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Meidad Sharon
Meidad Sharon is the founder and CEO of ChargeAfter, a white-label embedded consumer financing platform that connects merchants to a network of lenders and routes each shopper to the best available offer in real time. He started the company in 2016 after six years running sales at SafeCharge (now Nuvei), where merchants kept asking him the same thing: help us finance our customers. ChargeAfter has raised roughly $62M and counts Citi Retail Services among its partners.
Neal Desai
Neal Desai is the CEO and co-founder of Kafene, a New York fintech that lets people without prime credit lease-to-own furniture, appliances, electronics and tires at the point of sale. A molecular biology major from Princeton who spent more than a decade trading equity derivatives on Wall Street, he later became CFO of powersports lender Octane before spending six months methodically studying 45-plus specialty finance niches and choosing lease-to-own. Kafene approves applicants in seconds for an average of roughly $2,700, assigns up to ten risk grades, reports to all three credit bureaus, and has raised well over $100 million from investors including Third Prime, Valar Ventures and Global Founders Capital.