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Jennifer Addabbo Built a Fintech Consultancy by Making the Vendor Sit on the Other Side of the Table
She spent years selling financial technology. Then she crossed the table, built Engage fi around the buyer, and learned that the most useful growth strategy begins with people.
Alan Pendleton Put Customer Service in an Arena - Then Made the Contest Useful
The ArenaCX founder borrowed a supply-chain idea, tested it inside a wireless company, and spun the result into a marketplace where customer-service vendors compete on performance. His larger bet is that procurement can be both more rigorous and more humane.
Zachary Garippa
Zachary Garippa is the co-founder and CEO of Order.co, the New York B2B spend-management and guided-purchasing platform he started in 2016 as Negotiatus. A Boston College finance grad who once worked a Morgan Stanley desk and a luxury-building door, Garippa built Order into a company connecting 40,000-plus vendors, serving 300-plus customers, and processing nearly half a billion dollars in annualized spend. He rises at 3:30 a.m., says he is 'trying to build the greatest company New York has ever seen,' and is chasing a Series C to get there.
Jared Schwartzentruber
Jared Schwartzentruber is the founder and CEO of Prefix, a New York facility management platform that keeps the ovens, freezers, and HVAC humming for multi-site restaurant and retail chains like Chipotle, Bojangles, and Famous Footwear. A mechanical engineer trained at Purdue and Columbia, he traded bio-inspired robotics and a healthcare startup for the deeply unglamorous world of broken walk-in coolers, wagering that agentic AI plus a real service layer can cut a chain's maintenance costs by more than 15%. In April 2026 Prefix raised a $7.5M seed round to push toward 10,000 locations.
Ofer Feldman
Ofer Feldman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stampli, a Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation company he co-founded with his brother Eyal Feldman in 2015. A computer engineer by training from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ofer spent over a decade building software across defense, enterprise, and healthcare sectors before channeling that depth into Stampli. Under his technical leadership, Stampli has grown to process over $100 billion in invoices annually for 1,600+ businesses, raised $145.7 million in total funding including a $61M Series D led by Blackstone in 2023, and pioneered Cognitive AI that brings human-level PO matching to finance teams worldwide.
Rajiv Ramanan
Rajiv Ramanan is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Spendflo, an AI-native procurement platform that helps fast-growing companies bring structure, visibility, and control to how they buy and manage software vendors. A Chennai native now based in San Francisco, Rajiv spent years at Freshworks building partner ecosystems and working with over 5,000 vendors before co-founding Spendflo in 2021 alongside Siddharth Sridharan and Ajay Vardhan. Under his GTM leadership, Spendflo has raised $15.9M in total funding, grown to 140 employees, and manages over $100M in SaaS expenditure for customers—delivering an average 23% reduction in software spend.
James McGillicuddy
James McGillicuddy is the CEO and Co-founder of BRM (Buyer Relationship Management), a San Francisco-based AI-powered vendor management and procurement automation platform. After key early roles at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for $390M), Sourcegraph (valued at $2.6B), and Carta (where he led CartaX), McGillicuddy co-founded BRM in May 2022 to rebalance the power dynamic between buyers and their vendors. BRM raised $21.6M in total funding - a $6M seed from Base10 Partners and a $15M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital in December 2024 - and serves customers including Deel and Cadence with AI SuperAgents that automate vendor discovery, contract extraction, compliance monitoring, and negotiation.
Siddharth Sridharan
Siddharth Sridharan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spendflo, an AI-native procurement platform that helps fast-growing and enterprise companies manage SaaS vendor relationships and cut software spend. He co-founded Spendflo in 2021 after spotting a universal blind spot: CFOs had no centralized way to track or negotiate SaaS contracts. Backed by $15.9M in funding including a Series A, Spendflo has grown to 140 employees and operates out of San Francisco, promising guaranteed savings on software procurement through a hybrid AI-plus-expert-negotiation model.
Reza Keshavarzi
Reza Keshavarzi is the Founder and CEO of Vendoroo, a San Francisco-based AI startup that automates maintenance coordination for property managers. A Harvard-trained engineer who previously built WipeHero and Tulu, Reza turned a childhood memory of watching his father struggle with property maintenance costs into a mission to put AI in charge of the front desk. Vendoroo now processes millions of maintenance workflows, cutting work order backlogs by 42% for its clients.