Brian Hershey

In a world of accelerating change, Gloat’s Agile Workforce Operating System puts people and businesses in motion. Our technology translates the world of work to the language of skills to give companies unprecedented ability to navigate change, enable more fulfilling and equitable careers for their employees, and dismantle the silos, bureaucracy, and biases that hold people and businesses back. Today, our Operating System includes a series of Talent Marketplace applications to serve employees and business leaders and a set of Skills Foundation tools to establish the infrastructure of your workforce. The operating system is powered by Gloat’s Workforce Graph, our dynamic database built to understand the relationships between different units of work through deep-learning AI. Gloat supports hundreds of leading brands around the world and is trusted by some of the world’s leading global enterprises, including Schneider Electric, Standard Chartered Bank, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Novartis, HSBC, Seagate, and many more. To learn more about Gloat, visit www.gloat.com

ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures--eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 300 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

Owkin is building the first BASI to unlock breakthroughs in therapies, diagnostics, and rejuvenation, while reshaping how humanity understands and engineers biology. Like other frontier AI companies, we believe the leap from narrow tools to true reasoning systems marks the start of a new era — where intelligence is not just assisting scientists but autonomously advancing discovery. Owkin’s moats are structural and compounding. We are creating the only large-scale reasoning model trained natively on patient-level multimodal data and reinforced through real biological feedback — a closed-loop system that continuously improves itself. Exclusive partnerships with world-class hospitals, unique longitudinal datasets, and automated lab infrastructure create a defensibility flywheel similar to the data moats seen in other generational AI companies. By uniting reasoning models, agentic workflows, and living biological systems, Owkin is building the operating system for biology — a platform no one else can replicate, and the inevitable leader in general-purpose biology intelligence.

Fireblocks is the worlds most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations of all sizes to build, manage, and grow their business on the blockchain. With the industrys most scalable and secure platform, Fireblocks streamlines stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, and trading operations across the largest ecosystem of banks, payment providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges, and custodians. More than 2,200 organizations including Worldpay, BNY Mellon, Galaxy, and Revolut trust Fireblocks to secure over $10 trillion in digital asset transactions across 100 blockchains. Fireblocks provides the infrastructure that powers financial possibility. We help institutions unlock new use cases, deliver real-world value, and scale securely in the onchain economy. Fireblocks operates globally with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, France, and Switzerland. To stay up to date, follow us on X @FireblocksHQ or visit our blog for the latest company news - https://www.fireblocks.com/blog/

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm backed by Fidelity that helps entrepreneurs scale. We partner with game-changing technology and healthcare companies with a presence in Europe, India, China, Japan and the US. Our global platform has 50+ years of venture investing experience, $11 billion in AUM, over 600 portfolio companies and 60+ IPOs.

株式会社Paidyは、日本において、業界をリードするあと払い（Buy Now Pay Later）サービス「ペイディ」を提供しています。スマホだけで欲しいものを今すぐ購入できて、お支払いは「まとめてあとから」。シンプルなUX、翌月一括あと払いまたは分割手数料無料* の3・6・12回あと払いで支払いが可能な利便性、スマホで賢くお金の管理ができる点などから多くの方にご利用いただき、アプリダウンロード数は1000万を超えています。70万店舗以上の販売店で利用いただけるほか、Visaの加盟店ならお支払い方法として店頭でもオンラインでもペイディを利用できる「ペイディカード」も提供しています。ペイディアプリをお使いいただくと、欲しいアイテムの発見から購入までの一連のお買い物が、全てアプリ内で完結します。 「夢に自信を持ち、心に余裕を持てる世界」を作ることを目指して。お客様への信頼をもとに、どなたでも安心してお買い物を楽しめる環境を整えることが、ペイディの大事な使命です。 Paidy is Japans pioneer and leading BNPL service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream. Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers. Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm backed by Fidelity that helps entrepreneurs scale. We partner with game-changing technology and healthcare companies with a presence in Europe, India, China, Japan and the US. Our global platform has 50+ years of venture investing experience, $11 billion in AUM, over 600 portfolio companies and 60+ IPOs.

Thinkline helps organizations gather the intelligence they need to win. We make it easy to deploy context-aware AI agent interviewers to collect information from anyone, anywhere, at any scale. So you can turn distributed human knowledge into structured, actionable intelligence.

In a world of accelerating change, Gloat’s Agile Workforce Operating System puts people and businesses in motion. Our technology translates the world of work to the language of skills to give companies unprecedented ability to navigate change, enable more fulfilling and equitable careers for their employees, and dismantle the silos, bureaucracy, and biases that hold people and businesses back. Today, our Operating System includes a series of Talent Marketplace applications to serve employees and business leaders and a set of Skills Foundation tools to establish the infrastructure of your workforce. The operating system is powered by Gloat’s Workforce Graph, our dynamic database built to understand the relationships between different units of work through deep-learning AI. Gloat supports hundreds of leading brands around the world and is trusted by some of the world’s leading global enterprises, including Schneider Electric, Standard Chartered Bank, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Novartis, HSBC, Seagate, and many more. To learn more about Gloat, visit www.gloat.com

In a world of accelerating change, Gloat’s Agile Workforce Operating System puts people and businesses in motion. Our technology translates the world of work to the language of skills to give companies unprecedented ability to navigate change, enable more fulfilling and equitable careers for their employees, and dismantle the silos, bureaucracy, and biases that hold people and businesses back. Today, our Operating System includes a series of Talent Marketplace applications to serve employees and business leaders and a set of Skills Foundation tools to establish the infrastructure of your workforce. The operating system is powered by Gloat’s Workforce Graph, our dynamic database built to understand the relationships between different units of work through deep-learning AI. Gloat supports hundreds of leading brands around the world and is trusted by some of the world’s leading global enterprises, including Schneider Electric, Standard Chartered Bank, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Novartis, HSBC, Seagate, and many more. To learn more about Gloat, visit www.gloat.com

ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures--eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 300 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

Owkin is building the first BASI to unlock breakthroughs in therapies, diagnostics, and rejuvenation, while reshaping how humanity understands and engineers biology. Like other frontier AI companies, we believe the leap from narrow tools to true reasoning systems marks the start of a new era — where intelligence is not just assisting scientists but autonomously advancing discovery. Owkin’s moats are structural and compounding. We are creating the only large-scale reasoning model trained natively on patient-level multimodal data and reinforced through real biological feedback — a closed-loop system that continuously improves itself. Exclusive partnerships with world-class hospitals, unique longitudinal datasets, and automated lab infrastructure create a defensibility flywheel similar to the data moats seen in other generational AI companies. By uniting reasoning models, agentic workflows, and living biological systems, Owkin is building the operating system for biology — a platform no one else can replicate, and the inevitable leader in general-purpose biology intelligence.