Using AI Defensively and Offensively

  • Agree Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Flowglad

    Agree Ahmed is the cofounder and CEO of Flowglad, a payment provider built for AI-native startups. Before Flowglad, Agree built multiple startups with complex cross border flows of funds - including an on demand grocer in Nairobi which in 2019 was the largest in its category in East Africa. Prior to that he secured one of the Kenyan Central Bank’s first ever letters of no objection for non-deposit lending. When he’s not building he enjoys researching and writing about history.

  • Arman Javaherian, Founder and CEO of Homa

    Arman Javaherian is the Co-Founder & CEO of Homa, an AI-powered platform reinventing how people buy homes. Homa helps buyers analyze properties, structure competitive offers, manage the transaction process, and close seamlessly — all while earning thousands of dollars in cash back. Previously a Product Leader at Zillow for six years, Arman built products used by millions of home buyers before launching Homa to create a more transparent, technology-driven alternative to the traditional agent model.

  • Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, Co-Founder of Crossmint

    Alfonso is the cofounder of Crossmint, a programmatic finance infrastructure company. Prior to founding Crossmint, he worked as a Product Manager at Google and Meta, where he founded products such as “I am not a robot” reCAPTCHA, and the Google Assistant API in 2017, as well as foundational work for end-to-end encryption and automated anti-fraud at WhatsApp.

  • Tyler Griffin, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Restive Ventures (Moderator)

    Tyler is a Co-Founder and a Manager Partner of Restive Ventures. Tyler has spent the last decade thinking about how to make money work better. He co-founded Prism Money, a consumer-focused bill payment product that allowed for instant and free payments to over 15,000 banks and billers, in 2012. Now owned by BillGo, Prism is America’s largest real-time payment network. Following Prism’s sale, Tyler became entrepreneur-in-residence for the Financial Solutions Lab, a partnership between JPMorgan Chase and CFSI. In this role, he mentored 16 companies focused on fintech solutions to improve Americans’ financial health. Prior to starting Prism, Tyler worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at JPMorgan’s and Citigroup’s Investment Banking offices in New York City. He also worked at a middle-market private equity fund and served on multiple boards of directors. Tyler received his BA from Northwestern University in 2005 and holds a commercial pilot certificate.