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Palm Tree Crew Holdings
Palm Tree Crew is a Miami-based entertainment, hospitality and investment holding company founded by Norwegian DJ and producer Kygo (Kyrre Gorvell-Dahll) and his manager Myles Shear. Built around the globe-trotting Palm Tree Music Festival, the company spans four lines of business - live events, hospitality venues and beach clubs, a consumer lifestyle and apparel brand, and a multi-product investment platform. In September 2025 it raised a $20 million Series B led by WME Group at a $215 million valuation to fund international festival expansion, new clubs and hotels, and early-stage bets in beverages and consumer goods.
Michael Diaz
Michael Diaz is the CEO of Palm Tree Crew Holdings, the diversified lifestyle, live-events, and investment company Kygo and Myles Shear founded in 2020. A former Duke undergrad who spent his early career in investment banking at UBS and as a Managing Director at LionTree, Diaz now runs a business that in 2025 raised a $20M Series B led by WME Group at a $215M valuation, opened four Palm Tree Club hospitality venues in under a year, and expanded its festival footprint from Oahu and West Palm Beach to Saint-Tropez and Sardinia.
Jody Glidden
Jody Glidden is the Founder and CEO of Postilize, a Miami Beach-based AI platform that introduced a new software category called Proactive Relationship Management (PRM) for law firms and professional services. A serial entrepreneur with five ventures and four exits, Glidden previously co-founded Introhive — which grew to a near-$500M valuation, 350+ employees, and 40x returns for early investors — before stepping back in 2022 to build Postilize. Rooted in his conviction that law firms lose clients not from poor service but from poor follow-through, Glidden is building AI that surfaces client opportunities before an RFP ever appears, drafts outreach in each partner's authentic voice, and demands zero data entry from its users.
Nahuel Candia
Nahuel Candia is the co-founder and CEO of Rebill, a payments-infrastructure company that lets global businesses process payments, payouts and financial operations across Latin America and the US without setting up local entities. A developer since age 14 who built three companies before 30, he took Rebill through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and raised roughly $3.6-3.7M from Tiger Global, SV Angel, SOMA Capital, Magma Partners and founders like Vercel's Guillermo Rauch and Dropbox's Arash Ferdowsi. He says Rebill was rejected by YC dozens of times before getting in, and that persistence is now part of the company's origin story.
Piero Risco
Piero Núñez Del Risco is the founder and CEO of Pana (YC S22), a cross-border neobank building borderless USD accounts and a zero-fee remittance network for the 62 million Latinos living in the United States. A Dominican operator who spent more than a decade inside Caribbean banking - including leading a 130-person team that rebuilt Scotiabank's digital platform for 2 million customers across 11 countries - he left the corner office to attack the 6% fee that immigrants pay to send money home. Pana lets people open a US bank account with just a passport, and has grown into a 'global bank on chain' blending fiat and stablecoins across 125 countries.
Danny Mayer
Danny Mayer is the co-founder and co-CEO of Windmill, the design-led air care company often called 'the iPhone of air conditioning.' A Harvard economics grad who spent a decade in investment banking, private equity and health-tech leadership, he teamed up with his brother Mike and third-generation AC expert Ryan Figlia in 2020 to reinvent the unloved window air conditioner. Windmill launched to thousands of waitlist sign-ups within 24 hours and has since expanded into air purifiers, fans and a connected smart-air suite, raising a $5M Series A in 2024.
Jason Wachob
Jason Wachob is the founder and co-CEO of mindbodygreen, the wellness media company he started in 2009 and grew into a platform reaching millions of monthly readers. A former Columbia varsity basketball player turned Wall Street equities trader, he traded the trading floor for organic cookies and then for a digital publication built around the idea that real wealth is measured in well-being, not net worth. He hosts The mindbodygreen Podcast, wrote the bestselling book Wellth, and co-authored The Joy of Well-Being with his wife and business partner Colleen Wachob.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is the CEO of OpenNode, a Bitcoin payments infrastructure company that lets businesses in 126 countries accept Bitcoin and send payouts over the Lightning Network with a few lines of code. A Dartmouth graduate who began his career in investment banking at Jefferies and later founded NGU Ventures, Fox took the helm of OpenNode in October 2022, months after the company closed a $20M Series A at a $220M valuation backed by Twitter, Tim Draper, Kingsway, and a Fidelity-affiliated fund.
