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Liz Castelli Knows How to Keep a Room - and a Voting Line - Moving
She began as a science teacher, built an events company from $600, negotiated its sale from a schoolhouse in the Amazon, and now brings an operator's eye to Pizza to the Polls. Her real medium is not décor. It is momentum.
Matthew Haber
Matthew Haber is the co-founder and CEO of Cofactr, a New York-based platform that automates procurement and logistics for electronics hardware teams in aerospace, defense, medtech and robotics. A theater-designer-turned-engineer, he built tours for Coachella acts and escape rooms before co-founding an experiential R&D firm (BeSide) that sold to agency MAS in 2018. He launched Cofactr in the Y Combinator W22 batch; in December 2024 the company raised a $17.2M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $28.8M.