Gerry Poirier is the founder and CEO of AngeLink, billed as the world's first social crowdfunding platform powered by women. After more than two decades on Wall Street trading floors at Credit Suisse and Lazard, where she was often the only woman in the room, she built an AI-driven, fraud-resistant fundraising platform that has grown to roughly 55,000 active users across 100 currencies and raised over $7.3 million in seed funding. A Wharton-trained, globe-trotting risk-taker based in Naples, Florida, she also runs the AngeLink Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) making direct impact grants.
Andrew Curtis is the CEO of Clearco, the Toronto-based fintech that fronts cash to ecommerce brands without taking their equity. A two-decade Wall Street veteran of leveraged credit and restructurings - with stops at Merrill Lynch and Lazard Freres - he arrived as an advisor in 2022, took the top job in early 2023, and steered the once-troubled company through a recapitalization and a ground-up rebuild. Under him, Clearco has deployed billions across thousands of brands, tripled funding in 2024, and relaunched a platform he pitches as 'capital that thinks like a founder.'
Gabriel Stengel is the co-founder and CEO of Rogo, a generative AI platform built for investment banks, private equity firms and hedge funds. A 2020 Princeton computer science graduate who did stints at J.P. Morgan and whose co-founder came from Lazard, Stengel turned a clunky senior-thesis econometrics chatbot into a company that, by April 2026, raised a $160 million Series D at a roughly $2 billion valuation. Rogo's AI agent Felix now serves more than 35,000 finance professionals across 250-plus institutions, automating the grunt work of benchmarking, earnings analysis and pitch decks that once kept junior bankers awake at night.
Mern Singh (Mrinal Singh) is the co-founder and CEO of Bolto, an AI-native platform that finds, vets, pays, and manages global software talent in one place. A Dartmouth graduate who left investment banking at Lazard, he built Bolto through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch after an early pivot, and has raised roughly $12.1M to date including a $12M Series A in 2026. He is an outspoken advocate for flat, lead-driven teams over traditional management.
Augustin Sayer is co-founder and General Partner at OVNI Capital, a Paris- and San Francisco-based seed fund backing European deep-tech founders building global companies. Before OVNI, he invested 20+ early-stage rounds at Newfund (including FairMoney and Umiami), ran a retail company in Mexico, and started his finance career at Lazard Frères M&A in New York.