Profiles

BrandShield: Interview With CEO Yoav Keren About AI-Powered Digital Risk Protection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

BrandShield is a cybersecurity company that protects organizations and their customers from external digital threats, including phishing websites, social media scams, executive and brand impersonation, counterfeit goods, fraudulent advertisements, fake mobile apps, and emerging generative AI threats. The company combines proprietary AI, built to identify connected threat networks rather than isolated incidents, with human intellectual property and cybersecurity expertise. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BrandShield CEO Yoav Keren to learn more about his background, the company's origins, the evolution of its technology, customer results, and the changing digital threat landscape.

Adaptive: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Matt Barrett About Trading Technology And Aeron

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Adaptive develops trading technology for capital markets, including Aeron, its open-source technology for transmitting data with extremely low latency and high reliability, along with commercial products such as Aeron Sequencer and Aeron Exchange Accelerator. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Adaptive Co-Founder and CEO Matt Barrett to learn more about the company's origins, the evolution of its trading technology, Aeron, and its plans for the future.

Kyvos Insights: Interview With Senior Director Of Technology Pratik Jain About Semantic Layers And Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Kyvos Insights provides a semantic layer for enterprise AI and business intelligence, giving AI systems consistent business context around data definitions, relationships, rules, and governance. The platform is also designed to improve the performance and economics of enterprise analytics as data volumes and AI workloads grow. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kyvos Insights Senior Director of Technology Pratik Jain to learn more about making AI analytics reliable at scale, how semantic layers are evolving for AI agents and LLMs, and what enterprises should consider when building their AI data architecture.

Valory: Interview With COO Gemma Welsh About Olas And User-Owned Autonomous AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Valory is a core contributor to Olas, an ecosystem designed around user-owned autonomous AI agents. Through products including Pearl and the Mech Marketplace, Olas enables people to run, own, create, and interact with AI agents while maintaining control over their funds and data. The ecosystem has expanded from early decentralized agent infrastructure into consumer products and agent-to-agent economies, with 18.2 million lifetime agent transactions, including 13.2 million agent-to-agent transactions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Valory COO Gemma Welsh to learn more about her background, the development of Olas, and the company's vision for user-owned AI.

Speria: Interview With Global President Pia Brantgärde Linder About Operational Intelligence, AI, And The Future Of Food Production

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Speria is focused on applying technology, analytics, connected systems, and industry expertise to improve predictability across food production. The business brings together farm-level controllers, sensors, gateways, supply chain optimization, animal health intelligence software, and expert services to help producers turn fragmented operational data into earlier and more actionable insights. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pia Brantgärde Linder, Global President of Speria and Global Vice President of Munters, to learn more about the company's approach to operational intelligence, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and the future of livestock technology.

Elio Mortgage: Interview With Co-Founder And COO Arad Lev Ari About AI-Powered Mortgage Origination

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Elio Mortgage is building a technology-enabled mortgage brokerage designed to help loan officers spend less time on administrative work and more time advising borrowers and generating business. Its platform brings together borrower applications, financial information, income calculations, pricing, customer relationships, and loan management around an evidence-based mortgage profile that connects loan data with the documents supporting it. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Elio Mortgage Co-Founder and COO Arad Lev Ari to learn more about his background, the company's origins, its technology, and its approach to using AI and automation to improve mortgage origination.

Emergent: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Mukund Jha About Vibe Coding, VibeCon, And AI-Powered Software Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Emergent is an AI-powered development platform designed to help non-technical founders and business owners turn ideas into production-ready software using plain-language instructions. Its agents can plan, build, test, debug, and deploy full-stack web and mobile applications while abstracting away much of the underlying code, cloud infrastructure, and engineering complexity. The company also organizes VibeCon, an event where participants build working software over a weekend without needing a traditional coding background. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Emergent CEO and Co-Founder Mukund Jha to learn more about his background, the company's mission, VibeCon, and how AI is changing who can build software.

Pramata: Interview With CEO Praful Saklani About AI-Powered Contract Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Pramata is a contract intelligence company that helps enterprises organize, understand, and act on the information contained within their commercial relationships. The company has developed technologies including TrueDoc and AI TrueCheck to make complex contract data accessible and reliable for AI-powered workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pramata CEO Praful Saklani to learn more about the company's evolution, contract intelligence, enterprise AI, and the growing role of AI agents in commercial relationships.

