ENTERPRISE
TECH
JUDGES: WADE FOSTER, COFOUNDER, ZAPIER (UNDER 30 CLASS OF 2017); JAYSHREE ULLAL, CEO, ARISTA NETWORKS; ERIC YUAN, FOUNDER, ZOOM.
KANJUN QIU WEARS A L’AGENCE BLUE JUMPSUIT AND BURGUNDY SUEDE JACKET.
DECEMBER 31, 20 19 FORBES.COM
KANJUN QIU, 2 9
COFOUNDER, SOURCERESS“We’re trying to democratize access to talent,”
says Kanjun Qiu. “Otherwise big companies with
big resources are always going to win the talent
war.” Qiu’s company, Sourceress, gives companies
recruiting tech once only available to fi rms with
massive HR budgets. Its AI scours the Web, job
sites and social media for top recruits. A team of
copywriters pen personal introduction notes to top
candidates. Sourceress works with fi rms like Medi-
um, Cruise Automation and Ginkgo Bioworks. Qiu
saw the fi ght for tech talent fi rsthand at Dropbox as
chief of staff to company cofounder Drew Houston,
where she helped the now-publicly traded cloud
storage company grow from 200 to 1,200 employ-
ees. Her 30-person company has raised $13 mil-
lion from backers like Y Combinator and Dropbox
cofounders Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. —Jillian
D’Onfro, Helen S. Popkin, Alexandra SternlichtTAREK ALARURI, 29
Cofounder, Fairmarkit
MATT ARBESFELD, 26; BEN EDELSTEIN, 26
Cofounders, LogRocket
AMMAR BANDUKWALA, 21; KYLE
CARBERRY, 22; JOHN ENTWISTLE, 22
Cofounders, Coder
SAUMYA BHATNAGAR, 29;
GAURAV BHATTACHARYA, 27
Cofounders, InvolveSoft
NICK CHERUKURI, 25
Founder, ThirdEye Gen
DREW D’AGOSTINO, 29; GREG SKLOOT, 29
Cofounders, Crystal
ALICE DEFAULT, 28
Cofounder, Double
WILLIAM DENSLOW, 25; BRIAN ZITIN, 25
Cofounders, Reggora
SASCHA EDER, 28
Cofounder, NewtonX
JUSTIN EFFRON, 29
Cofounder, ALICE
BRUNO FAVIERO, 27;
SIMANTA GAUTAM, 24
Cofounders, Synapse Technology
SAM FELSENTHAL, 29;
DEVON TIVONA, 28
Cofounders, Pana
WILL GUILLAUME FOUSSIER, 29;
LAYLA LYNN, 29
Cofounders, AceUp
RYAN GIBSON, 26;
MARIA RIOUMINE, 28
Cofounders, Agora
ANKUR GOYAL, 29
Founder, Impira
MAYANK GOYAL, 26; ADIT JAIN, 26;
ANAND PRAJAPATI, 26
Cofounders, Leena AI
NIKITA GUPTA, 24; AHVA SADEGHI, 26
Cofounders, Symba
ROB GURZEEV, 28
Cofounder, CyCognito
NICOLE HARDSON-HURLEY, 24;
SARGUN KAUR, 27
Cofounders, Byteboard
BLAINE HATAB, 27;
JOHNNY JI, 25
Cofounders, Distru
HARRISON HUNTER, 25;
VASU PRATHIPATI, 28
Cofounders, MaestroQA
MAX KOLYSH, 27; ANVISHA PAI, 27
Cofounders, Dover
AAKASH KUMAR, 29;
PAVAN PATEL, 29
Cofounders, Shift smart
ISAAC MADAN, 26; ROHAN SATHE, 29
Cofounders, Nightfall AI
RACHEL OLNEY, 27
Founder, Geosite
ALIHAN OZBAYRAK, 26; YARKIN
SAKUCOGLU, 23; JOSEPH WATKINS, 26
Cofounders, Socio
KANJUN QIU, 29
Cofounder, Sourceress
ARAM SHATAKHTSYAN, 29
Cofounder, CodeSignal
JASMINE SHELLS, 29
Cofounder, Five to Nine
RICK SONG, 29; CHARLES YEH, 27
Cofounders, Persona99