Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York, New York based Founder operating in the FinTech space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Andrew Adams
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT
Andrew joined Oak Investment Partners in 2003. He currently serves as General Partner of Oak Investment Partners, and General Partner of Oak HC/FT. Andrew currently serves on the Boards of Limeade, Maestro Healthcare Technologies, One Medical Group, Radisphere National Radiology Group, and xG Health Solutions. Andrew is also actively involved with Benefitfocus, Independent Living Systems, and Precision for Medicine Holdings. Prior investment activity includes American Esoteric Laboratories (acquired by Sonic Healthcare Limited), Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), CareMedic Systems (acquired by Ingenix), CLARiENT (acquired by GE Healthcare), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), Health Dialog (acquired by British United Provident Association), iHealth Technologies (merged with Connolly), NetSpend Corporation (acquired by TSYS), PayFlex Systems (acquired by Aetna), PharMEDium Healthcare (acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice) and United BioSource (acquired by Medco Health Solutions). Prior to joining Oak Investment Partners, Andrew was a Senior Associate with Capital Resource Partners, a mezzanine capital firm, where he focused on investments in healthcare and business services companies. Andrew was also a Financial Analyst in the media and communications group of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown. Andrew graduated from Princeton University with a BA in History.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
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Matt Kennedy
Co-Founder & Customer Success of Public.com
Matt Kennedy is the Co-Founder at Public.com
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About Public.com: Public.com is the fractional investing platform where members build a modern portfolio of stocks & ETFs, crypto & NFTs, and collectibles.
Scott Hartley
Co-Founder & Partner of The Fund
Scott Hartley is co-founder of The Fund and Two Culture Capital and author of the best-selling book, “The Fuzzy and the Techie,” a Financial Times Business Book of the Month. A former partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, Hartley has worked for Google, Facebook, Harvard, and the White House. He holds three degrees from Stanford and Columbia and is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About The Fund: A community-driven venture fund comprised of leading global founders & operators
Dileep Thazhmon
Co-Founder & CEO of Jeeves
Dileep Thazhmon is the Co-Founder and CEO at Jeeves.
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About Jeeves: Jeeves is a fintech company that brings financial solutions to businesses globally.
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder & CSO of Chainalysis
Jonathan Levin is a Co-Founder of Chainalysis, the leading provider of AML solutions to Bitcoin companies, banks and government agencies. He was previously CEO at Coinometrics, where he led a team of data scientists to measure the activity and health of the Bitcoin network. Levin was a Postgraduate Economist at the University of Oxford where his research focused on virtual currencies, creating one of the first statistical models of Bitcoin transaction fees. He regularly consults governments, top-tier banks and payment companies on the future of digital currencies.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Yuval Ariav
Founder and Advisor of Fundbox
Yuval Ariav is a financial technology and data science entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience operating large, complex, cross-geo operations in both startup and corporate environments. He is currently a General Partner at LionBird Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in digital health and digital business services. Yuval is the Founder of Fundbox, one of the most successful Fintech startups to emerge in recent years, and was the head of its operations office in Tel Aviv. Before Fundbox, Yuval was a founding team member and Director of Product at Onavo, a mobile analytics company acquired by Facebook. Yuval is a Professor at Columbia Business School in New York City.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Michael Chetrit
Co-Founder of Chetrit Ventures
Michael Chetrit is the Co-Founder at Chetrit Ventures.
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About Chetrit Ventures, ChetritGroup: is a family operated venture firm focused on early and growth-stage investments.
Ilya Golubovich
Founder, Managing Partner of I2BF Global Ventures
Ilya has been a partner since the fall of 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Investors, a private equity group with $200 million under management, and Linxlogic, a business software corporation in Los Angeles. Ilya formerly worked in the Energy Department of the London office of Louis Dreyfus in commodity trading and as a project manager at the Siberian Internet Company (Sibintek) at both their Novosibirsk and Moscow offices. Mr. Golubovich has an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University.
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About Aeroxo, Buzzoola, Enki.com, I2BF Global Ventures, Octi, Presto, Primus Power, ServiceTitan: I2BF is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage technology companies.
Brandon Krieg
CEO and Co-Founder of Stash Financial
Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.
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About Stash Financial: Stash is a personal finance app that combines banking, investing, and advice into one platform.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Michael Reitblat
CEO & Co-Founder of Forter
Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forter, the leading payment fraud prevention solution. Prior to founding Forter, Michael was the VP Product & International Operations at Pango Parking where he was in charge of the deployment and adoption of Mobile Wallet technologies worldwide. In 2008, before its acquisition by PayPal, Michael led Product at Fraud Sciences, where he faced some of the most challenging questions in the cyber security ecosystem. Michael’s fascination with online fraudsters began following a successful “self experimentation with the Internet” phase as a teenager and an even more successful period of service as an intelligence officer in the early days of the Israeli Cyber Command.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Alon Shemesh
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Forter
Alon is an experienced Big Data Expert. He leads Forter’s Risk Analysis Division and proprietary know-how. Alon co-founded Forter after leading the integration of Fraud Sciences’ solution for PayPal, after they were acquired in 2008. He served as the head of Automation Analytics, creating a cutting edge,scalable fraud decision-making system for Fraud Sciences and PayPal. Alon received his bachelor’s degree in business and economics from The Open University in Tel Aviv.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Liron Damri
President and Co-Founder of Forter
Liron is an experienced Fraud Prevention professional. He heads Forter’s overall Product and Business Operations.Liron co-founded Forter after serving at the leadership of PayPal’s risk organization in Tel Aviv. Prior to that he was the head of operations at Fraud Sciences,where he was responsible for behavioral analytics, taking an active role in building one of the most robust fraud detection systems in the world. Liron received his MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
David Tisch
Founder & Managing Partner of BoxGroup
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shop directly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014. In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program. David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
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About BoxGroup, Cornell Tech, Techstars: BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
Ion Yadigaroglu
Co-Founder & Managing Principal of Direct Investments of Capricorn Investment Group
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About Capricorn Investment Group: Capricorn Investment Group invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets.
