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Join us in this enlightening, laugh-out-loud episode of the Founder's Journey Podcast where we talk with Drew Edwards, CEO of Ingo Money. Discover the ups and downs of his entrepreneurial journey, from the early days of founding his company to the strategic pivots that led to its success in the Fintech industry. Hear Drew's sage wisdom and advice on:

✅ Creating a company that you value, and that others will, too

✅ Avoiding making the same mistakes twice (or as Drew puts it, stepping in the same pile in the pasture)

✅ The importance of building a strong company culture

Timestamps:

01:25 – Introduction to Drew Edwards

02:35 – The Beginning of Ingo Money

09:30 – Overcoming Business Challenges

31:30 – Importance of Culture in Business

40:40 – Drew Edwards on Future Business Plans

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This is our startup-focused, Wednesday episode, so today we're counting down important venture rounds, and chatting our way through other startup and VC news.

Here's what we got into:

• Artisse AI's seed round caught our eye for two big reasons: First, its selfie app is cool; and second, despite competing in a crowded space, it's seen revenue climb rapidly. It's gotta be doing something right.
• Elsewhere, Bilt Rewards is proof that fintech is still alive and kicking, and Kittl is another example of a European startup taking on a massive global market.
• And Bulk Exchange has raised $4.5 million, and I'm still shocked at how far Byju's has fallen.
• In Venture Capital Land, General Catalyst might buy an Indian venture capital firm — further evidence of just how critical India might prove in the coming years for tech companies. Also: some former Xerox investors have their own new fund to report.

We'll be digging into the Brex situation on Friday, so stay tuned for more about fintech soon!

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The always insightful Yoann Pavy stops by to talk growth marketing expertise, journey at Nude, and acquiring users at Nude. 

Here’s what you’ll learn: 

• Growth strategies that consistently work across platforms 
• Unique strategies employed at Nude to help millions achieve financial goals 
• Tactics behind Nude's impressive 300k user acquisition in 12 months

And much more 

Kashyap Mahavadi, Co-Founder, Dinero shared his entrepreneurial journey where he shared how his bitter-sweet relationship with love helped him to kickstart a business where he helps people to save money and reach their first 1 crore mark. A positive habit formation platform Dinero helps you to save money via a reward-based system. Listen to learn more about Kashyap's journey and widen your Dhandho Ni Soch.

Game-changing ideas don't come along very often. But when they do, organizations need to develop them fast or risk missing out on the opportunity they present. But, very often, fintechs and other financial institutions don't have the time or resources to develop innovations when they present themselves, meaning opportunities go unrealized. So if organizations really want to bring in new capabilities they can't just leave it to chance and hope that someone else will develop breakthrough services or products for them - they need to do it themselves.

In this episode of Financial Futures, we'll learn about the inorganic business-building method fintechs and financial institutions are using to fold in new capabilities to their service offering. We'll discover how the venture studio technique is de-risking the startup model, allowing institutions to create new products and solutions and bring them to market while protecting their own resources and investment capital.

Join us, along with CEO of Shipyard Innovation, Ash Bhatia, and VP of Venture Studio Investments at FIS, James Clayton, as we find out why the venture studio model is a recipe for building successful businesses. And we'll learn about a real example of a startup currently going through the inorganic business-building method to find out what the process looks like from the inside

We'll also ask:

• Why is creating businesses with the venture studio model less risky than investing in a startup?
• What is the recipe for building better businesses?
• How do you choose the right partner to build a business with?
• What are the challenges associated with the venture studio model?
• Who is using the venture studio model to create startups?
• How do you choose an executive team to lead a new business? 

Nilay Patel, Founder and Vaibhav Joshi, Co-Founder of Easy Pay India, shared their entrepreneurial journey where they talked about their complementary relationship that came to fruition after decades of their friendship. Organizing the unorganized sector of SMEs and MSMEs, Easy Pay is touching the lives of a million people by helping them financially, otherwise left untouched. The One-Stop-Shop for MSMEs and SMEs is strengthening Bharat's core and transforming digital India. The combination of an innovator and executor makes their relationship rock solid. Listen to learn about their mutual understanding, friendship and impeccable Dhandho Ni Soch. 

Paolo Sironi is the global research leader in banking and financial markets at IBM Consulting, the Institute for Business Value. He is one of the most respected fintech voices worldwide, providing business expertise and strategic thinking to a network of executives among financial institutions, start-ups and regulators. Paolo is the author of multiple books, most recently, Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies: Contextual and Conscious Banking.

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In this episode I’m chatting with Valentina Kristensen, Director of Growth and Communications at OakNorth. Valentina has helped grow OakNorth to the billion dollar company it is today, is a founding editorial board member of Influencer magazine and is a self-professed fintech nerd.

What is OakNorth? OakNorth is a UK bank that provides fast, flexible and accessible debt finance to fast growing businesses. It’s been nominated the fastest growing business in Europe by the Financial Times, has lent over £5bn to hundreds of UK businesses and has been turning a profit since 2017. It is currently valued at $2.8bn dollars.

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Software inventor and entrepreneur, with innovations cited in nearly 4,000 patents.
Founder of 6 startups, with 4 acquired by public companies or investment funds.

A quant finance pioneer who invented heatmaps, designed over 100 institutional trading systems, and perfected sentiment analysis, using it to manage over $500 million for Tudor and Millennium. Now, as founder of Diamond Standard, Cormac has solved the challenge of creating a standardized diamond commodity. Transacted on the blockchain, it is the first physical and digital asset, forming a decentralized reserve to asset back any digital contract.

Previously founded Flont, and before that led a team of 70 funded by Rupert Murdoch, building a next generation social network integrated into premium news publications, beginning with The Wall Street Journal. Developed company and the technology, which later merged into News Corp.

Inventor of real time and big data technologies in many diverse computer science areas, including social networks, Heatmaps, real time factory optimization, trade cost analysis, real time news sentiment analysis for securities trading, and wireless encrypted authentication for physical goods and blockchain applications.

Quantitative and statistical arbitrage portfolio manager, and a pioneer of computational linguistics and sentiment analysis for securities trading. Successfully launched several software companies and quantitative hedge fund teams. Raised and managed over $500 million from hedge funds including Tudor Investment Corp, and Millennium Partners.

Long track record as a software entrepreneur and CEO. Raised venture capital from Intel, Mayfield, Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, and other VC funds.

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In this episode Dexter Cousins to Jessica Ellerm, CEO of Zuper.com.au 

Jessica is recognised as one of Australia's emerging leaders in Fintech.

Tune in as she shares her inspiring story of going from a Fintech Startup graduate to CEO of a corporate ventures backed industry disruptor.

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