While taking a break at the 51 Mile Marker at the Lake of the Ozarks, Nick Smith was inspired as ever by the coexistence of AI and sales, but was searching for a way to put the controls in the hands of sales executives. “Sales has a lot of ‘enablement’ solutions, but not many tools that sales people actually like using” “Imagine if every sales executive had their own robot that performed virtual prospecting tasks.” Drawing on his sales and management experience at companies like CBS Corporation, iHeart Media and others, he began to imagine sales executives building their own cloud-based robots to reduce repetitive, manual tasks and increase revenue opportunities. Now, he just needed a name that combined sales and AI.

Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144

Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.