J. Todd Morley
Co-Founder of Y2X
Prior to founding Y2x and DIATOMS, J. Todd Morley co-founded investment firm Guggenheim Partners LLC, which now has over $310 billion in assets under management. Todd also co-founded G2 Investment Group and i(X) Investments, the first investment platform dedicated to social impact. Previously, Todd was CEO of Links Holdings LLC, founded Mortgages PLC, a London-based sub-prime mortgage lender, managing Director in mortgage sales at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Vice President in Lehman Brothers’ Taxable Fixed-Income Department. Todd is a lead investor and sits on the Advisory Board of a variety of e-commerce, blockchain, AI, infrastructure, biotech and media companies. He is a Board member and architect of Delaware Life, Rising Holdings, Forbes Private Capital Group, and the Newport Development Company, an organization focused in resilient infrastructure. He is also the author of several Op-Ed articles and academic white papers focused on structured finance, technology and “Peopleism,” and is publishing his first book, to be released in 2019, based on his new theory of financial return.
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About Y2X: Bridging the gap between the emerging digital economy and the regulated global financial markets.
Rafay Farooqui
Founder & CEO of +SUBSCRIBE®
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About +SUBSCRIBE®: Powering alternative investments® with the leading electronic subscription document technology.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Digital Asset
Eric was part of the founding team for Digital Asset. Eric joined DRW Trading Group in 2006 and has more than six years of experience managing a commodities trading desk. Eric began trading bitcoin in 2011 and is one of the Cumberland Mining founders, one of the largest crypto-asset liquidity providers in the world for bitcoin.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Vishal Garg
Founder & CEO of Better.com
Vishal Garg is the Founder and CEO of Better.com, a digital-first homeownership company whose services included mortgage, real estate, title, and homeowners insurance. A serial entrepreneur, the day that he came up with the idea behind Better.com, Vishal was simply looking to purchase a home for his growing family (and not start a new company). When Vishal’s effort to buy his family’s dream house was defeated by an antiquated homeownership process, the vision and mission for Better.com was born. Vishal Garg’s Better.com all-in-one digital platform takes customers through the entire home-buying process, from finding an agent to securing a mortgage (or refinanced loan) to shopping for insurance. To date, under Vishal Garg’s leadership, Better.com has done over $46.9 BN in home loans and provided over $16B in cumulative coverage through Better Cover and Better Settlement Services, the insurance divisions of Better.com. Better.com has raised over $400M in equity capital and is backed by L Catterton, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, American Express Ventures, Citi and other investors. In December 2019, HousingWire honored Vishal Garg with the “2019 Vanguard Award”, which recognizes leaders of businesses contributing to the growth of the housing economy. In July of 2020, Comparably surveyed employees of color to rate the top CEOs driving diversity and inclusive work culture. The results ranked Garg at #13 out of 25, placing him alongside leaders at organizations like Microsoft and Google. In September of 2020, Business Insider named Vishal Garg as one of the “100 People Transforming Business in 2020”. And, in October of 2020, Ernst & Young included Garg on the “Entrepreneur of the Year 2020” list. Vishal Garg is also the founding partner of 1/0 Capital. Previously, Vishal was Co-head and Managing Partner, ARAM ABS Group ($6 B+ assets) and the Founder and President & CFO of MyRichUncle (2005 NASDAQ IPO), which he founded at the age of 21 and built into the fourth largest private student loan originator in the US. Prior toMyRichUncle, Vishal was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisition dept. at Morgan Stanley, and a frontier emerging markets portfolio manager for the Strategos Fund. He is a graduate of NYU Stern with the highest honors.
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About Better.com, Phoenix Holdings: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
James Hutchins
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of North Island Ventures
James Hutchins is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Island Ventures.
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About North Island Ventures: North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund
Roger Ehrenberg
Founder & Managing Partner of IA Ventures
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.
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About IA Ventures, Miami Marlins: IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage and early-stage investments in the fintech sector.
Adam Dell
Founder & CEO of Clarity Money
Adam Dell joined Austin Ventures as Venture Partner in May 2010. Adam has been a successful entrepreneur, academician, and has more than 12 years of experience in the venture capital industry. He focuses purely on early-stage venture investments in the information technology and business services areas. Most recently, Adam was Founder and Managing General Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. Prior to founding Impact, Adam was a partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners in Northern California, and a Senior Associate with Enterprise Partners in Southern California. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he worked as a corporate attorney in Austin, Texas, with the law firm of Winstead, Sechrest & Minick. His prior investments include OpenTable (OPEN), Buzzsaw (ADSK), Ingenio (T), and Hotjobs (YHOO). Dell founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of MessageOne, which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in 2008. Adam teaches a class on the role of law in innovation at the University of Texas School of Law.
