Industry Network
888 people tracked across hundreds of AI articles. Who is being quoted, who is writing, and who keeps coming up.
John Nay
FounderFounder and CEO at Norm Ai
Founded and leads Norm Ai, raised $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation; stated that building interface between AI and law is critical to align AI with human values.
Jonah Peretti
Founderformer BuzzFeed CEO at BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed CEO introducing Branch Office spin-off and AI apps BF Island and Conjure at SXSW conference.
Jonathan Lebensold
FounderCEO of Jetty at Jetty
Founded and leads Jetty, which raised $2M in pre-seed funding for agentic AI infrastructure for reliable deployment of autonomous AI agents in production.
Jonny Ive
Founderio Products
Referenced as exception to OpenAI acquisition pattern; his company's product roadmap continues post-acquisition

Jonny Miller
FounderFounder at Nervous System Mastery
Founder of Nervous System Mastery boot camp, shares structured protocol for using LLMs as personal AI coaches via codex vitae
Jordan Zietz
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at LemonLime
Founder of early AI startup LemonLime who offered job candidates a chance to interview if they got a permanent tattoo of the company logo; publicly apologized after backlash.
Josh Bongard
FounderComputer Scientist and Roboticist at University of Vermont
Frequent collaborator with Michael Levin on biobot research and co-founder of Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms and Fauna Systems.
Josh Campbell
FounderFounder at Rescue Air
Co-founder of Rescue Air who deployed AI tools across the front office early, attracting PE buyer interest during a sale process that drew 20+ offers.
Josh Earle
FounderCo-Founder at Outlit
Co-founder of Outlit arguing that every company will assign AI agents to watch customers' every move for business intelligence.
Josh Meier
FounderCo-founder at Chai Discovery
Co-founder of Chai Discovery, an AI drug discovery startup; previously worked at OpenAI as a researcher.
Josh Tobin
FounderCo-founder at Recursive Superintelligence
Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence to develop AI that can improve itself.
Josh Withers
FounderFounder & GM, Platform and North America Search Operations at True
Explained why cultural adoption, not technology alone, determines whether AI succeeds in organizations and discussed the AI Adoption Gap.
Juerg Frefel
FounderCo-founder and CTO at Reliable Robotics Corporation
SpaceX veteran co-founding Reliable Robotics as engineer working toward autonomous flight certification.
Julian Assange
FounderFounder at WikiLeaks
Subject of AI-generated fake image created with Midjourney showing him ill in prison
Julian Bright
FounderCo-founder at Introspection
Co-founder of Introspection who worked with Gavrilescu on agent infrastructure and cloud agents at xAI.
Justin Dangel
FounderFounder and CEO at Subquadratic
Founded Subquadratic, announced $29M seed funding at $500M valuation for SubQ 1M-Preview, first LLM with fully subquadratic attention architecture.
Justin Meltzer
FounderCo-founder at Firefly
Co-founded Firefly with Dan Shipper, which was sold to Pegasystems for multiple millions while they were still in school.
Justine Tunney
FounderCo-founder at Turbopuffer
Co-founder of Turbopuffer who worked with Simon to optimize infrastructure and scale the company through major customer deployments.
Kameron Buckner
FounderFounder, Social Docket at Social Docket
Founder of Social Docket helping creators navigate the legal implications of their AI use in the creator economy.
Karan Goel
FounderFounder / CEO at Cartesia
Founder who announced the release of Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2 models ranked first on Artificial Analysis leaderboards for speech generation and transcription.
Karol Hausman
FounderCEO at Physical Intelligence
Karol Hausman, CEO of Physical Intelligence, denied rumors of acquisition by Anthropic via an internal Slack message.
Karthik Gollapudi
FounderCEO at Sift
Co-founder and CEO of Sift, which builds infrastructure for AI-controlled hardware systems; former SpaceX engineer.
Karthik Mahadevan
FounderChief Executive at Envision
