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Trendsi is the backend for modern commerce, empowering anyone to set up and automate the supply chain of their own businesses in seconds.
Ella Zhang grew up in China. When she was a child, her dad was injured in war. With pure grit and tenacity, Ella created her own luck as a founding member of Tencent e-commerce. Years later, she would find herself living in the same apartment as the founding team of Binance. She became the head of Binance Labs, establishing the company’s venture arm which is now the largest crypto VC in the industry by AUM, and one of the highest performing funds in history. Getting back to her e-commerce roots, Ella would go on to found Xiaoduo, AI tooling for online merchants. Her vision for Trendsi is built on her lifelong study of online commerce.
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Workstream's hiring platform uses automation, AI, and mobile workflows to provide a simpler, faster way to hire, on-board and manage hourly workers.
Desmond Lim was born in Singapore, where his father was a driver delivering food and his mother was a cleaner. Desmond was the first in his family to go to university, his parents only finished 4th grade. While in college, Desmond took up basketball and led his his team to a championship. Ultimately Desmond would come to the U.S. where he would earn a masters from Harvard University. If Desmond wasn’t studying, he was starting companies. His first, a tutoring company, paid for his college tuition. His second, a Thai restaurant, gave him critical exposure to the food service industry where he would ultimately start Workstream.
Series is building a modern, tech-enabled investment bank for asset managers and their teams.
Brexton Pham grew up in Georgia after his family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam. Brexton graduated first in his public school and ultimately earned himself a spot at Stanford. From here, Brexton began experimenting with a wide variety of eccentric startup ideas while supporting iconic companies like Yik Yak, Slack and Tinder in their early days. After much thoughtful iteration and quick learning, Brexton finally settled on his biggest idea yet; Series.
Ergeon is the market leader for outdoor home construction, scaling efficiently through their tech platform and global workforce.
Jenny He was born in China. She was exposed to construction at an early age with her family working to build the Three Gorges Dam. She graduated first out of 15k at University of Toronto before finishing a 6 year Ph.D in computer networks at Princeton in 4 years. She is a licensed general contractor in multiple states and the former CEO of Ezhome, another construction tech startup. She’s been preparing her whole life to build Ergeon and is off to the races!
Ergeon is the market leader for outdoor home construction, scaling efficiently through their tech platform and global workforce.
Odysseas Tsatalos was born in Greece. He is a multi-time founder who has created some of the largest technology companies, including Upwork (NASDAQ) and Intacct ($850M exit to Sage). Guiding all of Odysseas’ work is a belief that technology has the power to change the way people work. Upwork changed the way knowledge work is done much the same way Ergeon, his current venture, is changing the way work is done by deskless workers.
Tigris Data is building a unified searchable database that replaces MongoDB and Elastic search.
Ovais Tariq grew up in Pakistan, seizing all the resources he could to become an expert in storage infrastructure. He eventually came to the U.S. while working at Percona, the leading firm consulting F500 enterprises on open source databases (300ppl, 3,000 customers). Before long, Ovais had managed to become the head of storage infrastructure for Uber. Never willing to settle, Ovais set out on his own to found Tigris Data. Ovais first met Peter Farkas at Percona and the two continue to work together today.
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FerretDB is building an open source alternative to MongoDB.
Peter Farkas grew up in Hungary and now works from Spain due to recent conflicts in Europe. He is a repeat founder and world-class expert in open source databases. Peter came up with the idea for FerretDB while climbing K2 with Peter Zaitsev, the founder of Percona, the leading firm (300 ppl, 3,000 customers) consulting F500 enterprises on open source databases. This is the second time that the pair have worked on a company together. He has experience leading large groups at Percona, Cloudera and MessageBird. Peter retains a close friendship with Ovais (Tigris Data). The two met at Percona and continue to collaborate.
Rutter is the universal API for reading and writing data across different commerce, accounting and payments platforms.
Peter Zhou grew up in New Jersey and comes from a family of immigrants. Peter earned a bachelors and masters in computer science at Yale in four years, while spending time working on payments at Facebook and Atrium. After undertaking the most experiments and pivots to find product market fit that we’ve seen at Basis Set, Peter was able to find an acute market need for Rutter.
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Path creates manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position and weld parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Andy Lonsberry grew up in Cleveland, Ohio working in his family’s machine shop. He learned from the early age of 10 to weld and use other industrial machinery like mills and tube benders. He went on to attend Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve to study computational neuroscience and robotics. While consulting for the CEO of an automotive exhaust company, Andy and his brother came up with the idea for automated industrial machinery that would address labor shortages for skilled workers. Still in Ohio to this day, Andy is hard at work building Path Robotics.
