Tom Brown is a litigator turned venture capitalist. He started his career defending Visa from antitrust attack before going in-house at Visa where he catalyzed Visa’s reorganization and, ultimately, public offering. After returning to private practice, he won several important cases for EBay/PayPal and served as primary regulatory counsel for dozens of startups in the FinTech space, including Square, Stripe, Clover, Braintree, AirBNB, and Digit. He secured the first ever no action letter on behalf of Upstart. Since joining Nyca in the summer of 2021, he has led more than ten investments and sits on the boards of five companies.

Robert Gonzalez is General Counsel of Mercury, the fintech company that ambitious companies trust with their finances. As General Counsel, he looks after Mercury's legal, policy, and audit functions. Prior to Mercury, Robert was in-house counsel at several early-stage and fast-growing tech companies. Most recently, he helped build the legal team at Samsara, which culminated in a successful IPO on NYSE in December 2021. Robert started his career as an appellate and regulatory associate at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford Law School, and clerked for Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife and three daughters.