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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 California based Founder operating in the Payments 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.
Ryan Breslow
Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt
Ryan is cofounder and CEO at Bolt, an end-to-end platform that replaces fragmented online shopping, payment, and fraud software. Ryan is also a thought-leader in the digital currency space, having cofounded the Beam currency and started the original Stanford Bitcoin Group. Mr. Breslow is a former Co-Founder and CEO at Sites by Hand. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University.
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About Bolt: Bolt is developing a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert and retain more of their shoppers.
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David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
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About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO of Affirm
Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information. Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also founded NetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.
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About Affirm, Glow, HVF Labs, SciFi VC: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Eric Ries
Founder & CEO of Long-Term Stock Exchange
Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He’s also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a number of startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.
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About IDEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange, Pivotal: The Long-Term Stock Exchange designs an SEC-regulated national securities exchange that aligns great companies and long-term investors.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
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About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Ron Hose
Founder and CEO of Coins.ph
Ron Hose CEO of Coins.ph, a company that delivers financial services over mobile to people in Southeast Asia. Prior to coins.ph, Ron was the CTO of the video communication service [TokBox](/organization/tokbox). He co-founded the company with Serge Faguet in 2007. Most recently, Ron was a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital fund backed by [Eric Schmidt](/person/eric-schmidt). Ron graduated from Cornell University with a Masters degree in Computer Science.
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About Coins.ph: Coins.ph delivers financial services over mobile to people who are currently unserved by traditional banks.
Jed McCaleb
Co-Founder of Stellar Development Foundation
Jed McCaleb, Stellar cofounder, believes in consciously leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. He created eDonkey, one of the largest file-sharing networks of its time, as well as Mt. Gox, the first bitcoin exchange. In 2011, Jed founded Ripple. Recognizing that the world’s financial infrastructure is broken and that too many people are left without resources, he cofounded Stellar in 2014. Jed leads technical development of Stellar, a universal financial network that aims to increase economic participation for all individuals. The Stellar network is supported by Stellar.org, a nonprofit that couples technology with digital financial literacy and contributes to open-source software. Jed is also an advisor to MIRI, which researches artificial intelligence for positive impact.
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About Pantera Capital, Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Eyal Shinar
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Fundbox
Founder and Executive Chairman of Fundbox, Eyal is an expert in financial technology, AI and technology management. Prior to Fundbox, Eyal served as VP at Battery Ventures, leading projects and investments in finance, machine learning and SaaS. Notable examples are IDI Direct Insurance, Istra Research, Cortera, cVidya, Leadspace, Champions Oncology, Relay Foods, and Sportority. Prior to his work in Battery Ventures, Eyal was one of the first employees of Old Lane, a $5.5B NYC-based global hedge fund (later acquired by Citigroup) and also worked for Castle Harlan, a leading $6B NYC-based buyout firm. Eyal graduated from the special program for outstanding students at the Hebrew University with an LLB in Law and advanced degree in Finance. He earned his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Eyal was recently recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2016 at its Builders + Innovators Summit.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Domm Holland
Co-Founder & CEO of Fast
Domm Holland is the co-founder and CEO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. An entrepreneur and self-taught engineer, Domm has founded and scaled companies in the logistics, transportation and technology sectors. He previously founded and served as CEO of Tow, an on-demand vehicle towing platform in Australia that processed more than $50M in transactions. During his tenure there, Domm was awarded the top spot on the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 and recognized as the Brisbane Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Domm has worked across Australia and the U.S., working in national and multinational telecommunications and technology companies, including Dell, with deep cross-function experience. Domm’s background provides him with a unique perspective that spans R&D, sales and operations, all of which have contributed to his vision for Fast.
