👥 People
People in AI.
Founders, CEOs, and key operators building the next generation of AI companies.
Monik Pamecha
Monik Pamecha is co-founder and CEO of Toma, a Y Combinator-backed AI phone agent company for auto dealerships and other underserved industries, which he started in 2024 with Anthony Krivonos. Earlier he held engineering roles at Uber, Braze, and Indian conversational AI company Haptik, and co-founded skincare AI startup Skindex. He holds a degree from UC Berkeley's School of Information and a bachelor's in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai.
Moshe Shalev
Moshe Shalev is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Decart, the San Francisco-based AI research lab he launched in 2023 with Dean Leitersdorf. He served nearly 14 years in Israel's elite 8200 military intelligence unit, where he built and managed large-scale AI infrastructure. He studied accounting through a program for the ultra-Orthodox community before his military service.
Munjal Shah
Munjal Shah is co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, which builds safety-focused large language models for non-diagnostic healthcare services such as patient navigation, medication reminders, and care onboarding. He holds a BS in computer science from UC San Diego and an MS in computer science from Stanford with a focus on AI, and has co-founded four companies across e-commerce, health insurance, and healthcare. Hippocratic AI, founded in 2023, has raised $120 million from General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Premji Invest, and SV Angel and outperformed GPT-4 on 105 of 114 healthcare certifications.
Nate Mitchell
Nathan Xu
Neil Parikh
Nhon Ma
Niccolo de Masi
Nicholas Harris
Nick Harris
Nick Ornitz
Nikhil Khatri
Nikhil Mathew
Omar Haroun
Oren Aharon
Ori Goshen
Oskar Serrander
Palmer Luckey
Parker Gilbert
Parsuram Vijayasankar
Patrick Wendell
Patrick Wendell is co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, which he helped start in 2013 with the other six Apache Spark creators from UC Berkeley's AMPLab. He is a founding committer and PMC member of Apache Spark and served as release manager for multiple early Spark versions while maintaining core engine subsystems. He studied computer science at Princeton and UC Berkeley.
Paul Mikesell
Pete Kruskall
Peter Salanki
Peter Salanki has served as Chief Technology Officer of CoreWeave since March 2024. He joined CoreWeave in June 2019 and rose through engineering roles, including Director of Engineering and Vice President of Engineering before taking the CTO seat. Before CoreWeave he was Director, Americas in the Office of the CTO at Sandvine, a network intelligence company. He leads engineering for CoreWeave's GPU-cloud platform that serves frontier AI training and inference workloads.