operating System. He is based in Trophy Club, Texas. Judson is also Chief Revenue Officer at Cielo, an information technology company he joined in July 2025. On LinkedIn he describes himself as an experienced business leader, connector and public speaker. Today he is focused on building Kevodeka.
Feyzi Fatehi is Chairman and CEO of Corent Technology, Inc., an Aliso Viejo company whose AI-driven platform helps system integrators and software makers with cloud migration, modernization, FinOps and SaaS delivery. Before Corent, Feyzi spent years building teams at HP and at three software start-ups, and he is credited as an inventor of the first commercial real-time database and author of the b
Stuart Brent is the founder of saasyDB, a Nashville-based database of more than 100,000 SaaS companies that gives sales and marketing teams verified employee emails and LinkedIn URLs, with one credit unlocking every contact at a company. Before saasyDB, Stuart founded or co-founded several startups, including MapPlug, UserInput, WhoWorksThere and Beyond Beta. He now publishes new research every we
Parag Jagdale is Co-Founder and CEO of Unific, an Akron-based company that builds B2C and B2B ecommerce and CPQ apps for HubSpot and is a HubSpot Diamond Agency Partner. He has more than 20 years of experience as a software engineer and entrepreneur, ran a software development agency and an ecommerce business, and earlier served as Unific's CTO. Parag now focuses on Quotific, Unific's CPQ and quot
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
Lenar Mukhamadiev is the founder of iDelsoft, a Tampa-based remote hiring platform that builds engineering teams for startups and small businesses and aims to hire them within 48 hours. Before working full time on iDelsoft, Lenar was a senior software engineer at Spok, where he worked on a HIPAA-compliant clinical messaging platform, and a senior IT consultant at myMatrixx. He has run iDelsoft sin
Gururaj Pandurangi is CEO and Founder of ThriveStack, a Seattle-based company that builds citedby, an AI visibility and answer engine optimization platform, along with Revenue Intelligence, which connects product, billing and CRM data to help software companies reduce churn. Before ThriveStack, Gururaj founded and led Cloudneeti, which was acquired by Zscaler. Earlier he founded Avyan Corp and wor
Dino Gane-Palmer is the founder and CEO of PreScouter, an innovation consultancy that helps large companies assess new markets and emerging technologies. He also leads Auxee, which builds AI-driven dashboards for R&D teams at large product companies. Dino started PreScouter while earning his MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School, after managing new media projects at the BBC. He wrote Do More With L
David Hassell is the founder and CEO of a startup in stealth, which he is building from Sedona, Arizona. He also works at Microsoft as a Principal Data and Analytics Solution Engineer and has focused on data and AI cloud work there since 2023. David builds with tools such as Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Vercel and Supabase.
Kevin Oroszlan is a high performance coach and the founder of Highvibe Network, a blockchain-based ecosystem that links personal growth, wellness and education platforms through Web3 tools. Kevin has led Highvibe Network since 2016 and works as a public speaker, author and podcast host, describing himself as a mentor to creators and visionaries. He studied at The University of Texas at Austin.
Joe McVeen is founder and CEO of GrowthMastery.ai, an Austin-based AI-native venture growth firm that pairs AI with experienced operators to help founders and portfolio leaders build repeatable growth and connected operations. Joe has spent eleven years engineering conversion for founder-led companies and is also co-founder and chief operations officer of New Earth Development, a real estate compa
David Trachsel is Head of Growth at SaasRise, a community for SaaS CEOs, and is based in St. Petersburg. Before joining SaasRise, he held marketing roles at Netrix Global, The SSL Store and Affiliate Nation. His work has focused on digital marketing, paid social and product marketing for B2B, B2C and direct-to-consumer companies. David works with AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and
Steve Canfield is Head of Design at SaasRise and builds Song Cage on the side, a songwriting tool for capturing chords, melodies and lyrics in the browser, on desktop, or inside a DAW as a plugin. Steve previously worked at The Notus, building websites, business tools and automation, and co-leads the beginner track of SaasRise's AI coding bootcamp built around Claude Code. Song Cage uses rule-base
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