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About Fast, FAST Group: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Allison Barr Allen
Co-Founder & COO of Fast
Allison Barr Allen is the co-founder and COO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. Previously, Allison was the head of global product operations for the Money Team at Uber, where she helped scale Uber from 2,000 employees to more than 26,000 worldwide. Allison’s team launched and scaled Uber’s payments, risk, and compliance products globally, including on-demand payments, cash products, debit cards and credit cards. Prior to Uber, Allison served as a healthcare strategy consultant at PwC. In addition to her role at Fast, Allison is a limited partner at Operator Collective, a venture capital firm that brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise technology. Allison is also deeply committed to supporting entrepreneurs through Trail Run Capital, her angel investment fund. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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About Fast: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Adolfo Babatz
Co-Founder & CEO of Clip
Adolfo Babatz is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PayClip Inc., a mobile payments platform for Emerging Markets. The company is based in Redwood City, California and Mexico City. Before Clip, Adolfo was responsible for Customer Engagement for PayPal LatinAmerica. Before moving into the product team Adolfo led the team that opened PayPal in Mexico. Right before PayPal, Adolfo studied his MBA at MIT where he specialized in Entrepreneurship & Economics of Information. Prior to MIT, Adolfo was part of the founding team at The Carlyle Group Mexico where he worked as an Analyst. Before joining Carlyle, Adolfo worked as an Advisor for the Executive VicePresident of GrupoDesc, one of Mexico’s largest industrial conglomerates.
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About Clip: Clip is the leading digital payments and commerce enablement platform in Mexico.
Tammy Camp
Founder & CEO of Stronghold
Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, an API platform that creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at accelerator 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP11 in Exponential Technologies at NASA Ames where she first learned about Bitcoin from legendary cryptographer Ralph Merkle.
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About Action Factory, Stronghold: Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that give developers access legacy and next-generation payment networks through a simple API.
Prince Boakye Boampong
Founder of Dash
Prince Boakye Boampong is the Founder and CEO of Dash.
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About Dash: Dash builds an alternative payment app where users can send, spend, and receive money, pay for goods and services, save, and invest.
Vignan Velivela
Co-Founder & CEO of AtoB
Vignan Velivela is the Co-Founder & CEO at AtoB.
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About AtoB: AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry.
Harshita Arora
Co-Founder of AtoB
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About AtoB, Shuttle: AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry.
Mahmoud Abdelkader
CEO & Co-Founder of Very Good Security
Mahmoud and Marshall started Very Good Security to solve recurring data security and privacy challenges faced by organizations in regulated and/or compliant environments. Today’s modern organizations face ever-changing data security challenges in an evolving landscape and require an adaptive approach to cyber security to augment security infrastructure investments. Mahmoud co-founded and served as the CTO of a a YCominbator W2011 company, Balanced Payments, a leading-edge developer friendly payments processor acquired in 2015. He is also an active angel investor, serves as an advisor to numerous FinTech startups, and is an avid fan of cryptography. Mahmoud holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland: College Park. A fun fact is that actually learned to code by reverse engineering Age of Empires and Warcraft III.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Marshall Jones
Co-Founder & CTO of Very Good Security
Marshall Jones is a co-founder and CTO of Very Good Security. He is a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in FinTech industry. Formerly VP Engineering at Balanced Payments, a payment system for the marketplaces, Marshall knows all ins and outs of setting up engineering processes from ground-up, building a scalable product infrastructure, and growing effective engineering teams. Originally from New Zealand, Marshall lived in Singapore and moved to the USA in 2012. He is an engineering focussed manager with extraordinary technical skills: Marshall codes, liaises between engineers and business and, most importantly, builds product architecture and infrastructure.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Ekechi Nwokah
Co-Founder and CEO of Migo
Ekechi Nwokah has 20 years of experience building distributed systems and data center infrastructure. He was a visiting professor at Purdue University before leaving academia to join SGI and NASA, where he built large parallel Altix and Origin machines, and was tech lead on COLUMBIA, the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2004. He is also an expert in cloud infrastructure and security, having spent several years at Amazon AWS building cloud services. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Chris Tsai
Co-Founder & CEO of Resolve
Chris Tsai is the Co-Founder & CEO at Resolve.
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments solution that streamlines accounts receivables by offering net terms-as-a-service and outsourced credit management to maximize revenue, fuel growth, and speed up invoice collections.
Brian Nguyen
Co-Founder of Resolve
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases.
Aleesha John
Co-Founder & CTO of Buy Me a Coffee
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About Buy Me a Coffee: Buy Me a Coffee makes it easy for creators to accept donations and membership from their fans.
Tom Harel
CTO and Co-Founder of Routable
Tom Harel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Routable.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
John Keatley
CEO, Co-Founder of Scratchpay
John Keatley is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Scratchpay.
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About Pasadena Angels, Scratchpay: Scratchpay is a patient financing solution for veterinary care.
Maijid Moujaled
Co-Founder & President of Chipper Cash
Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.
