
After Google Fi, Leap.ai and EarnIn, the engineer behind Huma Finance has fixed his attention on a stubborn delay: money that arrives days after it is needed.

Before machines can do business, they need a way to hold and move money. Kahlil Lalji has spent a decade taking an unusually scenic route to that problem - from esports edits and Columbia Records to couples banking, marathon splits and Natural's agentic payment rails.
Jessica Chen Riolfi is the co-founder and CEO of Uprise, a fintech building embedded tax and financial advisory for small business owners. She spent more than a decade shipping products at Wise, Earnin and Robinhood, ran TransferWise's Asia business across 15 countries, and started out in J.P. Morgan investment banking before pairing human advisors with AI to make real financial advice affordable for entrepreneurs.