Maxwell Blumenfeld is the Co-Founder, COO, and Head of R&D at SentiLink, a San Francisco-based identity verification and fraud prevention company he co-founded in 2017 with Naftali Harris after both worked as risk leaders at Affirm. Discovering that synthetic identities with real 750+ credit scores were slipping through the financial system, they built SentiLink into a platform now serving 300+ financial institutions - including three of the top 10 US banks - having verified several hundred million applications. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020, Blumenfeld holds a mathematics and economics degree from the University of Chicago and operates from Austin, Texas.
Naftali Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of SentiLink, a San Francisco-based identity verification and fraud prevention company that helps over 400 financial institutions - including 10 of the 15 largest U.S. banks - detect synthetic identities and application fraud in real time. A Stanford-trained statistician who left his PhD program to become Affirm's first data scientist, Harris co-founded SentiLink in 2017 after seeing sophisticated fraud schemes up close. The company has raised $84 million in total funding, verifies over 3 million identities daily, and has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and American Banker's 2024 Innovators of the Year.