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Martin Pustilnick
Martin Pustilnick is the co-founder and CEO of Mundi, a New York-based fintech platform that fronts working capital to small and mid-sized Mexican exporters so they don't have to wait 30, 60, or 90 days to get paid by cross-border buyers. An Argentine economist and Stanford MBA who worked at BCG, OLX, PayJoy, EXOR, and FJ Labs before starting Mundi in 2020, he has raised roughly $138M in equity and debt, including a $16M Series A led by Union Square Ventures and a $100M warehouse facility from Silicon Valley Bank.
Eric Wei
Eric Wei is the cofounder and co-CEO of Karat Financial, the Los Angeles fintech building banking, credit, and tax tools for full-time content creators. A Harvard economics grad who passed through Blackstone, McKinsey, and a product role on Instagram Live, Wei left big tech to build the bank that creators - who often earn six and seven figures yet get rejected by traditional underwriters - couldn't get anywhere else. Karat's flagship Black Card approves applicants on income and audience metrics rather than FICO scores. The company has raised over $100 million from SignalFire, Union Square Ventures, GGV, Y Combinator, Visa, and a roster of top creators, and partners with Visa to issue cards.
Board
Board is a New York startup building the first face-to-face game console: a 24-inch touchscreen in a wood-finish frame that recognizes physical game pieces, merging the tactile feel of board games with the interactivity of video games. Founded by Brynn Putnam, who previously sold connected-fitness company Mirror to Lululemon for $500M, Board makes 'together tech' meant to bring people back into the same room. Priced at $399, it ships with included games and is already in tens of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants across all 50 states.
Brynn Putnam
Brynn Putnam is the founder and CEO of Board, a New York startup making a face-to-face game console that blends board games and video games on a 24-inch touchscreen that reads physical pieces. A former professional ballerina with the New York City Ballet and a Harvard graduate, she built the boutique studio Refine Method and then Mirror, the connected-fitness company she sold to Lululemon for $500 million in 2020. In 2026 Board raised a $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with the device already in tens of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants.
Eric Olson
Eric Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Consensus, an AI search engine that pulls evidence-based answers out of more than 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers. A former Northwestern University offensive lineman who became a data scientist at DraftKings, Olson built Consensus with his college teammate Christian Salem so that ordinary people would not feel like outsiders to science. The company launched publicly in 2022 and raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024 led by Union Square Ventures, with backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
Christina Cacioppo
Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the agentic trust management platform that has become the default infrastructure for security compliance among modern tech companies. After stints at Union Square Ventures and Dropbox Paper, she built Vanta from a spreadsheet prototype into a $4.15 billion company serving 12,000+ organizations across 58 countries, raising $504 million in total funding. She is one of America's self-made female billionaires, known for applying rigorous first-principles thinking to the usually-dull world of corporate security.
Nadia Boujarwah
Nadia Boujarwah is a Cuban-Kuwaiti American entrepreneur, investor, and size-inclusivity advocate best known as the Co-Founder and former CEO of Dia&Co, the leading online marketplace for plus-size women's fashion (sizes 10-32). She grew the company to over $100M in annual revenue and raised $120M+ from Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures before a successful acquisition by FullBeauty Brands in April 2024. She is now a Founder Partner at Founder Collective, the seed-stage VC firm that was one of Dia&Co's earliest backers, where she invests in and mentors early-stage founders.