CEO discussing how Envision's AI models help blind people access visual information through advanced artificial intelligence.
Kay Zhu
FounderCo-founder & CTO at Genspark
Provided testimonial about improvements in agent turns, tool calls, and overall score from the advisor tool.
Keerti Melkote
FounderCEO at Anyscale
Keerti Melkote, CEO of Anyscale, announced the acquisition by Nscale, combining Anyscale's platform built on Ray with Nscale's infrastructure.
Ken Macken
FounderCEO and Founder at Workr
Leading robotic workforce company demonstrating AI-powered robotic systems using ABB technology and NVIDIA Omniverse to help manufacturers address labor shortages.
Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Luminai
Founder and CEO of Luminai describing the company's AI-native platform for healthcare workflow automation and the role of recent AI advances.
Kevin Kieller
FounderCo-founder and Lead Analyst at enableUC
Co-founder and lead analyst at enableUC praising AI Companion 3.0 as the type of solution organizations need to improve efficiency and collaboration.
Kevin McCormick
FounderFounder at SignAudit.AI
AI startup founder commenting on executive departures from OpenAI as a red flag for the company's IPO stability.
Kevin Owens
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Resect AI
Leading Resect AI startup that developed technology to catch AI hallucinations mid-stream before they occur in LLMs.
Khalid Derbas
FounderCo-Founder & CFO at Maven Robotics
Co-founded Maven Robotics with brother Hamza, bringing private equity background to the robotics startup.
Kian Sadeghi
FounderFounder at Nucleus Genomics
Founded genetics testing startup offering embryo DNA profiling and trait selection service for $8,999.
Kush Madlani
FounderCo-Founder at Wexler
Co-founded Wexler in January 2023, a fact intelligence platform acquired by Legora for extracting and verifying facts in litigation documents.
Kyle Kosic
FounderCo-founder at xAI
Co-founder who has departed xAI.
Larry McVoy
FounderBitKeeper
BitKeeper creator mentioned in context of licensing disagreements that led to Git's creation
Laurent Mazaré
FounderCo-Founder at Gradium
Co-founded Gradium with focus on real-time voice AI models and infrastructure.
Leo Paz
FounderCo-founder at Outlit
Co-founder of AI customer surveillance startup Outlit backed by Y Combinator.
Les Crane
FounderCo-founder at The Software Toolworks
Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and played an integral role in creating the Mavis Beacon persona.
Levan Kvirkvelia
FounderCo-Founder at Rork
Co-founder of Rork who pivoted the company to mobile app development and emphasizes the exponential progress in AI models.
Lewis Jones
FounderCo-founder at Cosmic Robotics
Co-authored article about autonomous city construction on Mars with Cosmic Robotics mission.
Lisa Gevelber
FounderFounder at Grow with Google
Quoted on AI skills being essential for today's jobs and Google's commitment to helping people access advanced technology and training.
Liz Meyerdirk
FounderFounder at Babs AI
Founder of family organization app Babs launching in September; mother of three who worked in logistics and sees household management as needing business-like tools.
Ljubisa Bajic
FounderCEO at Taalas
Co-founder and former CEO/CTO/president of Tenstorrent; leads Taalas in developing specialized AI inference silicon.
Luca Ferrari
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Bending Spoons
Co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, which filed S-1 to go public as first AI-native rollup software company.
Luis Wenus
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Nolla Health
Announced that Nolla Health became the first organization to receive regulatory approval for AI to issue initial prescriptions through the Nolla Derm app in Utah.
Luke Farritor
FounderCo-founder at Cathedral
Former DOGE and GSA official co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup, previously interned at SpaceX.
Luke Stoner
FounderFounder at Retro Reset
19-year-old founder of mobile retro computer museum charity who was inspired to create a traveling museum after visiting a computer history museum
MacKenzie Price
FounderCo-founder at Alpha School
Alpha School co-founder who stated plans to keep hot-button social issues out of the classroom in AI-powered education offering.

