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Snigdha Kumar
Snigdha Kumar is the CEO and co-founder of Brico, a San Francisco regtech startup that automates the slow, state-by-state process of getting and keeping financial licenses for payments, lending, mortgage and crypto companies. A Harvard-trained public policy analyst with more than a decade in fintech across the U.S., India, Indonesia and Myanmar, she previously led product operations at the savings app Digit. In October 2025 Brico raised a $13.5M Series A led by Flourish Ventures, on the back of 600% year-over-year growth.
Sophia Goldberg
Sophia Goldberg is the co-founder and CEO of Ansa, a San Francisco fintech that gives merchants white-labeled, stored-value digital wallets so brands can run their own closed-loop payments and cut card fees. A self-described payments nerd, she spent four and a half years at Adyen, wrote the best-selling reference book 'The Field Guide to Global Payments,' and has raised roughly $19.4 million for Ansa, including a $14 million Series A in 2024 that drew more than 95% of its capital from female investors.
Tiffany Teng
Tiffany Teng is a product and marketing executive turned strategic operator who works on Strategic Projects for the CEO (fractional) at Jump, an AI assistant for financial advisors. A Stanford-trained student of how people make decisions, she pairs go-to-market and product marketing chops with a deep interest in behavioral psychology. She was named to the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist 2020 and chairs the board of SaverLife, a nonprofit helping working families build savings.
Ximena Aleman
Ximena Aleman is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Prometeo, the largest open banking API platform in Latin America. A former journalist from Uruguay, she pivoted from covering entrepreneurs to becoming one, building infrastructure that connects over 1,200 financial institutions across 11 countries through a single API. Under her leadership Prometeo has won the trust of banks like JP Morgan, Santander, Citi and BBVA and raised backing from PayPal Ventures, Samsung Next and others. She is a vocal advocate for financial inclusion and for founders from overlooked corners of the region.
Casey Powers
Casey Powers is the CEO of Climb Credit, a New York-based fintech that finances career-focused and vocational education for students of all credit profiles. She rose to the top job in February 2022 after three years as Climb's Chief Operating Officer, bringing more than 15 years of experience across investment banking and mission-driven fintech startups. A vocal advocate for skills-based hiring, Powers has centered her leadership on expanding access to affordable education that improves earning potential for underserved learners and career switchers.
Lilac Bar David
Lilac Bar David is the co-founder and CEO of Lili, a New York based financial platform that folds banking, invoicing, accounting and tax tools into a single app for small business owners. A banking and payments veteran of roughly two decades, she previously co-founded Pepper, Israel's first mobile bank, before launching Lili in 2018-2019 with Liran Zelkha. Under her leadership Lili has served hundreds of thousands of freelancers and small businesses, raised about $80 million from investors including Group 11 and Foundation Capital, and in recent years built out an Accountant AI tool while shifting focus toward larger, multi-employee businesses.
Monel Amin
Monel Amin is the founder and CEO of DiligenceVault, a New York based digital diligence platform used across the investment management industry. She built the company in 2014 after running risk oversight for liquid investments at Citi, where she watched analysts spend their best hours moving PDFs, spreadsheets and questionnaires through email. DiligenceVault raised a Series A led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity in 2019 and now serves asset managers, allocators and consultants globally.
Rashmi Melgiri
Rashmi 'Rush' Melgiri is the co-founder and CEO of Functional Finance, a San Francisco insurtech building the financial operations platform that automates billing, premium collection, reconciliation, and money movement for insurance operators. An MIT-trained economist, she previously co-founded and ran operations at CoverWallet, the commercial insurance startup acquired by Aon in 2020. She started Functional Finance in 2021 after living the pain of chasing money across email chains inside the insurance back office, and has since raised $36M, including a $20M Series A led by Walkabout Ventures, while growing premium payment volume more than 2,500% year over year.
Michelle Katics
Michelle Katics is the co-founder and CEO of BankersLab and PortfolioQuest, SaaS simulation platforms she describes as flight simulators for bankers. After two decades inside the machinery of global finance - the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the IMF, Fair Isaac (FICO), and Standard Chartered - she decided the best way to teach risk was to let people lose fake money first. Her platforms run synthetic loan portfolios with more than a trillion possible outcomes, training bankers in over 45 countries. A fixture of the Singapore and Southeast Asian fintech scene, she has been named to the Women in FinTech Power List and recognized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Jeannie Tarkenton
Jeannie Tarkenton is the founder and CEO of Funding U (Funding University), an Atlanta-based fintech lender that makes no-cosigner student loans to high-achieving, low-income undergraduates based on grades, grit and trajectory rather than a parent's credit score. A Princeton English major who spent a decade in Atlanta education nonprofits, she built an AI underwriting model that reads transcripts and internships instead of FICO and balance sheets. Since 2018 the company has deployed well over $125 million to thousands of mostly first-generation students, and counts Goldman Sachs and her former college roommate MacKenzie Scott among its backers.
Margaret Hartigan
Margaret Hartigan is the founder and CEO of Marstone, a Providence-based digital wealth management platform that banks and financial institutions white-label to deliver investing and planning tools to clients of all means. A former top-quintile Merrill Lynch financial advisor, she launched Marstone in 2013 to demystify and humanize finance, raised a Series B in 2024, and was named Innovator of the Year at the 2025 US Fintech Awards.
Ambre Soubiran
Ambre Soubiran is the CEO and chairman of Kaiko, the independent provider of institutional-grade, regulatory-compliant cryptocurrency market data and indices. After a decade structuring equity derivatives at HSBC in London and Paris, she walked away from traditional finance in 2016 to buy control of Kaiko - then a bright idea with no revenue and no staff - and built it into a global data business with roughly 130 people across New York, London, Paris and Singapore. She has raised over $80M and positions Kaiko as the trusted, neutral source of truth for crypto markets used by exchanges, asset managers and regulators.
Deniz A. Johnson
COO of Stratyfy, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University, and one of the most credible voices in the fight against algorithmic discrimination in financial services. Born in Istanbul, educated in engineering and business, Deniz has spent decades bridging the gap between AI technology and human consequences — building interpretable, bias-mitigating AI systems used by 20+ lenders through the Underwriting for Racial Justice programme. She is a serial board member, community convener, and published author who believes fairness and performance are not opposites but the same equation solved correctly.