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About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Ham Serunjogi
Co-Founder & CEO of Chipper Cash
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Victor Ho
Co-Founder & CEO of Fivestars
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.in New York, where he helped multiple Fortune 500 companies build and manage their loyalty and customer retention programs. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Victor holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast with a personal best of 45 seconds.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Shola Akinlade
Co-Founder and CEO of Paystack
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Sonny Caberwal
Founder of Exclusively.In of Zuldi
Founder & CEO of BOND.
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About Zuldi: Zuldi extends Legacy Point-of-Sale systems to Mobile
Tomas Campos
CEO and Co-Founder of Spinwheel
Tomás Campos is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Steve Beauregard
Co-Founder & Chairman of GoCoin
Steve Beauregard is the Co-Founder & Chairman at GoCoin. Steve recently joined Bloq to bring blockchain solutions to large enterprise customers and gov’t agencies worldwide. Prior to GoCoin, Steve ran an enterprise software firm integrating mobile and eCommerce applications. In recent years Steve has delivered keynote speeches and spoken at top universities on cryptocurrencies and mobile payments.
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About GoCoin: GoCoin develops a payment gateway for online and retail merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method.
Giovanni Colella, M.D.
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of OODA Health
Giovanni is the Executive CHairman and Co-Founder of OODA Health. Before OODA, he co-founded Castlight Health in 2008 with Todd Park and served as CEO of the company until 2017. Before co-founding Castlight, Giovanni was founder, president, and CEO of RelayHealth (acquired by McKesson in 2006), a pioneering healthcare company that provides secure digital communications to connect doctors with their patients. Giovanni has also served in senior roles at Sapient and SAI and was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Before beginning his business career, he practiced medicine in Manhattan and is a board-certified psychiatrist. Giovanni graduated with an MD from the Universita Degli Studi di Milano in Italy. He completed his fellowship in public psychiatry at Columbia University, and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Brightline, OODA Health: OODA Health is a healthcare technology company that offers a software billing platform for providers, payers, patients, and insurers.
Mark Schulze
Co-Founder Clover, VP Business Development of Clover
Mark spent the first half of his career working for sexy consumer Internet and software products (AOL, Digital Cities, Intuit and AltaVista). The second half of his career has been dominated by unsexy enterprise companies — Mark was the first business person at Quantcast and was responsible for establishing their publisher network. He was also instrumental in helping to solidify Quantcast’s reputation in the advertising and publisher universe. More recently at Clover Network, Mark has been responsible for forging relationships with banks, credit card processors, and most importantly with developers. Cloud based, Clover is an open point of sale platform that is open to developers wanting to have tighter integration between their apps and brick and mortar customer experiences.
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About Clover, TSX Entertainment: Clover is a cloud-based open business operating system, powered by Android-based devices.
John Beatty
Founder and CEO of Clover
John is co-founder and CEO of Clover Network, Inc. (a First Data Company). Previously, he was an EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures and a founding engineer at Bix (acquired by Yahoo!). He also built distributed systems at BEA and Sun and got his start in consulting at Cambridge Technology Partners. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
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About Clover: Clover is a cloud-based open business operating system, powered by Android-based devices.
Danny Shader
Founder and CEO of PayNearMe
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, the world’s only real-time electronic cash transaction network. PayNearMe is used by financial institutions, utilities companies, property managers and other businesses to digitize cash collections and eliminate the hassle of manual collection methods such as money orders. The service allows consumers who need to use or prefer cash, to easily make payments at over 17,000 retail locations including 7-Eleven and Family Dollar stores using cash. Danny has a long history of building innovative, high-growth companies. In 2000, he was tapped by Eric Hahn to lead Good Technology, a struggling company that made MP3 players that attached to PDAs. He scrapped the hardware plan, built a corporate messaging service to run on devices competing with BlackBerry, and by 2004, had Good’s software running on Palm Treo, RIM’s main competitor. Three years later, Motorola bought Good for $500 million. Before Good Technology, Danny co-founded Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company, which he sold to Amazon in 1999 for $175 million. Danny holds an engineering degree from University of California Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter at @dshader.
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About Handle Financial, PayNearMe: PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments.
Mike Shim
Founder & CEO of True North Cos.
