Farbod Nowzad

Farbod Nowzad is the co-founder and CEO of Cashmere, a Los Angeles fintech building an AI-powered data layer that helps financial institutions and wealth managers turn fragmented customer records into decision-ready intelligence. UC Berkeley's first data science graduate, he cut his teeth on anti-fraud machine learning at Lime and later founded the social audio startup Pludo before launching Cashmere in 2022 with high school friend and CTO Eshan Govil. In September 2024 the company raised a $3.6M seed round led by Canapi Ventures to attack a wealth industry sitting on a $90 trillion generational wealth transfer.