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About Austin Ventures, Clarity Money, SharedEarth.com: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Matt Jacobs
Co Founder, CTO of Clarity Money
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About Clarity Money, Goldman Sachs: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Yazan Barghuthi
Founder of Jibrel Network
Yazan Barghuthi is the Founder at Jibrel Network.
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About Jibrel Network: Jibrel is a blockchain development company that leverages Distributed Ledger Technology to build the financial infrastructure of the future.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO of YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is a co-founder and the CEO of YipitData.
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About 140it, UnHub, YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
James Moran
President/Co-Founder of YipitData
Jim is co-founder of YipitData.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Chip Meakem
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners
Chip Meakem is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. Chip has been operating and investing in NYC companies since 1996 and has been a Founder, Operating Executive or Lead Investor of several leading NYC companies including 24/7 Media, N2K, Massive Inc. and AppNexus. Prior to co-founding Tribeca Venture Partners in October 2011, Chip was an active NYC VC at both Kodiak Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham. Chip serves on several Boards of Directors and manages investments including AppNexus, Live Gamer, Maxwell Health, LeadiD, BetterCloud, Backtrace I/O and Clypd. Chip’s previous investments include ideeli (acquired by Groupon); Ingenio (acquired by AT&T); Massive Inc. (acquired by Microsoft); Pantero (acquired by Progress Software) Q-Link Technologies (acquired by Adobe Systems); and TRA Global (acquired by Tivo). Chip was also a personal seed investor in FreeMarkets Inc., which made its IPO in December 1999 and peaked at $12B market cap. Before moving to the Venture side, Chip was a founding employee at Interactive Imaginations where he started the Commonwealth Network (launched in Q1, 1996), one of the Internet’s first advertising networks, building it from a concept to top 10 media property. Interactive Imaginations eventually became 24/7 Media and went public in 1998. Chip also worked at N2k and was responsible for strategic distribution partnerships for the leading music e-tailer. Chip holds a B.A. from Cornell University, where he was a member of the varsity basketball team, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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About Tribeca Venture Partners: TVP is a venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors.
Hesham El-Nahhas
Founder and CPO of Wrapbook
Hesham El-Nahhas is the Founder and CPO of Wrapbook.
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About Wrapbook: Wrapbook provides digital profiles that facilitate onboarding, paying and insuring project workforces compliantly.
Ryan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Cadre
Ryan Williams is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cadre.
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About Cadre: Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate.
Eric Aroesty
Co-Founder & Director of Steady
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About Steady: Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more.
Jennifer Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO of Tagomi
Jennifer Campbell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Tagomi.
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About Tagomi: Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Marc DaCosta
Co-Founder & Chairman of Enigma Technologies
Marc DaCosta is Co-Founder and Chairman of Enigma. Marc has deep expertise in both the technical and cultural aspects of how data can be harnessed to transform the way that organizations operate. In addition, Marc is a fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, collaborating with investigative journalists to develop new approaches to data-driven storytelling. Marc holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, where his research examined the social consequences of new forms of data analytics. Marc has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Intel Labs. Marc began his career as an intellectual property strategy consultant to Global 500 technology companies, where he helped develop offensive and defensive licensing strategies.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Nathan Low
Founder Partner & President of Sunrise Israel Tech
Nathan founded and serves as President of the Sunrise Financial Group, Inc, since August 1991. In 1992, Nathan founded Sunrise Securities Corp., a FINRA registered broker-dealer. In October 2003, Nathan founded and became Managing Partner of Sunrise Equity Partners, L.P., a $174 Million SBIC fund, which made direct investments in public companies. Under Nathan’s leadership, Sunrise has raised in excess of $5 billion for over 60 domestic and international public and private companies, using a variety of financing products including traditional debt and equity as well as innovative equity-related financing instruments. Nathan began his Wall Street career with Salomon Brothers, where he helped develop some of the first mortgage backed derivative securities. Thereafter, he worked at Bear Stearns and Prudential Bache in various trading and arbitrage capacities. Nathan was graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1982. Nathan serves on a variety of charitable boards for projects involving the developmentally disabled, cancer care, and education.
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About Sunrise Israel Tech: Sunrise Israel Tech is an investment organization that helps to boost growth of small startups based out of and located in Israel.
Bulent Tekmen
Co-Founder & Global CEO of Colendi
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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About Colendi, Ininal, Next Ventures: A multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions
Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder and General Partner of TMV
Soraya is a General Partner and founder of TMV, an early-stage venture firm investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. TMV backs start-up companies focused on ideas that will reshape industries or inspire new ones. Fund I and Fund II investments focus on: frontier health organizations, marketplaces and design-driven technologies. Soraya is also the host of “Business Schooled – a Podcast by Synchrony,” – a “Top 20 Business Podcast” on Apple – for which she travels the United States interviewing persevering founders who have made it past their startup days. Soraya began her career as Manager of Digital Partnerships & Social Media at The New York Times, where she positioned the global news leader on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, partnered with startups large and small, and established award-winning campaigns. She went on to co-found the application Foodspotting, named by Apple and Wired Magazine as an “App of the Year,” later acquired by OpenTable, then Priceline. Then Poly & Co, a digital growth marketing agency based in Boston and New York. For her work at The Times and startups, Soraya has been featured on the cover of Fast Company Magazine’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” issue and on the cover of Brand Week’s “Digital Best” issue. Soraya was named an Inc. Magazine “30 Under 30” (2012), Fortune Magazine “40 Under 40: Women to Watch” (2015). She sat on the first digital advisory board of General Electric. She is a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” a six-time mentor to TechStars New York – three-times named a “Mentor of the Year.” Soraya graduated with honors from Georgetown University and completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century module at Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on the board of directors for the non-profit Yamba Malawi, her 12th year advising the organization.
