Shiran Shalev

Founded in 2019 to address the insurability of risks worsened by climate change, Descartes’ mission is to help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk. Descartes is a global corporate insurance specialist working exclusively with brokers to protect their corporate and public sector clients against climate, cyber and other emerging risks. At the forefront of AI and data analysis, Descartes utilizes cutting-edge technology combined with data from world-class research institutions to model, assess and manage risks. Descartes boasts the largest team of scientists in the global insurance industry, comprising over 150 experts in meteorology, climatology, physics, data science, software engineering, DevOps, modeling, and underwriting. This diverse expertise enables us to develop transparent, tailored solutions to the challenges posed by emerging risks, and offer a range of innovative and cost-effective insurance products designed to meet clients’ needs—often through cutting-edge parametric structures. With a global footprint and a strong foothold in the U.S., Descartes serves a diverse client base across 60+ countries, operating from 20+ offices in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. Through corporate brokers, Descartes has already delivered over $15 billion in capacity to its clients. The insurer is recognized for its technical excellence and achieved a +71 NPS score in 2025. The Descartes group includes Descartes Insurance, a full-stack insurer operating in several European markets, and Descartes Underwriting, a global MGA backed by a panel of tier-one risk carriers. The company has secured over $141M in funding from prominent investors, including Highland Europe, BlackFin, Serena, Cathay, Eurazeo, and Battery Ventures.

Flanks is a WealthTech company redefining the industry through AI-powered automation and data-led insights. Its AI wealth data platform empowers global financial institutions - including banks, family offices, asset managers, pension plans providers, and tech companies - to deliver faster, high-quality, and personalised advice. Flanks provides a unified view of all asset classes, including alternatives, and leverages proprietary AI models to transform complex, fragmented wealth data into actionable insights. Founded in 2019 in Barcelona by Joaquim de la Cruz, Sergi Lao and Álvaro Morales, former Global Head of Santander Private Banking. Flanks now processes over 500,000 portfolios monthly across more than 33 countries, managing more than €39 billion in assets. For more information, visit flanks.io.

HoneyBook is the leading AI-powered business management platform for small business owners. Designed to bring speed, clarity, and confidence to daily operations, the platform supports everything from capturing leads to managing client communication, contracts, and payments. With AI embedded throughout, members benefit from actionable insights and automation that streamline work and unlock growth. Since its founding in 2013, HoneyBook has powered over 25 million client relationships and processed more than $12 billion in transactions, helping independent businesses grow faster and smarter. If you are looking for a values-driven, fast-paced, and intellectually charged environment, HoneyBook is the right place for you. Join us, were hiring!

The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. 100% dedicated to the self-employed, 100% how insurance should be.

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees up businesses to accomplish more. We champion the notion of Progressive Finance, because we believe in a decentralised approach to financial decision-making and greater spending autonomy for everyone. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to bring order, efficiency and agility to their decentralised spending, and empower the whole company to spend safely and responsibly. By combining pre-programmed cards, a user-friendly app and a powerful spend management platform, Soldo enables decentralised spend decisions and frees everyone from tedious admin, while ensuring compliance. Everyone gains back time to focus on the things that matter. For Finance teams, that means more time for the rewarding parts of your role, such as in-depth data analysis, defining overall business strategy, and implementing process improvements that empower everyone to achieving business goals. Liberate Finance. Accomplish More.

