Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech Leaders

Raising capital has become difficult but not impossible. Mark Nagy from Datamesh shares some fantastic advice on how to get investors comfortable when raising capital during a downturn.

I particularly love Mark's advice because it reflects the exact advice we give clients on hiring leadership talent for scaleups.

You can listen to the full podcast interview with Mark https://tieronepeople.com/2022/09/16/datamesh-mark-nagy/

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Dexter Cousins is joined by Dean Morrison, Chief Strategy Officer of Shaype.

Last week Shaype announced a $33m Series C round. Regal Funds Management is back as the lead investor after cutting a cheque in Shaype’s $17 million Series B in July 2021 - back when the start-up was known as “Hay as a Service”.

Dexter chats to Dean about what the raise means for Shaype and their growth strategy over the next 12 months.

They also talk about Embedded Finance and ask the question has it really made the impact we thought it would?

And Dean shares the back story to Shaype and how the business always intended to evolve from a neo-bank offering.

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Founded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.

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Tier One People helps companies like Revolut, TrueLayer and 10x build founding teams for launch in Australia.

And series A+ / ASX Listed Aussie Fintech like Lendi, Afterpay and 86 400 hire executive talent capable of delivering growth and scale.

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Fintech News 29th September 2022. Dexter is joined by Michael Nuciforo, CEO of Thriday after they announced a $6m pre-series A round through NAB Ventures.

Thriday is one of the Fintech’s to watch in 2023 as they aim to take on Fintech OG Xero in the small business accounting space. https://www.thriday.com.au/

In other capital raising news, our friends at Shaype raised $33m in a Series C round fronted by Regal Funds Management.

The raise will support overseas expansion.

Dexter chats to Mendoza Ventures Scott Heyes about North American expansion. Scott is an Aussie living in Boston helping Aussie Fintech land and expand in North America.

You can connect with Scott https://mendoza-ventures.com/

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In episode 126 of Fintech Chatter Dexter is joined by Liam Millward, CEO and Co-Founder of Instant.

About Liam Millward
At the time of recording, Liam was only 18 years old, the youngest ever guest on Fintech Chatter.

Dexter chats to Liam about his experiences as a Fintech founder still in his teens and the challenges he has faced in building a Fintech with no experience or network.

It's a fascinating chat with a truly talented person whose maturity and focus impressed the Fintech Chatter crew greatly

About Instant
Instant's mission is to build the future of a frictionless economy, transforming billions of complex checkouts, into 1-tap shopping experiences globally.

They create a world where the experience of checkout is effortless, anywhere and everywhere across the internet.

Instant has raised over $2.2m in venture capital, as one of Australia’s biggest pre-seed funding rounds known to date, led by Blackbird, alongside TEN13, Reinventure, Larry Diamond and more.

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In this special episode, Dexter Cousins is joined By Mark Ledsham, COO of Currency Cloud and Matthew Tyrrell APAC Commercial Director of Codat.

Recorded in September 2022 as part of the UK Department of International Trades Fintech delegation, Mark and Matt share how to successfully launch an international Fintech in Australia.

To enquire about support from UK DIT you can reach out to [email protected] or [email protected]


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 Welcome to Fintech Chatter Bitesize.

In episode 126 of Fintech Chatter Dexter talks with Liam Millward, CEO and Co-founder of Instant. This Bitesize audio is of Liam sharing what he's done to shift focus as we enter a downturn period.

The full episode live on 23rd September 2022!

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David Washbrook, Co-Founder of Look Who's Charging shares how they won NAB as their first customer, without a Pilot and bootstrapping the business.

LWC went on to work with all the major banking groups in Australia before successfully exiting with a sale to Experian.

Listen to the full interview https://tieronepeople.com/2022/09/20/look-whos-charging-2/


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Tier One People helps companies like Revolut, TrueLayer and 10x build founding teams for launch in Australia. 

And series A+ / ASX Listed Aussie Fintech like Lendi, Afterpay and 86 400 hire executive talent capable of delivering growth and scale. 

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In episode 125 of Fintech Chatter, Dexter is joined by David Washbrook to talk about the story of Look Who's Charging, one of Australia's Fintech success stories.

David shares his journey from bootstrapping to a successful exit and helping the next generation of Fintech founders through Centauri Ventures.

About Look Who's Charging

Along with Stuart Grover and Nicole Grover, David was the co-founder of Look Who's Charging ("LWC").  LWC's technology was adopted by every major banking group in Australia and tech giants like Apple. 

LWC's service touched >70% of the Australian population and the business processed 8x the volume of transactions of Visa, Mastercard and EFTPOS combined (>4bn a month).  LWC was sold to Experian PLC (FTSE 100 company) and David left the business at the end of 2021.

Since leaving LWC, David has set up a venture fund, Centauri Ventures, which has made over a dozen direct investments primarily in early-stage high-growth companies (see here for portfolio).   

In addition, David is the Founder of Helios Technologies, a technology-driven company working on a number of projects to help drive the transition to clean energy including myenergyguide.com.au, solarisedenergy.com and hems.energy. 

David has also recently become a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Connect with David on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtwashbrook/

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In episode 124 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins is joined by Mark Nagy, CEO and Founder of Datamesh.

Mark has 31 years of experience in the technology and payments industry. A proven innovator of new technologies Mark has founded, built and profitably exited three technology companies to date. Mark also has deep experience in corporate management, capital raising and IPO strategies.

About DataMesh
DataMesh Group is an Australian-based technology company with deep payments experience. Datamesh is revolutionising the current payment systems available to banks, acquirers, and merchants across the globe.

DataMesh delivers next-generation, fully integrated payment capabilities, through its proprietary EMV-compliant financial switching platform (UnifyTM).

Unify is the world’s most modern and powerful cloud and terrestrial-based financial switching solution available in the market today.

Datamesh has commenced the global rollout of its platform, creating a worldwide, interconnected network of processing capabilities that will be offered as a white-label or SAAS model.

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It has been a MASSIVE week for the Aussie Fintech Industry. Intersekt 22 was bigger and better than ever.

Almost 1000 people attended the sell-out event and Dexter Cousins chatted to founders, CEOs, Board advisors and investors to get an accurate pulse on the market

So instead of our usual weekly news round-up in this show, Dexter shares his insights from those conversations and what it might mean for Fintech over the next 12 months or so.

Ben Ford from Frollo also joins Dexter later in the show to give an Intersekt review. You can connect with Ben https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-ford-142a027/

Listen to the UK Fintech delegation podcast - https://tieronepeople.com/2022/09/06/uk-fintech-companies/

Interviews at Intersekt with Cape, MyGigsters, Super Fierce, Paypa Plane, Monoova and others are available to listen - pod.link/1486716249

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