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Pilot’s 2025 Founder Salary Report Reveals 43% Drop in Founder Compensation as Capital Efficiency Takes Center Stage

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The leading accounting firm’s annual report shows dramatic shift in founder compensation as capital efficiency and fewer VC funding opportunities become available

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pilot,  the leading accounting firm for startups and small businesses, today released its annual Founder Salary Report, revealing a dramatic 43% decrease in median founder compensation over the past year. Based on data from nearly 2,000 founders, the report highlights a fundamental shift in how startup leaders are approaching personal compensation in today’s more challenging funding environment.

“The data is super clear—founders are rethinking compensation,” said Waseem Daher, co-founder & executive chair of Pilot. “We’re seeing founders make smarter calls to extend runway while figuring out reasonable personal compensation. It’s a stark contrast to previous years and signals an ecosystem getting serious about financial discipline—which is exactly what should be happening.”

Key findings from the 2025 Founder Salary Report include:

Median founder salaries dropped 43%: The median founder salary fell from $132,000 in 2024 to $75,000 in 2025, with nearly twice as many founders (60%, up from 37%) now paying themselves less than $100,000 annually.Fewer founders taking zero salary: Only 5.4% of founders reported taking no salary, down from 9% last year. Founder salaries are down as venture capital (VC) is harder to come by, time between rounds is expanding, and bootstrapping is up. When founders invest their own money or funds from family and friends, they typically opt for lower salaries to fund operations, particularly when they believe in the long-term equity outcomes.AI startups buck the trend: In contrast to the overall decline, founders of AI startups (now representing 40% of respondents, up from 14% last year) report higher median compensation of $90,000, reflecting continued investor enthusiasm for the sector. Though like all salaries, AI founder salaries are lower than they were last year.Bootstrapping on the rise: The percentage of bootstrapped companies increased 77% from last year, now representing 18% of surveyed founders, as more entrepreneurs choose self-funding in today’s challenging venture capital environment.

Most founders (31%) reported setting their salaries based primarily on “what the startup can afford,” while those who benchmarked against market rates earned 79% more on average.

“Understanding where you fit in today’s capital-efficient landscape is how you build companies that survive when things get tough,” added Daher. “This isn’t just about cutting costs—it’s about making strategic decisions that balance personal sustainability with runway preservation.”

The 2025 Founder Salary Report is based on responses from 1,844 founders across various industries, funding stages, and geographic regions. The full report includes detailed breakdowns by industry, company size, company phase, funding level, and geographic location.

To download the complete report, visit pilot.com/fsr.

About Pilot

Pilot is an accounting firm that specializes in providing expert bookkeeping, tax preparation, and CFO services specifically designed for startups and small businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco and Nashville, Pilot brings together U.S.-based finance experts and cutting-edge technology to deliver trustworthy financials and actionable insights, helping founders and business owners focus on what they do best—growing their businesses.

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Infinitus Launches First Trusted Voice AI Agents for Healthcare

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Proprietary hallucination-free AI agent architecture protects patients and providers in a proven enterprise-scale voice AI platform

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Infinitus Systems, Inc., the AI company that has powered more than 100 million minutes of healthcare conversations that accelerate care for over a million patients, today announced the first patient- and provider-facing voice AI agents built for use cases where trust is critical.

The Infinitus voice AI platform was built to ensure patients’ and providers’ trust in AI agents that can transform the patient experience with accurate, around-the-clock access to provider- or payor-curated expertise. Infinitus has advanced its proven multi-modal, multimodel platform for content-rich, often complex patient conversations that can include over 100 exchanges, ensuring they adhere to approved content and provider and plan procedures, as well as regulatory requirements. Infinitus is the first voice AI architecture to include four innovations designed to build trust with providers and their patients:

AI response control for trusted responses: A proprietary discrete action space leverages the power of LLMs to understand and facilitate conversations, while ensuring AI agents do not hallucinate or generate any responses that are inaccurate or outside of the approved standard operating procedure of customers or regulatory agencies.Specialized knowledge graph for trusted information exchange: The Infinitus knowledge graph allows agents to contextualize and verify information in real time, validating information provided by a patient or payor agent against trusted sources specific to the payor plan, treatment area, patient history, customer-provided knowledge bases, and more.AI review for trusted outcome: This automated post-processing and verification system incorporates human-level reasoning gathered from experience performing millions of tasks. The AI evaluates a conversation output to determine whether a response, as well as any extracted information, is accurate given the context of the task, providing a critical level of oversight that is impossible to achieve manually. When necessary, AI agents can flag a human and suggest follow-up actions.Robust security and compliance program for trusted processes: Infinitus adheres to SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements, which includes bias testing, protected health information (PHI) redaction, and data retention for secure, unbiased data handling.

