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Taylor Capuano
Taylor Capuano is the co-founder and chief creative officer of CAKES body, a viral direct-to-consumer apparel brand she launched in 2022 with her twin sister, Casey Sarai. Starting with $5,000 each in personal savings and no marketing budget, the sisters bootstrapped the company from a side hustle into a business that reported roughly $95 million in net sales in its fiscal year ending June 2025. A December 2023 appearance on ABC's Shark Tank, where they landed a deal with Emma Grede, accelerated the brand's rise. Capuano leads creative and marketing, and has become a public voice for bootstrapped, digital-first growth and family-friendly workplace policies.
Leah Cohen-Shohet
Leah Cohen-Shohet is co-founder and Chief Business Officer of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments, and point-of-sale platform built for beauty and wellness professionals. A Princeton economics graduate and former Goldman Sachs strategic investor, she left a fintech career at Symphony and Archipelago to scale the company her twin sister Danielle founded out of a Princeton dorm-room makeup side hustle. Under their partnership GlossGenius has grown to serve tens of thousands of independent beauty businesses, reached a valuation north of half a billion dollars, and raised roughly $134 million in total funding.
Swapnil Shinde
Swapnil Shinde is the CEO and Co-founder of Zeni, an AI-powered finance operations platform for startups headquartered in Palo Alto. A serial entrepreneur with three company launches and two successful exits - Dhingana (acquired by Rdio) and Mezi (acquired by American Express for ~$150M) - he co-founds every venture with his identical twin brother Snehal. At Zeni, Swapnil leads marketing, sales, and operations while Snehal owns product and tech. The company manages over $1 billion in startup finances monthly, has raised $49.5M in funding, and serves hundreds of venture-backed startups with real-time AI-driven bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO services.