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Blooms
Blooms is an AI-driven trade finance platform that gives Latin American fresh-produce exporters faster access to working capital, cross-border factoring, and multi-currency payments as they ship fruits and vegetables into the US and Canada. Founded by fintech veteran Francisco Mere, the company purchases exporters' US receivables, absorbs the credit risk stateside, and advances up to 80% of an invoice within 24 hours - smoothing the cash-flow gap that has long strangled growers who sell perishable goods across borders. It raised a $2.6M seed round in May 2025 led by agritech VC SP Ventures.
Zaid Rahman
Zaid Rahman is the founder and CEO of Flex, an AI-native private bank and finance super app targeting mid-market business owners with $3M-$100M in revenue. A Thiel Fellow who left Columbia University to build companies, he previously founded Volley (an AI knowledge startup backed by JPMorgan and Zuckerberg Ventures) and an EdTech platform that was acquired. Inspired by watching his father's Dubai construction business nearly collapse due to a payment default, he co-founded Flex in 2022 to build the all-in-one financial platform that mid-market owners never had. Flex has raised $490.5M in total funding, reached $3B in annualized TPV, and became the first US fintech to launch a Visa Infinite Business credit card.