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Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.In this episode, we continue with Part II of “How to Survive and Thrive with Your Investor”, and you can check out Part 1 in Episode 58. Featured in Part II are: Rachel Kenny from HubSpot - if you would like an intro to Rachel, please click here. Bernadette Wijnings from Blanco - if you would like an intro to Bernadette, please click here. You’ll also hear Ian Dalton from Flagship Marketing moderating the discussion, with Jo van de Velde from Euroclear, Koen Vanderhoydonk from Blanco and Pete Townsend from MoneyNeverSleeps and Norio Ventures all piping in.The genesis of this episode is a Flagship Marketing webinar, and they kindly shared the audio track with us. Flagship Marketing supports fresh-thinking fintech companies with inbound marketing services which generate qualified leads and delighted customers

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentIn this episode, Pete Townsend and Paul Smyth (artfully filling in for Eoin Fitzgerald) riff on three developments this week in the world of tech and venture capital to try to get inside of the minds of the entrepreneurs behind the stories. Here they are:How Facebook’s Libra fueled push for central bank-run digital currencies - Financial Times - Monday, 23rd September, 2019 (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/746808a0-d9f6-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 France, UK, Sweden, Japan, China all weigh in with their views KEY POINT: “To consumers it would feel very much like the electronic payment and transfer solutions that are already available today through their banking apps or a service such as PayPal.” Why is this important, where could it all go and what's going through Mark Zuckerberg's mind? Pete Townsend's recent blog post, "My Thoughts on Libra" WeWork’s Adam Neumann to step down as chief exe

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentIn this episode, our friends Ian Dalton and Jamie Dalton at Flagship Marketing kindly shared the audio track from a recent webinar entitled “How to survive and thrive with your investor”. Flagship Marketing supports fresh-thinking fintech companies with inbound marketing services which generate qualified leads and delighted customers for socially motivated, innovative, financial scale ups. Flagship have tons of incredibly useful marketing guides and workbooks on their website, so log in and learn.As the webinar was over an hour long, we split it into two parts, and this is Part One. Featured in Part One is Jo van de Velde, Global Head of Strategy, Product and Innovation at Euroclear, who has partnered with several startups and has great experience on how institutions and nimble startups can best work together.Also featured in Part One is Pete Townsend, and he talks about talking - literally, a

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment. Andrew Mullaney is the CTO and co-founder of Premind.ai, a stealth mode start-up focused on 'predicting the mind of the markets'. You can follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewMull. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentLizzy Hayashida is CEO of Change Donations. You can follow Lizzy on Twitter @LizzyH and keep track of what she's up to with @ChangeDonations.At Change Donations, we believe that making an impact is not about how much you can give, it’s about giving what you can to those in need. At Change Donations we make giving easy. Our mission is to help people change the world through everyday spending. We are a community of everyday philanthropists donating one cent at a time to incredible causes that are inspiring positive change across the globe.The foundational pillars here at Change Donations are Transparency, Passion, Integrity, and Community. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentMartin Brown is the founder & CEO of Unitek AI. You can follow Martin on Twitter @MartinBrown_AI and keep track of what he's up to with @AIUnitek.BPI-Unitek is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies and services, offering scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes. Led by a diverse group of Executives from Zurich, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle who have a track record of disrupting and changing industries, today we offer a smart, innovative Artificial Intelligence platform that utilises Deep Learning, NLP, Machine Learning to deliver solutions in Handwriting Recognition, Facial Recognition, Fraud Detection and Virtual Agents across a number of industries such as Banking, Insurance and Finance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentIn this first episode of Startup Insights, a special edition of MoneyNeverSleeps, we've compiled the thoughts shared in previous episodes by six startup founders on the hard decisions they've made along the way. Some of our founders are early days, and some are a bit further down the road, and you can tell that their differing perspectives and states of mind are somewhat related to how far along they are in their journey. In order of appearance, here are the featured founders: Stefan Uygur, co-founder & CEO of 4Securitas (ep 33) Andrew Patrick White, founder & CEO of FundApps (ep 35) Jennifer Hourihane, founder & CEO of Oathello (ep 36) Graham Rodford, co-founder & CEO of Archax (ep37) Andrea Reynolds, founder & CEO of Swoop (ep 41) Sean Faughnan, co-founder & CEO of 'Project Salmon' (ep 42) We hope you all enjoy the compact format, shortened down to less than 20 minutes! --

