Immad Akhund is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mercury, the company trusted by more than 100,000 startups for banking*. He co-founded the company in 2017 after years of dealing with the hurdles in traditional banking as an entrepreneur. Launched in 2019, Mercury has raised over $163M from a16z, CRV, Coatue, and others.

Born in Pakistan and raised in the U.K., Immad immigrated to the U.S. to join Y Combinator with his previous startup Heyzap (acquired by Fyber). He is a former part-time partner at Y Combinator and is an active angel investor, with more than 300 investments in startups including AirTable, Rappi, Papa, Deel and Substack.*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

Rajat ‘Raj’ Suri is the Founder and CEO of Presto. While a Ph.D. student at MIT in 2008, Raj got the idea to build the Presto Tablet while trying to split a bill with his fellow graduate students from MIT and Harvard. To understand the restaurant industry more clearly, he decided to abandon his Ph.D. and spent a year as a waiter, testing the first prototype of the Presto with guests. Previously, he was a Co-Founder of Zimride, now called Lyft, the popular ride-sharing company. While attending university Raj served on the Board of Directors of FedS, the corporation representing the interests of the students of the University of Waterloo. Earlier, he was the Founder and President of the Forum for Independent Thought, Canada’s first student think tank. Raj holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering and economics from the University of Waterloo. He also attended a Ph.D. / MBA program at MIT. He enjoys playing tennis and soccer and is an avid film buff.