Ben Dryden is the Co-founder and Head of Growth at Summit.Deals, an AI-native investment bank that invests in entrepreneurs and assists them in raising capital from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Summit combines human dealmakers with AI to streamline fundraising processes, aiming to cut timelines and provide investors with curated cross-border deal flow.

Prior to co-founding Summit, Dryden spent four years as an M&A Dealmaker at Rise, a boutique M&A firm operating in Europe and Africa.