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Andrew Wang
Andrew Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Valon, a New York fintech that rebuilt the plumbing of mortgage servicing from scratch. An engineer-turned-private-credit-investor who left a principal seat at Soros Fund Management, he set out to fix an industry still running on software from the 1960s-80s. Valon became the first new servicer to win Fannie Mae licensing on a proprietary system, now runs tens of billions in mortgages on its platform ValonOS, and raised a $100M Series C in October 2024 led by WestCap with Andreessen Horowitz.
Shane Hegde
Shane Hegde is the co-founder and CEO of Air, the New York company building a system of record for creative work. Air helps more than 100,000 creatives across 2,100 businesses collect, approve, and share visual content, managing 120M+ assets. A Stanford grad from Mangalore, India, Hegde started in TMT private equity, co-founded a fintech startup called Swap, and ran digital strategy at REVOLT before teaming up with college roommate Tyler Strand to build Air in 2017. In January 2025 the company raised a $35M Series B led by Avenir, backed by a syndicate of around 100 former CMOs and brand founders.