Pave Finance is a New York-based fintech building an AI-powered, institutional-grade wealth management platform that lets financial advisors customize, personalize and automate portfolio construction for their clients. Combining an alpha-scoring algorithm, an optimization engine and an integrated trading platform across 10,000+ global securities, Pave brings tools once reserved for hedge funds and ultra-high-net-worth desks to everyday advisors - offering direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting, values-based screens and concentrated-position management. In September 2025 the company closed an oversubscribed $14M seed round.

Meb Faber is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management, overseeing roughly $20 billion in assets across a suite of quantitative ETFs and private funds. A prolific author of six investing books (all free to download), host of the top-rated Meb Faber Show podcast with 615+ episodes, and curator of The Idea Farm newsletter reaching 100,000+ subscribers, Faber has made a career out of democratizing evidence-based investing - blending rigorous quantitative research with a rare willingness to share it all for free.