Adi Goel is co-founder and COO of Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has screened over $1.36 trillion in payments for 300+ enterprise customers across 70+ countries. Before Sardine, he scaled Revolut's entire US business from zero to millions of customers and led product strategy at Deutsche Börse managing a $200M fintech fund. A Wharton MBA and IIT Delhi engineer, Goel brings rare cross-disciplinary range across quantitative finance, product, and operations to building fintech infrastructure.
Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, an agentic AI platform for financial crime prevention and AML compliance headquartered in San Francisco. With a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and career stints at Coinbase (as Head of Risk) and Revolut (Head of Financial Crime), he channeled over 15 years of fraud-fighting expertise into Sardine, which has raised $145.6M and grown to 300+ enterprise customers. Sardine's behavioral biometrics and device intelligence platform now profiles 2.2+ billion devices, making it one of the most comprehensive financial crime databases in existence.
Zahid Shaikh is the Co-Founder and Head of Risk Products at Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has raised $145.6M in total funding. Previously a top inventor at PayPal where his device intelligence product saved the company $40M+ annually in fraud losses, Zahid then led risk and security product teams at Uber and Revolut before co-founding Sardine in April 2020 alongside Soups Ranjan and Aditya Goel. Sardine now profiles 2.2+ billion devices and achieved 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024.
Alex Immerman is a General Partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads growth-stage investments across AI, consumer, fintech, crypto, and the physical world. Promoted to GP in January 2026 after seven years with the firm, he has spearheaded investments in category-defining companies including ElevenLabs, EliseAI, Flock Safety, Hebbia, Kalshi, Revolut, Sardine, Stripe, and Waymo. Before a16z, Immerman worked at General Atlantic as a growth-stage investor, served as Chief of Staff for the CFO of Facebook and CEO of Gainsight, and was an investment banker at Allen & Co. He graduated summa cum laude from Wharton and earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sumeet Singh is the founder and managing partner of Worldbuild, a thesis-driven venture capital firm investing in creative technologists building the post-software era. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he led investments in companies like Sardine, Carry1st, and Adaptive. His portfolio includes Brigit (acquired for $500M) and Revolut (valued at $45B). A Georgetown graduate, Singh co-founded The Hilltoss, a student-run restaurant, and Creature/Of, a sustainable streetwear brand. Based in New York, he's known for his disciplined research ritual - spending Friday and Saturday mornings at a Brooklyn cafe, diving deep into AI research papers on his iPad. His investment thesis centers on two winning paths: building infrastructure that enables AI to scale (compute, data, energy, security), or creating entirely new workflows that only AI makes possible.
Simon Taylor is a fintech operator, writer, and speaker who built the #1 weekly fintech newsletter Fintech Brainfood to 45,000+ subscribers while holding senior roles at Barclays, co-founding 11:FS (UK's leading fintech consultancy), and most recently joining Tempo - the Stripe and Paradigm-incubated payments blockchain - as GTM Lead. His famous thesis 'Fintech is only 1% finished' captured an industry's imagination, and his independently-written weekend newsletter has become required reading for bankers, founders, and investors globally.