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Founder
Varun Mehta
Varun is the founder of Nimble Storage, which filed for its initial public offering in 2013 and was acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.09 billion in 2017.
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Co-founder and CEO
Andrew Lau
Andrew is the CEO and a co-founder of Jellyfish, an engineering management platform.
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Co-founder and CEO
Ken Babcock
Ken is the CEO and a co-founder at Tango, which lets users create how-to guides from screenshots in seconds.
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Co-founder and CEO
Nir Minerbi
Nir is the co-founder and CEO of Classiq, a quantum computing software platform.
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President and CEO
Ratan Tipirneni
Ratan is the president and CEO of Tigera, with extensive experience incubating, building, and scaling software businesses from early stage to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
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Founder and CEO
Edo Liberty
Edo is the founder and CEO of Pinecone, a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications.
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