Merge builds the connective infrastructure for modern SaaS and AI: one unified API that lets a product offer hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, ticketing, and accounting integrations - and a newer Agent Handler that gives AI agents secure, observable access to thousands of third-party tools.
Gil Feig is the Co-Founder and CTO of Merge, the unified API platform that lets B2B software companies add hundreds of integrations to their products in days instead of months. He started coding at 12, got a cease-and-desist from Facebook at 16, and launched Merge in the middle of COVID after interviewing 100 companies before writing a single line of code. The company has raised $74.5M, serves 4,000+ customers, and named Feig and co-founder Shensi Ding to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Nathan Stewart is a founding engineer at Merge (merge.dev), the unified API platform that lets B2B SaaS companies connect to hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting, and ticketing systems through a single integration. Based in New York and educated at The Ohio State University, Stewart is a backend developer who joined Merge in its early days and has helped scale the company to over 140 employees and $74.5M in funding. He describes himself as a 'Software Engineer & Puzzle Aficionado,' an apt description for someone building the connective infrastructure that keeps the modern SaaS stack wired together.
Shensi Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Merge, the unified API platform that lets B2B software companies offer hundreds of product integrations by integrating just once. A Columbia computer science graduate who detoured through investment banking at Credit Suisse and Silver Lake before becoming Chief of Staff at Expanse, she co-founded Merge in 2020 with college friend Gil Feig after they spent six months talking to 100+ companies about integration pain — without pitching a single solution. Merge has since raised $75M from Accel, NEA, and Addition, serves 7,000+ customers including Calendly, Gong, Ramp, and Brex, and has become critical infrastructure for the AI era as LLMs need real-time access to third-party data.
Jeremy Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Finch, a San Francisco-based company building the unified API layer for employment systems. After studying Electrical Engineering and Economics at Duke University and engineering connected-car APIs at Smartcar, Zhang co-founded Finch in 2020 with Ansel Parikh to solve a deceptively simple problem: why does every HR and payroll software company make developers rebuild the same integrations from scratch? Finch now connects 200+ HR and payroll providers, covers 88% of U.S. employers, and has processed data for 18+ million employees. The company has raised $58.5 million in venture funding from General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, and Y Combinator.