8x founder
Sheridan Clayborne
Founder & CEO at AlignFi
Experience
Career
- 2026
AlignFi
FounderFounder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2025Stealth AI Startup
FounderFounder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2020The Thiel Foundation
Thiel Fellow · 2020 – Present
- 2022
ShareBear Ventures
FounderSolo GP & Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – Present
2020Lendtable (YC S20)
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2024
2020Forbes
Forbes 30 Under 30 · 2020 – 2024
- 2016
Hedgefund: Tickets, Sneakers, Cosmetics, Tech, Accessories
FounderCEO and Founder · 2016 – 2024
2020South Park Commons
Member · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2019Dropbox
Machine Learning Product Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2020
- 2019
Slate Tattoo
Co-founderCo-Founder & CTO · Greater Chicago Area · 2019
2018Goldman Sachs
Special Situations Group Analyst · Greater New York City Area · 2018
2017JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Quant Analyst - Big Data · 2017
- 2015
FollowerStack
FounderCEO and Founder · 2015 – 2017
2016PEAK6 Investments
FounderVC Analyst · 2016
- 2016
Cleveland Avenue
Tech Consultant and Backend Developer · Greater Chicago Area · 2016
Bio
I was the youngest person to get into Northwestern at age 15, where I was a Computer Science and Econ Major. Dropped out of Northwestern to pursue my startup full-time. I spent time working at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs on their private equity teams and was the youngest PM to come to Dropbox at 19 I have worked on many startups in the past, with my passion always being around fintech and financial inclusion. To date, I have raised over $5mil and done over $10mil in sales across my businesses