Snappr makes professional photographs accessible to every business and consumer, managing the entire shooting and post-processing experience.
Matt Schiller grew up in Australia. He got the opportunity to travel the world as a top 1% analyst at McKinsey. His first business was GownTown, an online graduation gown retailer. Matt founded Snappr in Australia and as the company went global, he immigrated to the U.S. Today his focus is pointed at scaling the Snappr platform.
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Quince is democratizing luxury and bringing high quality goods to everyone at radical prices.
Sid Gupta grew up in India and immigrated to the U.S. to attend the University of Chicago. After college, Sid founded Lolli and Pops, which grew to become one of the largest confection brands in the country with over 80 stores, 1000 employees and $60M+ revenue. Today he’s applying his retail/e-commerce learnings to grow Quince.
FarmWise produces autonomous weeding robots that provide growers with a cost-efficient, scalable alternative to herbicides.
Sébastien Boyer has lived around agriculture since he was a child. He stood out at a young age and immigrated from France to the U.S. to attend MIT to pursue computer science. While at MIT, he fell in love with robots and deep learning. His work on FarmWise is a combination of his farming roots with his deep background in AI.
Spice AI is building AI infrastructure for on-chain and off-chain data.
Luke Kim was born in Korea and grew up in Australia. As a professional pearl diver, he has dived in the Australian Great Barrier Reef. He is a 12 year veteran of Microsoft, where he was Azure CTO incubations manager and principal group engineering manager. Today he's diving head first into Spice.ai.
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Vizcom is transforming the way designers create in 3D by applying AI to design workflows.
Jordan Taylor grew up in Michigan, where he studied transportation design. He became fluent in Korean while studying in the country. He’s a born hustler who built his way through college. He created and sold a designer pen on Instagram and founded a t-shirt company whose products were sold in designer stores as far away as Australia. These businesses funded his $70k college tuition. Now he’s building Vizcom with this same entrepreneurial spirit.
Momentum automates sales workflows, improving time to close for every deal.
Ashley Wilson is from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a natural born storyteller with a background in journalism who has worked with dozens of startups to perfect their own marketing. Today, Ashley is focused on growing Momentum to stratospheric heights. Outside the office, her creativity manifests in her singer-songwriter abilities where she effortlessly blends jazz, pop, country and folk.
Trendsi is the backend for modern commerce, empowering anyone to set up and automate the supply chain of their own businesses in seconds.
Ella Zhang grew up in China. When she was a child, her dad was injured in war. With pure grit and tenacity, Ella created her own luck as a founding member of Tencent e-commerce. Years later, she would find herself living in the same apartment as the founding team of Binance. She became the head of Binance Labs, establishing the company’s venture arm which is now the largest crypto VC in the industry by AUM, and one of the highest performing funds in history. Getting back to her e-commerce roots, Ella would go on to found Xiaoduo, AI tooling for online merchants. Her vision for Trendsi is built on her lifelong study of online commerce.
Workstream's hiring platform uses automation, AI, and mobile workflows to provide a simpler, faster way to hire, on-board and manage hourly workers.
Desmond Lim was born in Singapore, where his father was a driver delivering food and his mother was a cleaner. Desmond was the first in his family to go to university, his parents only finished 4th grade. While in college, Desmond took up basketball and led his his team to a championship. Ultimately Desmond would come to the U.S. where he would earn a masters from Harvard University. If Desmond wasn’t studying, he was starting companies. His first, a tutoring company, paid for his college tuition. His second, a Thai restaurant, gave him critical exposure to the food service industry where he would ultimately start Workstream.
Series is building a modern, tech-enabled investment bank for asset managers and their teams.
Brexton Pham grew up in Georgia after his family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam. Brexton graduated first in his public school and ultimately earned himself a spot at Stanford. From here, Brexton began experimenting with a wide variety of eccentric startup ideas while supporting iconic companies like Yik Yak, Slack and Tinder in their early days. After much thoughtful iteration and quick learning, Brexton finally settled on his biggest idea yet; Series.
Ergeon is the market leader for outdoor home construction, scaling efficiently through their tech platform and global workforce.
Jenny He was born in China. She was exposed to construction at an early age with her family working to build the Three Gorges Dam. She graduated first out of 15k at University of Toronto before finishing a 6 year Ph.D in computer networks at Princeton in 4 years. She is a licensed general contractor in multiple states and the former CEO of Ezhome, another construction tech startup. She’s been preparing her whole life to build Ergeon and is off to the races!
Ergeon is the market leader for outdoor home construction, scaling efficiently through their tech platform and global workforce.