While agents have been used widely in healthcare applications, they have not yet been purposefully designed to earn clinician and patient trust.

“As a patient, the most important questions come after hours, when care teams are off duty or asleep. AI agents can help reduce that anxiety and empower patients at any time, no matter where they are. But that can only happen when trust and accountability are built into the technology,” said Ankit Jain, CEO and co-founder of Infinitus. “We believe we are the first to deliver on the trust you should expect in healthcare at every level of our platform.”

Patient and Provider-Facing AI Agents
Infinitus’ AI agents can proactively call patients with prompts, requests, and follow-ups, as well as provide around-the-clock availability for patient calls to answer questions and provide assistance across their healthcare journey. AI agents improve healthcare literacy and support medication adherence, promptly escalating any reported side effects, particularly benefiting individuals managing chronic conditions or with specialty medication needs.

Provider-facing agents deliver accurate and reliable details to providers, helping simplify reimbursements for a seamless experience. Through automated calls to providers, Infinitus’ AI agents simplify care coordination and save time, ensuring the appropriate clinical documentation, signatures, or approvals are submitted, preventing delays and improving patient access to therapies. Infinitus’ provider-facing AI agents can also keep providers informed on treatments and policies, helping them deliver the highest-quality patient care without administrative burden.

Zing Health, a Medicare Advantage provider offering personalized care to chronically underserved populations across the U.S., has deployed Infinitus’ patient-facing AI agents to perform comprehensive member health evaluations to extend its staff resources and provide a more consistent experience.

“Infinitus has become a key part of our onboarding process by efficiently completing health risk assessments within the first 60 days of a new member’s journey. The health risk assessment is a vital step in Zing’s Model of Care. Responses provide early insights into our members’ healthcare needs, enabling us to deliver a personalized engagement, customized care, and dedicated support from the beginning,” said Meghan Speidel, COO at Zing Health. “Since deploying Infinitus AI agents, our team is able to focus on members with active and immediate needs, where focused attention has the highest impact.”

“In healthcare, only trust can unlock the full value of any innovation,” said Shyam Rajagopalan, CTO and co-founder of Infinitus. “We designed Infinitus’ AI agents to ensure clinical conversations are not only maximally valuable to patients and providers, but trusted and compliant during some of the most sensitive moments in a patient’s journey.”

Expansion of Payor-Facing AI Agents
New payor-facing AI agent offerings now support payors, for instance, in insurance discovery and prior-authorization follow-ups. New digital offerings include Medicare Part B and Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) look-up, enabling providers to reduce delays in verifying eligibility, helping patients receive the data necessary to access and afford care. Infinitus’ expanded payor-facing offerings reinforce the company’s commitment to reducing administrative burden and advancing innovation across the healthcare ecosystem.

This comes on the heels of securing a spot on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 list, honoring the healthcare businesses shaping the industry.

About Infinitus
Infinitus is the leader in trusted AI agents and copilots for healthcare that improve the patient, clinician and staff experience. Infinitus’ AI voice agents and copilots help automate, expedite, and simplify time-consuming but critical conversational touchpoints that drive patient, clinician, and staff frustration and dissatisfaction. Infinitus’ proven AI native architecture combines multimodal, multi-model AI with a robust knowledge graph, a proprietary discrete action space, and human-in-the-loop guardrails to ensure data accuracy, safety, and support for healthcare organizations at scale. Infinitus was recently named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 and is a trusted solutions partner to 44% of Fortune 50 healthcare companies. Learn more at https://www.infinitus.ai/ 

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Akamai Empowers Partners to Deliver Services and Support

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Certified partners can now deliver Day-2 Operations Services for Akamai API solutions and technical support for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation environments

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced updates to its Security Certified Service Provider programs for API security solutions and for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Certified partners can now offer Day-2 Operations Services related to Akamai API security products and solutions, just as they do for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Additionally, they can provide Akamai Guardicore Segmentation technical support directly to their customers.

According to a recent Akamai State of the Internet (SOTI) report, API attacks come in various forms, including data breaches, abuse, and distributed denial-of-service attacks. In fact, Akamai recorded 108 billion API attacks from January 2023 through June 2024. These attacks can lead to data theft, reputation damage, regulatory fines, and significant financial losses, highlighting the importance of securing APIs.     

