Helping builders build together
The most important people building finance are often not the loudest. V-Sum exists to surface them — through curated convenings, technical briefings, and a growing archive for the serious insiders who value signal over noise.
59 briefings and counting.
What we do
Three ways we help builders build together.
Virtual Convenings
Companies get 15 minutes to present their technology, then small groups go deep. No fluff, no filler — 59 briefings and counting.
Media Series
Technical briefings and conversations with the companies building the future of finance. Published with full overviews and context.
In-Person Experiences
Selective gatherings for the people who are actually building. Small groups, real conversations, genuine connections.
Recent briefings
Stride presents their intelligent process automation platform at V-Sum TwentyOne, demonstrating enterprise KYC automation and document processing for financial institutions.
Shamir Kharkel
Sila demonstrates their money APIs at V-Sum Twenty. Presented by co-founder Shamir Kharkel, covering user onboarding, KYC, digital wallets, and ACH transaction processing with Plaid integration.
Nval presents their instant NFT pricing infrastructure at V-Sum Twenty. Demo of their AI-powered REST API and Chrome extension for real-time NFT valuation, price history, and feature importance analysis.
Ntropy presents their intelligent transaction enrichment engine at V-Sum Twenty. Demo by co-founder and CTO covering their API for categorizing and enriching financial transaction data in real time.
Ansible Labs presents Beam, their crypto-to-cash off-ramp at V-Sum Nineteen. Demo by co-founder Dan covering crypto-to-USD conversion via ACH and RTP, wallet screening, and KYC via Persona.
Kareem Saleh
Fairplay presents their fairness-as-a-service platform at V-Sum Nineteen. Presented by founder and CEO Kareem Saleh, covering fair lending analysis, proxy detection, fairness optimization, and decline management.
Companies featured
Stride · Sila · Nval · Ntropy · Ansible Labs · Fairplay · Orb · Oasis Labs · Prime Trust · DFNS · Paxos · Plaid · Arc · Nium · Routable · Crescent · Modern Treasury · FinGoal · Rehive · MoonPay · Composer · Unit · Lance · Abound · Swarm Markets · Zero Hash · TreasureFI · Phantom · NFTfi · Goldfinch Finance · Helium · Rainbow · Stacks · Numary · Basis Theory · Astra · Alloy · OpenNode · Fabrica · Pinata · Sardine · Casa · ZenLedger · Hedera Hashgraph · Apto Payments · Dwolla · Atomic · YAP · CredoLab · Brankas · Triple Blind · Transparent Financial Systems · Digital Asset Holdings · DriveWealth · Phixius · Nivelo · Moov
Who V-Sum surfaces
- — Companies building financial infrastructure, payments, lending, and capital markets
- — Protocols and networks powering the next generation of finance
- — Teams building banking-as-a-service, compliance, and treasury infrastructure
- — DeFi platforms, crypto infrastructure, and digital asset services
- — The serious builders who value product over hype
Invite only.
V-Sum is a closed community. Participation is by invitation.