Profiles

Alkira: Reinventing Networking By Simplifying Any-To-Any Network Connectivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 15, 2024

Alkira is a company reinventing networking for the cloud era with global unified network infrastructure delivered as a service. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Alkira CEO Amir Khan to learn more about the company.

Cross-Border Impact Ventures: Investing In Transformative Health Companies To Meet The Needs Of Women And Children

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 14, 2024

Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV) is on a mission to be the preferred investor for transformative health technology companies with the potential of meeting the needs of women, children and adolescents across global markets. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cross Border Impact Ventures managing partner Annie Thériault to learn more about the firm.

NetXD: An Interview With Chairman Suresh Ramamurthi

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 14, 2024

NetXD is a company that offers a programmable enterprise operating system enabling organizations to transform their back office and middle office. For banks, NetXD offers a sidecar core that supports all major types of consumer and business bank accounts embedded banking and is paired with a payment hub with support for all central payment rails. Pulse 2.0 interviewed NetXD chairman Suresh Ramamurthi to learn more about the company.

Kindo: The Story Behind This Rapidly Growing AI Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 13, 2024

Kindo is a company that provides a way to securely adopt and centrally manage AI across your entire workforce. Pay only once for AI access from any model, use it across your organization, all in one easy-to-use interface. Supporting commercial, open source, and private AI models as well as 200+ SaaS integrations, Kindo empowers AI workforce productivity while keeping everything secure, compliant, and centrally managed for IT and Security teams. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kindo co-founders Bryan Vann (CTO) and Ron Williams (CEO) to learn more about the company.

Soaak Technologies: Optimizing Health And Wellness In A $500+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 13, 2024

Soaak Technologies is a company that provides transformational health solutions that use a whole-person approach to optimize health and wellness. And the company believes that everyone should have 24/7 access to the help and support they need. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Soaak Technologies executive chairman and co-founder Henry Penix to learn more about the company.

Embroker: Transforming The Digital Insurance-Buying Experience

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 13, 2024

Embroker is a company that intelligently insures any business. And by pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Embroker CEO Ben Jennings to learn more about the company.

HTwenty: How This Firm Is Helping Latinx Entrepreneurs Succeed

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2024

HTwenty is a cross-border venture capital fund specializing in FinTech, marketplaces, and software startups, mostly in the B2B space, in the US and Latin America. Pulse 2.0 interviewed HTwenty co-founder and managing partner Daniel Lloreda to learn more about the company.

Cohen Circle: Helping Accelerate Fintech Growth Companies Through Investments And Resources

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2024

Cohen Circle is an investment firm that provides transformative capital to late-stage fintech growth companies. The firm makes investments across the capital structure in the fintech, technology, and impact spaces, with over $5 billion in capital raised. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cohen Circle CEO Amanda Abrams to learn more about the firm.

Cartherics: An Innovative Company Developing Cellular Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2024

Cartherics is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative cancer therapies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cartherics CEO Prof. Alan Trounson to learn more about the company.

Strike Graph: Helping Companies Design And Operate Security Certifications

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2024

Strike Graph is a security operation and certification platform that helps companies design, operate, and measure security certifications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Strike Graph CEO and co-founder Justin Beals to learn more about the company.

Prompt Security: Protecting Organizations From GenAI Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2024

Prompt Security delivers a complete solution for all generative AI security in the enterprise. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Prompt Security co-founder and CEO Itamar Golan to learn more about the company.

Piva Capital: A Venture Capital Firm Investing In Transformative Energy And Industrial Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 1, 2024

Piva Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in disruptive energy and industrial companies across North America and Europe. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Piva Capital investors Claire Yun and Jillian Noel to learn more about the firm.

Deduce: Preventing AI-Created Synthetic Identities From Committing Fraud And Passing Identity Verification

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 1, 2024

Deduce is a company that mitigates SuperSynthetic identities, which are AI-generated identities that can pass automated fraud controls, manual reviews, and other identity verification. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Deduce Vice President of Marketing Andy Sheldon to learn more about the company.

EZOPS: Transforming How Financial Institutions Optimize Data Pipelines In A $15+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 1, 2024

EZOPS harnesses Machine Learning (ML) and Intelligent Process Automation to transform data control and drive transformative efficiency gains at some of the world's largest financial services institutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed EZOPS founder and CEO Sarva Srinivasan to learn more about the company.

Thomvest Ventures: An Interview With Managing Director Umesh Padval

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 30, 2024

Thomvest Ventures is a cross-stage venture capital fund based in Silicon Valley and Toronto. The firm is investing the capital of one individual Peter Thomson - whose family owns the majority of Thomson Reuters. Peter started Thomvest Ventures in 1996 and has invested in over 75 private companies since that time. Pulse 2.0 interviewed one of Thomvest’s managing directors Umesh Padval to learn more about the firm.

Planera: Making CPM Scheduling In The Construction Industry Easier For A $15 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Planera is a company that is making critical path method (CPM) scheduling easy for the construction industry with a collaborative and visual whiteboard. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Planera CEO and co-founder Nitin Bhandari to learn more about the company.

Jump: Helping Wealth Managers Stay Compliant In A $1+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Jump is a company that uses AI to help wealth managers automatically take notes, stay compliant, and update their CRM. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Jump co-founder and chief operating officer (COO) Tim Chaves to learn more about the company.

SmarterDx: Providing A Lifeline For Health Systems Struggling To Remain Viable In A $2 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

SmarterDx is a clinical AI company that discovers, delivers, and drives better quality, revenue, and care. The company uses AI to understand each patient's journey, helping hospitals close their revenue integrity differential gap. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SmarterDx CEO and co-founder Michael Gao, MD, to learn more about the company.

Upfort: Simplifying The Management And Insurance Of Cyber Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Upfort is a company that unifies award-winning security and robust cyber insurance to deliver comprehensive cyber risk solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Upfort CEO and co-founder Xing Xin to learn more about the company.

Peer Software: A Rapidly Growing Company That Enhances Data Protection And Simplifies File Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2024

Peer Software develops data storage solutions that address the unique challenges related to data migration, backup, replication, and collaboration in a WAN environment. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Peer Software CEO Jimmy Tam to learn more about the company.

CorriXR: How This Company Is Using CRISPR/Cas Gene Editing To Develop New Medicines

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2024

CorriXR Therapeutics is on the clinical frontier of gene editing as a transformative pre-clinical stage biotechnology company with a ground-breaking in vivo gene-editing therapeutic platform technology. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CorriXR Therapeutics CEO Deborah Moorad to learn more about the company.

Tigera: Providing Networking And Protection For Containers And Kubernetes In A $7+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 25, 2024

Tigera provides secure networking and comprehensive protection for containers and Kubernetes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tigera’s President and CEO, Ratan Tipirneni, to learn more.

IONOS: Helping 6 Million Customers With Digitalization Efforts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 23, 2024

IONOS is a leading European digitalization partner for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company serves more than six million customers and operates in 18 European and North American markets. Pulse 2.0 interviewed IONOS CTO Markus Noga to learn more.