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Fintech Founder Directory

Founders building the future of finance, payments, and banking.

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Zachary Perret
@zachperret

Co-founder and CEO of Plaid, a fintech infrastructure company. Previously worked as an associate at Bain & Company. Also co-founded Mischief in 2020.

FundedWeb3
125 VCs
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Spencer Mateega
@spencermateega

Wharton and Penn grad (statistics, finance, and computer science) with experience at Morgan Stanley, Meta, Google, and Silver Lake before co-founding AfterQuery, where he serves as CEO.

FundedWeb3TechnicalFinance
13 VCs
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Nathan Baschez
@nbaschez

Founder of Lex, an AI-powered writing tool. AI scout at True Ventures. Previously co-founder of Every and first employee at Substack where he served as VP Product.

FundedProductResearchFinanceLegal
11 VCs
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Mika Sagindyk
@heymikasagi

Former Growth lead at AWS turned co-founder of Tackle. Previously spent time as Entrepreneur In Residence at Entrepreneur First. Now working on something new.

ProductSalesFinanceBizDev
10 VCs
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Jennifer Lin
@jlindig0

Thiel Fellow and founder & CEO of AUG Therapeutics, focused on developing treatments for rare diseases. Previously worked as a research associate at Logos Global Management and recently founded Ashlins Pharmaceuticals.

ResearchFinance
10 VCs
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Wayne Nelms
@wayne_nelmz

MIT Math + CS student turned quant trader at Susquehanna International Group, now co-founder & CTO of Ornn building trading infrastructure.

FundedTechnicalResearchFinanceStudent
9 VCs
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Rafael Garcia
@rfgarcia

Co-founder and former CTO of Clever, an education technology platform, where he spent over a decade building the company. Now co-founder of Kernel.

FundedTechnicalFinance
8 VCs
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Building payments infrastructure for AI agents at Natural.

Founder
8 VCs
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Fryd Wiatrowski
@frydwia

Co-founder of Viktor and Jace AI. Previously worked at Meta, studied at Oxford, and has experience in high-frequency trading.

Founder
8 VCs
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Sophia Deng
@sophdeng

Former Group Product Manager at Remote turned founder of a stealth consumer AI startup. Previously worked at Ramp and Instacart. Co-hosts the Go Life podcast.

ProductOperationsFinance
7 VCs
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