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About TMV, Zady: TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
Sallie Krawcheck
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ellevest
Sallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals (or, put more bluntly, to get more money into the hands of women), thus enabling them to live better lives and unleashing a positive ripple effect for our families, our communities and our economy. To that end, she is the C.E.O. and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a digital-first, mission-driven investment platform for women. Ellevest is one of the fastest-growing digital investment platforms, named No. 24 on CNBC’s top 50 Disruptor list, No. 14 on LinkedIn’s 50 Most Sought-After Startups (and No. 2 in New York), and one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Ideas. Krawcheck is also Chair of the Ellevate Network, a 135 thousand-strong global professional women’s network; she is Chair of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund, a fund that invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women; and she is the best-selling author of “Own It: The Power of Women at Work.” Before launching Ellevest, Krawcheck built a successful career on Wall Street. She was the C.E.O. of Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, US Trust, the Citi Private Bank, and Sanford C. Bernstein. She was also C.F.O. for Citigroup. Prior to that, Krawcheck was a top-ranked research analyst covering the securities industry.
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About Ellevate Network, Ellevest, TIME’S UP: Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life.
Michael Oved
CEO, Co-Founder of Fluidity
Michael Oved is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fluidity and a Co-Founder at AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, Fluidity: Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure.
Ricky Li
Co-Founder & Head Of North America of Altonomy
Ricky Li is the Co-Founder of Altonomy, a cryptocurrency trading, advisory and asset management firm. Now based in New York, he is a veteran trader in the emerging cryptocurrency market and traditional commodities markets. Li has experience in commodities quantitative trading, and research and advisory in investment banks, energy firms and management consulting firms, including CME Group, where he managed the energy derivative product and published various articles and insights about market fundamentals. Prior to Altonomy, Li held a senior trading position at a top Asian crypto hedge fund. Li holds a CFA Charter and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Altonomy: Altonomy is a trading, advisory, and asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrency and digital assets.
David Snider
Founder & CEO of Harness Wealth
David Snider is the Founder & CEO of Harness Wealth, an early stage consumer fintech company with a mission of helping people reach their best financial future. The business will provide a unified data platform for people to manage their wealth and connect with a highly curated set of top advisors to manage their financial well-being. David incubated Harness Wealth as an executive-in-residence at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously he served as COO & CFO of Compass, a real estate tech company that he helped grow from pre-launch to a valuation of $1.8 billion. David was an investor at Bain Capital private equity, where he completed investments worth over $2 billion as well as the IPO of Sensata on the NYSE. He is the author of Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business published by Macmillan. David received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Duke University.
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About Harness Wealth: Harness Wealth provides the next generation of builders confidence in their best financial future.
Chris Bridges
CEO & Co-Founder of VITAL CARD
Co-Founder of VITAL CARD.VITAL is the world’s first social credit card that offers unlimited cash back rewards when you use it and share it. The more you share, the more you earn!
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About Grays Peak Capital LP, VITAL CARD: VITAL is the credit card that pays you to share and spend responsibly.
Dickson Nsofor
Co-Founder & CEO of Korapay
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About Kora Network, Korapay: Korapay offers a payment engine that enables local and global businesses to send and accept payments.
Anand Gomes
Co-Founder of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Jeremy Abelson
Co-Founder / Principal of Irving Investors
Jeremy Abelson founded Irving Investors in 2009. This came after two successful exits in the digital media space. Abelson combines his experience as an entrepreneur with institutional investing to find long-term sustainable investments in the public and private markets. He has contributed as an expert on Fox Business News, CNN, CNBC, The NYTimes, The WSJ and more. He also speaks at NYU, Columbia Business School and the NY Media Summit. Jeremy is originally from San Mateo, CA and graduated from The University of Michigan.
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About Irving Investors: Irving Investors focuses on disruptive technology and high growth opportunities.
Justin Zhen
Co-Founder of Thinknum
Justin Zhen’s mission is to crowd-source the best practices of financial analysis, bringing the tools of Wall Street to the masses and pooling their best insights. He believes that by creating a larger pool of insights, the best ones will get filtered out. The platform – Thinknum – is the brain-child of Justin and his Co-Founder Gregory Ugwi. After graduating from Princeton, Justin went to work at a hedge fund.
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About Thinknum: Thinknum is a web platform that allows investors to get data driven investment ideas by monitoring companies’ websites.
Jehan Luth
Founder & CEO of Banyan
Jehan has a unique background that combines Computer Science, Public Health Epidemiology, and Privacy Law. He identified the glaring gap in verifiable receipt data, and built Banyan to enable merchants and banks to deliver personalized services to their customers.
