People in AI.

Abhay Mitra is a co-founder and engineer at Effective AI, a San Francisco startup that builds AI systems for parsing insurance rate filings and other regulatory documents. He previously studied at IIT Delhi.

Adam Markowitz is the co-founder and CEO of Drata, a security compliance automation platform serving thousands of customers across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other frameworks. He previously founded Portfolium (acquired by Instructure in 2019) and earlier worked as an aerospace engineer on NASA's Space Shuttle Main Engine. He holds an M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from USC.

Ajay Gummalla is co-founder and VP of Engineering at Bedrock Robotics, a startup automating heavy construction equipment that launched in 2024. He previously spent over a decade at Waymo and Google working on autonomous-vehicle hardware, and holds a degree from Georgia Tech.

Albert Gozzi is the co-founder and CEO of Aleph, an AI-powered FP&A platform that centralizes financial data for budgeting and planning. He previously worked at Procter & Gamble, Bain, and as a startup CFO. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and studied industrial engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires.

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Runway, the generative video AI company he started in 2018 with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Anastasis Germanidis after a research residency at NYU. He previously served as Chief Design Officer and led design on Runway's Gen-1, Gen-2, and Gen-3 Alpha video models. He now leads Runway Labs, an internal group incubating experimental products at the frontier of AI video and general world models.

Alex Bilmes is the co-founder and CEO of Endgame, a customer observability and product-led sales intelligence platform. He previously founded Reflect, a product-led growth analytics startup, and went through Techstars Seattle in 2016. He has also served as an advisor to Gainsight, Cube Dev, and Puppet.

Alex Carges is a co-founder and Head of Insurance Product at Nirvana Insurance, a commercial trucking insurance startup. A Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), he previously served as Director and Actuary at The Hartford.

Alex Lee is co-founder and CTO of Numerade, a Los Angeles-based STEM study-assistance platform he started in 2017 with Nhon Ma. The company provides video explanations, textbook solutions, and AI tutoring across science, math, and engineering topics.

Alex Miller is co-founder and COO of Hippocratic AI, the safety-focused healthcare LLM company founded in 2023. He was previously co-founder and SVP of Engineering and Sales Operations at Health IQ and earlier co-founded gaming subscription startup Jump Gaming. He holds a BS in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Alex Yeh is founder and CEO of GMI Cloud, an AI-native GPU cloud provider launched in 2023 after he pivoted a Bitcoin-mining operation into AI infrastructure following China's crypto ban. He was previously a director at an Asia-Pacific private equity and venture capital firm with more than 100 AI-related investments. GMI Cloud operates nine global data centers processing 5.2 billion tokens per day, is one of six Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partners globally, and raised an $82 million Series A in late 2024. The company is building a $500 million AI Factory with 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

Alexander Amini is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Liquid AI, an MIT CSAIL spinout building foundation models based on liquid neural networks. He completed his BS, MS, and PhD in computer science at MIT and is also a co-founder of Themis AI.

Alexandr Wang is Chief AI Officer at Meta, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs alongside Nat Friedman since June 2025. He co-founded Scale AI in 2016 and served as CEO until Meta acquired a 49% stake for $14.3B in June 2025, valuing Scale at over $29B. Wang dropped out of MIT to build Scale AI into the leading data-labeling and model-evaluation provider to frontier AI labs. He became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 24 and was named to the TIME100 AI list.

Ali Ghodsi is co-founder and CEO of Databricks, a role he has held since January 2016 after serving as VP of Engineering and Product. He co-founded Databricks in 2013 with the six other creators of Apache Spark out of UC Berkeley's AMPLab. He is also an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Ghodsi holds a PhD in distributed computing from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and previously held research roles at UC Berkeley and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.

Ali Madani is the founder and CEO of Profluent, an AI-first protein design company based in Emeryville, California. Before founding Profluent in 2022, he led machine learning research at Salesforce, where he was the first to apply large-scale generative models to controllable protein design. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Aman Sanger is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor, which he started in 2022 with three MIT classmates. As COO he manages operations, growth, pricing, and developer community. Under his go-to-market work Cursor scaled to roughly $500M ARR in 21 months and surpassed $2B ARR by early 2026 at a $29.3B valuation. He studied computer science at MIT.

Amir Haramaty is co-founder and CEO of aiOla, an Israeli speech-AI company building voice agents that capture industry-specific jargon and convert speech into structured workflows. He previously served as COO of Adallom (acquired by Microsoft) and held senior roles at Amobee and SparkBeyond.

Amit Bendov

Co-founder & CEO of Gong. Ex-SiSense CEO.

Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad is founder and CEO of Replit, an online programming environment and AI coding platform. Born in Jordan, he previously led the JavaScript infrastructure team at Facebook and was a founding engineer at Codecademy. He has run Replit for more than a decade pursuing his goal of enabling one billion software creators worldwide. In September 2025 Replit raised $250 million from Prysm, Andreessen Horowitz, Amex Ventures, and others at a $3 billion valuation as it expanded its agentic AI app-building tools.

Amnon Shashua is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Mobileye, the autonomous-driving company he started in 1999 and which Intel acquired for $15.3B in 2017 before re-listing on Nasdaq in 2022. He is also chairman and co-founder of AI21 Labs, co-founder of OrCam and Mentee Robotics, and the Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Anand Chandrasekaran is EVP of Product Management at Five9, the cloud contact-center software company. He was previously a Director at Facebook leading the Messenger platform's developer ecosystem, and earlier held senior product roles at Snapdeal and Bharti Airtel.

Ananda Aisola is co-founder and COO of Composer, an automated and algorithmic trading platform. He previously led operations at Toronto food-ordering startup Ritual and worked in capital markets at RBC and TD Bank; he studied at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Anastasis Germanidis is co-founder and CTO of Runway, the generative video AI company he started in November 2018 with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala. As of February 2026 he is stepping into a co-CEO role alongside Valenzuela. He earned a BA in computer science from Wesleyan and a master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and previously worked as a machine learning researcher at IBM Research and as a backend engineer at Zocdoc and Quantcast.

Andrew Bihl is co-founder and CTO of Numeric, an AI-powered accounting close-management platform used by companies including OpenAI, Brex, and Wealthfront. Before founding Numeric, he was an engineer at customer-data platform Segment through its acquisition by Twilio, and he studied at Duke University.

Andrew Feldman

Co-founder & CEO of Cerebras Systems.