ex-amazon
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Mamoun Benkirane
Mamoun Benkirane is the co-founder and CEO of MarketLeap, an AI-driven operating system that helps direct-to-consumer brands sell and scale across global online marketplaces. A former Amazon and Jumia executive who built and expanded marketplaces across Europe and Africa, he started MarketLeap after realizing that even the biggest platforms left independent sellers drowning in fragmented data and complexity. Backed by an $8M Series A led by Smedvig Ventures in 2025, MarketLeap now operates across 30+ countries and is expanding into Madrid and New York.
Diego Asenjo
Diego Asenjo is the CEO and co-founder of Mesh, an Austin-based B2B identity startup that verifies the legitimacy, licensing, insurance, and compliance of small businesses and sole proprietors in real time. A former Amazon product leader who built Business Prime into a multi-billion-dollar program, Diego left to fix a problem he 'could not unsee': the broken data infrastructure that quietly penalizes new, small, and micro businesses. His mission is personal, rooted in watching his father's small auto-parts shop in Argentina lose access to fair credit and opportunity as commerce went digital. Mesh raised a $5.7M seed round led by Greycroft and reports 99%+ satisfaction from the businesses it verifies.