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Sharpen
The Indianapolis contact-center company that bet on the phone call - and is now teaching it to answer itself.
Nearpay
Nearpay is a Riyadh-based fintech that turns any NFC-equipped smartphone into a payment terminal. Its payment-infrastructure-as-a-service platform gives banks, payment providers and developers a certified SoftPOS (tap-to-phone) SDK plus the full stack behind it - acceptance, compliance, certification, reconciliation and merchant dashboards - so businesses can accept in-person card payments in about 30 minutes without dedicated hardware. Founded in 2020, Nearpay was one of the first companies certified under Visa's tap-to-phone program, processed more than 40 million transactions in 2024, and in 2025 became the first Saudi payments fintech to expand into the United States.
Evervault
Evervault is a developer-first encryption platform that lets companies collect, store, process and forward highly sensitive data - especially payment card data - without ever handling it in plaintext. Founded in 2019 by Irish entrepreneur Shane Curran, the New York and Dublin based company pairs a dual-custody encryption model with products for card payments, secure enclaves and network proxying. It processes over $5 billion in transaction volume and generates more than 100 million encrypted tokens per month for customers including Ramp, Rippling and CarTrawler.
Basis Theory
Basis Theory is a payments infrastructure company that gives merchants a cloud-native, PCI Level 1-compliant vault to tokenize, route, and control sensitive payment data across any payment service provider - without vendor lock-in. Founded in 2020 by fintech veterans from Dwolla, Yodlee, and Klarna, the company has raised roughly $50 million and now positions its vault as the foundation for AI-driven, agentic commerce.
FlexPoint
FlexPoint is a payments and billing automation platform built specifically for managed service providers (MSPs) and the small-to-mid-sized businesses they serve. It automates the entire billing lifecycle - syncing with accounting and PSA tools, sending branded invoices and reminders, collecting payments via AutoPay, processing card and ACH transactions, and reconciling deposits - so technology partners get paid faster with far less manual work. Founded in 2023 by Victor Lopez, Sam Kushner, and Alex Kushner, FlexPoint has raised $19.5M and is trusted by more than 40,000 businesses.
Canary Technologies
Canary Technologies is the AI-powered Guest Management System trusted by 20,000+ hotels in 100+ countries. Founded in 2017 by Harman Singh Narula and SJ Sawhney, it sells AI Voice, AI Webchat, Mobile Check-In, Digital Contracts, Upsells, and Digital Tipping to brands like Marriott, Wyndham, Four Seasons, and Best Western.
Bob Donahue
Robert 'Bob' Donahue is a veteran technology and fintech executive who led Authorize.Net Holdings as President and CEO from 2004 to 2007, steering the company through its landmark $565 million acquisition by CyberSource Corporation - one of the defining deals in digital payments history. After joining CyberSource's board post-acquisition, he went on to serve as an independent director at NETSCOUT Systems and Sycamore Networks. With a career spanning senior executive roles at Manufacturers Services Ltd., Stratus Computer, and Celestica, Donahue has been a consistent presence at the intersection of technology infrastructure and financial services for over two decades.
Mahmoud Abdelkader
Mahmoud Abdelkader is the Egyptian-American co-founder of Very Good Security (VGS), a San Francisco-based data security platform that raised $105 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and Visa. Born near the Suez Canal and raised in Brooklyn, he built high-frequency trading systems at Wachovia, was employee #4 at Milo.com before its $75M eBay acquisition, then co-founded Balanced Payments through Y Combinator (W11) before founding VGS in 2016. VGS pioneered the 'Zero Data' category of data security as a service, serving 700+ customers including Fortune 100 companies. He stepped down as CEO in late 2022 and now invests in fintech companies including Ramp, Vercel, Alloy, Mercury, and Stytch while experimenting with AI.
Marshall Jones
Marshall Jones is the CTO and Co-Founder of Very Good Security (VGS), a San Francisco-based fintech company that has become the world's leader in payment tokenization with over 5 billion tokens stored. He co-founded VGS in 2015 alongside Mahmoud Abdelkader after building PCI-compliant payment vaults at Balanced Payments (later acquired by Stripe). Under his technical leadership, VGS has raised over $104 million in funding from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and Vertex Ventures, serving Fortune 500 companies, merchants, fintechs, and banks globally.
VGS
VGS (Very Good Security) is a payments tokenization and credential management platform that lets companies process and store sensitive card data without ever touching it themselves. Founded in 2015 by Mahmoud Abdelkader and Marshall Jones, the San Francisco company runs a composable Card Management Platform, a PCI-compliant Vault, and network value-added services used by Fortune 500s, fintechs and banks - having crossed 5 billion tokens managed as of 2025.