Kevin Lu

NEXT is a technology company that connects shippers and carriers to meet today’s growing transportation demands. NEXT’s digital freight matching platform and app quickly and conveniently match truck drivers with capacity to available loads, streamlining the process and bringing greater transparency to the supply chain. With its predictive load offering technology, NEXT has taken a trucker-centric approach that addresses the needs and preferences of drivers, while also providing real-time updates to shippers. Beyond long-haul trucking, NEXT is using technology to tackle supply chain challenges more broadly by innovating solutions for drayage and port operations.

Zinier is an intelligent field service automation platform that helps organizations work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Zinier’s end-to-end solution, Field Service Elements, uses artificial intelligence, proactive insights, and an intuitive, all-in-one mobile experience to supercharge every aspect of an organization’s field service operations, from the back office all the way to the field. Zinier has international offices in Silicon Valley, Mexico City, Singapore, and Bengaluru.

Platform9 delivers a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solution that turns existing infrastructure into a cloud, instantly. They manage everything so our customers don't have to, by delivering fully automated day-2 operations with 99.9% SLA for Kubernetes, bare-metal, and VM-based environments on-premises, in public clouds, or at the edge - with a self-service, simple, and unified experience. Customers such as Cadence, Autodesk, Juniper Networks, Snapfish, Veritas, Nanometrics, Kingfisher, EBSCO, S&P Global, and Aruba see upwards of 300 percent improvement in IT efficiency, 33 percent faster time to market, and 50-80 percent improvement in data center utilization and cost reduction.