2x founder

Beni Shafer-Sull

Foreign risk exec | Compliance and traceability for critical industries; a16z sr005 and sr007; prev investing @ Bridgewater

Co-founder

Oleum· Speedrun 005New York City Metropolitan Area

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2026Co-founder· Valent

Founder · since 2017

Company

Valent

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

New York, NY

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Oleum

An AI platform that helps companies utilize data faster

Speedrun 005

Experience

Career

Valent
Co-founder
Co-Founder · New York, NY · 2026 – Present
2026
Stealth Startup
Head of Product and Engineering · New York, NY · 2025 – 2026
2025
Bridgewater Associates
Senior Investment Engineer · 2021 – 2025
2021
Bridgewater Associates
Investment Logic Engineering · 2020
2020
Loop Vehicles
Founder
Founder · 2017 – 2020
2017
BlackRock
Global Markets · 2019
2019
IHS Markit
Product Management, Securities Finance · New York, New York · 2018
2018
Penn Electric Racing
Operations Team · 2017 – 2018
2017
The Rockefeller University
Scientific Researcher · 2016
2016
NYU Langone Health
Scientific Researcher · 2015 – 2016
2015

Bio

- Prev quant researcher at Bridgewater: Head of research engineering for Asia strategies, incl BW’s $8B AUM onshore China fund (largest hedge fund in China) - Former founder. Wharton (Finance). Penn Engineering (Systems Eng, CS, Math)