The Mayfield | Divot AI List recognizes rising stars and emerging leaders shaping the future of AI. The honorees include innovators, builders, researchers, founders, policy makers, and media voices who are laying the foundation for what comes next in AI. Together, they represent the next generation of leaders driving progress in AI today and beyond.
Redefining application security with scalable, developer-first access control.
Graham Neray
CEO/Founder, Oso
Expanding access to eye disease screening with AI-powered diagnostics.
Vasiliki Demas
Founder and CEO, identifeye HEALTH
Accelerating drug formulation with AI-powered robotic labs.
Karthik Raman
CEO, Persist AI
Bringing real-time AI support to lawyers in high-stakes trials.
Neda Mansoorian
CEO, Fullproof.ai
Designing sustainable alternatives to critical materials with AI.
Johnathan Bean
CEO, Material Nexus
Tackling the $800B overstock problem with AI to cut waste and boost efficiency.
Amrita Bhasin
Co-founder and CEO, Sotira
Putting AI into hospitals to save lives and ease clinician workload.
Nishith Khandwala
Co-founder and CEO, Bunkerhill Health
Blending proptech and generative AI to reinvent how people buy and sell homes.
Luis Poggi
CEO and Co-founder, HouseWhisper AI
Innovation thrives in unexpected corners. While the headlines celebrate the same handful of CEOs and billion-dollar companies, we’re championing the unsung heroes. These are the individuals who are doing the hard work behind the scenes and deserve the spotlight.
Co-founder and CEO
Scrunch AI
CEO and Co-founder
TrueFoundry
CEO
Material Nexus
Co-founder and CEO
Sotira
Founder
Sentry AI
CEO and Founder
Kiro Money
CEO
Arcade Software
Founder and CEO
identifeye HEALTH
Co-founder
Inception AI
Co-founder
CogniChip
Co-Founder and CEO
Bunkerhill Health
CEO
Elnora AI
Founder and CEO
Uare.ai
CEO
Fullproof.ai
Founder
Lumari
CEO
CrewAI
CEO and Founder
Oso
Founder and CEO
Multimodal
CEO and Co-founder
Ceramic.ai
CEO and Co-founder
HouseWhisper AI
CEO
Persist AI
CEO
Neubird
CEO
Axia Medicine
Co-founder and CEO
Arcade.dev
CEO
GPTZero
Head of Data Engineering
OpenAI
Co-founder and CEO
Snorkel AI
Head of AI Developer Relations – Growth
Fireworks AI
Director of Engineering, Enterprise
Scale AI
Senior Director, Product Management
Waymo
Director of Product Management
Meta
VP, Google Labs, Gemini, & AI Studio
Co-founder and CEO
Juvena Therapeutics
Incoming Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Chief Scientist, Together AI
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Incoming Assistant Professor, MIT EECS/CSAIL
Member of Technical Staff, Open AI
Assistant Professor, CMU
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Assistant Profesor, MIT EECS
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Senior Staff Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research Scientist, Director of AI Inclusion
Google DeepMind
Associate Professor
MIT Media Lab
Assistant Professor, MIT EECS
Chief Scientist, EvolutionaryScale
Reporter
The Information
Founder and CEO
SemiAnalysis
Senior Reporter
TechCrunch
Technology Correspondent
Reuters
Co-founder and Director
Oxford China Policy Lab
CEO and Co-founder; AI Steering Comittee Member
HumaneIntelligence; City of New York
Chief Policy Officer
Hugging Face
Director, AI Policy
Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology
November 6, 2025 | San Francisco
Honorees are invited to an exclusive celebration at the historic Golden Gate Club in the Presidio, where they’ll join fellow founders, builders, policy makers, and media voices shaping the future of AI. Expect a day of meaningful content and connection with peers, judges, investors, press, and industry leaders—including a keynote from Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator.
