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Sophia Goldberg
Sophia Goldberg is the co-founder and CEO of Ansa, a San Francisco fintech that gives merchants white-labeled, stored-value digital wallets so brands can run their own closed-loop payments and cut card fees. A self-described payments nerd, she spent four and a half years at Adyen, wrote the best-selling reference book 'The Field Guide to Global Payments,' and has raised roughly $19.4 million for Ansa, including a $14 million Series A in 2024 that drew more than 95% of its capital from female investors.
Oveit
Oveit is an Austin-based event technology company that runs ticketing, registration, cashless payments and access control on a single platform. Founded in 2016 by Andrei Stefan and Mike Mihai Dragan, it turns RFID/NFC wristbands and mobile passes into the wallet visitors wear at waterparks, theme parks, festivals, resorts and conferences - handling sales, entry and on-site spending in one closed loop. The company has extended into live shopping (Streams.live), NFT ticketing and AI sales agents, positioning itself as an all-in-one operating system for live experiences.