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Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Katya Dorozhkina, founding partner at Starta Ventures.  Starta Ventures, funds and accelerates European startup founders into the U.S/global market. Immigration, sparks and helps fuel innovation.  This is the side of immigration that helps make our world be a better, more innovative place.  During this episode they chat about some interesting portfolio companies and successful exits.  Plus, funding them through the Starta Ventures hybrid crypto/fiat fund.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Chris Sugden from Edison Par

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Charles Delingpole, founder and CEO at ComplyAdvantage. ComplyAdvantage, has built a global proprietary database on AML risk exposures covering sanctions and watch lists, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media.  From 1999 - 2006 he was the founder & CEO of The Student Room, which currently has 1.1 million members.  He co-founded Marketinvoice and has an interesting view on solving big yet very hard problems.        Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Katya Dorozhkina from Starta Ventures.   Ab

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Mark Casady, Founder & General Partner at Vestigo Ventures.  Vestigo Ventures is a seed, and early-stage venture capital firm, that invests in technology companies focused on financial services. Their team has deep financial industry expertise and an association with Cogo Labs that allows them to assess both the technology and investment opportunity.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Charles Delingpole from Comply Advantage.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recor

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Angela Ceresnie, CEO at Climb Credit.  Climb Credit is a lending company that works with schools that improves the lives of their students and provides specialized student loans to those students. Angela has grown her career at AMEX, then CITI, co-founded Orchard Platform, advised at Even Financial and then joined Climb Credit in 2016.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Mark Casady  from Vestigo Ventures.   About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpent

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ben Cukier, Partner at Centana Growth Partners.  Centana Growth invests in fintech and enterprise technology and recently ranked on an Institutional Investor fintech finance 40 list.  Some of their current investments are Alaia Capital, Quantitative Brokers, and Sentieo to name a few from the full list.  Ben discussed his story, investment methodology and his thoughts on being the lead investor.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Thursday's episode with Angela Ceresnie from Climb Credit.   About the host:  John is the host of the twice-

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Jane Leung, Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer at Scenic Advisement. Scenic is an investment bank created for today's late-stage private companies and the people who build and fund them.  During the interview she stated that companies are staying private longer and they discussed the investment trends currently available due to this.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Thursday's episode with Ben Cukier from Centana Growth Partners   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at off

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Radek Barnert, CEO & Co-Founder at WeConvene. WeConvene has a unique approach to helping organizations in need of a better way to manage corporate access meetings.  Corporate access meetings happen all day, everyday to the tune of 200,000,000 annually and those meetings are manually booked by highly paid agents, causing a lot of waste of time/money.  Radek had seen this problem first hand 4 years ago and wanted to do something about it, the only problem being that he was too early and growth was slow early on. Today, they book thousands of meetings monthly and are growing month over month.  They’ve raised $15.7

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with George Anderson CEO & Founder from Enterprise Engineering inc and Ninth Wave. Enterprise Engineering impressively has a clientele base that spans the base of many major financial institutions.  Within his career of 25 years, he’s worked with most of Wall Street and he knows these firms inside and out. With his engineering prowess he created a company called Ninth Wave, building it to be a go-to partner for universal financial data integration, delivering a secure, seamless and standardized information supply chain at massive scale.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spo

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa with Gilles Gade, founder & CEO, of Cross River Bank. Just a few days before this episode aired – Cross River announced a $100 million investment, led by private equity firm KKR & Co Inc. Chinese fintech conglomerate CreditEase, LionTree Partners, in addition to Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures and Ribbit Capital, who returned to join the equity round after a $28 million dollar investment in 2016. At the heart of it all Cross River Bank partners with a number of leading marketplace lending platforms including Affirm and RocketLoans to help people get access to credit. Their payments products are the rails that C

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with John McEvoy, Managing Director of Tribeca Angels.  Tribeca Angels is a collection of current and former finance professionals, entrepreneurs, and technologists focused on assisting and investing in seed or early stage companies in the FinTech space.  John McEvoy is a successful entrepreneur exiting 3 companies, CrediteX, being one that sold to ICE (NYSE parent) for $625,000,000 in June, 2008.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Next Tuesday’s episode with Gilles Gade from Cross River Bank.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly

This is a special release and extended episode.  The host John Siracusa recorded on site during Coindesk, Consensus Invest 2018 in NYC and interviewed speakers from the event.     Some of the speakers at the event were Jeff Sprecher founder and chairman of Intercontinental Exchange/ ICE, Jay Clayton, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  There were many Crypto/investment strategies shared and you can watch the videos from the event here.      In this podcast episode we’re releasing our interviews with the following event speakers.   Nolan Bauerle - Coindesk Jacob Donnelly - Coindesk Demetrios Skalkotos - Ledger Jeremy Drane - Libra Caitlin Long   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays episode with John McEvoy from Tribeca Angels.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Zac Prince, CO-Founder and CEO of BlockFI.  BlockFi is a non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto assets.  As a company they have raised over 50 million from such investors as Galaxy Investment Partners and SOFI.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear a special episode tomorrow where John interviewed onsite during CoinDesk’s Consensus: Invest   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services in

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadioIn this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Milind Mehere co-founder and CEO of Yieldstreet.  YieldStreet, is a company which connects investors to asset-based alternative investments.  It has raised over $100 million to date and has investors such as Saturn Ventures, Raine Ventures, Greycroft, FJ Labs and Expansion Venture Capital.    Before Yieldstreet, Milind was a co-founder of Yodle which was acquired by web.com for $342 million in February 2016.   Tune in and Listen.Subscribe now to hear next Tuesdays interview with Zac Prince from BlockFi.About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group office

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Jared Hecht,  Co-Founder and CEO of Fundera.  Jared was one of the creators of Groupme which was acquired by Skype in 2011 for around 80 million.  Then he went and created Fundera,  a marketplace for small business financial solutions such as loans, credit cards, and banking.  Fundera has investors such as First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures and QED Investors and has raised over $18 Million to date. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now to hear Thursdays interview with Milind Mehere from Yieldstreet.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group o

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Atish Davda,  Co-Founder and CEO of EquityZen.  EquityZen is a marketplace for investing in private tech companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. Shareholders in private companies now have a way to get cash in exchange for their illiquid equity. To date, EquityZen has completed 4800+ transactions in over 100 pre-IPO companies.  EquityZen has investors such as Draper Associates, ZenStone Venture Capital, WorldQuant Ventures, Vaidya Capital Partners and raised over $11 Million to date.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesdays interview with Jared Hecht from Fundera.   About the host:  

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Luvleen Sidhu,  Co-Founder and President of BankMobile.  She started her banking career at Lehman Brothers and on her first day after 6 weeks of training was the beginning of it’s collapse.  Now she’s a co-founder at BankMobile, a company that provides a mobile first banking experience which has 1.6 million accounts and is the offspring of Customers Bank in Pennsylvania.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Atish Davda from EquityZen.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic brandin

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Britt Co-Founder and CEO of Chime.  Chime is a  U.S. challenger bank and technology company. Chime has received well over $100,000,000 funding to date from investors such as Omidyar, Forerunner Ventures, Cathay Innovation and Menlo Ventures.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Thursday’s interview with Luvleen Sidhu from BankMobile.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services i

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Ali Hamed Co-Founder and managing partner of CoVenture. Coventure is an asset management firm that manages funds across Venture Capital, Credit, and Crypto.  Coventure has a unique model of investing it’s engineering know-how into interesting companies that don’t have the technical resources needed, in return those companies provide equity to CoVenture.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Chris Britt from Chime. About the host:  John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Stuart Sopp Founder and CEO of Current. Current is a financial technology company that provides collaborative banking solutions, starting with a smart debit card and app for parents to provide better financial education for their kids.  Stuart’s journey from Forex (foreign exchange) to Current is a unique and interesting one.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear Thursday’s interview with Ali Hamed from CoVenture.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services ind

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Sohail Prasad Co-founder and President of Equidate. Equidate is a stock market for private companies and Sohail’s journey from past companies to creating Equidate is fascinating.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now to hear next Tuesday’s interview with Stuart Sopp from Current.   About the host:   John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at the Carpenter Group offices, which is a strategic branding and positioning firm in the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech eco