MileageWise: Interview With Founder And CEO Akos Barazsy About Mileage Tracking, Retroactive Logs, And Bootstrapped Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

MileageWise is a mileage tracking and recordkeeping platform designed to help drivers create structured mileage logs both prospectively and retroactively. The company offers automatic mileage tracking, web and mobile tools, and a retroactive mileage log solution that can use Google Timeline data to help reconstruct past business travel. Pulse 2.0 interviewed MileageWise Founder and CEO Akos Barazsy to learn more about his background, the origins of the company, its approach to retroactive mileage documentation, and its bootstrapped growth strategy.

Ottimate: Interview With Shawn Lane About AI-Native Accounts Payable Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Ottimate is an AI-native accounts payable automation platform built for multi-location mid-market businesses that deal in physical goods, including restaurants, hotels, country clubs, grocery stores, senior living communities, and dental service organizations. The platform manages the invoice-to-payment lifecycle, using industry-specific AI to automate processing, improve financial visibility, and link supply costs to inventory and point-of-sale data. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Shawn Lane to learn more about Ottimate, its AI-powered accounts payable automation, and the company's plans to expand the platform.

Concentric AI: Interview With CTO, Chief Scientist, And Co-Founder Madhu Shashanka About Data Security Governance And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Concentric AI develops data security governance technology that helps organizations discover, understand, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. Its platform uses proprietary AI and language models to understand data content and context rather than relying primarily on traditional pattern matching, and its Semantic DLP capabilities extend that intelligence to public AI applications, including shadow AI use. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Madhu Shashanka, Concentric AI Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, to learn more about the company's origins, its Semantic Intelligence technology, and how AI is reshaping data security.

Embarc Advisors: Interview With Senior Director And Head Of Strategic Finance Lance Geda About Fractional CFO Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Embarc Advisors provides strategic finance and advisory services designed to help business owners improve financial visibility, prepare for growth, address operational challenges, and position their companies for future transactions. Its Strategic Finance practice works with clients on forecasting, financial analysis, performance management, and fractional CFO support. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Embarc Advisors Senior Director and Head of Strategic Finance Lance Geda to learn more about his background, how fractional CFO services work, and why growing companies often need more than traditional bookkeeping and tax support.

Optispan: Interview With Clinical Director Dr. Nicki Byrne About Longevity And Precision Medicine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Optispan is a Seattle-based longevity and precision medicine company focused on evidence-based healthspan optimization. Founded in 2023, the company combines advanced diagnostics, preventive care, personalized interventions, and longitudinal health tracking to help patients take a more proactive approach to aging and long-term wellness. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Optispan Clinical Director Dr. Nicki Byrne to learn more about her background, the company's approach to longevity medicine, the challenges of working in an emerging field, and the role of nutrition, movement, sleep, and connection in healthy aging.

Templafy: Interview With Chief Sales Officer And GM Of Americas Jean-Marc Chanoine About Agentic Document Generation And Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Templafy is an agentic document generation platform used by more than 4 million users worldwide to help enterprises create accurate, compliant, and on-brand business documents. The platform combines artificial intelligence with patented rules-based automation, approved enterprise content, company knowledge, and business data to support the creation of proposals, contracts, presentations, reports, and other business-critical documents. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Templafy Chief Sales Officer and General Manager of the Americas Jean-Marc Chanoine to learn more about his background, the company's approach to enterprise AI and document automation, and why Templafy is positioning itself as a governance and control layer between AI models and finished business documents.

The FruitGuys: Interview With CEO Erin Mittelstaedt About Workplace Wellness, Sustainable Farming And Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

The FruitGuys is a fruit and snack delivery company that provides farm-fresh fruit, vegetables, and nutritious snacks to workplaces nationwide and schools across California. The company also operates programs supporting small farms and underrepresented farmers while giving back through food donations and funding for sustainable farming grants. Pulse 2.0 interviewed The FruitGuys CEO Erin Mittelstaedt, who joined the company in 2007 and became CEO, or “Chief Banana,” in 2023, to learn more.