Maitreya Wagh
FounderCo-founder at Bolna
Co-founder of voice AI start-up Bolna who complained about logistical issues at India's AI summit.
Malcom McLean
FounderFounder at SeaLand
Founder of SeaLand who revolutionized freight shipping with the first containership, the Ideal-X, in 1956
Manik Surtani
FounderCTO and co-founder at Agentic AI Foundation
Announced AAIF's growth from 3 to 10 projects in its first year with new agentic AI contributions from major labs.
Manohar Paluri
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Warp Sciences
FAIR co-founder who co-founded Warp Sciences to apply AI and robotics to drug discovery and development.
Manuel Kroiss
FounderCo-founder, Head of Pretraining at xAI
Led xAI's pretraining team before departing; one of the last two co-founders to leave the company.
Maor Shlomo
FounderFounder at Base44
Discussed Base44's custom LLM development and strategy for achieving defensibility through owning their model as part of their entire stack.
Marc Berte
FounderCEO at Overview Energy
Leading startup developing satellite-based solar power transmission technology for AI data centers.
Marc Lore
FounderFounder at Wonder
Entrepreneur who founded Wonder, a food-tech startup using robotic kitchen automation to make bowls at 500 per hour with AI-driven personalization.

Marc Merrill
FounderCo-founder at Riot Games
Riot Games co-founder who responded positively to Musk's proposal, indicating Riot Games' willingness to discuss and organize the match
Mari Maeda
FounderFounder at Canine Cancer Alliance
US-based founder who connected Conyngham with Professor Rachel Allavena to navigate ethics approval and treatment administration.
Mark Roberge
FounderCo-founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital
Discusses the debate between using AI in product offerings versus internal operations for startups
Marko Elez
FounderCo-founder at Cathedral
Former SpaceX and DOGE Treasury official co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup, faced controversy over social media posts.
Mathilde Collin
FounderCo-founder and CEO at KORA
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.
Matt Cooper
FounderCo-founder at Convogo
Co-founded Convogo, an AI tool for executive coaching, which was acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire deal.

Matt Deitke
FounderCo-founder at Vercept
Co-founder of Vercept who negotiated a $250M salary from Meta; congratulated former colleagues on the acquisition but is not joining Anthropic.
Matt Gialich
FounderCEO and Co-founder at AstroForge
Announced Autonomy-1 mission using Solo AI intelligence model to operate spacecraft autonomously without ground commands.
Matt Huang
FounderCo-Founder at Paradigm
Co-author of announcement of Paradigm's fourth $1.2B fund expanding into AI, robotics and other exponential technologies.
Matthias Petri
FounderCo-Founder / Chief Scientist at Keenable.ai
German AI scientist co-founding Keenable; previously worked with Styskin on web search infrastructure for Alexa.
Matthieu Masselin
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Wandercraft
Wandercraft CEO announcing FDA clearance of Eve self-balancing exoskeleton for wheelchair users.
Maurice Rahme
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Minerva Humanoids
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Minerva Humanoids robotics company.
Max Brodeur-Urbas
FounderCEO at Gumloop
CEO and founder of Gumloop who announced the company's $50 million Series B funding for AI automation platform.
Max Hodak
FounderCEO at Science
Former Neuralink co-founder and current Science Corporation CEO announced the company's implantation of vision-restoring chip PRIMA in first patient with Stargardt disease.
Max Levchin
FounderCEO at Affirm
Argued that AI is effectively raising humanity's average IQ and boosting brainpower for anyone online.
Mehul Nariyawala
FounderPresident & Co-founder at Matic Robots
Nariyawala discussed Matic's new voice-first approach and plans to run AI models locally on the robot's hardware.

