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Samantha Malone
Samantha Malone is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Farther, the New York-based wealthtech that turned unicorn in early 2026 on the back of a $150M Series D led by General Atlantic. She joined roughly five months before the round closed - her first startup - after an MBA at Chicago Booth and stints at McKinsey, Skydio, GoDaddy, and Apple's global finance projects. A Bay Area kid who commuted through Santa Clara's business school a year early, she is the person building the deck, running the room, and stitching the operating rhythm as Farther scales past $23B in recruited assets.
Nicholas D'Andre
Nicholas D'Andre is the CEO and co-founder of GridMatrix, a San Francisco-founded software company that turns a city's existing traffic cameras and sensors into a real-time, AI-driven nervous system for roads, tunnels, ports and airports. A supply-chain operator turned infrastructure entrepreneur, he spent years buying sensors and RF components at Apple and forecasting demand at Amazon and Google before deciding the bigger problem was the analog infrastructure those devices lived inside. GridMatrix was selected from more than 150 global startups by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and now runs on landmarks like the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the George Washington Bridge, spotting near-misses, congestion and emissions before they become headlines.