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About Banyan: Banyan provides an easy way for consumers to connect their receipts to any app in a secure, safe, and anonymized way.
Tomo Matsuo
Co-Founder, COO & President of Yardline
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About Yardline: Yardline is an offering Capital-as-a-Service technology for e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and direct capital providers.
Deepak Chhugani
Founder and CEO of Nuvocargo
Founder/CEO at Nuvocargo.com. Y Combinator alum. Former M&A Banker at BofA Merrill Lynch. Ecuador native, living in NYC.
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About Nuvocargo, The Lobby: Nuvocargo is the all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade between USA and Mexico.
Aaron Schumm
Founder & CEO of Vestwell
Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, a digital platform that has re-imaged and redesigned the retirement solutions available to financial advisors, companies, and employees. The firm has created a completely new, independent 401(k) & 403(b) offering, that removes the barriers to saving as an employee in America, while always looking out for the best interests of employees, their employers and financial advisors serving them. Prior to founding Vestwell, Aaron co-founded FolioDynamix, a wealth management and advisory services company powering $800 billion in assets for over 100,000 advisors. At FolioDynamix, Aaron oversaw the strategy, revenue, marketing, customers, and product. FolioDynamix was sold to Actua, (NASDAQ: ACTA) in 2014. Before FolioDynamix, Aaron was a vice president at Citigroup where helped advance the Asset Manager Solutions global strategy efforts. Other past positions include the head of WealthSolutions products at BISYS (now part of Citigroup) and product manager at CheckFree Investment Services (now part of Fiserv) overseeing and the Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform. Outside of Vestwell, Schumm on the board of directors at Chalice Wealth Partners, as well as an advisory board member at Quovo, a financial services data science & performance analytics provider to advisors, Vestorly, an AI financial content marketing platform, and WorthFM, a women-focused financial advice and investment management platform. Aaron was named to the 40 under 40 Class of 2017 by Crain’s InvestmentNews. He holds a B.S. degree in finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. degree from Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.
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About Vestwell: Vestwell provides underlying infrastructure to power workplace retirement plans.
Howard Yeh
Co-Founder, CEO & Board Director of HealthCare.com
Howard Yeh Online marketing entrepreneur and investor. President and Founder of HealthCare.com (Healthcare, Inc.). Founder of ContactUs.com, Inc. (2012), former co-founder of BrokersWeb (a 2x Inc 500 performance marketing company). Former venture capitalist at VantagePoint Capital Partners. Former investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Howard blogs at www.howardyeh.com.
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About HealthCare.com: HealthCare.com is an insurtech platform that allows users to analyze health insurance options that are available in their area.
David Ehrich
Co-Founder of Petal
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About Alliance for Innovative Regulation, Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Jason Gross
Co-Founder and CEO of Petal
Jason is the CEO and co-founder of Petal, a tech-enabled credit card company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. Prior to founding Petal, Jason worked with a number of high-growth technology companies in fintech, advertising and ecommerce. Jason has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Florida.
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About Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Gautam Ivatury
Founder & Head of Happy
Gautam Ivatury has been a pioneer in expanding financial access using technology for nearly two decades. He has started or led pioneering ventures such as India’s first microfinance institution to IPO (SKS Microfinance), Kenya’s first mobile-based credit provider (Jipange Kusave), India’s first digital micro-lender (ArthImpact/Happy Loans), and the firm that incubated M-Kopa, Africa’s largest pay-go solar financier. Gautam secured the Gates Foundation’s largest-ever grant in financial inclusion ($26m) while at CGAP / World Bank and set up its industry-shaping digital finance program. He has also chaired the global telecom association’s fund for mobile money, advised US-based VC and private equity funds, consulted to Fortune 500 players including Microsoft and Visa, and developed projects in 9 countries. Besides being an entrepreneur, advisor, and funder, Gautam has authored or co-authored groundbreaking work on the impact, business design and regulation of technology-driven financial inclusion. These have been published by the World Bank, CGAP, MIT Press, Springer Verlag, and media including the Banker and Revue Banque. Gautam has been a frequent lecturer at academic and executive programs including at Harvard University, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School and Columbia University business schools, Cambridge University and others. He has delivered dozens of keynote speeches and led discussions at trade conferences on virtually every continent and been a televised speaker on CNBC in the US and in India. Gautam is a Board Director at Vaya Finserv (a leading Indian MFI), an advisor to Encourage Capital, and an investor in multiple fintech startups.
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About Happy: Happy is a digital lending platform offering short term loans using alternate data to micro-enterprises in India
Damian Manning
Founder & CEO of HIFI
Damian Manning is a hacker, investor and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of commercial innovation and a dedication to creating groundbreaking online experiences for consumers. He is a founding venture partner at early-stage capital firm DEV, mentor at ERA and Golden Gate Ventures, and advisor to multiple high-profile startups, including Co-Star, Muserk and Stationhead. With his latest venture HIFI, Damian harnesses the remarkable power of AI to service the music industry. Previously, Damian was co-founder, CEO and principal architect of Echospin, whose pioneering solutions enabled rights holders to sell digital, physical and mobile goods directly to fans. Acquired in 2010, Echospin powered campaigns for the world’s chart-topping artists, generating millions in revenue for the major labels, Disney and Live Nation, among others. Earlier in his career, Damian served as Managing Director for Digital Strategy Partners and VP, Digital Media for MTV Networks, where he led global digital strategy when MTV was the top music destination in the world.