True North Cos. is a private investment and advisory firm building valuable, enduring businesses in technology, financial services and consumer products. Founded in 2012 by Mike Shim, a corporate/M&A lawyer-turned tech executive, entrepreneur and venture investor based in Silicon Valley, True North Cos. works with world-beating leaders at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build more purposeful companies. Purposeful companies share a common mission of improving the world through business, while delivering superior long-term returns to their employees, investors and the communities they serve.
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About DigiSure, Nextury Ventures, True North Cos.: Building companies with purpose.
Brian McLaren Foote
Founder & CEO of HUMBL
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About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Michele Rivera
Founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships of HUMBL
Michele Rivera is the Founder and Vice President, Global Partnerships at HUMBL.
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About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Peter Kellis
Founder & CEO of TRAY
Peter Kellis is the Founder & CEO at TRAY.
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About TRAY: TRAY® is a complete point of sale system for the enterprise that specializes in self-service ordering.
Andrew Clapham
Co-Founder of QPay
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About QPay: QuicklyPayit is a payments platform for students and societies in Australia.
Tom Villante
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder of YapStone
Tom co-founded YapStone, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Villante served as the Chief Executive Officer of YapStone, Inc. He served as a Partner of The Seidler Company (“TSC”), a leveraged buyout firm in Los Angeles.
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About YapStone: YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets.
Vilash Poovala
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster
Vilash Poovala has over 19 years of product management and business development experience (mobile, e-commerce, financial services and payments). He has joined Allegro as Chief Product & Technology Officer of Allegro EMEA in January 2017. As a member of the leadership team he focus on the successful execution of Allegro’s strategic Objectives by Establishing the company’s tech and product vision, steering the product roadmap and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development. Vilash has served as an adviser and / or developer for several payments / commerce startups; most notably, they Of These startups, PlayerScale, was acquired by Yahoo in May 2013. His fascination and passion for payments was first sparked while building cutting edge products to ease wallet online checkout payments at his first startup, Globeset which was acqui-hired to Visa in 2000. Most recently, Vilash was the co-founder and CTO of Clip, and mobile POS provider in LATAM. In addition this being the CTO, he helped raise $ 40M in multiple rounds of funding. Prior joining this clip, Vilash was the Sr. Director of Products for Consumer and Merchant Acceptance at V.me by Visa. He successfully launched V.me wallet and checkout across the top 33 of the US e-tailers. Vilash also worked at PayPal where he focused on rolling out new markets and products like PayPal debit card and Transactional Credit.
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About Infinitec Solutions GmbH, Oyster: Oyster is a provider of digital financial services intended for freelancers, startups, and SME’s.
Sam Aarons
Co-Founder and CTO of Modern Treasury
Sam Aarons is Co-Founder and CTO at Modern Treasury.
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About Modern Treasury: Modern Treasury offers a payment operations platform used to simplify and modernize business payments.
Marshall Hayner
CEO, Co-Founder of Metal Pay
Marshall Hayner is CEO and Co-Founder of Metal, a payments processing platform that pays people cryptocurrency for making transactions on the blockchain. Marshall believes that Metal can change the way the world views money. Not only has Marshall started the first Facebook integrated bitcoin wallet QuickCoin in 2014, but he has worked on numerous digital currency projects including Dogecoin, Stellar, Block.io, ChangeTip, and the Bitcoin Fair. Marshall is an advocate for social good and has started the Metal Foundation to promote social causes through cryptocurrency.
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About Metal Pay: Metal Pay develops a blockchain based payments and rewards wallet for digital assets.
Joshua Goldbard
Founder of MobileCoin
Joshua is a founder at MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency technology company, and a founding partner at Crypto Lotus, a cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund. He really likes sound amplification devices.
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About Crypto Lotus, Crypto Lotus, MobileCoin, Secret Party: MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that provides anti-fraud services and payment systems for merchants.
Kalpesh Kapadia
Co-Founder and CEO of Deserve
Kalpesh Kapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Deserve.
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About Deserve: Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder | Chairman of LISNR
Rodney Williams is the co-founder of SoLo Funds and LISNR.
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About LISNR, LISNR, SoLo Funds: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Moncef Abbou
Founder of CurbStand
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About CurbStand: Seamless, cashless valet parking in Los Angeles. Pay & tip right from your phone.
