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The Broker Who Turned Triple-Net Real Estate Into a Trading Floor
Camille Renshaw sold a tech startup, bought net-lease buildings, and got bored waiting three weeks for a comp. So she built the exchange she wished existed - and used it to move $324 million of Cabela's stores.
Agridence
Agridence is a Singapore technology company that helps global agri-commodity supply chains prove where their raw materials come from. Born in 2018 as HeveaConnect, a digital B2B marketplace for physical natural rubber, it rebranded in 2022 and expanded into a modular traceability and compliance platform now spanning rubber, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, coconut and more. Its tools trace commodities from the farm plot to the shipment and file the paperwork regulators such as the EU Deforestation Regulation demand, serving tyre makers, food multinationals, traders and industry associations.
Spark Systems Pte Ltd
Spark Systems is a Singapore-based financial technology company building next-generation electronic foreign exchange (eFX) trading platforms. Its ultra-low latency aggregator and eFX solution platform give banks, hedge funds, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and corporate treasuries fast, resilient and cost-efficient access to FX liquidity, price construction, auto-hedging, risk control and white-label distribution. Founded in 2016 by veteran FX trader Wong Joo Seng, the company is backed by global institutions including HSBC, Citi and Goldman Sachs, and counts OCBC and ATFX among its partners.
Green Tiger Markets
Green Tiger Markets is a B2B trading platform that built the Philippines' first forward market for electricity, letting generators, developers, retailers and investors lock in future power prices instead of riding the volatile wholesale spot market. Founded by veteran commodities traders, the company runs an exchange-style marketplace for financially settled forward contracts (Contracts for Difference) referenced to the wholesale electricity spot market, with the goal of bringing transparency, price discovery and liquidity to emerging-market power systems.
Kalshi
Kalshi is a New York-based, CFTC-regulated financial exchange where people trade contracts on the outcomes of real-world events - elections, economic data, sports, weather, corporate events and culture. Founded in 2018 by MIT classmates and former quant traders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, it became the first U.S. exchange federally approved to list event contracts. By 2026 it accounts for the large majority of U.S. prediction-market activity, has raised roughly $2.6 billion across its rounds, and was valued at $22 billion after a $1 billion Series F.
Moment
Moment is a New York fintech building the AI operating system for investment management. Founded in 2022 by former Citadel quants, it unifies trading, portfolio management, research, reporting, and compliance for fixed income and beyond into a single platform with an API layer. In roughly 18 months it grew from powering $300 billion to more than $10 trillion in client assets, working with firms like Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower Advisors. The company has raised $134 million across rounds led by Index Ventures, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and others.
Steven Woods
Steven Woods is the founder and CEO of Stirlingshire Investments, a New York based, SEC-registered, FINRA-member broker-dealer trying to rewire how financial advisors get paid. He started at 26 with a GED, cold-calling for $500 a day, and grew into an advisor producing millions before walking away to build a 'Hybrid Broker-Dealer' that lets advisors keep 100% of their fees and commissions with zero expenses. His 'advice on demand' model gives clients three choices: trade free, pay only when recommendations make money, or hand over full management. He frames the whole project around one question: 'How do we make this better?'