Interlace is a Singapore-based fintech that lets companies issue branded physical and virtual cards through a single API, connecting to 30+ card BINs and bridging stablecoins with traditional banking rails. As a Visa Hong Kong Principal Member, it offers card-as-a-service, multi-currency business accounts, banking-as-a-service and crypto on/off ramps to over 12,000 enterprise clients across 180+ countries, having issued more than 6 million cards.
Ondo Finance is a U.S.-based blockchain company that brings traditional financial assets - U.S. Treasuries, money-market funds, stocks and ETFs - on-chain as tradable, yield-bearing tokens. Through products like OUSG (tokenized short-term Treasuries), USDY (a yield-bearing dollar token) and Ondo Global Markets (tokenized U.S. equities), it aims to make institutional-grade financial products accessible to anyone, anywhere, around the clock. The company is also building Ondo Chain, a blockchain purpose-built for regulated real-world assets.
Michael Wu is the founder and CEO of Interlace (interlace.money), a Singapore-based card issuance and digital-asset payments platform that has issued more than 6 million cards across 180+ countries for over 12,000 enterprise clients. A Stanford-trained engineer who built software at Google, Dropcam, and PalmDrive before turning founder, Wu set out to collapse the months-long process of issuing branded payment cards into an API call, positioning stablecoins as the bridge between Web3 and traditional finance. In December 2024 Interlace raised $10 million in Series B1 funding led by Bitrock Capital.
Nathan Allman was the founder and CEO of Ondo Finance, the firm that did more than almost anyone to drag tokenized U.S. Treasuries from a whitepaper idea into a multi-billion-dollar reality. A Brown graduate and former Goldman Sachs digital-assets trader, he left Wall Street in early 2021 to build what he framed as a decentralized investment bank, betting that boring, yield-bearing, regulation-aware products - not speculation - would be how traditional finance finally moved on-chain. Under his watch Ondo grew to roughly $3.5 billion in total value locked, launching USDY, OUSG, Ondo Global Markets and the institution-focused Ondo Chain. He died unexpectedly in May 2026.
Zerohash is a Chicago-based crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider that lets banks, brokerages, fintechs and marketplaces embed digital-asset products - trading, payments, stablecoins and tokenization - through a single regulated API. Rather than building blockchain rails, custody and compliance themselves, clients like Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Morgan Stanley and Franklin Templeton plug into Zerohash's licensed, end-to-end platform. Founded in 2017 by Edward Woodford, the company reached unicorn status in 2025 and has settled tens of billions of dollars in volume for millions of end users across nearly 200 jurisdictions.
Tory Reiss is the CEO and co-founder of Equi, a New York-based investment manager and technology platform that brings hedge-fund-style alternative strategies to investors. A three-time venture-backed fintech founder, he previously co-founded TrustToken (later Archblock), where he helped launch TrueUSD, one of the fastest-growing stablecoins in crypto history, and TrueFi, which originated more than $1.7 billion in loans. Before crypto he co-founded Harvest, an AI-driven debt-management platform. A self-described entrepreneur, activist, and educator, Reiss has taught financial literacy for over a decade and advocates for criminal justice reform.
Félix (Félix Pago) is a Miami-based fintech that lets Latin Americans in the U.S. send money home through a WhatsApp chat. Under the hood, it routes transfers over stablecoin rails (USDC) and uses AI to handle compliance and customer service in Spanish. Founded in 2020 by Manuel Godoy and Bernardo García, the company has moved more than $1 billion across nine LatAm corridors and raised a $75M Series B led by QED Investors in April 2025.
Juno (formerly OnJuno) is a crypto-friendly banking platform that lets users in the US hold cash and crypto in one account, receive paychecks in stablecoins, and on-ramp to 20+ blockchain networks without withdrawal holds. Founded by Varun Deshpande, Ratnesh Ray, and Siddharth Verma, the company raised an $18M Series A in 2022 led by ParaFi Capital.
Metallicus is a San Francisco-based blockchain company building The Digital Banking Network (TDBN), a compliance-first infrastructure that connects traditional banks, credit unions, and fintechs to Web3. Founded in 2016 by Marshall Hayner and Glenn Mariën, the company is the core developer of Metal Blockchain - a Layer 0 protocol with Bank Secrecy Act compliance built in - and powers stablecoin pilots, digital identity, and crypto-banking products used by community financial institutions across the United States.
Bernardo Garcia is the Co-Founder and COO of Félix Pago, a Miami-based fintech startup that lets Latino immigrants in the US send money home via WhatsApp in roughly 40 seconds. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Garcia built his career across consulting and Uber before earning his MBA at Wharton, where he met co-founder Manuel Godoy. Together they launched Félix in 2020, growing it to process over $1 billion in remittances in 2024 and raising a $75 million Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Luis Cuello is the Founder and CEO of Minted Protocol (MintedAssociates Corp), building mUSD - the first exclusive Canton-native institutional stable settlement token. With a background spanning BNP Paribas fund administration and M&A at Johnson & Johnson, Cuello brings traditional finance credibility to one of DeFi's most ambitious institutional plays: a GENIUS Act-aligned stablecoin backed 1:1 by HQLA-equivalent reserves on the Canton Network, the blockchain infrastructure processing $6T+ in monthly settlements for the world's largest financial institutions.
Manuel Godoy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Félix, a WhatsApp-native remittance platform that uses USDC stablecoins and AI to let Latino immigrants send money home in minutes for a fraction of traditional costs. Born in Venezuela and educated at Caltech and Wharton, Godoy turned his own immigrant experience into a company that has processed over $1 billion in remittances, serves 400,000+ active users across nine countries, and raised $90.5M including a $75M Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Varun Deshpande is the co-founder and CEO of Juno, a San Francisco-based crypto-native digital banking platform that bridges traditional finance and decentralized finance for the US market. A serial entrepreneur from BITS Pilani, he previously co-founded BeeWise (acquired by Aditya Birla Money), Nuo Network (a DeFi lending protocol), and TopTalent.in. With Juno, he has raised $24M across seed and Series A rounds from top-tier investors including Sequoia Surge, Polychain, ParaFi Capital, and Jump Crypto, building a platform that lets users earn, spend, and manage crypto alongside traditional banking.
Kenan Saleh is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focused on early-stage consumer AI and emerging interfaces through the a16z Speedrun program. Before joining a16z, he built and sold two companies - Halo Cars (acquired by Lyft in 2019 within 9 months) and Stable Finance (acquired by Aave Labs) - grew Lyft Media from zero to $10M+ in revenue as General Manager, and angel-invested in 50+ startups. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Wharton alum, Saleh brings rare founder-operator credibility to institutional venture capital.
Varun Srinivasan is a co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network protocol built on Ethereum, and currently works at Tempo, Stripe's stablecoin-focused blockchain. Previously, he spent over four years at Coinbase rising to Senior Director of Platform, and co-founded SoundFocus, a Y Combinator-backed mobile audio startup. A Carnegie Mellon graduate and prolific reader, Srinivasan has spent his career building platforms that give users control over their data and identity.