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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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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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Shuo Wang
@shuooo

MIT grad and repeat founder who co-founded Deel, a global payroll and compliance platform. Previously co-founded and served as CTO at Aeris Cleantec AG.

FundedWeb3Sales
10 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
10 VCs
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Adam Goldstein
@adamgoldstein13

Founder and CEO of Archer, which he started in 2018. Previously served on the board of directors at the Museum of American Finance for over a decade.

FundedWeb3Finance
9 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

Fellow at Next Chapter, currently co-founding a stealth startup. Previously worked at Superpower and describes himself as a "verbal biographer" with hedge fund experience.

Web3OperationsFinanceContent
7 VCs
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Kirk Marple
@kirkmarple

Ex-Microsoft engineer turned serial CTO, now founder/CEO of Graphlit, an operational context layer for AI agents. Previously CTO at drone analytics company Kespry and fintech startup HEROFi.

TechnicalProduct
7 VCs
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Rui Wang
@rricefan

CEO at Quant Trading RL (YC S26), building reinforcement learning environments for quantitative trading. Previously worked as a quant at G-Research.

FundedTechnical
7 VCs

Working on helping GPU clusters get financed with structured insurance solutions.

Finance
7 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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