Marwan Forzley
CEO and Founder of Veem
Marwan Forzley is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Veem, a next-generation global payment provider that enables businesses to quickly and securely send and receive payments in local currency. Veem uses the blockchain as a new settlement rail to enable frictionless and inexpensive payments. Prior to Align Commerce, Forzley founded and served as CEO of eBillme, an online payment solution that extended online banking to the merchant’s checkout process. After selling eBillme to Western Union, Forzley joined the Western Union’s digital team as General Manager, eCommerce, and Strategic Partnerships. With extensive experience and expertise in eCommerce infrastructure, mobile payments, content delivery, and alternative payments, Forzley is one of the top entrepreneurs working to pioneer better payment systems.
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About Veem: Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
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About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Ryne Saxe
Co-Founder and CEO of Eco
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About Eco: Eco provides a digital cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions.
Ram Palaniappan
CEO & Founder of Earnin
Ram Palaniappan is the founder and chief executive officer of Earnin. Ram spends his time finding ways to buck the status quo, creating new financial products that are not evil.
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Pablo Schwarzbeck
Founder & CEO of ProducePay
Pablo Schwarzbeck is the Co-Founder and CEO at ProducePay.
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About ProducePay: ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Tobias Mezger
Co-Founder – COO/CFO of PayZen
I am passionate about solving big problems by making financial services more straightforward and more accessible. I am excited about building a great company.
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About PayZen: PayZen is a health care fintech startup that aims to tackle the growing patient payment responsibility problem.
Dr. Mark Hale
Founder, President, Pilot of Facepay
Mark Hale is the Founder at Facepay.
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About Facepay: Facepay is a relational payments on the Blockchain.
Franky Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Kickback
Franky Bernstein is Founder & CEO at Markett.
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About Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, InterWallet, Kickback, Markett: Kickback is a social shopping app that gives users exclusive brand discounts, cash back, and significant incentives to recommend friends.
Mike Hurst
Co-Founder & CEO of Exactuals
Mike Hurst is a Co-Founder & CEO at Exactuals.Mike is a software industry veteran who spent many years at Oracle helping traditional software companies launch Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. During his time as a senior manager at Oracle, Mike was exposed to the inefficiencies surrounding residuals distribution in the media and entertainment industry, and he began to develop the relationships and insights that would form the basis for Exactuals. He incubated the business model over the course of his time at Stanford Graduate School of Business with guidance from some of Silicon Valley’s most trusted advisors. Mike holds degrees from Santa Clara University and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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About Exactuals: Exactuals is a SaaS payments company that focuses on royalty/residual based markets.
Anthony Oduu
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Verto
Anthony Oduu is the co-founder and co-CEO at VertoFX.
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About Verto: We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises.
Camilo Acosta
Co-Founder & CEO of Pay By Group
Camilo Acosta is the Product Team Lead at Facebook.
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About Meta, Pay By Group, Private Angel Investor: Pay By Group is an checkout option on travel and retail e-commerce sites that lets friends and families split the cost and pay together.
Zak Holdsworth
Co-Founder & CEO of Hint Health
Zak Holdsworth is the Co-founder & CEO at Hint Health.
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Arjun Vasan
Founder & CEO of CyborgOps
Founder & CEO at CyborgOps. YC alum, 2012. Inventor, Entrepreneur, Engineer, Mastermind.
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About Argumentum, CyborgOps: The World’s Last Call Center.
Rajeev Viswanathan
Founder & Biz Sherpa of CyborgOps
Co-Founder & Product + Biz Sherpa at CyborgOps. Entrepreneur, Student, Creative, Inventor, Doer. Previously, Founder & CEO at get@ | GetAt, and Co-Founder & CEO at InStore POS (Own Group).
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About CyborgOps: The World’s Last Call Center.
Eddie Lim
Co-Founder of Point
Eddie Lim is the founder and CEO of Point, a home equity platform. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital and Vikram Pandit, Point’s first product enables investors to purchase equity stakes in owner-occupied homes and provides homeowners with an alternative to debt, i.e. no monthly payments. Before Point, Eddie was the co-founder of TrialPay (acquired by Visa), Yub (acquire by Coupons.com), Metails (acquired by Buy.com), and TXN (backed by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst). Eddie holds an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.
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About Point: Point provides shared home equity financing, shared equity, HELOC alternative to existing homeowners and new homebuyers.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Tim Parsa
Co-Founder and CCO of Airtm
Founder & Funder of early-stage fintech/blockchain ventures, including AirTM, Fintech Server, Cadoo, Monoji, Uphold, Wayfex, Blockibles, and Femup. 20+ years of entrepreneurial success in media, telecom, and tech. U.S.-trained lawyer with strong U.S. and International compliance background.