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About Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), HIFI: HIFI is a financial rights organization for the music industry.
Jeff Stewart
Founder of Lenddo
Jeff Stewart is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and investor specializing in internet-enabled growth businesses. Jeff is the founder an CEO of Lenddo, the world’s first online community that empowers the emerging class to use their online social connections to build their creditworthiness and access local financial services. Jeff is the Founder of Urgent Group, a venture development firm focusing on building innovative technology-enabled businesses, as well as the founder of Urgent Ventures LLC, which co-invests in angel stage technology start-ups. Jeff also founded Urgent Career, a venture-backed recruitment technology and services firm that seeks to improve how growth companies find, screen and assess sales talent. Prior to Urgent Career, Jeff founded Monitor110, which offered internet-based semantic big-data analysis to institutional investors. Jeff is also founder, former CEO, and current chairman of Mimeo.com, a state-of-the-art, Internet-based document production service included in the 2004 and 2005 Inc. 500 lists of the fastest growing companies, the 2005 Red Herring 100 list of private companies that drive technology, and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. Mr. Stewart’s entrepreneurial career began in 1995 with his launch of Square Earth, an Internet technology company whose customers included Citibank, Compaq, UPS, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer and AIG. Consistently profitable, Square Earth grew at a rate of over 100% per year, merged with Proxicom in January 1998, and successfully completed an IPO as the combined company in 1999.
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About GPO Fund, Lenddo: Lenndo is a technology company that uses non-traditional data to provide credit scoring and verification.
William Herrmann
Founder and Managing Partner of Wilshire Phoenix
Prior to establishing Wilshire Phoenix, Bill was with BNY Mellon (BNYM) for 10+ years across several global teams, most recently as Vice President of Dealing and Trading. Throughout Bill’s tenure at BNYM, he managed a credit risk portfolio of over $10Bn and led in the closing of 100+ large-scale corporate deals (structured credit, derivatives, and restructurings). Bill also managed teams, oversaw projects, and led bank-wide initiatives. In addition to his responsibilities at Wilshire Phoenix, Bill advises numerous companies and proudly serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), and as a Director for the Hedge Fund Association (HFA).
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About Wilshire Phoenix: Wilshire bridges the gap by introducing institutional-like investment products to the market and making them available to all investors.
Brooks Gibbins
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of FinTech Collective
Brooks is a repeat entrepreneur who has helped to build and sell three category-leading businesses: *Multex > Reuters *FAST > Microsoft *Serverside > Gemalto His first job out of college was as an enterprise software engineer, and he’s spent the last 15+ years specializing in “FinTech” across capital markets, banking, insurance, and payments. He’s spent more than half of his career living in or working for a European-based firm. In 2012, Brooks founded the fintech venture capital platform, FinTech Collective, with his long-time partner, Gareth Jones.
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About FinTech Collective: FinTech Collective is a New York-based venture capital fund, focused exclusively on financial services technology companies.
David Hannes
CEO & Founder of Loved
Founder at Loved.
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About Loved: Loved is the platform that empowers kids to save, invest and learn guided by family & friends
Jay Bregman
Founder and CEO of Thimble
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Neel Ganu
Co-Founder of Finch
Neel Ganu is the Co-Founder of Finch.
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About Finch: Finch is a seamless, all-in-one account that provides the benefits of investing with the flexibility of checking
Maya Nijhawan
Co-Founder & CMO of Finch
Maya Nijhawan is the Co-Founder and CMO at Finch.
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About Finch: Finch is a seamless, all-in-one account that provides the benefits of investing with the flexibility of checking
Sidhartha D.
Co-Founder of Stader Labs
Sidhartha D. Co-Founder at Stader Labs.
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About Stader Labs: Stader Labs is building decentralized financial protocols and applications for efficient stake management on public blockchain networks.
Stephen Daffron
Co-Founder / Industry Partner of Motive Partners
Stephen was involved in the creation of the earliest electronic trading systems in the early 1990’s, pioneered the operational processes that allowed an explosive growth in derivatives trading and processing, managed the integration of major acquisitions—including Morgan Stanley’s acquisition of Smith Barney—oversaw the growth of technology and operations that spring-boarded the prime brokerage business, moved to the buy-side to supervise the growth of processing capability at one of the industry’s most successful hedge funds, and moved into private equity where he was CEO of one of the most successful deals of 2015, Interactive Data. Stephen served as Head of Operations, Technology and Data at Morgan Stanley, Chief Operating Officer at Jim Simon’s Renaissance Technologies, Managing Director leading Operations and Technology for Global Custody, Securities Processing, and Asset Management at Goldman Sachs, chaired SIFMA’s Operations and Technology committee and served on the board of DTCC, before becoming Chief Executive Officer at Interactive Data. Before his career on Wall Street, Stephen served in various command and staff positions in the U.S. Army. His education includes a B.S. from USMA, MBA MA, M.Ph. and Ph.D. from Yale.
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About Dun & Bradstreet, Motive Partners: Motive Partners is an investment firm focused on technology-enabled companies that power the financial services industry.