Merrill Lutsky
FounderCo-founder at Graphite
Co-founded Graphite, a startup using AI to review and debug code that was acquired by Cursor.
Michael Blau
FounderFounder at Dripstack
Built Dripstack, a micropayment system for AI agents to pay content creators using stablecoins.
Michael Chiang
FounderCo-Founder at Ollama
Co-founded Ollama; helped build largest developer network in open model ecosystem.
Michael Elabd
FounderCo-Founder at Trajectory
Co-founder of Trajectory, a startup building continual learning platform for AI systems that improve from real-world experience.
Michael Hirsh
FounderFounder at Rescue Air
Co-founder of Rescue Air who built a business, ran a PE partnership process drawing 20+ offers, and was one of the first operators to deploy AI across their front office.
Michael Young
FounderFounder at Lindus
Founder of clinical-trials startup Lindus discussing TechBio disruption and patent analysis in drug discovery.
Michelle Nguyen
FounderGimlet Labs
Michelle Nguyen is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.
Mike Duffy
FounderCo-founder at The Software Toolworks
Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and contributor to program development.
Mike Einziger
FounderFounder at Mixhalo
Co-founder of Mixhalo, Incubus guitarist and songwriter, founded the real-time audio startup in 2016.
Mike Fey
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Island
Discussed how Island created the first Enterprise Browser and expanded into security and governance for AI agents.
Mike Gillett
FounderCo-founder at Convogo
Co-founded Convogo and joined OpenAI as part of the acqui-hire to work on AI cloud efforts.
Mike Grabowski
FounderCallstack
Author announcing Apex, a React Native specialized coding model trained for framework-specific engineering work.
Mike LeBlanc
FounderCo-founder at Foundation
14-year Marine Corps veteran who co-founded Foundation and advocates for deploying humanoid robots in warfare instead of soldiers.

Mike Mignano
FounderCofounder at Oboe
Former Spotify exec who ran Spotify's podcast team and cofounded Oboe with Nir Zicherman.
Mike Yu
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Vesta
CEO of Vesta who stated that demand for the product has exploded and revenue is up 12x year over year, with the company focusing on AI agents for mortgage origination.
Mikhail Shapiro
FounderCo-founder at Merge Labs
Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen
FounderFounder & CEO at Sceye
CEO of Sceye who oversaw stratospheric platform's record-breaking trans-Pacific flight demonstrating HAPS connectivity and edge computing as future infrastructure for 6G.
Minna Song
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at EliseAI
Minna Song is co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, which raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation for AI automation of administrative and operational work.
Mohammad Abu Sheikh
FounderFounder and CEO at CNTXT AI
Technology entrepreneur and founder of CNTXT AI; also founded LocAI (acquired by AI71) and SMPL AI fund for early-stage AI startups.
Moxie Marlinspike
FounderFounder at Confer
Creator of Confer, an encrypted AI chat platform built on open-weight models; partnering with Meta to integrate end-to-end encryption into Meta AI.
Mr Shah
FounderCo-founder at Hubspot
Self-confessed AI-enthusiast and co-founder of Hubspot who owns the most expensive .ai domain you.ai and discusses his domain purchase philosophy
Mukund Jha
FounderFounder & CEO at Emergent Labs
CEO of Emergent quoted on the democratization of software development through agentic AI platforms.
Naimish Patel
FounderCEO at Fauna Systems
Leading biobot commercialization efforts targeting environmental sensing applications including aquaculture and pollutant detection.

Naman Pushp
FounderFounder at Airbound
Leads Airbound, an Indian drone startup raising $37 million to make autonomous cargo drones competitive with trucking; discusses vertical takeoff design and regulatory challenges.
Nariman Yousefi
FounderCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Celero Communications Inc
Stated that Celero's two-nanometer silicon validation demonstrates coherent technology can deliver bandwidth and power efficiency for next-generation AI networks.
Neal Lathia
FounderCo-founder at Gradient Labs
Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.
Neel Kujur
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at K2 Space
Co-founder and CTO of K2 Space, a customer of Sift's AI-controlled hardware infrastructure platform.
Nicholas Charriere
FounderTech Founder at Mocha
Noted the fine line between using AI to be productive and being a meat proxy.