Nicole Pekerman
Nicole Pekerman is a brand marketer turned founder who spent 17+ years steering billion-dollar names like Tim Hortons, Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Wonder Bread before launching Paid Workout, a fitness-motivation app that pays people to move. Today she runs Health Collective LLC as CEO and Chief Wellness Officer, hosts The Healthy Pod, and builds wellness products aimed squarely at women. Her work fuses big-brand marketing instincts with a community-first take on motivation and gamified habit-building.
Belong
Belong is a tech-enabled, AI-powered rental management network that vertically integrates the entire home-rental experience for both homeowners and residents. It markets homes across 26+ listing sites, vets residents, collects rent, handles maintenance, and offers homeowners Guaranteed Rent so they get paid on the first even when a resident is late. The mission is to let homeowners become financially free while helping residents feel they belong - and eventually become homeowners themselves.
Ironhack
Ironhack is a global tech school offering intensive bootcamps in web development, data analytics, UX/UI design, cybersecurity, AI engineering and more. Founded in 2013, it runs on-campus programs across cities in Europe, Latin America and the US plus a remote track, pairing immersive project-based training with embedded career services and a network of hiring partners to move career-changers into tech jobs quickly.
Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernandez is the co-founder and CEO of SportsManias, the Miami company that turned officially licensed sports emojis and augmented reality filters into a fan-passion business. A University of Chicago football player turned media entrepreneur, he started the company at 19 after a phone call from his mother and co-founder, Aymara Del Aguila. He went on to ship the first officially licensed NFL player AR stickers in partnership with TikTok and the NFLPA, land on Forbes 30 Under 30 for Sports, and get invited to the White House as an Emerging Global Entrepreneur.
Félix
Félix (Félix Pago) is a Miami-based fintech that lets Latin Americans in the U.S. send money home through a WhatsApp chat. Under the hood, it routes transfers over stablecoin rails (USDC) and uses AI to handle compliance and customer service in Spanish. Founded in 2020 by Manuel Godoy and Bernardo García, the company has moved more than $1 billion across nine LatAm corridors and raised a $75M Series B led by QED Investors in April 2025.
Bernardo Garcia
Bernardo Garcia is the Co-Founder and COO of Félix Pago, a Miami-based fintech startup that lets Latino immigrants in the US send money home via WhatsApp in roughly 40 seconds. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Garcia built his career across consulting and Uber before earning his MBA at Wharton, where he met co-founder Manuel Godoy. Together they launched Félix in 2020, growing it to process over $1 billion in remittances in 2024 and raising a $75 million Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Jorge Conde
Jorge Conde is a General Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he invests at the intersection of biology, computer science, and engineering. Born in Miami to Cuban and Peruvian parents, Conde co-founded Knome — the first company to offer whole-genome sequencing directly to consumers — alongside Harvard geneticist George Church, then spent years as CSO, CFO, and CPO at Syros Pharmaceuticals before joining a16z in 2017. An MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, he is one of the most prominent voices arguing that the 21st century belongs to biology the way the 20th belonged to physics.
Ernest Addison
Ernest Addison is a Senior Associate at Boldstart Ventures, one of the premier enterprise-focused seed-stage VC firms, where he backs founders at the earliest inflection point. With a career that spans Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America's Global Industrials investment banking desk, and private equity at Audax Group, Ernest brings a rare mix of Wall Street rigor and startup-native intuition to enterprise infrastructure, security, developer tools, and SaaS. Originally from Washington, D.C. and a UVA McIntire alum, he joined Boldstart in 2021 and has since become a fixture in the firm's mission to be the first check into ambitious technical founders.
Jennifer Moy
Jennifer Moy is the Chief Operating Officer of Boldstart Ventures, a New York-and-Miami-based seed fund with over $1 billion in assets under management that backs engineering-driven founders from day one. With 18+ years in venture capital, she brings rare operational depth to an early-stage shop - spanning LP relations, FINRA compliance, broker-dealer oversight, and firm-wide infrastructure. Before Boldstart, she was VP at Dawntreader Ventures and has held CFO/FINOP roles at broker dealers. A Cornell economics grad and self-described Pac-Man enthusiast, she is the operational engine behind one of the most founder-focused inception-stage funds in the country.
