Merline has spent years backing founders before the world knew their names - with more than 30 startups and pre-IPO companies in her portfolio. She is now channeling that same conviction into building A10L Ventures - a holding company that acquires and builds asset-light businesses across industries ripe for technology and AI transformation. We are industry-agnostic but conviction-driven - identifying overlooked markets where the right operator and the right technology can create an unfair advantage. We are long-term owners, surrounding founders and operators with relationships, capital, and discipline to build enduring, generational companies.

Her Perplexity space, "Boring is Billions," is both a thesis and a provocation - a reminder that the most transformational opportunities are often human-machine collaboration challenges hiding in plain sight.

A10L - shorthand for Aikey Saintil, the family name behind the firm.

Merline continues to advise CEOs and founders, and is particularly energized by the rise of embodied intelligence - the next frontier where AI moves from the digital world into the physical one. At the 2026 AI Summit in Davos, she sat down with Symbotic's CTO to explore how autonomous systems are beginning to reshape industries at scale, from AI-powered robot fleets redefining warehouse operations to the broader transformation of global supply chains. For Merline, this is where the "Boring is Billions" thesis becomes most vivid - the unglamorous infrastructure of the physical world, finally ready for its moment.