Nicholas Thorne
FounderCofounder at Audos
Cofounder of Audos, previously appeared on the podcast in March 2024.
Nick Perry
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Candid Health
Led Candid Health in automating revenue cycle management using AI agents, achieving 190% YoY ARR growth.
Nico Laqua
FounderCo-Founder And CEO at Corgi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Corgi, which raised $160M Series B for its AI-native full-stack insurance carrier platform.
Nicolas Abad
FounderFounder and CEO at Telepatia AI
Founded Telepatia, an AI Doctor platform designed to help physicians identify and prevent medical errors.
Nicole Landis Ferragonio
FounderFounder & CPO at Datalinx AI
Left Amazon senior manager role to co-found Datalinx AI, an AI data refinery startup.
Nigel Newton
FounderFounder and Chief Executive at Bloomsbury
Stated that AI will help creativity by enabling people to overcome writer's block and get started on creative projects.
Nik Sharma
FounderCo-founder at BioCorteX
BioCorteX co-founder noting lots of AI activity and hyperscalers moving into King's Cross.
Nikhil Mulani
FounderFounder at Augur
Nikhil Mulani transitioned from product management to AI policy at CISA and founded Augur, a research organization focused on AI supply chain security.
Nitin Jayakrishnan
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Freehand
CEO of Freehand AI agent platform for supply chain spend management, previously founded and sold Pando logistics platform.
Noella Sudbury
FounderFounder & CEO at Rasa
Founded Rasa Legal to use AI to speed up criminal record expungement, reducing processing time from 10-12 hours to about five hours.

Noorie Dhingra
FounderCo-founder at Shapes
Co-founded Shapes app that launched with $8 million seed funding to address isolated AI interactions.
Olga Diachuk
FounderCo-Founder and COO at Mosqitter
Co-founded Mosqitter and leads commercial partnerships for AI-powered mosquito monitoring system Febris.
Olivier Moindrot
FounderCo-Founder at Fragment
Co-founder of Paris-based Fragment acquired by Sierra, joining Sierra's team to anchor agent development efforts in France.
Olivier Teboul
FounderCo-Founder at Gradium
Co-founded Gradium, researcher behind Kyutai AI lab; contributed to pioneering real-time speech systems.

Omar Haroun
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Eudia
Leading Eudia's acquisition of Johnson Hana to create AI-augmented human workforce for legal services using Augmented Intelligence platform.
Omer Singer
FounderCo-founder at Glow
Former Snowflake cybersecurity strategy head who co-founded Glow endpoint security startup.
Omid Azizi
FounderCo-Founder at Gimlet Labs
Omid Azizi is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.
Ophir Arie
FounderCo-founder at Glow
Former Claroty VP of research and development who co-founded Glow endpoint security platform.
Orr Inbar
FounderCEO and Co-founder at QuantHealth
Stated QuantHealth uses AI to simulate patient-level biology and predict clinical trial outcomes before trials begin.
Oskar Block
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Stilta
Co-founder of agentic AI patent litigation platform that raised $10.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Pablo Palafox
FounderCo-founder and CEO at HappyRobot
Co-founder and CEO discussing HappyRobot's verticalized approach as competitive advantage over general-purpose AI voice startups.
Paolo Cervini
FounderFounder at Walk the Talk Lab
Founder/leader of Walk the Talk Lab who oversees deployment of AI Co-Thinkers and supervises client projects
Patrick Esser
FounderCo-founder at Black Forest Labs
Co-founder of Black Forest Labs, formerly helped create Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.
Paul Bakaus
FounderCEO at Renaissance Geek
Created Impeccable open source design skills system, advocating for skill engineering as a discipline.

Paul Ford
FounderCofounder at Aboard
Building enterprise software with AI and discussed the paradigm-shifting impact of Claude Opus 4.5 on coding.