Max Heald
Max Heald is an investor at Boldstart Ventures, the enterprise-first seed firm behind Snyk, BigID, and Tessl. Based in Miami and steeped in the early-stage game since his days at Union Square Ventures, Heald zeroes in on developer-first infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and the emerging protocols he describes as 'toll roads for the internet.' He came up through Phillips Exeter and Northwestern, cut his teeth analyzing board decks at USV, and has since backed and advised founders building the unglamorous but essential plumbing of the modern internet.
Natalie Ledbetter
Natalie Ledbetter is a 3x startup People Ops executive, TEDx speaker, and former Operating Partner & Head of People at Boldstart Ventures who scaled Stash from 27 to 350 employees in 2.5 years. A self-described 'third culture kid' who grew up attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia alongside students from 90 countries, she now runs Ledbetter Global Advisory, offering embedded fractional people operations leadership to Series A-B companies. She has partnered with 100+ founders across the startup ecosystem, blending strategic executive thinking with hands-on execution to build high-performance, psychologically safe teams.
Wylie Aronow
Wylie Aronow, better known online as Gordon Goner, is the co-founder of Yuga Labs and the creative force behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, the NFT collection that became a $4 billion cultural phenomenon. A former MFA dropout who spent most of his twenties bedridden with chronic colitis, he co-created BAYC in 2021 with three friends after asking 'What the fuck is an NFT?' - and within months built one of the most influential brands in crypto history. After stepping back from Yuga Labs in early 2023 following a congestive heart failure diagnosis, he remains a board member and strategic advisor while focusing on recovery.
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is a PayPal Mafia veteran, co-founder of Opendoor, and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures whose career spans law clerk, corporate attorney, political adviser, and now one of Silicon Valley's most prolific — and outspoken — investors. He is the first institutional backer of DoorDash, Affirm, and Faire, made early bets on Stripe, YouTube, and Airbnb, and brought the iBuyer model to residential real estate before moving to Miami and catalyzing one of the biggest tech migration waves in recent memory.
Amanda Goetz
Amanda Goetz is a 2x founder, 4x CMO, USA TODAY bestselling author, and podcast host who built and sold a luxury CBD brand (House of Wise) from her garage during a pandemic-era divorce, then pivoted to a $500K+ solo portfolio career on her own terms. She reaches 150,000+ readers weekly with her anti-hustle newsletter Life's a Game, hosts the Girlboss Ambition 2.0 podcast, and authored 'Toxic Grit' — a takedown of hustle culture that became an instant bestseller in October 2025. A single mom of three based in Miami, she turned her hardest seasons into her most compelling IP.
Nadia Boujarwah
Nadia Boujarwah is a Cuban-Kuwaiti American entrepreneur, investor, and size-inclusivity advocate best known as the Co-Founder and former CEO of Dia&Co, the leading online marketplace for plus-size women's fashion (sizes 10-32). She grew the company to over $100M in annual revenue and raised $120M+ from Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures before a successful acquisition by FullBeauty Brands in April 2024. She is now a Founder Partner at Founder Collective, the seed-stage VC firm that was one of Dia&Co's earliest backers, where she invests in and mentors early-stage founders.
Gaetano DiNardi
Gaetano DiNardi is a B2B SaaS growth marketing consultant, former music producer, and one of the most distinctive voices in modern SEO. After spending years producing tracks for Fat Joe and Shaggy in NYC studios, he stumbled into SEO through a blog post about getting ghosted by Atlantic Records - and never looked back. He has scaled companies from Nextiva ($70M to $200M+ revenue) to Aura (0 to 1 million monthly visitors in 12 months), and now runs Marketing Advice, a boutique consultancy serving 50+ SaaS clients including Semrush, Gong, and Demandbase.
Katherine Boyle
Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads the American Dynamism practice - a $1.1B+ fund focused on startups that serve the national interest. A former Washington Post journalist turned VC, she champions defense tech, manufacturing, aerospace, and critical infrastructure companies. She sits on the boards of Anduril Industries and The Free Press, and is widely regarded as one of tech's most important bridges between Silicon Valley and Washington.