Tier Zero
15Adrian Johnston - Elyos AI
CEO & Founder. $16M Series A (6 weeks ago). Oxford/Harvard founder pivoted to AI agents for trades. Clear positioning gap.
Peter Piatetsky - Castellum.AI
Co-Founder & CEO. $12.9M Series A. Fintech compliance stuck in niche - needs broader GTM messaging for credit union expansion.
Matthew Peters - Envive AI
Co-Founder & Chief Architect. $20M Series A. Just rebranded from Spiffy - defining "agentic commerce" as a new category.
Kik Lee - Solomon AI
CEO. $14.5M Bessemer-backed seed. $1M ARR in 6 months but all press is in Korean. Zero US market positioning.
Ben Borton - PodPlay
Co-Founder. $8M Series A. Sports venue SaaS listing 7+ sports plus dog washes - classic unfocused messaging problem.
Yuval Golan - Waltz
Founder & CEO. ~$25M equity raised. "Fintech-proptech-wealthtech" is three categories at once. LatAm expansion inflection.
Jackson Fregeau - Quandri
Co-Founder & CEO. $18.7M Series A. Insurance automation expanding Canada to US. Known in niche, invisible to US market.
Remus Pop - Neurolabs
CRO & Co-Founder. $12.7M Series A. UK's fastest deeptech - synthetic data for CPG shelf recognition. Massive US expansion messaging challenge.
Kelly Cherniwchan - Chata.ai
CEO & Founder. Fresh $10M Series A. "Deterministic AI" positioning needs US market evangelism. Serial founder pivot from medtech.
Zheng Bu - Kaamel
CEO. $5.2M raised. 827 competitors in compliance space - needs positioning differentiation badly. Elite founder, zero visibility.
Mamoun Benkirane - MarketLeap
CEO. $8M Series A. "Seller-obsessed" vs Amazon positioning needs sharpening. European company breaking into US market.
Eric Simmerman - Qualytics
CTO & Co-Founder. $16.7M Series A (BMW i Ventures). Data quality nobody thinks they need until disaster hits.
Civan Ozseyhan - Refine
CEO. $3.8M (YC, 500 Global). 31K GitHub stars but business-unknown. Developer-famous, needs GTM messaging help.
Chris Strahl - Knapsack
CEO & Co-Founder. $18.3M Series A. "Design system platform" is not a recognized category. Invisible to business buyers.
David Harding - MagicOrange
CEO. $16.4M Series A. 12-year company just raised first round. ITFM vs FinOps positioning confusion. London-based.