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Booz Allen Hamilton takes AI off the grid
A century-old consultancy is putting AI in orbit and buying its way deeper into defense technology. Its real business is making new tools work where the usual assumptions fall apart.
Toby Krout wants to know who buys the idea
From a Boulder creative agency to Comcast’s sports technology programs, Toby Krout has kept returning to the same question: what does a founder need after the pitch is over?
Gideon Powell and the value of switching off
He grew up in a family that searched for oil. Now the Cholla CEO is exploring a different kind of resource: electricity demand that knows when to step aside.
Darwinian Ventures Thinks Your Sales Hire Is Innocent
The San Francisco firm has a blunt diagnosis for stalled B2B growth: before you fire the seller, inspect the habitat. Its embedded operators rebuild the machinery around revenue - then leave it under the client's roof.
Richard Liu Is Teaching Money to Stop Waiting
After Google Fi, Leap.ai and EarnIn, the engineer behind Huma Finance has fixed his attention on a stubborn delay: money that arrives days after it is needed.
Brad Armstrong Has Spent a Career Making Software Companies Shake Hands
From AppExchange to Slack, Rippling and Lovable, Brad Armstrong has built a career around a quiet conviction: software gets more useful when companies learn to work together.
The Raleigh Holding Company Building a Wellness Stack in Plain Sight
MDO Holdings started with a gym and grew into something harder to label: part operator, part investor, part landlord. Its most revealing product may be the connective tissue between the businesses it owns.
The Accelerator That Grew Up and Became Corporate Innovation’s Operating System
Boomtown started by coaching founders. A decade later, it helps large organizations find, test, fund and deploy the ideas their own machinery tends to miss.
Khalid Kabeer
Khalid Kabeer is a fintech and financial-inclusion executive with more than two decades of leadership in microfinance and MSME lending across Pakistan, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. A Fellow Chartered Accountant who started in audit and textiles, he helped build Kashf Microfinance Bank as its first CFO, ran global operations and then led Vitas Group as CEO, steering it toward a data-centric, digital-first lending model and founding its early-stage fintech investment arm, Vitas Ventures. He is now Chief Product Officer at AdalFi, a Lahore-based credit-scoring and lending-technology company taking instant, pre-approved digital credit to scale.