Meet the 2024 Greater Los Angeles honorees

AJ is the CEO of Beyond Limits.

Beyond Limits is an industrial and enterprise-grade, hybrid artificial intelligence company built for the most demanding sectors, including energy, utilities and health care.

Beyond traditional artificial intelligence, Beyond Limits’ unique Cognitive AI technology combines numeric techniques like machine learning with knowledge-based reasoning to produce actionable intelligence. Customers implement Beyond Limits AI to drastically boost operational insights, improve operating conditions, enhance performance at every level and ultimately increase profits as a result.

Beyond Limits solutions are pioneers of the hybrid model, which enhances advanced numerical analyses and machine learning techniques with Cognitive AI. Cognitive AI replicates the neural processing of the human brain, which integrates a layer of tacit knowledge, the ability to make inferences from a given set of data and apply human intuition. Data is often incomplete and messy, so cognitive reasoning is needed to fill in the gaps that machine learning analyses fail to override. Because they cannot extrapolate from imperfect data, stand-alone machine learning computations often lead to the generation of inaccurate recommendations.

Dustin is a Co-Founder, Michael is the Co-Founder & CEO, and Omar is a Co-Founder of Civil Clothing/Darc Sport.

Civil Clothing operates three distinct brands: Civil Regime, Darc Sport and CVLA. The company sells direct to consumer as well as wholesale and private label manufacturing. Civil Clothing’s three distinct brands have an extensive organic social following of more than 2.2 million highly engaged fans. The company is well on its way to being a leader in the streetwear and athletic lifestyle space.

Jasmin is the Founder & CEO of Cult Gaia.

Cult Gaia designs beautiful heirloom pieces that will live in your closet forever. The cornerstone of Cult Gaia's DNA has been forged with the ideal of creating objets d’art that make you look twice. Since its inception, the company has grown from accessories into a full-fledged lifestyle brand, selling everything from ready-to-wear to shoes, a world of Gaia.

Dave is a Co-Founder & Chef, Arman is a Co-Founder & CBO, Bill is the CEO, Gary is a Co-Founder, and Tommy is a Co-Founder of Dave’s Hot Chicken.

In a modern-day American dream story, three childhood friends, Chef Dave Kopushyan, Arman Oganesyan and Tommy Rubenyan, scraped together $900 to launch Dave’s Hot Chicken in a parking lot, portable fryers and folding tables in tow, in 2017. Dave’s Hot Chicken quickly took off, opening an East Hollywood brick-and-mortar restaurant shortly after, with support from Tommy’s brother, Gary. In 2019, the team began franchising the Dave’s Hot Chicken concept throughout the US and beyond. The company has sold the rights to more than 800 franchise locations in the US, Middle East and Canada and will open 70-plus locations this year. Harkening back to an Eater LA blog that helped propel early interest in the brand, the company’s mission is to “blow their minds.”

Ben is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flowspace.

Flowspace powers independent fulfillment, enabling brands to provide efficient, reliable fulfillment to end customers, across channels, profitably and at scale.

The company’s OmniFlow software empowers merchants with the next-generation visibility and insights they need to orchestrate and optimize fulfillment. Embedded within a flexible, asset-light network of more than 150 fulfillment centers nationwide, the software enables regional logistics companies to store and fulfill products on behalf of brands selling across ecommerce and retail.

Flowspace has earned industry-wide recognition as a leading provider of fulfillment software and services, and the company is trusted by hundreds of brands to enable quick, efficient, omnichannel fulfillment from any source to any end customer. Its open platform is equipped to integrate with systems, channels and partners across the retail ecosystem, including direct-to-consumer storefronts, third-party marketplaces, brick-and-mortar retailers, and beyond.

Cameron is the Founder & CEO of InCharge Energy.

The leader in commercial EV fleet charging, InCharge Energy simplifies electrifying your fleet by providing vertically integrated solutions, including software, hardware, planning, engineering, and turnkey installation operations and maintenance services.

Katlyn is the Co-Founder & CEO of LOVB.

LOVB’s mission is to reimagine the future of volleyball. With a unique community up approach, the female first league for the No. 1 female participated sport has attracted the attention of notable investors who understand the trajectory for LOVB to become the sixth major league in the US for the 38 million former and current players. LOVB’s inaugural pro season will launch November 2024 through April 2025, with Team USA gold medalists from the Tokyo games as founding athletes, playing across six teams in six cities, including Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Madison, Omaha and Salt Lake.

Parker is the Founder & CEO of My Code.

My Code is a modern media and marketing company built to help brands build lasting relationships with Hispanic, Black, AANHPI and LGBTQIA+ consumers. The company takes a diverse-first approach to media and marketing and is built to reflect and engage multicultural and diverse audiences.

Founded in 2015, My Code combines community-centric media brands and first-party data with culturally nuanced insights, custom creative and unmatched distribution channels to deliver end-to-end multicultural marketing campaigns.

