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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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Vlad Matsiiako
@matsiiako

Cornell grad and former engineer at Figma, now co-founder and CEO of Infisical, helping developers secure their secrets. YC alum building developer tooling after experience at both fintech and design platforms.

FundedTechnical
6 VCs
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Jessica Chen Riolfi
@jesschenriolfi

Dartmouth and Harvard Business School alum who worked as Head of Product at Earnin and product consultant at Robinhood. Now co-founder and CEO of Uprise, democratizing financial optimization for everyone.

FundedWeb3ProductFinance
6 VCs
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Justin Fox
@jfox___

Co-founder of Special, previously worked at DOGE and has a background in finance.

Finance
6 VCs

Currently building something new. Previously worked in data at HRT (Hudson River Trading). Describes themselves as a "mad scientist by design."

Founder
5 VCs
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Rathin Shah
@shahrathin

BITS Pilani grad and repeat founder who built Spenny (YC-backed expense management platform) as Co-founder & CEO before its acquisition by CRED. Previously co-founded Recopro and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First.

FundedFinanceBizDev
5 VCs
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Utsav Shah
@suputsav

Co-founder & CEO of Kaaj AI, working at the intersection of AI and fintech.

Founder
5 VCs
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Chan Akireddy
@chan_akireddy

Product manager at Robinhood working on special projects. Previously led finance & strategy at the company before moving into product management.

ProductFinance
5 VCs
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Langston Nashold
@langstonnashold

Former SWE intern at Facebook and algorithm engineering intern at Hudson River Trading, now co-founder and CTO of Vals AI.

Technical
5 VCs
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Bolun Li
@i_am_bolun

Built and sold fintech startup Zogo at 22 for $36M. Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient now working on Vamo as founder and CEO.

Funded
5 VCs
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Justin Bebis
@justinbebis

Founder of uv, building AI models for long-horizon financial tasks. The technology is available to try on Cod3x. Background spans AI, fintech, and cybersecurity.

Web3
4 VCs
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