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About Airtm, Cadoo: Airtm is a a blockchain and bank-connected digital wallet and peer-to-peer exchange platform.
Joshua Kliot
Co-Founder and Product of Airtm
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About Airtm: Airtm is a a blockchain and bank-connected digital wallet and peer-to-peer exchange platform.
Marco Boerries
CEO and Founder of Enfore
Marco Boerries is a German entrepreneur with a passion for making ideas work. Inspired by a Silicon Valley school exchange back in 1984, he founded his first company Star Division, as a 16-year-old in 1985. The company created the popular office suite StarOffice and later OpenOffice.org. Marco sold Star Division to Sun Microsystems in 1999 and stayed on as Vice President of Desktop & Webtop Software until 2001. In parallel to Star Division he started his second company Star Finanz as a joint-venture with the Deutsche Sparkassen Organisation in 1996, to re-invent online banking with StarMoney – that became the leading product in Germany. Marco sold his share in StarFinanz to his joint venture partners in 2001. After leaving Sun Microsystems and selling Star Finanz, Marco started his third company Verdisoft in the summer of 2001 based in Palo Alto, California and Hamburg, Germany. At Verdisoft Marco and his team developed the Connected Life platform for connected devices like computers, smart phones and connected TV’s. Starting in 2003 Verdisoft was able to showcase solutions on the ConnectedLife platform, that resemble what we know from services like iCloud today. Marco sold Verdisoft to Yahoo in early 2005 and stayed on to lead the ConnectedLife division until early 2009 – driving Yahoo’s Broadband, Mobile and TV efforts, globally. Returning back to Germany in 2009 Marco started his fourth company NumberFour in Berlin to re-imagine the way small businesses are run, and later established offices in Hamburg, Germany and Palo Alto, California. Together with his team he is working extremely hard to develop and design a business platform to fulfill NumberFour’s Mission “Helping 200 Million+ Run Their Business”. Marco Quote: I deeply care about enabling small businesses to become more competitive and successful. Having started four businesses myself, I know how hard and rewarding it can be at the same time. Small is beautiful!
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About Enfore: Enfore is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile apps for smartphones, tablets and personal computers.
Eric Solis
Founder & CEO of MovoCash
Mr. Eric Solis Co-Founded MovoCash, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Solis has over 15-years of senior level management experience in digital finance including; payments, micro-investing, securities, money transfer systems, transfer agents and record keeping. With a long track record of success as an entrepreneur and innovator, he was selected by The Center for Financial Service Innovation and Fortune Magazine as being one of the top innovators in the country and he is featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek and many other national publications for his contribution in the advancement of digital finance. He has extensive experience in all phases of executive management including business and corporate development, financial management, strategic planning, M&A, capital structure, treasury management, agile project management, operations, executive coaching and mentoring as well as expert public speaking skills with local and national media experience.
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About MovoCash: MovoCash is a financial services company that specializes in P2P Payments, Mobile Banking, Fintech, and Finserv.
Daniel Robenek
Co-Founder & CTO of BitOasis
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About BitOasis: BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering a digital asset wallet and exchange to buy, sell, and trade.
Ijaz Anwar
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Payactiv
Ijaz Anwar brings extensive experience with previous tenure at GreenDot / GoBank, Unidos Financial Services, FIS, Certegy, Chex Services, and Hyatt Hotels. From running business units generating over $200 million in annual revenue to working as a bookkeeper at Dixi Cola in Dubai, Ijaz has done it. Payactiv is not just another job; it is a new frontier for Ijaz to create and manage innovative solutions that will empower millions financially worldwide. Ijaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management. He also has a minor in accounting, and though he passed the CPA exam, his entrepreneurial spirit led him away from the accounting field.
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About Payactiv: Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
Denis Goriainov
Founder & CEO of Estereum
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About CoinCentre, Estereum, IVENGA: Estereum is a crypto startup that is creating a new direction in blockchain commerce for small and medium businesses in a legal framework.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Cory Capoccia
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Womply
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About Verifi, Inc., Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Kuldip Hillyer
Founder, CEO of Kugamon
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About Kugamon: CPQ (Configure Price Quote), Q2C (Quote to Cash), and SRM (Subscription Management) for Salesforce
Keith Wasserman
Founder of Domuso
Keith Wasserman is Founder at Domuso Inc.
