
He began by auditing accounts receivable, taught himself to code through games, and arrived at Monk with an unusually useful question: how do you automate money without losing the evidence?

Across Amazon, American Express, Klarna, ComplyAdvantage and Versapay, Elizabeth Bramlage has built a career translating financial machinery into stories people can use - and teams can act on.

The former Tennessee long snapper now runs PAYRA, a Nashville fintech built for businesses that cannot pause to replace the systems keeping their money moving.

A mechanical engineer, a failed crypto startup and a hundred nervous cold messages led Caitlin Leksana to an overlooked corner of finance. Now she is building Fazeshift around a deceptively hard question: why is getting paid still managed by hand?

After selling one startup and learning to scale products inside Freshworks, Gopalan went looking for an unglamorous, expensive problem. He found it in the gap between revenue on paper and cash in the bank.
Rohit Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Auditoria.AI, a Santa Clara startup that builds AI agents for corporate finance teams. A serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years in enterprise software, he previously founded the cloud-security company Palerra (acquired by Oracle in 2016) and ran the Remedy IT Service Management division at BMC Software. He started Auditoria in 2019 to bring automation to the back office of finance, and in 2025 raised a $38M Series B to push the company into the agentic-AI era.
Ali Hussain is the CEO and co-founder of Tabs, a New York based startup building AI agents that automate the messy contract-to-cash side of B2B finance: billing, collections, and revenue recognition. He founded the company in 2023 after watching accounts receivable break at scale as COO of Latch (later DOOR), and earlier worked at Boston Consulting Group, Google, and the U.S. Congress. In September 2025 Tabs raised a $55M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to launch its first Billing and Collections agents, bringing total funding to roughly $92M.
Victor Lopez is the co-founder and CEO of FlexPoint, a payments-automation platform built for managed service providers and the small businesses they serve. A former finance lawyer turned private-credit principal at Owl Rock/Blue Owl Capital, he left the world of middle-market lending to attack a less glamorous problem: getting small businesses paid faster. Founded in 2022 and launched in 2023, FlexPoint raised a $12M Series A led by Foundry Group in 2025 and now handles payments for tens of thousands of businesses.
Grant Halloran is the Chief Executive Officer of Billtrust, the B2B accounts receivable workflow and payments company. He stepped into the role in December 2025 after a multi-year run as CEO of Planful, where he tripled revenue and doubled both the customer base and headcount. A 25-year enterprise software operator, he has held senior roles at Anaplan, Infor, Heavy.ai (formerly OmniSci / MapD), and co-founded the SaaS marketing platform Orbis with his brother in Australia in the late 1990s.
Eli Chait is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wholesail, a San Francisco-based B2B payment risk management platform modernizing accounts receivable for food and beverage distributors. His origin story is unusually grounded: at age 12, he was entering invoices for his father's restaurant in Los Angeles. That early hands-on encounter with the pain of paper-based B2B trade became the north star for his entire career - from co-founding Copilot (a restaurant analytics startup acquired by OpenTable) to leading Wholesail through a $22.6M Series A. With a team of repeat entrepreneurs forged at OpenTable, Wholesail is building the credit and payments network for the $1+ trillion US food distribution market.