Sarah Hinkfuss is a Partner at BCV and works with growth-stage founders across application software and fintech. She loves working with founders who have personal experience in the markets they are disrupting. Prior to BCV, Sarah was a mid-market tech investor both at Bain Capital on the Tech Opportunities Fund and KKR at the Next Generation Technology Growth Fund. Sarah spent the first half of her career in big data / predictive analytics SaaS, helping scale Applied Predictive Technologies (acquired by Mastercard in 2015). She has an AB in Economics and Environmental Science & Public Policy from Harvard, and an MBA from Stanford University.

John Nay is the Founder and CEO of Norm Ai, the Regulatory AI company. He has more than a decade of research experience at the intersection of AI and law, most recently at Stanford, where he is pioneering A Legal Informatics Approach to AI Alignment as a Fellow at CodeX. John was also the founding CEO of Brooklyn Investment Group, an AI-powered investment software platform with an SEC Registered Investment Adviser subsidiary, where he now serves as Chairman. As a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, he conducted AI research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. After Vanderbilt, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NYU and an Affiliate at Harvard. As an Adjunct Professor, he created the first AI course at the NYU School of Law. John has authored or co-authored dozens of research papers on AI, AI and the law, and AI policy, many of which have been published in leading technical journals and law reviews. His article “Artificial Intelligence and Interspecific Law” was recently published in Science.

AJ is a four-time founder with over a decade of experience working on AI-related products at Brex, Coinbase and Google, which acquired his second startup. He founded Parcha along with his engineering partner at Brex after they saw how much compliance was a bottleneck to onboarding customers when they scaled the hyper growth B2B fintech 10X in a year. At Parcha he is on a mission to accelerate financial innovation by enabling banks and fintechs to onboard more customers faster with stronger compliance using AI.

Will is the co-founder & CEO of Greenlite, which builds AI workers for bank and fintech compliance teams. Teams like Betterment and Grasshopper Bank rely on Greenlite to scale compliance operations efficiently without throwing more bodies at manual processes. Before Greenlite, Will led compliance product teams at Facebook, WhatsApp and Paxos.