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About Gelt, Inc.: Domuso is a next-gen financial services platform offering comprehensive payment processing solutions for multifamily properties.
Damian Langere
CEO / Co-Founder of Domuso
Damian Langere is Founder at Domuso Inc.
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About Domuso, Gelt Venture Capital, Gelt, Inc.: Domuso is a next-gen financial services platform offering comprehensive payment processing solutions for multifamily properties.
Manoj Verma
CRO & Co-Founder of TabaPay
Manoj Verma joined TabaPay as Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer in 2017.
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About TabaPay: TabaPay is the easiest way to disburse, collect and transfer funds between accounts instantly
Rodney Robinson
Co-Founder, President of TabaPay
Rodney Robinson joined TabaPay as Co-Founder, President in 2017.
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About TabaPay: TabaPay is the easiest way to disburse, collect and transfer funds between accounts instantly
PJ Gupta
Founder & CEO of Checkbook
PJ Gupta is from the payments industry and the founder of Checkbook Inc.Checkbook has built a payment system that makes it remarkably easy for online Merchants to accept or send Digital Checks online.
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About Checkbook: Checkbook is connecting the last mile in push payments using DigitalChecks for Instant Payments.
Nicolas Baum
Co-Founder & CEO of GiftRocket
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About GiftRocket, Tremendous: GiftRocket provides online gift cards for restaurants, bars, spas, shopping, night life and food.
Darpan Saini
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Lending
Darpan holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has previously worked with global technology companies such as IBM and Oracle in the application development division for over 4 years.He co-founded Cloud Lending Solutions with Snehal and has been closely involved in every aspect of product strategy since the inception of the company, be it design, development, delivery and customer success. He is focused on creating business value through disruptive technologies such as cloud computing and mobility.He is a passionate programmer and has also worked as a researcher in programming languages at the Carnegie Mellon University.Darpan has been a critical team member in building an agile product line made for forward looking financial institutions incorporating the S.M.A.C (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) technologies.
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About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Rajendra Badadare
Co-Founder & Head of Customer Success Engineering, EVP – Client Services of Cloud Lending
Rajendra Badadare (Raj) holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India and a degree in Project Management from UC Berkeley, USA. He has technical leadership experience of 16 years working with Oracle, USA. Prior to Oracle, Raj worked as a professor of computer engineering in India.As Co-founder and Head of Customer Success Engineering division, Raj is responsible for forming a strong and reliable Customer Success Engineering team for Cloud Lending Solutions. He is responsible for customer satisfaction and to improve customer’s overall experience. He believes that a satisfied customer is worth much more than millions of dollars spent in advertising.Raj is an avid lover of the game of cricket and has been a coach of USA’s U-15 national cricket team.
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About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Stephen Ready
Founder & CEO of Inspired
Stephen Ready is the CEO and Founder of Inspired. He is a former Co-Founder of Synergy and CEO & Founder of VCT – Member Experience Advisors. Stephen received a bachelor’s degree in Finance at Lehigh University.
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About Inspired: Anti-status quo social impact.
Chris Dean
Founder & CEO of Treasury Prime
Chris Dean is the Co-founder & CEO at Treasury Prime.
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About Treasury Prime: Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTechs through an API.
Jim Brusstar
President and Co-Founder of Treasury Prime
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About Treasury Prime: Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTechs through an API.
Vijay Sajja
CEO / Founder of Evergent Technologies, Inc.
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About Evergent Technologies, Inc.: Fast, Flexible, Scalable Subscription, Billing and User Management for Global Cloud Video Service Providers.
Randy Modos
Co-Founder of PayJunction
Randy Modos is the president and a founder of PayJunction, where he provides vision and leadership for the company as it pioneers green payment technology and delivers operational efficiencies for businesses. Entrepreneurship started early for Modos, who spent his after-school hours as a child selling everything from lemonade and artwork to wooden sculptures. Bringing this inclination to college, Modos met his co-founders at UCSB while pursuing his bachelor of science in computer science. Together, the founders of PayJunction took an inspired idea and grew it into a company that process over $4 billion annually. But it’s one thing to create a world-class product, it’s another to leverage your core beliefs into a revolutionary approach. PayJunction is a leader in ethical payment processing and prioritizes long-term relationships over short-term profit. Modos has been a champion of this approach over PayJunction’s 18 years in business. Today, PayJunction operates two offices with 100 employees in Santa Barbara, supports 3,000 sales reps across the United States, and builds and supports all of its products in house. Engineering is still at the heart of what PayJunction builds: innovative technology that streamlines businesses’ payment processing and reduces the environmental toll of an entire industry.
