Stephanie founded Glamhive after realizing that style is more than just looking good, it’s a way to unlock the confidence to be the best versions of ourselves. The mission driving Glamhive is multifaceted: to give entrepreneurial stylists a platform to grow their community and career, and to give people a way to access a professional community to develop their best, most stylish selves.

Janice founded MUU as she went back to work after the birth of her first child, seeing the glaring need for simpler portable breast pumps. She patented the Muu pump, and turned the long-standing market leader’s product into a now discreetly wearable solution. MUU’s pipeline includes other category-defining innovations that rest on their core tenets to simply postpartum essentials and make them accessible.

Daniela co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with her brother Dario, leaving OpenAI on the conviction that frontier AI should be built by a company structured to put safety first. She brought an operator’s discipline from Stripe to a research lab, growing a seven-person team into the company behind Claude. Anthropic’s Public Benefit charter and Long-Term Benefit Trust are her bet that responsible scaling and commercial success reinforce each other.

Hudson founded HData after observing that we may have been better prepared for — and potentially avoided — the financial crisis if regulators had a system to glean data insights from reports instead of having the data trapped in non-standardized PDF forms. Starting with the energy industry, he is on a mission to drive policy change and devise better technology for better reporting, leading to better decisions that have macro effects.

Miriam founded Kara after years working at the intersection of technology, infrastructure, and innovation, from the MIT Senseable City Lab to leading URBAN-X, where she helped build and scale more than 90 startups. She saw that private markets were still making critical investment decisions with data trapped across spreadsheets, PDFs, and portfolio companies. She built Kara to change that. Kara uses AI to turn fragmented private-market data into structured intelligence, giving financial institutions a system of record for reporting, compliance, risk, and decision-making. Her ambition is to build the data and intelligence infrastructure for private markets.

Brett has founded four companies across three industries, taking Vettery to an acquisition and Archer Aviation public before starting Figure in 2022 to build a general-purpose humanoid robot. He assembled the team from Boston Dynamics, Tesla, and DeepMind, and built Helix, Figure’s in-house vision-language-action model. In late 2025 he self-funded Hark, an AI lab pairing frontier models with original hardware to give personal intelligence a body of its own.

Kourtney founded TINGE on the conviction that feeling good in your own skin shouldn’t stop at the face, and that beauty’s focus should be on how people feel, rather than exclusively how they look. A former competitive dancer, she went looking for buildable, water- and transfer-resistant body makeup that looked and felt like an extension of her, and found nothing that bridged the gap between stage and real life. Now a working mom, her need is unchanged: makeup that holds up through pool parties, gym sessions, and long working days. TINGE is her answer to that gap, body makeup and care built for confidence in the spotlight and everyday life.

Jane founded TO THE MARKET with a vision of reimagining supply chains to help companies create the economic empowerment that comes from safe, dignified, fairly paid work in one of the largest industries in the developing world. After seeing the opaque nature of manufacturing first-hand during her time in the US Department of State, she felt compelled to find a way to empower corporations, retailers, and brands to use compliant, transparent procurement as a way to advance their own sustainability goals.

After the birth of her children, Allison came to understand first-hand the mental and emotional toll incontinence takes. She pored over her own condition, looking for a better way to manage her leaks and out of that search, the YōniFīt was born. Once she had a working prototype that changed her own life, and once she learned the condition affects roughly 1 in 3 women globally, she was all in. She took her life savings, filed her first patents, went to the FDA, and formed a company. Helping women who suffer from this condition is, in her words, her calling.

Aravind co-founded Perplexity in 2022 after research stints at OpenAI and DeepMind, betting that search should return a cited answer rather than ten blue links. Raised in Chennai and trained at IIT Madras and Berkeley, he has taken the company from four founders to one of the few credible challengers to Google, and pushed it past search into the browser and agent layer with Comet and Computer.

Zachary founded Downstream with the conviction that construction procurement shouldn’t still depend on phone calls, spreadsheets, and fragmented local relationships. Project teams spend an enormous amount of time finding vendors, comparing pricing, coordinating rentals, and reconciling invoices. Work that technology should make dramatically easier. Downstream is building the infrastructure to bring that entire process into one place, giving construction teams a faster, more transparent way to source, rent, manage, and pay for the equipment and site services they need across every project.