Profiles

The BSV Association: Interview With Managing Director Ásgeir Óskarsson About The Non-Profit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

The BSV Association is a non-profit organization that acts as the global advocate for the BSV blockchain. It supports developers, enterprises, and governments in utilizing the network by providing technical standards, educational resources, and regulatory guidance to promote real-world blockchain adoption. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BSV Association Managing Director Ásgeir Óskarsson to learn more.

Office Beacon: Interview With Founder & CEO Pranav Dalal About The BPO Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Office Beacon is a global remote staffing and business process outsourcing company that recruits, trains, and manages dedicated virtual assistants to handle back-office tasks like customer service, marketing, and finance. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Office Beacon founder and CEO Pranav Dalal to learn more.

Take Profit Trader: Interview With CEO James Sixsmith About Futures Trading And Trader Access

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Take Profit Trader is a futures evaluation and proprietary trading firm that gives traders a straightforward path to accessing the markets through its Test, PRO, and PRO+ tiers. The company has built its model around fast payouts, transparent rules, trading education, and access to live market trading. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Take Profit Trader CEO James Sixsmith to learn more.

DVC: Interview With Managing Partners Marina Davidova And Nick Davidov About The AI-First Venture Capital Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

DVC is a Bay Area-based venture capital firm backing early-stage AI startups. In just four years, seven companies in its portfolio have reached unicorn status. DVC was an early backer of Perplexity, Etched, Thinking Machines Lab, Rhoda AI, and Higgsfield. Pulse 2.0 sat down with DVC co-founders and managing partners Marina Davidova and Nick Davidov to learn more about their distinctive approach to venture capital.

Nerd Apply: Interview With Brothers And Co-Founders Braden And Cooper Weissman About College Admissions Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Nerd Apply is a college admissions data platform that helps counselors centralize historical information and explore real, de-identified student profiles containing academic and nonacademic context. Its network case studies enable counselors to search completed admissions outcomes from across the country and find examples relevant to the students they advise. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nerd Apply brothers and co-founders Braden Weissman and Cooper Weissman to learn more.

Tending: Interview With Founder And CEO Artem Manilov About Digital Grave Care And Memorial Restoration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Tending is a technology-driven grave care platform that enables families to remotely order headstone restoration, cleaning, maintenance, flower placement, and other memorial services through its website and mobile app. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tending Founder and CEO Artem Manilov to learn more.

Bluebeam: Interview With Head Of Product Luke Prescott About AI-Powered Construction Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Bluebeam provides collaboration and workflow software that helps architects, engineers, builders, trades, and owners review documents, manage construction workflows, and coordinate projects in real time. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bluebeam Head of Product Luke Prescott to learn more.

Magnific: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Joaquin Cuenca Abela About The Creative Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2026

Magnific (formerly Freepik) is an AI-powered creative platform that provides professional tools for generating and enhancing images, videos, and audio. The platform allows creators and enterprises to use multiple top-tier AI models in one place. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Magnific co-founder and CEO Joaquin Cuenca Abela to learn more.

Conceal: Interview With VP Of Sales Engineering Chris Park About Browser-Native Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Conceal delivers a browser-native Security Service Edge platform that provides Zero Trust access and in-browser security without VPNs, proxies, or data center-routed traffic. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Conceal VP of Sales Engineering Chris Park to learn more.

FamilyWell: Interview With Founder & CEO Dr. Jessica Gaulton About The Virtual Mental Health Services Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

FamilyWell is a company that embeds comprehensive, insurance-covered virtual mental health services—including coaching, therapy, and psychiatric support—directly into OB-GYN clinics to support women throughout their reproductive journey, from fertility through menopause. Pulse 2.0 interviewed FamilyWell founder and CEO Jessica Gaulton to learn more.

SmartBear: Interview With CEO Dan Faulkner About Application Integrity And Agentic QA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

SmartBear provides software development tools spanning API lifecycle management, test automation, test management and quality governance, and production observability. Its portfolio is unified through the SmartBear Application Integrity Core, which connects the API catalog and test repository as a foundation for software quality. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner to learn more.

Legato AI: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Dana Rochman About The Custom Software Applications Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Legato AI enables non-technical business users to build and customize software applications and workflows directly inside existing SaaS platforms using plain-language instructions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Legato AI co-founder and CEO Dana Rochman to learn more.

Honeycomb: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Christine Yen About The Observability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps software engineering teams understand and debug their complex production systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Honeycomb co-founder and CEO Christine Yen to learn more.

Polyverse: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Queena Qiu About The AI-Native App Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Polyverse Entertainment is an AI-native app development platform that builds popular social entertainment and creative generative AI applications such as AI Mirror. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Polyverse co-founder and CEO Queena Qiu to learn more.

Nagarro: Interview With Head Of North America Steve Hochman About The Technology Consulting Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Nagarro is a global digital engineering and technology consulting company that specializes in custom software development, AI transformation, and IT consulting to help enterprises solve complex business challenges. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nagarro Head of North America Steve Hochman to learn more.