Sofar is a global community reimagining the art of live experiences—turning unconventional spaces into intimate showcases for local grassroots art and culture. Born in a London flat in 2009, Sofar began as an answer to a growing problem: live music had lost its magic. It blossomed into a global movement that kept music at its heart while expanding to comedy, dating, food & drink, dance, and more—all connected by Sofar’s renowned track record for discovering rising talent. Countless mainstage performers like Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, Chappell Roan, Leon Bridges, YEBBA, Teddy Swims, Remi Wolf, Hozier, and Lola Young have played Sofar shows early in their careers. In the past four years alone, Sofar alumni have earned 129 Grammy nominations and 21 wins. Each Sofar show is one-of-a-kind due to the surprising pairing of live experiences with unconventional spaces. Sofar has hosted shows in caves; churches; hidden museum rooms; private living rooms, gardens, and rooftops; a ski jump tower; countless boats, ships, and catamarans; a toy shop; a wax museum; and many other delightful places. With a network of over 10,000 venues and tens of thousands of extraordinary emerging artists, Sofar creates live performances in spaces that reflect the soul of neighborhoods and cities. Past partners include 20th Century Fox, Anheuser-Busch, Arcteryx, Delta, Focus Features, Ford, Lexus, Lyft, Pernod Ricard, Sierra Nevada, Showtime, Sony, Visa, and many others.

Transform how your revenue team wins with AI✨ The Gong Revenue AI Operating System brings customer data, insights, and workflows together in one trusted place. 4,800+ companies rely on Gong to understand their business better, automate workflows, and win more. Follow our page for more updates.

At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products. We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more. A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email. Affirm is also proud to be a remote-first company! Attracting great people starts by finding talent in different places. Thats why we built remote work into the DNA of how we do business—but if an office space is more your style, we have offices in Chicago, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Warsaw, Madrid and London. Not to mention we have comprehensive and award-winning benefits that were made for you. Interested in learning more? Check out our careers page and apply today! Visit affirm.com/careers for more information.

Zeitgold enables accounting automation with intelligent software. Zeitgold’s software is based on artificial intelligence (AI). Tax advisors can use it to complete bookkeeping tasks digitally and in a fraction of the time. The AI-based software creates highly precise booking suggestions for more than 80 % of all booking incidents. The average time saved is over 50 % per month. This creates time for higher-volume consulting services and new clients. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin. Co-founders Stefan Jeschonnek (MBA, Stanford) and Jan Deepen (PhD, WHU) previously co-founded fintech startup SumUp. At Zeitgold, they teamed up with Kobi Eldar (8200 alum), who led a cybersecurity unit in the Israeli Defense Forces and had leading roles in several Israeli tech companies. We are backed by Battery Ventures (investor also in GoEuro and N26), Holtzbrinck Ventures (investor also in Zalando, Flixbus and SumUp) and a number of well-known business angels from Germany, Silicon Valley, and Israel. Privacy Policy / Imprint: https://www.zeitgold.com/datenschutz/

HiBob is on a mission to transform how organizations operate in the modern world of work with its HR platform, "Bob." Leading the way for the future workplace, Bob offers resilient, agile technology that wraps all the complexities of HR processes into a game-changing, user-friendly tool that touches every employee across the business. Since late 2015, trusted and empowered "Bobbers" from around the world have brought their authentic selves to work, inspired to build our exceptional HR systems that will revolutionize the work experience for HR professionals, managers, and employees alike. Agile and adaptable, HiBob innovates through continuous learning loops to produce seismic cultural shifts for companies with dynamic, distributed workforces. Organizations using Bob are able to accelerate hiring, retain the best talent, and elevate employee engagement.

Cross River Bank provides technology infrastructure powering the future of financial services. Leveraging a proprietary real-time banking core, Cross River delivers innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards and lending solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. Member FDIC.

N26 SE is Europe’s leading digital bank with a full German banking licence. Built on the latest technology, N26’s mobile banking experience makes managing money easier, more secure and customer friendly. N26 is headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 90 nationalities. Founded by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal in 2013, N26 has raised close to US$ 1.8 billion from some of the world’s most renowned investors. Need support? Please send us a direct message over on our N26 Support LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/company/n26support. Our team is here to help. Social media imprint and privacy policy: https://n26.com/en-de/social-media-imprint-and-privacy-policy

Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise.  The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.