Paul Freedman
FounderCo-founder at Oakland Ballers
Partnered with AI company Distillery to produce first AI-powered professional sporting event.
Paul Klein IV
FounderFounder & CEO at Browserbase
Quoted as saying Ramp is their financial operating system chosen from day one.
Peng Zhihui
FounderCo-founder, President and CTO at AGIBOT
Discussed AGIBOT's focus on translating robotics innovation into productive work and introduced the Worken framework for measuring robot productivity.
Pete Martin
FounderFounder and CEO at Realm.Security, Inc
Founded AI-powered cybersecurity company Realm and raised seed funding; discussed rising valuations in AI startups.
Pete Rander
FounderFounder at Argo AI
Co-founder of Argo AI alongside Bryan Salesky; now leads Stack AV developing self-driving trucks.
Peter Sarlin
FounderFounder and CEO at Qutwo
Founded Qutwo quantum-classical orchestration company after selling Silo AI to AMD for $665M; raised $29M angel round at $380M valuation.
Peter Yared
FounderFounder and CEO at InCountry
Founder and CEO of AgentCloak who announced AgentCloak Desktop, a privacy tool that cloaks sensitive data from AI chatbots using digital twins.
Phil Duncan
FounderGame Designer at Ghost Town Games
Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who developed Overcooked and wrote a game design deep dive article about the game's cooperative mechanics
Philipp Wu
FounderCEO at XDOF
UC Berkeley researcher and CEO of XDOF, a robotics data startup, co-founded the company with Fred Shentu in 2024.
Piers Ingram
FounderCo-Founder at Metis Reasoning
Co-authored paper on AI reasoning strategies and epistemic progress in large language models.
Pieter Levels
FounderFounder at Photo AI
Independent AI engineer building Photo and InteriorAI products demonstrating the rise of AI Engineers.
Piotr Sokolski
FounderCo-founder at Third Dimension AI
Co-founder of Third Dimension AI, acquired by Rivian for simulation and 3D environment generation.
Prabhu Narasimhan
FounderFounder and Chief Executive at Brahma AI
Discussed Brahma's focus on AI-native technology platform for managing and creating audiovisual assets and stated ambitions to launch interactive digital humans.
Priyaa Kalyanaraman
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Lica World
Priyaa Kalyanaraman co-founded Lica, which was acquired by Gamma, and will lead the new design research lab exploring multimodal presentation formats.
Puneet Mehta
FounderFounder and CEO at Netomi
Founder and CEO of Netomi quoted on company's deterministic controls, probabilistic reasoning, and world model for customer experience.
Punit Jain
FounderFounder at Reskill
Founder of tech platform Reskill who described long queues and waiting at India's AI summit.
Purvanshi Mehta
FounderCo-founder at Lica
Purvanshi Mehta co-founded Lica and will lead Gamma's new design research division exploring multimodal and personalized presentation formats.
Qasim Wani
FounderCEO at Extrapolate
CEO of Extrapolate who established the RSI team at xAI and contributed recursive self-improvement tasks to GDPx benchmark.
Rahul Vohra
FounderCo-founder at Superhuman
Co-founder of Superhuman discussing the new auto-draft feature that uses a mixture of OpenAI and Anthropic models, reporting 40% of auto-generated drafts sent within one day with 60% sent without manual editing.
Rainer Pope
FounderCEO and Founder at MatX
CEO of chip startup MatX who adopted NVIDIA's reference architecture for co-design innovation rather than full integration, focusing on logic die optimization.
Raiza Martin
FounderCo-founder at Huxe
Raiza Martin positions Opus 4.5's coding strength as a strategic priority for AI labs.
Rami Alhamad
FounderCofounder and CEO at Alma
CEO of AI nutrition coaching app stating that nearly every line of code at Alma is now written by AI.
Raza Habib
FounderCEO at Humanloop
CEO of Humanloop, acquired by Anthropic as part of acqui-hire deal
Reza Kazerounian
FounderCo-founder and President at Alif Semiconductor
Pitches the heterogeneous architecture of Alif's processors as purpose-built for neural network inference from inception.
Ricard Boada
Founderco-founder and CEO at Volta
Co-founder and CEO of Volta, building a fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform to finance and deploy AI factories.
Ricardo Mendes
FounderFounder and CEO at Tekever
Pointed balance sheet at defense tech acquisitions and framed raise around sovereign technological capability.
Richard Liu
FounderFounder at JD.com
JD.com founder whose hometown of Suqian was selected for a 10 million hour robotics training data collection program involving 500,000 external workers.
Richard White
FounderFounder / CEO at Fathom
Founder and CEO of Fathom, an AI meeting intelligence platform acquired by Superhuman to capture and use meeting context across workflows.
Rick Bentley
FounderFounder at Cloudastructure, Inc.
Entrepreneur who witnessed dot-com boom predicting similar cycle in AI with winners and losers.
Rio Popper
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Conduit Intelligence
Co-founder of Conduit developing brain-computer interface technology for thought-to-text AI.
Rishi Reddy
FounderCo-founder at ChronicleBio
Co-founder of ChronicleBio focused on using AI for chronic disease treatment.

