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Arad Levertov Turned One Awkward “No” Into Millions of Better Answers
A declined store card gave the immigrant fintech executive a problem worth keeping. His answer was Sunbit - built at the counter, scaled through merchants, and disciplined by an operator’s allergy to waste.
Meidad Sharon
Meidad Sharon is the founder and CEO of ChargeAfter, a white-label embedded consumer financing platform that connects merchants to a network of lenders and routes each shopper to the best available offer in real time. He started the company in 2016 after six years running sales at SafeCharge (now Nuvei), where merchants kept asking him the same thing: help us finance our customers. ChargeAfter has raised roughly $62M and counts Citi Retail Services among its partners.
Roshan Patel
Roshan Patel is the co-founder and CEO of Arrow, a New York-based healthcare payments company (formerly Walnut) that uses AI to detect claim errors, accelerate reimbursement, and give revenue cycle teams real-time visibility into what payers are doing. He built the original company as a buy-now-pay-later product for medical bills after watching a family member's bills pile up, raised a $110 million Series A led by Gradient Ventures in 2022, then pivoted the business toward provider-side claims infrastructure and rebranded to Arrow in 2024.
Chris Boudreaux
Chris Boudreaux is a fintech professional and co-founder associated with Cherry (withcherry.com), a San Francisco-based healthcare financing platform trusted by over 60,000 medical providers across the United States. Cherry enables patients to access flexible, interest-free payment plans for elective medical procedures - dental, plastic surgery, medspas, and veterinary care - while giving providers same-day upfront payment. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Boudreaux operates at the intersection of financial technology and healthcare access, helping expand Cherry's reach across the healthcare provider ecosystem.
Felix Steinmeyer
Felix Steinmeyer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cherry, the leading buy-now-pay-later platform built specifically for healthcare and wellness providers. A Stanford MBA with dual master's degrees, he previously co-founded and sold Mason Finance before turning his attention to the underserved gap between patients who need care and their ability to pay for it. Under his leadership, Cherry has grown to serve 60,000+ providers, raised a Series B of $44M in 2022, and in April 2025 achieved a valuation exceeding $2 billion with a Series C round - making it one of the most significant vertical BNPL players in healthcare.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, where he served as CTO and helped build one of the world's first large-scale digital payment systems. He later founded Slide (acquired by Google for $182M), Glow (women's health app, 25M users), and most prominently Affirm - the publicly traded buy-now-pay-later leader with $3.22B in FY2025 revenue. Levchin is also a cryptography advocate (creator of the Levchin Prize), early Yelp investor and chairman, and co-founder of SciFi VC with his wife Nellie.