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Gunbir Sethi Gauba and the value of a better question
After a career in investment banking and equity research, Gunbir Sethi Gauba co-founded InSync Analytics. Her next chapter pairs AI with the human judgment that financial models still require.
LHoFT wants banks to share their homework
Luxembourg’s fintech hub is tackling the work financial firms keep repeating. Its toolkit now stretches from a shared-data competition to an AI showroom and investment opportunities for financial-inclusion startups.
Tamir Sigal Wants Marketing to Give People Their Time Back
The Trintech CMO has spent nearly three decades translating difficult software into human stakes. His method mixes customer evidence, disciplined alignment and a standing invitation to make a new mistake.
Brad Rosenfeld Is Making the Complicated Parts of Finance Easier to Act On
His career has moved through affinity marketing, payments, digital identity and private-market software. Now back at Biz2X, Brad Rosenfeld is applying the same practical idea to AI-powered lending: technology matters when people can understand it, trust it and use it.
Anita Samojednik Is Teaching AI When to Ask an Accountant
After two decades running marketplaces and customer operations, Paro's CEO is betting that the future of finance belongs to algorithms that know their limits - and experts who know what to do next.
Anubhav Kaushal Has Spent 20 Years Learning Where Finance Gets Stuck
From writing software at D. E. Shaw to helping 9fin scale an AI-native credit platform, AK Kaushal has built a career around one stubborn question: how do you make complicated financial systems actually move?
The VC Fund Whose Limited Partners Are Also Its Portfolio's First Customers
Most venture funds hand founders a check and a Rolodex. Canapi Ventures hands them roughly 70 banks that write the check and then become customers.
The $4.6 Trillion Bank That Runs on Software
It moves trillions of dollars a day, employs more engineers than most tech companies, and answers to one of the longest-serving CEOs on Wall Street. Here is how a 227-year-old bank became a software business that happens to hold your deposits.
Cody Barbo
Cody Barbo is the founder and CEO of Trust & Will, the leading digital estate planning and settlement platform in the United States. A two-time founder from San Diego, he launched Trust & Will in 2017 to make wills, trusts, and estate planning affordable and accessible for everyday families. Under his leadership the company has grown past one million users, raised more than $80 million in venture capital, and partners with names like AARP, Northwestern Mutual, UBS, and USAA. Before Trust & Will he founded Industry, a professional network for the hospitality sector, and served as CEO and president of Associated Students at San Diego State University.
9fin
9fin is a London-based, AI-native intelligence platform for the global debt markets. Founded in 2016 by former banker Steven Hunter and former engineer Huss El-Sheikh, it uses machine learning to extract structured data from dense financial documents and pairs that data with news, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Its platform covers leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, and asset-based finance, and is used by investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, and advisors. In March 2026 the company raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation.
Jason Eiswerth
Jason Eiswerth is the CEO of Canoe Intelligence, a New York-based financial technology company that uses machine learning to ingest, categorize, extract, and validate alternative investment documents and data for more than 400 investment firms. A technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of senior management experience, he took the helm in 2020 and has since guided Canoe through multiple funding rounds, including a $36 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2024, while positioning the company as core infrastructure for the alternatives industry.
Karthik Nandyal
Karthik Nandyal is the co-founder and co-CEO of CredCore, a New York vertical-AI company building an end-to-end platform for the roughly $5 trillion enterprise debt capital markets. A two-time founder and long-time capital markets technologist, he previously ran product and R&D for Reliance Jio's Financial Innovation Group and held roles at BNP Paribas, Instinet (Reuters), and IBM, and earlier co-founded the fashion visual-search startup Styloot. In February 2025 CredCore raised a $16M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and its AI platform now supports oversight of more than $650B in assets under management.
Ken Sena
Ken Sena is the CEO and co-founder of Aiera, a New York-based generative AI platform that turns earnings calls, investor presentations, and corporate events into real-time transcriptions, sentiment analysis, and decision-grade insights for institutional investors. A former Wall Street internet analyst who led global internet research coverage at Evercore ISI and Wells Fargo Securities, Sena launched Aiera in 2018 to apply machine learning to the research workflow he had spent two decades inside. The company now covers more than 13,000 equities, processes tens of thousands of public events a year, and closed a $25 million Series B in June 2025 backed by ten of Wall Street's largest research firms with Microsoft as its strategic technology partner.
Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor is a fintech operator, writer, and speaker who built the #1 weekly fintech newsletter Fintech Brainfood to 45,000+ subscribers while holding senior roles at Barclays, co-founding 11:FS (UK's leading fintech consultancy), and most recently joining Tempo - the Stripe and Paradigm-incubated payments blockchain - as GTM Lead. His famous thesis 'Fintech is only 1% finished' captured an industry's imagination, and his independently-written weekend newsletter has become required reading for bankers, founders, and investors globally.