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Danielle Pensack Learned to Build Fintech by Calling 150 Retirement Homes
Before Rightfoot built data infrastructure for lenders, its co-founder moved into a retirement community to test an entirely different idea. The experiment failed cleanly - and became the operating system for everything that followed.
Tolga Tezel
Tolga Tezel is the founder and CEO of Canopy Connect, an insurance data infrastructure company that lets consumers securely share their insurance information with agents and businesses in seconds. A University of Waterloo electrical engineering graduate and former early engineer at Dropbox and Nova Credit, he prototyped Canopy Connect over a weekend after a dinner conversation with a friend's mother who ran an insurance agency. Since founding the company in February 2020, he has grown it to serve thousands of agencies and raised a $6.5M Series A, building what he describes as trusted, consumer-permissioned infrastructure for property and casualty insurance data.
Shmulik Fishman
Shmulik Fishman is the founder and CEO of Argyle, a New York fintech that turns messy workforce and payroll data into a single consumer-permissioned API used by 300+ clients including Mastercard, SoFi, and LendingClub. A Hampshire College philosophy major turned operator, he co-founded the fleet-software company Stratim (acquired by KAR Global) before starting Argyle in 2018. He has raised roughly $100M+ and leads with a transparency-first, inbox-zero, early-morning style.
Elan Amir
Elan Amir is the CEO of MeasureOne, a San Francisco-based consumer-permissioned data platform that enables businesses to verify income, employment, education, and insurance data with consumer consent. A UC Berkeley PhD in Computer Science, Amir brings decades of deep technical and operational experience - from co-founding a broadcast media company acquired by Inktomi, to serving as CTO at early mobile web pioneer OmniSky, to leading Bivio Networks as CEO for nine years through a cybersecurity pivot. He joined MeasureOne as COO in 2018 and became CEO in 2019, guiding the company to raise $7.1M and forge major partnerships with Experian, BeSmartee, and GDSLink.