Rob Cochran
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Fauna Robotics
Led development of Sprout, a 3.5-foot humanoid robot designed to be physically safe and socially approachable for research purposes.
Robel Efrem
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Pixel Systems
CEO of Pixel Systems discussing how generative AI has made fabricating evidence extremely cheap and the need for verification.
Robin Li
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Baidu
Made clear loss-of-control statement among Chinese AI CEOs, noting AI could develop unfavorably to humanity and prevention requires international cooperation.
Rodrigo Liang
FounderCo-founder and CEO at SambaNova
Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova discussing the company's AI chip strategy, scaling efforts, and IPO plans for 2027.
Roey Lalazar
FounderCTO and Co-founder at Wonderful
Roey Lalazar is CTO and co-founder of Wonderful, commenting on the platform's open and modular design.
Roi Tiger
FounderCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Glow
Former Meta VP of engineering who co-founded Glow, an endpoint security platform using AI agents to monitor enterprise devices.
Roman Pedan
FounderFounder & CEO at Kasa
Roman Pedan is the founder and CEO of Kasa and author of the Fortune article discussing how AI will accelerate the technology barbell effect in hospitality.
Roman Teslyuk
FounderFounder and CEO/CTO at EARTH AI
Founder and CEO of Earth AI, a startup using AI models to search for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium in Australia.
Roshan Sadanani
FounderSpaceXAI
SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Matt Palmer and Lauren Tan.
Rotem Weiss
FounderFounder & CEO 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.
Rukesh Reddy
FounderFounder & CEO at Deccan AI
Founder and CEO of Deccan AI, a post-training data and evaluation startup that raised $25M Series A.
Rushabh Doshi
FounderPersonal Finance @ OpenAI at OpenAI
Co-founder of Hiro Finance who worked with Ethan Bloch on vision of building an AI personal CFO before joining OpenAI.
Russ d'Sa
FounderCo-founder and CEO at LiveKit
Announced LiveKit's acquisition of Loophole Labs and discussed reducing agent startup times to under three seconds.
Russ Tedrake
FounderFounder at Walden Robotics
MIT researcher who founded Walden Robotics, a Toyota Research Institute spinout developing general-purpose robots now deployed in Toyota manufacturing.
Ryan Cox
FounderCEO at RIC Robotics
Dr. Ryan Cox is the CEO of RIC Robotics, which is deploying autonomous 3D-printing systems at the Cleora development to demonstrate construction robotics at scale.
Ryan Dahl
FounderCo-founder at Deno
Creator of Node.js and co-founder of Deno; leads effort to merge Celld into Workerd at Cloudflare; explains that joining efforts means bringing ideas from Celld directly into Workerd with runtime expertise.
Ryan Luke Johns
FounderCEO and co-founder at Gravis Robotics
Ryan Luke Johns is CEO and co-founder of Gravis Robotics, leading the company's $200 million Series A funding from SoftBank to deploy autonomous construction machinery globally.
Sahaj Garg
FounderCo-founder and CTO at Wispr
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wispr, leading the new Advanced Interfaces Lab team.
Saksham Sarda
FounderCo-founder at Runable
Co-founder of Runable who pivoted the startup from AI infrastructure to a general-purpose AI agent platform for small business growth.
Sal Guttoso
FounderFounder at Queen Jewels
Founder of Queen Jewels describes the significance of the coin discovery and its historical importance.
Sam Blond
FounderFounder and Chief Executive at Monaco
Built Monaco around the principle of forward-deployed account executives who deploy AI SDRs for customers, closing millions in revenue within days of launch.
Samir Dutta
FounderFounder at Farsight AI
Samir Dutta is a founder using Demi to manage his constant inbox workload.
Samir Menon
FounderCo-founder at Sail Research
Co-founded Sail, raising $80M for long-horizon agent infrastructure with low-cost inference and sandboxes that claim 10x more intelligence per dollar.
Sandor Felber
FounderCEO at Minerva Humanoids
26-year-old CEO of Minerva Humanoids, a robotics startup making Roger, a remote-controlled humanoid for hazardous jobs like oil rigs and bomb disposal.
Sandro Herbig
FounderCo-founder at Merge Labs
Technology entrepreneur and co-founder complementing the research team at Merge Labs.
Sara Beykpour
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Particle
Founded Particle AI newsreader startup and launched Radar podcast intelligence platform for AI agents.

