Ghali Bennani Laafiret is Co-Founder and CEO of Ralio, building Europe's first agentic payments company and the trust layer that makes it safe and easy for AI agents to execute business payments.

Ghali studied at ESCP Business School and Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and built his career across high-growth companies including Alan (Business Strategy and Operations), papernest (Head of Revenue Operations), LumApps, and strategy consulting roles at Roland Berger and eleven.

Ghali identified that existing payment rails were designed exclusively for human intervention, creating a critical infrastructure gap as AI agents become autonomous economic actors capable of procuring services and managing capital.

Prior to Ralio, Ghali also served as a Corporate and M&A Analyst at Redlink and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Antler, the global venture builder that backed Ralio from day one.

Ralio raised a 3x oversubscribed pre-Seed round of 2.1M euros ($2.5M) within just three months of founding, backed by SVV, Seed X, Love Ventures, Plug and Play, and Antler, establishing Ralio as a category-defining fintech in agentic finance.