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About PayJunction: PayJunction was founded in 2000 with a vision of making payment processing easier, more secure, and more effective.
Gilberto Garcia
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rain
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About Rain: Rain offers early wage access and financial wellness benefit for mid market to enterprise employers.
Nicolas Stehle
Co-Founder & CEO of Scalefast
Nicolas Stehle is the founder and CEO at Scalefast, a leading full-service e-commerce solution provider that builds and operates Direct-to-Consumer online stores for brands that want to accelerate online sales without the time, cost, and risk of in-house development. After creating five companies in just 15 years, Nicolas is considered a serial entrepreneur in high tech fields. With Scalefast, his biggest venture to-date, Nicolas helps clients build and manage brands’ global e-commerce channels so they can focus on their customers’ needs. Since its inception in 2014, Scalefast Enterprise Cloud Commerce Platform has processed more than 14 million transactions, in 240 countries, for major brands like Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco Entertainment. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris and Madrid, Scalefast brings a synchronized, international team to deliver consistent digital consumer experience around the globe. Throughout his career, Nicolas has developed a reputation for creating successful start-ups and managing the high-impact growth within each of the companies. In total, Nicolas founded and held executive roles in three companies (Scalefast, Like Me I’m Famous and Everbee), and non-executive director and board member positions in two others (Flexycore and Slimpay). Before he graduated university, Nicolas patented an innovative approach to Network Security, raised 3M€ for the technology and had a fully operational business. He has a wide swath of experience with tech companies in a variety of industries ranging from Network security (Everbee), big data (Like Me I’m Famous), Payment (Slimpay) and successfully exited Flexycore, first French company acquired by Google Inc.
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About Scalefast: Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands.
Veena Mistry
Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of Operations and Director of Wibmo
Veena Mistry Co-Founded enStage, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Executive Vice President of Operations and also served as its Executive Vice President of Prepaid Payments. Ms. Mistry served as the Chief Technology Officer of enStage, Inc. Ms. Mistry has over 15 years of experience in the engineering management, design and development of complex software systems. Ms. Mistry most recently was responsible for the development of Internet Banking Software at Silicon Valley Bank. She also has software engineering experience at a number of major corporations, including Lucent, Intergraph, TCSI and SBC. She serves as Director of enStage, Inc. Ms. Mistry holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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About Wibmo: Wibmo Inc. provides payment solutions and processing services to customers, banks, and merchants.
Yogi Yoganathan
Co-Founder of Remitbee Money Transfer and Currency Exchange
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About Founder Institute, Remitbee Money Transfer and Currency Exchange: Remitbee Provides consumer and business money transfer and currency exchange service
Stas Matviyenko
Founder & CEO of Allset
Founder of Allset.
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About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Anna Polishchuk
CDO & Co-Founder of Allset
Anna Polishchuk is COO at Advice Wallet.
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About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Honor Gunday
CEO & Founder of Paymentwall
Honor Gunday is the founder and CEO of Paymentwall. Before launching Paymentwall, Gunday was the CEO of OutCubator, a virtual incubator that launched innovative startups such as Adperk.com (incentivized video advertising platform), MiNeeds (services marketplace), Rofo.com (a search engine), and Zurna.com (a Turkish social network). While working on Zurna, he and his team pioneered virtual currency payments by integrating with various mobile and offline payment methods to monetize the userbase. Honor started his professional career as a program manager at Expedia.com. He worked with 12 cruiselines and unified them on a single platform and launched the initial version of the Cruise product, creating one of the world’s largest cruise agency. Gunday graduated with a B.S in Technology Management from Stanford University and speaks fluentl English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
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About FasterPay, Paymentwall, Terminal3: Paymentwall is a global payments platform which provides 150 local payment methods, incl. credit cards and e-wallets, in 200+ countries.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
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About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cathrine W. Andersen
Co-Founder, CEO of Corpay One
Cathrine Andersen is the co-founder and CEO at Roger.
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About Corpay One: Corpay One is a leading company card and bill pay solution for small-and-medium-sized businesses.
