Podcast Episode x Season 2 - FRICH Katrin Kaurov, CEO and co-founder Aleksandra Medina, CPO and co-founder Best friends Katrin Kaurov and Aleksandra Medina are the two founders of FRICH, an app with the stated goal of making money social. As young professionals, they struggled with learning how to deal with money and hated the awkwardness that comes with how people talk about finances. Since there was no personal finance app available they liked, they started FRICH. Not unlike fitness apps, FRIC...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Otonomi.ai Yann Barbarroux, co-Founder & CEO Yann spent decades on Wall Street being involved with derivatives and risk management. For a long time, he was thinking about starting a company to modernize insurance given that that industry was lagging. It took the inspiration from a friend and now co-founder to combine Yann’s idea with blockchain technology to really bring significant change to how business was conducted. Otonomi is now revolutionizing how parametr...
Apr 19, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - getBamboo Blake Cassidy, CEO getBamboo’s mission is to make crypto investing as easy as possible by using round-ups to the next dollar to feed your crypto portfolio (“micro investing”). They are a successful business in Australia, about to launch in the US. Hear from Blake Cassidy about how different the regulatory environment is in these two countries and how they learned to deal with that. Why perseverance is key and really the only thing that keeps you from failin...
Apr 12, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Lithic Bo Jiang, Founder & CEO Bo started Lithic with 2 childhood friends in a basement. Hear how the pandemic came just as they were scaling from 25 up to 100 people. While it was very stressful, moving out of a shared office and transitioning to a remote work environment forced the firm to be crisper in communication and more deliberate in how they communicated as a team. Hear him talk about customers, how they still blow him away with the use cases they create...
Apr 05, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Wedge.us Billy Roberts, co-Founder & CEO When the two co-founders had the idea for what would eventually become Wedge.us, they were convinced a Google search would tell them of other companies already doing it. It took a while to sink in that their idea was a novel one. Hear how they built their business out of a garage of all places. Why their first hire was a chief legal officer. And how they were driven by their belief that the future is digital, and that user...
Mar 29, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Stephen Lemon, Co-founder, VP, Strategic partnership and corporate development. With Currencycloud having been acquired by Visa late in 2021, you know this episode is going to be different. Hear from Stephen how he co-founded the company and the early-day struggles that he and his team had to overcome. Even after many financing rounds, “there is always something” as he put it. Building a company is never done. There is always something in front of you. Hear him talk about how crucial it is to hi...
Mar 22, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - BluePallet Patrick Salome, co-Founder & CEO Patrick always thought that e-commerce doesn’t live up to its potential because of a lack of trust about who’s on the other side of the deal. He had started his own companies but finally saw an opportunity to realize his vision through a merger with another firm; negotiating, collaborating, merging, and launching during a worldwide pandemic. And, doing this in a heavily regulated industry like the chemical industry, whi...
Mar 15, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Podcast Episode x Season 2 - Eden David Wolfenden, Founder & CEO David was always perplexed by the fact that most of his peers could talk for hours about video games and get really excited in the process, but showed no interest in discussing investment strategies and wealth building. Even though the latter will have an oversized impact on their lives. So he had the idea to make wealth planning fun and addictive by creating a game around it with digital representations that would grow as your...
Mar 08, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Victor Unda, Co-Founder & CEO: https://okyapp.com/ If you live and work in one country but your family resides in another, sending money is how you stay in touch and support them. Sending money is expensive, so you do it in a lump sum once a month. Transfer fees are high. You have no control over how the money is spent. Loved ones might have to travel somewhere to even receive it. OKYapp changes all that. You pick a brand from the website (from pharmacies to fast food restaurants), prepay an...
Mar 01, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome back to Season 2 of Alpha. Beta. Launch - Fin Tech Founder Stories, launching Tuesday March 1! This season we interview even more incredible Founders with industry shaping companies. Subscribe and rate the show today! This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative & Wild Boer Media with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Katie Boer as Producer, Editor, and Host. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co...
