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Diane Yu
Diane Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Tidalwave, a New York-based agentic AI mortgage startup whose SOLO platform aims to modernize mortgage origination with transparency, speed, and lower costs for lenders and borrowers. A career engineer and repeat founder, she previously co-founded the adtech company FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast for roughly $375-400M in 2014), served as CTO of Comcast Advertising and of the digital lender Better, and spent nearly a decade at DoubleClick rising to VP of Engineering. In November 2025 Tidalwave raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital with participation from homebuilder D.R. Horton, and the company was named to the 2026 CB Insights AI 100.
Shmulik Fishman
Shmulik Fishman is the founder and CEO of Argyle, a New York fintech that turns messy workforce and payroll data into a single consumer-permissioned API used by 300+ clients including Mastercard, SoFi, and LendingClub. A Hampshire College philosophy major turned operator, he co-founded the fleet-software company Stratim (acquired by KAR Global) before starting Argyle in 2018. He has raised roughly $100M+ and leads with a transparency-first, inbox-zero, early-morning style.
Scott Harris
Scott Harris is the CEO and co-founder of Experience.com, the San Ramon-based experience management platform that started life in 2015 as SocialSurvey and was reborn in 2021 around real-time CX. He spent two decades selling mortgages and running real estate offices before deciding the industry's review problem was worth fixing, and now writes, speaks, and builds tools for the ranks-on-Google (and increasingly, ranks-on-ChatGPT) crowd.