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Zach Perret

Co-founder + CEO, Plaid

Co-founded Plaid in 2013. Single Form D on file (June 2016, $250K). Plaid is the SMALLEST disclosed Form D footprint on our tracker, despite a 2021 secondary at $13.4B post-Visa walkaway. Original silent-class member alongside Canva.

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Plaid Technologies, Inc.CIK 0001677226

Bank-account API connectivity layer. Visa's $5.3B acquisition attempt was abandoned in early 2021 after DoJ antitrust review. Single Form D on record from 2016, then EDGAR-silent — Plaid is one of the cleanest examples of a major fintech operating entirely outside Form D disclosure post-2016.

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