MoneyNeverSleeps

MoneyNeverSleeps

By Pete Townsend | GP at Norio VenturesTechnology
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MoneyNeverSleeps episodes

  • 058: Talk Up | Jo Van De Velde And Pete Townsend | Working With Your Investors

    In an excerpt from Flagship Marketing's webinar "How to Survive and Thrive with Your Investor", Jo van de Velde from Euroclear and our own Pete Townsend talk about how important it is to communicate with your investor to maximize the value they can add.

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    In this episode, our friends Ian Dalton and Jamie Dalton at Flagship Marketing kindly shared the audio track from a recent webinar entitled "How to survive and thrive with your investor". Flagship Marketing supports fresh-thinking fintech companies with inbound marketing services which generate qualified leads and delighted customers for socially motivated, innovative, financial scale ups. Flagship have tons of incredibly useful marketing guides and workbooks on their website, so log in and learn.

    As the webinar was over an hour long, we split it into two parts, and this is Part One. Featured in Part One is Jo van de Velde, Global Head of Strategy, Product and Innovation at Euroclear, who has partnered with several startups and has great experience on how institutions and nimble startups can best work together.

    Also featured in Part One is Pete Townsend, and he talks about talking - literally, as in how important it is for startup founders to talk to their investors to get at the true value-add of their relationship. As startups and their investors can be moving a hundred miles a minute in different directions on most days, it's critical to slow things down in the context of the board, make sure you've got your governance right, and communicate effectively with the people whose job it is to help unlock value for your business.

    Pete points to two great reads that helped him form some thoughts around this in addition to his experience as an independent director and advisor on startup boards.

    Angel by Jason Calacanis
    The Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

    30 min
  • 057: The Prediction | Andrew Mullaney and Premind
    Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment. Andrew Mullaney is the CTO and co-founder of Premind.ai, a stealth mode start-up focused on 'predicting the mind of the markets'. You can follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewMull.
    51 min
  • 056: Loose Change | Lizzy Hayashida And Change Donations

    Lizzy Hayashida from Change Donations joins us on the show to talk how small change can lead to big impact...and her new-found love of Tipp hurling!!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    Lizzy Hayashida is CEO of Change Donations. You can follow Lizzy on Twitter @LizzyH and keep track of what she's up to with @ChangeDonations.

    At Change Donations, we believe that making an impact is not about how much you can give, it's about giving what you can to those in need. At Change Donations we make giving easy. Our mission is to help people change the world through everyday spending. We are a community of everyday philanthropists donating one cent at a time to incredible causes that are inspiring positive change across the globe.

    The foundational pillars here at Change Donations are Transparency, Passion, Integrity, and Community.

    43 min
  • 055: Paperwork | Martin Brown and Unitek

    Martin Brown from Unitek AI joins the show to talk about moving from analogue to digital, eliminating paperwork...and his love of Man United!!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    Martin Brown is the founder & CEO of Unitek AI. You can follow Martin on Twitter @MartinBrown_AI and keep track of what he's up to with @AIUnitek.

    Unitek is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies and services, offering scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes. Led by a diverse group of Executives from Zurich, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle who have a track record of disrupting and changing industries, today we offer a smart, innovative Artificial Intelligence platform that utilises Deep Learning, NLP, Machine Learning to deliver solutions in Handwriting Recognition, Facial Recognition, Fraud Detection and Virtual Agents across a number of industries such as Banking, Insurance and Finance.

    33 min
  • 054: Startup Insights #1: Hard Decisions | Stefan Uygur | Andrew White | Jennifer Hourihane | Graham Rodford | Andrea Reynolds | Sean Faughnan

    The MoneyNeverSleeps crew picked out six founders from past episodes talking about the hard decisions they've made along the way, including taking the leap, operating without a playbook, building teams, penetrating new markets, and finding your way home from the middle of Cambodia!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    In this special Startup Insights segment, we've compiled the thoughts shared in previous episodes by six startup founders on the hard decisions they've made along the way. Some of our founders are early days, and some are a bit further down the road, and you can tell that their differing perspectives and states of mind are somewhat related to how far along they are in their journey. In order of appearance, here are the featured founders:

    -Stefan Uygur, co-founder & CEO of 4Securitas (ep 33)

    -Andrew Patrick White, founder & CEO of FundApps (ep 35)

    -Jennifer Hourihane, founder & CEO of Oathello (ep 36)

    -Graham Rodford, co-founder & CEO of Archax (ep37)

    -Andrea Reynolds, founder & CEO of Swoop (ep 41)

    -Sean Faughnan, co-founder & CEO of 'Project Salmon' (ep 42)

    We hope you all enjoy the compact format, shortened down to less than 20 minutes!