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentClaus Christensen is CEO of Know Your Customer. You can follow Claus on Twitter @RoamingFounder and keep track of what he's up to with @KYC_LtdKnow Your Customer provides end-to-end digital solutions that quickly and accurately identify and verify companies and individuals prior to client on-boarding. Its easy-to-use platform offers quick ultimate Beneficial Owner identification, document collection, Digital ID verification and automated anti-money laundering checks in multiple languages and across multiple jurisdictions, automating 90% of compliance teams’ routine tasks. Know Your Customer’s suite of products helps organisations with compliance, risk and client on-boarding, ensuring companies can accurately and confidently conduct their KYC and AML functions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Ollie Walsh, CEO and co-founder of PiPiT, joins us to talk about enabling migrants to support their families back home cheaper and safer, prioritizing your pipeline, social impact....and his love of Tai Chi! Ollie Walsh has 20 years' experience of developing strategies for startups and SMEs to target new markets and to grow. He specilaizes in building teams and implementing plans and making them work, and he puts this experience to work every day as CEO of PiPiT. PiPiT is a B2B platform powering international cash transactions so that their network partners and their customers can accept cross-border bill payments in cash, load cash to e-wallets, accept cash for eCommerce orders and lodge cash to bank accounts across borders. Ollie founded PiPiT with Julian Callaghan and Rory Ryan in late 2013 in Galway, Ireland, and he has first-hand knowledge of the problem they're solving after moving country shortly thereafter to take part in an accelerator program in Sheffield, England. The process of moving country, e

Bo Brustkern is co-founder and CEO of LendIt Fintech, the world’s largest event series that provides context to the rapidly-changing universe of technology’s impact on financial services. You can follow Bo on Twitter @brustkern.For over 20 years, Bo has set himself apart as a leader in understanding, funding, and leading cutting-edge developments in fintech and financial services. Here's his bio and a recent interview with him on Underdog, and the full Lendit Fintech story on the Lendit website. Towards the end of this podcast, Bo talks about a part of his lineage going back to a part of Cork, Ireland in 1833 and his ancestor Timothy Canty - if you've got any information that could be helpful, get in touch on info@moneyneversleeps.ie.Also, Bo gave a shout out to Marius Jurgilas from the Bank of Lithuania as an interesting and innovative individual to have on the show, so get in touch if you're connected with Marius! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Pascal Bouvier, Managing Partner of MiddleGame Ventures sat down with Eoin Fitzgerald this week in front of a full house at a Nadifin Accelerator event. We set up our mobile sound desk at the event in the brand new offices of the Banking & Payments Federation in Ireland on Molesworth Street in Dublin, which is also the home of the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland, and recorded Pascal and Eoin's chat for our landmark 50th episode of MoneyNeverSleeps. Prior to co-founding MiddleGame Ventures with Patrick Pinschmidt and Michael Meyer in Washington DC to invest in fintech startups (post seed, Series A, Series B in Europe and the US), Pascal also co-founded the RegTech Lab, was a Venture Partner with Santander InnoVentures and a co-founder of Route 66 Ventures. Pascal's full bio can be found on his personal blog, FiniCulture, and you can follow him on Twitter @pascalbouvier.See below for an excerpt from the MiddleGame Ventures website on their modus operandi:Our StoryMiddlegame Ventures is a v

Paul Nunan from Link Asset Services joins us on the show to talk about entrepreneurial tendencies...and his love of juggling! Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment Link Asset Services is part of Link Group's Asset Services division and works in partnership internationally with almost 7,000 clients including asset managers and investors, business managers, asset owners, trustees, issuers and borrowers. We provide the infrastructure through which assets are secured or deployed in both regulated and unregulated markets. The 3,000+ members of our team deliver over 70 closely aligned services, helping capital flow through the financial markets by processing £45bn of payments annually; and protecting and safeguarding more than £600bn held in funds, entities and other instruments. We build longstanding relationships and our clients rely on us to provide robust and agile technology, combined with relevant, accurate and timely industry knowledge a

