The people behindthe ascent.

Miami, USA

Andreas Penna

President at Rain Instant Pay

President and Board Member of Rain Instant Pay, one of the fastest-growing US fintechs. Seasoned VC who has raised over $500M and led $100M+ investments in SpaceX, Anthropic and Rain Instant Pay.

London, UK

Christian Harnischfeger

Co-Founder of Sigla

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sigla, a private-equity firm investing in B2B services, data and software. Previously co-founded DIA, leading roll-ups across Europe and the US, and spent ~15 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Miami / New York · Singapore

Greg Gould

CFO at Horizon Quantum

CFO of Horizon Quantum, a full-stack quantum-computing company. Previously CFO at GroundSpeed Analytics, leading its turnaround, fundraise and merger with Insurance Quantified. Earlier, 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a top-ranked fintech analyst.

Miami, USA

Luca Dahlhausen

CEO of Realfinity

CEO of Realfinity, a US fintech building an AI-powered loan-origination platform for the mortgage industry. Previously at ALP.X Group and Associate to the CEO at LendUS, an $8B mortgage lender acquired in 2022.

San Francisco, USA

Mario Moscatiello

VP Marketing at Airbyte

VP Marketing at Airbyte, the leading open-source data-movement platform used by 50,000+ companies, backed by $180M from Benchmark, Altimeter, Accel and Coatue.

New York, USA

Barry Hurewitz

President of Enquire AI

President of Enquire AI. Formerly Global Head of Smart Technologies & Advanced Analytics at UBS Wealth Management, where he founded UBS Evidence Lab; earlier, 13 years as Global COO of Investment Research at Morgan Stanley.

Berlin, Germany

Jodok Betschart

CEO of Cloover

Two-time founder. Co-Founder & CEO of Cloover, a fast-growing fintech connecting one billion people to renewable energy through software, energy and finance. Previously co-founded Evenito AG.