Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, an agentic AI platform for financial crime prevention and AML compliance headquartered in San Francisco. With a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and career stints at Coinbase (as Head of Risk) and Revolut (Head of Financial Crime), he channeled over 15 years of fraud-fighting expertise into Sardine, which has raised $145.6M and grown to 300+ enterprise customers. Sardine's behavioral biometrics and device intelligence platform now profiles 2.2+ billion devices, making it one of the most comprehensive financial crime databases in existence.
DataWalk is a graph- and AI-enabled analysis and investigation platform that unifies disparate data sources so analysts at banks, insurers, and government agencies can spot hidden relationships, run no-code queries, and pursue fraud, money laundering, and threat investigations at scale.
Nuno Sebastiao is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Feedzai, the AI-native RiskOps platform protecting over $70 billion in annual payment volume across 190 countries. A former European Space Agency aerospace engineer turned fintech disruptor, he co-founded Feedzai in Portugal in 2011 alongside Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro. Under his leadership, Feedzai reached unicorn status in 2021, hit a $2 billion valuation in 2025, and was selected by the European Central Bank to power fraud detection for the digital euro. A multilingual polymath fluent in four languages, Nuno was ranked #1 in Portugal's 40 Under 40, named Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, and has shared stages with Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, and Richard Branson.
Tyler Allen is the CEO of Unit21, the AI risk infrastructure company he helped build from the ground up as its founding software engineer in 2019. Starting by writing Unit21's earliest lines of code, he progressed through Head of AI and COO before being appointed CEO in April 2026, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari. Under his AI leadership, customer usage of Unit21's AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter. Unit21's platform now handles over 200,000 monthly reviews, has detected $14 billion in suspicious activity, and files approximately 5% of all U.S. SARs submitted to FinCEN.
Esteban Castano is the Co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company he built into a billion-dollar unicorn on a mission to fight crypto crime. A Dartmouth-educated, Stanford MBA dropout, Castano co-founded TRM in 2018 after recognizing that the coming wave of digital asset adoption would need a trust layer - a platform to detect fraud, trace illicit funds, and keep crypto safe for governments, banks, and legitimate users. With $279.9M raised, clients including Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, and the US Department of Justice, and the world's first FedRAMP High-authorized blockchain intelligence platform, TRM Labs now sits at the center of crypto's fight against money laundering, terrorism financing, and organized crime.
Gabe Gotthard is the CEO of DataWalk Inc., a graph analytics and AI-powered investigation platform used by top U.S. and European banks, national security agencies, and defense organizations to detect fraud, money laundering, and organized crime. With over 33 years in enterprise IT - including a stint at 3ParData (acquired by HP for $2.5B) where he coined 'utility storage' - Gotthard now leads a Wrocław-born, Silicon Valley-validated company that has displaced Palantir at the U.S. Department of Justice and earned Ally Financial's 2023 Technology Disruptor Award. Based in Redwood City, California, he is building DataWalk into a leading global alternative to Palantir for government and financial-sector intelligence work.