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Daniel Alberson Left Meta to Give Auditors Their Time Back
An EY audit desk taught him where the hours disappeared. A water-park wristband taught him how software could wait in line for people. Now the former Meta product manager is turning both lessons into Punchcard, while insisting the final judgment must stay human.
Shruti Gupta
Shruti Gupta is the founder and CEO of Zania, a Palo Alto startup building agentic AI 'teammates' that execute governance, risk, and compliance work end to end. Before founding Zania in 2023, she spent years inside security teams at Microsoft Identity, Airbnb, Instacart, and Brex, moving from founding security engineer to CISO. In September 2025 Zania raised an $18 million Series A led by NEA, backed by the Anthology Fund (Menlo Ventures and Anthropic) and a syndicate of operators from Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, and PwC. Her pitch is simple: stop shipping compliance tools that organize work, and start shipping AI that does the work.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scrut Automation, a SaaS-based GRC platform that automates compliance and risk management for mid-market and enterprise companies. A former McKinsey consultant and IIT Ropar / ISB graduate, he co-built Scrut after experiencing firsthand how compliance bottlenecks stall enterprise sales - discovering the solution while trying to sell a different product entirely. Under his leadership, Scrut has grown to 800+ customers globally, raised $20.5M from Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, and Endiya Partners, earned a LinkedIn Top 20 Startup 2024 ranking, and been recognized by G2 as a fastest-growing and highest-satisfaction product in security compliance.
Jin Chang
Jin Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fieldguide, the leading AI platform for audit and advisory firms. A former EY practitioner and CPA, he tried to leave accounting multiple times before founding Fieldguide in 2020, channeling firsthand frustration with clunky tools into a $700M-valued company now serving half of the top 100 U.S. CPA firms. With $125M raised - including a $75M Series C from Goldman Sachs in February 2026 - Chang is rewriting how accountants work at a moment when the profession faces an existential talent crisis.