Pipeline, Issue 02: 12 marketers building pipeline before the Series B.
Pipeline, Issue 02 profiles 12 marketing and growth leaders at 11 Series A companies that raised $564M between them, from Resolve AI and 7AI to Inngest and LlamaIndex. Each one is building pipeline before their company's Series B. Each gets a magazine cover, a profile and the story of the company they market.
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What do these 12 marketers have in common?
- Only 4 of the 12 have CMO in their title. At Series A the person building pipeline is just as often a Head of Marketing (4 of them) or a VP (3).
- Half of them are women: 6 of the 12.
- 4 of the 11 companies are European (Praktika, nexos.ai, Validio and Gradient Labs). Index Ventures led 2 of the rounds, 7AI's and nexos.ai's.
- 3 of the companies raised their Series A within a year of leaving stealth. 7AI took 302 days, nexos.ai took 9 months and Lema AI came out of stealth with its round already closed.
The 12 on the covers
Bharath Gowda
Cover 01 · Head of Marketing, Resolve AI
Bharath Gowda is the Head of Marketing at Resolve AI. He joined in November 2024 from Databricks, where he worked in product and marketing leadership. Resolve AI builds an AI site reliability engineer, or AI SRE: agents that help engineering teams run their production systems and work out what broke.
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Nathan Burke
Cover 02 · CMO, 7AI
Nathan Burke is the CMO of 7AI. He joined from Nagomi Security, where he was also CMO. 7AI builds AI security agents that investigate alerts for enterprise security teams.
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Ryan Powers
Cover 03 · SVP Marketing, Traversal
Ryan Powers is SVP Marketing at Traversal. He joined in March 2026, one of 6 senior leaders the company hired across go-to-market and engineering. Traversal builds an AI SRE that troubleshoots incidents across large enterprise software systems.
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Eugene Tsiunovich
Cover 04A · CMO, Praktika
Eugene Tsiunovich is the CMO of Praktika, where he runs consumer (B2C) growth. He joined in 2026. Praktika is an AI language-learning app where people practise speaking with AI avatar tutors.
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Beatrice Aliprandi
Cover 04B · CRO, Praktika
Beatrice Aliprandi runs B2B at Praktika, selling Praktika for Business to companies' learning and development teams. She took on B2B in September 2026. Praktika is an AI language-learning app where people practise speaking with AI avatar tutors.
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Rasa Daunoravičienė
Cover 05 · CMO, nexos.ai
Rasa Daunoravičienė is the CMO of nexos.ai, the enterprise AI platform from the founders of Nord Security. nexos.ai is an enterprise AI platform that gives companies one governed way to use more than 200 AI models.
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Jason Grunberg
Cover 06 · CMO, 1mind
Jason Grunberg is the CMO of 1mind. He joined in 2026 from Bluecore, where he was also CMO. 1mind builds AI sales agents it calls Superhumans, which handle sales conversations with buyers.
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Sophia Granfors
Cover 07 · Head of Marketing, Validio
Sophia Granfors is the Head of Marketing at Validio, the Stockholm data reliability company. Validio is a data reliability platform that checks a company's most important data so its teams can trust it.
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Emma Martin
Cover 08 · Head of Marketing, Gradient Labs
Emma Martin is the Head of Marketing at Gradient Labs. She is based in Austin, Texas. Gradient Labs builds AI agents that handle customer support for banks and fintech companies.
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Roni Saban
Cover 09 · VP Marketing, Lema AI
Roni Saban is VP Marketing at Lema AI. Lema AI is an agentic AI platform that shows enterprises, continuously, the security risks their third-party vendors bring in.
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Lauren Craigie
Cover 10 · Head of Marketing, Inngest
Lauren Craigie is the Head of Marketing at Inngest. Inngest is a developer platform for durable workflows and AI agent orchestration.
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Murtaza Khomusi
Cover 11 · VP Marketing, LlamaIndex
Murtaza Khomusi is VP Marketing at LlamaIndex. He joined in July 2025 as Head of Product Marketing. LlamaIndex makes a framework and a cloud service for building AI agents that work over documents and other unstructured data.
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