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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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Kevin Xu
@kevinxu

CEO of Alpha AI, focused on trading and financial alerts. Active trader who shares market insights and provides real-time trading alerts to subscribers.

Founder
16 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
16 VCs
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Zack Shooter
@zack_shooter

CEO & Co-Founder of a stealth startup focused on fixing fintech. Previously an early employee at Deel. Self-described semi-professional shitposter.

Founder
14 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
12 VCs
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Ilan Zerbib
@i_zerbib

Former Shopify Payments Director (Shop Pay, Shop Cash) and founder of Earny (acquired). Now building Sapiom, a platform for autonomous software.

Web3
11 VCs
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Building payments infrastructure for AI agents at Natural.

Founder
11 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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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
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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