Odysseas Tsatalos was born in Greece. He is a multi-time founder who has created some of the largest technology companies, including Upwork (NASDAQ) and Intacct ($850M exit to Sage). Guiding all of Odysseas’ work is a belief that technology has the power to change the way people work. Upwork changed the way knowledge work is done much the same way Ergeon, his current venture, is changing the way work is done by deskless workers.
Tigris Data is building a unified searchable database that replaces MongoDB and Elastic search.
Ovais Tariq grew up in Pakistan, seizing all the resources he could to become an expert in storage infrastructure. He eventually came to the U.S. while working at Percona, the leading firm consulting F500 enterprises on open source databases (300ppl, 3,000 customers). Before long, Ovais had managed to become the head of storage infrastructure for Uber. Never willing to settle, Ovais set out on his own to found Tigris Data. Ovais first met Peter Farkas at Percona and the two continue to work together today.
FerretDB is building an open source alternative to MongoDB.
Peter Farkas grew up in Hungary and now works from Spain due to recent conflicts in Europe. He is a repeat founder and world-class expert in open source databases. Peter came up with the idea for FerretDB while climbing K2 with Peter Zaitsev, the founder of Percona, the leading firm (300 ppl, 3,000 customers) consulting F500 enterprises on open source databases. This is the second time that the pair have worked on a company together. He has experience leading large groups at Percona, Cloudera and MessageBird. Peter retains a close friendship with Ovais (Tigris Data). The two met at Percona and continue to collaborate.
Rutter is the universal API for reading and writing data across different commerce, accounting and payments platforms.
Peter Zhou grew up in New Jersey and comes from a family of immigrants. Peter earned a bachelors and masters in computer science at Yale in four years, while spending time working on payments at Facebook and Atrium. After undertaking the most experiments and pivots to find product market fit that we’ve seen at Basis Set, Peter was able to find an acute market need for Rutter.
Path creates manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position and weld parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Andy Lonsberry grew up in Cleveland, Ohio working in his family’s machine shop. He learned from the early age of 10 to weld and use other industrial machinery like mills and tube benders. He went on to attend Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve to study computational neuroscience and robotics. While consulting for the CEO of an automotive exhaust company, Andy and his brother came up with the idea for automated industrial machinery that would address labor shortages for skilled workers. Still in Ohio to this day, Andy is hard at work building Path Robotics.
Snappr makes professional photographs accessible to every business and consumer, managing the entire shooting and post-processing experience.
Matt Schiller grew up in Australia. He got the opportunity to travel the world as a top 1% analyst at McKinsey. His first business was GownTown, an online graduation gown retailer. Matt founded Snappr in Australia and as the company went global, he immigrated to the U.S. Today his focus is pointed at scaling the Snappr platform.
Quince is democratizing luxury and bringing high quality goods to everyone at radical prices.
Sid Gupta grew up in India and immigrated to the U.S. to attend the University of Chicago. After college, Sid founded Lolli and Pops, which grew to become one of the largest confection brands in the country with over 80 stores, 1000 employees and $60M+ revenue. Today he’s applying his retail/e-commerce learnings to grow Quince.
FarmWise produces autonomous weeding robots that provide growers with a cost-efficient, scalable alternative to herbicides.
Sébastien Boyer has lived around agriculture since he was a child. He stood out at a young age and immigrated from France to the U.S. to attend MIT to pursue computer science. While at MIT, he fell in love with robots and deep learning. His work on FarmWise is a combination of his farming roots with his deep background in AI.
Spice AI is building AI infrastructure for on-chain and off-chain data.
Luke Kim was born in Korea and grew up in Australia. As a professional pearl diver, he has dived in the Australian Great Barrier Reef. He is a 12 year veteran of Microsoft, where he was Azure CTO incubations manager and principal group engineering manager. Today he's diving head first into Spice.ai.
Vizcom is transforming the way designers create in 3D by applying AI to design workflows.
Jordan Taylor grew up in Michigan, where he studied transportation design. He became fluent in Korean while studying in the country. He’s a born hustler who built his way through college. He created and sold a designer pen on Instagram and founded a t-shirt company whose products were sold in designer stores as far away as Australia. These businesses funded his $70k college tuition. Now he’s building Vizcom with this same entrepreneurial spirit.
Momentum automates sales workflows, improving time to close for every deal.
Ashley Wilson is from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a natural born storyteller with a background in journalism who has worked with dozens of startups to perfect their own marketing. Today, Ashley is focused on growing Momentum to stratospheric heights. Outside the office, her creativity manifests in her singer-songwriter abilities where she effortlessly blends jazz, pop, country and folk.
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