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Backer
Backer is a San Francisco fintech company that makes it easy for families to open and grow tax-advantaged 529 college savings accounts, letting relatives and friends chip in through shareable gifting pages. Founded in 2016 as CollegeBacker, the company acquired the education-savings resource Saving For College in December 2023 alongside a $9.5M Series A round, pairing its consumer savings app with one of the web's most-used 529 research destinations.
Jimmy Lion
Jimmy Lion is a New York-founded designer sock brand launched in 2014 by two Spanish MBA classmates, Felipe Cortina and Alvaro Gomis, who left banking to make original, premium-quality socks at accessible prices. Known for bold prints and licensed collaborations spanning artists and pop culture (Basquiat, Friends, Alfred Hitchcock, Jurassic World), the brand sells direct-to-consumer online and through roughly 400 multi-brand and department stores across 50+ countries, and has expanded beyond socks into tees, underwear, swimwear and slippers.
Abhishek Kumar
Abhishek Kumar is the co-founder and CTO of Xoxoday, a Bengaluru-based SaaS platform that powers rewards, incentives, and employee engagement for 5,000+ enterprises worldwide. An IIT Bombay alumnus who previously co-founded EveningFlavours (an early food-discovery startup), Abhishek has helped grow Xoxoday from a 2012 experiences marketplace into a $100M+ funded global platform processing 250,000 transactions daily, with products spanning employee engagement, sales gamification, consumer loyalty, and API-based transactional rewards.
Kushal Agrawal
Kushal Agrawal is a co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Xoxoday, a B2B SaaS platform that powers rewards, recognition, and loyalty programs for 5,000+ businesses globally. He co-founded the company in 2012 at age 22, helping transform it from a consumer gifting startup called Giftxoxo into a global enterprise platform processing nearly 250,000 daily transactions across 75+ countries. An adventurer who has traveled to 70+ countries, Kushal brings an unconventional, storytelling-driven approach to building enterprise growth - serving simultaneously as angel investor and co-founder of multiple Xoxoday sub-brands including Empuls and Compass AI.