Do You Speak Crowdlending?

In the 23rd episode of the "Do You Speak Crowdlending?" podcast, Ghassen BENHADJSALAH had the pleasure of hosting Conor Gibney, the head of finance at Lendermarket. Before joining Lendermarket, Conor gained valuable experience as an investment manager at DunPort Capital Management. He has also showcased his leadership skills by managing various corporate finance, strategy, and advisory consulting teams across different companies.Conor's educational background includes business, law,...

In episode 22, we hosted Konstantin Boyko. he is the Co-Founder at CrowdSpace. He uses his platform to contribute to the crowdfunding industry in Europe by offering arming platforms, investors, and fundraisers with the right tools to succeed!

In this 21st episode of the 'Do you speak Crowdlending?' podcast, Oreste D'Ambrosio tells us about his startup and its milestones. Build Lenders is a crowdlending real estate platform based in Bologne, Italy. It is focused on providing individuals with the opportunity to invest in real estate projects.Oreste has twenty years of experience in the field of construction, both in Italy and abroad. He also worked for several real estate agencies and multiple startups.The exciting mix of exper...

GoParity is a sustainable investment platform based in Lisbon, Portugal. Its mission is to connect companies looking to finance their sustainable projects with individuals and entities who want to invest sustainably. In this 20th episode of the 'Do you speak Crowdlending?' podcast - CEO and founder Nuno Brito Jorge tells us about their projects and how the story began. Through working as an advisor on energy with the European Parliament, it was there that Nuno nurtured his experience in ...

Erich Bonnet is the CIO, CEO and founder of Smart Lenders Asset Management, a Paris-based asset manager exclusively managing portfolios of loans issued through online lending platforms.Erich has had an impressive career with a background in trading and asset management. He began his path as a trader of interest rate derivatives at a French bank. Having worked in both OTC markets and floor trading, he eventually launched ADI, an alternative asset management company specialising in arbitrage st...

“With farmers who use wheat and oats for baking bread, we take this as collateral. Wheat is actually great collateral as it doesn’t require any know-how to evaluate it - you simply use the market price to do it.”Nikita Goncars is the CEO and co-founder of LendSecured. With a degree in finance and over 10 years of experience in the real estate and the lending business, he and his co-founder, Edgars Tālums, first established a lending company funded by local banks and capitals from high-net-wor...

Adrian A. Gunadi, co-founder and CEO of Investree, saw a challenge and turned it into an opportunity that impressively paid off. Adrian and his co-founders left their almost 20 years careers in the banking industry to start a crowdlending platform in Indonesia. They saw that SMEs were not getting access to the financing they deserved and knew they needed to fix this. Fast forward to 5 years later, Investree has provided nearly 550 million dollars worth of loans. The company also saw a growth ...

“We have had new record months every month since the pandemic began, in terms of new investors signing up on our platform. I think it’s because people think that the stock market is too volatile.” Would you sell your apartment to start a business? Sebastian did! Sebastian Martens Harung has had multifaceted past careers - from goalkeeper for Norway’s 1st division to an investment banker and ultimately, the co-founder and CEO of Kameo, a digital marketplace for crowdfunded loans to small ...

Luca Andre Frignani decided to combine his two passions and took a leap of faith that immensely paid off. Having worked for UBS and a former quantitative researcher – it was at his last stop (a hedge fund in Zurich) where he met his future co-founders. From there, they began experimenting with digital lending. In this episode, Luca shares with the Crowdlending podcast listeners his views on the immense potential of digital lending. How it can enhance investment performance and the criteria to...