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Fintech Founder Directory

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

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 and President of Remote, a global HR and payroll platform. Previously served as COO and CTO at the company, helping scale it from the early stages.

FundedWeb3TechnicalResearch
3 VCs
M
Michael Fowlie
@mwfowlie

Big Tech and high-frequency trading engineer turned consultant and AI startup founder. Known for contrarian takes on tech, AI, finance, and geopolitics.

Technical
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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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
3 VCs
V
Vivek Krishnan
@viv_krishnan

Former PE fund manager and GE Capital executive turned CEO of SSS Defence, a defense company. Previously led acquisitions across Asia growth markets and worked in commercial real estate. Blogs about global economics and finance.

FinanceContent
3 VCs
J
Joseph Gross
@josephgross157

MIT EECS grad who worked at Jump Trading and Tesla, now building Cognition.

FundedTechnical
2 VCs
J
Josiah Senu
@josiahsenu

Fellow at EWOR and scout at Moxxie Ventures, now co-founder and CEO of Zuba, a fintech startup backed by 6+ unicorn fintech founders working to make money move faster.

Operations
2 VCs
J
Jay Malavia
@thejay

UIUC CS grad and CEO of KairosTradeX. Previously worked as a data scientist at Geneva Trading and quant research intern at Cboe Global Markets, with prior experience at NASA and in high-frequency trading.

Web3TechnicalResearchStudent
2 VCs
K

Building AI sales agents for the insurance industry at Kinro.

Founder
2 VCs
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