Victor Lopez is the co-founder and CEO of FlexPoint, a payments-automation platform built for managed service providers and the small businesses they serve. A former finance lawyer turned private-credit principal at Owl Rock/Blue Owl Capital, he left the world of middle-market lending to attack a less glamorous problem: getting small businesses paid faster. Founded in 2022 and launched in 2023, FlexPoint raised a $12M Series A led by Foundry Group in 2025 and now handles payments for tens of thousands of businesses.
Raul Popa is the co-founder and CEO of TypingDNA, a behavioral biometrics company that recognizes people by the rhythm of how they type. A self-taught coder turned sociology-and-statistics graduate, he turned keystroke dynamics into a commercial authentication API used in banking, finance, and online education. He started the company alone in 2016 in Romania, brought it through Techstars and a Google-AI-backed Series A, and relocated it to New York just before the pandemic. Beyond enterprise security, he shipped TypingDNA Focus, a free app that predicts your mood from your typing.
Will Guillaume Foussier is the co-founder and CEO of AceUp, a Boston-based AI-powered team-transformation and leadership-coaching platform he launched out of the Harvard Innovation Labs. A former financial analyst who credits an executive coach with rerouting his own career, he set out to democratize coaching - turning a once-exclusive C-suite perk into a data-driven service deployed across more than 100 enterprises including LVMH, L'Oreal, IBM, BNP Paribas and John Deere. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and EHL, Harvard and Techstars alumnus, he raised a $22.5M Series A in 2024 and runs the company on the conviction that everybody deserves a coach.
Bill Liu is the Co-Founder and COO of Seel, the San Francisco-based company that invented Return Assurance — AI-powered insurance that lets shoppers add a refund window to final-sale purchases at checkout. Liu co-founded the company (originally called Kover.ai) in 2019 with CEO Zack Peng after completing the Techstars MetLife Digital Accelerator. He oversees team-building and go-to-market strategy for a platform now trusted by 5,000+ merchants, protecting 24 million+ orders and serving 2 million+ monthly shoppers. Seel has raised $29M+ in total funding including a Series B in May 2025 and was named to CB Insights' AI100 list of the world's most promising AI startups in 2023.
Yahya Aqel is the co-founder and CEO of Aumet, MENA's largest B2B healthcare marketplace and AI-first procurement operating system. A biomedical engineer turned serial entrepreneur, he has founded five health tech startups across Silicon Valley, the Middle East, and Western Europe — two of which resulted in successful exits. Aumet, backed by Emkan Capital and others, has raised $21.84M to date and processes over $1 billion in gross merchandise volume annually, connecting 12,000+ pharmacies with 1,000+ pharmaceutical suppliers across Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
Zain Zaidi is the co-founder and CEO of TransCrypts, a blockchain-powered credential and employment verification platform he started after struggling to access his own college transcript as an SJSU student. Backed by Mark Cuban, Pantera Capital, and Techstars, he has grown the company to 450+ enterprise clients and 4 million users across 9 countries, raised $18M+, launched JustScreen (the world's first free background check service), and earned a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2026 — all before turning 30. His platform has also helped over 4,000 Ukrainian refugees access medical records.
Jae Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of TwelveLabs, a San Francisco-based AI company building the world's most advanced video understanding platform. A UC Berkeley computer science graduate and former cyber security leader for the South Korean army, Lee co-founded TwelveLabs in 2021 to solve a problem no one else wanted to tackle from scratch: teaching machines to understand video the way humans do. The company has raised over $107 million from NEA, NVIDIA NVentures, Databricks, Snowflake, and SK Telecom, and now serves 20,000+ developer organizations across media, sports, advertising, automotive, and government sectors with its proprietary Marengo and Pegasus video AI models.
Maximus Greenwald is the co-founder and CEO of Warmly, an AI-powered revenue orchestration platform that helps B2B companies identify, prioritize, and engage high-intent buyers in real time. A Princeton CS & Public Policy grad and ex-Google PM (where he helped build the famous 'Where's Waldo' Google Maps Easter egg), Max survived seven major pivots over five years to turn Warmly into a signal-based selling category leader with $3M+ ARR and $21.5M in total funding. Known for his mantra 'slope over y-intercept' and his 'Purple Cow' series on remarkable entrepreneurs, he is one of the most candid voices on the realities of finding product-market fit.
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal, a Web3-native merchant bank specializing in NFT curation and digital IP, and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company at 17, Yossi co-founded SYNAQ (acquired by Dimension Data), WeThinkCode_ (Africa's largest coding academy), and served as Managing Director of Techstars Africa. With 20+ years in tech, he's invested in over 60 startups and crypto protocols, acquired 2,000+ NFTs across 250+ projects, and raised $50M for Metaversal. A Stanford GSB graduate, he splits his time between New York and Miami, hosting podcasts and lecturing on entrepreneurship while building at the intersection of AI, Web3, and digital culture.
Arman Assadi is a serial entrepreneur, AI founder, and copywriter who left Google in 2014 with a one-way ticket to Cuba and never looked back. He co-created the EVO Planner (the most-funded planner in crowdfunding history), built 13 different seven-figure product launches for clients like Neil Patel and Jeff Walker, and now leads Steno.ai — an AI digital twins platform backed by Tony Robbins that lets experts scale their voice and personality across web, mobile, and SDK. He co-hosts the Alfalfa Podcast and has spent a decade on a mission to democratize wisdom.
Wayne Chang is a Taiwanese-American serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and technologist who co-founded Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for ~$260M, then sold to Google as Fabric), co-founded Digits (AI-powered fintech for SMBs), and is currently building Reasoner, a neurosymbolic AI company claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 models. Named one of Forbes' Top 50 Angel Investors with 80+ investments and 31+ exits generating over $150 billion in combined value, Chang also holds the coveted @wayne Twitter handle, holds 20+ patents, won an Emmy for producing Chasing Coral, and helped launch Dropbox by recruiting co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.