Mert Mumtaz

Helius: $9.5M Series A led by Foundation Capital, backed by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal

Co-founder and CEO of Helius — the leading developer infrastructure platform for Solana. Former software engineer at Coinbase. Built Helius from scratch after FTX collapse to restore confidence in Solana, becoming the go-to RPC and tooling provider for Solana developers worldwide.

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Armani Ferrante@armaniferrante

$400B+ cumulative trading volume on Backpack

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Guillermo Rauch@rauchg

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Guillermo Rauch is the Founder and CEO of Vercel. He recently introduced an open-source agent orchestrator for deep security reviews and open-sourced a cloud coding agents reference platform.

Steph Ango (kepano)@kepano

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CEO of Obsidian — the beloved plain-text knowledge base used by 3-5M people worldwide. Joined as a superfan and community contributor before becoming CEO. Built the Minimal theme and obsidian-skills (21.8k GitHub stars), a collection of agent skills for Obsidian. Ships Obsidian Bases, Web Clipper, and other tools. Advocates for file-over-app philosophy and local-first software. Bootstrapped, 7-person team, no VC.