“The enhancements Akamai has made to its Security Certified Service Provider programs enable us to better deliver services directly to our customers, significantly increasing our ability to meet their unique needs and ensure they receive the best possible protection and support,” said Florent Houy, Head of Cloud Innovation at Orange Cyberdefense in France. “These partner program updates strengthen our collective capability and Orange Cyberdefense’s microsegmentation service offering to secure digital assets, ensure flexibility, meet our customers’ expectations, and help our clients stay focused on what matters most: their business.”

“The channel is the backbone of the cybersecurity industry where everyone wins — technology providers expand their reach, partners grow their business, and customers get the best security solutions tailored to their needs,” said Paul Joseph, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services at Akamai. “Empowering our partners with the right tools, training, and support is key to driving success. These enhancements to the Akamai channel program position our partners as their customers’ trusted security advisor and single point of contact, empowering both partner and customer to accelerate the growth of their business.”

Ongoing Day-2 Operations Services are essential for maintaining a strong security posture as organizations refine their segmentation and API security strategies.

Day-2 Operations Services for API security includes:

Operational and management services — Enable partners to maximize their value to customers through hybrid deployments, quarterly business reviews, and API audits and complianceSecurity incident management services — Allow partners to connect customer API security deployments to their Security Operations Center so partner incident response teams receive detection alerts from Akamai API Security and any other solutions deployedActive testing — Enables customers to identify and remediate API vulnerabilities before they are deployed to production, which can help eliminate risk and save on remediation costs

Guardicore Certified Services Partners are now able to provide the full suite of services of the microsegmentation lifecycle from project delivery to 24/7 first-line support to day-2 operations to keep the policy up to date and monitor potential security incidents while maintaining compliance. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation customers now have a choice to use their local certified partners to provide them the entire services suite.

Day-2 Operations Services for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation includes:

Segmentation administration services — Allow partners to maximize the value of their customer’s Akamai Guardicore Segmentation deployment by updating and expanding their implementationSecurity incident management services — Allow partners to connect their customer’s Akamai Guardicore Segmentation deployment to their Security Operations Center and use it to contain threats by preventing lateral movement and isolate infected assets until resolutionAudit and compliance services — Allow partners to streamline audit and compliance management by providing a single source of truth about what is communicating in their customer’s networks, and enable consistent policy enforcement across their environment

Learn more about Akamai’s Security Certified Service Provider programs.

About Akamai 
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense-in-depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.

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Ceragon Networks to Announce First Quarter 2025 Financial Results and Host Investor Conference Call on May 7, 2025

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ROSH HA‘AIN, Israel, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Ceragon (NASDAQ: CRNT), a leading solutions provider of end-to-end wireless connectivity, today announced that it will release its earnings results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025 on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, before the market opens.

The Company will host a Zoom conference call on the same day at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the results, followed by a question-and-answer session for the investment community. Investors are invited to register for the call by clicking here. All relevant information will be sent upon registration.

If you are unable to join the live call, a replay will be available on the Company’s website at www.ceragon.com within 24 hours after the call.

About Ceragon

Ceragon (NASDAQ: CRNT) is the global innovator and leading solutions provider of end-to-end wireless connectivity, specializing in transport, access, and AI-powered managed & professional services. Through our commitment to excellence, we empower customers to elevate operational efficiency and enrich the quality of experience for their end users.

Our customers include service providers, utilities, public safety organizations, government agencies, energy companies, and more, who rely on our wireless expertise and cutting-edge solutions for 5G & 4G broadband wireless connectivity, mission-critical services, and an array of applications that harness our ultra-high reliability and speed. Ceragon solutions are deployed by more than 600 service providers, as well as more than 1,600 private network owners, in more than 130 countries. Through our innovative, end-to-end solutions, covering hardware, software, and managed & professional services, we enable our customers to embrace the future of wireless technology with confidence, shaping the next generation of connectivity and service delivery. Ceragon delivers extremely reliable, fast to deploy, high-capacity wireless solutions for a wide range of communication network use cases, optimized to lower TCO through minimal use of spectrum, power, real estate, and labor resources – driving simple, quick, and cost-effective network modernization and positioning Ceragon as a leading solutions provider for the “connectivity everywhere” era.

For more information please visit: www.ceragon.com

Ceragon Networks® and FibeAir® are registered trademarks of Ceragon Networks Ltd. in the United States and other countries. CERAGON® is a trademark of Ceragon, registered in various countries. Other names mentioned are owned by their respective holders.

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