    18 min
  • 053: 100 Miles and Running | Claus Christensen and Know Your Customer

    Claus Christensen, CEO of Know Your Customer, joins us to talk about racing cars, airplane engines, regulatory technology...and his love of marathons!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    You can follow Claus on Twitter @RoamingFounder and keep track of what he's up to with @KYC_Ltd

    Know Your Customer provides end-to-end digital solutions that quickly and accurately identify and verify companies and individuals prior to client on-boarding.

    Its easy-to-use platform offers quick ultimate Beneficial Owner identification, document collection, Digital ID verification and automated anti-money laundering checks in multiple languages and across multiple jurisdictions, automating 90% of compliance teams' routine tasks.

    Know Your Customer's suite of products helps organisations with compliance, risk and client on-boarding, ensuring companies can accurately and confidently conduct their KYC and AML functions.

    43 min
  • 052: Mission Statement | Ollie Walsh and PiPiT

    Ollie Walsh, CEO and co-founder of PiPiT, joins us to talk about enabling migrants to support their families back home cheaper and safer, prioritizing your pipeline, social impact....and his love of Tai Chi!

    Ollie Walsh has 20 years' experience of developing strategies for startups and SMEs to target new markets and to grow. He specilaizes in building teams and implementing plans and making them work, and he puts this experience to work every day as CEO of PiPiT.


    PiPiT is a B2B platform powering international cash transactions so that their network partners and their customers can accept cross-border bill payments in cash, load cash to e-wallets, accept cash for eCommerce orders and lodge cash to bank accounts across borders.

    Ollie founded PiPiT with Julian Callaghan and Rory Ryan in late 2013 in Galway, Ireland, and he has first-hand knowledge of the problem they're solving after moving country shortly thereafter to take part in an accelerator program in Sheffield, England. The process of moving country, even with a small move from Ireland to England, made them realize how difficult migrating is. Between 2014 and 2017, Ollie & Co. built the business in their spare time, and finally gave up the day jobs in 2017. Having closed a post-seed round of €1.25mn from West Loop Ventures (Chicago) and Enterprise Ireland in 2018, PiPiT are now in scale-up mode with offices in Ireland and the UK with partner companies in Nigeria, Dubai and Mumbai.

    You can get in touch with Ollie at [email protected], learn all about PiPiT at https://www.pipit.global/ and follow PiPiT on Twitter @pipitglobal.

    35 min
  • 051: Take One For the Team | Bo Brustkern and Lendit Fintech

    Bo Brustkern is co-founder and CEO of LendIt Fintech, the world’s largest event series that provides context to the rapidly-changing universe of technology’s impact on financial services.  You can follow Bo on Twitter @brustkern.


    For over 20 years, Bo has set himself apart as a leader in understanding, funding, and leading cutting-edge developments in fintech and financial services.  Here's his bio and a recent interview with him on Underdog, and the full Lendit Fintech story on the Lendit website.  

    Towards the end of this podcast, Bo talks about a part of his lineage going back to a part of Cork, Ireland in 1833 and his ancestor Timothy Canty - if you've got any information that could be helpful, get in touch on [email protected].

    Also, Bo gave a shout out to Marius Jurgilas from the Bank of Lithuania as an interesting and innovative individual to have on the show, so get in touch if you're connected with Marius!

