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  • 780 Founders
  • 500 Companies
  • 23 Countries
  • Updated Jul 2026

780 founders

Dave Merkel

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Expel

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Cybersecurity

Co-founder and CEO of Expel, the practitioner-led AI-augmented managed security operations company founded in May 2016.

Alex Combessie

Co-founder & co-CEO

Giskard

  • Country France
  • Industry AI in Governance

Co-founder and co-CEO of Giskard, the Paris-based AI testing and security company backed by Hugging Face and Mistral-connected…

Dave Excell

Founder

Featurespace

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Industry AI in Finance

Founder of Featurespace, the Cambridge-rooted Adaptive Behavioral Analytics company co-founded with Professor Bill Fitzgerald and later acquired by…

Aaron Levie

Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder

Box

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Enterprise Software

CEO and co-founder of Box, the enterprise content cloud company he has led as a public face of…

Ken Xie

Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Fortinet

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Cybersecurity

Founder, chairman, and CEO of Fortinet, his third cybersecurity company, with portfolio spanning network, cloud, and IoT security…

Christopher Sestito

Chairman of the Board, CEO & Co-Founder

HiddenLayer

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Governance

Chairman, CEO and co-founder of HiddenLayer in Austin, Texas — the research-first AI security company founded by researchers…

Graham Sills

Co-Founder & Director of AI

Luminance

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Industry AI in Legal

Co-founder and Director of AI at Luminance; PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, with FTSE 100 AI research background.

Nuno Sebastião

Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO

Feedzai

  • Country Portugal
  • Industry AI in Finance

Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Feedzai, the Portugal-rooted AI fraud-prevention unicorn serving global financial institutions.

Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Databricks

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Enterprise Software

Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, the data and AI platform company founded in 2013 by the creators of…

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