My Code houses a deep collection of trusted consumer media brands, from 110-year-old El Diario, the US’s oldest Spanish-language newspaper, to Remezcla, the most influential media brand for the Latin community, in addition to several CTV channels that offer diverse-focused film and television and a network of more than 1,100 publishers and exclusive media partnerships. My Code exists to celebrate and amplify the cultures that drive us forward, together — and to address the rapidly growing need for diverse-first marketing and advertising.

Gene is the Founder & CEO of Navitas Semiconductor.

Navitas Semiconductor is a next-generation power semiconductor company with the vision to electrify our planet.

Jay is the President & CEO of Reveleer.

Reveleer is a health-care-focused, technology-driven, workflow, data and analytics company that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to empower health plans and risk-bearing providers with control over their quality improvement, risk adjustment and member management programs. With one transformative solution, the Reveleer platform allows plans to independently execute and manage every aspect of enrollment, provider outreach, data retrieval, coding, abstraction, reporting and submissions. Leveraging proprietary technology, robust data sets and subject-matter expertise, Reveleer provides complete record retrieval and review services so health plans can confidently plan and execute programs that deliver more value and improved outcomes.

John is the Founder & CEO and Caleb is the Co-Founder & President of Scratch Financial.

Scratch is a technology company specializing in payment and patient engagement solutions for health care. Founded in 2016 with a commitment to improving access to veterinary care through an innovative FinTech lending platform, Scratch has established itself as a market leader across veterinary point-of-sale lending, working with thousands of veterinary hospitals across the US and Canada.

As the company has grown, it has extended its flagship lending platform into additional health care markets, including dental and audiology, adapting and integrating its solution to exceed expectations regardless of the specialty area served.

In 2021, Scratch released its second product, designed to offer veterinarians competitive payment processing rates while integrating seamlessly into their practice workflows. The company now processes more than 10% of payments in the US veterinary industry.

With newly released reminder and scheduling tools providing increased patient engagement and compliance, the company’s commitment to improving health outcomes continues.

Scratch sets itself apart through exceptional customer care and employee advocacy and continues to build with a multi-stakeholder model driving decision-making and long-term success.

Amir is the Co-Founder & CEO of SprintRay.

SprintRay is a dental technology company that designs and manufactures user-friendly and cutting-edge dental solutions, including 3D printers and post-processing ecosystems; 3D printing software featuring AI technology; and innovative, 3D resins to enable in-office production of dental prosthetics with high precision and efficiency.

Since its inception, SprintRay has introduced multiple market-leading, biocompatible resins, including NightGuard Flex, for same-day, custom-fit, 3D-printed, flexible night guards, and Surgical Guide 3, a durable implant guide material for the production of surgical guides. In 2023, SprintRay achieved groundbreaking milestones by developing new resins, utilizing NanoFusion technology to introduce ceramic-infused materials that were once deemed unprintable. Notable releases include OnX Tough 2 resin for full arch fixed hybrid dentures, High Impact Denture resins for removable dentures and Ceramic Crown resin designed for 3D printing definitive crowns.

Loren is the Founder & CEO of Sweet Loren’s.

Sweet Loren’s is a baked goods brand that has set a new standard for ingredients and taste. After surviving cancer in her early 20s, Loren eliminated all processed foods from her diet. When she couldn’t find delicious cookies on the market without artificial, processed ingredients, she began making her own; after hundreds on hundreds of recipes, Sweet Loren’s was born.

Now, as the leading better-for-you baked goods brand, Sweet Loren’s offerings span a range of grocery classics, including precut cookie dough, edible cookie dough, breakfast biscuits and the upcoming additions of puff pastry, thin crust pizza and pie crust. Every product from Sweet Loren’s maintains the same commitment to quality and is made from the highest standard non-GMO ingredients, and each product is entirely gluten free, plant based, and free of the top 14 allergens — enabling everyone to discover the joy of delectable cookies without compromising delicious taste. Sweet Loren’s has become an eight-figure brand and captured the loyalty of both standard and natural-channel consumers.

Andrew is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Black Tux.

The Black Tux was founded in 2013 by Andrew Blackmon and Patrick Coyne, longtime friends who, while preparing for Andrew’s wedding in 2011, saw an opportunity to offer men an alternative to traditional tuxedo and suit rental outlets. The Black Tux offers customers a better experience than a traditional suit.

Matthew and Nathan are the Co-CEOs of TruConnect.

In 2006, the fastest-growing segment of the US population was the low-income category, with expanding reliance on food stamps and Medicaid, which could not afford wireless connectivity. Matthew and Nathan saw how this created a barrier for 51 million Americans when accessing essential needs like health care, education and employment. The brothers identified government funding to support what would become the business’s discounted pricing model and invested $2 million each to bring TruConnect to life and bring wireless connectivity to those in need.

TruConnect has overcome numerous hurdles throughout its 20 years due to its utilization of governmental resources, which have been at risk numerous times. Further, faced with 2009’s economic downturn and evolving consumer needs, the business pivoted to include a full range of wireless service offerings to reinforce TruConnect’s stability.

Today, TruConnect serves 49 states, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The company is now the leading provider of lifeline cellular services in California and is third nationwide.