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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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

Founder
5 VCs
A
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
5 VCs
D
Dan Piemont
@danpiemont

MIT physics and economics grad who co-founded ABL Space Systems and served as President for 8 years. Now founder and CEO of Long Wall.

FundedTechnicalProductResearchFinanceBizDev
4 VCs
M
Maxim Enis
@maxim_enis

Software engineer at Ramp turned co-founder/CEO of Habitat, working on scaling reinforcement learning. Previously interned as an algorithm engineer at Hudson River Trading.

TechnicalResearch
4 VCs
W
Weilyn Chong
@weilynchong

Princeton grad and Z Fellows alum, co-founder of swsh. Currently a Meta ABCS Fellow and hosts The Venture Equity Project podcast at Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center.

FundedDesignProductResearchOperationsFinanceStudent
4 VCs
A
Ariel Givner
@givnerariel

IP & corporate attorney in FinTech and legal counsel at MonkeDAO. Founder of Givner Law and currently building TruIP. Villanova Law alum.

Web3Legal
4 VCs
O
Owen Botkin
@owenbotkin

Former long/short equity analyst at Balyasny Asset Management, now co-founder of Forum (YC W26).

FundedSalesFinance
4 VCs
Z
Zoe Zou
@zoe_zouyi

Oxford grad and ex-Blackstone & JP Morgan professional turned AI fintech founder, currently building AI solutions for private credit at a stealth startup.

Finance
4 VCs

CS student at Northwestern working as Claude Builder Ambassador at Anthropic, Growth Lead at Partiful, and Venture Scout at Mangusta Capital. Junior Olympic Bronze Medalist in gymnastics with 10k followers on LinkedIn.

TechnicalDesignProductResearchMarketingSalesFinanceStudent
4 VCs
A
Archer Lin
@archerlin__

Building humanoids at a stealth startup. Incoming NVIDIA ML engineer. Previously PM at Tesla and AI consultant at Deloitte. Currently doing AI research at Purdue University.

TechnicalProductResearchFinance
4 VCs
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