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Jonathan Awad Is Teaching Finance to Trust Strangers Again
His parents arrived in America without a file that could vouch for them. Decades later, the Baselayer co-founder is building the machinery that decides which businesses - and now which AI agents - deserve to be believed.
Kendall Warson Learned to Sell the Invisible
She trained in fashion, filled rooms with immersive art, and cold-pitched hundreds of investors. Now Kendall Warson is applying a curator's eye to one of business's least glamorous problems: getting invoices paid.
Dustin Sedgwick Keeps Making Invisible Businesses Feel Like the Main Event
He helped turn Surface into a sports story, made corporate payments fill arenas, and now wants professional firms to hear the music in their own data. Dustin Sedgwick's specialty is giving backstage machinery a front-row seat.
Dom Okiemute Is Selling African Fintech Something Priceless: Less Anxiety
After a decade inside banking and fintech, the Miden CEO has reduced his product philosophy to one Nigerian business truth: reliable money movement is peace of mind.
Carlos Medellin Is Making Money Keep Trucking After the Banks Clock Out
The former CFO behind Coba is turning the US-Mexico border from a banking obstacle into an operating detail - starting with the freight companies that cannot wait for Monday morning.
Mark Schacknies Keeps Building the Same Machine - Only Faster
Across property booms, platform pivots and two exits, the NFTYDoor co-founder has kept returning to one stubborn question: why does moving money through real estate still require so much friction? His answer is equal parts software, distribution and knowing exactly whom the product must serve.
Ron Gaver
Ron Gaver is the co-founder and CEO of Tapcheck, a Plano, Texas fintech that lets hourly workers pull earned wages before payday. He runs the company with his wife Kayling Gaver, having spent 14 years operating a real estate development firm before pivoting to payroll technology in 2019. Under his leadership Tapcheck has moved more than $1 billion in early wages across roughly 12,000 employer locations and raised $225 million in equity and debt in April 2025.
Ren Riley
Ren Riley is a General Partner at Fin Capital, a San Francisco-based B2B fintech-focused venture capital firm managing over $800 million in assets. With 25+ years in financial services and 20+ years in venture capital, Riley brings deep sector expertise spanning enterprise AI, banktech, payments, and risk technology. He joined Fin Capital in November 2020 and was promoted to General Partner in January 2023, where he sources and leads primary and co-investment opportunities. Previously, he was a General Partner at Oak Investment Partners (1999-2015), a Partner/CEO at Robertson Stephens (2015-2019), and co-founded Enclave Liquidity Partners (2019-2022), a firm providing liquidity solutions to late-stage private company stakeholders. Fin Capital exclusively backs repeat founders and invests across the full startup lifecycle from pre-seed through IPO.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis is a General Partner at Canapi Ventures, a fintech-focused venture capital firm with over $1.29B in total funding. Based in San Francisco, he leads the firm's West Coast operations and sits on its investment committee, focusing on early- to growth-stage investments in financial technology and B2B software. With nearly two decades spanning Morgan Stanley investment banking, General Atlantic, and Centana Growth Partners, Davis brings rare fluency across the capital stack - from traditional banking relationships to cutting-edge fintech infrastructure. He joined Canapi in November 2023 to open their first San Francisco office, signaling the firm's push deeper into Silicon Valley's fintech ecosystem.
Henrique Dubugras
Henrique Dubugras is the Brazilian co-founder of Brex, the corporate card and spend management company he built from a Y Combinator pivot at age 21 into a $12.3B peak-valuation fintech unicorn - ultimately acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in 2026. He taught himself to code at 12 to avoid paying for a Korean MMO, sold his first payments company (Pagar.me) at 20 while processing $1.5B annually, dropped out of Stanford after 8 months, and found his billion-dollar idea by simply failing to get a credit card for his own startup. Now operating in stealth, he has said he found his 'calling' again.
Rex Salisbury
Rex Salisbury is the founder and solo general partner of Cambrian Ventures, a $20M early-stage fintech fund born out of one of the largest fintech founder communities in the US. A former Merrill Lynch banker turned bootcamp-trained software engineer turned a16z partner, Rex built his reputation by running grassroots fintech meetups for years before a single dollar of fund capital. His Cambrian newsletter reaches 20,000 subscribers, his founder-only Slack has 1,100+ members, and his Fund I achieved a ~50% seed-to-Series A graduation rate against a 15.4% industry average. Early backer of Deel, now a $10B+ decacorn.