
A Minecraft payment project led Clément Salaün toward a less playful problem: keeping track of money once it starts moving. At Formance, the co-founder and CTO is building the ledger and the machinery around it.
A parking system earns its keep when the driver can leave. Amano McGann combines cloud software, lane hardware and local service - with a paper-ticket escape hatch for the camera that misses a plate.

He left a software job in Los Angeles for Kolkata in 1987. The company he founded went on to help engineer UPI, bill payments and fraud systems used at national scale - and now he is trying to make those rails travel.