Stellar Development Foundation

Jed McCaleb is Director of Stellar.org and founder of Vast. He cofounded the Stellar Development Foundation to address gaps in global financial infrastructure through decentralized systems designed for broader economic access.

Naval Ravikant co-founded AngelList, the platform that turned angel investing into infrastructure through syndicates and rolling funds. His own early checks included Twitter, Uber, and Postmates, and his writing and podcast appearances on wealth, leverage, and happiness have earned him an audience well beyond Silicon Valley. He remains AngelList's chairman and continues to invest personally.

Keith Rabois held early executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square before building an investing record that spans Stripe, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Faire. He co-founded the proptech company Opendoor and has alternated between Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, returning to Khosla as a managing director in early 2024. He is known for strong opinions on startup talent density and for championing Miami as a tech hub.

Patrick Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010 and has run it since — a company valued at $159 billion in its February 2026 tender offer, processing $1.9 trillion of payment volume in 2025 and robustly profitable. A Limerick teenager who won Ireland's Young Scientist competition at 16 for a LISP-like programming language, he dropped out of MIT, sold his first company Auctomatic at 19, and became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 28. Beyond Stripe he co-founded the Arc Institute and Fast Grants, publishes through Stripe Press, and joined Meta's board in 2025.

Maryam Mazraei is a Technical Product Marketing Lead at Stellar Development Foundation with over 10 years of experience across startups and scaleups in SaaS, AI/ML, and blockchain sectors. She founded a sustainable supply chain company in textiles at age 18 and created Autopsy, a database of failed startups that gained significant media coverage upon its 2015 launch. Mazraei has also served as a VC investor at Ascension and launched ventures including Crowdmuse, an onchain ecommerce platform using stablecoin payments, and Aleph, an AI-enhanced audiobook application.

Saka Saddiq Nuru works in marketing at Stellar Development Foundation. He has background in venture capital and focuses on AI, customer experience, and go-to-market strategy.