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Lilac Bar David
Lilac Bar David is the co-founder and CEO of Lili, a New York based financial platform that folds banking, invoicing, accounting and tax tools into a single app for small business owners. A banking and payments veteran of roughly two decades, she previously co-founded Pepper, Israel's first mobile bank, before launching Lili in 2018-2019 with Liran Zelkha. Under her leadership Lili has served hundreds of thousands of freelancers and small businesses, raised about $80 million from investors including Group 11 and Foundation Capital, and in recent years built out an Accountant AI tool while shifting focus toward larger, multi-employee businesses.
Lyndsey Bunting
Lyndsey Bunting is the CEO and co-founder of Blue Onion, a New York-based financial data platform that automates reconciliation and bookkeeping for retail and ecommerce brands. A Wharton-trained finance operator who served as VP of Finance at Birchbox and CFO at Resonance Companies, she started Blue Onion in 2020 to fix the messy, manual reconciliation work she lived through every month. The company went through Y Combinator, has reconciled more than $30 billion in transactions across 200-plus brands, and raised a $10 million Series A led by Viola FinTech in 2025 to build the clean data layer that AI-powered finance teams will run on.
Ahmad Ibrahim
Ahmad Ibrahim is the co-founder and CEO of Neo.Tax, a Mountain View startup using AI to automate the messy, rule-heavy work of tax filing - starting with the R&D tax credit. A UC Berkeley economics and philosophy grad who built QuickBooks Accountant at Intuit and once ran operations for a Yemeni specialty coffee company, he raised roughly $13M to make the part of taxes everyone hates disappear. His thesis: you can't hallucinate in taxes, so point the AI at the business, not the tax code.
Albert Malikov
Albert Malikov is the founder and CEO of Stacks, a London-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise accounting and the month-end financial close. A former Head of International Product at Plaid and a product lead on Uber's Money team, he raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026, less than a year after emerging from stealth, with customers including Epidemic Sound, Pleo and Bloom & Wild closing their books 50-60% faster.
Sidharth Saxena
Sidharth Saxena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docyt, a Santa Clara-based AI accounting automation platform serving small and medium-sized businesses. An IIT Guwahati industrial design graduate who later earned a master's from Indiana University, he spent years as a UX designer at Oracle and VMware before co-founding Docyt with fellow IIT alumnus Sugam Pandey in 2016. Under his leadership, Docyt has raised $27.2M in total funding - including a $12M pre-Series B in August 2025 - and built its proprietary High Precision Accounting Intelligence (HpAI) engine trained on 128 billion data points across 20+ industry verticals, delivering 90%+ reductions in accounting review time for its clients.