Carey Ransom
Managing Director BankTech Ventures
Carey Ransom is the Managing Director of BankTech Ventures, a strategic investment and market intelligence firm focused on transformative solutions to make banks better. He and his team currently work with over 120 banks and 25 companies aligned to the future of banking. He's a serial tech entrepreneur and investor who also founded Operate to invest in data-centric software companies. Prior roles include CPO at Experian, CEO of RealPractice, and CMO at Happy Money. His career also spans product, marketing, and business development leadership roles. Carey also hosts the Operate Podcast to highlight founders, funders and industry luminaries. His belief in purpose, culture, and teamwork stems from growing up in his family’s 100 year-old retail business.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Can agentic startups win by replacing ops, not just scaling them?
As lean teams look for exponential leverage, a new class of agentic fintechs is rewriting the playbook on growth. Instead of hiring armies of operations staff, these companies are deploying autonomous AI agents to run support queues, close compliance gaps, and even manage reconciliation workflows. But what’s hype, and what’s hitting real milestones?
Join a candid conversation with founders, engineers, and investors behind some of the boldest AI-native companies in fintech. We’ll explore how they’re deploying agentic systems in production, what tooling they rely on, and how they measure value beyond the demo.
Takeaways:
• Understand how AI agents are being used to replace, not just augment, core operations.
• Learn which tools and frameworks startups are using to operationalize agentic workflows.
• Gain insights into early benchmarks and investor criteria for AI-native traction.
Tuesday 31 March 08:50 - 09:30 The Pulse
AI & Agentic Systems
Data & Personalization
Infrastructure & APIs
Join a candid conversation with founders, engineers, and investors behind some of the boldest AI-native companies in fintech. We’ll explore how they’re deploying agentic systems in production, what tooling they rely on, and how they measure value beyond the demo.
Takeaways:
• Understand how AI agents are being used to replace, not just augment, core operations.
• Learn which tools and frameworks startups are using to operationalize agentic workflows.
• Gain insights into early benchmarks and investor criteria for AI-native traction. The Pulse US/Pacific
