{
  "id": 637915,
  "title": "From cyber defence to care and contracts: AI100's eighth cohort puts AI to work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/from-cyber-defence-to-care-and-contracts-ai100s-eighth-cohort-puts-ai",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-12T05:54:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "YourStory",
    "slug": "yourstory",
    "url": "https://yourstory.com/2026/08/from-cyber-defence-to-care-and-contracts-ai100s-eighth-cohort-puts-ai-to-work"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The latest lineup of AI100's eighth cohort features three system builders working in diverse domains: cloud-native security, healthcare technology, and enterprise software. Their common focus is not on AI for its own sake, but on the foundations that make AI useful.\n\nDavid Gildea, now VP of Product for Generative AI at Druva, started his journey as a consultant who wanted to simplify complex data access, interpretation, and security. His early work in data security and cryptography led to founding CloudRanger, a SaaS company protecting customer data in cloud environments. At Druva, Gildea's team focuses on depleting security complexity through objective-driven experiences, anomaly detection in backup data, and Managed Detection and Response services.\n\nAnkit Maheshwari, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Innovaccer, tackles the challenge of healthcare's fragmented data. His philosophy centers on infrastructure-first design, beginning with data unification and analytics before building actionable intelligence for caregivers. Innovaccer's platform manages over 80 million lives and partners with major health systems in the US, emphasizing clean data, reliable infrastructure, and human-centered design.\n\nAditya Gupta, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sirion, sees contracts evolving from static files to intelligent systems. His goal is to transform contracts into systems that understand and act on business obligations, making them more than just documents sitting in a repository.",
  "summary": "AI100's eighth cohort spotlights three leaders embedding intelligence into the systems enterprises rely on — data security, healthcare, and contracts.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}