Jaimeson Rice is the CEO of Pinwheel, the New York fintech that has positioned itself as the income layer for financial services, connecting banks and fintechs to over 1,500 payroll platforms covering nearly 80% of U.S. paychecks. He stepped into the top job in July 2025 after three years as the company's CFO and chief of staff, succeeding co-founder Kurtis Lin. A Princeton engineer and Harvard MBA who passed through Goldman Sachs and Bain before founding his own SaaS CRM startup, Vlaris, Rice is now steering Pinwheel through marquee wins with KeyBank, Robinhood, DoorDash, and MoneyLion and the launch of its Switch Kit and Bill Navigator products.
Tod Sacerdoti is a two-time founder and prolific seed investor. He built BrightRoll into a video ad-tech powerhouse that Yahoo bought for $640 million in 2014, then reassembled the band to start Pipedream, a developer integration platform that Workday acquired in early 2026. As a general partner at Flex Capital he has backed 400-plus companies at the seed stage, including Chime, Vercel, Replit and Mercury.