Alliance of Chief Executives

Dive into the Future of Health & Healthcare during our next Alliance Visionary Leaders Roundtable on October 31, 8:00 am PDT (Zoom). Meet CEOs from the Alliance community and gain insights from the following leaders as they discuss how changes in health & healthcare will impact our lives: Meenesh Bhimani, Co-Founder & CMO of Hippocratic AI; Nadine Hachach-Haram, Founder & CEO of Proximie; Mathai Mammen, CEO of FogPharma; Jeff Margolis, Senior Advisor of Blackstone Life Sciences; John Murphy, CEO of Virtual Incision; Bill Newell, CEO of Sutro Biopharma, Inc.; Adityo Prakash, CEO of Verseon; and Mary Rozenman, CFO & CBO of insitro. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/ehuzkq2T

Alliance Roundtable to discuss how CEOs are using AI agents to improve marketing spend, Thursday, October 24 at 2:00 pm PDT (Zoom): Join Matthew Kael Swanson Swanson, Managing Partner of Silicon Valley Software Group, and Daniel Kravtsov, Co-Founder and CEO of Improvado, to learn how AI agents can be used to give sales and marketing teams better business intelligence into how marketing dollars lead to revenue. Plus, you'll have an opportunity to interact in small group discussions with a unique audience of leaders brought together by the Alliance of CEOs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gT-cKA3i

kWh Analytics, a leading provider of Climate Insurance for renewable energy assets, announced a new, $2.4M partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) through the Materials, Operation, and Recycling of Photovoltaics (MORE PV) Funding Program. This partnership aims to develop innovative approaches to solar PV resilience, focusing on introducing asset resilience measures against natural catastrophes earlier in the asset development lifecycle. Alliance member Jason Kaminsky is the CEO of kWh Analytics. https://lnkd.in/gPZ9cjSw

Arzeda has announced the closing of a $38M oversubscribed funding round, which marks a major milestone in the company’s journey to transform the future of protein design. Alliance member Alexandre Zanghellini is the co-founder and CEO of Arzeda. https://lnkd.in/gi9rxxV9

Switch Bioworks, a biotechnology company developing low-cost and sustainable fertilizers, announced it raised $17 million in Series Seed financing. The company now embarks on completing product development of its first carbon-neutral biological nitrogen fertilizer, including initial scale-up fermentation and formulation as well as greenhouse and field trials in the US and internationally. Alliance member Tim Schnabel is the Founder & CEO of Switch Bioworks. https://lnkd.in/eNWu2ZMG

RTI, led by Alliance member Stan Schneider, announced that it has been awarded a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract. With this contract, RTI will help create a secure, standardized, and reliable AI framework for interaction between software agents, humans, and the target environment– enabling rapid deployment and reuse of cutting-edge AI technologies. 

Alliance Roundtable to discuss how CEOs are using no-code AI agents to improve marketing operations, Thursday, September 26 at 2:00 pm PDT (Zoom): Join Matthew Kael Swanson, Managing Partner of Silicon Valley Software Group, and Arjun Saksena, CEO of Humanic AI, to learn how non-technical users can get started with AI agents. Plus, you'll have an opportunity to interact in small group discussions with a unique audience of leaders brought together by the Alliance of CEOs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gkqR4Kfm

Alliance Roundtable to discuss how CEOs are using AI agents to augment sales teams, Thursday, August 22 at 2:00 pm PDT (Zoom): Join Matthew Kael Swanson, Managing Partner of Silicon Valley Software Group, and David Zhang, CEO of Aomni, to learn what use cases AI agents can solve today, as well as what we can expect AI agents to handle in the coming year. Plus, you'll have an opportunity to interact in small group discussions with a unique audience of leaders brought together by the Alliance of CEOs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gYGJJ9Wr

Alliance Roundtable to discuss how CEOs are using AI agents to improve business performance, this Thursday, July 25 at 2:00 pm PDT (Zoom): Join Alliance members Matthew Kael Swanson, Managing Partner of Silicon Valley Software Group, and CEO Ted Elliott, who will share how his company, Copado, has created AI agents that are able to automate software development and support use cases that has resulted in a 50% reduction in Copado's operating costs. Plus, you'll have an opportunity to interact in small group discussions with a unique audience of leaders brought together by the Alliance of CEOs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gsafVUHW

Circle Pharma, Inc., a startup working on macrocycles for the “undruggable,” is seeking about $117 million for a Series D. The company, led by Alliance member David J. Earp, recently closed the first part of the round, reeling in about $54 million from a dozen investors. https://lnkd.in/gvGHu2ka