Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Yoni Rechtman, Partner at Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1 billion since 2011 across fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, with a portfolio that includes Airtable, Gusto, Robinhood, Venmo, Solana, and Ro. Yoni leads the firm's New York presence and joined as Partner in January 2025 after three years as Principal, following five years at Tusk Ventures where he rose from Analyst to Principal.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Matt Marcus, Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, the most trusted infrastructure for global money movement. Founded in 2018 alongside co-founders Dimitri Dadiomov and Sam Aarons through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch, Modern Treasury has powered over $400 billion in payments for hundreds of organizations, ranging from YC startups to financial institutions with over a century of history.

Where should you place identity verification requests in the hiring funnel? Jenna Kim shares some best practices based on her experience helping companies stop candidate fraud. From the Persona webinar: "Candidate Verification: Stop Fraud Before It Enters Your Workforce".

Brandon Chen breaks down how link analysis can help you see how coordinated fraud attempts are connected. From the "Why deepfakes are scared of mobile devices" webinar.

In H1, Persona shipped across fraud, identity, platform, and new solutions. Tune into the livestream to see.

Voice cloning is fooling grandparents into wiring money to "grandchildren." Vendor impersonation is rerouting accounts payable. And fraud rings are using AI to change their accents mid-scam when their first attempt raises suspicion. In this webinar, PJ Rohul (co-founder, About Fraud) talks with Laurel Sykes (chief risk officer, American Riviera Bank) and Brandon Chen (product marketing manager, Persona) about why mobile device-based verifications are becoming fraud teams' strongest defense against sophisticated attacks.

Every time a card gets issued or a payment moves, something has to decide, in milliseconds, whether it's legitimate. That's the problem Robin Gandhi, chief product officer at Lithic, solves every day. Lithic builds the programmable infrastructure behind modern card issuing and money movement for developers, digital banks, and financial institutions.

What if you could verify a candidate's identity before they joined an interview? With Persona, recruiters can move a candidate to interview stage and ATS integrations trigger Persona to automatically send an identity verification request.

Up to 60% of your applicants could be fraudsters who use deepfakes to target recruiters. From the Persona webinar: "Candidate Verification: Stop Fraud Before It Enters Your Workforce".

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Robin Gandhi, Chief Product Officer at Lithic, the programmable card issuing and processing infrastructure for developers, digital banks, and financial institutions handling billions in annual volume. Robin brings over a decade of deep fintech expertise across product, partnerships, and global operations. Before joining Lithic, he served as CPO at Nium, defining payment strategy across 190+ countries, and held leadership roles at Navan (formerly TripActions) and Adyen, where he scaled global issuing and North American partnerships.