Ajeet Singh is Co-Founder and CEO of Different, an AI-native B2B marketing platform for lean teams. He previously co-founded ThoughtSpot, where he remains Executive Chairman, and Nutanix, where he served as Chief Products Officer. He focuses on large markets held back by outdated technology and builds teams that solve meaningful problems from first principles.

Alon Krifcher is an Applied AI leader at Anthropic, where his team helps businesses adopt and scale Claude, from initial builds to everyday use. Previously, he led Solutions Consulting and Sales Engineering teams at high-growth SaaS companies, beginning his career at Braze. He lives in New York with his family.

Bhavin Shah is CEO of Marble, where he uses AI to transform the tax industry and elevate the experience of tax professionals. He has spent 20 years building and scaling technology companies, serving as CTO across startups in fintech and education technology. Today, he focuses on one of the world’s largest and most complex industries: tax.

Cory Levy is the founder of Z Fellows, a one-week program backing technical builders of all ages at the earliest stages of their founder journey. He works with a large portion of the now youngest unicorn founders.

Dan Teran is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Gutter Capital, which launched Elbow Grease, a founder-led accelerator in New York City, in 2025. Previously, he co-founded and led Managed by Q, acquired by WeWork for $220 million in 2019. He serves on the boards of Tech and Pursuit.

Dylan Itzikowitz is a Partner at South Park Commons Fund and leads its New York community. He brings nearly a decade of early-stage investing experience across three countries, including roles at Expa and Founders Factory. He regularly brings founders and builders together through events across the city, and proudly brings his Canadian roots to every conversation.

Jason Shuman is an investor whose founder-first approach draws on a decade of building and operating consumer and B2B companies. He partners closely with founders on product strategy, hiring, and the realities of building from scratch. He hosts Change Order, a podcast with more than 41,000 listeners, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30.

Jeff Becker is a General Partner at Antler, where he co-leads the US fund and backs founders at inception,often before a product, deck, or co-founder. Previously, he spent nine years at LinkedIn while building Earhoox to 250,000 customers. He writes the Monday Morning Meeting newsletter and hosts the Further, Faster podcast.

Karl Angel Velazquez leads AI, sensing, and software at Möbius Industries, developing technology for de-manufacturing and material recovery. He built the perception stack behind its sorting machines, spanning sensing, machine learning, and distributed computing. An MIT computer science graduate, he also conducted human-robot interaction research published in Robotics: Science and Systems and Communications Engineering.

Mark is an operator and investor at MXV Capital, backing cloud and enterprise SaaS. He co-founded Braze, a leading lifecycle marketing platform. As a serial entrepreneur, Mark mentors founders to help them succeed.

Mateo Sanchez Lopez Negrete is CEO of Verlet Robotics and a Z Fellow. His background includes research at Yale’s Apollo Lab, software engineering at plasma.to, and data annotation at Mercor.

Philip Krim is Co-Founder and CEO of Montauk Capital. Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO of Casper Sleep.

Rishub Kumar is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Ramp, where he leads AI Solutions and helps enterprises turn AI capabilities into practical, production-ready systems. His work spans product strategy, engineering, and customer success, translating complex business problems into useful products. As he puts it, FDEs “eat pain and excrete product.”

Roman Stolyarov, PhD, is Founder and CEO of Lambda Surgical, building physical intelligence for surgery. He earned his PhD in Medical Physics at MIT and previously led FDA clearance and commercial launch of Zeta Surgical’s Cranial Navigation System. He now develops sensing technologies to enable the next generation of intelligent and autonomous surgical systems.

Ryan Walker is Co-Founder and CEO of General Legal, an AI-native law firm reimagining legal services. Previously, he was CTO of Casetext, leading the team that built CoCounsel, and later VP of Product at Thomson Reuters. He holds a PhD in mathematics and brings more than a decade of experience in legal technology.

Youssef Kalad is Head of Product at Alchemy Health, building the physical, digital, and clinical infrastructure for a new type of pharmacy serving safety net clinics. His career spans venture investing, government and policy, and early-stage operations. He serves on the board of Birches Health and is an alum of UChicago and Wharton.