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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Money Hash

Geography: US

One-liner: One API to access payments and fintech across Middle East & Africa.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Credit and Debit Products @ NerdWallet, Product Lead @ SigFig (Series E; backed by General Atlantic, USV and Bain Capital Ventures), Chief Business Officer @ XPay.

Startup Name: Infra

Geography: US

One-liner: Infra brings authentication and access control to servers, clusters, and databases.

Founder(s) Background: Co-founder @ Kitematic (acq. by Docker), Senior Staff Engineer @ VMware Carbon Black.

Startup Name: Parallax

Geography: US

One-liner: Unlocking the benefits of crypto in payments.

Founder(s) Background: Senior engineer @ Linkedin, PM @ Linkedin & Kumu (Series-C General Atlantic-backed consumer social platform).

Founders building in stealth

• Founding CTO @ Fractal (w/ Justin Kan)

• Software engineer, Computer Vision (AR Avatar team) @ Meta

• Associate Partner @ Mckinsey, Founder @ Standard Treasury (sold to Silicon Valley Bank)

• Quant Trader @ SIG, Quant Researcher @ Stevens Capital Management LP

Startup Idea & Trend

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