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Zachary Garippa
Zachary Garippa is the co-founder and CEO of Order.co, the New York B2B spend-management and guided-purchasing platform he started in 2016 as Negotiatus. A Boston College finance grad who once worked a Morgan Stanley desk and a luxury-building door, Garippa built Order into a company connecting 40,000-plus vendors, serving 300-plus customers, and processing nearly half a billion dollars in annualized spend. He rises at 3:30 a.m., says he is 'trying to build the greatest company New York has ever seen,' and is chasing a Series C to get there.
Ofer Feldman
Ofer Feldman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stampli, a Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation company he co-founded with his brother Eyal Feldman in 2015. A computer engineer by training from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ofer spent over a decade building software across defense, enterprise, and healthcare sectors before channeling that depth into Stampli. Under his technical leadership, Stampli has grown to process over $100 billion in invoices annually for 1,600+ businesses, raised $145.7 million in total funding including a $61M Series D led by Blackstone in 2023, and pioneered Cognitive AI that brings human-level PO matching to finance teams worldwide.
Shawn Lane
Shawn Lane is the Chief Executive Officer of Ottimate, an AI-powered accounts payable automation and payments platform serving mid-market businesses across hospitality, healthcare, construction, retail, and manufacturing. With more than 30 years of experience scaling enterprise SaaS and supply chain software companies - from Procter & Gamble to i2 Technologies to E2open - Lane brings rare operational depth to one of fintech's fastest-growing categories. His career is a through-line of companies that challenged legacy processes with intelligent automation, and Ottimate is his biggest stage yet.
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.
Barrett Boston
Barrett Boston is the former Chief Executive Officer of Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ), a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounts payable automation platform. Appointed CEO in October 2021 following FTV Capital's majority investment, Boston transformed the company from a restaurant-focused invoice tool into a multi-industry AP automation leader serving hospitality, healthcare, grocery, retail, construction, and manufacturing sectors. Under his leadership, Ottimate rebranded from Plate IQ, raised $160 million in Series B funding, launched an industry-first AI engine for AP, and introduced Conversational AP - an AI assistant for finance teams. Boston stepped down in March 2026, passing the CEO role to Shawn Lane. His career spans IBM, TravelClick, TriNet, and Merrill Lynch, with an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Duke University.
Eyal Feldman
Eyal Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Stampli, the Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation platform that processes over $100 billion in annual invoices for 1,700+ enterprises. A former SAP implementation specialist turned fintech founder, Feldman built Stampli around a simple belief: that AP should be a collaborative process, not a bureaucratic bottleneck. Under his leadership, Stampli has raised $145.7M in total funding, earned the #10 Best CEO of 2024 recognition from Comparably, and become a G2 Leader in 9 categories for AP automation software.