Nico Simko
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clair
Nico is Clair’s Chief Executive Officer and one of its Co-Founders. He manages the company’s overall strategic direction and its relationships with its shareholders and customers. Prior to co-founding Clair, he was at J.P. Morgan, leading the M&A due diligence process on a broad range of payments companies for the firm’s Wholesale Payments division. He managed M&A, investment and partnerships due diligence on 10+ payments FinTechs worth over $25 billion. Originally from Switzerland and Argentina, Nico holds a B.A in Economics from Harvard University.
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About Clair: Clair is a mission-driven digital banking platform that is breaking the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle by offering flexible on-demand pay to America’s workforce.
Clayton Gardner
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Titan
Prior to co-founding Titan, Clayton was an analyst at a NY-based fundamental long/short equity hedge fund, where he led consumer technology investing. Previously he was an investor at Farallon Capital Management and Cerberus Capital Management investing in public and private companies. Clayton graduated summa cum laude from The Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Clayton earned a BAS in Computer Science and a BS in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Statistics and a minor in Mathematics. Originally from Chicago, he is most passionate about investing and software.
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About Titan: Titan is an operating system for active investment management, powering investment products, and experiences for retail investors.
Zachary Hascoe
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Say
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About Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
Alex Lebow
Co-Founder of Say
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About Say, Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
Julio Fredes
Co-Founder & CFO of Say
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About Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Founder of Ualá
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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About Ualá: Ualá is a fintech company that offers a financial ecosystem through an app, linked to a free international Mastercard card.
Jarrod Yuster
Chairman, Founder and Co-CEO of Pico
Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading. Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. Before his work on Wall Street, Jarrod served as a product engineer, performing semiconductor research at Intel.
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About Pico: Pico is a provider of technology services for the global financial markets community.
Johny Mair
Co-Founder, Strategy & Product of Ethic
Johny Mair is a co-founder at Ethic.
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About Ethic: Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios.
Andrew Hoag
Founder and CEO of Teampay
Andrew Hoag is Founder of urbantag. He is also Founder of Team Labs. Andrew Hoag serves as Managing Director of Europe at Startup Institute Inc. He serves as an Advisor of Medlert, Inc. He also worked at NASA and VeriSign. Andrew Hoag served as Advisor of FuturePerfect Ventures.
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About Teampay: Teampay is a spend management platform that enables companies to request, approve, and track expenditures in real-time.
William McClelland
Co-Founder & Partner of Elizabeth Street Ventures
Co-founder & Partner at Elizabeth Street Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands Co-founder of Bambike, a bamboo bicycle manufacturer and tour operator with an environmental & social mission based in the Philippines Prior to founding Elizabeth Street, I was a Partner at Grace Beauty Capital, a Managing Director/Portfolio Manager at Ironwood Capital Management and a Tech-Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers Investor @ Bambike, Birchbox, Costa Brazil, Current, Eloquii, Events.com, Glamsquad, High Court, MM. LaFleur, Parachute Home, Perch Interactive, Pixlee, Primary.com, Ringly, Rothy’s, SKU IQ, Sourceeasy, Supergoop!, ThirdLove, Trendalytics, Vengo. Graduated from Yale University with a BA double major in Economics and Anthropology.
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About Elizabeth Street Ventures: We are an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands that improve daily life
Everett Cook
Co-Founder / CEO of Rho Business Banking
Everett Cook is a Co-Founder at Rho Business Banking.
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About Rho Business Banking: Rho Business Banking is a digital banking platform for startups and high-growth companies.
Addie Lerner
Founder & Managing Partner of Avid Ventures
Addie Lerner is the Founder & Managing Partner of Avid Ventures. Avid is an early stage venture firm based in New York City making Series A and B investments into the next generation of transformative consumer internet, fintech, and software companies.
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About Avid Ventures: Avid Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in Series A and B consumer internet, fintech, and software companies.
Bharath Krishnamoorthy
Co-Founder & CEO of Axle
As CEO, Bharath applies his entrepreneurial intuition and enterprising spirit to oversee company sales, fundraising, and business expansion. He previously worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Funds lawyer at one of the top 10 firms in the world. Bharath led business development for a real estate investment firm, and graduated with honors from both Columbia Law School and James Madison University.
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About Axle, BusBot: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Shawn Vo
Co-Founder & CTO of Axle
As CTO, Shawn directs Axle’s technology strategy and develops the products that make up the company’s services. Additionally, Shawn is no stranger to working with financial technology. He previously worked for two other fintech startups: one that was acquired for over $1B and another where he reported directly to the CTO. Shawn graduated from the University of Virginia with two majors and three concentrations.
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About Axle, BusBot, Forbes Technology Council: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
Rocky Motwani
Co-Founder of Jiko
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About Jiko: Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money.
Ram Ahluwalia
Co-Founder & CEO of PeerIQ
CEO at PeerIQ.
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About PeerIQ, Winged Foot Capital: PeerIQ is a data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the alternative lending sector.
Ben Black
Co-Founder & CIO of EasyKnock
Ben Black is the Co-Founder and CIO of EasyKnock. Formerly the Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, a New York-based financial services firm, as well as the former Managing Director for Ladder Capital, a commercial real estate investment firm, Ben brings an extensive background in real estate investment and management. There, Ben witnessed the narrowing margin for Americans looking for typical financing options. In response, Ben decided to create a solution that disrupts a process that is no longer working for the American people. In partnership with Jarred Kessler, Ben has developed the first institutionalized sale-leaseback platform to help homeowners across the country access the money they need to reach their goals.