    50 min
  • 050: Money in the Middle | Pascal Bouvier And MiddleGame Ventures

    Pascal Bouvier, Managing Partner of MiddleGame Ventures sat down with Eoin Fitzgerald this week in front of a full house at a Nadifin Accelerator event. We set up our mobile sound desk at the event in the brand new offices of the Banking & Payments Federation in Ireland on Molesworth Street in Dublin, which is also the home of the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland, and recorded Pascal and Eoin's chat for our landmark 50th episode of MoneyNeverSleeps.


    Prior to co-founding MiddleGame Ventures with Patrick Pinschmidt and Michael Meyer in Washington DC to invest in fintech startups (post seed, Series A, Series B in Europe and the US), Pascal also co-founded the RegTech Lab, was a Venture Partner with Santander InnoVentures and a co-founder of Route 66 Ventures.

    Pascal's full bio can be found on his personal blog, FiniCulture, and you can follow him on Twitter @pascalbouvier.


    See below for an excerpt from the MiddleGame Ventures website on their modus operandi:

    Our Story
    Middlegame Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage fintech startups. Over the past decade, our partners have invested approximately $300M in financial services firms. The next decade will be even better. Because the second wave of fintech innovation will be a tsunami compared to the first wave.

    Financial services innovation is our obsession and 100% of our focus. We bring to bear an essential - and differentiated - mix of investment, operations, and regulatory expertise to our investment process and on behalf of our portfolio companies. ​We create win-wins across our network - spanning entrepreneurs, incumbents, and regulators.

    Our Investment Focus
    We invest in late seed to Series B fintech companies based in North America or Europe that are developing and using advanced technologies to digitally transform and re-imagine the financial services landscape. Our investments range across five key sectors: banking, asset management, insurance, payments, and capital markets.

    Our Investment Themes
    We believe that four key key secular trends are reshaping financial services:
    These trends, coupled with enabling technologies - AI/ML, AR/VR, big data, blockchain, and quantum computing - drive our five investment themes:

    -Data is King (powered by the explosion of data sources and advanced analytical tools)

    -End of Systemic Asymmetric Knowledge (between buyers and sellers across markets)

    -Intelligent Automation (powered by advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics)Â

    -Hyper-connected Worlds (powered by networks, nodes and platforms everywhere)

    -Starting Over: digital upgrade cycle (core banking, insurance risk management, intelligent payments, user engagement)Â

    -Embryonic Asset Classes: finding the new data giants (identity, data, crypto, trust)Â

    -Innovating Oversight: regtech (regulatory and compliance) with digital tools

    -Platforms are the New Silos: financial categories will morph into platforms (open, transparent, interoperable)

    -Better is Best: doing well while doing good (financial wellness, literacy, inclusion, optimization, risk management, SME finance)

    Our belief is that technology will completely reinvent financial services as we know it. Our hope is that you can join us on the way.


    42 min
  • 049: Superstar | Dan Ramamoorthy as IAmDanRam

    Dan Ramamoorthy, otherwise known as 'DanRam', joins us on the show to talk about traveling the world as a speaker, entrepreneur, artist and coach...and his love of chocolate!

    Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment


    **We're sorry about the static on Dan's track, it's not up to our usual standard, as we had some problems with our remote recording app. It was such a great conversation, we wanted to share it anyway, so please excuse the crackles!**

    For more info on Dan, check out his website, IAmDanRam or follow him on Twitter @IAmDanRam, and see below for an excerpt from his homepage including some of the events that he's hosted and MC'd:

    I host and MC some of the biggest startup and tech conferences around the world including SXSW, Web Summit, DLD, Bits and Pretzels, Blockchain CryptoValley, Impact and MUST. I've shared the stage with some of the leading global figures such as Sir Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerchuck, Jake Paul and Casey Neistat.

    My years as a radio presenter and recording artist help me balance authenticity with performance. My main heart is to connect the audience with speakers and I do that with great energy, positivity and creativity. Get in touch if you need an MC at [email protected]!

    I have the joy of speaking at conferences, parliaments, schools & universities, churches and youth groups locally and internationally. I also lecture on entrepreneurship and facilitate workshops. Speaking topics include:

    -How To Build A Tribe

    -Resident Alien

    -Start Now, Start Simple

    -How to Pitch

    -The Art of Personal Branding

    -The Ultimate Guide to Speaking

    39 min

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