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Joel Palathinkal and the business of learning to fly
Before Sutton Capital, Joel Palathinkal built Navy flight simulators and digital products. His next project brought investors into a classroom - and his son into a story about a robot with somewhere else to go.
Angel Investor Club: the waiting list that built another club
A Brazilian investor network discovered that many people waiting to join were startup founders. The answer became a second club - and, in 2025, a deal that brought the two communities together.
CAIS Built a $2 Billion Business Out of Wall Street's Least Glamorous Problem
Independent advisors wanted private markets. What they lacked was the institutional plumbing. CAIS spent 17 years assembling access, diligence, education and paperwork into one operating system - and turned the boring middle into a company valued above $2 billion.
Anfin
Anfin is a Ho Chi Minh City-based fintech building a mobile multi-asset trading platform for Vietnam's retail investors. By offering fractional shares - letting people buy slices of blue-chip stocks for as little as 10,000 VND (about $0.40) - plus ETFs, commodities, social features and bite-sized education, it lowers the barrier for a young, first-time investing generation. Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Goodwater Capital and Global Founders Capital, Anfin has crossed a million app downloads and roughly 100,000 funded accounts.
Tickeron
Tickeron is an AI-driven financial marketplace that packages quantitative research into automated trading tools for retail and professional investors. Founded by PhD mathematicians, it builds pattern-recognition engines, trend-prediction models, and a growing fleet of AI trading robots powered by its proprietary Financial Learning Models (FLMs). The pitch: compress thousands of hours of investment research into minutes, and let non-experts trade on statistical probabilities instead of gut feel.