Tricia Martinez is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dapple, the pioneering Enterprise OS Cloud that sits between the public cloud and the private data center, delivering dedicated, in-country, single-tenant AI infrastructure for regulated enterprises globally.

Tricia earned her Masters in Public Policy with a concentration in Behavioral Economics from the University of Chicago, then went on to serve as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy before pivoting to enterprise AI infrastructure.

A serial entrepreneur and mission-driven innovator, Tricia has been recognized as a Top 20 Founder of Color by Conscious Company Magazine, Hispanic Entrepreneur of the Year by the USHCC, a Top 100 FinTech Leader, and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Cryptocurrency.

Prior to Dapple, Tricia served as Managing Director of the Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator and Techstars Payments Accelerator, partnering with 1,000+ founders, and previously founded Wala, a blockchain-enabled zero-fee financial services platform scaled across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Just five months after launch, Dapple secured over $100M in customer contracts and closed a $30M seed round backed by The Raptor Group and Ion Pacific, with its infrastructure already carrying production AI workloads for enterprises globally.