Alkira: Interview With Founder & CTO Atif Khan About The Network Infrastructure-As-A-Service Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Alkira provides Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS), allowing enterprises to build and scale secure, unified, and cloud-native networks across multiple cloud environments, data centers, and remote sites. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Alkira founder and CTO Atif Khan to learn more.

o9 Solutions: Interview With CTO Dr. Ashwin Rao About The Supply Chain Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

o9 Solutions provides an AI-powered, cloud-native platform called the Digital Brain that helps large enterprises unify and optimize their supply chain, commercial, and financial planning. Pulse 2.0 interviewed o9 Solutions Chief Technology Officer Dr. Ashwin Rao to learn more.

Impinj: Interview With SVP Of Marketing And Market Development Suresh Palliparambil About The RFID Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Impinj manufactures RAIN RFID tag chips, readers, and software that wirelessly connect everyday physical items such as retail apparel, medical supplies, and luggage—to the internet, allowing businesses to track, locate, and authenticate their inventory in real-time. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Impinj SVP of Marketing and Market Development Suresh Palliparambil to learn more.

Bourn: Interview With Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer Roger Vincent About The Embedded Fintech Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Bourn is an embedded fintech and software company that modernizes SME business lending by providing intelligent, flexible working capital solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bourn co-founder and Chief Growth Officer Roger Vincent to learn more.

Flowgear: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Daniel Chilcott About Integration, AI, And Builder MCP

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Flowgear is a globally recognized Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) trusted by businesses of all sizes to streamline data and app-to-app interactions, without the complexity of traditional tools. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Flowgear co-founder and CEO Daniel Chilcott to learn more.

Grant Drive Group: Interview With Founding Partner Katelyn Gallanty About The Advisory Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Grant Drive Group is a business development and capital advisory firm that helps small to mid-sized companies scale, raise venture capital, and prepare for exit or acquisition. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Grant Drive Group Founding Partner Katelyn Gallanty to learn more.

Global Business Consultants: Interview With Senior Business Consultant Erick Parker

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 16, 2026

Global Business Consultants is a business consulting firm that helps small business owners implement data-driven operational and financial management strategies, offering services like access to capital, bookkeeping, payroll, and personalized strategic roadmaps to grow revenue and improve efficiency from startup through exit. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Global Business Consultants Senior Business Consultant, Operations & Financial Management, Erick Parker, to learn more.

Babylon: Interview With Co-Founder David Tse About The Decentralized Protocol

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Babylon is a decentralized protocol that enables users to natively stake and collateralize their Bitcoin on other decentralized networks without relying on third-party custodians. As a co-founder of the company and an engineering professor at Stanford University, David Tse serves as the lead research scientist guiding the development of these pioneering security-sharing and staking systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tse to learn more.

Dan Ye: An Interview With The John Hopkins Lecturer And Technologist

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Dan Ye is an entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and CEO of CollegeNode, an online platform that provides college admissions guidance and educational technologies. He is a prominent commentator on how artificial intelligence is transforming education and actively advocates integrating AI into traditional learning systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ye to learn more.

Pivot Point Consulting: Interview With VP Of Managed Services Molly Kalinowski About Why Managed Services Is Healthcare’s Workforce Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Pivot Point Consulting is a healthcare-focused IT services and consulting firm that provides managed services, strategic advisory, and talent solutions to help providers, payers, and life sciences organizations navigate digital transformation and optimize their technology systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pivot Point Consulting VP of Managed Services Molly Kalinowski to learn more.

StartUpNV: Interview With Executive Director Jeff Saling About The Business Incubator

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

StartUpNV is a non-profit business incubator and accelerator that supports early-stage and growing startups in Nevada by providing expert mentorship, structured business programs, and access to a network of affiliated venture capital funds. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StartUpNV Executive Director Jeff Saling to learn more.

Pulse Security AI: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Mike Armistead About The Cybersecurity Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Pulse Security AI provides an autonomous, AI-driven cybersecurity platform designed to instantly deploy a full security stack and autonomously manage it 24/7. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pulse Security AI co-founder and CEO Mike Armistead to learn more.

Lightbeam: Interview With President Ben Stilwill About The Healthcare Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Lightbeam Health Solutions is a healthcare technology company that provides an AI-powered population health platform. It aggregates fragmented medical and social data to help providers, payers, and health systems improve care quality, manage patient risk, and succeed in value-based care. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lightbeam Health President Ben Stilwill to learn more.

Cyberimpact: Interview With General Manager Geoffrey Blanc About The Email Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Cyberimpact is a Canadian-based, bilingual email marketing platform that enables small and medium-sized businesses to easily create, automate, and track email campaigns while ensuring compliance with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cyberimpact General Manager Geoffrey Blanc to learn more.

Code Ninjas: Interview With VP Of Education & Training Ed Kim About The Kids Coding Franchise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Code Ninjas is the world's largest kids' coding franchise, teaching children ages 5 to 14 vital STEM and problem-solving skills through a game-based curriculum where they build their own video games. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Code Ninja VP of Education & Training Ed Kim to learn more.