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(3)Anni Wang left Carnegie Hall for the mortgage desk
She trained for the concert stage under one of the great piano teachers and won a national arts prize at sixteen. Now she prices collateralized mortgage obligations at a French investment bank.
Tomás Campos
Tomás Campos is the co-founder and CEO of Spinwheel, an Oakland-based fintech building agentic AI-powered credit data and payments infrastructure for the consumer debt market. A UC Berkeley and Haas School of Business graduate, he spent two decades in payments and commerce - growing Blackhawk Network's digital payments division into a $1.5 billion business and co-founding the conversational commerce startup FluidM, which was acquired by Westfield. He launched Spinwheel in 2019 after the consumer debt crisis touched his own family, aiming to make the fragmented world of loans and liabilities as accessible as open banking made bank accounts. In June 2025 the company raised a $30 million Series A led by F-Prime Capital.
Patrick Yang
Patrick Yang is the Founding General Partner of Amity Ventures, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016 with CJ Reim after the two crossed paths at Highland Capital Partners. Betting on obsessive, high-agency founders at Seed and Series A, Yang has helped build a portfolio with a 20% unicorn hit rate - 7 of 35 companies reached $1B+ valuations, including CaptivateIQ, Evisort (acquired by Workday), Talkdesk, and Socure. A Bay Area native who studied business at UC Berkeley, he cut his teeth at Morgan Stanley's Menlo Park tech investment banking group before moving to Highland, where he spotted and backed nuTonomy - the autonomous vehicle startup Delphi snapped up for $450 million.