BigPanda turns IT noise into automated actions. The BigPanda Incident Intelligence and Automation platform, powered by AIOps, empowers some of the worlds largest brands to keep business running, prevent service outages, and improve incident management to deliver extraordinary customer experiences. The BigPanda platform is critical for organizations across industries and all sizes.

CrediFi delivers the most powerful financial data and analytics for CRE professionals and portfolio managers. To date, CrediFi has raised $29 million from investors including Battery Ventures, Viola Ventures (formerly know as Carmel Ventures), OurCrowd, Stax, Liberty Interactive’s Liberty Israel Venture Fund, Maverick Ventures and 31 VENTURES Global Innovation Fund, a CVC fund managed by Global Brain for Tokyo-based real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan.

Founded in 2019 to address the insurability of risks worsened by climate change, Descartes’ mission is to help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk. Descartes is a global corporate insurance specialist working exclusively with brokers to protect their corporate and public sector clients against climate, cyber and other emerging risks. At the forefront of AI and data analysis, Descartes utilizes cutting-edge technology combined with data from world-class research institutions to model, assess and manage risks. Descartes boasts the largest team of scientists in the global insurance industry, comprising over 150 experts in meteorology, climatology, physics, data science, software engineering, DevOps, modeling, and underwriting. This diverse expertise enables us to develop transparent, tailored solutions to the challenges posed by emerging risks, and offer a range of innovative and cost-effective insurance products designed to meet clients’ needs—often through cutting-edge parametric structures. With a global footprint and a strong foothold in the U.S., Descartes serves a diverse client base across 60+ countries, operating from 20+ offices in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. Through corporate brokers, Descartes has already delivered over $15 billion in capacity to its clients. The insurer is recognized for its technical excellence and achieved a +71 NPS score in 2025. The Descartes group includes Descartes Insurance, a full-stack insurer operating in several European markets, and Descartes Underwriting, a global MGA backed by a panel of tier-one risk carriers. The company has secured over $141M in funding from prominent investors, including Highland Europe, BlackFin, Serena, Cathay, Eurazeo, and Battery Ventures.

Flanks is a WealthTech company redefining the industry through AI-powered automation and data-led insights. Its AI wealth data platform empowers global financial institutions - including banks, family offices, asset managers, pension plans providers, and tech companies - to deliver faster, high-quality, and personalised advice. Flanks provides a unified view of all asset classes, including alternatives, and leverages proprietary AI models to transform complex, fragmented wealth data into actionable insights. Founded in 2019 in Barcelona by Joaquim de la Cruz, Sergi Lao and Álvaro Morales, former Global Head of Santander Private Banking. Flanks now processes over 500,000 portfolios monthly across more than 33 countries, managing more than €39 billion in assets. For more information, visit flanks.io.

HoneyBook is the leading AI-powered business management platform for small business owners. Designed to bring speed, clarity, and confidence to daily operations, the platform supports everything from capturing leads to managing client communication, contracts, and payments. With AI embedded throughout, members benefit from actionable insights and automation that streamline work and unlock growth. Since its founding in 2013, HoneyBook has powered over 25 million client relationships and processed more than $12 billion in transactions, helping independent businesses grow faster and smarter. If you are looking for a values-driven, fast-paced, and intellectually charged environment, HoneyBook is the right place for you. Join us, were hiring!

The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. 100% dedicated to the self-employed, 100% how insurance should be.

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees up businesses to accomplish more. We champion the notion of Progressive Finance, because we believe in a decentralised approach to financial decision-making and greater spending autonomy for everyone. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to bring order, efficiency and agility to their decentralised spending, and empower the whole company to spend safely and responsibly. By combining pre-programmed cards, a user-friendly app and a powerful spend management platform, Soldo enables decentralised spend decisions and frees everyone from tedious admin, while ensuring compliance. Everyone gains back time to focus on the things that matter. For Finance teams, that means more time for the rewarding parts of your role, such as in-depth data analysis, defining overall business strategy, and implementing process improvements that empower everyone to achieving business goals. Liberate Finance. Accomplish More.