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Torben is the co-founder and CEO of Wingback. Torben and his co-founder Yann built an IoT company in the past and founded Wingback in 2021. Wingback was part of Y Combinators W22 batch.  Wingback is fully remote and is committed to building a great remote work culture. We believe that as a fully remote company, we have to put certain routines in place in order to be an outstanding team instead of just being a group of outstanding individuals - no matter whether someone works out of the Albanian countryside or Lower Manhattan.

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Chris Hill is the co-founder and COO of Massdriver.cloud, a Y Combinator backed startup in the emerging IDP (Internal Developer Platform) space. Massdriver let's teams quickly build engineering platforms and enable developer self-service whether you run workloads in containers, VMs, or serverless. Before founding Massdriver, Chris worked in a range of industries, from defense contracting to ad-tech and e-commerce. He has worked as a software developer and cloud engineer and has experienced the pain of both worlds. For more information on Massdriver, check out https://www.massdriver.cloud.

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Idan Ninyo is co-founder and CEO at Bionic, an application security posture management (ASPM) company. Prior to founding Bionic, Idan was CTO and Engineer in Residence at YL Ventures, an American-Israeli venture capital firm that specializes in seed stage cybersecurity. Before that, he held a senior engineering role at Magic Leap and served in the Israel Defense Forces. Idan graduated from Bar-Ilan University at age 19 with a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics.

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Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served as Head of Growth & Business Development at Airbnb, where he managed payments for over 190 countries.

With vast experience in trading and payments, Thobani has developed several platform solutions for companies like ITG, Boku, and Stamps.com. He started his career as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Thobhani earned his MBA from MIT, where he started mining bitcoins before it was popular. 

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Fred Stevens-Smith is CEO of Rainforest QA, a no-code test automation platform for modern product teams. Rainforest was founded in 2012 during YC, and has raised over $40m while helping hundreds of startups improve their QA. Rainforest is a fully remote company, with 40 developers, designers and PMs all over the world. Fred is a nomad, heading to wherever the internet is good and the snow is plentiful!

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Emily and her two co-founders started Awtomic to make it easier for direct to consumer brands to offer delightful subscription experiences to their customers. As e-commerce continues to rapidly grow, they are helping to define how subscriptions will play a critical role.  

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Nate is the CEO and Co-Founder at Quindar, a Y-Combinator backed aerospace startup focused on automating satellite design, test, and operations. Before Quindar, Nate worked at Lockheed Martin and OneWeb - where he and his 5 co-founders met and helped build the software platform that operates the second largest satellite constellation in the world. They are now focused on completely removing humans from operating satellites and extending IT incident management practices into space operations.

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Matthew Spoke is the Founder and CEO of Moves, the all-in-one banking app designed exclusively for gig workers. Matt has spoken at major tech conferences around the world, and has regularly contributed to Forbes.com and started his first company when he was 28. Prior to starting Moves, Matt was a Certified Public Accountant at Deloitte.

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Eve Halimi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alinea, an investing app created for Gen Z’s which allows users to grow their money by investing in what matters to them. She gained extensive experience empowering brands to build better digital experiences working in strategy at Contentsquare, a growth stage data analytics startup, bringing that expertise to Alinea. Prior to creating Alinea, Halimi held multiple positions at financial institutions and hedge funds such as Goldman Sachs and Boussard & Gavaudan. She founded her first community-based application at the age of 15. Alinea is backed by Y Combinator, Harvard, Kima, Goodwater and many other leading investors.

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Jason Alvarez-Cohen is a tech entrepreneur and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. He is the CEO, Co-Founder and chief engineer at Popl, a technology company based in Los Angeles that is building the next generation digital business card platform.

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