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentMatthew Le Merle is a superangel investor, board director, author, and advisor to leading companies including Alphabet, Google, PayPal, Shanshan and Talkweb. He is managing partner at Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has penned several books with his co-author and wife Allison Davis. Check them out here on Amazon.com.  Matthew Le Merle is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com) and of Keiretsu Capital - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is also Chairman of Linqto, Securitize (Europe) and CAH and an advisor at Warburg Pincus.   Matthew is an expert on corporate growth, innovation and business transformations having advised leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, PayPal and many others on growth and innovation-related issues. Matthew is also an expert

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentDean Klatt is the Founder and CEO of Seed Golf.Seed Golf Balls - Precision engineered tour-grade golf balls are usually expensive. Seed delivers tour grade performance at a fraction of the normal cost.Cheap, not nasty.Look, we’re all going to lose a few balls out there, but it doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice performance or use a second hand ball to save money.The Seed SD-01 costs 50% less than the comparable market leader without compromising performance so you can play your game.How is that possible?We ship direct from the factory to you cutting out 2-3 layers of cost, we don’t pay million dollar tour pro endorsement contracts and we haven’t spent our R & D money on a large range of golf balls models – just the best performing in each key category.Our balls are really, really tricky.Premium, professional quality golf balls are really difficult to make. Our products are developed by a s

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentMihai Alisie is the founder of the AKASHA Foundation, a non-profit born at the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence .We believe that humans are not problems waiting to be solved, but potential waiting to unfold.This is why we nurture projects helping individuals amplify their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales. If this fires your synapses, we unpack it below and describe the behaviours we’ve adopted for the journey. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentMihai Alisie is the founder of the AKASHA Foundation, a non-profit born at the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence .We believe that humans are not problems waiting to be solved, but potential waiting to unfold.This is why we nurture projects helping individuals amplify their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales. If this fires your synapses, we unpack it below and describe the behaviours we’ve adopted for the journey. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment Dan Calvert is Head of Partnerships at N26The N26 history2013 - N26 was founded in 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal—reimagining the retail banking experience for today’s mobile lifestyle.2015 - Since the initial product launch in 2015, over 2.5 Million customers across 24 European markets have signed up for N26—with plans to enter the US in 2019.2018 - The firm has raised a total of USD 215 million from some of the world’s most well-known investors, including Allianz X, Tencent Holdings Limited, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Valar Ventures, members of the Zalando Management Team, and Earlybird Venture Capital. N26 employs more than 1000 people and has offices in Berlin, New York and Barcelona.2019 - N26 announces its $300 million Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners. The round also includes participation from GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and existing i

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment Sean Faughnan is CEO for 'Project Salmon', a start-up aiming to become the WeChat of Europe.Sean brings us on a journey through his career, from a PhD in History in Cambridge through investment banking, writing and directing his own movie, and his role as a senior political strategist for the Irish Government. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneyneversleeps/support

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment Andrea Reynolds is founder and CEO of SwoopAbout SwoopWe've set up Swoop to help businesses successfully answer the question, "Where do I get access to funding?"With Swoop, we want to help businesses demystify this problem by showing them the broad funding landscape that currently exists across the UK & Ireland. Through a combination of our funding experience, our matching technology and our 1,000+ providers, we can assess your needs quickly and match you to the right funding solution. Apply for Financing in One Fell SwoopWe are acutely aware that it takes time to find and apply for all these funding options, so that's where we'll come in to save you the time and hassle. Swoop's platform only requires you to fill in one super form in a few minutes and we'll be able to assess and match you to providers instantly. Not only that but as your information changes and the market changes, we'll be able t

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment Meredith Moss is founder & CEO of FinomialFinomial is the leading global Client Lifecycle Compliance platform.Finomial automates investor servicing from end to end, Finomial is transforming the buy side investment process by automating the manual hedge fund subscription process between investor, fund manager and administrator. Finomial solves the challenges of data, documents, and forms that impede effective client onboarding, while ensuring rigorous compliance with regulations and delivering transparency. Finomial’s Client Lifecycle Compliance Platform provides automation and end-to-end workflows that streamlines processes to enable collaboration with managers and investors, helping to deliver a compliant and optimized investor experience that accelerates revenue, all within an integrated, scalable software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneynevers