Swapnil Shinde is the CEO and Co-founder of Zeni, an AI-powered finance operations platform for startups headquartered in Palo Alto. A serial entrepreneur with three company launches and two successful exits - Dhingana (acquired by Rdio) and Mezi (acquired by American Express for ~$150M) - he co-founds every venture with his identical twin brother Snehal. At Zeni, Swapnil leads marketing, sales, and operations while Snehal owns product and tech. The company manages over $1 billion in startup finances monthly, has raised $49.5M in funding, and serves hundreds of venture-backed startups with real-time AI-driven bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO services.
Fabrice Grinda is a French-born serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor, and co-founder of FJ Labs - the venture fund Forbes named home to the #1 Angel Investor in the world. With 1,100+ startup investments, 300+ exits, and a ~39% realized IRR built over 25 years, Grinda has backed household names including Alibaba, Airbnb, Uber, Coupang, and Vinted - often before anyone else saw the potential. He built and sold Zingy for $80M after sleeping in his office on $2/day, scaled OLX into the world's largest free classifieds platform across 90+ countries, and in 2024 co-founded Midas, a tokenization platform that hit $1.4B TVL within a year. Off the clock, he walks to the South Pole, kite-surfs, heli-skis, and throws week-long birthday parties with themed nights for 100+ friends.
Andrew Gazdecki is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire), a marketplace that makes buying and selling startups as accessible as selling a car online. He sold his first company at 20 for $100K, built Bizness Apps into a 100-person SaaS company before selling it for $20M+, survived an Apple App Store near-extinction event via a cold email to Tim Cook, and then turned his own acquisition experience into a platform that has now helped 2,000+ founders exit, closing over $500M in deals across 100+ countries.