Sarah Rose Siskind
FounderFounder at HelloSciCom
Created FetusGPT, an LLM trained on her daily conversations during pregnancy, to compare how natural intelligence develops alongside AI.

Sari Azout
FounderFounder at Sublime
Argues that AI shifts focus from productivity to creativity and that original creative work matters more than speed.
Scott Nolan
FounderFounder at General Matter
Founder of General Matter who spoke about energy bottlenecks in AI scaling and proposed community benefit models for AI data centers.

Sean Lie
FounderCTO and Co-founder at Cerebras
CTO and co-founder of Cerebras expressed excitement about partnering with OpenAI to explore fast inference possibilities.
Sebastian Agur
FounderCo-Founder at Rollo Robotics
Co-founder of Estonian startup Rollo Robotics discussing the goal to make autonomous patrolling more cost-efficient through monowheel security robots.
Sebastian Mores
FounderCEO and co-founder at Hive Robotics
Commented on the automation shift with millions of unmanned systems expected to operate across air, sea, land, and space.
Sebastian Thrun
FounderFounder at Dulo
Founded Dulo, a startup that raised $130 million to develop AI tools for hardware design, leveraging his experience from Google X and Udacity.

Sergiy Nesterenko
FounderFounder at Quilter
Founded Quilter in 2019 as a former SpaceX engineer to use AI for developing software for printed circuit boards.
Seth Neel
FounderCo-founder at Trajectory
Co-founder of Trajectory from Harvard's AI research community, brings academic perspective to continual learning platform.
Severin Hacker
FounderCTO at Duolingo
Co-founder of Duolingo, the language-learning platform founded in 2011.
Shanea Leven
FounderFounder at Empromptu.ai
Second-time founder of enterprise AI application platform discussing rapid traction expectations and valuation pressures in AI startups.
Shaun Clark
FounderFounder & CEO at HighLevel
Quoted explaining how Meta's Muse agent enables businesses to take real actions within HighLevel's business platform.
Shea Brown
FounderFounder & CEO at BABL AI Inc.
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Sherjil Ozair
FounderFounder & CEO at General Agents
Former senior researcher at DeepMind and Tesla who founded agentic AI startup General Agents, which was acquired by Project Prometheus.
Shimon Elkabetz
FounderChief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Tomorrow.io
Discussed Tomorrow.io's mission to transform weather observation and create actionable intelligence using AI.

Shiv Rao
FounderCEO at Abridge
Cardiologist-turned-CEO who raised $250M for Abridge and claims to have never lost a head-to-head comparison against Microsoft in AI medical transcription.
Shivani Poddar
FounderFounder and CEO at Wajo
Shivani Poddar, an ex-Google DeepMind engineering lead, launched Wajo and its personal agent Fo, which loops in human assistants to complete tasks AI cannot handle.
Shivansh Vij
FounderFounder and CEO at Loophole Labs
Led Loophole Labs' acquisition by LiveKit and will continue leading the team to improve agent startup times.