Feb 28, 2022•3 min
As a child, Fabien saved money in a piggy bank and already donated some of it to charities. Now an adult, realizing that online fundraising could be made better, he founded bunny.money, the better way for nonprofits to raise money in that it lets them keep 100% of their donations. Unfortunately, it’s common for nonprofits to have to pay between 3 and 11% in processing fees to get access to what is theirs. Listen to this podcast to hear Fabien share his inspiration and his vision for what is call...
Dec 14, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Links https://www.facebook.com/qyontech https://www.linkedin.com/company/qyon/ https://www.instagram.com/qyontech/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFdoDwF_N2LvJPUkmGiCU0A Website for Services https://www.qyon.com/en/ This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking...
Aug 04, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Links https://www.facebook.com/flipfactoryapp/ https://twitter.com/flipfactoryapp/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipfactoryapp/ https://www.instagram.com/flipfactoryapp/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1L1_R-aj22CowsSJzgQnCA/videos Website for Services https://flipfactoryapp.com/ This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical elem...
Jul 28, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Links https://www.facebook.com/funneldash https://twitter.com/funneldash https://www.linkedin.com/company/funneldash.com/about/ https://www.instagram.com/funnel_dash/ Website for Services https://www.funneldash.com This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking sy...
Jul 21, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 8
One out of 4 Americans has a student loan, is a co-signer, or is affected by one in other ways. That’s roughly 45 million people. These are individuals like Bryan Harris, CEO and co-founder of SLOAN. He noticed that while it had gotten way easier to get paid (Zelle, Venmo, others), paying down a debt has remained very difficult as if debt collectors preferred it that way. Bryan had been looking for years for a company that would help him organize and pay down his student loan. He wasn’t able to ...
Jul 14, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full compliance with US regulations. To learn more visit silamoney.com. #PoweredbySila Watch the video interviews of the show on our YouTube Channel and follow us at the...
Jul 06, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Links https://www.fabrica.land/ https://twitter.com/fabricaland https://www.linkedin.com/company/fabricaland/ Website for Services https://www.fabrica.land/ This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full complia...
Jun 30, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This podcast was created by Sila and is hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Katie Boer. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full compliance with US regulations. To learn more visit silamoney.com. #PoweredbySila Watch the video interviews of the show on our YouTube Channel and follow us at the...
Jun 23, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode we talk with Ricardo Sims, CEO of Constitution Lending. Real Estate credit opportunities can be very lucrative, but are usually restricted to few market participants. Constitution Lending was founded by a team and advisors with Wall Street experience and a track record of generating returns across asset classes. Their vision is to introduce sophisticated techniques to an unsophisticated market. Hear from Constitution CEO Ricardo Sims what drove the team to start the company, the ...
Jun 15, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The Troperial Story: Over the past years, we have witnessed a large disruption in mobile international money transfers. Transacting business got easier, although at a high cost to individuals. This is where Troperial says 'I'm here to help'. Troperial was created to reduce high transaction costs and to provide a personal trading experience. Troperial offers an ever-evolving payment experience designed to foster quicker and fairer ways to exchange currencies. And the best part is, it's all at you...
Jun 15, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The Idea for this company came from when Jeff Spencer pitched a March Madness style fundraising technique to his kids’ school PTA. It got rejected... That pushed him to come up with his own strategy that now fundraises for all kinds of nonprofits. When working as a technology consultant for nonprofits, he witnessed their struggles firsthand. His vision was to automate the fundraising process to make it easier and less awkward for nonprofits to receive donations. Website: Playfora.org Twitter @Pl...
Jun 15, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This show was created by Sila, Inc. Sila is a fintech software platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service, a business-critical element for companies whose software has to integrate with the US banking system and blockchain quickly, securely, and in full compliance with US regulations. To learn more visit www.silamoney.com #PoweredbySila This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative & Wild Boer Media with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Katie Boer as Producer, Editor, and ...
Jun 06, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
