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Percent
Percent is a New York-based fintech company building the technology infrastructure for the private credit market. Its platform digitizes the full lifecycle of private credit transactions - sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing - connecting corporate and asset-based borrowers, underwriters and accredited investors on a single, transparent marketplace. Founded in 2018 (originally as Cadence) by Nelson Chu, Percent has powered roughly $2 billion in transaction volume and offers short-duration, high-yield private credit deals with lower minimums than traditional channels.
Rakesh Goyal
Rakesh Goyal is the co-founder and CEO of Velt, a Y Combinator (W22) startup building the collaboration layer for the internet. Velt ships a full-stack SDK that lets product teams drop contextual comments, notifications, presence, huddles, async recordings and CRDT-based multiplayer editing into their apps in days instead of months. Before Velt he spent roughly nine years as a product manager at Google, where he helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Search and worked across Payments, Access and the Next Billion Users initiative. He frames Velt's ambition simply: what Okta is to auth and Algolia is to search, Velt wants to be to collaboration.