Digital Innovation Chat

Brian Hosie is a VP of Engineering at Lendio, which is a free online marketplace that helps business owners find the right lenders and secure loans within minutes.

Lendio was founded in 2011, now the company employes 474 team members and raised a total of $108.5M in funding. In this episode, we're gonna talk about:

- How to get a loan with Lendio. - The growth of team size from 100 to 400 team members. - How do they structure teams to make each team autonomous. - Why Utah is a growing tech hub in the US.

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Emanuele Blanco is the CTO at Moneyfarm, an app-based investment platform and one of the largest digital wealth management companies in Europe. It aims to make investing easy, accessible, and cheap.

To this day, Moneyfarm has secured $127.3M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about:

- How does Moneyfarm disrupt traditional financial advisors? - Mobile vs Display: Where do most of the users come from? - What is next in their product roadmap? - The revenue model of Moneyfarm?

David Werner is a Head Of Engineering at Exporo, an equity crowdinvesting platform for real estate in Germany. Exporo allows private investors to start investing in attractive real estate projects with a starting amount of 500€.

Since its foundation in November 2014, Exporo has financed around 200 real estate projects, and raising a total of €59.2M in funding over 3 rounds. In this episode, we're gonna talk about:

- An emerging trend of digital real estate investing. - How does blockchain technology allow them to lower costs and dependencies. - What is the average return on crowdinvestments into real estate? - How did they simplify the traditional real estate investment process in Germany? -What is the revenue model for Exporo?

Karin Tsai is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users.

In December 2019 Duolingo was valued at $1.5 billion, making it Pittsburgh's first startup to reach "unicorn" status.

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Matthew Kramer is the VP Of Engineering at VenueNext, which is a leader in point-of-sale, mobile commerce, and loyalty solutions and is used by every major professional sports venue around the world – transforming the way fans shop, order, and pay.

To this day, VenueNext has secured $24M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about:

• The ways how VenueNext is redefining experiences for the sport fans
• How "IOS 14 App Clips" is pushing the new vision for the app industry
• How COVID-19 transformed their industry

Sebastian Honores is the Director of Product Management at Fever, which is a scaleup company that studies consumer data to recommend events for booking and helps companies plan those events. In total funding, Fever has secured $71.8M from notable VCs such as Rakuten and Accel.

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Jago Philippens is a Head of Engineering at TicketSwap which is a safe, convenient, and fair place to buy and sell e-tickets for concerts, festivals, sports events, theatre, and day trips. They protect their ticket buyers from overpricing by keeping to a maximum of 20% mark-up from the original ticket sales price.

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Tamer Qtaish is the CTO at homie.rent which used to be a prop-tech London-based startup making renting hassle-free for renters and agents alike. Their personal home finders helped renters understand renting and take care of all logistics so they don't waste time finding their ideal home. They also work alongside agents to drive them qualified and move-ready tenants, increasing their deal flow and transactions. The company recently transitioned into building software for real estate businesses, trading under the name Realpro.

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Joe Petterson is the CTO at Banked which is a fintech startup that powers real-time payments for consumers, businesses and banks. Their dream is to ensure everyone gets paid in the fastest, cheapest, most efficient way possible, so they're driving an irreversible shift in global payments.

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Zach Silverman is the Co-Founder & CTO of LeafLink which is the largest wholesale cannabis marketplace today.LeafLink partners with growing cannabis brands to simplify how retailers order the products they love online. They are the industry standard platform for orders, sales, and relationship management.

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