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Sam Blond
Sam Blond is a go-to-market operator turned founder who built his reputation scaling startup sales teams. He was VP of Sales at Zenefits and Chief Revenue Officer at Brex, where he helped drive revenue from near zero to roughly $400M ARR. After an 18-month run as a partner at Founders Fund, he decided investing was not his fit and went back to operating. In 2026 he co-founded and now leads Monaco, an AI-native sales platform for startups, alongside his brother Brian Blond.
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.
Kushal Byatnal
Kushal Byatnal is the co-founder and CEO of Extend, a New York company building a full-stack cloud for document processing. Extend turns messy PDFs, images, and emails into production-ready structured data using vision models, large language models, and human-in-the-loop tooling, and is used by teams at Brex, Chime, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, and Checkr. A two-time technical founder and Duke computer science graduate, Byatnal was an early engineer at Brex and co-founded the creator fintech Stir before starting Extend in 2023. In June 2025 the company raised $17 million led by Innovation Endeavors.
AJ Asver
AJ Asver is the founder and CEO of Parcha, the San Francisco startup behind Grep, an AI 'expert engine' for serious business research and due diligence. A four-time founder, Oxford computer scientist and former DJ, he sold his first company to Google at 25, then built fintech products at Coinbase and Brex before spending six months teaching himself modern AI and launching Parcha in 2023 with a $5M seed round. Parcha cut its teeth automating compliance for fintechs like Airwallex and Flutterwave, then pivoted into Grep, pitched as 'the MacBook Pro of AI - a place where serious work gets done.'
Nick Freeman
Nick Freeman is the co-founder, co-CEO and CTO of Marco Experiences, a San Francisco and New York company that helps companies plan and book team offsites, retreats and group experiences. Before Marco he was one of the founding backend engineers on Instagram Stories, where he helped scale the product from launch to 500 million daily users, and he shipped Cortana for Xbox One at Microsoft. A UC Berkeley computer science and economics graduate, he left Brex in 2020 to build Marco with Suman Siva on the bet that, done thoughtfully, technology can build community. Marco now serves 800+ companies including Meta, Bain and Netflix.
Pranjal Daga
Pranjal Daga is the co-founder and CEO of Accend (YC S23), a San Francisco fintech building human-in-the-loop AI agents for commercial credit underwriting and compliance at banks and fintechs. Before Accend he led AI product on the Risk team at Brex, where his work helped prevent roughly $20M in fraud losses, and earlier helped build Cisco Innovation Labs from a single person to a 35-person team. He dropped out of a PhD in AI/ML at Purdue to chase the build, has done research at Adobe and IBM, and is racing to replace slow, manual back-office compliance work with audit-ready AI.
Prabhav Jain
Prabhav Jain is the CEO of 11x, a San Francisco-based AI company building autonomous digital workers for revenue teams, backed by a16z with $102M raised. A three-time founder and MIT CS alumnus, he sold his second company CommonLounge to Brex in 2020, rose to Head of Engineering for Financial Services there, then joined 11x as CTO in 2024 before stepping up to CEO in May 2025. He is also an angel investor in 45+ companies and an a16z Scout.
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.
Pedro Franceschi
Pedro Franceschi is the co-founder and CEO of Brex, the corporate credit card company valued at over $10 billion and acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in 2026. A Brazilian programming prodigy who jailbroke the iPhone 3G at 13 and co-founded payments processor Pagar.me at 16, Franceschi dropped out of Stanford after one year to build Brex with co-founder Henrique Dubugras. Under his leadership, Brex grew from a Y Combinator startup in 2017 to serving thousands of high-growth companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, and Carta, fundamentally transforming how startups access corporate credit.