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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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Owen Botkin
@owenbotkin

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

FundedSalesFinance
4 VCs
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Tuomas Holmberg
@tuomholmberg

Co-founder and CEO of Collector Crypt, focused on the trading card game (TCG) collecting space. Self-described big dreamer with a passion for TCG collecting.

Web3
4 VCs
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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
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Justin 🅿ebis
@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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Cogsec
@affaan

Compute trading lead at Jump Trading and co-founder of Itoma Markets. Creator of ECC (The Operating System for Agent Harnesses) which has gained significant traction with 256k+ stars.

Technical
4 VCs
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Christopher Jones
@dr_chrisjones

US Navy veteran and Caltech PhD turned founder, now CEO at Suitebriar. Previously worked at Google and serves as guest lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas. Building AI for behavioral health and startup tooling.

ResearchSalesFinanceBizDev
4 VCs

Harvard grad who moved from quant trading to post-training research at OpenAI.

Research
3 VCs
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Marcelo Lebre
@marcelolebre

Co-founder & President at Remote, building global payroll infrastructure to help companies hire and pay employees worldwide.

Funded
3 VCs
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Georgi Koreli
@gegelz

2x Stanford grad and 2x Sambo World Champion, now CEO and Co-Founder at Hinkal. Also founder of SV Icons since 2021.

Web3ResearchFinance
3 VCs
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Alex Recouso
@recouso

Co-founder & CEO at Passport, focused on financial services with the philosophy that "cash is king, but passport is queen."

Web3
3 VCs
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