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Milind Mehere, YieldStreet Founder/CEO - Transforming Digital Wealth Management


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Miguel Armaza is joined by the fascinating Milind Mehere, serial entrepreneur, and Founder/CEO of YieldStreet, a digital wealth management platform that aims to transform the investing landscape by enabling individual investors to invest in classes such as Real Estate, Marine Finance, Art Finance, Legal Finance, and Commercial loans.
The company has raised over $180M in equity and debt from top VCs including Edison Partners, Greycroft, and Raine Ventures.
They discuss:
- His successful entrepreneurial journey and the path to Yieldstreet as a second-time founder
- Company Culture
- Challenges of building an investing platform and disrupting an industry traditionally reserved for the wealthy
- Leveraging regulatory opportunities for a new asset class
- The incredible impact of COVID on the business
- And a lot more!
Milind Mehere
Milind Mehere is an award-winning entrepreneur with a track record of building large scalable businesses and creating new product categories. He is the founder and CEO of YieldStreet, a digital wealth management platform changing the way financial products are delivered and how wealth is created. Previously, Milind co-founded and scaled Yodlee (an ad-tech platform for SMBs) to $200M+ in revenue and 1,400 employees - the company was acquired by Web.com for $342M in 2016.
About Yieldstreet
YieldStreet is striving to become the world’s largest digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. YieldStreet is accomplishing this by transforming the investing landscape, opening up access to investments for individual investors across a range of asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine Finance, Art Finance, Legal Finance and Commercial loans. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina and Greece, the company is backed with $178M in equity and debt funding from firms including Edison Partners, Greycroft and Raine Ventures. Join the movement at www.yieldstreet.com.
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