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Rishi Choudhary Is Teaching AI to Pick Up the Phone
A missed call inside Redfin's mortgage marketplace became a company. Now the former product manager is building AI agents for the slow, regulated work that begins after a borrower says hello.
Anubhav Kaushal Has Spent 20 Years Learning Where Finance Gets Stuck
From writing software at D. E. Shaw to helping 9fin scale an AI-native credit platform, AK Kaushal has built a career around one stubborn question: how do you make complicated financial systems actually move?
Keith Kelly Has Spent Nearly 18 Years Turning the Refinance Into a Button
The FINOFR co-founder has carried one stubborn idea through a patent, two rebrands and several interest-rate cycles: a loan should be able to adapt without making its borrower start over.
The $100 Problem Travis Holoway Refused to Ignore
A childhood lesson in Cleveland became a Los Angeles fintech experiment: let ordinary people set the terms, move money quickly, and help one another through the expensive gaps between paychecks.
Courtney Keating Wants to Make Data Feel Human
The CMO of Acxiom spent twenty years in mortgages, fintech and real estate learning to translate complicated things into plain language. Now she runs the brand at one of the most data-heavy companies in marketing.
Geoff Brown
Geoff Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Highline, a Dallas-based fintech that runs a payments network pulling bill payments and loan repayments directly from a worker's paycheck instead of a bank account. A self-described numbers geek with a math and physics degree from the University of Florida, he spent two decades in consumer banking and credit risk at Capital One, Santander and Salary Finance before starting Highline in 2020. The company raised $13 million in Series A funding in 2022 and pitches payroll-linked payments as a way to cut missed payments and expand access to lower-cost credit.
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.