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Empire Startups was founded in 2011, when we began running the NYC FinTech Meetup. What started out as monthly happy hours nearly a decade ago has transformed into the largest community of FinTech entrepreneurs around the world, home to both NY FinTech Week and the Empire FinTech Conference.
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Co-founder and CEO of Vouch Insurance. Repeat founder, mostly in financial services/insurance.
Laura Kornhauser is the Co-founder and CEO of Stratyfy, a female-led FinTech whose mission is to accelerate financial inclusion by providing greater transparency and less bias to critical financial decisions.
VP, New Investor Initiatives @ Fundrise • Alternatives | Fintech | Proptech | Banking | Venture
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21, an infrastructure for risk and compliance teams to identify and prevent financial crimes like fraud and money laundering.
I help leaders reimagine and build better futures. I write about innovation centered on inclusion and sustainability. I advise & invest in teams solving hard problems and creating #goodgrowth, especially in #fintech #edtech #health #ai
Craig J. Lewis is the Founder and CEO of Gig Wage, a venture capital-backed SaaS company that’s raised over $16 million to-date to meet the demands of the future workforce and to build modern payment tools for it.
CEO & Founder, EMTECH
Amy Nauiokas is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthemis Group. Anthemis was the first investment platform focused on the digital transformation of financial services, and today it is among the most active in the industry.
Co-founder and CEO of @silamoney. Co-founder of @simple. Father of @ashakarkal and @aleshkarkal
Founder & CEO | Orum
CEO at @puzzlefin - the first autonomous accounting software built for startups. I tend to write about startup accounting, finance, and fundraising from a founder's POV.
Enabling safer transactions with crypto; Co-founder & COO at
Notabene.id
Chris Dean is the CEO and Co-Founder of Treasury Prime.
Co-Founder of Beginners, the agency for people who start things