Maik Taro Wehmeyer
Taktile Co-Founder & CEO
Prashant, CEO of Fundbox, is a seasoned product and technology executive with over two decades of leadership experience across high-growth startups and global technology giants.
As an early member of Google's product team, Prashant helped build Google AdWords, established Google’s first global payment network, and led all product initiatives across APAC. He then went on to become an early product leader at Facebook, where he spearheaded monetization products encompassing both advertising and commerce. Beyond Google and Facebook, Prashant led engineering and product at Flurry, the largest mobile analytics platform of its era, and held an SVP position overseeing the advertising and data group at Yahoo.
Prashant actively shares his expertise as an in-demand lecturer at the business schools at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell. His academic background includes a PhD and MA in Business, a PhD Minor in Operations Research, and an MS in Statistics, all from Stanford University. He also holds a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), where he was the President’s Gold Medalist.
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