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About EasyKnock: EasyKnock provides sale-leaseback solutions that help homeowners to convert their home equity to cash.
Jarred Kessler
CEO & Co-Founder of EasyKnock
Jarred Kessler is the CEO and Co-Founder of EasyKnock, and former Global Head of Equities at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a New York-based financial services firm. He previously held positions at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Jarred is the propelling force behind the name that’s changing the future of real estate. Having worked on Wall Street for years, Jarred saw the fundamental issues preventing Americans from accessing the money they need. He decided he was going to do something about that. With over fifteen years of experience in technology and business strategy and development, Jarred has developed the first institutionalized sale-leaseback platform to help homeowners across the country.
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About EasyKnock, Forbes Real Estate Council: EasyKnock provides sale-leaseback solutions that help homeowners to convert their home equity to cash.
Gayle Jennings O’Byrne
Founder and CEO of iNTENT Manifesto
20+ years of finance, investment banking, philanthropy and lobbying experience. Previously, executive positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Philanthropy, International Government Relations at JPMorgan Chase. Media Manager at Sun Microsystems. Developed and managed investment strategy and corporate relationships. Enjoys valuation, modeling, due diligence and championing founders and startups. Graduate of Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Business. Attended National University of Singapore and City of London Polytechnic. Conducted academic consulting project in Israel.
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About iNTENT Manifesto, The Prometheus Exchange, WOCstar Fund: iNTENT Manifesto IS an educational and investment platform.
Andrew Wynn
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Ascend
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About Ascend: Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance
Alex Maffeo
Founder and CEO of Boost
Alex Maffeo is the CEO & Founder of Boost Insurance.
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About Boost: Boost enables innovators to build, offer, and deliver insurance products to their customers.
Raza Munir
Co-Founder & Head of Business Development of Climb Credit
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About Climb Credit: Innovative student payments platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever.
Zander Rafael
Board Member, Senior Advisor & Co-Founder of Climb Credit
Zander Rafael is the Chief Executive Officer at Climb Credit, which he co-founded after seeing the disparity between quality education and financing options—students borrowing for education that didn’t serve them or struggling to find financing for high-quality, high-ROI education. After completing his BA and MA at Harvard University, he began his career at Bridgewater Associates; there, he was part of a group charged with developing the firm’s trading algorithms and developed hedging strategies for sovereign wealth funds and pensions. He left to join BCG, serving in three offices and working with financial services clients on a range of issues, including federal mortgage policy. Afterward he started, ran, and sold a SaaS marketing platform. Now, as CEO of Climb, he works to align school, student, and lender to offer financing for students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend and partners with schools across sectors to expand access to quality education.
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About Climb Credit, Spring Tide Capital: Innovative student payments platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever.
Matt Rodak
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fund That Flip
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Fund That Flip, a venture-backed real estate investment marketplace specializing in short-term loans for residential real estate rehabbers. As an active real estate investor, Matt became frustrated with the inefficiencies and lack of transparency offered by traditional rehab lenders. Fund That Flip’s technology provides ease-of-use, speed and transparency to professional real estate rehabbers. For accredited and institutional investors the platform automates sourcing, underwriting and loan origination, providing unprecedented access to this desirable asset class. Prior to founding Fund That Flip, Matt led sales and marketing for a $950M commercial property risk management firm. Matt earned a finance degree from John Carroll University and is a Chartered Property Underwriter.
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About Fund That Flip: Fund That Flip provides fast, convenient, and affordable capital for experienced real estate investors.
Jeff Baehr
Founder & CEO of RueOne Investments
RueOne Investments is an independent private investment firm offering family offices and institutional investors exclusive access to direct and co-investment opportunities in private equity and venture capital. I have been involved in the alternative investment industry since 1998. I began my career as an analyst working for Strategic Financial Solutions and continued in increasing roles of responsibility at The Carlyle Group, The World Bank, and ARIS Capital Management. Most recently, I founded Empiric Asset Management, a family of funds focusing on energy infrastructure and energy master limited partnerships(“MLPs”).
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Chuck Doerr
President, Co-Founder & COO of OpenFin
Chuck Doerr is President, Co-Founder, and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFin, Chuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICE, Chuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company’s award-winning technology platform, led software development and managed Creditex’s global technology infrastructure. Before Creditex, Chuck worked at UBS automating their front office equity trading operations. Earlier, he worked on missile system software at Raytheon. Chuck attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Cormac Kinney
Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard
Investor, serial entrepreneur with 5 exits to date. Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard. Founder and CEO of Flont, the fine jewelry leader in the sharing economy. Previously Founder and CEO of Network, a business social network incubated by The Wall Street Journal with direct reporting to Rupert Murdoch. Software designer with inventions cited in 1,500 patents. Raised over $500 million in capital. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Bitcarbon, Diamond Standard, Flont: Diamond Standard is a regulator-approved fungible commodity for natural resource, with a built-in wireless chip for electronic trading.
David Lighton
Founder & CEO of SendFriend
David Lighton is a CO-Founder of Lithium Finance.
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About Lithium Finance, SendFriend, Yale University: SendFriend leverages the blockchain to make remittance transactions less expensive, faster, and more secure.
