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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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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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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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Zoe Zou
@zoe_zouyi

AI fintech founder building AI solutions for private credit. Oxford grad with experience at Blackstone and JPMorgan, passionate about AI, finance, and entrepreneurship.

Finance
4 VCs
C

Building @irisfinanceco. Previously worked in data roles at Grüns, Tecovas, and Farfetch.

Web3Finance
4 VCs
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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
D
Devan
@dshahh

Founder and CEO of Rnav8, working to democratize access to engineered RNA therapeutics for any disease. Shares insights on medicine, biotech, and finance.

Finance
4 VCs
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Som Mohapatra
@som_mohapatra

Repeat founder building Hadrius (YC W23) to automate SEC compliance with AI. Previously founded Quantbase, which was acquired.

FundedFinance
4 VCs
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Vivek Krishnan
@viv_krishnan

Entrepreneur and CEO of SSS Defence, a defense company. Also works as a fund manager and writes about global economics and finance. Ironman triathlete in his spare time.

Finance
4 VCs
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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
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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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